Vance
alse Faces,
“The Lone Wolf.” Etc.
Ilustrated by
Irwin Myers
ws
THE AMATEUR SLEUTH.
Synopsis. —V aguely conscious of a
double personality, but without any
idea of its meaning. the girl, Leo-
nora, makes her acomstomed way
into the Street of Strange Faces
in the underworld of New York
Mario joins her. Greatly In love
and seeing the fine qualities which
the girl really possesses, Mario
seeks to turn her from the path
of inevitable destruction. She prom
ises to marry him. At Ristori's
cafe, gathering place of criminals,
Leonora meets her partner, “Red”
Carnehan, and associates, and
is accused of betraying a fellow
criminal to the police. She sav-
agely defends herself, Police crash
into the room and two are killed
by Carnehan. Leonora and the rest
escape, In a studio, Priscilla
Maine, wealt artist, awakes from
trouble d sle o> ” with a distinct feel.
ing of having her life linked with
Leonora’s. Priscilla has painted a
picture of herself in fancy
4 gipsy—which his a strange effect
on her. Unnerved, and fearful! that
her mind is affected, Mr
to her aid a dear friend,
Fosdick, who is in
He is stunned to
dream story of the
confirmed by the newspapers
aim mystery
her, wh when she
He sees the effect of
vinting and pronounces it a
atto-hypnosis
his
dress-
iscilla calls
Dr. Philip
with her
that her
fight is
Pris.
love
find
police
about the
o died
<
il. AUTO.HYPNCSIS—Continued.
Rn
“I wonder . . — Priscilla
her ri ght
But still 1 why 1
go Just
more day,
“Confound® you!™ hill exploded
with an
how hard
anvihin
"Cilla.
sipped
ten, “Mavbe vou're
uldn't
one
don” Lee
with
on
know
refuse you
good this time,
NR
For that
you to
ing en
Get
to res
danees
more
. with
this tron
eo] i 1 . nd the ex
planation whie may ake time,
you're han d to i wi worrying unless
I'm
nrom
TOU £0 Oot more
In earnest
for
ise to tudio
at lene
onceded with a
resume I've
order
tied” Philly
nD
complacence,
Il, THE PRESCRIPTION.
Priscilla ad a
“Hypnotism?”
“1 wonder if that's
Do you think yon ecounld get nt
truth. Philip,
and then
*T'd rather not
sort. Hypnotism
anrrender to
pensive moment
she echoed her thought:
one way
the
if yon were to hypnotize
cross-examine me?
Inst re
demands such
will of
except ns
cCOom-
the
the
is es.
plete the
hypnot at it
independence of the
. ential to
the individual”
“But what else can we do?
“Many things To begin with,
I want to take this story with
me and go over it As
ft stands, in It8 Intrinsic significance,
ft'e an nheolutely unique human doen.
tment, artless and Bonest. The
elue we need may be In it. In some un-
ennsel hetraval of repressed
tion or desire: it may
gome turn of plyasing, SOM
unnsunl word, the word wonldn’'t
ordinarily use to express vour thought.
Such things ean only be got at through
close study.”
“What else?”
“Oh, plain sleuthing, for one—like
digging into the mystery of vour par-
ents’ marriage. finding out why they
were unhappy, and especially whe
your mother was and what sort of
family she had behind her—whether,
in short, it's possible that you've in.
herited some psychic tradition. There
are families for instance, that hand
down from generation to generation
the clairvoyant tendency we know by
the name of second sight. Finally, we
may find the police useful”
Priscilla started sharply. “The po-
lice!” she repeated in a tone of pro-
tekst,
“Why not? Philip tapped the
manuscript of the dream story, If
you actually did, through some freak
of peyechie aetivity-—'traveling clair.
voyance," or whatever it is—have first.
hand knowledge of this Bielinsky busi.
ness , . . Well, his isn't the only
name mentioned. And If you remem-
bered his accurately, and the plain.
clothes men, Ennis and Corbin, and
Ristori's-~why shouldn't the others he
real names of real persons as well?
English Addie and Inez, Harry the
Nut and Charlie the Coke, Red Carne.
han ae
tends to undermine
ero which
the right development of
home
word by word
utterly
ous oo.
hidden in
even in
lie
yon
Struck by a circumstance whose gig-
nificance had till now escaped him, he
paused for thought, unheeding the
signs of disconcertion betrayed by
Priscilla.
“I say! If you dreamed true, neither
of the policemen who entered that up-
stairs room lived to tell what they
found there, Then Blelinsky is cred-
ited with two murders of which he's
innocent. I fancy police headquarters
will be deeply Interested if I can per-
suade them Red Carnehan was the
author of the killings in Ristori's!
Priscilla’'s eup and saucer clattered,
“You mustn't!” she cried, her eyes
wide her features drawn with dismay
“You mustn't do that, Philip! Don't
you understand-—don’'t you know what
will happen if you do? Red wouldn't
hesitate an instant If he thought I'd—
if he thought Leonora had told. He'd
croak—I mean, he'd kill her, Philip!"
“Oh, come!” Philip put down
cup and tried to reassuringly.
“You're taking do
“I'm not. It
death!” She suddenly
feet, ing in a manner utterly
out of character. Philip got up to face
her, and tried to interrupt, but
wouldn't listen. “It's the way
with that is-
people what
or §
his
speak
this too seriously
life or
on her
is serious: it's
Wis
gesticuiat
they
squenlers—informers,
who tell. I know
talking about. They kill
them killed!"
“Easy, ‘Cilla. Don’t lose your head.”
She didn't hear.
picious already.” she
rowed a lot with Leonora
He told me . . . 1
ber his telling Leonora
Mario was a dick—n and if
Le caught her talking to him again,
ny¥thing happened to make him think
she'd much, he'd kill! her
first and Mario next.”
She threw hands
with passionate anxiety.
the In,
even “Red's sus-
“He's
about Mario,
declared.
I remem-
thought
mean,
he
detective
or
talked too
that shook
“Promise me
out
“Oh, Come!” “You're Taking This Too
Seriously.”
Philip—for
for Mario's!"
Philip's eves
I'd forgotten
seems to he
personage
you won't go to the police,
my sake for Leonora's,
“For Mario's sake?”
darkened. “To be sure:
Mario And he
rather a more lmportant
than 1-1"
“l—sghe loves
loves leonora.
anhont
him, Philip-
And his influence is
good for her, 1 know, If you won't
tell—1 don't know how 1 know, but 1
do-—Mnario will find a way to save her,
he'll get her away from those others
and marry her and make her good,
and make her happy, too. Give him
give both of them a chance, Philip!
Please! If anything should happen to
either of them, I"
“Priscilla”
The imperative tone shocked her
into momentary silence. But her at.
titude remained that of supplication,
she still trembled in frantic anxiety
and besought his generosity with
pleading hands,
You won't—vyou promise not to go
to headquarters?”
“I promise. For the time being, at
least, I'll keep away from the police
but on one condition . . . Are you
listening 7”
“Yes—yen, Philip"
“You must stop this fretting—take
things quietly, And you must come
away from the studio with me at once,
Ill see you home, and this evening-——if
Aunt Esther will have me—I'll drop
round for dinner. After that, If you've
nothing else arranged, we might do a
play. If you like, I'll scare up some
others and make it a box party, and
afterward we can drop In at the Club
de Vingt for a dance. What do you
say?’
The panic In her eyes gave way tn
daze then tov dawning comprehension,
and he
She smiled feebly, her hands sketched
a sign of apology and chagrin,
“I've been silly again! What have
I been saying, Phillp?’
“It doesn’t matter. Will you give
me this evening and do your best to
help me enjoy it?”
“It sounds awfully jolly, and I'm
sure it'll do me heaps of good. Philip”
~her eyes were dangerously kind--
“don’t think me ungrateful, You're so
good to me. You're such a dear pe
“1 know,” said Philip with a rueful
smile, “But I hope that won't be my
only epitaph.”
CHAPTER FOUR
The Haunting Portrait.
I. IN THE AIR,
That was the year of the impetuous
spring; March brewed weather whose
golden graciousness she stole
May, April brought times
heat, such as that afternoon
riscilla fell asleep in the studio and
drean her dream of terror. Days
followed as rare, unseasonable enough
but with the warm delight of
youth anticipating the richness of ma-
turity, with nights of wonder whose
winds walked suavely beneath skies of
and soft Top
sraps went early and
furs ap
Jdicacy of sum-
of summer
when
1d]
Sweet
velvet, purple, dense
coats and heavy y
unmourned to |
peared
mery
imbo, summer
the de
windows
and dainty fab-
like Beds of ex
betw
confused
living flowers,
eddying in
And by
abandoned
ad n
chapters of
{0 stress
frocks, Shop bloomed
with displays of sheer
tinted
under glans In
A
show 5 of
up and
pausing lightly,
and night as well the Te
oly
ries exqulsit
otic flowers
the
een
them Haw
drifting dawn,
RTOUDS,
itself to such frivolity
der in the Waddest
De Between tv
it was dificult to secure a ts » at
of the more fa
had
reseryy
ns I
any
vored restaurants
ughtfal
long in
one been tho
make tion advance
Plays offering the
ent
sorriest of entertain-
prospered bevond belief
in the morning rushing tides of
rendered
avenue as
cars the passage
perilous as at fi
The
wis proportionately
its brief
with
in the memory
evening mare retiring
more gay an
loss, post-Lenten seq
cande sweent brilliance unparal
Te mos! elder
there
! of the
ly idler. Everywhere
dancing,
idleness,
less feasting
fer,
coquetry,
love in Announcemd
popped In
ous fusilinde ; and
kindly
murmurous
humbler sweethe
air,
sprayed Into the night by fia
It found
insensible to the preoccupation
frm generally Ev Pris.
ila, t sign
of engagements wellnld
contin after dark
all the shadows in the
with the
Love
nt as the dust of gold
parks
were voices of
‘Wri, wus In the
as omnipress
ming sky
Immune,
HENS none
wet] so en
hough
il, ANALYSIS,
Love worried Ph ip Fosdick with re
ess lmportunity, wh
the
ether he were
desk in his cons
nitation
his best to give his best to
those unfort who sought him
lay
unates
cit to open «i
! peak hia
orf whether he
for
hearts and
«ft pressed
sympathy and healing
counsel ent in solitude
cudgeling his wits sight
Into the
mystery that shade
of the
The problem
efforts. Prac
contact and
close examination
by }
he believed.
wed the happiness
woman he loved
mocked his
tice and study, pefsonal
oheervation ther with
of
ines
topge
CRsewN
others, had long nade him, us
of psychosis,
well as with thes
will at
sons of seemingly
from simple
lism in all
tion, trance,
telnesthesia and the va
hypnosis,
¢ psychic phenomena
develop in
normal idiosynerasy,
dreaming to somnambu.
with hallucina.
telepathy and
which tirues
jt guises,
ecstasy,
te more than one of these, what
Priscilla to term her
persisted in defying classifi.
ntion by virtue of a perverse
intrinsic uniquity. For were In
no sense true dreams, having none of
the features peculiar to those fantastic
inventions of the mind uncensored by
waking consciousness. They were ut
terly without traceable relation to any-
thing in the memory of the subject
or her personal circumstances and en-
vironment. Nor were they,
every ordinary dream, a jumble of con-
densed and disfigured Impressions un-
intelligible but to the trained percep
tions of the analyst. On the contrary
they were, as communicated to Fos.
dick, coherent, dramatic, picturesque,
convincing reports of happegings
which, If they fell short of the round
ed completeness of the invented story,
were strikingly like reels Inconsecu-
tively viewed in some cinema of en-
trancing interest,
Further: Priscilla was not hysteri.
enl, neurotic or anemic. Neither was
she of unsound mind. Hallucinations,
trance and ecstasy take shape only in
the miasmata of insanitary mental and
physical states. The man who since
her earliest days had adored and
watched over her, knew few minds
more clear of vision, imprepossessed
by illusions, or’ capable of straight,
honest reasoning. But It was not more
sane than her well nourished, groomed
and guarded body.
To a certainty, however, the
“dreams” were telepathic. And Fos.
dick had already seen they could be
stimulated by auto-suggestion--as
when Priscilla had suffered a sense of
translated Identity while puzzling over
her portrait of “Leonora.” So, t
without question, they fell within
definition of telnesthesin ns “any a.
rect sensation or perception of objects
with
dreams”
ned
oe
sort of
they
as is
or conditions fndependent of the ree
ognized channels of the senses, and
also under such elrcumstances that no
Known mind external to the percinis
ent’s can be suggested as the source of
the knowledge thus gained.” But in
either case the link was missing;
there was no “known mind” with
which Priscilla's could conceivably
communicate with such Intimate BYID-
pathy whilst she glept, but only “Leo
nora's."”
ut was “Leonora” anything more
than a fancy born of subliminal rec
ognition by Priscilla of the fact that
she was the vessel of a dual personal.
ity? Or, If there were
what the nature
un real Leonora,
was of the affinity
|
Indisputably Leonora
cilla living facet, a dissoc!
Ity leading an Independent and factual
existence, On the other hand, con-
stantly by word of mouth and In writ-
ing Priscilla referred to leonora
her “other Self"—u plain and direct
wis to Pris.
ate personals
term dual personality,
had told the girl) in the
spontaneous phraseology of a
subject the key to the riddl
quently be found,
And yet, Fosdick
remind himself,
secondary
unconsidered
naive
e may fre-
had repeatedly to
the projection of a
personality any
considerable distance In the
creation of a
through
pace, or
and strange en
vironment for its activities,
nomenon
by the most
the most
student
new
fi yet even to he sted
pretentious
credulous
of the psyehle
Neverthe he
BUgoe
charlarnn
pseudo-sclientifie
Hess, constrained
personnal
the beginnings of his su
HHI, THE AMATEUR SLEUTH.
Dredging the past for the truth
hroug
light
twenty pd
to6
i brief cone
of others Henry
Hol
necessful
of the m
portrs pe
pal
Spit
Priscilla’
Phil
Mrs.
Trowbridge
being duly pump
proved to be as ignorant as the girl
had said she was
the mar.
knew in-
been
concerning
her kinsman She
that had
itn Cause,
riage of
definitely “there trou-
S nature, its outcome,
her knowledge and
Apparently she
anything than
today, an amiably self.cen-
comforted and sustained by
were alike outside
alien to her Interest
had never been
she was
tered soul,
nore
those delusions of personal importance
which are so essential to the insignifi
cant
F ree
ed ar
nn other sources, by dint of guard.
| seemingly casual but persistent
ser ir th
in the lounges of clubs fre.
ions, Fos
re
«1 by the elder generat
that Maine
guilty of a romat
sn rned had been
i ying a
world outside his owy
name had sn forgotten
womsn
But her very
He found,
Mrs,
the
rit.
indeed nobody whe
Maine, and but
tradition of a
remembered
few who recalled
hot
eresiture whose hopeless impatience
blooded, high-4;
™~y
of restraints and conventions defied all
Maine's half-hearted atte:
wife with his
of life, till,
appeared with her and for some
himself utterly from
Concerning this por his
nothing known :
there was a suggestion that he had de
voted it to travel In South America.
But it certain that had re.
turned with a child without
a wife. This lust was presumed to
have died, though there were whispers
to the contrary, that “incompatibility”
had dictated a separation. Maine never
made any explanation but, It appeared,
quietly resumed his place and thence
forth devoted himself steadfastly to
his profession and. the eare of his
daughter, Phillp remembered him
well. He lived to see Priscilla give
promise of carrying on the torch of Kis
genius, even as her dark loveliness
foreshadowed something of the furore
it was destined to ereate.
Disappointed but not discouraged,
Fosdick turned to other avenues of ip.
vestigation,
Bound by his pledge to Priscilla not
to consult the police, discreet employ-
ment of channels of information pro
vided by a wide acquaintance among
newspaper men nevertheless brought
him all police headquarters knew
ahout the Blelinsky affair. Nothing
was known concerning the party in the
room at Ristori's by way of which the
Russian escaped after adding twe
murders to his score. The name of
ted Carnehan had not been mentioned
in connection with the crime. There
wix, however, such a person, a notori.
ons gang-leader of the lower East side,
Considering it essential that he
should fearn more of Mr. Cs*neha=
and his friends, and perceiving but
one way to gain that i(eformation
without breaking his promise to Pris.
cilia, Philip adopted it without more
hesitation.
On the following morning Priscilla,
calling up his office, was informed that
Doctor Fosdiek had been suddenly
called out of town on a case of vital
Importance,
Npte to ree
friends and
discouraged,
mode he dis
Years
nhsented New
York.
life
fowl of
definite was
was he
gin and
“Red sent me to tell yuh he
wants yuh!”
"(10 BE CONTINUKDY
Western Newspaper Union.)
Let me laugh for the pure joy of liv.
ing,
Let me laugh like a child at his play,
And the heart of the ruce will reserve
me a place
And be glad that I traveled this way.
Liddall
FEEDING THE FAMILY.
of the family,
important members
proper feeding,
may follow the
English custom,
which Is ideal,
of having a ta-
ble of thelr own,
where they are
not permitted
any compromise
between what they ought to have and
what they The
sturdy, healthy young
few American families are
this
The children
the most
being
result Is of
steers A
fol-
as
want
[HOW
lowing gsvetem, but the most
yet from necessity; others from indif-
to ent with
usunlly have
the sake of
mor-
childre:
they
ference allow the
the family,
what they cry for,
peace at the sacrifice of n
and physique,
The
run
thie
and
where
for
mnners
als
cannot
serve at
avernge housemother
two sets of meals and
snme time the needs of the young
the desires of the old.
{Ine
restrict the diet
may i
elders to confor
the food
or let
themselve
ner
When
feeding or give 1 juld
g physician,
The child, fortunately,
been pam
ety of food to
who
need
ninte the
pered, does not
stim
neither sauces nor
ger ix the best
Leisure
Ing to be
with
minds wit?
Are the main
up that empty
cant hours, or
hands--the world
need of earnest workers
depart because It has 1 pia i
ter, because it is conquered by go
Dean Btaniey
ing
GOOD THINGS FOR THE TABLE,
When the
fry
ordinary
these :
Italian Round Steak.
Put two pounds of
round d two
ounces of heef
sieak a
suet
hop
¥ *
fourth of a
bs,
through meat «
per ;
cupful of breaderun
a teaspoonful of salt,
one-eighth of
ful of peg
hlespoonful of
beaten eggs; mix well
together into balls the an
ege Simmer together one cah of 10
add one
/ tenspoon
ta-
0 well-
per,
grated onion, t
one
ih
.
3
form
size of
fin
{ water, one oni
on
one clove of garile, one green pepper
butter, one teaspoonful of salt,
leaf ; after one
shallow
in the balls, cover
digh; when boiling
and «immer one
Have ready two-thirds of a
of elhow macaroni cooked
salted water, drained and
rinsed In water. Lift the meat balls
from the dish to the center of the serv.
ing dish, surround the meat with the
macaroni, pour the sauce over the
macaronl, then sprinkle with half a
cupful of grated cheese. Garnish with
ny
Jeilied Fruit Salad.—Soften
ounce, or two and one-half tablespoon
fuls, of gelatin in half a cupful of
water, and dissolve In one cupful of
holling water; add two-thirds of a cup
“ul of sugar, the Julce of half on lem
on, one cupful of plneapple juice, and
«tir until the sugar i= dissolved: set
the liquid into a dish of ice water, and
when It begins to thicken stir In six
silces of canned pineapp!® ent in seman
wedge-shape bits and two-thirds of »
supful of tokay grapes cat in halves
ind seeded, When the misture ie
‘hick enough to hold up the frat tum
nto a mold or shallow pan. When
ready to serve uomold and cut imo
ght pleces. Berve In crisp hear
saves of lettuce with dressing poured
wer it. Sprinkle with nuts and serve
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