?' s;'Vr'"Vf-7"' "f.'rr '';mfyiiVHvi'(i' v EVENING- PUBLIC LEDGEK-PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, AUGtJST 13, 1919 i.i i rv I The Lady ,(Cotyrlht. 1C10, hy the Muc.ulay Co.) (CoryrUht. loin, by th Public I-edeer Co.) THIS STARTS THE STORY A week-end house party is being held nt the country home of Katb erlne nnd Bingham Harvard. Anions the guests is one Conrnd Belknap. Katherine discovers him cheating at cards and orders him to leave nt once. He refuses to do so, scornfully. Jte seems to exert a peculiar in fluence over her. Convinced that he Is concealing his real identity nnd that he is there for some ulterior purpose, Katherine determines to ferret out the mystery. She has formerly hnd experience as a police headquarters detective and lias been known ns Lady Kte of the police. She intercepts a telephone call of Belknap's to a woman confederate whom he calls Bcrta and, in turn, calls up tho woman and learns her full name nnd address. Realizing that he is suspected by Katherine, Belknap threatens to expose the fact that Katherine's brother, Roderick Maxwiltou. who is believed by his parents to be dead, faces n term in prison. Bingham Harvard, who once bore the title of the Night Wind, be come! suspicious of Helknnp and of Katherine's attitude toward him. Belknap's confederate. Berta. or Roberta, arrives on the scene under the name "f Senorlta Ccrvnntcz a pianist, who is to entertain the guests She pretends to be dumb nnd writes her words on a pad f P!1" Her action mystifies Belknap. Har vard attacks Belknap one night after he has received notes from both Ivatli erine nud Roberta from a balcony of the house. AND HERE IT CONTINUES Thus, while Belknap returned to the - .. .....,. ..,. Mm. to re- gecne ot tne auu.- ..in... cover the two objects that nan m- .. , .nH tn him from two balconies. , Harvard sought his owu room, carry ing them with him in his eoatpoeket. So manv things happened at Myquest that night, and hnpp of Tilirht. and happened so nearly nt 1 the same time, that it is difficult to 13 keep them iu mind ns being ot approxi mate simultaneousness. Betty was occupied with the daguerrc- p otype, and Tom was encase. i-" a Rushton's report, while Katherine was preparing for bed, and Belknap was taking his stroll in the grounds, to be followed presently by his host. Scnori ta Ccrvantez, also restless, was at the same time arriving nt the decision that she must have an interview with Bel knap without delay, and so wrote a hasty note to him ns soon ns she got to hcr room to be surreptitiously deliv ered nt the first opportunity that of fered ; and having done that she turned off her light nnd stepped out upon the balcony from her window. She did not do thnt quite soon enough to. .discover Katherine, who had the in stant before disappeared into the dark ness of hcr own room, after tripping ?tpbn the chair and eo without know ing !t JisIodge,l the boon wnicn caused tne j old nnd forgotten letter to drop down to Belknap; but she did sec Belknap J,..nl, K-nthorinn'o hnlpnnv. nn, she surmised that he had mistaken it for hcr own; so she darted back, secured the messnge she had written, hurried outside again and called to him in that 'sibilant whisper. So Katherine did not discover her, and she did uot see Katherine ; nnd she was much too wary to risk the use of her voice even then. Having dropped her written messnge I to Belknap, she retreated with almost the same haste that Katherine had em ployed, with the difference that while Katherine pulled down the shades and snapped on the lights, Roberta came to a stop just inside of her window nnd, concealed by the darkness, peered out ward, watching Belknap. Thus she made several Interesting discoveries and was separately and severally alarmed by each of them. She saw the light flare into being In Katherine's room behind the white but opaque shades, remembered that Belknap had stopped beneath that bal cony Instead of her own and asked herself if, after all, he had made a mistake, as Bhe had at first supposed. She saw the flash of Belknap's elec tric, and watched him and then she eaw the light disappear, and discovered the figure of another man struggling with him ; nnd she caught her breath, frightened, although she made no move whatever. Roberta could see verv little nt w happened in the deep thadow beside the thick balsam. She had no idea as te who Belknap's assailant might be, or why he had been attacked ; but she was conscious of an Insane joy because he was In danger, and if she had known that his life wns at stake she would not have lifted so much as a finger to save him. After a time she saw one of the shndowy figures glide swiftly away, and the other presently get to Its feet and lurch into the moonlight. She recognized Belknap and saw that he was blindfolded and had his hands tied behind him and she laughed; not loudly, but with intense amusement at the chagrin she knew him to be ex t. perlencing ; and then Bhe became grave again, for she remembered that the person who hnd attacked him must hare seen him beneath her window and bate witnessed the dropping of the written message from her balcony. That suggested a complication that might prove portentous If, as she be gan to fear, the unknown happened to be an inmate of the house; and then he started violently and clasped her hands together as she breathed tensely the words : "Bingham Harvard himself: The Night Wind! Was It he? Could it have been I wonder!" It was not of herself that she thought then, but of Katherine. Ifl If, the man were Harvard he must .-' i kave .teen Belknap beneath his wife's wftxjow, nnd what might not be his ' conclusions? "Yet," she mused on, , unconsciously uttering the words aloud : '4 "0. B, still lives; he is alive so It could uot have been the Night Wind. J&, '. C.SU1 would have crushed C. B, into a . Jie. woum nave torn nira apart TlWMftMtl if ne bad caught him beneath torwiriM iurrarq s oeoroom window l totaMCwr ' the ,u!ght." -; of the Night Wind She looked out into the darkness ngaln. Both of the men had gone, and she stepped out upon the balcony. The light was still glowing In Kath erinc's window nnd for a moment Ro berta wished that there were a way to pass from one balcony to the other. She would have gone to Katherine's room and peered Into it hnd it been possible ; and then she remembered that the was still dressed, having seated her self to write the note as sooti as she got to her room. "Why not?" she nsked herself, medi tating upon boldly seeking Kntherine's room, into which she had already sev eral times peneterutcd by invitation and tapping on the door. "I will yes, 1 will pretend that 1 saw n man prowl lug in the gardens below nnd am frightened, and perhaps that is, pos sibly she will talk." So without turning on her own lights she went out and glided like a spirit toward the door to Katherinc's bed room. She hnd reached it, she hnd lifted her hand to rap upon the pnuel, when that indefinable sixth sense which, without conscious sound, warns us of the nearness of another person, mude her withhold her hand; nnd with tin' sum- impuKo she sprang away from the (limr nnd crouched, hiding behind the solid bark nf one of the big chairs that Hanked Katherinc's doorway on either side. Then she held her brenth iu startled, hulf-frightened uncertainty. I Approaching swiftly along the wide hall, arrnjed in negligee nnd with slip- percd feet, nnd with something grnsped , tightly in one of her hands, came Betty; and Bettj's errand she knew was prob ' ably the same ns her own to make a j midnight call on Kntherine. Betty, she well knew, had a habit of I seeing things; there was little that cs- cape(I hcr Discovery was almost certain, and Jet Nlght-Tlmc Complications TNTKNT ns the senorlta was upon 1 observin g tne approach nnd prepar ing herself for the encounter, sue was not aware 'that n third persiui had ap peared upon the scene until she saw Betty stop, hesitate, dart aside, seize the knob of the door that was nearest to her, open the door swiftly, and dis appear bejond it. (Betty, it must be borne in mind, wns nlmost ns much at home in that house, nod quite ns fa miliar with its interior, as wns Kath erine herself. She knew what rooms i were occupied nnd what were not.) At the instant when Betty passed out of sight, the senorita became aware of the third person, and she crouched still lower behind the high -backed chnir iu the dimly lighted hall. Belknap for it was he was walk ing swiftly, but stealthily. It was apparent that he had a definite purpose, nnd the watching senorita could not doubt what that purpose was nn interview with herself. Was the man mad to attempt such a thing? To dare to approach her door in the middle of the night and summon her to it? ,To risk the betrayal of both of their complicity? She could see, when he went past her In'dincr-nlaco without iliscoverincr ll(T ,le ninrks ,Ipon Ms fape wl,erP thorns hnd scratched it, and she noted the absence of collar nud tie and his ,""'"' """""'u .uii.vau.UL-. ami ...so she believed that Betty was watching him through a crack of the doorway of the rooms in which she had hidden her self. Betty, of course-, could see the man go to Senorita Cervantez's door nud no mutter what was destined to happen after thnt would form hcr owu con clusions. Something had to be done, nnd done at once to offset them. There wns not n moment not nu instant to be wast ed, and so The senorita darted from her hiding place ns soon as Belknup had passed her. She seized the opportunity when Betty would be absorbed in watching Belknap and moved the chair ever so little, and so was directly nt Kather ine's door. She pressed her body closely against it, thankful that the embrasure of it was almost deep enough to con ceal her unless an observer stood well out into the hall. Then not too loudly; not with force enough, she hoped, to attract tho at tention of Betty, wno was concealed behind a door that was nearly tight closed, or of Belknap, whose own mo tion and footfalls might prevent him from hearing she tapped against the panel. The door was opened instantly, so that, pressing against it as she had been, the senorita literally stumbled into the room and against Katherine, who had been passing it at the moment of the summons aud(had pulled it open qutcKiy. The senorlta was really startled into the appearance of fright. She had meant to play the part; but she did not need to, because she looked it ; and yet she was none the less cool, resourceful and competent. She gasped in that whispering manner of one who is without voice ; she turned like a flash, seized the door, closed it, turned the key in the lock and lenned against the barrier witli every appearance of one who is on the DOROTHY DARNIT Maybe He'll Cry, at That r WHAT DO YOU CALL T HAT THING MISTER? r i ii im&vm ihyemk mm II ' I II KILIM 'XT I T !m ' i i ' .. -S 4K -LAJ W4, I nn. i ii in 1 1 - ' ' ''''-' I Vill ' " point of utter collapse. Thus she suc ceeded In f lightening Katherine momen tarily, which she hnd meant to do, "Why, senorlta ! What " Kntherine got no farther, for Ro berta seized her by both arms and clnsped her tightly ; she put her lips close to Katherinc's ear; she exclaimed, in that breathlessly faint whisper of hcr adoption : "Burglars Oh, Mrs. Harvard! Bur glars ! Thieves ! The house is being robbed!" Now Katherine was Katherine. She had nojnoro terror of prospective burglars thuu of crawling bugs nnd worms in the paths outside; and liter ally she did not believe that burglars had entered the house. She only thought that the senorita had been unduly frightened, so she acted iu u perfectly rational innnner: she put Ro berta nside, unlocked the door and pulled it open nnd came face to fnce with Betty Clancy, who hnd just nt that instant lifted n hand to rap agalust it. Betty wns looking frightened too, and KnthcAno began to believe that theic were burglars in the house and Betty, lmanwhile, could not see Ro berta, who was concealed from hcr by th" opened door. Betty was holding her fingers nt hcr lips to enjoin silence. She did not at tempt to .'liter- the room; instend, she grasped Kiitheriuo by one arm nnd pulled her partly into the wide hall nud she whispered iu a tone that was nearly as inaudible ns the senorita's had been : "Look!" nnd she pointed down the hall. "Do you see him? lie is at the door of Senorita Ccrvuntcz's room. He is rapping upon it. Do you see him, Kitten? It's Belkunp Conrnd Belknap, I tell imV What " Kntherine had stepped farther into the hall, nnd at that instant the door of her loom behind her slammed shut with n loud noise. A draft of air from the open win dows might have cnused it but it didn't ; Roberta, the resourceful, did it. She did it to warn Belknap to make a sound thnt would let him know that he was seen and watched perhaps, or possibly, to prevent him from proceed ing fin titer with his prowlings. She remembered that her own door was uot locked, and she knew that it would lie quite like him, when he received no response to his rapping, to turn the ku.ili nnd open it. Indeed, lie hnd done thnt very thing when the dour .somewhere behind him slammed and warned him. It startled him so that he left the door in front of him wide njar. A turu of his head apprised him of the fact that he wns seen. The two figures outside the door to Katherine's room were apparent. Belknap knew that he was caught nnd that it would require every whit of his wit and skjll and effrontery to get him out of the dilemma. Kntherine had, In. her turn, taken Betty by the arm. She had moved a step forward down the hall toward Belknap, and Hetty was holding back a little, reluctant to follow. Both wvro astounded, but for different reasons ; for Kntherine knew what Betty did not: that Belknap nnd the senorita were confederates. Just then both of them were amazed anew by Belknap's notions. He seemed to be groping with search ing hands along the wall. He moved nway from the door nt which lie had been rapping nnd drew nearer to them ; and nlthnugh they were b,y then plainly il view, lie seemed not to sep them. They both stood very still watching him. The door behind them opened li ti crnck, nnd Roberta peered into the hall, but neither of tlicnt knew it. Belknap came nearer and nearer trf them gropingly, feeling with his up lifted hands along the wall. His ees were wide open and staring, nnd he acted like one who is in a trance or wno walks in one a sleep; nnd Betty, pressing her lips close ngaiust Knthe rine s enr, whispered : "Kitten! lie's wnlking in his sleCp ! And look nt him! He lias had a fall. Ills face is scratched and " Katherine disengaged herself from i Betty's grasp and went swiftly to Belknap. She was not deceived, although she believed that Betty wns. She seized him nnd shook him and he came "awake" with a shudder and a half-inarticulate cry. It was surpris ingly well done amazingly well ncted ; nnd he believed that he had fooled both of them. Katherine wns astounded by his con dition, his torn clothing, his scratched and blood-marked face, the absence of collar and tic, his soil -stained garments, his torn trouser leg. He hnd been im maculate at dinner nnd throughout the evening ; he had seemed to be so still when she had seen him beneath her balcony; but since then something untoward had happened to the man. For a moment she was almost de ceived into the belief that lie had wan dered into that part of the house with out knowing whnt lie wns doing ; she might have been entirely deceived about it if ho had been wise enough to con tinue his play-acting instead of "coin ing nwake" as he did when she grasped him nnd shook him. "Great Caesar!" he hnlf gasped. "Where am I? What has happened? What " . , "You had better go to your room, Mr. Belknap," Kntherine said coldly, 1 -777-r-c I t ' ' " ' ' ' '" 1 i '' ' I ILAUGHING ' HELLO rDELE I I HYENA (p LOOK AT THE I . 'h s.T n ' UAUUHIN J tk . By VARICK VANARDY Author of "The Two-Fnccd Man," "Alias the Night Wind," etc interrupting. "You arc disturbing the household by wnnderlng iu the hnlls and rapping nt doors. Come, Betty." "Wnit," snid Belknap, "I want tn " "(iood night, Mr. Belknap," Knther ine interrupted ngaln. She was already at her door. She opeucfd it, drew Betty Into the room with her, nnd closed It, nnd so left Belkunp standing nlone In the hull with his sleep-walking act hnlf done, with ids suddenly assumed subterfuge of doubtful success. v Meanwhile Betty wns encountering nnother surprise, for inside of Knth erine's room, huddled In the depths of n big nrinchnir nud apparently trem bling with fright, wns the senorita. who, the moment they appeared, sprang out of it and faced them timorously. Her lips formed words. She seemed to try to speak nnd to fail ; but she managed to mnke them both understand that she was trjlng to nsk Betty If she hnd also heard and seen the burglars. Betty, by the way, still clutched the old-fn-hioned case that contained the daguerreotype picture of her great gintidmnthcr, nud the presence of tin senorita in Kntherine's room brought to mind her own reason for being there. While Kntherine was reassuring the senorita and explaining thnt the sup posed burglar was nothing more thnn one of the guests .walking in his sleep, Rett) hesitated I then, with nn impulse horn of the moment, she extended the threegenerntionsold likeness toward its living replica and snid quietly : "Look, senorita, nnd sec whnt I have found, then tell me if you can guess who it resembles. I had intended to show it to Kntherine first, but it would seem to be jour privilege don't you think?" A Scream and Three Shots Bs'e EAR in mind the fnct that the enorita was still dressed exactly as she had been throughout the evening; Hetty and Kntherine were the only ones at that impromptu gathering in negli gee, and Betty explained even while she passed the daguerreotype to the piau iste, that she had sought Katherinc's room nt that late nour ouiy on impulse, and with the thought that the latter might not yet have extinguished her lights. Roberta received the closed and hooked gutta-percha case into her hand uoudcriiigly ; but ever on the nlert. she prepared herself instantly for what ever disclosure was to follow ; and she knew that theve must be one of some sort, el-e Betty Clancy would not. have sought Kntherine's room nt that hour of the night to show her the daguerreo type. Nevertheless, she could not hide her amazement when she opened the case and looked upon the picture of n young woman so exactly like herself save in the fashion of coiffure nnd style of dress thnt, barring the lapse of approximately three-quarters of acentury since it was made, she herself might have "sat for it." Roberta could not have concealed her astonishment had she tried, and she made no attempt to do so. Curiosity, intense nnd absorbing, outweighed dis cretion had there been need for it; but she did not forget to remain speechless. She seized upon her tablets and wrote : "Wonderful! Who was she? Hcaso tell me all that you know about her." Kntherine. who had been peering oyer the senoritn's shoulder, exclaimed enig matically before Betty could reply to the written words: "How strange! Yes, and wonder ful. I understand now, senorita, why, ever since you came 'to Myqucst, your face has reminded me of another one which I could not bring to mind; but 1 know uow. Betty, my father lias au old daguerretotype portrait of that same face. It was made, I think, some years later than this one. She wns " "Wait, please," Betty interjected; then she turned again to the senorita. "I have quite u collection of da guerreotype pictures," she said, "and a list of them in my grandmother's hand writing with the dates when they were made. That is a picture of my great grandmother. It was made on the 17th of June, 1S4.1 seventy-two jcurs ago: and on the day before she was married, which happened on her twentieth birth- dav. The picture that Katherine refers to wns made a year or two afterward; I haven't the date of that one; but the reason why Katherine's family alsc, has a picture of her Is because Kathe rine's great-grandfather and my grent grnndmothcr were brother nnd sister. So, you see, by collateral descent, Katherine and I are third cousins. "Are you nnother third cousin? Arc you, somewhere in the past, a Max wiltou, or a Keese? That was my name before l"wns married to Tom Clancy. Is Cervantez your really -truly name, souorita, or is it just a profes sional name? Yet you speak Spanish, for I heard Mine. Savage talking it to you and saw that you replied to her with your pencil and tablets. My good ness gracious! How I have been rat tling on and never giving anybody else a chance to put in a word." Roberta had grown pale and paler while Betty talked. She still held it in her grasp tightly, ns if in drend that it might be taken from her, and she seemed dazed as in deed she wns by the revelations and the mysteries thnt were n part of them. (CONTINUED TOMORROW) SHUCKS 1 DONT SEE HIM LAUGHIN" DAILY NOVELETTE THE SILVER CUP Ily M. L. Wnlhcr LOL'ISE MORTON, combining busi ness with pleasure, hnd just pur chnsed a three-roomed bungalow In a summer colony of lakeside commuters. Here she hoped to rest from her labors ns a trained nurse for n long, health ful summer nnd Incidentally raise a flue gnrden. She stood on her small front porch in the midst of a litter of household goods and watched the furniture van tilt up over the hump in the road and disappear down the hill. Lights began to twinkle in the little bungalows around her ns she sat down nt Inst In the tidy little house nnd looked about. Rugs -on the living room lloor, n low table with a reading lamp iu the renter, a folding cot with Indian blankets, a Morris chair, a well-filled gookense nnd n cozy rocked completed the furniture. A tiny bedroom with green shndes, nu enameled, bed nnd a ;iny little rug opened from the living loom. On the other side n smnll kitchen with n miniature sink nnd kitchen cab inet, n little round dining table, two chairs and a blue llame oil Btovc com pleted a scene that satisfied the owner as she set nbout her belntcd supper. But the plowing! Lnst yenr's matted grass covered tho "10,000 square feet" that went with her camp. She called at the great white farmhouse op the slope of the hill to nsk ndvice the next morning. A workman met lier, evidently n farmhand, who was driving the farm horse out the wagon road. "Why, yes," said he, considering the bluiiygray eyes and cjicstnut locks be fore him. "I tliiuk I cnu get off to plow your little garden tonight nfter supper. It's light till pretty late now." As the sunset fnded the farmhand drove his plow on to her little field nnd soon the furrows, strnight and black, lny opeu to tho night air, enriching its odor. "I'll come over tomorrow nnd har row it," he offered as ho swung his team into t he rond nt lnst. "I'll be so glnd to have you," said Louise happily, "for I can hardly wait to get my little farm started." The garden grew apace. The flour ishing potatoes nodded like a sea of blossoms, the corn was blithely green, butterflies hovered over the tender peas. Alrendy the posters of the county fair ornamented the store windows and bulletin boards. All the neighborhood was incited to greater efforts yet by the offer of a silver cup to the winner of the most awards at the fair. As the days went on the vegetables responded to the zealous care Louise expended upon them. Mr. Ward offered to take her exhibits to the hall in his wagon, nnd he suggested cutering the great purple pnusies nnd the flaming nas turtiums also. A spell of dry weather just before the fair dashed the hopes of many ns the fine green faded from the fields. Mr. Ward loaned Louise n gnrden hose nnd wnrned thnt evening wns the time to use it. His own work kept him very busy now, so thnt she snw him seldom. She nsked the dniry maid nt the farm when she went for the milk if Mr. Wnrd was about. "He's in town today at the office," replied the girl. "The office," thought Louise, "prob ably his employer's; I wonder who the owner of the farm is." But nfter supper he came and con doned nbout the giant squash leaves. The blight wouldn't hurt the vegeta bles and the drought was nearly over, too, for already the sky vas clouding for a tempest. And after a week of misty rains and pealing thunder a morning came with drenched grass and beaten shrubbery, but clenr and fresh ut last. The fair exhibits were to be accepted iu the late afternoon before opening day. She went up with the neighbors on the enrly train next day to hear the opening speeches. To her great sur prise Mr. Ward was .announced as chairman of the fair committee, nnd he gave, n dignified nnd interesting speech of welcome nnd then introduced the others on the platform. When the gay luncheon pnrty of the neighbors was over nnd the afternoon hnd begun to wnne, and all the winners of honors in the lake community hnd compared their results, she saw Mr. Ward coming toward her as she stood with n group about a wonderful sil very cow with n little cnlf beside her. "So you nre the owner of the grent farm near our lake," said Mrs. Free man. "I nlw-nys supposed you were n hired inau, you attended Miss Morton's garden so diligently." They went over toward the office quarters. "So you are not a hired man at all," Bald Louise. "No, I have an office in town, but this summer I decided to have a garden of my own, so I came up to my farm for the summer for a change. You don't mind my not telling you about your mistake in taking me for the hired man, do you?" He stopped at the lower step and' looked nt her anxiously. "No," said Louise, happily. "Now that I've won the nwards and the sil ver cup I won't scold nbout anything." The judges were already descending the stairs to meet her. There was only n minute left, but he made good use of it. "And will you let me drive you home tonight Louise?" "Yes," whispered Louise, turning to greet tho judges. "And heaven bless thnt garden," breathed her "hired man" fervently. The next complete novelette "Buddy (iets a Doctor." HELL LAUqKl IN 6 MINUTE rji,vV,i'J ii ii ii ' ii ii n - 1 1 ii . ' ' ' ' - "-.ii i n t r r A MAKE Him Your? fTTTr I ffel S LAUQH? BROTHER iJ fcj- DttEAMLAND AD VENTURES-By Daddy "THE MERMAID IS KIDNAPPED" (The- mermaid sings that she can not teed the Prince of Dollars because he is rich. She also sings that she is about to marry Hlacksmith Joe. The animals, seeking to help the prince, drive Joe aicau and attack the mer maid. She flees, but stumbles over a rock and finds it is Jtnlky Sam. lie pallops up the hill icith hcr on his back.) ' The Prince Fights BALKY SAM with Anita, the charm ing mermaid clinging to his back, galloped swiftly ncross the valley and up the hill toward the spot where I'cggy nnd Billy stood wntching their flight. Behind Bulky Snm came Lone some Benr, Johnny Bull, and Billy (!ont, nil of them seeming furiously cuger to catch the mermaid. I'cggy nnd Billy couldn't understand this ferociousness. Usually lonesome Benr, Johnny Bull nnd Billy Goat were regular anininl gentlemen, kindly nnd harmless toward ordinary folks, nud rough nnd ugly only to evil-doers. But now the three appeared to have only one thought, nnd thnt was to tenr the mermnid to pieces. Balky Sam had to sprint fast to keep out of reach of Lonesome Bear's tearing claws, and Johnny Bull's gripping jaws, and Billy Goat's butting horns. "What's got Into those animals? Arc they chasing Anita to eat hcr up because she Is n mermaid?" cried I'cggy to Billy. "'Or because they think Bhe is n witch," whispered Billy back. "Maybe they are acting queer because she Is queer, and they know things we don't know." Ahead of Balky Sam raced Black smith Joe, who had fled when the ani- BRUNO DUKE, Solver of Business Problems By HAROLD WHITEHEAD, Author of "The Business Career of Peter Flint," etc. What the Dictograph Told BRUNO DUKE wasted no time nfter leaving Purvis's office that morn ing in which he recured power of at torney to net for Purvis in the matters oMhc Meter Jewel Company. I5y midday the plant of the Meter Jewel Company hnd been nuncncti v Duke acting for Purvis. . I spent the morning sitting in Room U4S, Kiirmel Building, waiting to do anything I might be called apou to do The woman detective put nn attach ment over her ears and sat reading n novel, while the man, nfter he had re turned from answering Duke's stump. smoked innumerable cigarettes nnd gazed with unseeing eyes out ot tne window into the busy btreet so far be low. Just ns it turned 1'J o clock the woman detective gave a quick start, tossed her novel on one sid" nnd began to listen intently. She nodded hcr head to tin man, nnd said snomy: "He's there now. I wns puzzled nt the proceeding and nsked : , "What's that thing that she is wear ing, and who's there now?" The man replied nbruptly, "It's a dictograph, nud it is hitched up to Purvis's room been there two days now had a h of a job to get it fixed. Purvis been slccpin' there o' nights lately guess he got kind o' nnxious like lntely his pal Staatbiirg is up there now now shut up nnd listen." lie nnd I both stood nenr the woman, who took shorthand notes of nil that wns transpiring just above our bend. "Nothiu' ct, George, " tho woman began. "Staatburg's mad lie's tcllin' Purvis he's double-crossed him Purvis is tcllin' him how Bruno Duke got Mm on the run Stnatburg just called Pur vis a liar Purvis is tcllin' Mm what Duke looks like " the woman then forgot to tell whnt wns happening and began dramatically to repeat what she hoard. "Ach, zo, that's der man what up to Buffalo I saw D it, Staatburg. this devil Diike'1.1 get us if you don't do something, d it. Can't you get Foley to cough up enough, dough to pay him off For why yo'u use zo much of my paper iu one pi.iee. you crazy fool D It, Stnntburg, how'd I know the Mnitlnnd girl knew tills d d Duke. How you know? How you sup pose to know hiinir.cl, you bungler! And that Schmit man who come to bor row money nnd never come. There's no Schmit who mnke toys iu Brooklyn. How we know thnt this Duke and the police not work together, eh? If we get tripped up, Purvis, I'll " "Sny, George, enn you get upstnlrs? Stnntburg enn hardly talk he's so real mad " To the woman's question George shook his head nnd said, "Purvis locked the toilet door and fastened the window. Let 'cm scrap, tli6ugh, if they want "Hush," ihe woman whispered sud denly. She then repented whnt she lienrd : "Put der stuff in your snfe for tonight. We get rid of it tomorrow." "D it, Stantburg, I don't want it here. My (!od, Stnntburg, don't look like thnt, I'm playing bquarc put up that gun sure you can leave it here, but hark to me, Purvis, der stuff it stay here this night. You sleep here and cverythink nil right. We get money quick mid you pay i-ff dat money to Duke. That square you up; nlnt it? "All right, d it, but if Duke and Copyrleht. lfiin. by the Hell Syndicate. TC V I I I WHAT WILL HERE COMES Jrt W- -vJsn ,-iriW, ft.. -rBUSS . ix a, r f ,. o ' ' 'n He gave the bene a puncii on the nose mnls first attacked the mermnid. He had such n start and ran. so fast that he reached the brow of the hill while Bulky Sam was still far behind. "Save me from those awful beasts," he shouted, crouching behind I'cggy and Billy. "Don't stop here," said Billy, giving Peggy n funny wink. "Run right on ifntil you find a pine tree and you climb that to the very top." "Don't let them get me!" walled the brawny blacksmith, staggering off to find the pine tree. "Come!" cried Billy to Teggy. "If these animals are as fierce ns they pre tend to be, we'd better help protect the. mermnid." Away he dashed down the hill and Peggy followed close be hind him. The Prince of Dollars, who had rush ed to aid the mermnid when he saw her dnugcr, met Balky Sam on a (Copyright) the police arc pulling something to gether. Ach, urn's himmel willen I tell jou, you fool, dnt they know nothiu together. It happen like accident. Keep your head and it all right will be " "They's gone to the other office. George," the woman finally said. "Guess that's the whole story 'pro tern," as we snid iu college." The gist of the information wns tele phoned to hendquartcrs and then to Duke, who nsked to speak to me. "At (1 o'clock, Peter, be at the cor ner of the street near to the Meter Tcwel Company with n taxionb. Go to my room first nud bring all the grips thnt Walter will have ready f(- you. Then, when you get out of the tnxi, carry one empty grip with you to the Meter Jewel Company. You will notice n window of the building open. Drop the empty grip -inside nnd then walk back for nnother grip. Drop that one inside tho window, iou will then see the first one on the grass under the THE READER'S VIEWPOINT Letters to the. Editor on Current Topics Single Tax and "the Means of Life" To the Editor ot the Kveiiiiip Puollc Ledger: Sir In your editorial, "The Respon sibility is Joint," nppenring in your issue of the 8th, you buy in pnrt: "Such a crisis ns lins nrisen in the markets of the world wns to have been expected. Four years of hendlong destruction have diminished supplies of food nnd raw materials. The United States is obliged still to feed a large part of Europe. Thnt obligation is undeniable. But it would be n ealamtyy if powerful groups intricately organized to buy and sell were permitted to gamble endlessly with the means of life nt a time like this." You evidently menu by the term, "the menus of life," our present stocks of food and raw materinls, und the So cialists will take your words ns you have written them and will hail you as "comrade." The single taxer, however, while he heartily indorses the entire paragraph, attaches a different meaning to the term. The means of life is uot the pres ent or future stocks of food and raw materials, which can be consumed and reproduced, but is the tiling, the source, from which all food nnd raw' materials must be obtained and which cannot be consumed or reproduced. It seems to me thut if we mnde it unprofitable for intricately or loosely or ganized groups to buy and sell nud gam ble in the source of nil food und raw materials, then both the food and rent profiteer would become extinct. The means of life the land would then be what God or nnturc intended it should always remuin nn inexhaustible source of supply. Oliver Mcknight. Philadelphia, August 11. "Loot" Passes the Buck To the Vdtlor of the Evening Public T.cdserr Sir While I realize that discipline is n subject of such magnitude thut one article will not settle any con trovcrs 1 would like to offer whnt may seem to be a criticism of your editorial of this date headed "Our Over- disciplined Army." It is stated that men returning from overseas are ex By Chas. McManus grassy slope far down the side of tho lil 11 . Balky Sam stopped, panting and quivering as If he couldn't run n bit farther, while the mermaid clung tight ly to him. Lonesome Bear, Johnny Bull and Billy Goat were right at his heels, snorting, squealing and bleating. They were so close that ths prince didn't stop to speak to the mcr-J maid nor to pick up n stick or a stone' ns a weapon. He pitched right Into tho fierce-looking animals with his bars fists. He gave the bear a punch on' the nose that made old Lonesome howl In pained surprise. He dodged Johnny' Bull's jaws, caught the astonished dog by the tnll and hurled him into thef top of a fir tree where he stuck fast. "Baa-aa!" bleated Billy Goat who. had got around behind the , prince.' "Una! Here I came to give you aj butt!" Billy Goat plunged forward, aiming right nt the prince, but the prince! jumped njnibly aside Mid as quick ad scat he gave Billy Goat a kick tha( scnt him rolling head over heels down! the hill and right into a muddy pond at the bottom. "My hero! You hnve saved mcl l love you more than ever," cried the! mermaid, holding. out hcr arms toward the. nrlnce. "Ah, my beloved, now you will wed! ! me!" shouted the prince. "No, no!" answered the mermaldj "I cannot! I cannot! Go! Go! GoP And she began to beat Balky Sam with her hands to force him to carry hci! away. (In the next chapter the prinee and mermnid come under the spelt of the Wedding Moon.) window. Carry it back to the cab It will be heavy and get n third grip. Follow that procedure until all the grip are back iu the cab. Take plenty ot time between trips. Drive back to New' York nnd wnit in the taxi outside City Hall uutil I get there." "Suppose anybody tries to stop me, Mr. Duke?" "No one will, for Staatburg nnd Gor ridge have been tipped off thnt the plant is being watched by the police, sd there is no chance of their being around there tonight." How eagerly I waited for 0 o'clock! TODAY'S BUSINESS QUESTION Whnt is n "short exchange" t Answer will appear tomorrow. ANSWER TO YESTERDAY'S BUSINESS QUESTION "Post obit" is a promise to pay loans after the death of some per son. pressing their disgust nt the treatment they received from the younger officers. While that is a broad statement, noth' ing will be gained by my questioning It( If, however, you will look into the sit' nation for a moment, the reason foi such n feeling, if it in truth exists, will become plain to you. The youuger officer is the link be tween the source of orders, i. c.,th higher officers with whom the enlisted personnel never come iu coutuct, and the execution of those orders. Whei) an enlisted man has n grievance art thinks the orders unjust he does not reuson beyond the end of his nose. Iff sees only the younger officer, direct i over him, who requires the obediencA Of course the enlisted man did not re ceivc harsh treatment directly from tlif West Pointers, for they were all fie or general officers. But did he cvi come in contact with them? Ask tho.j who did come iu contact with the lT. sj M. A. grnduntes, the "younger officers, nnd you will receive some real infort mntiou. You say that our army in Franct . was more severely disciplined than th( French army, and that is hardly true, There were many rules in our arm that the French did not have, it il true, hut you must remember that wd were in a foreign laud and it waj necessary to keep the men in hand, We arc told that "the ultimate ob' ject of all military training is success iu battle." The most important factol in military training is discipline. li comes before mnrksmanship. An arin without discipline ceases to be an armj and becomes a mob. Discipline is ail essential a necessary evil, if you will but indispensable nevertheless. Thd only question is, What shall be em bodied in that discipline and how shnll 'it be administered? The objection, U the "hnrd nnd impassable line" exist ing between officers and enlisted ine"d has little reason behind it. Familiar ity destroys discipline except in ideal people, and that "hard" line Is broughl about by the fact that few of us ar perfect. There arc orders that purporl to protect our enlisted men from un just or ubusive treatment, and thert should be more, 'hut that hard and fast line must still remain. The strictest disciplinarian and besl oflioer I ever knew was my instructol at the first officers' training camp. IU was n regular army officer, but not 6 West Pointer. His task was a hard, one, for O.") per cent of the men In hit company were college meu. Yet h( maintained the "hard and impassablt line" with justice and impartiality. II( did not "sit back, cigar in mouth, and rng a man forced to stand nt atten tion," nor does any good officer, Tlicrt are those who do, just as there ar those enlisted men who continually tak( advantage of evcr.vNoophole. Investigation will show you that niui times out of ten an enlisted man's kicli should have been aimed at a Wcsl Pointer higher up rather than tin) younger officers. While I am uot an authority on discipline, it so happens that I wa one of the "younger" or "Sears-Roo' buck" officers In the late weil-kuown war and I do speak with tho expert encc of two years' handling of enlisted men from their civilian clothes in out mobilization camps here to thelt stretchers In the Argonue, until I iny self occupied a stretcher and withdrew. Cheerily yours, - EASTMAN L SANBORN, J.aiu to First Lieutenant. Jnfantrx. t, Jaies,..PMIaja( AtfwtV 'j JIM st, Wo" . k. -"i .' ' " n . ili -feii n .. -ft- - , . ,-V- .in '-' n.rtl . ' " ..V"
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