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THE OEOnCdAHrS MAGAZINE, PAOrE “Initials Only” t*. By Anna Katherine Green .4 Thrilling Mystery Story of Modern limes TODAY’S INSTALLMENT. ‘Copyright. 1911, Street & Smith.) (Copyright. 1911, by Dodd, Mead & Co.) This room faced a side street, and, a? my eyes fell upon the whitened pave ments, I received an answer to one, and that the most anxious, of my queries. This was the street into which we had turned, in the wake of the handsome stranger they wore trying at this very moment to Identify with Brotherson George had evidently been asked to point out the exact spot where the man had stopped, for I could see from my vantage point two figures bending near ihe curb, and even pawing at the snow which lay there. It gave me a slight turn when one of them—l do not think it was George began to rub his hands together in much the way the unknown gentleman had done, and, in my excitement. 1 probably uttered some sort of an ejaculation, f< r 1 was suddenly conscious of a silence in the room. an<l when 1 tutned saw- all the njen about me looking my way I attempted to smile, but instead, shud dered painfully, as 1 raised my hand and pointed down at the street A Painful Sight. "They are imitating the man," I cried, •‘my husband and and the person he went out with It looked dreadful to n e that is all " one of the gentlemen immediately said some kind words to me, and another smiled in a very encouraging wax' But their attention was soon diverted, and so was mine, by the entrance of a man in semi-uniform, who was immediately ad dressed as Clausen. I knew his face. He was one of the doorkeepers; the oldest employee about the hotel, and the one best liked. I had often exchanged words with him myself Mr. Slater at once put his question: "H;s Mr. Brotherson passed your door at any time tonight?" "Mr. Brotherson! I don't remember, reallx I don’t," was the unexpected reply. "It '» not often I forget Bui o many peo ple came rushing in during those few minutes, and all so excited" "Before the excitement, Clausen A lif ile while before, possibly j isi be for* " "Oh. now I recall him! Yrs. Mr. Broth erson went out of my door not many min utes before the cry upstairs 1 forgot be cause I had stepped back from the door to hand a lady the muff she had dropped, and it was at that minute he went out 1 just got a glimpse <>f his back as he passed intn the street ' "But you are sure of that bark”" "I don't know another like it, when he wears that big coat of his. But Jim can tell you, sir. He was in the case up to that minute, and that’s where Mr. Broth erson usually goes first." "Very well, send up Jim Tell him I have some orders tn give him." ’l'he old man bowed and went out. Meanwhile. Mr. Slater had exchanged some words with the two officials, and wr —— WHEREMISSCFELL x b I LOBB* Table . b . M Elevator. 1 STAIRCASE * iX/my —c o musician's Gallery I - _ * I Dining Room level with Lobby now approached me with an expression of extreme consideration. They were about to excuse me front further participation in this informal inquiry. Tills I saw be fore he spoke Os course they were right. But 1 should greatlv have preferred to stay where 1 was till George came back Who He Was. However. 1 met him for an instant in the hall before 1 took the elevator, and later I heard in a round-about way what Jim and some others about tin- house had to say about Mr Brotherson. He was an habitue of the hotel, to the extent of dining once or twice a week in the ease, and smoking, afterward, in the public lobby When in was in the mood for talk, he would draw an ever-enlarg ing group about him, but at other times he would be seen sitting quite alot.c ami morosely indifferent to all who ap proached him Their was no mystery about his business He was an inv< ntor, with one or two valuable patents already on the market. But this was not Ins only interest lie was an all-round sort of man. moody but brilliant in man.' ways —a character which at once attracted and repelled, odd in that he seemed to set lit tle store by his good looks, yet was nm-i careful to dress himself in away to show them to advantage, if he had means la - yond the ordinary no one knew it. not could any man say that lie had m on all personal matters be was very close mouthed, though lie would talk about other men’s riches n a wjv t ■ show <• he cherished some very extreme vlew- This was all which could be learned about hint off-hand, and at so late an hour. 1 was greatly interested, of course, and had plenty to think of till I saw George again and learned the result of the latest investigation.-. Miss Chailoner had been shot, not stabbed No other deduction was possi ble from such facts as were now known, though the physicians had not yet handed in their report, or even intimated what that report would be No assailant could have approached or left het without at tracting the notice of some one if not all of the persons seated at a table in the • a same room She could only have been • reached by a bullet sent from a point ’ near the head of a small winding stair case connecting the mezzanine floor with 1 a coat room adjacent to the front door. p This has already been insisted on. as you >’ will remember, and if you will glance at the diagram which George hastily t scrawled for me. you will see why. 1 AB. as well as CD. are half circular openings into the office lobby E F are ’ windows giving upon Broadway, and G • the party wall, necessarily unbroken by a window, door or any other opening. It follows then that the only possible means 1 of approach to this room lies through the archway II or from the elevator door. But the elevator made no stop at the 1 mezzanine on or near the timt? of the at -1 tael' upon Miss Challoner; r nor did any one leave the table or pass by it in either direction till after the alarm given by j her fall But a bullet calls for no approach. A man at X might raise and fire his pistol without attracting any attention to him self. 'ihe music, which all acknowledged was at its full climax at this moment, would drown the noise of the explosion. I and the staircase, out of view' of ail but the victim, afford the same means of lm i mediate escape which it must have given » of secret and unseen approach. The i coatroom into which it descended com municated with the lobby very near the main entrance, and if Mr Brotherson were the man, his sudden appearance there would thus be accounted for. To be sure, this gentleman had not been noticed in the coatroom by the man then in charge, but If the latter had been engaged at that instant, as he often was, in hanging up or taking down a coat from the rack, a person might easily pass by him and disappear into the lobby attracting his attention So many peo ple passed that way from the dining room beyond, and >•<» man) of these were tall, fine-looking and well-dressed. It began to look bad for this man, if indeed he were the one we had seen un der the street lamp, and as George and I viewed the situation we felt our position to be serious enough for us severally to set down our impressions of this man be fore we lost our first vivid idea. I do not know what George wrote, for he sealed his words up as soon as he had finished writing, but this is what I put on paper while my memory was still fresh and my excitement unabated: He had the look of a man of pow erful intellect and determined will, who shudders while he triumphs; who outwardly washes his hands of a deed over which he inwardly gloats. This was when he first rose from the snow | Afterwards he had a moment of fear; plain, human, everyday fear. But this was evanescent. Before he had turned to go he showed tlie self-possession of one who feels himself so secure or is so well satisfied with himself that he is no longer conscious of other emo tions. "Poor fellow. ' I commented aloud, as 1 folded up these words; “he reckoned w ith out you, George. By tomorrow lie will be in the hands of the police. ’ Poor fellow '' lie repeated. “Better say . 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Rogers Bread is made in a bakery but it’s just like home made bread— only better.” Jos. Rogers Co. 57 Highland Avenue By Massengale * Little Bobbie’s Pa * By William F. Kirk THAT pritty yung gurl from Aus tralia is coming up to the house tonite sed Ma to Pa. Her naim is Ada Griffin. Lots of good peepul has come from Australia, sed Pa. Thare was Pat O’Dea. the grate Wisconsin football player. & Melba, who could sing quite good, I heard. & Bob Fitzsimmons, sed Pa, the only man that ever lived that I was afrade of. Ma was jest going to skold Pa for all the time talking about fltes, but jest then Miss Griffin cairn to the house & the war dident start. Ma’s frend was a awful nice looking gurl. If she had a little sister I wud marry her wen both of us grew up. I wanted to-have a long talk with her & ask her if she had a little sister, but Pa dident give Ma or me a chanst to talk to her. I wasent the only one that knew she was good looking, Pa has two good eyes. too. 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How are all the big kangaroos & thare babies, sed Pa. Ma beegan to look kind of funny at Pa. the way she has to a lot of times. 1 guess she was beginning to think that Miss Griffin wasent such a grand gurl after all. We had a plesant evening. Pa had the piesantest, me next, Miss Griffln third & Ma the leest plesant. 1 don't know why my Ma shud be jellus of Pa. All you have to do is to look at my Pa & then you wud know that nobody shud be jellus of him. P. S—Pa can talk this any way he likes. He dident give me anything for my bank last week.