Copyright 1920 by the Author.
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I. TRANSLATION.
wed pone
As on that first occasion when sleep
had stolen upon and overcome her
unawares in the studio, her unclos-
ing eyes comprehended only dark-
ness absolute,
Unlike that time, when she had
roused instantaneously, self-consclous-
ness springing suddenly, full witted,
full powered, clear, out of nightmare
thralldom, now she awoke slowly and
at expense of effort almost painful:
senses and perceptions struggling long
and ardoously to break the embrace
of a lethargy so deep and undisturbed
that the self-sense had Iain in it be-
numbed and stifled, like a seed that
slumbers in the pent darkness of
the earth against the coming of the
spring.
In the confusion of those first wak-
ing moments she believed herself to
be at home, in bed.
But the darkness of her bedchamber
had never been there was al-
ways a diffused glow from the lights
in the street to temper it.
Then remembered, dully, the
studio and the weariness that had
weighed upon her In the afternoon.
She
at the
broad
saeer;
she
must have slept several hours
least reckoning, for it had been
daylight when she lay down,
the evenings were long, and it was
now, judging by the blackness of it
and the silence, dead of night.
But looked In vain
violet-tinted rectangle of
light.
And mysteriously the windows were
shut which been open
stretched rest. For there was
not only an utter absence of light but
a smothering lack of fresh alr. Her
lungs starving, she lay for some time
stupidly contemplating the exertion
that would be needed to rise and open
one of the windows. Somehow she
could not seem to nerve herself to it.
She was feeling actually ill, squeam-
ish. Her limbs were stiff and heavy,
her hands hot, her cheeks and fore-
head afire, a prickling sensation af-
flicted her body, she was athirst and
the taste in her mouth was evil: and
when she moved her head upon the
pillow, pain like a brutal blow crashed
from temple to temple and baek again
and again, Torcing feeble groans past
her lips.
Nevertheless conditions such as
these were unendurable. At whatever
cost, she must have water and fresh
alr.
She steeled herself and presently,
by a supreme exertion of will power,
forced herself to sit up. For the time
being she could no more. The pain
rocked and smashed about lke a mad
thing, till she wondered would t break
her skull. And as by degrees those
transports subsided, she was taken
with quaims of nausen.
She must have kicked off her shoes
In her sleep. At least. she could not
remember removing them before lying
down. At all events—whatever had
become of them— they were gone. Be
neath her stockinged feet the floor
was bare and rough, of unfinished
wood. Now, there was a rug beside
the divan in the studio. And even
had it been spirited away like her
shoes, the studio floor was of hard-
wood neatly joined and polished til
Its surface was like glass,
Then a hand that she dropped to
the edge of her couch encountered the
coarse ticking of an uncovered mat.
tress, instead of the silken rug that
clothed the divan.
Slowly ft wns borne In upon her that
she was neither In her bedchamber
nor in her studio.
This conviction struck home to her
understanding with a shock that
brought her to her feet. What had
happened? Where was she—and who?
Was she Priscilla Maine, delirious?
Or was she Leonora—yet once again
that puppet of her life in dreams, em-
barked upon some new and still more
terrible adventure?
But Leonora was no more , . .
She took a blind step Into obscurity,
and another, blundered into a chalr
and knocked It over with a clatter,
While she waited, dashed, hands
clutching wildly at vacant blackness,
a key turned in a reluctant lock, na
door opened, closed, and was relocked.
Priscilla failed to elicit more than
a harsh, inarticulate whisper from a
swollen throat,
A match rasped and spluttered in
the murk, a gas-Jot hissed from a
wall-bracket, spreading a fan-like flame
with a body of ghastly blue and a bor-
der of tawny yellow,
It revealed a mean and ugly cubicle,
perhaps six feet by eight, with dingy
walls to whose crumbling plaster clung
a few dismal rags of anclent paper,
The single window was stoutly board-
ed on the inside. The begrimed floor
Was a stranger alike to carpeting and
gonp and water, had apparently been
80 since time out of memory, For
furnishing there was a small table of
painted wood, the overturned chalr,
and a scorbutic fron bedstead with
sway-backed springs, a lumpy mattress
and one emaciated pillow,
the
north-
she for
the
had when she
out to
0,00,
COND » ot
TROT IIIT
Silent beneath the wheezing gas-
light, the woman Inez bent upon Pris-
cilla a louring regard.
il, INEZ.
“Well,” Inez drawled In overcolored
surprise, “would you look who's here!
As 1 live 'tis none other than the Du-
plex Kid-—Little Nora of the Double
Life—and Face!"
Arms akimbo, with fleering mouth
and hostile eyes, she walted hopefully
for her gibe to draw the spirited re-
sponse which might have been ex-
pected of Leonora, and so provide ex-
cuse for further Insolence.
She was disappointed. Her victim
was too far gone In wretchedness to
know or care whether she were the
butt of ill-natured derision. Added to
the misery of her body, she had now
to cope with an intellectual confusion
that seemed past raveling.
She had fallen asleep in the tran-
quil spaclousness of her studio: she
was awake In this confined place of
unspeakable squalor. She had been
and alone: she was now in a
manner jailed, at the mercy of this
truculent vixen. No later than this
afternoon she had been Priscilla
Muine: tonight she was cast for the
role of Leonora. Both hands clasp-
ing her tortured head, as if to pre
vent Its splitting asunder, the girl
stared at Inez with distraught eyes in
a haggurd countenance.
“Thought you'd pay the old place a
visit, did you? Found Fift' avenue
and all too rich for your stummick, I
How's It feel to be back
on the farm? Like old home week I
guess.”
Again Priscilla tried
her tongue to the
mouth. The sounds, when
they came, were
her own volce.
“Water !™
name-—water I
Momentarily the other seemed of a
mind to refuse her. Then. perhaps
because she saw she would get no sat
isfaction from her prey otherwise. she
decided to Indulge her.
“All right, dearie; I'll fetch you s
nice long drink. Back In a minute.
Just make yourself perfectly at home.”
Deftly unfastening the door.
slipped out.
Priscilla was kept walting a cruel
time .
Whether prompted by need for
stealth or by common hatefulness
seeking to prolong her torments. Inez
chose to return nolselessly Priscilla,
sitting with drooping head. had no
warning till she heard the door close
softly. Then, seeing Inez posed with
her back to it, a Igrge goblet of thick
glass held high, the girl lurched to
her feet and toward her.
“Please I" Priscilla begged huskily,
With a quick movement Inez placed
the glass on the little table and met
Priscilla with a straight-arm blow on
the bosom that drove her reeling back
to the bed, whose uprights she
grasped to save herself a fall,
“Don’t be in such a sweat. You'll
get your drink, all right—when you've
done what I want you to.”
“What--what do you want
do?”
Inez tossed toward her a bundle of
garments she had brought under her
arm. “lI want that suit you've got
n)
free
presoom,
to speak
roof
at length
unrecognizable
: but
clove of her
ns
she croaked—"in
plity’'s
lnez
me to
“As | Live, "Tis None Other Than the
Duplex Kid-Little Nora of the
Double Life”
on-it's too d-n’ good for you-—and
your rings and that brooch and every-
thin’. Hand ‘em over and you can
have your drink.”
“I don't understand. You ecan't-—it
can't be possible you mean to rob
me?”
“Say, i'n!" With the stride of an
infuriated animal Inez crossed to her
and stopped with her shrewlsh face
thrust forward pugnaciously, not six
inches from Prisellla’s. “I'm goin’
0 have them swell duds and jools ir
- “ALN
7 a NJ
I have to rip 'em off your back with
my own hands-—and the skin off your
face, too. Get me? 1 mean every
word of it. You're goin’ to come down
to where you belong this minute, and
you're goin' to look the part, too, or
my pame ain't Inez. You've come the
haughty over me for the last time,
It's my innins now, and when I'm fin
ished with you everythin’ 'll be per-
fectly even between you and Inez, for-
ever and ever—a-men |”
With trembling, awkward fingers
Priscilla began to pluck at the but-
tons of her blouse,
Inez retreated to the table. picked
up the glass and rattled the ice mu-
sically within It.
“Hurry, dear heart!”
Priscilla removed coat and blouse
and stepped out of her skirt, then lift.
ed her hands for the glass, Her tor-
mentor warned her off.
“Walt—a—min-ute!
tin’ them rings”
Silently girl stripped her
gers, dropping their Jewels into the
greedy palm, Nothing mattered. so
that she earned that drink of water,
jut yet once again was she put off.
“Don't crowd me I might get
nervous and spill somethin’
You're forget-
the fin-
80 !
first
waste
and if I
no neither,
Harry or someone "lI
here catch You with
but your pretties. And be
let you keep them "
For an
seemed
wns wouldn't
Can't tell
bump In
nothin’
thankful 1
you 1
time,
when
and on
indeed,
repent
Priscilla’
Instant,
disposed to
eyeing
lace and filmy silk. In
them
clean
i
generosity,
garments of
fumbling
with
cotton
in Covered
the chen Ana none too
blouse, the shoddy and
fashioned and
had brought her,
coat skirt which
At long last she had her reward.
first in frantic gulps, then m
if with no
the glass:
snatched
At
wre slowly
less avidity, she
Inez at
packed ur
arm the spoils of this her first
over her rival.
“Well, how about it, Nora?
chirpier? she
when
drained
while the bed
up A
anaq
victory
3 pl wish
inquired with
put
magna-
sir de Pod musi “wh
nimity Priscilla down the
empty glass,
“1 don't know.” Priscilla's fect
uncertainly toward the bed
was realizing
held something
She sat
Too late
had
Walter,
thi t
3
sae Liat
fhe glass
nore than mere
and
2. "I'm HL“
How did ;
down suddenly
nurse her hes
she murmured-—*“very
get
again to
here?”
that's somethin
you don't know.” Inez inughed spite
fully. “And 1 don’t mind
Harry followed you down Fift
and
“1 guess
maybe
tellin’
safternoon seen vhere
ley, Then
he got Charlie and left him
you while he ‘phoned for the re
the bunch. When it got
everythin® was quiet,
to w
&1
dark and
they picked
kie that looked good for twe nly year,
give you a shot of the hop to make
sure you wouldn't up the
wrong time, and brought you
here (uo a taxi. That's your history up
Cheer up: the worst Is yet
to come, And when It comes grab
this from me-—innocent i Inez is
goin’ to have a ringside seat”
“I don’t understand . .
The words were barely audible: but
the termagant heard. Her sticer dark-
ened,
“Well, if you gotta know, the
bunch's outside makin’ up their minds
what to do with you. I haven't got no
dear what they'li fine'ly settie ou, but
It'll be plenty, whatever it is. If it
was anybody else I'd feel sorry for
them ; but you—I" .
Her laugh was harsh and jeering.
For sole response the cringing figure
on the bed suddenly sank in upon
itself, then over upon one side, where
it lay sprawling, inert, whites of eyes
showing under half closed lids.
Startled, the woman bent over Pris-
cilia. But her breathing went on mo-
notonously, She had merely fainted.
i
wake at
to date.
Hi. THE TRAP,
The blinding prismatic glare that
filled all space dwindled slowly to a
hand's breadth of particoloregd flame,
its thunderous roar to a sustained
snore: overhead the sertorous gas jet
by fits and starts hissed and spat an-
grily.
She had no means of knowing how
long It had been burning; that is to
say, how long she had been insensible ;
but it was long enough, at all events,
for the atmosphere of that stuffy hole
to have grown sickening with heat
and Its aggravation of the native
stench. :
Her mouth and throat once more
were parched. The drink brought her
by Inez had served only to render her
thirst more intense: a matter of spite-
ful calculation, in all Itkelihood : eveg
though diluted, alcohol In any form
is no quencher of thirst, rather the
contrary. Inez had not, however,
reckoned with its stimulating proper
ties: Priscilla was no less unhappy io
body and mind, on recovering from
her swoon, but she felt stronger, bet
ter able to think and to work out
thought in action.
At present, however, two considera-
Hons dominated all others: her need
of water; the necessity somehow to
escape from that place of terror and
abomination,
She got up, unsteadily enough,
padded to the door, and listened there
with an ear to the jolut between door
and jamb, A
Hearing what she believed to be a
rumor of distant volces, nothing else,
she laid hold of the knob and turned
it cautiously, A thrill shot through
her heart when the dpor opened :
Whether by design or
Inez had neglected to lock it!
A peering
reconnaissance showed
wide. The light from the gas jet then
closed,
a right angle.
unguessable: there was no Hght,
and appalling
death,
the
had
breath
She smelt it
At length she knew it:
Re Ay
“Well, if You Gotta Know, the
Bunch's Outside Makin’ Up Their
Minds What to Do With You™
of
ng Ho,
hind
reek opiom smo!
to which she
that night
to meet Charlie tl
nora
ago)
She advanced one
across the faltered
took another step nnd
her,
untempered
sed the door
g
i
shatting bersel! out into
stole lear
darkness, and
11 ” - x §
wm, feeling her way
the walls
near to
with hands
brushed
e dr
st Ow
became
ral
that roon
Seemingly seve
eted in
iy ATT y
i GIisCOraan
ntertained
v . $ #
#8 an wea fixed
ould only win past that door. the rest
easy, an unhindered way of
escape wonld open out
She
to her,
was
vent wran-
Mong of chair
bare, rough floor: and In a
lull heay heels thumped
the door. The girl
instinctively flattening
to one side of the
was
> ¥ 1 5
gle ended no 3
legs on a
toward
back,
to the
This 1
wall
ast thrown open,
|
|
|
|
i
gust of air he laden with
smoke, A man out,
toward Priscilia’s recent prison.
by the transition from
avy tobacco
cme
Mind.
ed Hight to
out a hand toward the
Priscilla’s shoulder. She winced
an stifled cry of fright.
wall, It touched
with
%
uttered
wrath
its owner
mingled
fan
and satisfaction, and
gering Into the room.
Somehow she escaped a
righted herself, stood cringing, blink
ing, trembling.
The door closed with a bang.
time of all pretensions to polish, an-
nounced :
“Here she is now!
in time—tryin’' to do a sneak.
left the door unlocked on her?
Inez?"
Coolly the volce of lnez replied:
“Maybe 1 did=I don't remember.”
“D—n' careless of you."
“Ah, shut up. What difference does
it make? She didn't got away, did
she? She couldn't, not in a thousand
years, without we let her.”
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
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You
kissing his partner, and no gallant
thought of greeting a lady friend with-
out kissing her on the lips. The king,
himself, enjoyed this to the full, and
always kissed every pretty girl at any
dance or entertainment he attended,
At social affairs It was a custom for
courtiers to watch Louis, and when
he was In high good humor ask such
favors ns they wished, %
Rulers’ Postage Privileges.
The king of England pays no post.
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since he yearly receives about a quar.
ter of a million business letters. The
heads of all kingdoms and republics en
Joy shmllar privileges,
73 - THE -
KITCHEN
CABINET
val, wesisrtu Newspaper LUSivi
Ethereal Goddess of the Days,
Bweet, fragrant May, enticing
Our hearts with thy alluring ways,
Eliciting our warmest praise,
ur. year's path spicing!
When every child of nature wakes
To springtime’s charms suc umbing;
And In all haste each one forsakes
Its cloak of gray for makes
Us know thou'rt coming
~~ aroline
green, it
Bumner,
GOOD THINGS FOR FAMILY.
A dainty salad Is always a welcome
ish, The following will found
Rood uncome-
mon:
Pineapple
Cheese.
slices of
ple on
leaves of lettuce.
Fill the hole in
the
plueapple with cream cheese that has
beer
be
and
cream. Place a dash of paprika
and
with cherries and
pleces of apple, banana
Garnish
with French
Buttered Cream Onions.
young
bolling
dressing
Cook two
green onions, stems
all, In salted water
tender, then drain, Lay the onions on
spoonful of melted butter and serve
hot, A thick rich
May be used if preferred
Chocolate Cream Pie.
cream
Line a deep
edge
Prick
oven.
and put on
with a fork and bake in a hot
by mixing five
spoonfuls of cornstarch with one-half
fourth tea-
mr and one
flute with one.
add
nd cook
ur, stir-
two
table
until
covered with one cug
sweetened,
~-Wash
and arteries
Lard
salt and
whipped cream un
Baked Stuffed Heart. a beef
remove veins Stuff
with salt
pepper
in a
in a moderate
bread stuffing.
sprinkle with
dredge with flour.
with
pork,
and Place
double boller and cook
three hours
Noisette Bread.
compressed yeast
Soften one cake
one-fourth of
Add
cooled
of in
to
and
tablespoonful
oue cupful of scalded
milk Stir In one of
two tablespoonfuls of mo
filbert meats,
and one-half cupful whole
1
Deed
ful of
lasses, one cupful
ne, of
our. Add white flour as
for dough. Knead thoroughly, re-
the bowl, and
warm piace free from draft
Shape
aside to
cover closely
stand In a
it har doubled in
until bulk
loaf, place in pan. set
rise and bake In a moderate oven.
SEASONABLE GOOD THINGS
tender dande-
try
lowing dress
Now that the
Hon greens are |
with
ing:
young
here, et us
the {
thor
Laem
FINE CROPS SURE
Farmers in Western Canada
Jubilant at Prospect.
Splendid Winter Weather Has Put the
Naturally Fertile Land in Splen.
did Condition, and Bountiful
Yields Are Assured.
{ “What a delightful
| had,” is an
|
{ heard
i have
winter
expression that be
| almost anywhere when the
| topic of the weather became the sub-
ject of conversation, Not
| Middle West “down could
{ it be heard, but also in the Far West,
| up the Canadian West There
| the same remarkable features that
| brought forth a wonderful winter ex-
isted. Reports from all parts the
| country, from famed Medicine Hat in
we
could
ouly in the
and enst”
in
of
i Alberta to Winnipeg in Manitoba, ine
| dicate that all through the winter
very little cold weather
experienced. In
was
we read
that golf playing had put into the dis-
card all Ice sports, that fs
“red-handed” plowing
In January, the Alberta
got tractor and
sleeves was
for the 1921
February, in Saskatchewan
December,
ers were
their
yeo-
! Taan
out his
“em preparing
During
Olio
crop.
fifty acres and
seed, “Why, ye of
March,” sald an Iowa
who had just heard from his
son, who was West
; writes
few
i harrowed
planted the
course, in
after the
n “my boy
gnow, and a
did ths
and the horses
better
some
cold dips, but what
The
winter in
than
they looked three or four mo
Grass was plentiful on
the stubble
was rich
food, and the
1 or . ew Sorel
i Froves proved £5
condition
mination. I thened
of May and June, the many
hours of sunshine that the y bring, ac
bj and
£ none
will
har
of
days
companied showers
whieh
more
of rain
with a there
richer nor generous
be seen preparing for a ripening
vest the of
acres of wheat, oats, barley, rye. al-
falfa and corn that will make the
hearts of the Western Canada farmers
ewell with pride as reasonably
look forward to an abundant harvest,
There great deal that can be
said In favor of the climate of West.
ern Canada. The most important is
that who live there, and have
lived in other countries, prefer it to
any they have experienced elsewhere.
It is true the winters as a rule are
colder than are those In countries
Iying much farther south. but it
also true that they tempered by
fa dryness of the that
makes a lower temperature preferable
to that several degrees higher where
humidity prevails, Enerva-
listlessness unknown 3
soil is
there
hundreds thousands
they
is a
those
is
are
atmosphere
and
are
penetrating. Then the
the autumns—they could not
sun and
more
imers
I
drain
tender
and
fresh cut
in two-inch Cut
two ounces of bacon Into
small cubes and fry un.
One
greens,
pieces,
add
one
until
of
Hight,
sugar,
ane egg
two tablespoonfuls
fourth teaspoonful
of a cupful of water, one-fourth cnp-
of vinegar. Pour this
the frying with the
of salt,
into pan
til thickened.
consistency of
It should be about
cream
hot over the dandelion
Pepper Pot-—Take a
veal, one and one-half
honeycomb tripe.
greens,
knuckle
pounds of
of salt, two
$
i
i
i
i
i
!
ful of marjoram. one tablespoon ful
red pepper, one-fourth of a teaspoon.
Simmer
for two hours, or until the veal is ten-
der. Remove the veal from the stock,
Cut the cleaned tripe, which has heen
washed In salt water and lastly in
soda water, in Julienne strips. Sim-
mer in the stock for one hour. Add
two large potatoes cut in dice and add
egg balls the size of marbles, made
by beating an egg and adding flour to
make a dough stiff enough to roll in
the hands. Cook for half an hour
longer, then thicken with two table.
spoonfuls of sweet fat and three of
flour, Cook until well blended and
serve hot. The veal may be chopped,
or part of it, and added to the dish.
This will serve ten persons,
Steamed Strawberry Shortcake.
Sift together two cupfuls and a half of
flour, one-half cupful of sugar, three
teaspoonfuls of baking powder and
one-fourth teaspoonful of salt; cut in
one-fourth of a cupful of butter. Beat
one egg, add one cupful of milk and
mix all together. Turn into a buttered
mold ard steam three hours, Serve
hot, with whipped cream and straw.
berry jam.
Nerese Marware
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