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“Initials Only” « By Anna Katherine Green
A Thrilling Mystery Story of Modern Times
(Copyright, 1911, Street & Smith.)
TODAY S INSTALLMENT.
••You will pardon me if 1 press this mat
t(,r | have been given to understand
that, notwithstanding your break with
Miss Chailoner, you have kept up your
visits to the Clermont, and were even on
thf spot at the time of her death.”
••On the spot?” —,
■ln the hotel. I mean.”
■There you are right; I was in the ho
tel '
At the time of her death?”
■ Very near the time. 1 remember
hearing some disturbance in the lobby
behind me, just as I was passing out at
the Broadway entrance.”
••You did—and did not return?"
■ Why should I return? I am not a man
of much curiosity. There was no rea
son why 1 should connect a sudden alarm
In the lobby of the Clermont with any
cause of special interest to myself.”
This was so true and the look which
accompanied the words was so frank that
the coroner hesitated a moment before
he said:
• Certainly not. unless—well, to be di
rect. unless you bad just seen Miss Chal
loner and knew her state of mind and
w hat was likely to follow your abrupt
departure."
I had no interview with Miss Chal
loner."
“But you saw her? Saw her that even-
Inc and just before the accident?”
Sweetwater's papers rattled; it was the
on ;y sound to be heard in that moment
of silence. Then—
• What do you mean by those words?"
Inquired Mr. Brotherson. with studied
composure. "1 have said that I had no
interview with Miss Chailoner. Why do
you ask me then if 1 saw her?”
■ Because 1 believe that you did. Krom
a distance possibly, but yet directly and
with no possibility of mistake.”
■•|>o you put that as a question?”
"I do. Did you see her figure or face
that night?”
”1 did."
Nothing—not even the rattling of
Sweetwater's papers—disturbed the si
lence which followed this admission.
• From where?” Dr. Heath asked at last.
From a point far enough away to
make any communication between us im
possible. I do not think you will re
quire me to recall the exact spot."
“If it were one which made it possi
ble for her to see you as clearly as you
could see her, I think it would be very
advisable for you to say so."
"It was —such —a spot.”
Then I think I can locate It for you, or
de you prefer to locate it yourself?”
"I will locate It myself, t had hoped
not to be called upon to mention what
1 can not but consider a most unfortu
nate coincidence. As a gentleman, you
will understand my reticence and also
why it is a matter of regret to me that
with an acumen worthy of your position
you should have discovered a fact which,
while it can not explain Miss Challoner's
death, will drag our little affair before the
public. and possibly give it a prominence
in some minds which I am sure does not
belong io It. I met Miss Challoner’s eye
for one instant from the top of the little
staircase running up to the mezzanine. I
had yielded thus far to an impulse I had
frequently combated, to seek by another
Interview to retrieve the bad effect which
must have been made upon her by my
angiy note. I knew' that she frequently
wrote letters in the mezzanine at this
hour, and got as far as the top of the
staircase in my effort to join her. But 1
got no farther. When I saw her on her
feet with her face turned my way, I re
membered the scorn with which she had
received my former heartfelt proposals,
and. without taking another step for
ward, 1 turned away from her and fled
down the steps and so out of the build
ing by the main entrance. She saw me,
for her hand flew up with a startled ges
ture but I can not think that my pres
ence on the same floor with her could
have caused her to strike the blow which
'errnfnated her life. Why' should I? No
“oman sacrifices her life out of mere re
vret for the disdain she has shown a man
“he has taken no pains to understand.”
His tone and his attitude seemed to
Invite the concurrence of Dr. Heath In
tbte statement. But the richness of the
one and the grace of the other showed
r he handsome speaker off to such advan
tage that the coroner was rather in
dined to consider how a woman, even of
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Miss Challoner's fine taste and careful
breeoing. might see in such a situation
much for regret, if not for active despair
and the suicidal act. He gave no evi
dence of this thought, however, but fol
lowed up the one admission made by Mr.
Brotherson which he and others must
naturally' view as of the first importance.
You saw Miss Chailoner lift her hand,
you say. W hlch hand, and what was in
it? Anything?"
"She lifted her right hand, but it would
be impossible for me to tell you whether
there was anything in it or ryt. 1 simply
saw the movement before I turned away.
It looked like one of alarm to me. I felt
that she had some reason for this. She
could not know that it was in repentance
I came rather than in fulfilment of tny
threat.”
A sigh from- the adjoining room. Mr.
Brotherson rose, as he heard it. and in
doing so met the clear eye of Sweetwater
fixed upon his own. Its language was. no
doubt, peculiar and it seemed to fasci
nate him for a moment, for he started
as if to approach the detective, but for
sook this intention almost immediately,
and addressing the coroner, gravely re
marked :
“Her death following so quickly upon
this abortive attempt of mine at an inter
view startled me by its coincidence as
much as it does you. If in the weakness
of her woman’s nature, it was more than
this if the scorn she had previously
shown me was a cloak she instinctively
assumed to hide what she was not ready
to disclose, my remorse wil be as great
as any one here could wish. But the
proof of all this will have to be very con
vincing before my present convictions
will yield to it. Some other and more
poignant source will have to be found for
that instant's Impulsive act than is sup
plied by this story of my unfortunate at
tachment."
Dr. Heath was convinced, but he was
willing to concede something to the secret
demand made upon him by Sweetwater,
who was bundling up his papers with
much clatter.
Looking up with a smile which had ele
ments in it he was hardly' conscious of
perhaps himself, he asked in an off-hand
way:
"Then why did you take such pains to
wash your hands of the affair the moment
you had left the hotel?”
"I do not understand.” '
"You passed around the corner into
street, did you not?"
"Very likely. I could go that way as
well as another.”
"And you stopped at the first lamp
post ?’ ’
"Oh, 1 see. Someone saw that childish
action of mine.”
“What did you mean by it?”
"Just what you have suggested. 1 did
go through the pantomime of washing my’
hands of an affair I considered definitely
ended. I had resisted "epresslble
impulse to see and talk with ..Uss Chal
loryer again, and was pleased with my'
firmness. Unaware of the tragic blow
which had just fallen, 1 was full of self
congratulations at my escape from the
charm which had lured me back to this
hotel again and again in spite of my bet
ter judgment, and 1 wished to symbolize
my' relief by an act of which 1 was, in
another moment, ashamed. Strange that
there should have been a witness to it.
I Here he stole al look at Sweetwater.)
Stranger still, that circumstances by the
most extraordinary of coincidences, should
have given so unforeseen a point to it.”
"You are right. Mr. Brotherson. The
whole occurrence is startling and most
strange But life is made up of the un
expected, as none know better than we
physicians, whether our practice be of a
public or private character.”
As Mr. Brotherson left the room, the
curiousity to which he had yielded once
before, led him to cast a glance of pene
trating inquiry behind him full at Sweet
water. and if either felt ambarrassment,
it was not the hunted but the hunter.
But the feeling did not last.
"I've simply met the strongest man
I’ve ever encountered,” was Sweetwater's
encouraging comment to himself. "Ail
the more glory if I can find a joint in his
armour or a hidden passage to his cold,
secretive heart.”
Alike In Essentials.
"Mr. Gryce, I am either a fool or the
luckiest fellow going You must decide
which.”
The aged detective, thus addressed, laid
down his evening paper and endeavored
to make out the dim form he could just
faintly discern standing between him and
the library door.
"Sweetwater, is that you?"
"No one else. Sweetwater, the fool, or
Sweetwater, much too wise for his own
good. I don't know which. Perhaps you
can find out and tell me.”
A grunt from the region of the library
table, then the sarcastic remark;
"I’m just In the mood to settle that
question. This last failure to my account
ought to make me an excellent judge of
another's folly. I’ve meddled with the
old business for the last time. Sweetwa
ter. You'll have to go it alone from now
on. The department has no more work
for Ebenezer Gryce, or rather Ebenezer
Gryce will make no more fool attempts
to please them. Strange that a man don't
know when his time has come to quit. I
remember how 1 once scored Yeardsley
for hanging on after he had lost his grip,
and here am I doing the same thing. But
what's the matter with you? Speak out,
my boy. Something new in the wind?”
To Be Continued in Next Issue.
CASTOR IA
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Beauty Secrets of Foot light Favorites
Hoiv to Adapt Vegetarianism to Your Needs
By MARIE BAXTTER.
ONLY once in my life did I make
an attempt at "beauty culture”—
beyond the ordinary care that
every vain girl bestows upon herself.
Don't challenge that adjective—every
girl is vain, or ought to be. It's vanity
that makes the feminine world go
round, until love comes upon the scene.
I was spending the summer in one of
those delightful places w here the high
ei thought cults abound and almost
every person belongs to a different kind
of a religion and dotes upon a special
sort of "ism." I was the youngest per
son at the resort and naturally was
made much of by the older people, who
expected me to become devotee of
their espeoial fads.
The Vegetarian Cult.
- One beautiful old lady made a great
impression upon me and finally won
me over to her "ism" by telling me that
it would make me a raving beauty and
give me a long life.
She was a vegetarian and I became
one, too. but in the country; In the
pure, invigorating air. bread and milk,
vegetables and fruit formed my diet,
and I never was so well in my 'ife. My
complexion was perfect. I say that
truthfully and without exaggeration.
IMy eyes were bright and the white
part of the eye clear and a little blue
ish. like that of a healthy child.
"Vegetarianism" wa.-> my answer to
those who asked how I had accom
plished this change in my appearance,
and I preached the gospel of a meat
less diet with as much enthusiasm as
any of the others.
1 returned to tow n in September and
began rehearsing. '
My new fad rather upset the house
hold. for there were so many things I
would not eat —no soup, no meat or
fish, no dish with meat sauce, and often
i I felt hungry after eating what I could
of the family dinner. My rosy cheeks
soon vanished and purple shadows
came under my eyes. My voice also
seemed to lose resonance.
I had a good deal of dancing to do
in the new play, and at rehearsals I
grew tired before the others.
One day. seeing me stumble over a
new Seep, the stage manager snarled at
me and I broke into tears.
He was a kind-hearted man. They
often are despite their manner.
"What's the matter, little girl?” he
asked.
"Oh. my feet are like lead, and the
Do You Know—
The best laid plans of the most up
to-date postoffices "gang aft agley.”
but the record in tardy delivery of a
missive belongs to the Turkish post
office. The time taken was 73 years,
the distance being from Mount Athos
to Corfu. In July, 1834, the archiman
drite of a convent wrote to a lady in
the island announcing the departure of
a begging mission. The letter was de
livered to the lady's grandson in No
vember, 1907.
A carpet, which took three years in
the making is one of the treasures of
the much-ialked-of gaekwar of Ba
roda. The carpet is only ten feet by
six feet in size, but it is woven from
strings of pure pearls, with a center
and corner circles of diamonds. The
magnificent fabric cost J 1.000,000, and
is guarded in the maharajah's treasure
room.
Flats in which the birth of a baby
frees the tenant from the payment of
rent for the quarter following are the
latest experiment in workmen's hous
ing in Paris, where the difficult' of
lodging workmen with large families
stands in close relation to the vital
question of the depopulation of France.
A sleep walker in California swam
two miles down a river without wak
ing up, and continued his sleep on the
bank after leaving the water.
Last year 4,525,000 gray squirrels,
1.500,000 white hares. 200.000 ermine
and 12,250 sables w ere killed in Siberia
to provide various garments of fur.
All goods imported into Turkey, with
the exception of tobacco and salt, are
subject to a tax of eleven per cent on
their total value.
A Moscow dentist claims to be able
to supply false teeth that will "grow"
into the mouth as firmly as natural
ones.
In the United States of America the
average dally consumption of cigars is
21.71 8,448, and of cigarettes 23.736,190.
A youth of sixteen, in filling up a
national insurance form, described his
occupation as that of a “widower.”
On one trip no fewer than 10.000,000
herrings were landed by 335 boats at
Eraserburg, in Aberdeenshire.
Horse racing, in the reign of Charles
11, used to take place in Hyde park.
London.
Despondent Women
Os course a woman will naturally
see the dark side of everything when
tortured by some form of female dis
ease from which she can not find re
lief.
No woman can be happy when
there are Irregularities, nervousness,
backache, headache, dragging down
pains. Inflammation, ulceration or dis
placements.
Such women should remember that
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MISS MAR ... BAXTER,
(Another of tho beauties in Ziegfeld's "Winsome Widow" Company.)
rest of me's like cotton!" 1 sobbed. I are not the things f~- you growing
Now . he was a very sensible man.
and. after finding out that 1 was neither “Vou ar- not aiing <nough few
worried nor ill. he asked me what I had I v< ' irians i! • ■'-• m ;»t once n da-
eaten for lunch, - |''■ :,nd • •'"* k and fpp l
"Tomato salad and lemonade." I an- l hftve f olll( ,.,. (1 his Ul >v wilk . h ’ v r<
swered. virtually the .same .is the doctor's whom
He looked tiabb • insisted on « »nsuliing.
“She's a vegetarian!” explained th» aii n I am in town | .
other girls, "and never eats real food." M’-' l ■ but ~t least on— a la.
. —bod or lamb usually. In summer
, Ihe stage manager sent me out to - hen I , , ,
>\ ih n i am in the countrx. I pal rm
get a beefsteak and potatoes and I 'meat at Mil. The doctor s., . . jf
came ba. k feeling as if new blood nil women did this they v. uild mver
flowed In my vein-. grow very l it and many complexion
"Don't try th- vegetarian stuffi while troubles would be avoid'ii.
you're working hard." he said. "It's all Being a v-getarian is almost ~ busi
very well in the country, where you ness in itself because v.>u hav- to
are sure of getting fresh vegetables, spend so much time ami thought com
pute. rich milk, and you can always bining the tight kind of foods Most
nibble at a bit of cake ot fruit between people win. trv <rd i, eatin«s things
times. City milk and vegetables hardly | like my lunehe, n m' ■ d.,,| and rmmn
nourt.-h a rabbit, and certainly wille.i I ade. which •ontained no n tlritmnl at
greens and separated milk which ar- jail, and that is wit. th y ar, pot
:< II you ran buy hm p for lov#* or mou°>. | i cej s
Little Bobbie’s Pa *
By I I 'ilhani F. Kirk
HE WOULD A COUNTRY GENTLE
MAN BE, BUT—
V T r 1 b'E. sed Pa tn M , the <>; her nite,
y V doant ‘you suppo a ,s th.it it ■■nd
be a good skeetn to live out in
the country.
No. sed Ma.
I cuddent help thinking that it wud
be a good skeem, sed Pa. wen I was
out to the T,tj lors the other nite. Every
thing - seemed so calm A quiet. It was
so differnt from th- sounds & sites of
the city. Thare was the green gras-. A
the roses in the yard. * the green
trees. A oaver all thare hung a brood
ing air of luv. Pa sed. that made one
feel like a littel child aggenn.
You doant tell me. se( | Ma
Yes, sed Pa. thare was a brooding
air of quiet. It seemed so kind of
soothinng like. Wuddent You |tk«- to
play that we are kids aggen A mani
out among the buttercups A daisie-
No, sed Ma
I can’t understand it, sed Pa. You
used to live in the country wen I
married you. out in that dear old Col
fax. Wisconsin. In them days you nev
vet objected to roaming in the country.
No. sed Ma hut in those days I dident
have a roaming husband. If you want
to know why | doant live in the coun
try. sed Ma. this is the reason: I
doant want to live in the country alone
Me * littel Robbie wud git pritty lone
some if we lived in 'the country with
nobody to talk to except us. You wud
dent be thare moast of the time and!
you know It.
I wud be thare all the time, sed Pa.
Out in a butlful hoani like tha : we cud
set under the trees A lissen to the
droning of the bees. & look at the fleecy
clouds that sail over head, like the
promise of angels, promises of peace
that corns to two (2) souls that Is in
perfeck accord. A In the distance thare
wud be a littel silvery stream. A from
its bosom thare wud glance the sun
rays that are the sun rays of our per
feck luv. & that wud be happiness Pa
ged.
Tell it to Sweeny, sed Ma.
Poor old Pa looked kind of sad then,
beekaus I know that Pa is jest the sai'm
as 1 am, a boy that wants to live in
the country. That Is whare boys used
to live.
But plecse. dear, sed Pa. why doant
you want to live in the-open?
Beekaus the lelefone wud be open
about six o'clock every nite, sed M;i. 1
w'ud taik the reee. ver to m-- , ;t , ~ |
Wild hear yure adoring voice. Ma sod
saying Hello, de, r, is that you? W -11, I
have missed my lit.im 1 will not be
hoam until about flu ,-e o'el >< k in th,
morning. Doat-i trtii me. sed Ma. I hav,
my idee of what life in tho counit;,
wml be with you. It is bad enuff for
| me to keep trat k of you in lit - , Ity .
! w hore I have - on under my th-nnb.
So 1 guess w< will keep on ii* ting
' in the city.
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T'IRRIFIC.
"Seems to no- It - awfully stupid
l here.” remarked th transj,lamed dud- .
| “I'an't yOu rrtke up a llti'e excitf
| ment?"
-, kWell. I might let you have yout
j bill,” suggested the hotel manat;,'..
MATRIMONIAL AMENITIES.
“John, you are not listening to a word
I am saying.”
"Why. my dear. I am all ea-s."
"I know you a... and that makes it
all the more provoking."
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{{T OVE,” says Francesco P-trateh.
j “is the crowning grace of hu
manity. the holiest right of the
soul, the golden link which bipds us to
duty and truth, the redeeining principle
that chiefly reconciles the heart to life
and is prophetic of eternal good."
Love, in the opinion of the w iter of
the following letter, is sue Via trifling
thing that one can give it up for a few
dollai - and cents and never regret the
bargain.
Sometimes one has to be deprived to
learn appreciation. This man thinks
litlic of love. He will cherish it be
yond all things when he has put it for
evei byyond his : each.
He writes: "1 am twenty-f'iur, and
have tor eight years been sweethearts
wiih a girl in Austria I have been in
this country five years, and had prom
ised h r to return to Austria the ■ om ■
Ing fall and ma! ry it r and bring h< ;
to this country.
He's In a Quandary.
"Three months ago 1 met a young
girl who thinks u great deal of me
She is the daughter of a v-ry whu :hy
real estate man and her parents have
taken a great liking to me. If 1 would
marry till- git! (and 1 am sure sb,
would not r, 'eet ‘net 1 w aid s-e ,n\
t ay ch a . On the one side Is the real
love and on the oth, siii, the money.
1 do not know whal to (’q. If I marry
t lie first girl I wil l Itrve to worry about
lit- future-, as I am making only ?2 ,
week ami have no chance o' hetteUn;.
m\s. If, al'iiougb my -'oslt'ott ; s a
•■'.e'ldy one. If I mar itd the s, nd
girl I would not worrj ibo it the fu
ture at all."
Thai i- t tie; you w-tildn'l. And the
reason Is there t-onldn't b- anv f-t
--ture. Attv man w'tfi m i i s f-r ntonej
uisn't a.- nt u i f-tl tre as tit man o-,
the way • o th g. lit?
You say yo-.t get or'v $?? a we-k
Men have m. .: ;-•>■' so . d nfm- ot.
much less, ac ( | hav - knoan ha-.i.in -s
all the way.
You , on ha l t"i eha ■ . ot h't -
let; ig ■ ■<>•; : Y '-m- aing
om sc'f. An. r.tan who is m:i st. re
liable. sap ft:| and ambition at-,
abllit,. can better itim.- 'f. 1 i.» ■.
of not vaulting to is . if n email
■it the bo om. You hav. every chan,
for advancement That remains wit!,
-outsclf. A g'rl ho has been true to
you eight years will !i< just the in
. • titive vou now Im k
T’.et ■ mytift be worr\ with a wif
an ; a small income, hut the worry tha
is built about love is not such a heavy
affliction. It is the worry that hedge:
around intliffetenee or dislike that frets
and galls.
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You are a free man now. Would you
o» a flee man if you* married for
money'.’
I hope you have pride in your good
name. Will you continue to have pride
in it when, you have broken fadth with
a sweetheart of eight years standing?
1 am sure the second girl worth! not ac
cept a name so tarnished if she'knew
'’• . . ■
Go back »o Austria as you have
promised, and he thankful that with so
much treachery in the world the fates
v. ere kind in giving you a woman who
is't rue.
Ma- ry her, love her. cherish her and
never let her know that for a moment
you wet- so base as to think of trading
off love for money.
There may be cares, worries and de
privations. but love will attend. "There
is- no jo like the joy of love.” Wealth
brings nothing to equal it.
INFANTILE INFORMATION.
' .tsuUlly, ly eht'iice, unsought, they
met in the tailwiiy carriage. He was a.
youne m tn. be (rciiess; his companion a.
i hoary oldster.
So yoti a:e a teacher?" remarked
Ji ,alk‘!ive vctfeian.. "I'll wager you
h:.i<! t-i p.-tss a prettj stiff exutir.”
i s. inch -d!" r-plied the instructor
I of the young.
"Ami wiiat -..ere the subjects?" fn
qul ed Nosey P.trker.
"\\ eil, \ <■ w e>'e examined in psychol-’
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■' i:;'".ii.., polemic divinity, metaphysical
i.it-il-.s's and G-- k. Lutin. French and
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Nadine Face Powder
( In Green Boxes Only. )
Make:; t!;e Complexion Beautiful
-z< Soft and Velvety
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/ * It is Pure,
I , \ Harmless
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' 1 Entirely Pleaied.
V r k , / The soft, velvety
*<*••. V-7 appearance re-
\ Vy' “ / mains until pow-
der is washed off.
Purified by new
process. Prevents
sunburn and return of discolorations.
The increasing popularity is wonderful.
White, I'lesh, Pink, Brunette. By
toilet counters or mail. Price 50 cents.
NATIONAL TOILET COMPANY. Parle, Teno,
