VT'i'.K lW i w mmr WrC&S if r.w? sr-v "m tat irM i m ' ". ,T(1 ' .TMDAEKr-MlIiADELPHlA. r5'..'' t j " ;;?" ! EVENING PUBLIC ' IDGERr-HIIfADELPHlA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3 1922 v-vpw s- : r iU. ' 1'mi r;krtfi'"4rH rjSKOTWJWirw.;: .a s ?:A.' 3L-r.i i) :wt ''.- the MYSTlERY girl '" ( f a Remance of Baling Plot and Throbbing Uv tAfa,ctnaUnsem CAR0LYN WELL8 ... ... r . rAnotneelt Ctmeaw. UtrlaUtti lu Udair Sm&leati. MMrtiu. " " : Intifit THE GUMPS Dough, Ray, Me .'! SKfcl5S?SWKr! 3aiiKffifBf i jfi&'ivw!-"'" :ss. ir K '. rwtlel rifiXWinrvi "r.-- -WarMtlii r- irtf S ' :sr tv" own elftr- g incerv &S3feaPWiSS8 f 2& pnrey. 'yJ"'D.1lz i Mnfl a li Ijm,.WCtwmA. rfliavetar J-l!J25rw;VA.5"ff!S1JJK tir. rxv aiinEiu ...-- - H'JJBVfM ""' S'ri,....2 'ttVrtlGeWM eni1 ors " wbakK. mat Mr Dr. VTarlmt. !( OlDADlrM our nretty?" This from Fibsy. 1 "W.. a dcMTiP en7 She bas AarrwUtrnight black Urt tnst '"' iT.Tu w. 1 hat can SffisSaa-aarK S '&xK;,r;,fi. Tiisif her pwt WBtery. Bu W,w.r."v.V . clean slate ''And if she basn t.' Ih?a I don't want anybody ! te nC that AnHrA'usUn kUkdJehn ffi or If sha centasw tethe Md, itiii 5u whip areuna una pruve jffSd Hf dettble your charge. Xou fllfSe anything wrens. you knew. SPanm ud bat " Jndfcat ens pe nt . iwlclde, and 1H It go hi tuai. it, Wl arrest Mlfs Austin if you nay t'ftf... -,,,.! Jib crazy. Mr. TrasV." .i stone, coldly. "I don't con- any terms and But, were n this Httraed Stene, make their death teem a murder, though often a murderer tries te simulate a kulelde." "Yet that wasn't den in this caia. or the murderer would hate left ths weapon." Tnat. mar he i.h Terr nelnr. lie neglerted. ew, hew did the murderer get out? (let busy, Fibs." Fer nearly half an hour, the three men searched the room. Had there been any eecret exit, or any concealed passage, It must have been found. Fleming Stene's knowledge of archi tecture would net 1st him overlook any thine of the sort, and Flbuv'a alert er-ea and quick wits would bare found any thing out or the ordinary. "Ne war out." Btene concluded. finally; "and no way of locking a deer or a window after departure from the room. Leeks as if the murder theory was aa untenable as the ether. Ne chance of a natural death?" "With a round hole in his imtiler rein? Ne, sir. Tha doctor here won't stand for that. Try again." "I shall. I don't knew when I've had such a baffling, intriguing case as this aetMara te be al. first slant. It may resolve itself into a simple prob lem, but I can't think be new. Even ir it were the work of your Mias Aus tin hew did she get lu and out?" "Ob, (he'get. in, all right. Waring let her in, at the French window. Probably that's when he locked his deer. But ear she killed him hew did lie gt out and lock the room be hind her?" "She couldn't. The window locks are belts, nnd could net be shot from out ride. Fer the moment 1 see no ex ex nlnnatlen. It 1b blank, utter mystery. When can I srt Miss Austin?" "Toe lata tonight, tomorrow morning will hats te de. But she won't run away. Tha petfea won't let her." "Yet. tiny ean't held her." "Tfcty ars doing se. They claim she was the last one te see ths victim alive-" "Dees aha admit that?" "Net abet Phe admits nothing. You'll act nothing ent or that little Sphinx?' "Allriht, then, Mr. Trask. If you've finished your tale, suppose you leave me here te ruminate ever this thin?, nnd I'll go up te my room when I wish." Trask went off te bed. and Stene tnd his young assletsnt sal nml looked at eteh otter. "Up acalnst li, V. Stene?" "I cariaTlly am, Fibs. And yd, the thing is te absolutely impossible that there nrqst be a solution within easy reach. It can't be suicide, with Ihe weapon gene, and it ran't be murder with the rvera locked up. New, as if must be either suicide or murder, then it fellows that cither the weapon isn't fene or tha room isn't locked up." "Wasn't, you mean." "les, wasn't. But I don't yet think that any one disturbed the conditions purposely. Fer why would the secre tary take away the weapon te make It seem n suicide " "He would If he did it." That Man Is a Sharp One "He didn't de It. Trask bees that. The man Trask is a sharp enf. He seea all there Is te ce. aud since there's practically nothing te see that selvei the mysterr, he sent for me. It would he a geed one en me, Terence, If I have te Klve the thing up as unsolvable." "That won't happen, F. Htone. but I'm free tn confess that T can't see any i way te leek." I The next morning Maurire Trsik VIEU,, COM6eeSMi4, CJyMOftlkTVjVKOrAS NOOfc .JECTEt WUL- TWWtE fctVrlMG tMtN eAOHtM OH VOO KfcMHrr VM MP.U- euil eetHYfc Kt pavMKx - f Merfct: CMtt Te WBXW- fjffifuUJi '(jfer-' sdaTs) " m'tJ I gEt?iSSEs)Sl9VfQlgV ISBlSlSlSlSlsWbsB rvt aw, vu nwe & u. mm uf&- the ?Ee?tt KVX TlCtT 01 fcVit. PriOHCX'S - M TWV VtOUfi TME MW sOtCOSi VfcWCOESS CCWtlAl. AWb UMQOTVONEfc. VHTE&WtM- THV et JtOOCt& tb WOO UKE SAVO VU "TO . wAwwut.- out w vwit WCtT OM Fl6HnK&- rc act AOwcf.Toe Kr -m '" " ' I A TTv. ft. cr-J I I ! T M& SL i& . LJrfL V - - JT-rmmmB'r:LJ . - in v d A assiBiBW7 JHsbibibibibibH IhJ-jvl 1 ( V 7" I -2 t-X Tc.KV. By Sidney 8miWm n,a m WS. UH-U HkAlt Te ClKCUlMlVt LvJticH JOTcr. m TvttT.:T- a.T LET TVWfc:- VNt Vc i A.V.C THG NEWS WrCSt -OUR. CAMWktGH COMMl-vttC WUU MKVE TD VVC .T UVT 5,0QOS KMIZ NOV- VBt' Meuft. CHtCK- IT' NO TlMC "TO qOVT. i'Lt SMOWTMEXe Cvt.P PCUTlClKHt ANt NF.yJSPE.t. RON.STC1K TMAT I've oeTiT euK Te WtjH-r- VUVICN laO I'M A. COMM.TVOM 1 HKIT2L.V 8UK AMt Mt. tvtnft.v SOMEBODY'S STENOG- BSbesPSHm I Mil, -The Thought Beautiful !,t l'rt 1" ' r By Hatward Picture ahead, mamb. j GIVE THAT A BULB'. - 7HATS WHAT Wfc p SeT Te COME. 10 -- r"SEsl,, H 1 .ar'c A MAZ-ZAPb AULPIGHT ! QlJT i.c ALL fieT TO COME. TO IT : A A FR'. MOUTHS VVE'i-U PeRfiET VAE CVB.R I-IAD LESS ' - I 7' L VJHAT15 IT A 7 n 11 )' Kr bus Anns en any mch principles .Trtsw. I can't perjure myself, te save ""'..., i- fvnm n mm oenuemna.- f j-ear iiuy "" " - ' "tej hivtn'l seen her yet." Trask vlM W Mgacieua head. "Wait till '"'eire me all the points against her," lie detective suggested. (ten me. Net that I'll color ihcm hu're facts thnt peak for themselves, ..'..1,.. r.nnla mtffht esnsaeratc them. M. te bin with, this girl, a day .. J . hr. nrrived hciC Wi SWH Wnlsgthe picture of Dr. Waring which .. hiri cut from a newspaper. I tell i..ihl. 'ctuse you'll hear it anyway, ;d the geuips think it shows a pre ttai scaualntance between the two. ,Het I held that as glrle have matinee Idels and movie neres, ibis Kin iuiii tMilr have adored the scholarly mHn, iheuihehi had nvcr seen lilm." It Iff DOfsible," Stene ngretd. "hut witrttr probable. Hhe denies they were scumlatcd?" 'Hi. Vows sue never saw mm uniu ens Bight aht went, te his lecture, snen ifwhir arrival here." "Wtat is she In Corinth for? in. .t.ASVi iha1 taM flflf ' iff iv.u wiin e ,... -,- a,V A 1.- Umitz .l "ffill, is I said, she musi liavi-.eme brought Mlsa Mastery back with him. Wtiit Sundav nieht. for enp of Ihe 1 She. came willingly enough, and the 1 v r, irrgsiHf Jet. v;he. hk VJU5 6ETTIAJ' UbEO lb MlMtH l Urt HAD B TOOl HOW Wl Gt-iE WAUrf 7 ) is p TeTHlMK AFTER AULTHE5E OtTHfa OF COAXAAOAi FA&HIOMS 1 13 KB SEU&E. TM BlRbS VHO MAR couue Pet it ever ej u& like that: (Soedjess kmews hew j.'ll P.VE.I? 6E.T OM CR OR 1LV1 rO TH-r- O-IS . There's Pier6 De Cece., Ti-ii? vjtOUO DE'e'vO' P Cn?bi.''Ki Thk. Grvr-p.T -MOW ' LOOK ' ' i 1 inr fcr rr SHrtW ? TfT f ir T'iu.K &"' '( O MM OV'T ! - w Ctwv-. '"' r w '-wf c "V V; -v - ' ' di 1 ' & :" - -X -v L: MA'1 A C kk The Yeung Lady Acress the Way brtit at. the house she live in saw kr cress the snowy firld. Alse, the footprints jiitu fittfd licv i-hoes. Alse, the tracks I'd right up en the aide perrli litre te that long French window. And W rljht back nsain tr the Adams lOUM." "Whfn!" 1'ibsv exploded, "aieu't !ca nbMng it in?" "Well, that's wlinl tliey tell me Triik asserted, doggedly, "and I want m te knew it all. Mr. Stene, before lbs ether nceple tell you n garbled ver- Isles." "Ce en." "'fltn, they say, the girl left maiks 'fhtnlre trimtuliic en that chnlr. nnd IMvoed. tin wretnrv. nibbed them of nst mnniing, ns remi ns ihe body wis dllceVM e J W'p have the word et le witnesses for tlili episode " UU BIT II1P WllIH'.kNPH: I I te. the .Innnnfnr hut ler. mill ll l''Jlen, whn lives lu this lieiite." e en intsrview with the dctet'tlve took plnc' In the room of the tragedy ilsulf. Stene noticed that, the girl showed no honor or distaste of the scene, and even sat in ihe chair he placed for her. which was the same plush-revered one that had received the tell-tale imprinli. Fleming Htone regarded SIIsu Austin curiously. Net only v.as her beauty all that Trask had described it. but there was an added quality of fineness, n race of high mentality, that naturally enough Maurice Trask quite overlooked. At first glance, Stene's thought wnt "That child commit murder? Never!" But a few moments later he was net quit se sure of his neustlen. Jfibsr itisi sal and looked a I her. He I bed n" occasion te speak, utiles ad 'dressed, s-e. in silence, he merely lr ll 1 syefc l'enst en thi pirjiisiit face vrllli Us I i(cr-'liatigii!g exnredfieiiii. After cssual iiuftlens. Sieni" ald I directly. "Old you knew Dr. Waring before you nitie te rennm, miss aus- ssWJJgfaMUJaMiiis aa Jxaawss tpst.. n ' m MICKEY (HIMSELF) McGUIRE FOXTAtSE rOX SCHOOL DAYS IlU DWKi .. .K .cf.w .jfcr- 'I'lir young lad) across the way iay un'crupuleus prrec.s tl'I seem l b using a very infciler n-iaii 1 ' nf 'euil in the weed alcohol PETEY Almest a Bleemer K . n J ..rt J A if 111 IM M&f) MtcKT MeGuirte's MeTHeD of STePIMS Tut MArl vJlTH TH6 PALV. 15 Te KMecK HIM OOWM, SO IT WAS A GRttAT lOtA fe SCr H(M Te WAR Tt"eSt 0OJCING GUOVES IK TH& re&TgAI.U GAME. A tfl?" I' ..A O 1a- iS.., A" -,VP "si2? " !JP (k ,c.. yOV .. J ff "- .at ci- r 1 f 1 ! F )ir sV-i& -. ," 'K'jr' rr V'J .iS: v-' -.. .v) ..-i AtierN'.e. , t'p " ; gM- -I" - f-1 0 1 -Vfc ttgski BKS0'.. 6 ass5Js?tfl I nfimriBer It! nTT ",J nswy tttfcjIW r rue..'; CUM rt t H'J -0 Alt wVWi fevCKC Oiii 'f'W e e-r Tc crve9 ; Kf pvi tf lux ri'X y Vvi ta wt'i; t' t( 7 W.VS Vl"rt" r'.e !. 7ic ITTiuf 6lM !' ra , ,v rS&?S W. k.."' T $ ta Tia A '..- Mfet5 'U re lUWf' n I .i . 1 2? TSi 6 ' ,-1 j (M THfc h?MT5 cF Trm&v. lite ikj. I .Z LCJJJ "r" h- 1 r ffiSi ...-.r.L r U'W'f'J . . . n?rt -vntj 1 awx - n sinak r -1mmi. vit P il'-"'v pr.v a Xf7 lip' lifjg JftiifflisaSSfe:--'' v T .1 rr h little hsilantly ; but I Jiail never in:. ihnd roil htard nf him?" lLu. ...a te .i..ll. Cm thu llflll.ix nlinllf ' IUT1G tin" H ill 1'is l" !'. e nwuwi his election." 'And that interested yen'.'" "Cot specially." xhe said, with a '.udden acceisleii of haiileur "Well, thfll. eviT lnri llie trnrlulv I 'lr'.t Mlu Austin has acted queer, queer ... j"0,' h 'i ? uJ! It ill f,n nf ,rv. i i .,,1 .-,1 ' Iid heard of lilm ilttelite nne mim.in '..,i'. --j i.. i seen hi ctMiident t in tier! i i.n .!. i..- no fit it all. And she fa mere than half n lore with this i.ockweod. r have Jt'Jtlilm mil. nu see. And 1 tigute, i i jeui)tnP the rtee agnliibi Miss Aus- 1 a. inil It 1 .... ... hiik.,L. . ...V. . ' . "'".","'" And thereupon sh became n most .: i ;. ' "": '"""" an" "1JU" " imHailsfaeterr wilnes,. She Ihteued te -! eunun - .- , . I . .!-J I "Veu ficiire ih,., .I...-II u.. .. . one squesuen wnu an aesea -iiunu- i tlUfcretsn fe, . ,.. i. i. . air. answered in monosyllables, or wZl r;MTi b"' "lH'h.v n mevemenl. of her head. Sheeven , nine smiie ie rinsy. wuice, It amazed liim, alie filled him h... I'-i'-ivr Mm. uuc iivirn .t strange eiuiiani joy. iiiin inaur i.,11. ' ,v""" in my I'nusiti s r. ni Jl"r aeject ninTf bi eni c. Mr. i rn ,Plll0n'l'"i' thai (.never knew Siene went en, diawing out a siring, uir'l 111 life, ntul tll.1l. U'llil I M'Anf ,.x Af imlinnnHanl mittdntiv In H mr.nnlil. il , " ln n,,v '"'V' '",( 0I1P- Imniis voice, and at lenglli. lie s.ini. lu Aiisil " "' "' 'f " l",f,,ll'nl,,, Anita I the same unimportant way I . .nil wnrn .iii niiw ur. iijiihk uihi 1,1,1. iri.wHi. .ni(i ,-Mrne. veeni- nignl was ineic a vcu ring en nm inrr- i IJ net " shocked III tin. f nnnH-iiiilIn,, , hi-eilV" ieu njiirc that he threw ever ' " Kcretarj for .ni." cried I'lbsy, iVl a,m0 1 lEB'Jl,.ly ,hlU. Ye" Mf- Mi- f'"nP though lout try le deceive mmi. While I ' with .t i 11 Mb i . . " " nrsisiant rn 'Thfrft'i. n..A.i.... I flPK. 'liter IaII .- l.... ..i . i. . y. .. -.'. i in,- Mini li urn inn 1 'IJ IV8 fniMi.i .i. ... I 111" lliipii'Sn 7J w found there was. ",. ng nn ihe rereheai ..:.. kea' iinc'.'' ii sign HO. nn V... .. r. lr( -k. , " ""ser 1 1 n c . nil :i -- ii ii nnii I....... ... .1 . or t.mv.r ' rl ii ai i" ..Vbe1 Of eme cerl." ; remsinc en the nesli'-" h. bin I'm LT1?0"'1 ' dldn'i.se.. Unli m,ieM ". "lMn "lenilyileHned .n,"i "."'"n. .Seilrirlb l.l .. .. 'I'tt " Pit, k"'" "' " "eiiei in. ""ilff.1, ' V'KX,,fl- bill Sum.. ,,..,! I.ei'c .... .ii.' en ni i i no eer.i.. .."".. i'l : He "Yi OIJUliI i Hr. llM lll't-k ,s! Ihe .lnn., nn. .1 . . ,"'". ': unit iibsppenred. ether one. lueiighi in new ,,l(:r, ami ih. i' ' "" "'""gni m Mier in ih'," )..',?l,..Wrliig .b.sed I Mlitee'-- " " 1 .'ion t ki we Xeiri i 'I'lCle, "c inai .... 'he. v " ."N0"' of m,w him '.'iw he ... 1 ""',r' '" lUMlli'lOII. for nn nu.a, no SIIW llllll HCHlll 'T Oee ainll I loom. Hie WI fin', i le',v"1 "' ilenr. Lock Leck ke den, r...',10 ""IKvtcd. eh he l.,..il ;l"rrLl J?.N. opened becausa !!'l're vrn 'ni till) er iillnal. 1 L-... linnes 'I tft'lt ''"' ' WH"1 Ihe liutli. (,, ','.!. Hiltik s 'l8?,,;.',"1 ;"- c- Hll i, ' '" llH I .1111 llnr.1. ,. '.' U ,&. . ""... '' dcnih e," said MihR Austin and ihen. suddenly awakening te what she had done she i vied Impel ueusl.s . "I menu, 1 don't knew. I wasn't beie." Stene Binile.l gmel. "Imi wera ucic," he said. "New let tin tail, about ' wliiii happened diirlug your vihII." I An Interruption va inuseil hj tap at ilia closed deer. Impatiently, Trask iefe and went te the deer. It wan lm. brlnsting n tele ;.isiu for Mlts Austin, it had arrived mi i he Adams heii(.e. nnd hsd been inenl ut er Mia Alysierj icml ll. '-.iih great dif fi nli.i ' miielled li'i ngiiailen. "' iiuckl,i wenl te the bin Hi l"K' fin n"'l diniilieil tlie paper In 'SL-in nver n the Hleiianli elhi c it". gil ii copy," efllil Slone iiiiei. mi. I Kllifcy obeyed. Then le Mi" Austin s com mm d 1 1 - ires. Htone read Ihe messje aloud It was from Ssn Kram-isce. nnd It said , 'Tletter own up aud tell the whole trull). 1 have annexed Carl." ll wa signed merely "A" and iippareiiily H was of dire Impeit te it" rflilenl. Ml Mysteiv tat ailent and wide-eyed lu desperation as 'be looked hepeleniy from one te another, i "Don't you think." said Mui". inu unkindly, "that you'd better fellow- An advice and make a clean biea'l or ihe whole mailer?" Mla Myslery'i. Testliueii. ml. Utiimi' l.ir.ked iron) Siene i impassive fnie te Flhsy's fnh$'' countenance. Then rhe looked at Man- A1HRE IKI CUCW I JWAV4 ' AIE NiE "RUM T?ICH C OUTe 50ME BE"AT? TfeACKS T, Het -"5bC 'Tn?5fiB m- Hfk flpec t-, A 13 V Vev Clr-VcRiu CS Mg eLuj)m(;lt?AC,-t.l?s)' W HepcTTiis ym TfX CUPS Exited 3HACTJX HjmK9nar tiki WwJtL CI PV sr5i inr'arrjv: fe, . yViiaife. I VJ0U16W 'ABfT SDKPf if This Pell .Jt(cHt-0 H'iA ouTe Walp a Tem- -y Wj(MrVm JrJTfffSfk' W Mi Br AW 1 BuC.A. Veifht &'i;rj:&&xismBBeaAi' . - t t r i I,.' "VfK -I -l-H- INW ' riJ fes GASOLINE ALLEY Yeu Siau Where You're Put, Cupid W:TFr,emmr rrTrz&?- m VJEVE IW.ILUU wn-i l!?i!C ,1 v i , 1 "irs'' ?yr7 . jaaBaaLtwistig - ! , ! .(-BAck He. Might Think. B rice Trask. The latter showed deepen sTnipainy ami Inleresl. but Trak nlfe luid a wary iilr. ns if teady In iuleiniil nnv ili ili clenin" thai inlghl be duiiuglng i' lll iel "I'l.-sl of all." Siene said. .i ..... It"y IW had nn ,.l,n......: . ',."" I. VOU UUU leicgnun irnm TTM.he inxtrum'e "V'..1.'' V" r "ni-ls-e?" "nH"wih,.ii:i,,,sr..'i"- i i3CT ' ""'civsnever v-"milUllle(Mi k , fi; IK- .i . . Jytlniv h' KT.! "f liial it was. ll I STAS RlCHT HERE, SKEC2IX1 THCFie's someeh AT THE DOOKL Sfc - nsTSSTTTSS ' ' i fflMlifT. ) Hew DO WALT, I THOWCriT -W C IsSk&LJ VOU LiTTt-C rNJeN ' " '"iRif - 1 A1IPA Risctftu I Pi3S5lBLV VOJ AtlCur I- , 6 I a " - N.TVT Tim- i Tci Vr, , iSlVi r mtm J LlCP PASi f OF A. Ix: r. -. TX frv iaj Tji- l?A-r.,irt.. I r SiTOBj SgffffffSlgfSlHK r -..- - . , .. . ,w .-,r,. ... ,,,- wr-...r-.ww , RSW3J!) - r : gsssssBl V. CAritr l just ls V -r: heu .STAM ThcrG ! " "S i. SHfcJI IIS I S'lffl. 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