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THE GEORGIAN’S MAGAZINE PAGE “Initials Only” > By Anna Katherine Green A Thrilling Mystery Story of Modern Tinies TODAY’S INSTALLMENT. (Copyright. 1911, Street & Smith ) (Copyright, 1911, by Dodd, Mead & Co.) But we began to doubt if others agreed with him. when on passing out we were stopped in the lobby by this same de tective, who had something to say to George, and drew' him quickly aside. “What does he want?” I asked, as soon 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 glanced up at George. “Then v.e are not altogether out of it?” 1 emphasized, complacently. He smiled —which hardly seemed a pj-opos. Why does George sometimes smile when 1 am in my most serious moods. As we stepped out of the hotel. George gave my arm a pinch which 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 of pain, but from the crowd collected on the sidewalk many of whom nudged each other as he passed, he was evidently a person of some importance, and as he disappeared within the hotel entrance. I asked George w ho this kind-faced, bright-eyed old gen tleman could be. He appeared to know, for he told me at once that he was Detective Gryce: a man who had growta old in solving just such baffling problems as these He gave up work some n e aap. I have been told,” my husband went on; • but evidently a great case still has its allurement for him. The trail here must be a very blind one for them to call him in. I wish we had not left so soon. It would have been quite an experience to see him at work.” “I doubt if you would have been given the opportunity. I noticed that we were slightly de trop toward the 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. Come, let me put you on the car.” That night i bided his coming w ith an impatience 1 could not control. He was late, of course, but when he <!:<! appear, I almost forgot our usual greeting in my hurry ■ ask him if he had seen the evening papers. "No. ' he grumbled, as he hung up his overcoat. “Been pushed about ail day. No time for anything.” “Then let me tell you Hot he would have dinner firs:. However, a little later we had a com fortable chat. Mr. Gryce had made a dis covery, and 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 ish as he had been pleased to consider it. But he let me tell the story of that day. without any further reference to myself. The opinion had become quite general with thus- best acquainted with the de tails of this affair, that the mystery was one of those abnormal ones for which no solution would ever be found, when the aged detective showed himself in. the building and was taken to the room, where an inspector of police awaited him. Their greeting was cordial, and the lines on tiie latter’s face relaxed a little as he mot the still bright eye of the man upon whose instinct ami judgment so much reliance had always been place*!. “This is very good of you.” he began, glancing down at the aged detective's bundled up legs, and gently pushing a chair toward him. “I know that it was a great deal to ask. but we’re at our wits’ end. and so I telephoned. It's the niost ’nexphcabJe -There! you have heard that phrase before. But clews- there are absolutely none. That is. we have not been able tn find any. Perhaps you can. At least that is what we hope. I've known you more than once to succeed where others have failed.” The elderly man thus addressed, glanc ed down al his legs, now propped up on a stool which someone had brought him. and smiled, with the pathos of the old who sees the interests of a lifetime slip ring gradually away. 1 am not what I was. I can no longer get down on my hands and knees to pick up threads from the nap of a rug. or soy out a spot of blood in the crimson woof < f a carpet.” “You shall have Sweetwater here to do the active work for you. What wr want <»f you is Ho- directing mind the infalli ble instinct h’s a c;ase in a thousand. Gryce We've never had anything just like u You’ve never had anything at all like it. It will make you young again.” * The old man's eye' shot tire and un consciously one foot slipped to lite floor. Then li. bethought himself and painfully lifted it back again. “What are the points? What’s the dif ficulty?” he a.* ke<l. "A woman has been shot—” "No. not shot, stabbed. We thought she had been shot, for that was intelli gible and involved no impossibilities. But T’rs Heath ami Webster, under the eye of the Chailoners’ own physician, have made an examination of the wound an official one. thorough and quite final so far as they are concerned, and they de clare that no bullet is to be found in the body. As tly wound extends no further than the heart, this settles one great point, at least.” "Dr. Heath s a reliable man and one of «»ur ablest coroners.” Ges. There can be no question as to the truth, of his report. You know the victim?. Her ramp I mean, and the character she bore?” Nadine Face Powder (In Green Bones Only. ) Makes the Complexion Beautiful Soft and Velvety L 'ttSC' ' \ ,s P ure » / I Hartnli • v •"* I j?- -,,4 '-yA?/N ■. Money Ba.-k if Nol j Entirely Pleased. WThe son, velvety appearance re mains until pow der is washed off. Purified by a new process. Prevents sunburn and return of discolorations. The increasing popularity is wonderful. White, flesh, Pint, Rrunette. By toilet counters or mail. Price 50 cents. NATIONAL TOILET COMPANY. Paris. Ten* “Yes; so much was told me on my wav down.” "A fine girl, unspoiled by riches and seeming independence. Happy, too. to all appearance, or we should be more ready 1 to consider the possibility of suicide.” “Suicide by stabbing calls for a weapon. Yet none has been found. I hear.” ’ “None" “Yet she was killed that way?" 1 “Undoubtedly, and by a long and very narr< w blade, larger than a needle but not so large as rhe ordinary stiletto." "Stabbed while by herself, or what you may call by herself? She had no com panion near her?” 1 “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?” L “Would a whole family lie and need lessly? They never knew’ the woman father, maiden aurt am! two boys, clear j eyed, jolly young chaps Vhom even tire ‘ horror of this tragedy, perpetrated as it 1 were under their very nose, can not make serious for more .than a passing moment.” 1 “It wouldn’t seem so.” “Yet they swear up and down that no body :Tossed the room toward Miss Chal •iloner?” " ! “So they tell me.” 1 I “She fell just a few feet from the desk ‘ • where she had been writing. No word, no ■ j cry. just a collapse and sudden fall. In ! olden days they would l ave said, struck Iby o bolt from heaven But it was a I bolt which drew’ bleed; not much blood. 1 i 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 •i to venture an opinion yet. I should like • i to see the dt sk you speak of. and the spot 1 I where she fell.” 1 ' A young fellow' who had been hever- 1 i ing in the background at or.ee stepped ' ; forward. lie was the plain faced detective i who had spoken to George. ' [ “Will you take my arm. sir?” : Mr. Gryce’s w hole face brightened. This ' Sweetwater, as they called him. was. I ’ have since understood, one of bis pro -1 I teges. and more or less of a favorite. Have you had a chance at this thing?” [he asked. “Been over the ground—-stud i led the affair carefully 0 ” ■ i “Yes, sir: they were good enough to ’ [ allow it.” . : “Very wed. ther. you’re in a position ’i 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 ; j haven't an idea, sir.” • “Well, well: that's honest. at al! ! events.” Then, as he slowly rose with others careful assistance. “There’s no I crime without its clew. The thing is to recognize that clew when seen But I'm in no position to make promises. Old days don't return for the asking." Nevertheless, he loked ten years y oung er than when he came in. or so thought those who knew him. The mezzanine was guarded from all i visitors save such as had' official sanction. ’ Consequently, the two remained quite un interrupted while they moved about the . place in quiet consultation. Others had preceded them; had examined the plain little desk and found nothing: had paced t off ihe distances; had looked with longing f and inquiring eyes at the elevator cage ’ I and the open archway leading to the lit ’ i tie staircase and the musicians’ gallery. J The locale was what he wanted, and he • got it. Whether he got anything else •it would be impossible to say from his i manner as he finally sank into a chair by one of the openings, and looked down 'j on the lobby below It was full of peo ' : pie coming and going on all sorts of busi- | ness. and presently he drew’ back, and, 'i leanig on Sweetwater's arm, asked him | a few questions. I I "Who were the first to rush in here , after the F’arHshes gave the alarm?" "t.)ne < r two of the musicians from the. t , end of the ball. They bad just finished , i their program and were preparing to leave I the gallery. Natural!' they reached her first.” “Good! Their names?" i "Mark Sowerby and Claus Hennerberg. Honest Germans men who have played I here for years." “Ard wl. ‘ followed them? Who came next on the scene?” “Some people from the lobby ’They heard the di.-turbance and rushed up pell . mell. But not one of these touched her. ( Later her father came." “Who did touch her.' Anybody, before the father came in?" "Yes; Miss Clarke, the middle aged lady . ‘ with the Parrishes. She had run inward . | Miss Challoner as soon as she heard her : I fal. and was silting there with the dead girl’s head in her lap when the musi- ; clans showed themselves." "I suppose she has been carefully ques tioned?" “Very. 1 should say." “And she speaks of no weapon?" "No. Neither she nor any one else at that moment suspected murder or even i a violent death. All thought it a natural one sudden, but the result of some secret i disease." "Father and all?” “Yes.” • "But the blood? Surely there must ‘ have hern some show of blood?" 1 I “They say not. No one noticed any. Not till the doctor came her doctor, who I was happily in his office in this building 'I He saw the drops, and uttered the first suggestion of murder." "How long after was this” Is there any one who has ventured to make ! an estimate of the number of minutes which elapsed from the time she fell, ' to the moment when the doctor first ‘ raised the. cry of murder?" ' “Yes. Mr. Slater, the assistant mana ger, who was in the lobby at the time, : says that ten minutes at least must have "Ten minutes and no blood! The weapon must still have been there Some weapon with a short and inconspicuous handle. 1 think they said there were ; c owers over and around ti e place where f it struck'.’” Yes: great big scarlet ones. Nobody notice«i nobody looked. A panic like that I stems to paralyze people.” | “Ten minutes' I must see every one who approached her during those ten I minutes. I!v< » 1 oiw-. Sweetwater, and I must talk with Miss Clarke.” “You will like her You will believe r every word she says , No d-mbt All the more reason why I must see her Sweetwater, some one drew that weapon nut. Effects still have ’ their < auses. notwithstanding the new B cult. The question is. Who? We must leave no stone unturned to find that out " ‘ "The stones have all been turned over ’ once." "By you?” “Not altogether by me ' To Be Continued »n Next Issue. For Day and Evening Wear <; «Jii. / w % ' yV, swFB 'ir./ ' ;? g W a Wit I o W w 'M. Wf AirW • & k*; 1B j JKII 1 Ute h « Jlt wl * hHI ' -A •■’HKK Wf HMB II wO f • IB wiwS B j|ln ? ■HL’ • I i in- iwdi t 5) A a \\\ /wWa : ? // On lhe left i- shown a frock for a country house. It is carried out in a self-colored voile, the skirt being slightly draped and the blouse trimmed with the very popular Robespierre collar. The sleeves are tong and finish at the wrist with ruffles similar to the collar. In the eerier: is shown a pleas ing suggestion for those who are the happy possessors of good lace. Tlje gown is fashioned of heavy ADVICE TO THE LOVELORN v By Beatrice Fairfax I GET A NEW PLACE. Dear Miss Eairfax: I am 41 years old 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 vrv both night and day. ANNIE. It is a pity your first love ‘-itould have proven such a disappointment, but no surprise considering the differ ence in your ages My dear woman, ho is too young 1 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 fa i r. WHY NOT TELL HER? Dear Miss Eairfax: I am tv.ent.x years old. I have just been introduced to a young lady who is a year younger, and is keeping steady company with an other fellow. She has told me she loves me; but she still allows this fellow to call twice a week, and invites me nights that he is- not there. I love her dearly. Do you advise me to try and give her u... < \ ir her from the otiter fellow? She is not sure that I ntr for her as I say, or she would give him up. HAROLD. 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 right to receive the atten tions of other men if she is not en gaged to you. IT IS WITHIN YOUR RIGHTS. Dear Miss Eairfax: 1 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, he seems to think it is un derstood that I should go with no one else but him. ANXIOUS. You have the right to go with other men since no engagement exists. The man is unfair. If lie wants a mo nopoly of your time, he should ask you to marly him and gain the right of monopoly. It is a mistake for a girl to devote all her time to one when that one is r v a. p .ssing acquaint a nee. IF YOU DOUBT HIM. DISMISS HIM. Dear Miss Eairfax: 1 am eighteen, and have been keeping steady company with a 1 young man eight" years my senior. He Mas to come Wednesday even ing. but he never came. A friend of mine met him, and she said he •’talked” about me. I asked him, and he denied it. If you were me. what would you do? He said he was going to mar ry me, as I was the only girl he loved. E. V. K. The moment, a girl begins to dis trust a man. that moment should see liie end of their relationship, whether satin with a V-shaped neck and en circled at the waist with a single line of pearls. The skirt opens slightly at the left hand to reveal a gold-shod foot. At a time when that relationship be lover or friend. If you are satisfied that he has been slandered, forget what you heard about him. In a case like this much depends on the veracity of your friend. TIME WILL AID YOU. Dear Miss Eairfax: During iny school vacation I re turned t. my home town. Daytona, Ela. While there most of my tim Up-to-Date Jokes An old farmer was noted for boast ing about the products of his farm, »o one day a neighbor, thinking to take a rise out of him, sent his man to ask if ho could have the loan of his cross-cut s iw to cut a turnip up. so as to get it in the (art. lit was not quite sure. however, that he bad had the beat <»f it when Ire re ceived the following reply: "You should have had the saw with pleasure, but I have just got it fast in a potato.” A certain town in i «• North produces bright boys. The other da\ on- of them asked his teacher, "I Tow much brains has a hog in h;s head?” Sht replied: "Science has not deter mined that. Thoma <.” "Well, 1 have,” said the boy. "It would take a philosopher to tel! that.” responded the teacher; "but you may tell.” "A hog's head full'.” rejoined the grinning urchin. A teacher had been telling a little boy the story of the disobedient lamb that had been eaten by the wolf "You set-," said she. "had the lamb been obedient and a'ay«d in :.»<• fold, it would not have been eaten by the wolf, would it?” "No. ma’am,” said the boy promptly; “it would have been eat. n by us.” “My dear.” said .Mrs. Strongmind, "I want you to accompany me to the town hall tomorrow evening.” "What for - .”’ queried the meek and • lowly other half of the combine. "I am to lecture on th** I) irk Side of I .Married Life.’ ” explained Mrs. S. and j 1 want yon to sit on the platform and ! pose as one of th'- illustrations.” A young Englishman at a party most ly composed of Scotsmen n.a<!< several : attempts to crack a ,i- ke. and, failing to evoke a smile from h s < onr a niops, he became angry, and exclaimed; "Why. it would take a gimlet to put a joke into the heads of you Scotsmen!” One of them replied: "Aye, but the gimlet wud need t;« be tna.r pointed than thae jokes.” "But. Mabel, on what grounds does your father object to me?” "On any grounds within a mile of our house.” la-t-suiuuu r and early-autumn vis its biing with them the necessity for furbishing up our wardrobes this model anil the other designs illustr tted on this page should prove of assistance. on the right is a walking cos tume Navy blue is the color chosen, cut with a plain skirt, the bodice being decorated with a cir cular turn-down collar of white lawn: large white buttons and but tonholes outlined in white. ’ was spent with the girl dearest to i me. Some of the town boys, who were envious of me. did their best to put me in a*false light. They suceeeded in doing so as far as her mother is concerned. The conse quence is that I am not ailoweil to visit at her house anv more. WILLIAM H. I’.. JR. This is unfortunate, but so long as the girl remains true you have no cause foi worry. Conduct yourself in such a wa\ tfie iiiotl.i i 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 apt a gill of seventeen and have been keeping company with a young man on< year my senior Os late he has not come to see or even write to me. What his reasons .-ne I do not know. Mj sister says 1 act too solemn toward fellows anil thinks 1 should Jolly them more . ANXIOUS. There an- somt men who can be won in only one waj by flatteiy. But their Int* lligen ’e is such that th* girl who perjures herself to win such a prize doesn’t win much. 1 think a better plan is to be jus? natural. B* 1 unaf fected. just as you would bo in your own family, and I am sure the right man will some day come along. If this rii.in do* -n’t ear* enough f<>r you to explain his coolness it is up to vou to c'-asc- eating for him. THE COMB’S 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 -1 ed, of hair that is turning grey, losing its ; vitality, its strength and its health. Grey hair is as unbecoming as old age. I Natural pride should have its own say. You wish to look young and it is your DU TY to appear so. You can’t even LOOK j young if the silver threads begin to show. | Bea “Young Woman” in looks, always. The grey hairs belong to the chaperon and j to the grandmother. / Slay out of the grandmother class, until your years justify it, by using HAY’S HAIR HEALTH $1 and 50c al Drug Store* or direct upon receipt of price and dealer's name Send 10c for trial bottle.- Philo Hay Spec. Co. Newark, N. J FOR {>ALt AND HuCOMMENDLD BY JACOBS' PHARMACY. Daysey May me and Her Folks Ry Frances L. Garside I know the funniest s>tory,” ( J 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 shies laughing when you hear it.” I.ysandei 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. "t>h. it's too funny," gurgled his sis ter. "You know she”—titters, giggles and a hysterical scream. If one were to put 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 20.0*10.1)00 square miles of the earth jet remain unexplored. Africa has the largest unexplored area, nearly 6,500.000 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. Y’lie tract consists of tfbout 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 tln'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 postoffiee in i.ondon and told the clerk she wanted to be taken to an equally well know.n cabinet min ister. The lady was referred to a dis trict messentier, but she refused, and was conducted to th* l 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 Cz.ernowitz. 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 Dodg* 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. Blitter may be kept cool In hot weather by filling a basin with cold water, and putting rhe 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 it - doctors one day's rest In seven. Made Her Well Woman Mis. W. P. Valentine, of Camden, N I J., says: 1 suffered with pains in my back and side, sick headaches, no ap petite, was tired and nervous all the time 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. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound has been the standard remedy for female I ills, and no sick woman does herself justice who will not try this famous medicine, made from roots and herbs. DU A ° ( ' UnHH KKg ' the most fav- 1F orable environment < nntlrmw saz: for a lucrative position. Send lor catalog to Dean S. C. BENIDICT, M. D„ Athens, Ga. ■ SOUTHERN COLLEGE OF PHARMACY 1 I Largest F’harmacy School South. Drug store in the college Free books sav- I jing S2O book expenses. Large new building and equipment, three laboratories I ■Demand for our graduates exceeds supply. Fall Session begins October Ist I I |\\ rite for catalogue. Address v - B. FREEMAN, Sec., 81 Luckie St., Atlanta, Ga * FOR SALE Roofing Pitch, Coal Tar, IMMEDIATE Creosote, Road Binder, Metal Preservative Paints, DELIVERS Roofing Paint and Shingle Stain. || AtSanta Gas Light Co. Phone 4945 " ’ notes in a chopping bowl, and chop them up, each note screaming all the while, the sound would be very much like Dayaey Mayme's laugh. It is a 8 ! cross between the triumphant shouts of the cannibals about to roast a mis sionary and the wails of the mission ary so soon to be eaten. < >n» never knew when hearing Day i sry Mayme Appleton if one should run 1 from her or to her. All girls laugh the > same. "You know”—she went on, the gale having temporarily subsided—"who I s mean,” looking to her mother. . Mrs. Appleton didn't know, but I smiled encouragingly. "Oh, you do, too." said Daysey Mhy me with some impatience. "She, al ways wore so many sidecombs, and had a white dress trimmed with blue.” Mrs. Appleton named a dozen women who wore sidecombs and had white dresses trimmed in blue, her daugh- I ter's anger growing with every name. "Her father died," said Daysey May me, trying to jog her mother's mem ory. "and they had a, dog. and you know who I mean just as well as can he. but you won't try to remember.” There were squalls ahead. Chaimoey Devore’s skeptical smile changed to q one of conviction, and Lysander Sohn began to look worried. "Never mind the womante narne/’ lie said, “tell tho story without ig.” "I can’t.” sobbed his daughter. "The joke was all about her name, and no one is trying to help me, and .‘there's no use in me trying to tell it lor ever try to be funny any more. All the. magazines say a. girl shoul-4 try to • amuse her family, and I’d like..to know how she can when her folks are stupid i as mine.” More sobs and more tears. Then she flounced out. of the room tn a temper and the last sound she heard > was her brother’s laugh. I He. alone, of all the family, hud a i sense of humor. CASTOR IA Tor Infant* and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears tha XTV z / y^ 11 '"" Bignaturo of ' Low Summer —.— 4 Excursion Rates ll■’ - - - CINCINNATI, $19.50 LOUISVILLE, SIB.OO 1 CHICAGO, - $30.00 KNOXVILLE - $7.90 —. — I Tickets on Sale Daily, flood to October 31 st, Returning J City Ticket Office. 4 Peachtree j ■■■ J ■■ ■ CHICHESTER S PILLS ,* In Btrd and Gold sc * ,e ‘l Hl«n Ribboa. r) ''JIJ A ako Do Hoy of your V I X rs BK*S» " SOI 0 BY DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE 3 Btai S ” * Swltertum Hook o« uhltct Im DU. a M. WtIAUJCT. 24-N Victor Sanitarium. Atlanta. Ga_