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PRISCILLA,
Synopsis. ~Vaguely conscious of a
double personality, but without any
idea of Its meaning. the girl, Leo
makes her aocustomed way
the Street of Strange Faces
Thoroughly at heme in the under
world of New Yor leonora takes
har course to her appointed
vous. Marlo joins her
ve and seeing the fine qualities
which the girl really possesses, Ma
rio seeks to turn from the path
of inevitable destruction. She
izes to m but quickly
leaves him. At il s cafe, gath
ering place o LONOTA
meets her Larne
han, and his associate and ia a
cused of Y How crimi
nal to
defends
NOYra,
nto
rend
Greatly in
her
prom
ITY
¥
A
savagely
of the gang
Says he seen her on Pifth ave
poilce
srself One
nue, all dross
iV. RISTORI'S—Continued.
we Fp
“Better tell em, kid
uneasily. clean
“Like h—1 ave!" 10 more
lon't
come
flames of ' high “wy
awe this
account
the
creature a
excited inte
problem «
accusation
nemory
stroke of
“IE «
i
“why don't
Ask him
time, where
his swell
he's
big ho
ilways
when
the
clothes, who he s to
bulging up bars of
tells, Ask Mm
the other
he ain't
why the
caps
took way when they soe him
roming, ”
why never pinched
With an oath Harry thrust back his
chair, which overturned with a crash,
and jumped up, guilt upon
his countenance of pallor,
glinting in his furtive little
eyes, But in the same instant the door
unlocked after the
Leonora
stamped
sudden
fearfully
left negligently
entrance of was
opened and The first to
dentify the man had slipped in
and now stood fumbling with the key,
English Addie shrill dis-
may: “Leo!” The company turned
gimultaneously and with confused
cries and questions got to its feet,
Slight and under normal height,
g. sweating, haggard, his
eyes terrified, hatless, and with
thing disheveled, Leo Jielingky,
ins Leo the Blood, sank back against
the door, hand pressed to his
side just below his Inboring heart, The
other, holding an antomatic pistol, de.
scribed a gesture of supplication. Red
snapped over-sshouldeg a profane de
mand for Leo's broken
phrases became andible,
"
slammed
who
cried out in
one
silence,
; a-buli down the
street coming out of Bennle's
place, Corbin and Ennis tried to jump
me Corbin got IL." He ges
ticulated meaningly with the pistol,
“Eanis took after Looks
ike a frame-up every-
where | turned i
Red demanded furiously: “What in
h--~1'"d you come here for?’
“No place else to go . . . cor
sered, T tell you Listen ¥ The
tussian held up a hand and, bending
an ear to the door, heard sounds below
inaudible to the others. “There they
come now! For God's sake, get me
out of this!”
“Fire escape,” Red indicuted with a
jerk of his head, Somebody thrust
open the shutters of one window. The
murderer pulled himself together,
reeled nevoss the room, and lurched
out upon an fron platform grating
Immediately he dicappeared.
Now the rumor was loud In the hall
below, the shrill protestations of the
walters rising above yet dominated by
the deeper volees of the police. After
brief but violent altercation, heavy
feet came pounding up the stairs,
Then panic fastened upon the wits of
all those in the private dining room
Crooked
He
cops
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“The Lone Wolf” Ete.
Hlustrated by
Irwin Myers
topgard the fire
their fright
with women for first place
Stifted
paln and anger mingled with muttered
but
and
escape,
stumpeded them
Primitively in
window, screams of
blasphemies ; the noise of milling
Not more than two had
to fight out to the iron plat
them
¥
the door, Tes
HAOTH
side, saw the
maddened men, and, resigned
tremble under a
leks
Fear was
and blows
absent from her temper
as shaken. by
i Bot ent
impoten
sad with regrets
and
end to everything
3
bros
i Association
hour since she hers
forsake, but to al
Mario
remotest
Ss With
doub
But
£111
and, swi
lock shatte
bi 3 WwW ii vy
the wall.
broken it in st
full length upon the floor
clothes man, Ennis, leas
prostrate bo iy.
Profane Instructions.
to get herself out through the window
without more delay. She made a vain
attemapt to obey, and had half suc
ceeded when a rattle of shots sounded
and looking back, she saw the man
Ennis pitch forward on™ his knees,
then fall prone. The policeman,
serambling up pistol in hand, received
the balance of the clip in Red's auto
matie, gnd sank slowly down upon his
side. ‘
Sereaming with horror, the girl fell
back from the window. Red shoul
dered past her, climbed out, turned
and caught her by the arm and
dragged her after him, still sereaming
like a madwoman., She tripped. her
head struck heavily against the hot
tom of the window sash, and the lights
dimmed welrdly and burned out. leav
Ing only darkness Impenetrable, and »
strange hush plerced by thin echoes
of eldritch shrieks
CHAPTER TWO
The Antagonists.
I. PRISCILLA.
Rousing on an elbow,
Maine found herself awake
racing heart, a throat swollen with a
strangled cry of horror, and a
through whose painted murk
flection of a woman's sereams can
a thread of purple light
¥et here was only darkness vith
ee absolute .
ith a low gasp of relief that
half a sob of fright as well, she sprang
from the stumbled to
and
flooded the studio with milky radiance
And in on pas
sion of gratitude she embraced the re-
the
furnished, spacious rid
her
and ever since her own
Priscilla
mind
the re
Was
up divan, the
after a moment's
groping
from an Inverted dome
inherent in atmosphere
hiy
studio,
assurance
silent father's warkshon
Ww
It was true, then: she was safely
furs
where
thn
had
restored to inthinatet environ
i
awn
ninthine resemble even
where
bad
ore of
which
remoiely ft rOwWSsYy room
murders been done, She
merely dredamed a
those amazingly
she Lad learned to ao eg without pro
fost
dreatn, one
real dr is
1% phenomenn of slumber unavold
ihie harmiles id on the
singularly
So at len
night when
stalked unbidden sod un
hands
heralded rent
flinsy tex
ihe
her ti
bility?
in her
ltrs hoe
That train
afraid to pursue
il. THE PORTRAIT
Bezide the
gto! n
mirror, a long pier glass
okling »
Dor
ress
hime dance
heavy studio easel }
fulldength canny? in unfinizhed
trait of herself in
ghe hard once worn at «
whet a8 mod
carried ont
she felt ©
NOW neared
work
and
Inspecting
Begun long ago, on a day
and
“when
painting
Hitie
her, incon
sevntively,
mood” the Com.
nore on Aa
and background it
eries
ready for exhibition
critically, with
saw that her
28 good as her
fauit-finding eo)
work was good. al
father's. The four
the canvas lived ; its striking p
instinct
the face was
the
in an in
©* On
was
with almost insolent vitality:
with'acat in
transiently
:
impudence alto
agiow iife,
eyes seemed
stant of gay
gether charming
Her troubled gaze
the mm
turned
sentment of a
Londishil y gowned young
finished product of a
upbringing, a little proud,
reservidd, thoughtful exquisite
Priscilla Maine
But the gir! on the
nora. And in hed
which was which?
true? Was
of Park avenue and
rror’s faithtul pre
slender,
worldling, the
fashionable
Ion
ut
CAnvAY
olf both lived
Which false
the life she knew, the fife
Fifth, of teas, din.
relleved only by
these davs in the studio, her happiest,
Was
when she was painting
reslity or Husion? And that
life of which she caught only fugitive
glimpses, facinating, tantalizing, ter
tible, and related to nothing withis
the scope of her expefience
dream life perhaps the life of fact?
She shook a head baffled, bowildersd
and faint with wondering
The doorbell intercupled. She an-
swered, finding ss she had expected
that the chauffeur was walting to es.
cart her to the tewn car which he was
obliged to leave at the mouth of the
alley, She was gind of his company,
when she had put out the lights and
locked the studio door, for the alley
was indifferently Hiominsted and
seemed rather grimly desolate at. that
hour. Bhe knew a moment of sym.
pathy with Aunt Esther's distrustful
animosity toward “that dreadful stu-
dio life”
§
v
| If Aunt Bether
i finite)
i which
Sut
only guessed how
more dreadfnl thet fier
Priscilin knew in dre
no one guessed. Instineiis
cence, ienlonsy of hm
tance to be thought dit
of having hei
herself too
guarded the
inviolate
She had
mind
dream life continued
cult influence upon her
mitting to her childs
or lesion was unthink
sudden
n Mario (ar
shadow?) un
NOW of a
the
rewiniscence re
compelling eves,
of his presence, and felt a
sire of his Hps on beg
Or Leo
OW in
On hers?
She eringed
seat, as if Tearful les
fhe
cheek
fect wnves of color
For in
Mao
a
20S
eS
Sr
a SE
sharpened by
mischievous sense of playing truant,
¢
i 0: i
cheating lif nord!
Recollect 1 of the dr
tardily and sluggishly, like
nate demands
eam
the Im
that reluct
P derexps
when
gee inexd
warm
shape
hoi pe
1
sharpest
pale and
flow of
her bed
But It served to
and,
{ back to
the nigh
toward
she athed took
had
rend it with care
when
written in
bed what she
and
'
i
the close nething like re
{ those emotions
she hind known during the
i 28 well as after waking up. In
{end
she aware of an srative
for
ETOWH
was
enlightenment thing
had iguring
| too largely in her life
prove
must have comprehension of ils nature
fon serious Was
was not to altogether iM, she
to give her heart courace
In all the
: she knew but
i person In
one
conceive It
world
whom she could
She took the from
| bedside stand ji
Merely to hear that
agrecnble with its
| tinge of humor was couiforting. Her
| clouded countenance was Hehted up by
{a smile of gratitude-—and of affection,
foo, ‘
“Philip, dear! Do yon know 1 haven't
seen you for ages?’
"That's brazen blague, Priscilla. It's
your own fault: sou will insist on
drenching the ‘springtime of your {life
with turpentine and varnish, everlook
ing the most Important things entire
iy.” . .
“What do you consider the most im-
portant thing in Hfe? Yourself?
“No; you. And next to you, letting
me make love to you"
fe lephione
low pit hed
youce
anti ns soa
rin oe ——
“Philip, 1 have dreams. The
strangest dreams.”
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AN OPEN LETTER
T0 WOMEN
Mrs. Little Tells How She
Suffered and How Finally
Cured
Philadelphia, Pa. — “I was not able to
do my bousework and had to lie down
a tiiste wat of the time and
ae : ad i nt
eranber. v. are pl aE : € 3d in my left
Yoni aba 1 y - 8 side, My monthly
onl : ]
without fa irreg-
fomatlo sauce,
A DAY OF SAUCES.
accom
make
petizing
ordinain
with =n
and
|auce
many a
famous, Certain
sAUces A lamb
sauce, pork roast
turkey with
associated
fHaguant
inppronrinte
has made
chef and
hotel foods need
ronst with
mint
SRUCD,
with
ways
snappy
periods were
volar, sometimes five
lolled | Fea 4 we Sor seven moths
is improved by a caper sauce apart and when they
and currant jelly “ith a With iid appear would last
venison a spiced grape jelly is ox | for two weeks and
iy 8 atin . rere very painful. |
ily appropriate. and wild duck erg oh A Tt a
neegs a fart jelly or a salad of =lleag | v us and a half and
WHA rice is excellent doctoredbut without
: any improvement.
| A neighbor recommended Lydia E.
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A Bad Cough
LRERATRES
PISO'S
ar one of onion,
and tasteless
mution
ross
oe
and |
Fish, too, of any kind is always
figh.
with:
Ripe Olive Sauce.—Melt four table
spoonfuls of butter in a» sancepan, ada
one «liced onion ane! cook until slight.
ly brown. Remove the onion and tis
the batter until brown. Add five and
one hail mblespoontute of flour, a ten.
spoonfal of salt, onefonrth of a ton
spoonful of pepper and stir We fn
anooth paste. Add fwo cupola of
hrown stock gradually and continge
browning, stirring cengtantly. Cur
the meat from a dozen ripe olives
cover with bolling water and cook
woven minutes. Drain and add the
“nee,
Wild fowl is especially goo
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