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THE GEORGIAN'S MAGAZINE PAGE “Initials Only’ By Anna Katherine Green j J Thrilling Mystery Story of Modern Times TODAY’S INSTALLMENT. (Copyright. 1911. Street a* Smith.) /Copyright, 1911, hy Podci. Mead Co.) This room fated a side street, and. as my eyes tell upon the whitened pave ments, I received an answer to one. aiyi that the most anxious, of my queries. This was the street into which we had turned, in the wake of the handsome ffranger they were 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 the curb, and even pawing at the snow which lay there. It gave me a slight turn when one of them I 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. I probably uttered some sort of an ejaculation, for I was suddenly conscious of a silence in the room, and when 1 turned saw all the men about me looking my way. I attempted to smile, but instead, shud dered painfully, as I raised my hand and pointed down at the street. A Painful Sight. ’The.' are imitating the man.” I cried: “my husband and and the person h? went out with. It looked dreadful to me. that is ail.” One of the gentlemen immediately said some kind words to me. and another smiled in a very encouraging way 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 ’•e hotel, and the one best liked. I had often exchanged words with him myself. Mr. Slater at once put his question: “Has Mr. Brotherson passed your door at any time tonight?’’ “Mr. Brotherson’. I don’t remember, really I don’t,” was the unexpected reply, “h’s not often I forget. But so many peo ple tame rushing in during those few minutes, and all so excited” “Before the excitement, Clausen A lit tle while before, possibly just before.” “Ph. now I recall him! Yes. Mr. Broth ers* m went out of my door not many min utes before the cry upstairs. 1 forgot be ■ ause I had stepped back from the door to Land a lady the muff she had dropped, and it was at that minute he went out. ! jn. : got a glimpse of his hack as he • ...- •• ’ ’nithe street*” “But you ate sure of that back?” I don’t know another like it. when he < i •*. that big coat of his. Rut Jim can toil \ou, s;r. He was in the case up to 'hat miniHc, and that's where Mr Broth el 1 -on usuallx goes first “\(r\ well; send up Jim. Tell him 1 i.i\< some orders to give him.” 'he o!d man bowed and went out. .!’ w hile. .Mi Slater had exchanged • .o’ <’ -. ji: v . ffivials and <3. ==a R||||» If »n I «r -. [-■ 'III ri n I ■■—■!■ Ill—l—mm_iL SmR I Wheremisscfell X I K. p ■ | table BJ ~zTT7>c H Elevator. r"X >c< * ~ K/nw —c o F Musician's Gallery l ' ' ■ Dining Room with Lobby h I ■ L- T - ■■■, - - - •■ ■ •rppr<>achcd me with ar <*xpr« s>i >ll of • xU' ine consideration They were about excuse me trom further participation m iri- informal inquiry This 1 saw be ••re in- spoke. Os course they were right But I should greatly have preferred to ' a\ where I was till George came bark Who He Was. However, 1 met him for an instant in the hall before 1 took the elevator, and liter I heard in a round-about way what •lim and some others about the house had to say about Mr. Brotht rson. He was an habitue of the hotel, to the extent of dining once or twice a week' in the case, and smoking, afterward. in the public lobby. When he was in the mood for talk, he would draw an ever-enlarg ing group about him. but at other times He would he seen sitting quite alone and morosely indifferent to all who ap proached him. 'there was no mystery Jiboiit his business. He was an inventor, with one or two valuable patents already "ti the market. But this was not his onl\ interest. He was an all-round sort of man. moody but brilliant in many 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 most careful to dress himself in a wax to show ’hem to advantage. If he had means be yond the ordinary no one knew it. nor could any man say that he had not On ail personal matters he was vers close mouthed. though he would talk about other men s riches in away to show.that he cherished some very extreme views. 'l’his was all which could be learned about him off-hand, and at so late an hour 1 was greatly interested, of course, and had plenty to think of till 1 saw George again and learned the result of tin* latest investigations. 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 i that report would be. No assailant could have apnroaehed or left her without at tracting the notice of some one if not all “i I he pers< n•• sea ted at a tbble in the same room. She could only have been reached by a bullet sent from a point near the head of a small winding stait case connecting the mezzanine floor with 1 a oat room adjacent to the front door. ‘ r llns has already been insisted on. as you will ren-ember. and if yon will glance at • | the diagram wim h George hastilx 1 (scrawled for me. you will see why. J. A B. as well as C l» are half circular openings into the office lobby. E F axe windows giving up ii Broadway, and •; the party wall, necessarily unbroken by ■ window, door any other opening, it ’ follows then that the only nossibie means j I of approaih to tins room lies through th" I archway fl or from the elevator door. J Rut the elevate: made iv stop at the , mezzanine on or near the time of the at , tack upon Miss rhallntter: nor did any one leave the table or pass by it in either direction till after lb* i.lar n given In . her fall. Ru* a hullt-f calls for no approach. A I man at X might raise and tire his pistol ■ without atliaeting any attention to him self The music, which all acknowledged was at its full climax at this moment, would drown the noise of the explosion. 1 and the staircase, mu of view of all but the victim, afford the-same means of im -1 mo-bate escape which it must have given •’ ot secret and upscen approach. The i coatroc.rn into which it descended com municated with the lobby vetv near the main entrance, and if Mr. Brotherson were the man. Ips sudden appearance 1 there would ti ns be accounted for. I To be sure, this gentleman .had not ■ been noticed itt the eoatroom by the man then in charge, but If the latter had been " engaged nt that instant, as he often was, tn hanging tip or taking down a coat from the rack, a person might easily pass by him ami disappear into the lobby without attracting'his attention. So many peo ’ pie passed that tvny front the dining room beyond, and so many of these were tall, line-looking and well-dressed. It began to look had for this man, if ■ indeed he were the one we had seen un der the street lamp, and as George ami 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 be seal'd ids words up as soon as he had finished | writing, but this is what I put on paper 5 while tny memory was still fresh ami my i excitement unabated: > He had the look of am; n of pov - erful intellect ami determined will, who shudders while lie triumphs; who I outwardly washes his hands of a deed over which he inwardly gloats. Tins was when he first rose from the snow- M Afterwards he had a moment of feat': I plain, human, everyday feat . But this t wa evanescent. Before he had turned t to go he showed the self-possession of 1 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.” 1 commented aloud, as I folded up these words; “he reckoned with -1 out you. George. By tomorrow he will I be in the hands of the police.” i “Poor fellow’.”’ he repeated. “Better I say, ’Poor Miss Challoner!’ They tell me she was one of those perfect women who reconcile even 'he pessimist to humanity ami the age we live in. Why any one should want to kill her is a mystery: but -- ■ ■■■■■-■ ■■—■■■■ Beautify the Complexion IN TEN DAYS / \ Nadinola CREAM / . \ (•’’equaled Beautifier t '|! Il USED AND ENDORSED BY I L_/' THOUSANDS I Guaranteed to remove tan, freckles, pimples, liver-spots, etc. Extreme '—cases twenty days. Rids pores and tissues of impurities. Leaves the skin clear, soft, healthy. 1 Two sizes, 50c. and SI.OO Bv toilet counters or mail. NATIONAL TOILET COMPANY. Paris. Term. TETTERINE CURES ECZEMA 1 , Haynesville. Ala... April 26. 1909. J T Shuplrine. 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I wanted to have a long .ilk with her At ask hu il she had a little sister, but Pa dident give Ma or mo a cnanst to talk to tier. 1 wasent the only one that knew -he was good looking. Pa Ims two good eyes. too. I think you are awful handsome, sed \Suke / do not take Substitutes nr imitations Get theWcil-Known iLS i BiF Round Package B gigm MALTED MILK rWW! Made in the largest, best equipped arc! sanitary Malted rrpll plant in the world t We do not m&keT milk products’-- Skim Milk, Condensed Milk- etc, i f? M But the Original-Genuine f,OBLICK ’ S WA’-TED MILK Made from pure, full-cream milk ant * thc extracp of select malted grain, °kimg or milk Rte*- 1 ' reduced to powder form, soluble in P miiX •? water. The Food-drink for All Ages, j W*ASK FOR “HORLICK’S” Used aii over the Globe The most economical and nourishing light lunch. Pi That's good, sed Miss Griffin, but you ought, tn s my friend. May Her bert. if you think I am pritty. I used to be on the stage, sed Pa. 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