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TOE GEOBGLAMS MAGAZINE'PAGE
“The Gates of Silence”
By Meta Stmmins, Author of "Hushed Up"
TODAY’S INSTALLMENT.
PART 11.
"Confound the brute"' He looked down
at his hand The scratch hurt and was
beginning to swell and an ugly little
yellow ridge was rising ominously Nb
doubt the beast's claws were poisoned--
the wound would fester perhaps he might
lose his hand. He sucked the scratch
and cursed the <at aga.n.
What the deuce was keeping Jex—was
there anywhere In this place where he
could wash hfs hand" He glanced toward
the door leading to the staircase, com
municating with the upper part he felt
a distaste that was more than reluc
tance to go upstairs He had not been
there sin. < the day of his wife's death
the <las that had given hltn back his
freedom
Much good his freedom had done him’
His thoughts ran in a bitter vein this
afternoon. Betty Lumsden all his plans
seemed. If not to be actually miscarrying,
to be halting inexpllcablj Rlmlngton in
prison, safe, barred and silenced for
twenty years, seemed for the present at
least, as effective a barrier as Rlmlngton
young and rich and free Betty was
such a fool she had given her promise.
It was true, but there was a woeful lack
of flavor In a marriage of barter.
"Hang the brute:''
Really, his hand was beginning to pain
him abominably It was detestable, but
there was no help for It He must go
upetalrs With his lips pressed against
his hand he went up the stairs, mount
ing them slowly
Ghostly memories came out to meet
him as he pushed open the door at the
top of the stairs and looked In. The in
definable odor that had clung about
Jenny—a fragrance that had never left
her even in her Illness, that even now
had power to conjure up the past, that
rose leaf past of the first days of their
marriage still hung faintly In the air
The bed was made as though ready for
occupation Her hair brushes and little
toilet trinkets, dainty trifles of tortoise
shell and gold he had given her. tricked
out the dressing table. Saxo drew back
with something like a shiver. What a
sentimental old Idiot Jex was! He opened
another door that of the old man's own
bed room this time, apparently There
were signs of his occupation huddled
clothes, a medley of queer things, pros
pective stock, apparently, and in the cor
ner what Saxe sought a hand wash
stand
He poured out water Into the old blue
basin and bathed bls Injured hand The
water cooled and soothed ft. As he wiped
It gently he saw that some of Its angry
redness had abated
Caught!
He stood looking about the room with
a half amused curiosity as ho dried bls
hand. What a queer old cuss Jex was!
His thoughts snapped suddenly. His
w-anderlng eyea had encountered some
thing that stood on a table by the iron
bed a box of dark wood curiously bound
with brass, an oddly familiar looking box
his own, he would swear to that that
he had thought secure beyond all ques
tion In the locked safe at the safo de
posit In f'hnncerv I-a no. where so many
other precious and dangerous tilings wore
buried under a name that no one but him
self knew, under a combination of let
ters to which no one but himself had the
clew
Paul Saxe's face was not good to see
as he crossed the room and examined the
box by the bed Yes, If was the same
—there In the midst of one of the brass
arabesques were bls wife's Initials he
remembered how he bad got the shopmen
In the queer old Paris shop to scratch
them there when he had bought It dur
ing the heyday of his infatuation for her I
And she how was it she had retained
possession of it nil this time? He could
have sworn he had sent it with the other
things Could it he possible that he had
been gruHty of an act of such gross care
lesxness"
Beads of sweat started to his brown
If .lex had been tampering with that box’
Was this the explanation of his new atti
tude of slightly-veiled Insolence' He laid
frenzied hands on the box.
A sound, the veriest whisper of a sound,
yet enough to make him raise his head
sharply, and as he did so, to look into
the dull barrel of a revolver covering
him Samuel Jex had returned
He stood in the doorway, a slight, bent
figure, his pale face full of exultant mal
ice.
M Ah. Mr Paul Saxe, sir!'* he cried, anti
hfs soft voice was splendid In its irony
•'Mr Paul Saxe thief' So I’ve caught
you at the very game
He loaned there against the iamb of the
door. the revolver hold out unwavering tn
his hand, long-fingered and delicate as
that of a woman, pouring out a stream of
rile abuse, under which Saxe flinched,
hut which, for the moment, he dare not
resent
He trie.l to bluff
“Put down that thing you are holding,
he said ’ You h • s..ch a fool, standing
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there with a gun You w’ould not dare
to shoot even if you knew how, which
you don’t, my good Jex.”
“Oh, yes. I ran shoot straight enough,
Mr Saxe.' .lex said He had dropped the
redundant 'sir.” but there was still that
inflection of ironic respect in his voice
' Straight enough, I assure you: only that
is a pleasure 1 must deny myself The
police are coming, and I mustn’t Inter
fere with the duo course of the Jaw
The Game Up.
"The police’ What do you mean?”
Saxe's InsoleAice was superb, but he
passed the tip of his tongue over his
dry lips Ho knew well enough what he
meant The game was up; the colossal
carelessness which had overlooked this
brass-bound box and its contents had
done him in at last. He saw ruin star
ing him in the face. Once the police be
gan. where would they end? All the ugly
secrets of Tempest street would come out
his connection with the murdered man.
the trade they had shared Perhaps—-who
know 0 they might even connect him
with the murder
The. skin under Saxe s hair pricked All
the gay Insouciance of his manner was
gone, over tho golden-hued skin the ugly
pallor of fear lay like a mask of gray
paint.
”Do I need to he more explicit M Des
chapel? The English police have, a sum
mary method of dealing with blackmail
It Is not one of those professionals which
commend themselves to the English imag
ination.”
Just for a moment hls malice got the
better of him. his arm wavered a little,
his weapon lowered. Saxe, vigilant and
agile as a cat, Raw his chance. With a
sudden hinge forward he had caught the
weapon and the hand that held it In a
grip that was like a vise.
"I’ll do for you!” he cried. "You
treacherous cur of an informer’ I’ll make
you curse the day that you were born.”
For the moment Jex, slight and fragile,
in no physical sense a match for the man
who stood over him with the living fire
of hatred In his eyes, was absolutely at a
disadvantage then suddenly, unexpected
ly. he kicked out. Taken utterly by sur
prise, Saxe’s grip relaxed There was a
report, a cry hoarse and ugly dike that of
a wounded beast, and Paul Saxe lurched 1
; and stumbled and fell face forward by the i
side of the round table by the bed.
Jex stood looking down at him, his (
faro while and terror-stricken.
What had he done 0
With fingers that trembled he thrust ■
the revolver under Paul Saxe's outfiung
hand; then, on an almost unconscious
Impulse, seeing that dusk had fallen on
the room, he struck a match and lighted ‘
the oil lamp that stood on the table .
above the dead man.
The police must have light to guide ’
them when they came. Up drew the I
blind up to the top and left the bed 1
room door wide open; then, cautiously,
and stealthily, as though hidden eyes
and ears watched and listened, he crept
down the stairs and out Into the desert
ed street.
The signboard of the Toby Jug rat
tled and swung In the rising wind as
the little figure came down the street
a quaint figure with pigtails flying and
long legs on which the ungartered black
' nt.•( kings hung disconsolately like writh
j Ing snakes, necessitating frequent and
. Irritated clutches on the part of their
wearer to prevent them descending alto
gether.
At the door of the shop the child i
stopped and looked up at the swaying
sign with eyes of ecstatic welcome.
“Looking fit to bust ’isself as usual,
bless ’lm.” she said; then, opening the
shop door, cautiously she went in.
No one came out <>( the parlor at the
sound of the tinkling bell, but on the
threshold of the shop the gray cat moi
her with agitated mowings and upraised
tall There was a slight haze in the
air. and an acrid smell its of singed wool
Bess raised her head and sniffed dis
tastefully.
“Somefink's on fire, I don’t fink,” she
said Then, raising her voice, she called:
“Grandad! Grandad!’’
There was no answer, and a little
tremor shook the child She was tired
and on the verge of tears as it was.
Since early morning she luo not tasted
food The journey from Sussex had
cost her every penny of the carefully
hoarded pocket money her grandfather
had sent her from time to time. For
Bess had fulfilled her threat she had
run away from the '’gentlewoman'’ who
had. for a consideration, consented to
mold her future after her own model,
back to the beloved shop in the West
minster slum and the old man and the
cat that, so far as she was capable of
affection, she loved
’ Wot's nppened ' the child said, with
.a little catch in her breadth. “Oh, my
! lor', wot's 'appened?”
She stepped to the foot of the stairs
and looked up There was a great blaze
of light and the smell of burning had
increased With a choking little cry she
ran upstairs
To Be Continued in Next Issue.
Beauty Secrets of Footlight Favorites
Olive Oil as an Aid to the Pretty Girl .
By MARJORIE BONNER.
SINCE you asked me what my secret
"f beauty Is, I will tell you frank
ly, if I have one—it is olive oil.
I use olive oil instead of cream and
tonics; it takes the place of food; it
has saved me doctors' hills and many a
beauty treatment, and I think it is a
panacea for all the ills that the thin
girl is heir to.
To begin with, it was prescribed to
me by a doctor when I was afraid that
I would fade away if I got any thinner,
and I have used It for every kind of
ailment, from failing hair to hangnails
I buy it by the can, and take it re
ligiously after each meal, usually on
lettuce, ns I don't really like the taste
of it pure.
A few leaves of lettuce, fresh and
crisp, two tablespoonfuls of olive oil.
and just a dash of lemon juice, to take
away the insipid taste, and there you
have my formula for a good complexion.
There really isn't anything better, for
this diet will clear the skin and bring
color back into the cheeks, provided, of
course, one sticks to It. But you .have
to do that to accomplish anything, and
with the olive oil treatment you want to
keej» on indefinitely.
1 use olive oil op my neck to fill out
tho hollows in the pepper and salt
boxes, and it has worked as well as any
fattening cream.
I don’t know why it is, but the skin
absorbs olive oil so easily, and it seems
to be able to take up so much more oil
than cream, and, of course, that is the
way to nourish the skin and to build up
flesh. .
Some time ago I began to worry
about my arms, which were getting
very thin. I tried the olive oil treat
ment on them, with such excellent re
sults that a lot of other girls followed
my example, and used the olive oil to
make the arms plump.
What To Do.
The treatment is like this: Before
going to bod, scrub the arms thoroughly
; with a stiff brush and soap and water.
Rinse them off carefully and dry them
; Just a little, enough to take the drops
iof water off while still leaving them
moist. Now rub on your oil, and keep
; rubbing until the skin has absorbed ail
’ that it possibly will retain.
Wipe off whatever remains, and mas
sage the arms with as much force as
I you can use, rubbing them upward.!
I grasping the arm with the hand and I
: wringing It at the same time.
Os course, you must keep this up
every night for quite a while, but it
really will do the work and no one need
go about with forearms like drum
sticks.
I use olive oil Instead of nail salve,
and find it works like a charm. Every
day when I am doing my nails 1 dip
the fingers in olive oil to soften the
cuticle, and 1 leave the oil on as long
Up-to-Date Jokes
One morning old Mr. Bell was indus
triously plying his hammer on a wood
en contrivance under the kitchen win
dow in the back yard, when a neighbor
called to inquire after his wife, who
had been ill for some time.
The old chap's reply, however, was
drowned by some one in the house
coughing very loudly.
'Poor dear! 1 s'pose that’s 'er cough
in' ain’t it'.’’’ cried the sympathetic old
lady
"Na, na, ma woman." replied the aged
tailor, surveying his handiwork proud
ly; ’it ain't a coffin. It's a 'en coop."
The tryplane. making a twelve-hour
journey from London to Hongkong, had
got into difficulties among the stars.
Something apparently was wrong with
the engine, for the customary speed of
tile airship had suddenly and consider
ably slackened.
“Good heavens!" cried the skipper.
I "We shall be half a second late! What
makes her go so slow ■ ?"
"Why, sir." replied the engineer, ,
"we're passin’ through the Milky Way.
an' the propeller's full o' butter."
The famous criminal lawyer had won
a shockingly bad case by eloquence and
trickery, and a rival lawyer said to him,
bit terly:
"Is there any case so low. so foul, so
1 vilely crooked and shameful that you'd I
refuse It?”
I "Well. I don't know." the other an
swered, with a smile "What have you
i been doing now
i Elderly Gentleman Now, then, you
| naughty boy. I'll have you locked up! I
; You know you're not allowed to smoke. '
You'll never live to grow up lo be a
i man like me if you do that!
Promising Youthh-t If I'm goin' te>
'ave whiskers and a face like yours. I
don't want to grow up. guv'ner!
Grandfather ienthusiastically > "I
say. Willie, don't von want to go
thiough a toy shop with me this after
noon and see all the pretty things'.'"
| Twentieth t’entury Child (Indiffer
ently 1 I’m willing to. grandfutile-. it
you w ill get any pleasure out of it."
old Gent Gentle disposition! He
wants to bite tin head off every dog lie |
I meets I've been swindled.
Fancier You didn't ought to keep .
j dogs at all. mister. The animals yon
ought to keep with your temperatment I
! is silkworms.
The time will come. thundered a
suffragist orato’ w ben rj men will get
a man's wages! '
Y- ■ sadly mutte ed a man ..r. th
rear seat, "next Saturday night!'
"Has his family got a skeleton in its
I don't know about what they o got
-,n the i loset, but they've got one in a
1 hobl'le n t."
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MARJORIE BONNER.
(One of the Ziegfeld beauties in “A Winsome Widow" company.)
as I can. In winter time, when the skin
is very dry, I rub the oil on at night,
at the same time that I am working
on my arms, and I find that my finger
nails have grown much stronger from
this treatment.
I believe that if your finger nails are
brittle and break off easily you could
readily cure them of that tendency by
rubbing them with olive oil, which must
nourish the nail just as it does the rest
of the body.
If you treat your fingers this was
and then press back the cuticle you
ought never to have hang nails at all.
and your hands should always be
smooth, soft and white.
Using Perfumes.
Some people object to the smell of
the olive oil. but that can be changed
by adding a little perfume in the oil
form, oil of lavender for instance, or oil
of lemon veibena, which I like best of
all. You can get these oils at any drug
store, and an ounce will scent a gallon
of olive oil Os course, if you prefer,
mix in a little of your favorite perfume
I instead.
Olive oil is so good for the hair that„
if you use it constantly, you won’t need
any other tonic, and your hair will be
as blight and shiny a- if it had been
brilliantined and polished.
I have a very dry skin naturally, and
my scalp is inclined to be dry. jpo. Be
fore I shampoo my hair. I simply sat
urate my whole scalp with perfumed
oil, rubbing it well into the hair, and
then brushing it down to the roots of
the hair.
I let it stay in 24 hours- If possible,
and then wash it out with tincture of
green soap. For ordinary use, 1 take
just a few drops of oil. rub them into
the scalp, and then brush it with a per
fectly clean brush until It is glossy, i
When my hail is done up. I have a |
piece of velvet which 1 rub over it, as !
if it were a brush, and this gives an
excellent luster and sheen.
I thinjt there is nothing so pretty as
glossy hair, no matter what color it is,
and this olive oil treatment will keep
the hair shiny, if one brushes It well i
every night and shampoos it once In |
two weeks.
I have another use for olive oil. which ;
few- people have ever tried. Oil will I
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Simplx get one ounce of othine double
strength, from Jacobs' Pharmacy, and |
apph a little of it at night, and in the ;
morning you will see that even the worst ‘
freckles have begun to disappear, while
the lighter ones have vanished entirely. '
It is seldom that more than an ounce Is
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Re sure to ask for the double strength
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keep the feet in splendid condition and
make the skin so nice and soft that
corns and callouses will never be al
lowed to form.
But, when all is said and done, I
think that I get the best results from
the oil taken with my food. I wonder
why it is that we don't cook more with
oil, and use so much lard or butter in
stead. Italian cooking is delicious, rfnd
they use quantities of oil, which gives
their food a delightful taste, never
found when lard or ordinary butter is
used And. goodness knows, most cook
ing butter is ordinary. It oughtn't be
called butter at all!
Olive oil, taken internally or rubbed
on’the skin, is very good for creaking
joints—and you know that young girls
have creaking joints and worry about
them a great deal more than the aged
do. Sometimes if you should hear a
row of girls bending their knees it's al
most like a lot of little firecrackers go
ing off.
This happens- especially in winter
time. I don't know why; but it does,
and olive oil is the cure for that. too.
My beauty treatment is not very ro
mantic, 1 am afraid, but I am sure that
it is one of the best, and in a small can
of pure olive oil you have the cure for
all kinds of troubles.
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Each loaf has its individual wrapper of imported
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It is as sweet ami clean as when it left the oven.
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© Every Day a Beginning ©
By Beatrice Fairfax
"There are those who want to
get away from all their past, who,
if they could, would begin all over
again. Their life seems one long
failure. But you must learn, you
must let God teach you. that the
only way to get rid of your past is
to get a future out of it.” —Phillips
Brooks.
IDO not believe that any one takes
the past more tragically than
those who have had very little
of it.
As we grow older we grow more
philosophical, and the mistakes of the
past become lights by which avoid
mistakes of the future.
It is when we are still young that we
regard a mistake as fatal, and particu
larly do I believe that this Is character
istic of young girls.
They offend and lose a friend.
Thenceforth, they think, they are
doomed to go through life friendless.
They save a little money, perhaps,
and lose it. Never, they/ believe, will
they be able to save any more.
They have a sorrow; they can't see a
day so far ahead that contains its joy.
They lose a lover. Straightway they
picture themselves going down the slope
of life alone and unloved.
Youth, which has so much to hope
for. also takes its disappointments so
grievously to heart that hope is soon
est exhausted.
They have not learned to label every
failure, every disappointment, every
grievance as an EXPERIENCE.
4 That they must learn. must
know that the loss of a friend, the per
fidy of a lover and all the disappoint
ments of material gain are so many
valuable lessons, without which the fu
ture would be more hopeless.
The girl who mourns for a day that, is
lost as if It were a life that is ended is
not an extraordinary creature.
If the simile is better understood, l.et
us put Youth in a swing. It swings to
the extent of the rope, first this way
and then that way. It is when the
swinging is nearing the end and we “let
the old cat die” that the one in the
swing no longer swings to the extreme.
It is when Youth has fled and the
years have come that one is never hope
lessly sad nor uncontrollably gay.
Phillips Brooks must have been
thinking of unhappy youth when ho
said that the only way to get rid of a
past is to make a future out of it.
The older realize It, and value every
disillusion and disappointment. The
younger have yet to learn it, and the
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sooner they learn it the sooner they
begin making a useful future out of
what seems now in the exaggeration of
youth to be an accumulation of failur-s
and mistake*.
It is something to have known, ever.,
that a Jover proved not pure gold, but
merely gilded; it prevents a pouring out
of love on a worthless object a second
time.
= There is always in the heart of a girl
i who has had such an experience a re
> serve fund, and a man has to prove
himself worthy before it is expended on
him.
A CHANGE OF LUCK.
I Tim—" Saver Smith (you know 'er—
Bill's missus), she throwed herself hors
1 the end uv the wharf last night."
Tom—"Orf the end uv the wharf?
Poor Sarer!”
Tim —"An' a cop fished 'er hout
again. '
Tom—" Poor Bill!”
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