Copyright 1520 by the Author.
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“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
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The Kitchen
Cabinet 71™
PHOEERRT RI n
(@) 1921, Western Newspaper Union.)
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Hine
a
“Smile, anf while you smile ancthe
smiles;
And by and by there's miler of smiles,
And life's worth while because you
smile,"
SEASONABLE GOOD THINGS,
A nice
days
sandwich to serve
prepared as follows:
geveral
bread
on fish
Toast
pleces
cut In
is
when
sinnuce
cool
tartare.
plece
set
heart
lettuce,
each
toast
two
of
one
two four fried
oysters a lettuce
dressing, and
to above
holding
that two
oysiers,
leaf the
ahove
wiches place a
more of the dressing.
Oranges in Jelly —Soften one-fourth
lettuce leaf holding
package of gelatin in one-fourth
cupful of cold water;
half cupful of boiling water
third
ful orange juice
half a lemon.
add
and
of a cupful of honey, one cup
i
one
one
of
and the julce of
Set a mold in fee water
when firm
sections
arrange a layer of orange
freed from all membrane
seeds: cover with
repent
the
Serve
nnoths
the
or Inver of
liquid and the lavers of
until ail gelatin mixture has
used when molded with sugar
and cream
Cabbage and Beet Salad.—Use one
or two quarte f a cabbage
firm
Scalioped Ch
icken With Macaroni.
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and a t '
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Wherever
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Ways
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'
poonfuls
salt
onion ; cook until
the onion, and a pound
Stir
seared
in a
Remove i put i
| of lean veal cut in small pleces.
meat
3
then
%
until the ix
browned
and cook
and
i ensserole,
i spoonful of
| and bake.
a dozen small potato
same number of onions,
the onions are well browned,
vegetables to the after
has cooked
lightly piace
little hot fat
alle, and
Ag soon
irown in @
casserole
| meat an 4 hour.
| of flour mixed with cold water.
| cook about two hours in all
Onions
| eight good-sized oniong, cover
| bling water and cook until
| tender: drain, rinse in cold water and
drain again.’ Cut out the center of
¢ach onion to leave a thin-walled cup
Sprinkle the Inside with salt. Mix
| together one eupful of chopped epoked
| ham, one cupful of soft bread crumbs,
one-fourth of a cupful of melted but-
| ter, half a teaspoonful of paprika,
| one tablespoonful of finely chopped
} parsley, one-fourth of a teaspoonful of
| «alt, and the onion that was taken
{ from the centers, chopped not too fine,
! Fill the onions with this mixture,
| rounding it up well. Pour a cupful
| of thin erenm or rich milk around the
onions and cook in the oven one-hald
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spoonfuls of melted butter with three.
fourths of a cupful of eracker crumbs
and spread the mixture over the on.
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the crumbs, Serve from the baking dish
Any good snappy cheese which hae
Become dry, grated fini stirred into
hot cream, seasoned with paprika and
red pepper, makes a fine cream cheese
which may be used for sandwiches
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