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(Corarrirtat. 1010, by the Publle Leaser f'o )
THIS STAIITS THIS STOIIY
A, week-end house party is being
held at the country home of Knth
erine and Bingham Harvard. Among
the guests Is one Conrad Helknnp.
Katherine discovers him cheating nt
cards. Convinced that lie is con
cealing his real identity and that lit
is there for some ulterior purpose,
Katherine determines to ferret nut the
mystery. She has formerly hud ex
perience as a police headquarters de
tective and has been known ns I.ndj
Kate of the police. She intercept?
a telephone call of Belknap's to a
woman confederate whom lie culls
Berta and. in turn, calls up the
woman and lenrns her full nnino uud
address. Realizing that he Is sus
pected by Katherine, Belknap threat
ens to expose the fact that Knth
erlne's brother, Roderick Mnvwilton.
who is believed by bis parents to In
dead, faces a term in prison. Bing
ham Harvard, who once bore the title
of the Night Wind, becomes sus
picious of Belknap and of Katherine's
attitudo toward him. Belknap's con
federate, Berta, or Roberta, arrives
on the sccno under the name nf
Senerita Cervantez, a pianist, who is
to entertain the guests. She pie
tends to be dumb and writes her
words on a pad nf paper. Her action
mystifies Belknap. Harvard attacks
Belknap one night after lie has re
ceived notes from botli Katherine and
Roberta from a balcony of the hmie.
Belknap does not recognize his as
gallant. Shots are fired at supposed
burglars by Madame Savage, a guei.
AND 1IERK IT CONTINl'KS
A Key to the Mystery
THE impromptu gathering dispersed
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-L the startled guests departed to their
several rooms after Harvard nnd pooh
poohed any idea of n search of the
grounds of Myquest that night.
He followed his wife into her room
and closed the door, and was at the
point of passing on. through it, to his
own. without comment upon the excite
ment that had juM passed, ami its
cause, when she stopped him.
"Bingham," she said.
How she wished, in thnt instant, that
she had told him all about her brother
Ifnderick lone, long ago; for there was
not, nor hail there been. nnj thing uli.mt
the circumstances 01110.1-1.1 ",' '
in connection with hi- supposed de,
and burial, which Kntherine ha n
to nine irom ner uumuuu. "" -
sn unnecessary to recall the .lark nun
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heart-rending chapter in her life, or to
harass Bingham by a recital 01 11.
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nnme; that me ut.iu .... ",v "."'',
Roderick Maxw.lton bad not expia uhI
liltt mlorlppdn With hlS LUC -ana any M"-
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lence on Bingham s part toward H.-iknnp
must inevitably lead to such an x-
posure. ,
So, in that Interval of a secoml. while
Bing returned to her and she clung to
him, with her head on his breast, the I
impulse to tell him everything Pa- ;
Harvard waited for her to speaK, nut ,
when she remained silent he nsked:
What is it, dear.' Is something
troubling you?"
"N-no." she replied.
"Are you quite sure about that. Kath
erine?" "Of course. I am only babyish.
"That is not like you."
"N-no. But. then, we are not al-
wnys immune from nervous shocks, are
Above an ininK "'"""". , f. 1 asked you if that person is Mr. "or "'" sU,e l,cl,,'ve wm,e " """ K " '
mind was the dread that hei fatlitr and i , np, ' v ' over, in the genuineness of that fright.
mntber mielit discover that tneir s,i , ,,,, ..... . ....... si, r. hml thought then, as she still
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did not lie buried in that gray. ''., is , Ho is n stranger to us, isn't thought, that it had been simulated.
v.ntuMcT that was marked wun nis . i.,,, i,, c. i,nt nnriinse?
we. Bingham? I ham. Do ou know whnt time it is.'
He did not reply to the question. In- "I wonder." Harvard remarked ten
stead, he nsked one. with a glunee as tntively, as he turned toward the dour
he did so. toward her bed that bnd not to his own part of the suite, and while
been occupied. bis buck was toward Kntherine, "if you.
"Why had vou not gone to bed. nlso, snw a prowler under jour window .
Katherine?" tonight? I wonder if that is whnt ou
"I had Cillers, as I told you." she , want to tell me, and are afraid to tell
replied "The senoritn. and Betty." lest I should go outside and get hurt,
"What errands did they hnve. at such or hurt somebody else?"
an hour, to bring them " Then, before she could reply, he
Katherine 'brightened, nntl lifted her wheeled and faced her for his own
head as she interrupted him. words had provided the key to the
"That reminds me," she said, speak- mystery that perplexed him so sorely,
ing rapidly for she did not wish to "What has Belknnp done to you, or
he questioned too closely about the whnt Is he trying to do? Tell me I" he
things that had happened after she had demanded.
said good night to her husband. "The ,,,,,
scnorita must have seen or heard the An Appalling Sltnatlon
same burglars that disturbed Mme. Sav- , fTinERE was a crucial instant for
age. She was badly fiigbtened when i Katherine Harvard when her hus
the came in. She had seen somebody band put the abrupt question which
prowling about outside of the house a was a demand rather than an interro
man, or some men. under the trees, I I gatlon.
think " i ' wa'' nn, ' 'hose vital instants
"Wns that what yon wished to tell
me about when you called me back just
now?" Bing asked her, nnd when she
hesitated for a replj. he added: "There
was something that you wanted to tell
to me. wasn't there. Katherine"'"
There is something that I want to
ask vou. dear." she answered, evnding
his question, nnd believing that he did
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not untice that she did so. although be
was aware of it. nnd disturbingly so.
"Yes?" he replied, uoncommittally.
"Do jou think thnt it would be pos-'
sible" I the idea bail just occurred lo
her as a possible solution of her diffi
culties! "for us to go away some
where.very early iu the week just for
u short trip somewhere anywhere at
alP" Being well into the subject, she
warmed to it. and went on rapidly:
"The guests need not hinder us. you
know, if you can g"t away from tin
bank. And I don't care to stay long,
anj'where. I would so much like to go
away alone with jou for a short trip,
somewhere, Bingham "
Harvard smiled a bit grimly, al
though Katherine did not notice thnt.
"That sounds," he said, "very much
as If there is somebody here a man or
a woman, or both that you would like
to be rid of." He hesitated just an in
Btant, 'and added: "Is there such a
person?"
"Why er perhaps, dear. I hail
not thought about it in just that way .
but "
"Have you forgotten, sweetheart,
that you have one guest here who can
not very well be gotten rid of for an
other whole week without c'viug of
fense? Mme. Savage makes her dates
for months ahead and is as exact about
(.hem aa a railway schedule. Don't you
remember that it is only a short time
since you told her thnt we-would re
main at Myquest all summer, and that
you asked her down here for as long a
tay aa she could make and she told
yoa the date when she would come
which she kept and the date, twelve
days later, when she would leave as.
which ahe means to keep to the letter?
"Xciu can't Bend her away, Katherine.
She'd be lost It would uptet her en
" tire jiyutem to lnt&im mjjb time-
'i tUe of dates."
of the Night Wind
Kiithorlnc nodded without replying.
"Besides," Harvard went on, "your
week-end cntcrtninment that began nine
days ago has developed into a house
party. Hemming and Sears. Corn Crane
and Hi Ivorlng mean to slay on as long
as you will keep them; and well.
there's Belknap, too. He seems to like
il so well hero that I shouldn't wonder
If he decided to slay nil summer. No,
Kntherine, I don't think that we can
pilch them all into the highway and go
away; but, if you like, jou can give
notice thnt wc will close the house a
v.cek hence."
He was wntchlng her closely whilo
he talked, although his tone was a ban
tering, rather than a decided one.
He saw that she sighed again, re
signedly, and that she was vastly more
disappointed than she wished him to
know. lie was more than ce eou
' wnced that bin- wn.s keeping something
' from him that she wnuted to tell, and
wb ieh, for some inexplicable reason, she
withheld.
"Who is it that you wish to bo rid
of?" ho asked abruptly. "Belknap?"
Instantly she was on guard.
Her husband's question might have
been purely accidental, or there might
havo been a purpose behind it. She
did uot wait to inquire, of her own
mind, but replied instantly.
"I 'id you notice, Bingham," she
askid. "thnt Mr. Belknap was the only
nut- nf our entire guest list who did
not appear when Mine. Savage alarmed
tho whole bouse?"
"Yes," he replied, coolly. "I did
nntinn it hut T knew wliv he did not."
"Ymu did?" Katherine almost cried
out in her sudden alarm. Why
what "
Harvard rcpllod to his wife's uufin
ishetl question smilingly.
"He, too, like thu senoritn. discov-
ored prowlers in the grounds around .
Mynucst. but with the difference that
he actually encountered one of them
and had been very badly handled when
he returned to the veranda wero I
wnited him. you'll remember. He bnd
lost his watch, his stickpin nnd some
money nnd nn important message or
letter, which he went back to search
for at the spot where he was attacked."
Katherine, in her amazement,
gasped, nnd Harvard misunderstood the
reason for It.
"Do you mean thnt he wns robbed
netually robbed In our grounds?" she
,1(,raan(jed
-: perhaps by the same prowler,
rowI,rBi tl,t the senoritn saw. and
However.
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Inst row. unless there were some ner-
lure whom you prefer to be rid
longs, you know. But. dear, the truth
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Thcy ha(, rpm.linc(, mnndinK w!liie
(1,v .al,.mJ Now Harvard reached
out nnd put his arms around Katherine,
,(n1 crpw i(,r (,lf)5(i (() j iissinR h(,r
brQw un(. inlmlinB ,p fracrance of
hcr haj Thetl) hoi(1ing U(,r sn be
asked :
,.jIul. pnmPlnin(; happened to annoy
0, Kalherine? Hasanj person an -
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thing of that kind hns occurred I want1 ,0 ,lcr; aml ,llP whispered it breath -you
to tell me." lesslv. in a hushed whisper.
:so. no, no. no. s. exrlaime.1. o,
ini'-iuriiii,i uiui lie mi-jiccwmi -lie was,
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ntu entirely iruutiui. tnen sue nroKe
away from him nntl laughed. "How
slll we are, just because of n burglar
spare," she said. "Do go to bed. Iting-
when one has only a flash of time in
which to determine a course which must
be adhered to indefinitely In which
a thousand queries and replies pas-
into and out of one's mind with the
innlillfn A? ttrt..l, ...kinl nn n r-nn ,1... '
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distance between earth and sun within
one ten-millionth of a second.
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Kntherine realized In that instant
en there was no perceptible pause
nt all thnt she had to choose between
a deliberate deception and n complete
levelatlon of nil of the fncts. Merely
a part of the truth, with something
withheld, would not suffice for Bingham
Harvard, once called the Night Wind
liv the men who had hunted him
Kntherine lied to him nnd hnted
herself for doing so the instnnt when
it had been done; yet. hnd she been
given an hour or a day to think it
over, she must have arrived at the
DOROTHY DARNITPapa Would Like lo Have Been a Whole Battalion
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same decision for the dread of what
Blng might do filled her with terror.
"What lins Belknap done to you,
or whnt is he trying to do? Tell me!"
was the demand that he made upon
her ; nnd her reply was ready as soon
as the last two worths were pronounced.
"Mr. Belknap?" she questioned in
stantly and Kntherine was a perfect
actress in such emergencies.
Tho pronouncement of Belknap's
name interrogatively, was made with
such perfect simulation of astounded
surprise that It was quite enough with
out further remark. It wns so ndroitlj
done thnt it disarmed Harvard : and
she ndded : "What has he done, or
tried to do to me? Why, whnt could
he do what could anybody do wlujt
could any person try to do to Bingham
Harvard's wife or dure to try to do.
that might affront her?"
Harvard sighed, unconsciously, and
with an inward sense of relief.
"Then, dear, answer your own ques
tion the one thnt you have ju-t
asked," be said. "What hns un -body
done, or tried to do, thnt is nut
In your liking?"
"Nothing," she replied
Thus Kntherine uttered the first lie
why soften it by substituting the wordl
untruth? that she hail ever told to
her husband.
When the floor had closed and he was
gone, Katherine moved about the room
in her final preparations for bed.
methodically; automatically is perhaps
n better word.
She turned down the bed-clothing.
napped off the lights, returned to her.
bed. got into it. pulled the covers
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her. snuggled into her pillows
closed her ejes.
But- she was another Katherine;
she was not the same personality that
she has been a little, just a very little
whil before.
She had told her husband a lie.
Sleepless, although motionless uud
with closed eyes for she was trying
to sleep the events of the night sin. t
she canw to her room from the veranda
passed in review before her. She men
tally visualized everything i-hronolng-ical'lj
.
Again, in retrospect, she put on her
negligee, snapped off her lights, and
stepped from her window to the little
bnlcotij to enjoj the night nir.
, Agaiu Belknap made his nppenrance
beneath her window, and dared to nil -dress
her intimately, by her given name,
and by another one which only an ex
tremely favored few were permitted t
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Katherine
not believed,
In the light of whnt hail hapi 1
ifterwanl with the appearance of real
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j to tnP room of Mme. Savage ; with the
abscn if Belknap from the scene thai
' followed, ami with the senoritn's too-
( r(1u(.,llut reappearance, hovering at the
j edge of the partly clad group of startled
' "nests tbiff could be onlv one answer
I to those tW, questions.
Kntherine opened her eves wide, nnd
, sat up iu bed, startled int.. sudden
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Saageas real: it was ;'iiniuc.
Belknap knows who those burglars
were, anil was expecting them. He
went from the veranda into the paths
among the shrubbery and trees to meet
them. They snw him under my w in
flow, and they quarreled; perhaps ihat
accounts for his bruises. Roberta i-i
Belknap's accomplice she knows wh
he is nt Myquest whnt he intends to
do and she came to my room to warn
me by the only method she dared to
use."
Instantly, when she arrived nt that
solution of the mysteries nf the night.
Katherine sprang out of bed. seis-ed
her discarded negligee, and without
switching on the lights, thrust her feet
into her bed-slippers anil ran literallj
ran to the door.
She opened it softly, passed to the
outside, closed it noisele-sly, and glided
like a ghost In pink to the senoritn's
door.
She hesitated there for an instant,
listening. Then she tapped softlj upon
it, and waited.
There was no answer, even when she
tapped a second time, more loudly,
so she grasped the knob, turned it,
discovered thnt the door wns not locked,
and entered the room.
Senoritn Cervantez wns not there.
Tlie bo(1 had not bccn disturbed
Katherine had gone to the scnorita's
room impulsively, without second
thought regarding the wisdom of the
i act, but with the settled determinn-
tion to "hnve it out" with the woman
accomplice of Conrad Belknap with
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be voiceless, who was at nine so beauti
ful and so double-faced, sn lovable and
jer -ci deceitful.
If Kntherine had needed nuv milled
t conviction of Roberta's connection with
Belknnp and his nims, she found it in
the seuorita'H absence from her room i
and it was equally plain thnt onlj one
'reason could have taken her from it
By VARICK VANARDY
Author of "The Two-Faced Man,"
"Alia tlio IS'lght Wind," etc
nt that time ; slip hud gone from it to'
seek her mnster to find Bclknnp. '
( "Shnll I follow? Shnll I seek them?"
Kathrrlno nsked herself mentally; nnd
shook her heiul slowly in a negative.
"I will wnit." she told herself voice
lc'sly ; anil she sought a chnlr in the
dnrkened room, for none of the lights
was turned mi, and only a dim glow
shone Into It from the starlight with
out. She found one, n big chnlr up
holstered in leather with n high and
solid back, and she moved it n trltle o
thnt her presence in its depths could
not be seen from the tloorwny by n
person entering tho room.
Then she hid herself in it nnd waited.
During many minutes she sat with
her cjos wide open, stnrlng slanting
wise through the open window where
the filmy lace draperies swelled and
subsided nnd swelled again in the
zephorllke night breeze.
When they bulged into the room,
pressed apart momentarily by the drafts
of air, she could See between the iron
spindles of the balcony-rail the s.tnie
big balsam -tree out of the shadow of
.which Belknap had mnde his .sudden
appearance when. he hnd stnrtlcd her -o
K , ,.n 1 1 . earlier in the night nnd she
fell again into going over the details
of the evening and night, bit by bit,
item lij item.
Thus the sleep that would not be
wooed when she had gone to bed crept
slealthly and silently upon her in the
limit1 beside the open window, and.
without realizing il, she drowsed anil
drilled into ob-curitj .
The clicking of a latch startled her
into wakefulness. A sharper draft of nir
bulged the draperies into the room.
Kntherine wns nwnrc thnt the door
opened, nnd was closed again, although
-he heard no further sound; but she
was certain thnt the senoritn hnd re
lumed and was standing soniewhere
between her and the closet! door, un-con-cious
of her presence, unwise lo the
fact that -he was not alone.
11 was Kalherine's impulse to speak,
hut she did not. She sat verj still nntl
waited, wishing fervently thnt she could
ee: she was, nt the moment, sorry
that she had so placetl the chnir thnt
her own vision of the interior of tlie
loiuii was minimized to next to noth
ing. She could hear stealthy footfalls,
presently, as the person behind her
cin-sed the floor.
Ab-olnle silence followed, nntl con
tinued so long n time thnt Kntherino
found il difficult to restrain her impulse
lo move ever sn little so that she might
turn her head enough to discover whnt
was going on: jet -he fenretl lo do so,
knowing that the slightest nf, sound
would betray her presence in the chair.
Then she remembered that she was
chid onlj in her night dress and the
filmy negligee thnt covered it; and
therefore there wns nothing nhoutv her
apparel that would rustle if she moved .
the soft material of her wrapper would
slip noiselesslj over the leather cover
ing of the chair.
After another moment a single light
was switched on belli nil her, nnd by the
dim glow of it Kntherine knew it to
be the green-shaded desk-light in a far
corner of the room; but the silence re
mained unbroken.
Kntlierine could bear it no longer
and. anyway, since she had gone to that
room for the expre-s purpose of having
an understanding with the senoritn.
win delay? So she moved ever so little,
and turned her head, and fortunatelj .
made not a sound in lining sn.
What she discovered terrified her.
Tor the first time in her life that
she could recall she was actually afraid
really scared panic stricken.
The person who hail entered the
room, who had -o silently crossed it.
who wns, in fact, at that very instant
moving slowly across the floor toward
tin- verj chair upon which she was
seated, was not the -ennritn.
It was a man ; and the man was
Conrntl Belknap.
Kntherine saw with that quick ca
pacity for comprehension which ope
experiences in vital moments, that he
held in one hand an opened envelope
nnd an unfolded sheet of note-paper
that he had evidently taken from it a
letter, apparently, thnt be hnd been
rending by the aid of the desk-light; a
fact which would account for that en
during silence of his after he had en
tered the room and crot-ed it to the
desk.
It was, without a doubt, a letter of
the senoritn's that she had left upon
her desk. 'Kntherine -nw that the en
velope hnd been sealtd with wnx, anil
had been ruthlessly broken open.
The green shntle over the desk -light
wns thick and heavy, anil there was not
sufficient illumination for Kntherine to
see the man's face plainly, jet she did
discern enough to know- that he was
In a
rage a silent, impotent, helpless
rnKe- about ""netnlng that was, tor
the moment, beyond his control,
Shp ,,nd n''',i,n' '" whlrn . M'
mine what to do ; there was nothing that
he Coillil do.
Belknap bad not seen her; she knew
that. He was not aware nf her pres
ence in the room, but he was approach
ing her swiftly, silently, implacably;
evidently seeking the chnir as she had
sought it earlier, and she knew that in
just another instant she would have to
ri-e in her plate and confront him.
((ONTIM'KD TOMOUHOWl
DAILY NOVELETTE
"DOWN THE LONG,
LONG ROAD"
By Margaret Brown
FflOM her hilltop homo Ann could Bee
far out over Dorchester bay. Between
the bay and her kitchen window lay
miles of dingy roofs, but beyond the
roofs nntl beyond the bay Ann's
thoughts hnd mnde their way to n trim
while cottage by the sea where "Babe,"
her younger nnd prettier sister, wns
spending the week-end with their for
mer neighbors, the Stcwnrt girls.
Cllbert Stcwnrt, their brother, hnd
returned from France a captain nntl
decorated and the girls, Ehe was sure,
were having a glorious time. A sense of
loneliness, of being left out of every
thing, stole in upon her, nnd her
straight, blnck eyebrows puckered into
n frown.
Ann's troubles tinted back to the first
dny of Jnnunry, now it wns lntc sum
mer, when the Ruggleses' housemaid hnd
tnken her departure. This maid had
lived with the family for ten years
ever .since Mrs. Kugglcs's death. But
the lure of higher wages nnd "no wash
ing" hail been too strong, so she left ; anil
Ann's father could not nfford to re
place her. The war had, he confessed,
"punched his business full of holes."
Anil now the hot weather had come
with a vengeance nntl Ann Ruggles
baked and brewed and swept and
sweltered to keep her father and Babe
in their accustomed comfort.
Once, soon nfter the housemaid had
gone, Babe hnd volunteered to help
Ann with the housework. She would,
she informed her. dust the- living-room
i-verj morning. But then she remem
bered, perhaps she had never forgotten
it. Hint flilbert Stewart had told her
thnt she bnd the most benutiful hnnds
that he hnd ever seen. It would be
unwise to mnr the beauty of her hands,
she hail reasoned, and Ann's hnnds
were red nntl rough anyway, so the
dusting, like the sweeping nntl the
cooking, was left for Ann.
Ann was still whipping the cream
nnd bravely singing nbout a "long, long
road nwlntling" when a clamor of girls'
voices sounded nt the front door. A
moment later Bnbe, followed by Mary
Stewart, flounced into the kitchen.
"Ann. oil. Ann." Bnbe wns brenth-le-s,
"we nre going for a n moonlight
ride imiiglit down the shore road and
and (lilbert says there is is room
enough for you we Gilbert is outside
in the car he Jit- wants to know "
"Do. please come. Ann," Mary
Stewart interrupted, "Oilbert snys thnt
we ought to be n-!mnicd "
"Thank yon, Mary." Ann broke in.
"but how can I leave-on Saturday af
ternoon? 1 have beans nntl bread In the
oven, and I promised father thnt we
would hnve a shortcake tonight, and
nnd there is no one to tnke my plnce."
"That's just whnt I told Oilbert."
Babe had assumed nn injured tone, "I
told him that you would not come."
Ann Buggies did not reply. She hud
begun to spread the cream over the
shortcake. The two girls watched her
in silence.
Then Mary Stewart left the kitchen
ami iu n few minutes slit- returned with
a tall, jouug soldier ill her wake.
"I have brought '(ioncrul,' " Mary
Stewart began, "nnd his orders must be
obeyed."
(iilbert Stewart, erect, smiling ami
tanned the color of his khaki, stood in
the kitchen doorway.
"Yes, you've got to come, Ann Mary
has volunteered to to ntteud to things
while we while you're gone." Ticm-rnl'
stammered, "when I bring jou hnek I'll
take Babe nntl Mary."
Ann wn delighted, but before going
she Insisted thnt they all hnve short -cuke
and tea.
Babe, with Mary Stewart's assist
ance, managed to get supper on the
table when her father came home, and
when the dishes were cleared away Mr.
Buggies took his pipe and sat on the
shaded porch : and Bnbe and Mary, with
the aid nf an electric fai, anil a phono
graph, found comfort in the living room.
It wns nlmost !) o'clock when the big
enr glided up to the door. Bnbe, who
hnd been impntiently watching for it
since 7 o'clock, gave a sigh of relief.
She had heard Ann go upstairs (iil
bert stooped on the porch with her
father. She could hear their voices
and wondered why Ann had not come
into the livwig room.
"Let's go up nnd see how Ann en
joyed her ride," she said to Mary Stew
art as they artnnged their bats.
Ann Ruggles had not turned on the
light, and the three girls snt in the
warm dusk and chatted. After n while
Babe, anxious to be with Gilbert, went
downstairs.
Her father and Gilbert Stewart were
still talking. She was nbout to step
out on the porch when something
something quite unusual in her father's
voice halted her. She hnd not caught
the words ; for a few tense, silent mo
incuts she wnited, nnd then (iilbert
Stewart spoke:
"I I know that, Mr. Ruggles. Your
loss will be hard to bear hard for a
while for you nnd for Bnbe, and and
why, you're a young man yourself, Mr.
Ruggles uot more than fifty anil
there is, I'm sure there is, some nice
woman who who would be glad to to
well, to take care of you mid and
Bnbe. Ann- "
Bnbo Ruggles waited to hear no more.
Slowly she removed her hat,. and some
how she found her way upstairs.
The next complete novelette
Mission."
'Her
DREAMLAND AD VENTURES-BuDaddui
tm?.
(When the mermaid unys she cannot
tved the I'rince of Dollars the ant
mala carry them to Lovers' Knoll,
where they come under the spell of
the wedding moon. There Black
smith Joe interrupts them and re
minds the mermaid that she is be
trothed to him.)
Up In Hie Tlno Tree
TIiACKSMITH Joe was very angry
when he shouted to Anita, the mer
maid, that she must wed him Instead
of the Prinre of Dollars. He started
to climb down out of the pine tree In
which ht had taken refuge from the
animals, but he chanced to glnnce be
low, and then he stopped very suddenly.
Four pairs af shining eyes were glnr
ing up nt him from the gloom, Thcy
were the eyes of Lonesome Benr, Balky
Sam, Billy Goat and Johnny Bull, nnd
all the animals were just aching to have
Blacksmith .Toe drop nmftng them.
The I'rince of Dollnrs held the hand
of the mermaid when she tried to draw
away nntl spoke to her very gently.
"Do jou love Blacksmith Joe and
wnnt to marry him?" he asked.
"No, no! My cruel undo forced me
to give my promise," answered Anitn.
"You benr whnt Anita says," cried
the prince to Blacksmith Joe. "She
tlocs not want to marry j-ou. If you are
a noble fellow you will free her from
her promise." n
"What she has promised Bhe hns
promised." growled Blacksmith Joe.
"I'll hold her to her word."
"You see whnt kind of n chnp he
is," snid the prince to Anita. "You
don't wnnt ty marry a fellow like that."
BRUNO DUKE,Solver of Business Problems
"" By HAROLD WHITEHEAD, Author of "The Business
(Copyright)
Purvis Gets Worried
WIIBN the elevator with our precious
load of jewels stopped at the
twelfth floor of the KanSel building,
Bruno Duke picked up one of the grips
anil walked, along the corridor until he
came to room 124S.
The office was in darkness, but Duke
boldly knocked on the door. No sound
answered bis peremptory summons.
Again he knocked, this time a little
louder nnd longer. After a slight delay
we heal il some one moving on tiptoe
inside the dark office, then again
-ileiice.
In-lead of 1-nocking again Duke ral
lied the knob and called out:
"Open the door, Purvis, it is I, Bruno
Duke."
A light wns instantly turned on and
the door opened. Purvis looked any
thing but pleased to see Duke. He was
in his shirt sleeves, his vest wns open
nnd his collar missing. His usual jovial
manner was missing nntl in place of the
ruddy complexion was a pale face, with
eyes surrounded with dark circles. To
even a casual observer Purvis was ill
with anxiety.
"Duke with bis bag of jewels had
passed beyond the open Hap of the big
counter in the outer office into Purvis's
own room. I followed carrying another
ling. We had tit-posited them on the
Hour before Purvis noticed me. He first
looked apathetically at me, then as
recognition followed lie looked puzzled,
.surprised and suspicious. Finally he
blurted out :
"Say, nin't you that fellow Smith who
wanted me to help him?"
"Yes, I'm the man."
"Whnt the h nre you doing here
with Duke nre you "
"Let me explain," Duke interposed
calmly. "Smith aiieweretl nn ml of mine
and I learned nil nbout him. I'm help
ing him on condition he helps me."
"But he nin't got nny toy factory. 1
looked him up. He's there's some
thing fishy nbout him, Duke why, why
only today Stnntburg " He bit his
lip in vexntion nt his slip.
"Whnt nbout Stnntburg?" Duke
quickly inquired.
"Kr I asked him if he ever heanl of
a toymnker in Brooklyn named Smith,
nnd he snid 'There wasn't such n
mini.1 "
"You see there is, though, don't
you?" Duke smiled ns he spoke, then he
went on- "But I've-n few more grips to
bring in yet."
Wo soon hnd nil our bngs stacked up
in Purvis's inner office, while he looked
on in worried curiosity. Finnlly he
blurted :
"What are all these bags here for,
anyhow?" v
"I want you to take care of them for
tonight the stuff can stay here this
night and everything's all right." Pur
vis jumped ut these words the same
words that Staatbu hnd used only a
few hours before.
"What are they, anjhow," Purvis
nsKcti uncomfortably.
"These bags, Purvis, are full of jew
els anil inthes. Mr. Smith" (he smiled
at me ns he spoke) "and I had tnken
them out of the plant of the Meter
Jewel Company. I think we brought
enough to clear up your account for
jou!"
"Good God, man, what did you do
that for?" Purvis had jumped up nnd
was excitedly pacing the office. ".My
God, Staatburg will think I've tricked
Copyrleht. 1018. by tho Dell Syndicate, Inc.
Mi?.r?MAjn is K-mivAiypnn" W
"Hoo! Hoo! I'm after yon!"
screeched Judge Owl
"I don't want to," sighed the mer
maid sndly, "but I nnvo given my word
and if he holds me to my promise I
must keep it." '
"You just bet I'll hold you to your
promise," shouted Blacksmith Joe
rudely. "We'll get married as soon
as I get down out bf this tree."
"Ah, ha! I have an idea," cried
Billy, and he began to lnugh. He whis
pered his idea Into the enr of Judge
Owl, nnd Judge Owl chuckled, passing
the funny idea on to Blue Jay, and
Blue Jay passed it on to 'Roddy Wood
pecker, nnd soon every bird knew all
about it.
"Hee-haw! Hee-haw! What fun!"
braj'ed Balky Sam, when Billy told the'
nnimnls.
The birds flew up into the pine tree,
while Billy climbed into a neighboring
him. If he comes here and sees It he'll
swear I did it purposely. D it,
Duke, I won't have this here tonight."
"Why not? Stnatbtirg's nothing to
you except a debtor who tried to tlo-
ccive you. Why should you care what
he thinks?"
Purvis was nervously rubbing his
hand, his breath coming in gasps. Never
have I seen n mnn so thoroughly scared
ns he wns, but Duke nppnrcntly never
noticed his perturbation.
"You're nil right, Purvis. Tomorrow
we'll get things straightened out. Now,
if you don't mind, I'll just wash my
hands before we leave."
Purvis nodded abstractedly and mut
tered to himself:
"Good God, why did I ever get stnrt-
THE READER'S VIEWPOINT
Letters to the Editor on Current Topics
Senator Lodge Beatified
To the Editor o the Evenino Public l.rdcjrr:
Sir : As a reader of your valtinble
paper I am at a loss to understand its
efforts to plnce the senators who, arc
opposing the acceptance of the league
of nations in a false light before Un
people of the country.
Tho senators (to be brief) oppose this
document because iu effect it reduces
our Declaration nf Independence to a
scrap of pnper; becnuse it nullifies the
powers given under the Constitution to
Congress; because it would create a
super -President of the United States;
because it is a rntlicnl tlepurture from
those sound principles upon which rest
the foundations of oui sovereignty and.
again, because it is possible, in the
light of the ambiguity -of its text, to
permit nv lot of nonprogressive nntl
pigmy nations to hamstring the ginnt
of civilization and advancement.
If it is such nn ull-importnnt docu
ment, why does not the President turn
on the light nntl furnish the Senate the
information it desires? Why (if lie is
sincere) tloes he insist it shnll, be jointly
actetl upon with the treaty? Is it too
weak to stand alone? What guarantee,
in lieu of the sacrifices it would entail
upon self-government, have wc that it
will prevent future wars? I believe
that the President himself would re
pudiate it if he thought that he would
not be the representative of our coun
try in its councils.
,This office creates n perpetual super
vision of out- man over the constitu
tional powers vested in the President
aud the Congress of the United States,
in other words, creates a dictatorship.
In view of the secrecy in which it
was conceived nnd the free use of the
phrase "incompatible with this or that,
etc.," it looks as if the President has
already bargained with the other mem
bers of the peace council that he should
have their support iu making him the
member of the league council from
America. The people of this country
havo ii right to know what was done
at Versailles, "Incompatible or not.
I cannot see how nny real American
can ridicule the patriotism and zeal
of such senators as Mr. Lodge and
others when every intelligent mnn
knows that they would willingly ratify
the -treaty of peace, bad ns it is, pro
vided the President place his patriot
ism above his politics and stand by
the people in this vital crisis as loyally
nnd sincerely as they stood by him, ir
respective of party, politics or personal
welfare.
By Chas. McManus
onk, taking enre thnt Joe did not
him. He hnd with him his copy of til
Birdland Gossip, which he made in,!
a mcgnpnoiie.
"Hoo! Hoo! I'm after you!" guO
denly screeched Judge Owl, glvii
Blacksmith Joe's long hnlr a hard Jerl
"Crce! Creel A nip for me!" shriek!
cd Blue Jny, snatching a bite at Joe
car.
And then Genernl Swallow, Redd
Woodpecker, nnd all the birds went afM
Blacksmith Joe like n Hock of sparrow
after a piece of bread, pecking hln
biting him, nnd pulling his hair.
"Ow-ow! Lenvc me alone," wallfl
Joe. Then n loud voice boomed out (rod
the gloom of "he other tree.
"We are furies guarding Anita,' til
charming mermaid. T'ntil you set h
free, we 11 follow thee, where e cr yd
flee." And again the birds went aftrl
Blacksmith Joe.
"Get away!" he yelled. "I'll sho
you all!" Butthe birds only went nftj
him the harder. Joe began to clip
down the tree, whet; Johnny Bull mail
a great leap upwnrtl and caught lib
by the seat of the trousers.
"Ow-ow!" yelled Joe, and he climb
cd back as fast ns ho could, shaklri
Johnny Bull free, but losing a patch (I
trousers as be did so.
"We'll follow thee, till you set Anltj
free," boomed Billy's voice through til
megaphone as the birds attacked agalil
I II set her free. I give her bac
her promise. Now let me be," shoutel
Blacksmith Joe.
(Tomorrow comes the end of fan
story.)
Career of Peter Flint," etc
ed on it He'll murder mc I win
I were dead I wish Staatburg weil
tlcntl "
Duke re-entered the room nntl closfl
the toilet room door after him. As hi
did so I noticed him slip the key of thl
tloor into Ins pocket.
(CONTINrilD TOMORROW)
TODAY'S ItrsiXKSS qckstionI
What M a "judgment note"t
Answer will appear tomorrow.
AXSWKIt TO YESTERDAY'S I
Bl'SIXESS QUESTION
"Lien" is a hold or claim ok prop
er; to secure a debt.
lour editorial says Senator Lodd
was in favor of war with German
nnd you call that stand a desire
nieddlo in European affairs. Thisi
unfair to Mr. Lodge as there is a va
difference in urging the country to dc
fend itself against a nation thnt mail
wur aganlst us for two years ai
agreeing to give the support of tfl
country to one or two foreign nation
engaged in n dispute that in no wa
concerns us. In the one case it is sell
defense, in the other case it is nied
tiling. Did Washington "meddle"
England's affairs?
AMERICAN.
Philadelphia. August 13.
A Prayer for President and People
Lord of all wisdom ami goodnes.-j
whose blessing is forever upon nil whl
come to Thee might nnd who turncH
no one away unsatisfied who looks
Thee for salvation, we pray for Thl
servant, the President of the Unite1
States. Thy wisdom Thou givest llbl
orally to the open-minded, tlu- sinceil
nntl faithful, the obedient and humbll
of heart. Grant to him in the greri
crises of our dny the consciousness
Thy inflowing spirit, guiding nntl tlirectl
ing him to wise decisions and rightcou
nets for the welfare of the people anl
the triumph of justice.
And to us also, fellow servants witl
him in the work of establishing
righteous state, grant us with him th
inner calm and poise, the unswcrvlnl
devotion to justice and good will thd
saves us from hasty, unfair and blind!
partisan thought, speech and deed.
Hejp us to hold up his hands anl
give Thou to him the assurance of Thl
guiding presence nnd the loyal sympal
thy of the people, that together led
Thee, through him nnd us, Thy will mal
be done in the institution of a greatd
actual freedom than we have thus fol
achieved, thnt the burdens nf life;
lifted from the many nnd that ns a pcol
pie, delivered alike from the deceitful!
ncss of riches and the corroding cares i
the world, Thy emancipated childrel
may grow into the spiritual grace an
beauty which is their heritage froii
Thee. Amen. p, T. S.
Philadelphia, Pa., August 8.
Farming Isn't Soldiering
One day nfter the Civil War a mai
who wns riding through the fnrmin
districts in the Middle West stoppct
by the wayside to talk with a farmer
Several men were working in the field
and the traveler was' interested t
learn thnt most of them hud been sol
uiers in me war. ami that nmong then
were some who had been officers,
'"J lint man over there," snid thl
tnrmer, 'iinppens to have been a prlj
vuic, nut tne mnn next to lilm was
corporal ; that chap over thc-e wag
major, and over in the next field Is
man who was a colonel.
"Indeed," said the traveler; "wha
kind of workmmen nre they?"
"Well, said tin- farmer, "the
vate is a first-class man, and the
prl
cor
poral Is a pretty good worker."
How about the major? '
"He's about so-so."
. . . . ..
v
"Hut the colonel.'" persisted
traveler.
thl
"Well," said the farmer, "I nin',1
a-goin' to say a word against auv mnJ
that fit in the war to save tho union!
out i noury you ngnt here mid nov
that 1 aiu't golu' to hire no brigadie
gcneuiis!' iioston livening TranJ
script.
Where the Crops Go
Cigars art- to cost more owing to a
shortage- of expert makers and conl
nueni nign wages. At their pres
price some cigars suggest that th
pert has been, making hay while the su
shone. London' Oninlon.
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