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THE GEO MAGAZINE PAGE
“Initials Only” *• By Anna Katherine Green
A Thrilling Mystery Story of Modern Times
TODAY’S INSTALLMENT.
(Copyright, 1911, Street & Smith.)
(Copyright, 1911, by Dodd, Mend & Co.)
At last 1 slept, but it was only to
rouse again with the same quick realiza
tion of my surroundings which I had ex
perienced on my recovery from my faint
ing fit of hours before. Someone had
stopped at our door before hurrying by
down the hall. Who was that someone?
1 rose on my elbow, and endeavored to
peer through the dark. Os course. I could
see nothing. But when I awoke a second
time there was enough light in the room,
early as it undoubtedly was, for me to
detect a letter lying on the carpet just
inside the door.
Instantly I was on my feet. Catching
the letter up, 1 carried it to the win
dow. Our two names were on it —Mr.
and Mrs George Anderson; the writing.
Mr. Slater s.
1 glanced over at George. He was
sleeping peacefully. It was too early
to wake him, but I could not lay that
letter down unread; was not my name on
it? Tearing it open, I devoured its con
tents —the exclamation 1 made on read
ing it waking George.
The writing was in Mr Slater's hand,
and the words were;
“I must request, at the Instance of
Coroner Heath and such of the police
as listened to your adventure, that
you make no further mention of what
you saw in the street under our win
dows last night. The doctors find no
bullet in the wound. This clears Mr.
Brotherson.”
Sweet Little Miss Clarke.
When we took our seats at the break
fast table it was with the feeling of being
no longer looked upon as connected In any
way with this case. Yet our interest in
it was, If anything, increased, and when
I saw George casting furtive glances at
a certain table behind me, I leaned over
and asked him the reason, being sure that
the people whose faces I saw reflected in
the mirror directly before us had some
thing to do with the great matter then
engrossing us.
His answer conveyed the somewhat ex
citing information that the four persons
seated In my rear were the same four who
had been reading at the round table in the
mezzanine at the time of Miss Challoner's
death.
Instantly they absorbed all my atten
tion, though I dared not give them a di
rect look and continued to observe them
only in the glass.
"Is it one family?” I asked.
"Yes, and a very respectable one
Transients, of course, but vert well
known in Denver. The ladv is not the
mother of the boys, but their aunt. The
hoys belong to the gentleman, who is a
widower."
Anfy Drudge's Vision.
Anty Drudge had finished her weekly wash before
noon and she sat in her comfortable rocking chair and
dozed.
And in a dream, she saw an unhappy woman bound
with fetters, her right arm chained to a washboiler, her
left arm to a washboard.
And the sun was setting and it was growing dark.
And she dreamed that she touched the shackles on
each wrist of the woman with a bar of Fels-Naptha soap.
And they fell off, and the woman arose glad and free
free from washday drudgery for evermore. And Anty
Drudge, arousing from her slumber, knew that what she
dreamed was true.
The greatest emancipation proclama
tion since Lincoln’s is printed on the back
oh the red and green Fels-Naptha soap
wrapper. It is the directions for using
Fels-Naptha in washing clothes.
It is also a different way of washing.
It has freed millions of women from wash
day drudgery for all time to come —from
slavery co the old back-breaking, health
wrecking methods which used to be
thought necessary.
Are you still a slave to these old-fash
ioned methods, drudging away every wash
day, wasting your time and your work and
wearing out clothes before their time ?
Then stop. Use F'els-Naptha. Wash your
clothes in the new and easy way in cool or
lukewarm water, summer or winter, with
out boiling or hard rubbing. Easy directions
on the back of the Fels-Naptha wrapper.
"Their word ought to be good."
George nodded
The boys look wide-awake enough if
the father does not. As for the aunt,
she is sweetness itself. Do they still in
sist that Miss Chailoner was the only
person in the room with them at this
time?"
"They did last night. I don't know how
they will meet this statement of the doc
tor's.”
‘.'George!”
He leaned nearer
"Have you ever thought that she might
have been a suicide? That she stabbed
herself?"
No, for in that case a weapon would
have been found."
And are you sure that none was?"
Positive. Such a fact could not have
been kept quiet. If a weapon had been
picked up there would be no mystery, and
no necessity for further police investiga
tion."
"And the detectives are still here'.’"
“I just saw one."
“George”’
Again his head came nearer.
“Have they searched the lobby? I be
lieve she had a W'eapon."
“Laura!"
"I know it sounds foolish, but the al
ternative is so improbable. A family like
that can not be leagued together in a con
spiracy to hide the truth concerning a
matter so serious. To be sure, they may
all be short-sighted./or so little given to
observation that they didn't see what
passed before their eyes. The boys look
wide-awake enough, but who can tell? I
would sooner believe that—”
I stopped short so suddenly that George
looked startled. My attention had been
caught by something new I saw in the
mirror upon which my attention was
fixed. A man was looking in from the
corridor behind, at the four persons we
were just discussing He was watching
them intently, and I thought I knew his
face.
"What kind of a looking person was
the man who took you outside last
night?" I inquired of George, with my
eyes still on this furtive watcher.
“A fellow to make you laugh. A per
fect character, Laura; hideously homely
but agreeable enough. 1 took quite a
fancy to him. Why?”
"I am looking at him now.”
"Very likely. He's deep in this affair,
lust an everyday detective, but ambi
tious, I suppose, and quite alive to the
importance of being thorough."
"He is watching those people. No. he
isn't How quickly he disappeared'."
"Yes. he's mercurial in all his move
ments. Laura, we must get out of this.
There happens to be something else in
the world for mo to do than to sit around
and follow up murder clews.”
To Be Continued in Next Issue,
Beauty Secrets of Footlight Favorites
Hoiv to Have Beautiful Hands and Nails
By EVELYN RORNER.
SOMEBODY has said that the hand
is the second face, and 1 believe
if one has pretty hands one has a
good right to be proud of them, for
there are more pretty faces than
pretty hands in the world, and it's
much easier to beautify the face than
to make the hand graceful and charm
ing.
A woman's hand has so much to do
I mean, of course, the average woman,
who has to care for her house, to look
after her children, and who has her
hand in a hundred and one different
things during the day So it is no
wonder that there are so few classic
ally beautiful hands in the world.
The hand that rocks the cradle may
still be white and soft, but when it
shreds the codfish, blacks the stove,
does the family mending and washes
clothes besides, you can forgive it for
looking worn at an early age.
However, even housework no longer
has terrors for the woman who wants
to keep her hands pretty,, and who
knows how, for a cure has been found
for almost all the troubles that bese’
a busy pair of hands.
When a w oman’s hands get very red
for no apparent reason, she is usually
wearing some tight band around her
body, either a corset that is too snug
or tight garters. Even tight shoes
will make the hands red; and, of
course, long immersion in cold or hot
water will do the same thing Then
again, when the hands grow red and
none of these causes are found, the
person may have rheumatism or got;',
for it is one of the first signs of these
troubles: and, of course, the cure has
to be found at the doctor’s office.
Preventing Dirty Nails.
If one has any dirty work to do like
polishing shoes, for instance, or the
kitchen stove, and one can not save
one's fingers from getting dirty, a little
grease or lard, rubbed around the
finger nails, will keep the dirt from
getting in them.
After the hands have been thorough
ly trashed, they should be dried with
powdered starch, and sometimes it is a
good thing to use oatmeal boiled and
strained, instead of using soap. Oat
meal makes the hands nice and soft,
and so will almond meal or bran.
For the woman who has much house
work to do, there are various kinds of
gloves to protect the hands while do
ing it, and if she objects to the odors
which may linger on the skin, she can
remove the unpleasant odor by rubbing
them with powdered mustard or by
putting mustard in the water in which
she washes her hands.
I have found that the best Whitener
for ordinary purposes is plain lemon
juice and the oil in lemon peel. This
softens the skin and makes it delight
ful to the touch.
When your hands are very rough and
I you want to get them soft in a very
short time, take a little sweet cream,
cold cream, buttermilk or butter, wash
your hands thoroughly in warm water,
then rub in any one of these creams
yo'u may have, while the hands are
still wet. Rub until there is nothing
left to absorb; then wasli «off quickly
in warm water, just enough to do away
with the sticky feeling which is so un
pleasant. People whose hands chap
' ery easily ought to do this every time
they wash their hands, using an inex
pensive cold cream and a pure soap.
I have heard lots of women complain
that the use of grease in any form on
tlie hand and forearm would make the
hair grow. Well, there is a simple
remedy for that. It consists of a five
cent piece of pumice bought at the drug
store, and rubbed on the arm in this
way.
Light Rubbing.
if your pumice stone is soft and
fairly smooth, as it sometimes is, you
won't need anything else but a little
light rubbing over the hairy surface.
But if the pumice stone Is coarse and
rough, wet it a little with soapy water,
and then rub it briskly and lightly in
a circular manner over the skin on
which the hair is growing. You will
soon wear off the hair, and if you rub
lightly you won't irritate the skin. If
you do, apply a little glycerine or cold
cream.
Most people can use glycerine on
their hands and arms, though they can
not use it on their face, and it is a
good thing to have on one’s wash
stand, for its constant use will keep
the hands very nice and soft.
Probably the main reason why the
skin of so many hands is so coarse
and ugly is because people don't take
time enough to dry - their hands prop
erly. but hurry over them as best they
may.
The little white spots on the nails
are due to poor circulation, and the
ridges on the nails come from excess
uric acid In the blood.
The white spots occasionally come
from bruises or bumps, and then they
soon disappear, but when they are the
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MISS EVELYN KORNER.
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results of other troubles one must
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If you want to get your hands very
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