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TOE GEO BGIAMS MAGAZINE PAGE “Initials Only By Anna Katherine Green A Thrilling Mystery Story of Modern Times TODAY’S INSTALT.MEXT. (Copyright, 1911. Street A- Smith » (Copyright, 1911, by Dodd. Mead «v Cn i But we began to doubt if others agreed with him. when <>n passing <mt up were stopped in the lobby by this same de tective, who had something to say to George, and drew him quickly a-'df. “What does hf want 1 asked, as <onn as George had returned to my side “He wants me to stand ready to obey any summons the police may send me.' “Then they still suspect Brotherson “They must “ My head rose a trifle as I glam rd up at George “Then we arr not altogether out of it’.*'' I emphasized complacently He smiled which hardly .seemed a propos. Why does George sometimes smile when 1 am in my most serious m ood s As we stepped out of the hotel. George gave my arm a quiet pinch wI. < h served to direct my attention to an elderly gen tleman who was just alighting from a taxicab at the curb He moved heavily and with some appearance <f pain, hut from the crowd collected on th» sidewalk* many of whom nudged each other as] he passed, he was evidently a person of i some importance, and as |.» <1..-.appeared within the hotel entrance I asked George w ho this kin<l-fa« ed. bright-ev < d old gen tieman could be He appeared to know for h«- t<dd rm at once that he was Detective Gryce. a man who had grown old in solving just such baffling problems a? these “He gave up work s-.no time ago. I have been told my hu i.md went on. “hut evidently a great case still has its allurement for him. Th«* trail here must be a very blind one for them to call him in 1 wish we had not left so soon H Would have been quite an experience to See him at work." I doubt if you would have been given tic opportunity I noticed that we were Ri ghtiy de trop toward ’h< las* “I wouldn't have minded that, not on my own account, that is It might not have been pleasant for you However, the office is waiting <'omr, let me put you on the car That nigh! 1 bahd hl> coming with an impatience ■' could not < <»ntrol. He was ; late, of cours< . but when tie did appear, I ah,lost forgot our u«ual greeting in my ;■ hurry to ;sk him if hr had seen the evenirg papers "No." he grumbled, as hr hung up his ■ i oven-oat "Breti pushed about all day No time for anything" “Then let me tell you ( But hr would have dime r first. However, a little later we hud a com sortable chat. Mr. Gry re had made a dis covery, ami the papers were full of it. ( It was one which gave me a small tri < umph over George The suggestion he ( had laughed at was not so entirely fool. i»h as he had been pleased to consider it. But pc let me tell th» story of that day. without any further reference to myself The opinion had become quite general with those best acquainted with the d<- tails of this affair, that the mystery was one of those abnormal ones for winch no solution would ever be found, when tht aged detective showed himself in ihr building and was taken to the loom, where ar inspector of police awaited him Their greeting was cordial and the lines on the latter’s face relaxed a little as he met the still bright eye of the man upon whose instim i .tt.d judgment so much reliance had always beca placed. “This is Very ? of vol hi* began, glancing down at the aged detectives bundled i p '• and gently pi. I ug a chair toward I’m * I know that it was a great deal to d<, but we re at our wits' end. ami so I t«<ephom . It's the most inexplicable There’ you have heard that phrase before Hut clews there ate absolutely That is. we have not been able to find any I’erhaps you tan. At least, that is what wt hope I've known you more than on* <- to succeed where others have faded. Tl < elderly man thus addr< ssed. glanc ed < own at his l< gs. now prepped up on a Bti>«d which someone had brought him. and ‘unilxl. with Hit pathos of the ••hi who r *- the ntett**!- of a lifetime slip ping gradually aw a. I tun not what I was I •an no longer get down on m. hands and km < s t > pick up threads from the nap of a tug. or spy nut a spot of blood in the crimson won; of a earpet “You Shall have Hw celwatet :.< r e to d'-j the active work f<u you W'l.at we wan: i <»f you is the directing n a « mfalli hie nstinct. It s a case m a thousand. <py • f Wove never had an' 'h og just I line it. You've never bad atiy thing a’ j all like d. li will malo you young aga t Tl e old man's eyes shot tire . nd un | cons '••usiy one foot slipped to :he floor ■ The i he Wethougi i bin -elf • d painfullv ! lifted if back again “ V .» . 1 Acuity •' he asked. “A woman las been shot “No. not shot, stabl -<i W. t‘-.’ught she had been for that w. < int»lli- gibk end uivolvt-: no impossibilities But] l»rs Heath and Webster, under th< eye] of the t'halloners’ own physician, have' marie an examination of ho wound an] oftic al one. thorough and «pitt» t uiil s far as they are conc< rned, and tin y de ’ dare that no h diet is to be found m the body As the wound extends no further! than the heart this setth .- <ne great point, at least “Dr Heatli is a reliable man and one! of our ablest ( Tenors “Yes Then- can be no <. astion as to the truth of his report \’ou know il.» ' victim? 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I hear." “Yet she was killed that way?" ■ I hdoubtedly, and by h long and very narr<w blade, larger than a needle but not so large as the ordinary stiletto." “Stabbed while by herself, or whai you may call by herself She had no com panion near her** “None, if we can believe the four mem bers of the Parrish family who were seat ed at the other end of the room." 'And do you believe them?" “Would a whole family lie and need lessly ’ They never knew the woman father, maiden aunt and two boys, clear eyed. jolly voung chaps whom even the horror of this tragedv. perpetrated as it were under their ver\ nose, can not make serious for more than fMpassing moment." “It wouldn't seem so." "Yet they swear up and down that no bodv ( tossed the room toward Miss Chai loner?” I “So they tell me ’ ‘ She fell just a few feet from the desk where she had been writing No word, no cry, just a collapse and sudden fall. In olden‘days they would have said, struck b; o bolt from heaven But It was a holt w loch drew blood not much blood. I hear, but sufficient to end life almost instantly She never looked up or spoke again What do you make of it, Gryce?" “It’s a tough one. and I’m not ready to venture an opinion yet. I should like to see the desk you speak of, and the spot where she fell “ A young fellow who had been hover ing in,the background at , once stepped forward He was the plain faced detective who had spoken to George. "Will you take my arm, sir?” Mr. Gry < o's whole face brightened. This Sweetwater, as they tailed him. was, I have since understood, one of his pro teges. and more or less of a favorite. "Have you had a chance at this thing.’” he asked “Been over the ground stud ied the affair carefully'’" "Yrs, sit they wen* good enough to allow it” "\'ery well, then, you’re In a position to pioneer me. You’ve seen it all and won't be in a hurry " “No: I’m at the end of my rope. I haven't an idea. sir "Well, well; that's honest, at all I events ' Then, as he slowly rose with the • other s < areful assistance. “There’s no I < r ime w ithout its dew The thing is to recognize that clew when seen. But I'm I in no position to make promises. < >ld days den t return for the asking" Nevertheless, h<* loked ten years ynung- ' er than when he came in. or so thought those who knew him The mezzanine was guarded from all visitors save such as had official sanction. Consequently, the two remained (juite un intenr.pted while they moved about the place m quiet consultation. Others had preceded them, had examined the plain little deck and found nothing; had paced I off tin* distances; had looked with longing I and in.miring eyes at the elevator cage ' and the open archway leading to the Jit- I tie staircase and the musicians’ gallery. The locale was what he wanted, and he] got It Whether he got anything else lit would be impossible to say from his manner as Jie finally* sank into a chair by one of the openings, and looked down lon the lobby below It was full of peo ple coming and going on all sorts of busi ness. and presently ho drew back. and. leanig on Sweetwater’s arm, asked him a few questions. “Who were the first to rush In here after the Parrishes gave the alarm?” one or two of the musicians from the -nd of the hall ’l’hey had just finished ’l.eir program and were preparing to leave the gallery Naturhlly they reached her first." "Good! Their names?" Mark Sowerhy and Claus Hennerberg Honest Germans m< n who have played here for years." And who followed them? Who came next on the scene?” "Some people from the lobby They heard the disturbance and rushed up pell mell. Hut not one of these touched her. ' I ater her father came." “Who did touch her \nyhody. before t the father came in?" "Yes. Miss Clarke, the middle aged lady ; with the Parrishes She had run toward , Miss Challoner as soon as she heard her ! tai. and was silling there with the dead j girl's head tn her .lap when the musi cians showed thcmselvec." "I suppose she has been carefully ques tioned?" "Very. I should say \yd she speaks of no weapon'* ' "No. Neither she nor any one else at |H at moment suspected murder «»r even a violent death \ll thought it a. natural i one sudden, but the result of some secret I disease." "Call.er and all .’“ "Yes." Hut the blood Surely there must have been some show of blood'.’’’ ‘'They say not No one noticed any. X' t till the doctor . ante her doctor, who was happily In his office in this building He saw the drops, and uttered the first I suggest ion of niunlei “How long after was this'.' Is there I any one who has ventured to make l an estimate of the number of minutes which elapsed trom the time she fell, to the moment when the doctor first ' raised the cry • f murder ’ Yes Mr Slat< i the assistant mana- ! ger. who wn« in the lobby at the tune. ’ | say s ti nt ten minutes at least must have | i elapSf.l ■Ten minutes and no blood’ The weapon must still have been there Some weapon with a short and inconspicuous ' on.il,' I think thev said there wore I flowers < \< r and around the place where Y< gte. big -.arlet ones Nobedv I I Heed nobody looked \ panic like that 1 -• »ii < to pa: aly zc pc-.plv “Tt n minutes' I must see every one who approached her during those ten I •• »iutes l.ve’\ .a ~ Sweetwater, and I must talk with Miss Clarke " Y i will like het Y.»u will believe X' «!• .i All the more reason why I must her Sweetwater, some one drew ti.at weapon out effects still have theh tus< > tang e new ( d: The question 's. Who” We must | leave m* >’«»ne unturned t find that out " T • >: have 0.1 been turned over To Be Continued tn Next Issue. @ For Day and Evening Wear B e F AT wilt . .jßb£; -UgjC ngriV I f Ml we' jUSr”! ? fen i . djPwW ■ i lit’-IKB U K' l«M Wm iiMßaalMl 1 WtL 11W HBkT S If q w fBO IbHiR nWiS I | Wit yf WH '•ft i snow ii .i frock f'c y i las.-summer and early-autumn vls- ■ unti l ihiiis. It ts carried it * 4 , ls bring with them the necessity ’’c kir; «. ' for furbishing up our wardrobes Icing slightly draped and the blouse "’* R ,no< l e ' and the other designs trimmed w ith, th.- very popular illustrated on this page should Robespierre collar. The sleeves are prove of assistance. On the right is a walking cos ong ant finish at the wrist with . »- . v., , tume. iNavy blue ts the color ruffles similar to the collar. satin with a V-shaped neck and en- chosen, cut with a plain skirt, the in tin center is shown a pleas- circled at the waist with a single bodice being decorated with a cir ing suggestion for those who are tine of pearls. The skirt opens eular turn-down collar of white tiie happy possessors of good lace. slightly at the left hand to reveal lawn, large white buttons and but- Ihe gown is fashioned of heavy a gold-shod foot. At a time when tonholes outlined in white. ADVICE TO THE LOVELORN * By Beatrice Fairfax I GET A NEW PLACE. Dear Miss Fairfax: I am 41 years eld and in love with a young man 24 years old, and am employed by his parents. He used to talk to me lovingly, and since a new girl came in the house his love has gone. He is my first love. I crv both night and day. ANNIE. It is a pity your, first love should have proven, such a disappointment, but no surprise considering the differ ence in your ages. My dear woman, he is too young for you. Get a new place, and if he is out of your sight. I am quite sure he soon will be out of your mind. Don't waste any more emotions on the af fair. WHY NOT TELL HER? Dear Miss Fairfax I am twenty years old. 1 have just been introduced to a young lady who is a '.ear younger, and Is keeping steady company with an other fellow. She has told tne she hives me. but she still allows this fellow to call twice a week, and invites tne nights that he is not ,theie. 1 love her dearly. Do you advise me to try and give her up. or win her from the other fellow Sin is not sure that I care for her as I say, or she would git * him up. H AROLI\ If you love her and want her for your wife, you must tell her so. Mind reading solves no problems of love. She has a tight to receive the atten tions of other men if she is not en gaged to you. IT IS WITHIN YOUR RIGHTS. Dear Miss Fairfax: I am a girl eighteen years of • age, and have gone with a young man two years my senior for the last six months. Would it be right or wrong for me to go with other young men of my acquaintance'.' While my friend does not exactly object to this, hg seems to think it Is un derstood that I should go with no on,' else but him. ANXIOI.'H. You have the right to go with other men since no engagement exists. The nan is unfair. If he w ants a mo nopoly of your time, he should ask you to ’carry him and gain the eight of monopoly It is a mistake for a girl to devote a”, her time to one when that one is only a passing acquaint ance IF YOU DOUBT HIM. DISMISS HIM. Deal Miss Fairfax I am eighteen, and have been keeping steady company with a y oung man eight y ears my senior. H< was to come Wednesday even ing. but he never came A friend of mine met him. and she said he talked" about me. 1 asked him. and lie denied it. If you were me. w hat would you do'.' He said he was going to mar ■\ me. as I was the onh girl he loved. E V. K. The moment i gir begins to dis trust a man, that moment should «ee t - end id their r< lationshlp. whether that relationship be lover or friend. If you afe satisfied that he has been slandered, forget what you heard about him. In a ease like this much depends on the veracity of your friend. TIME WILL AID YOU. Dear Miss Fairfax: During my school vacation 1 re turned to my home town. Daytona, » Fla. While there most of my time Up-to-Date Jokes « An old farmer was noted for boast ing about the products of his farm, so one day a neighbor, thinking to take a rise out of him. sent his man to ask if he could have the loan of his cross-cut saw to cut a turnip up. so as to get it in the cart. He was not quite sure, however, that he had had the best of it when he re ceived the following reply: "Yoh should have had the saw with pleasure, but 1 have just got it fast in a potato." A certain town in the North produces bright boys The other day one of them asked his teacher. "How much brains has a hog in his head 7" She replied. "Science has not deter mined that. Thomas." "Well. I have," said the boy. "It would take a philosopher to tell that." responded the teacher, "but you max tel!.” "A hogs head full!" rejoined the grinning urchin. 1 A teacher had been telling a little boy the story of the disobedient lamb that had been eaten by the wolf. "You see," said she. "had the lamb been obedient and stayed in the fold, it would not have been eaten by the wolf, would it'.”' "No. ma'am,” said the boy promptly; "it would have been eaten by us." "My dear." said Mrs. Strongmind, "I I want you to accompany me to the town | hall tomorrow evening." "What for"" queried the meek and lowly other half of the combine. "1 am to lecture on the "Dark Side of Married Life, " explained Mrs. S. "and I want you to sit on the platform and pose as one of the illustrations." A young Englishman at a party most ly composed of Scotsmen made several attempts to crack a joke. and. failing to evoke a smile from his companions, he became angry, and excaimed: "Why, it would take a gimlet to put a joke into the heads of y ou Scotsmen!" One of them replied: "Aye. but the gimlet wud med me bt mair pointed than thae jokes.” "But. Mabe", on what grounds does your father object to me."' "On any grounds within a mile of ou. house." « was spent with the girl dearest to me. Some of the town boys, who were envious of me, did their best to put me in a false light. They succeeded in doing so as fat* as her mother is concerned. The conse quence is that I am not allowed to visit at her house anv more. WILLIAM H. P.. JR. This is unfortunate, but so long as tl i girl remains true you have no cause for worry. Conduct yourself in such away the mother will be convinced she has been unjust to you. No pleading, no argument, no intervention of friends, will help you as much as your own good conduct. PLANS FOR DIFFERENT MEN. Dear Miss Fairfax: I anj a girl of seventeen and have been keeping company with a young man one year my senior. Os late he has not come to see or aven write to me. What his reasons are I do not know. My sister says 1 act too solemn toward fellows and thinks I should jolly them more. • ANXIOUS. There are some men who can be won in only one way—by flattery. But their intelligence Is such that the girl who perjures herself to. win such a prize doesn’t win much. I think a better plan is to be Just natural. Be unaf fected, just as you would be in your own family, and I am sure the right man will some day come along. If this man doesn't care enough for you to explain his coolness it is up to you to cease caring for him. THE COMBS MORNING STORY You know the story the comb tells. It’s a very discouraging story, too. Day by day, a few more strands are add ed, of hair that is turning grey, losing its vitality, its strength and its health. Grey hair is as unbecoming as old age. Natural pride should have its own say. You wish to look young and it is your DUTY to appear so. You can't even LOOK young if the silver threads begin to show. , Bea “Young Woman” in looks, always. The grey hairs belong to the chaperon and I to the grandmother. Stay out of the grandmother class, until your years justify it, by using HAYS HAIR HEA LT H SIOO and 50c at Dnif Stores or direct upoa receipt of price and dealer's name Send 10c for trial bottle.—Philo Hay Spec. Co. Newark. N. J FOR SALE AND RECOMMENDED BY JACOBS' PHARMACY. Daysey May me and Her Folks ' know the funniest story,” II bubbled Daysey Mayme Ap pleton at dinner last night. "It's about that woman who used to live across the street, and you will just split your sides laughing when you hear it." Lysander John smiled in anticipa tion of the feast of mirth. Mrs. Apple ton laughed in sympathy, and Chaun cey Devere. after the manner of all brothers, looked skeptical. He had seen his sister stroll into the Joke Kingdom before. "Oh, it’s too funny," gurgled his sis ter. “You know she"—titters, giggles and a hysterical scream. If one were to dht all the sound Do You Know— Despite the wonderful advance of ex ploration in various parts of the world, the Royal Geographical society of Lon don has recently declared that no few er than 20,000.000 square miles of the earth yet remain unexplored. Africa has the largest unexplored area, nearly 0.500.000 square miles; while North America contains no fewer than 1,500.- 000 square miles of virgin territory. The largest continuous stretch of unex plored country is in Liberia. Africa. The tract consists of about 20,000 miles, all of which is within 200 miles of the sea. Regions adjoining the Congo, the basin of the Upper Nile, parts of Mo rocco, Abyssinia and Somaliland have yet to be surveyed, mapped out and commercially exploited. The most remarkable packet ever sent by post, an authority at Mt. Mar tin's-le-Grand told an interviewer, was a Suffragist. It was just after a new regulation had been put into force whereby living animals can be accept ed for delivery, when a lady went Into a branch postoffice in London and told the clerk she wanted to be taken to an equally well known cabinet min ister. The lady was referred to a dis trict messenfier, but she refused, and was conducted to the address by an express messenger and duly signed for. It is stated that she did not get farther than the vestibule. A Russian smuggler was shot recent ly by Cossacks just as he was crossing the Austrian boundary, not far from Czernowitz. The body fell across the frontier, the head in Russian territory, the trunk on the strip of neutral ground which forms the frontier, and the legs In Austria, No one is competent to deal with the removal of the body, as it fell in different countries. It was still lying at the time of writing, unburied, the head guarded by Cossacks, the rest by Austrian gendarmes. A novel scheme of taxation has been introduced into Dodge City, Kans. The authorities have decided that every man and woman wanting to dance must first take out a dancing license. The revenue derived from the issue of these licenses, which will cost sl. and hold good for a year, will be devoted to town improvements. Butter may be kept cool in hot weather by filling a basin with cold water, and putting the butter on a plate on the top of the basin. Sea water contains silver in consid erable quantities, and it is often found deposited on the copper sheathing of ships. Holland has a special law preventing striking among railway employees. Germany has a plan for giving its doctors one day’s rest in seven. Made Her Well Woman Mrs. W P. Valentine, of Camden. N. J., says: "J suffered with pains in my back and side, sick headaches, no ap petite, was tired and nervous all the thne. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound made me a well woman and I wish other suffering women would avail themselves of this valuable rem edy." For nearly forty years Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound has been the standard remedy for female ills, and no sick woman does herself justice who will not try this famous medicine, made from roots and herbs. n>M n 1/4 t stu,|ie(| at ,he * IlHiluUniili ,ersitf ° f Georgia a/jf/f Hr *U un,l <'r the most fav- rglUlt IggMl Vorable t r «nii« r muc/:&pieS for a lucrative position. Send for catalog to Dean S. C. BENIDICT, M. D., Athens, Ga? _ - ■ -- - —SOUTHERN COLLEGE OF PHARMACY Pharmacy School South. 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Mrs. Appleton didn’t know, hut smiled encouragingly. ‘‘Oh. you do. too," said Daysey Ma - - me with some impatience. “She al ways wore so many sidecombs. ar., had a white dress trimmed with blu- Mrs. Appleton named a dozen women who wore sidecombs and had white dresses trimmed In blue, her daugh ter’s anger growing with every name. "Her father died,” said Daysey Mi me, trying to jog her moth A’s mem ory, “and they had a dog, and . know who I mean just as well as ear. be, but you won't trjj to remember." There were squalls ahead. Chauncey Devere’s skeptical smile changed tn one of conviction, and Lysander John began to look worried. "Never mind the woman's name,” he said; "tell the story without it." "I can’t," sobbed his daughter. "Tn« joke was al! about her name, and no one is trying to help me, and there , no use in me trying to tell it or ev. r try to be funny any more. All t o magazines say a girl should try t amuse her family, and I'd like to know how she can when her folks are stupu as mine.” More sobs and more tears. Then she flounced out of the mom In a temper and the last sound she heard was her brother’s laugh. He, alone, of all the family, had a sense of humor. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought . "“j Low Summer | Excursion Rates CINCINNATI, $19.501 LOUISVILLE, SIB.OOI CHICAGO, - $30.00 KNOXVILLE ■ $7.90 Tickets on Sale Daily, Good to October 31st, Returning City Ticket Office,4 Peachtree CHICHESTER S PILLS aFvdS V'f*’ s ' ato ' “I* Blue Ribbon. V/ pH *«» VVJ JaUe no other. Buy »r,,„ V IX jrf •UAIWOMM IIIUMI PILLS, tnr 3R nl s rars >-no„nasß«t,Safest,Alwaysßeb:a 1« SOLD BY DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE fHin7-jnns;j 1 & m ■ Opium, Whlakey and Drug Habit treat* | 5 td at Home or at &in!UrluiD. Book oo S-ffW.-.l object FrM. DB. B- M. WOOLLKT. 24-N Victor Sanitarium. Atlanta, Ga