Copyright 1520 by the Author. - “RED SENT FOR ME." Synopsis.-—~Vaguely conscious of a double personality, but without any idea of its meaning, the girl, Leo- nora, makes her accusiomed 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, Marlo 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 his associates, and is accused of betraying a fellow criminal to the police. She sav- agely deferds herself. Police crash into the room and two are killed by Carnehan, Leonora and the rest escape. In her studio, Priscilla Maine, wealthy artist, awakes from troubled sleep with a distinct feel- ing of having her life linked with Leonora's. Priscilla Jas painted a picture of herself in fancy dress a gipsy-—which has a strange effect on her. Unnerved, and fearful that her mind is affected, Priscilla calls to her aid a dear friend, Dr. Philip Fosdick, who is In love with her He is stunned to find that her dream story of the police fight is confirmed by the newspapers. Pris. cilla tells him about mystery of her mother, who dled when she was born He effect the painting and the sees the of pronounces it a of / auto-hypnosls Priscilla makes him promise not to go thie police ar » begins investi- gating for hims case to IV. MERE PAINT AND CANVAS? m—— of gaddin shopping and theaters motoring, with distractions. She back to her work, and happy till she did. And why not she failed to After one week of ing about, wid d es and fed up {0 get Qiang quite wanted wouldn't Priscilla felt be lemanded when ilip on the tele professional per phone and se * mission t few stipulat She dreamed Red C that, i: poria » few had of serve Leonora Today, ote and unim she had dreamed sincided arnenat 34 3 rio SG mys Vents as to 8¢r gossiping, carri i for lunch eon, and lef wr there with friend an ; Frisecil time to after a spell of idling, it was the t thing an Impossibility witl a on the premises, The soothing and gratefn rrigedll iehed ~ SNe some 1 at bridge ; rran agreeable to enough at any to juiet giudio was contented easel over to its stand shrugged into a pa and in nothing the next whatever before the self-port tent study of ber + Again it in Yer sight decidedly the best thing ste had ever done ; issatisfied ; The rieao sne must not 1 ouch svmething was wrong, something was missing without which it could not prove convineing. The head she must not touch, lest one misjudged stroke mar the excel. lence of its spirited gesture, Neither could she see any way to improve her painting of the figure. The folds of the skirt naeded some little attention, not much, possibly half an hour's work. . . . No: the fault was in a hackgrounf twated in a fashion too academic and tame to suit that bril- lant counterfeit of life. At length, rising, Priscilla took up her pafitte and from fat shining tubes squirted upon its satiny surface sleek coils of color. For hours she worked steadily, ab sorbed, till a premature change in the light broke the spell. With a slight frown of annoyance she looked up to find the frosted glass of the north. fight overcast with pale blue shadow No matter: her task was ended, and sooner than she had thought it would be. A few days more and she could varnish, . “She put aside brushes and palette, shut the windows (through which now a o¢bld, strong draught was blowing) drew the draperies close, and returned to the chair before the portrait, the Street of Strange dim reaches memories of Faces whose The effect of return to old associations grew strong, She knew a period of mental uncer tainty, of daze and wonder, out of before experienced confusion of identity the in por- trait. Inexplicably something impalp able of with woman the geome] to go ont essential the yet her to egsence it bi from end spiritual ed intimate iv. so that for the moment she had no upon paused, true existence save that painted surface, where she confused, 88 on i sSOme threshold, before into a and passing and away nlace of vast re there was CONSCIousSness wa, wherein and the seuse of Self was ted out entirely V. BEYOND THE THRESHOLD. of a Hike 3 inene tt ¢ Out of nothingness, out sort « nert chaos, spectral walls mist took shape, closed In floor of themselves a and ceil unto semblance stability assumed a me a boxlike room in a mood and melancholy mutiny: a familiar to her in its every dRonons i threadbar roer the co in common tat its iron sink and soiled rude chairs tered with crockery and stove linked an overhead if from detected chothin haky I1ron bedstead with springs and the lumpy matiress which lay, half half O38 too bored dressed to her Self ious, whether she waked or s and her posture Weariness fas she reste eloquent in wm her side. 8 hand between her head ind the emaciated ¥, and © in lipped A mutter of far died, The girl i moth thunder gwelled and onty Jods. that re moved her eves, ing window up to a storm-black sky What m not it attered it to her whether or rained? She was condemned imprisonment in this dismal place threshold her foot had not in 80 many days she had lost count of them, The room grew dark the sky more savage. A sword of lightning slashed the gloom, and aghin distant thunder boomed. and grumbled into silence, By the pert tin clock whose stridu. lation was the only her hiding place had heard in days, the hour was barely five, fhe wondered why she had taken the trouble to look, What was the use of it, this keeping count of time? What was time Indeed but waste, one long-drawn torment of walting in idle apparently, to endiess cio crossed voice never came to set her free? fhe could have shrieked for sheer exasperation of ennul without alloy, She told herself that anything were better than such a fate as this. Why not shriek till her cries fetched the police? Or, better still, arige, go forth, and court arrest? A cell in the Tombs were preferable to this place of dubl- ous security. Was she less a prisoner here than she woul be there? But she did not shriek, she did not move, she did nothing, but remained as she had been on awakening from the desolating stupidity of unneeded sleep, so still she scarcely seemed a living, breathing being. More lurid lightning, a deeper dia- pason of thunder, again that breath: less hush . , . Of a sudden she left the bed and In one soundless hound gained the mid dle of the floor, where she paused In the crouch of a hunted thing at bay, her wide gaze fastened to the door, Through a walt so long that she concluded her henring must have heen at fault, se heard nothing. She re- Inxed, drew a deep brenth-—and grew cigid with alarm when she beard the * . noise repeated, a stealthy knocking on the panels, With an ear to the crack hetween door and frame she seemed to detect a panting murmur: “Nora! Nora! . . 0M She called pguardedly: “Who's there?’ A volee of greater confidence replied: “Me—Charlie—le’ me In!" She drew a bolt and turned the knob, distrustfully opening the door a few inches with a shoulder to it, prepared glam it shat with all her might should she find cause to think she was being tricked. In the outer murk, the pale contour of a face she knew was discernible. She stood aside and let ts owner enter. “Well? Wimt do you want?” The Coke returned a twisted, pla- cating grimace, “I don't want nothin’. Red sent me to tell yuh he wants yuh” “Red!” She caught sharply. ‘Where—¢” ul tell. He me oat’, ut he wants yuh" “When? How? “T'night. He says it's all right, Ris. his trap shut. Th' bulls to just her breath dassent made me take 1 ' Kep Wrong!” the Coke Protested. ted and Leo's hang-out, shou'd to Colne “He does? There was a trace of tone that in her when, was rit fend after brief delibera- demanded : “Suppose 1 don't? bulls me in the Suppose I don’t come? she at if the pipe rot 9 The dope glave shuffled spasmodi ails “Redd says yuli're to gay. But do 1 know he do 1 know Red sent yon hat? How do I know “So you OW i How re to tell me t Inez?” “Hones t' up to-—or Gawd, i" the Coke protested. “I ain't seen the Nut, nor Inez either, sinst night. Red sent me.” : “Prove it." “How'm 1 gonna do that? “Go back to Red and bring me that silver ring he wears-——anything.” “I would, Nora"-—the protestation was convincingly earnest—"but 1 das. sent. Red! half kill me If I go back without yuh. Besides it ain't safe, froin’ there too often, The bulls might see and follow me” “Well, what abont me? What if they See and follow me? 1 suppose it's all right if 1 get pinched along with Red and Leo.” The girl gave a gesture half impatient, half defiant, “Nothing doing. You tell Red 1 said 80." “Red says, tell yuh if yuh don’t come t'night somepin yuh won't lkell happen to that Wop what's stuck on yuh.” Mario! . . . Her hs framed without uttering the name. She re. treated pace, convulgively tighten- Ing the fist that clutched the folds over the kimono above her bosom, “What—what are you talking about “What Red said to tell yuh, Take it from me, Nora, yuh better do like he anys. Somebody's been givin’ him an earfull about yuh an’ that Spanish guy" “Spanish guy?’ she echoed shrilly. “1 don’t know what you're talking ghout 1” “Maybe so, maybe not.” The Coke licked his lips with a furtive tongue, “Anyhow he's sore, If I was yuh, and didn’ want no more trouble I'd do like Red says” After a while the girl said shllenly : “How am I going to find him if you won't tell me where he |s?" “I'l take yoh there, Red said 1 should. It's all right, Nora--yuh don't hafta be afrajd-" “What thnee-7" “Ten o'clock tonight™ AEA ee a “Where'll 1 meet you?” “In the room upstairs at—"" A lurld flame of lightning dried speech "upon lips, Terrified, he cowered back to the wall, Darkness fell. Thunders shook the tenement on Its foundations, crash upon rippling erash, Half stunned, the girl felt the leash upon her senses slipping. Her hands caught wildly at ness , , , his THE STORM, soul welded in the VI. Body and one taut string vibrating response to the fury of she found the chair quivering affright gazing der at the featureless of the portralt in the shadows, Rain sluiced the skylight in whipped crisp, the rambled seemed into agonized tempest : herscif in front standing far of the easel, i p ong wind- waves with a tearing noise, Thunder ripped lessening ont warning rocked skies, and raved, awny rberntions Then the by a ghastly lace glare gloom w arted out background an uncanny look life, the gay kery of its smile dis. torted into grinning malice. itch ley Even the With head easel round She was fain to sw lights to lay that powerie surance more hy by aut: cnmon that t! hua fintural were She ist watch menos min ried oned her lapse full lasted from sciousness had not five soul had waking longer than minutes: In that scant 11 journeyed far, tarried a whil in communion with snother, turned with a freight of fears threatened those few of the nbi of her reason ity fi: undons She had preceding stood now where after poised been fmmed ately the last dream, near the verge of derangement. haunt. awe. ful if it were after all ture of her Imaginatic Within only the crea- i. five hours her other murderer. Fancy stealing through shadow to that ren®zvous with a fate ingerutable pictured Leonora gireeis of sinister ture of solicitude. Through unhappy Red's enmity. tenure of life was treacherous | | | Now It was revealed fo her that, however inexplicable the affinity their souls, however dissimilar ways of thought and standards, in this respect were one: in love with Mario, Acknowledging this incredible fact without protest, Priscilla told herself she had loved Mario always, ever since that time, long past, when he had first figured in her life of dreams, And contemplating the prospect of living through the night to come, un- der whose impenetrable cover Mario snd Leonora must work out their dark entangled desfinies, while she waited, powerless to help or hinder, in an lg norance irremedinble and maddening, Priscilla felt a shadow fall athwart her understanding, as black and cold as Death. The Hop Joint. (TO BE CONTINUED) The Hassler Expedition. The Hassler scientific expedition was made in the United States const survey stedmer Hassler, between Dee, 4, 1871, and August, 1872, P. C. Johnson commanding. The scientific Investign- tions were carriefl on under the charge of Prof. Louis Agaseiz, Starting from Philadelphia, the route embraced the West Indies, Brazillian coast. Strait of Magellan, and the Pacific const and iplands to San Francigen, Deep sea dredoings were wade at all faverable Poinis. - RIG nne The Kitchen Cabinet 71™ PHOEERRT RI n (@) 1921, Western Newspaper Union.) 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