Wh 27) Mi = 13 : ifford S Raymo vipmal® HOUSE —— — A SPANISH SAILOR Synopsis. — Dr. John Michelson, just beginning his career, becomes resident physician and companion of Homer Sidney at Hartley house. Mr, Sidney is an American, & semi. invalid, old and rich and very de- sirous to live. Mrs. Sidney Is a Spanish woman, dignified and reti- cent, Jed, the butler, acts like a privileged member of the family. The family has come from Monte video, South America. Hartley house is a fine old isolated country place, with a murder story, a “haunted pool,” and many watch- dogs, and an atmosphere of mys- tery. The “haunted pool™ is wheres Richard Dobson, son of a former owner of Hartley house, had killed his brother, Arthur Dobson. Jed begins operations by locking the doctor in his room the very first night. Doctor John fixes his door 80 he can't be locked In. He meets Isobel, daughter of the house, and falls in love at first sight. In the night he finds the butler drunk and holding Mrs Sidney by the wrist He interferes. Mra Sidney makes light of it. John buys a revolver. John overhears Jed telling Mrs Sidney he will have his way. In reply she says she will not hesitate to kill him. Mrs. Bidney asks John to consent to the announcement of his engagement to Isobel. The young people consent to the make- believe engagement. Later they find it is to head off Jed, who would marry Isobel. Jed tries to kill John, but the matter Is smoothed over. John, though “en. gaged” to Isobel, conceals his love Mr. Sidney visits a nearby prison and has Dobson, the murderer, pointed out. Jed tells the story of the Dobson murder. The family go to South America for the winter. John is left at home, but the “en- gagement” Is not broken. John hears the story of a tragedy "that might have happened In Monte- video.” The familly returns A mysterious Spanish sallor appears —=x CHAPTER Vii Continued. wn Jed may have suspected I carried a pistol. I bad no more than caught a glimpse of his white, alarmed face when he sprang at me and grabbed ar ny hip pocket. I had a pistol In the pocket at which he reached, but I In- tercepted his movement before he got the weapon. “I.et me have It,” he begged. & minute! I got a hold of his wrist, which stopped him, and he whimpered. Then be broke away and showed himself at the window. At this the man on the lawn sinlled with a joyousness that was a triumph, He Indicated In a flash that he had found what he had sought He smiled xo that 1 could ree the white of bis teeth. He had been uncertain and puzzied when | first saw him look- ing up at the windows of the house. With Jed framed In one of the win- dows, he was triumphant and rejole- Ing. Whatever he wanted he had found something which pleased him. Jed was furious, the more furious because he was helpless. He would have murdered the man on the lawn ff he had had any means of doing so. He was so furious that he did net care how he revealed himself to me The man on the lawn stood laughing for a moment and then walked slowly “Just But | intercepted His Movement Be. fore He Got the Weapon. away toward the brush, Into which he disappeared. Jed hung out of the window watching him. “Well, sir,” 1 sald, “I think we have you under a real restraint at last.” “lI was mad that the fellow should have come up to the house that way. Some tramp!” “And you dropped the coffeetray and tried to get my pistol. A perfect. iy natural proceeding on seeing an’ un- koown tramp!” “We don’t want here.” hd said, “You don't want that man,” I sald. “And he Is not a stranger. When he saw yon. he smiled as if he had found ‘what he wus looking for.” Jed was unhappy and showed It, “l wish you were a friend, doctor,” - strangers about he sald. “I try to make you one. I will get you your coffee.” He sent In a mald to sweep up the breakage from the coffee-tray, and presently he came with another pot and cup. He had steadied down, but was not tranquil. “You know that man,” I sald, you wanted to kill him” “I never saw him before,” he sald. “You bave had some sort of dealing with him. He has been hunting for you. He has found you, I think we are going to find you more interesting. Jed. The man will remain n the neighborhood ; I think you are going to have some unpleasant hours. The thought does not make me unhappy.” “I wish I could find a friend In this house,” sald Jed. “I wish you could deserve one” 1 sald. * » ® + ® » ® My description of Hartley house has been so sketchy and indifferent that it may not have included mention of the formal gardens which took in the river side of the place. They were charming at all times but particularly so at sunset, when the radlance was behind the western hills two miles across the water and was reflected “and ern hills, The shore at WAS DATTOW, which an mtimate sanctuary at a high brick wall against which geous blossom. and’we were sitting on a stone north. Jed was expected within a quarter of an hour to join Mr. Sid- ney. He seemed dejected and wor ried—in a fashion timid, I thought. When he came to sit down beside ment ; a few moments his presence upon me, I d him feel any more unwelcome ordinarily he knew himself to be, A schooner deep in the water with in which to Impose id not make than around a point above, with sells spread to the light was caught In the glorification of water, out of the the shrubbery. and content, it" was not a noise that my attention, It must have been senzation of being stared at. 1 turned the we was In line with the hench on which sat, and just topping the wall, the head of the Spanish sallor. what seemed to he at least a moment. His earrings glittered steady and both Inquiring and poseful. Even In Inquiry it malignant, with the comes froin A sense of injury. with the creeps which come from a good ghost story. the garden, walking about, have been different. head appearing above the wall, he perfectly unexpected, unexplained, motionless and Inquiring—Iit gave you the shivers of a child frightened at night in the nursery. “You're poor company,” sald Jed. “but I am, too, and I have to go to Mr. Sidney.” I seemed not to hear him. It was not intended to rebuff him: I was held Jed went in- to a huff and sald: “Oh, go to the devil.” . Then he also turned and saw the He arose and stood looking at the Spaniard as interftly as the Spaniard was looking at him. This situation the Spaniard’s face, graven In lines satisfaction And then the head I was in doubt whether the man's feet had gone out from under him, or whether he had Jumped. In disppenting he left the place where he had beeh, charged with the mystery which his presence had In- dicated, His disappearance intensi. fled, thickened, the atmosphere which his presence had created. While his head was above the wall, the senas. tion was one of nervous astonishment, When his head disappeared, the sug. gestion of terror was added. So long as we saw him, It was something un. explained but embodied; when he dropped out of sight, It was as If a person going down a hall in his house by candlelight at night were to come upon a startling sight, and--at the moment when his perceptions and rea. son were struggling to explain the ob Ject and its presence and to sustain his courage-~the candlelight should go out In a gust of wind and leave him blind, facing a thing he had not see, Then, with cause, may the hairs crowning even a head with a thinking brain arise in sheer fright. The per- son's plight is that of black Igno- rance, In which superstition and child- Ish fears ascend and dominate, Jed took a step forward as if In pursuit, but stopped with that one movement, It broke the situation down and made it possible for me to return to snimation, Seemingly my powers of movement and speech had been guspended. I looked at Jed, who was as pitifully frightened as a child in the dark. He made every demon- stration of fright except walling. Then he braced himself, recovered his cour- age and without saying anything went into the house to Join Mr. Sidney. CHAPTER VIIL When I saw Mr. Sidney that eve- ning he made a remark in joke that Jed was {lil and needed my attention, “I have not had the usual satisfac- tion of my wine.” he sald, “and I know it is because Jed is not In condition.” “I'm not well, Mr. Sidney,” said Jed. “I didn't want to say anything about it, because 1 didn't want to interfere with your evening, but since you men- tion it, I'll admit It." “Go on along then, Jed" sald Mr. Sidney. “Go and have the doctor look you over." “I'm not sick,” sald Jed almost an- grily, “but 1 know ,I'm bad compiny. I'll go to bed.” “There's something wrong with the man,” I sald as Jed left, “but It ish't physical” “So I imagined” sald Mr. Sidney. “He's as strong as an ox. He's got the constitution of an onlon. How- ever, he's noc himself tonight, and that's all there Is to that, Will you read to me? It was eleven o'clock when I went to my room. l was glad of my re lease, although it had been a pleasant PUTT In | A go 4 Just Then | Was Blinded by the Light | of an Electric Flashlight Hitting Me | Full in the Eyes. | For a dead or a dying man—— living and live man, for that! -Mr. Sliney had extraordinary | He gave a dignity and worth to life by his | manner of leaving it. In going from it. he proved it to be worth while | ~-which. 1 suspect, Is the highest ac- complishiment of the real gentleman. After 1 had gone to my room, I found myself restiess and thought 1 might find rest In a walk, 1 expected evening for a matter and Alredales as soon as I was out- side, but not a dog appeared. This was enough to be noticed, but not | enough, at the time, to be given sig. | nikcance. I walked about for a while and re-entered the house with quieter nerves. I found that 1 was tired. Ordi- narily I liked at least an hour's read. ing Just before bed, but this night I wanted sleep. I was grateful for the mood and the opportunity, and I yawned once or twice as 1 got Into my pajamas, I do not know when I went to sleep or how soon thereafier I awakened. It was possibly only two hours later. I did not look at my watch. for the very good reason that other things at the time were more important. A bright moonlight was shining, and whatever bad awakened me. the moon- light showed me good cause to be awake. In a window which the moon- light touched with full, luminating force, was a fece recognizable as that of the Spanish: sallor, Again only his hend was visible, but this time he was in my bedroom win- dow and seemingly trying for entrance into my room, This may seem & more ghastly proceeding than his appear ance above the wall early in the eve- ning, but really it was not. I had the shock of unpleasant astonishment, but 1 feit, to my satisfaction, the ability to handle the situation. 1 was not frightened by the appearance of the head in my window. [ suppose it is because the appearance suggested barglars, and burglars are conven- tional, I lay quietly in bed and wondered how much more than the head 1 should sce, Just then I was blinded by the light of an electric flashlight hitting me full in the eyes, A second later the flash was gone, the face in the window was gone and a slight movement on the grave! below showed me that my visitor was gone, I got up and looked out. Although the lawn was bright In the moonlight, no one was to be seen. The Spaniard had disappeared Into the woods. To come to an understanding of the oliOrD acts, not much refisopicy was needed; it was not my rooms he was trying to enter. but Jed's,. His flush light had not only shown that I was uwake but that he bad the wrong nan, and he had climbed down and run into the woods, Oue mystery was how he had escaped the dogs That was explaiped the next day: they had nof been loose the night before; had not been released from their kennels. They were found rest- less from an unexpected night of con- finement. They bad not been out be- cause the stableman who had chargé of them had spent the afternoon and night in the village of Hartley, drunk, It was an extraordinary and not an ordinary proceeding for this stable- man, who had been a dependable char- acter, It did not require much sus picion to conjecture that he had been tampered with in deliberate purpose to free the grounds of the dogs for the use the Spanish sallor made when he climbed up to my room. The stableman, proved delinquent, was so apparently contrite and inno cent that it would have been an injus- tice to punish or discharge him. He had gone to the village in the early afternoon on an assigned mission for the Mouse. He had used the oppor- tunity to drink a few glasses of beer, for which proceeding no one would blame him in Hartley house, It seems that he drank two or three glasses more than he Intended te and, even beer being In a fashion intoxicating, got into a condition which made him amiable to the approach of n stranger who succeeded In Interesting him in the immediate prospects of life, which then to him were chiefly alcoholic. He and the stranger had much talk and many drinks. The stableman lost all sense of responsibility, which was net strange, and proceeded from beer to strong liquor, forgetting all his duties to the house. In consequence he d!d not get home that night, the dogs were not loose, Naturally one drew a direct ance of the Spaniard at there was natural kind of confederate the could have so effectually my wonder as to The had a confederate was ious and resourceful; He had n get the dogs ht the sailor evident. play the nig his attempt to and had succeeded Was to he way into in almost get ances of the Spaniard, I was asked and was told that a gentleman desired {0 see me, house and saw a man who the stableman so successfuily, was & crime for even a drunken ing characteristics, but at that, stableman had made Identification pos sible. tion of the mystery of Hartley house, He was a significantly insignificant. looking man ; mark. He seemed gram. 1 wondered how so shrinking an individual had played a jovial part in a village tavern with drink. His card indicated him to be Combination in One Costume. Is Important Feature, Colors Promise to Be Strong Favorite -Gowns Liberally Decorated With Embroidery. An Important style feature iu the combination of black snd white In one costume. It may be safely predicted that this will be a black and white season. There eze white satin blouses with black satin skirts to make one- plece dresses. These are lavishly em- broldered with satin beads. A great deal of jet and many palllettes are used. Dregses may be sald to fairly sparkle with them, Velvet dresse are making thelr ap- pearance, and these too, are embroid- ered in bright-colored beads. This type of beading is much more distine- tive than the ordinary beaded dresses beadwork, which Is more on the order The bright-colored contrasting sash still holds a place of lmportance. For hetance, a very brilllant green one may be used on a brown dress that scintiliates with brown pallliettes, The resurrection of ombre is worthy of note. Very gay are the dresses of chiffon showing several shades of the same color blending into one another, “ A Black and Whites Frock. but by applying the color with a brush. Seo cleverly is the material handled by de the deftness of their draplog. as If | made of different colored materials. Ss — tion and greeting. “l have asked for you, doctor, be éanuse I know of no one else here who will serve, Mr. Sidney directly and cannot trust the factotum you know as Jed 1 would not impose upon Mrs Sidney or her daughter except In extremity. You are here, a rational human being and Interested, 1 am informed, Furbelows Carry Any Dress into Fashion. The Gotham fashion world has an- nounced that aithough a string of and below York fashion furbelows above, at waistline, writes a New correspondent. Dame resurrected any type of dress and put have come to you" “For what purpose?” 1 asked. He smiled as if having any purpose, and pulled at the cuffs of his coat. “I'l! be frank,” he sald. know the purpose clearly myself, cellent is a sailor. My practice lies considerably along the water front in the city. It has not made me rich, I have lost a good deal of egotism and have become pragmatic. I have to | get along and to deal with facts There are people dependent upon me, upon.” “The condition of your finances or | Green Good Tint for Fair Complex. | joned; Blue Harmonizes With the Golden Hair, You know there are blondes and blondes? A fair blonde has pale skin, resembling a white rose, slightly | tinged with delicate pink. She has clear, soft blue eyes and light golden hair, you belong to this type, color in dress from a color expert might help you. You have three tints to bring out-— me,” 1 said, of Interest?” | the hair enriched. Green is a good quently to rebuff, “What I have. 1 assure you, humill. that If I succeed for my client, T shall ney. My consolation’ls that I am only an agent and I am sure that 1 shall be a more considerate and honest one than any other this ignorant sallor would find. It has been necessary for me to know many languages to make tiny small living. My Spanish client does not know mueh if any English, Ie has been a man of preearions man. ner of living. and it seems that several vears ago he was In the employ of Mr, Sidney.” No wonder Jed is worried. w (TO BE CONTINUED) The more money you save the more respect your heirs will bave for you, | parts a reddish hue to the surfaces Blue is a perfect contrast for orange, so it harmonizes with the golden hair, and also by its strong reflections, adds a depth of color io the eyes. The colors for a fair blonde to avoid are red, orange, purple and brown, Violet is an most difficult color for any type to wear, since it gives a yellowish tone to the skin. A pale blonde, with a rose-leaf skin is not at tier best in violet. Happily there are the deliente shades of lilae, heliotrope and parma that are less unkind, Tassels, Ornamentation was never more ef- fective nor easter for the home dress. maker to do than now, when bold, simple designs in embroidery have ousted the finely wrought wreaths of flowers and leaves. Separate large motifs, usually circular, are worked In conrse wools of mercerized cottons In darning stitch. Often, in place of —— THIS IS COMFY GREAT COAT This comfortable great coat will make a strong bid for popularity the coming season because of its smartness and warmth, thereon, and chieness Is the up-to-da‘e minute result, Both Orient and Oeccident have hob. nobbed in this new folderol of the erratic old dame, although the East is supposed to be directly responsible for this hobbling of the hips. Rich slik fringes In every shade of the rainbow are showered us of sheerness or heaviness to the manner of the Spanish ng girl, Fringe arrcngement a In leopatra Is also much in the limelight and this fad promises a rev of the good old time vamps and serper Nile. rently a promis nctress dined at the Ritz clad in a very slinky, mod- ish Paris gown, about the middle part of which was draped a colorful sash of many ribbons, sl to dozens of loops that to the and formed into a train, “Movie” studios over gow according danci val ts of the Le went eshed In fell floor are demanding train on evening | gowns, and It looks as If an unhappy day was coming for percmbulating feet, | Smart Fifth avenue shops are mak- ing frocks of barren simplicity and then embellishing them with some confection of sash or belt worth a king's ransom. Up in upper Fifth avenue & shop shows a plain silk dress of perfectly straight lines which | flaunts a wedgewood buckle at the I belt. With the belt it may possibly be | nest for a four figure price It Is no | secret that severas! museums tried to | obtain this plece of former pottery for their collections, but falled because | of the higher bid of the ap- {| parel house which coveted the wedge- | wood. All street dresses display the use of colored leather for belts, and the most popuiar fad is a combination of sev | eral weights and colors of leathers | Tan with white bound In black ix very | populer upon linens and serge. The | Grecian girdles made of colored | chenille cords abound on light sik | gowns. while the bouffant is suppiled by hip puffings made of knotted cords or fringes. iadien . Joining Lace, When joining lace, an almost In. i sible union may be made by match. { laying the two edges ogether and buttonholing these rather | loosely, but taking the stitches close together on the wrong side. When | the lace is pressed there will be no thickened seam, and it will be scarcely { noticeable. ing the pattern, a hem, the raw eige is finished In blanket stitch. Ancther plan is to | work three-inch squares at the hem, | these rising several rows higher at the { sides In a triple row of darniLg stitch, | the middie row in a darker shade. A { simple motif is then embroidered In | alternate squares, or a colored tassel | left to dangle there. | GEORGETTE FOR COOL FROCK | Material Affords More or Less Dressy Fabric Which ls Favorite for Late Summer, Brown has made quite a place for itself this season, and bisqué dots and trimmings are often used by way of decoration. Foulard, sating and mate. rinls on this order are all very well for early symmer, but in the “dog days” they cannot approach the cools ness of sheer cottons. If a more or less “dressy” fabric is “required for a town dress georgette makes the coolest frock of this sort. . There Is one pale shade which is fa- vored In all materials and for all oe caslons—French gray. This color has been extremely popular In Paris for many months, but it was not till warm wenther reached us that we gave it anything like its Parisian reception. Fashion does not always regard mat. ters of heat In choosing her favorite colors, however, for tomato red is new and very popular in organdie and swiss, yet, needless to say, it is not exactly cooling In effect. The trans parent hats that are belng worn do much to ald a cool appearance. In Ince, tulle or forse halr braid they are frequently seen and quite as often they are of organdie, swiss or geor Bette,
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