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THE GEOBGIAM’S MAGAZINE PAGE
“Initials Only” * By Anna Katherine Green
A Thrilling Mystery Story of Modern Times
(Copyright. 1911. Street & Smith.)
(Copyright, 1911, by Dodd, Mead * Co.)
TODAY’S INSTALLMENT.
■And silky and straggling. Charming
addition to my beauty. But It’ll take half
an inch off my nose, and it'll cover my
nwuth. which means a lot in my case.
Then my complexion! Tt must be changed
naturally. 11l consult a doctor about
that. No sort of make-believe will go
with this man If my eyes look weak,
they must really be so. If I walk slow
ly and speak huskily, it must be because
I can not help it. I can bear the slight
inconvenience of temporary ill-health in a
cause like this; and if necessary the
cough will be real, and the headache
positive.”
•Sweetwater! We’d better give the
task to another man—to some one Broth
erson has never seen and won't be sus
picious of?”
• He'll be suspicious of everybody who
tries to make friends with him now ; only
a little more so with me, that's all. But
I've got to meet that, and I'll do it by be
ing. temporarily of course, exactly the
man I seem. My health will not be good
tor the next few' weeks. I'm sure of that.
But I 11 be a model workman, neat and
conscientious. with just a suspicion of
dash where dash is needed. He knows
the real thing when he sees it, and there
is not a fellow living more alive to shams.
I won't be a sham. I'll he It. You’ll
see."
But the doubt. Can you do all this
in doubt of the issue?"
"No; I must have confidence in the end,
and I must believe in his guilt. Nothing
else will cany me through. I must be
lieve in his guilt."
"Yes, that's essential.”
"And I do. I never was surer of any
thing than 1 am of that. But I’ll have
the deuce of a time to get evidence
enough for a grand jury. That's plainly
to be seen, and that's why I'm so dead set
on the business. It's such an even toss
up."
"I don't call it even He's got the
start of you every way You can't go
to his tenement: the janitor there would
recognize you even if he didn't."
Now I will give you a piece of good
news. They're to have a new janitor next
week. I learned that yesterday. The
present one Is too easy. He'll be out long
before I'm ready to show myself there;
and so will the woman who took care
of the poor washerwoman's little child.
I'd not have risked her curiosity. Luck
Isn't all against us. How does Mr. Chai
loner feel about it?”
"Not very confident; but willing to give
you any amount of rope. Sweetwater, he
let me have a batch of letters written by
his daughter which he found in a secret
drawer. They are not to be read, or even
opened, unless a great necessity arises.
They were written for Brotherson’s eye—
or so the father says—but she never sent
them; too exuberant perhaps. If you
ever want them —I can not give them to
you tonight, and wouldn't if I could-don't
go to Mr. Chailoner—you must never be
seen at his hotel —and don’t come to me,
but to the little house in West Twenty
ninth street, where they will be kept for
you, tied up in a package with your name
on it. By the way'! what name are you
going to work under?"
“My mother’s—Zugg."
"Good! I’ll remember. You can al
ways write or even telephone to Twenty
ninth street. I'm in consttint communi
cation with them there, and it's quite
safe."
"Thanks. You're sure the superintend
ent is with me?”
"Yes. but not the inspector. He sees
nothing but the victim of a strange coin
cidence in Orlando Brotherson."
" .gain the scales hang even. But they
wont' remain so. One. side is bound to
rise Which? That's the question, Mr.
Gryce."
Opposed.
There was a new tenant in the Hicks
street tenement. He arrived late one
afternoon and was shown two rooms, one
in tiie rear building and another in the
front one. Both were on the fourth floor.
He demurred at the former, thought it
gloomy, but finally consented to try it.
’’he other, he said, was too expensive,
'he janitor—new to the business was
> "t much taken with him and showed it,
winch seemed to offend the newcomer,
who was evidently an irritable fellow
owing to in health.
However, they came to terms as 1 have
said, and the man went away, promising
1" -end in his belongings the next day.
He smiled as he said this and the jan
itor. who had rarely seen such a change
take place in a human face, looked un
comfortable for a moment and seemed
disposed to make some remark about the
room they were leaving. But, thinking
better of it, locked the door and led the
way downstairs. As the prospective
tenant followed, he may have noticed,
probably did, that the door they had just
left was a new one—the only new thing
to be seen in the whole shabby place.
The next night that door was locked
on the inside. The young man had taken
possession. As he put away the rem
nants of a meal he had cooked for him
self. he cast a look at his surroundings,
and imperceptibly sighed. Then he
brightened again and sitting down on his
solitary chair, he turned his eyes on the
window w’hich. uncurtained and without
shade, stared open-mouthed, as it were.
*’ the opposite wall rising high across the
court.
In that wall, one window only seemed
to interest him and that was on a level
with his own. The shade of this window
was up, but there was no light back of it
and so nothing of the interior could be
seen. But his eye remained fixed upon it,
while his hand, stretched out towards the
lamp burning near him, held itself in
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readiness to lower the light at a minute's
notice.
Did he only see the opposite wall and
that unillumined window? Was there no
memory of the time when, in a previous
contemplation of those dismal panes, he
beheld stretching between them and him
self. a long, low bench with a plain wood
en tub upon it, from which a dripping
cloth beat out upon the boards beneath a
dismal note, monotonous as the ticking
of a clock?
One might judge that such memories
were indeed his. from the rapid glance he
cast behind him at the place where the
bed stood in those days. It was placed
differently.
But if he saw. and if he heard these
suggestions from the past, he was not*
less alive to the exactions of the present,
for, as his glance flew back across the
court, his Anger suddenly moved and the
flame controlled sputtered and went out.
At the same instant, the window opposite
sprang into view as the lamp was lit
within, and for several minutes the whole
interior remained visible—the books, the
work table, the cluttered furniture, and,
most interesting of all. its owner and oc
cupant. It was upon the latter that the
newcomer fixed his attention, and with an
absorption equal to that he saw expressed
in the countenance opposite.
Bt’t his was the absorption of watch
fulness; that of the other of introspection.
Mr. Brotherson—(we will no longer call
him Dunn even here where he is known
by' no other name)—had entered the room
clad in his heavy overcoat, and. not hav
ing taken it off before lighting his lamp,
still stood with it on. gazing eagerly down
at the model occupying the place of hon
or on the large center table. He was
not touching it—not at this moment—but
that his thoughts were with it. that his
.whole mind was concentrated on it, was
evident to the watcher across the court;
and. as this watcher took in this face and
noticed the loving care with which the
enthusiastic inventor finally put out his
finger to rearrange a thread or twirl a
wheel, his disappointment found utter
ance in a sigh which echoed sadly through
the dull and cheerless room. Had he ex
pected this stern and self-contained man
to show an open indifference to work and
the hopes of a lifetime? If so, this was
the first of the many surprises awaiting
him.
He was gifted, however, with the pa
tience of an automaton and continued to
watch his fellow-tenant as long as the
latter's shade remained up. When it fell,
he rose and took a few steps up and
down, but not with the celerity and pre
cision which usually’ accompanied his
movements. Doubt disturbed his mind
and impeded his activity. He had caught
a fair glimpse of Brotherson's face as he
approached the window, and though it
continued to show abstraction, it equally
displayed serenity and a complete satis
faction with the present if notWlth the
future. Had he mistaken his man after
all? Was his instinct, for the first time
in his active career, wholly at fault?
He had succeeded in getting a glimpse
of his quarry in the privacy of his own
room, at home with his thoughts and and
unconscious of any espionage, and how
had he found him? Cheerful, and natu
ral in all his movements.
But the evening was young. Retrospect
comes with later and more lonely hours.
There will be opportunities yet for study
ing this impassive countenance under
much more telling and productive cir
cumstances than these. He would await
these opportunities with cheerful antici
pation. Meanwhile, he would keep up
the routine watch he had planned for
this night. Something might yet Occur.
At all events, he would have exhausted
the situation from this standpoint.
And so it came to pass that at an hour
when all the other hard-working people
in the building were asleep, or at least
striving to sleep, these two men still sat
at their work, one in the light, the other
in the darkness, facing each other, con
sciously to the one, unconsciously to the
other, across the hollow' well of the now
silent Court. Eleven o’clock! Twelve! No
change on Brotherson’s part or in his
room; but a decided one in the place
where Sweetwater sat. Objects which
had been totally indistinguishable even to
his penetrating eye could now be seen in
ever brightening outline The moon had
reached the open space above the court,
and he was getting the full benefit of it.
But it was a benefit he would have been
glad to dispense w ith. Darkness was like
a shield to him. He did not feel quite
sure that he wanted this shield removed.
With no curtain to the window and no
shade, and all this brilliance pouring into
the room, he feared the disclosure of his
presence there, or, if not that, some effect
on his own mind of these memories he
was more anxious to see mirrored in an
other's discomfiture than in his own.
Was it to escape any lack of concen
tration which these same memories might
bring, that ne rose and stepped to the
window? Or was it under one of those
involuntary’ impulses which move us in
spite of purselves to do the very thing
our judgment disapproves?
No sooner had he approached the sill
than Mr. Brotherson’s shade flew way
up and he. too. looked out. Their glances
met, and for an instant the hardy de
tective experienced that involuntary stag
nation of the blood which follows an inner
shock. He felt that he had been recog
nized. The moonlight lay full upon his
face, and the other had seen and known
him Else, why the constrained attitude
and sudden rigidity observable in this
confronting figure, with its partially lift
ed hand? A man like Brotherson makes
no pause in any action however trivial,
without a reason Either he had been
transfixed by this glimpse of his enemy
on watch, or—daring thought! had seen
enough of sepulchral suggestion in the
wan face looking forth from this fatal
window to shake him from his composure
and let loose the grinning devil of re
morse from its iron prison house? If so,
the movement was a memorable one. and
the hazard quite worth while He had
gained—no! he had gained nothing. He
had been the fool of his own wishes. No
one. let alone Brotherson. could have mis
taken his face for that of a woman. He
had forgotten his newly grown beard.
Some other cause must be found for the
other's attitude. It savored of shock, if
not fear. If it were fear, then had he
roused an emotion which might rebound
upon himself In sharp reprisal. Death
had been known to strike people stand
ing where he stood: mysterious death of
a species quite unrecognizable. What
warranty had he that it would not strike
him, and now? None.
Yet It was Brotherson who moved first.
With a shrug of the shoulder plainly vis
ible to the man opposite, tie turned away
from the window' and without lowering
the shade, began gathering up his papers
for the night, and later banking up his
stove with ashes.
To Be Continued in Next Issue.
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Ihe wives of Anierieen millionaires in the “Four Tliiudred” have captured most of the
collections of matched pearls obtainable in Europe, but some of these collections of matched
pearls are beyond reach of even American wealth.
The collection of the Countess Xade.jda Torby is the envy of British and Continental
society. She is a daughter of the Grand Duke Michael Mjgli'aelovilch and is only sixteen. Iler
collection consists largely ot the pearl-decorated “kokochnik. or Russian head-dress, now used
only at court functions. In addition to the head-dress, with its pearl-rope pendants, the young
Countess also wears a necklace of eleven strands.
The Countess, in full court regalia, wears $1,0(10.0(10 wortli of pearls.
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During the past year one aviator was
killed for every 62,000-miles flown.
Denmark has about 85 head of cattle
to every lot) inhabitants.
England has 1 1.500 ships engaged in
foreign trade. Germany over 2,000. Ja
pan nearly 1,0011. while the United
States has only nine ships so engaged.
I"pward of 625.000 miles of railway
is in use in the entire world.
There are over 100,000 paupers in
London.
The tow n board of Miller, ill., ordered
the electric light current to be turned
off recently because of the visit of mil
lions of fireflies. They decided that the
flies furnished enough light.
The pastor of a fashionable church
at Johnstown. I’. S. A., has resigned in
order to assume the management of a
large brewery which his family owns.
A few years ago in the United States
of America cotton seed was used to fill
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000,000 a year.
Frozen salmon packed in the Port
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According to a professor of a Ger
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Foreman of the lockcd-ln jury (im
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and you would see the case as we do if
you had an ounce of brains.’’
Obstinate Juror (reflectively) "Yi
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Daughter— I take an umbrella I
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Mother—"No, stay in the house; it j
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Spring Poet “Os course. 1 only write <
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Critic (after examining poem)
“Well if time weren't next to immor
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Miss Shugg*- • “What a self-pos
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Miss Pepper “Yes; and I don’t think
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Miss Welworn (gushingly)- “(Sood
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Lucy—"ls It really your birthday,
dear? Why, how old are you now?"
Miss Welworn—"Twenty-five, dear."
Lucy (candidly) "Isn’t it wonderful
how slowly time passes?"
Finley Peter Dunne, creator of Mr
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lean, were brought in upon large slices,
of toast,
"Poor little things!" said the host.
"Seems a shame to kill ’em, doesn’t it?
How do you suppose they ever murder
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Dunne turned over an infinitesimal
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PUT HIM OUT OF MIND.
Dear Miss Fairfax:
A few months ago I went out
with a young man twice, but met
him often at my aunt’s house. I
di<l not. pay much attention- to him
then, but now I am very much in
love with him. He does not come
to see my aunt any more, as he has
moved out of the neighborhood. I
had not seen him for about two
months when I wrote him to come
to see me, which he did. He prom
ised to write to me before he left,
but it is about four weeks now and
I have not heard from him.
A NXIOUS
Try to forget him. If he loved you.
moving from your neighborhood would
not affect his interest in you Evident
ly he does not care for you. and any
further attempts on your part to inter
est him would savor of pursuit.
YOUR CASE IS NOT HOPELESS.
Dear Miss Fairfax:
Kindly advise me how I could
make the acquaintance of a young
lady whom I meet every day. I
meet her at luncheon. I feel sure
she would like to make my ac
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There is no wav in which you can
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Don't despair. Find out who are her
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will be found to supply the missing
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THEY HAVE WON HIM OVER.
Dear Miss Fairfax:
I am engaged to a gentleman
three years my senior. I love him
very dearly, and am positive that
my love is returned.
His people do not approve of the
match, and on several occasions we
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them But all that was before we
were engaged.
Recently he has stopped calling,
and I have learned that his people's
objections are greater now' than
they ever were. T. B.
He is not treating you with any gal
lantry. If he were, he would mak«
some explanation for his absence. Or
If he w ishes the engagement broken, he
would give'.you the privilege of break
ing it.
Do not make any attempt to win him
back. lam sure he is not worth it.
THE INITIATIVE IS HERS.
Dear Miss Fairfax:
Which is proper: For a young
girl to ask a man whom she has
known only a short time to call at
her home, or for the man to ask the
privilege? DUCK.
She has that privilege, but it is not
advisable for her to exercise it when
«he has known the man such a short
time.
There Is nothing to be gained, and
much that is risked on a friendship of
such mushroom growth.
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