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“Initials Only” * By Anna Katherine Green
.1 Thrilling Mystery Story of Modern Times
(CoDvright, 1911. Street &- Smith.)
• Cop? Hght S 1911, by Dodd, Mead * Co.)
TODAY’S INSTALLMENT.
A gleam of Oswald’s spirit in Oswald's
ence bright eye. would go far towards
throttling one of those demons whose tal
ons he had just released from his throat:
Bii.i if Doris responded too, he would de
terve his fate: if he did not succeed in
gaining that mastery’ of himself which
would make such hours as these but
episodes n a life big with interest and
potent with great emotions.
Itlsing with a resolute air. lie made a
bundle of his papers and. with them in
1 and. passed out of bis room and down
1 >• hotel stairs.
A man stood directly in his way—as he
made for the front door. It was Mr.
• ’halloner.
Courtesy demanded some show of re
cognition. between them, and Brotherson
van passing with his usual cold bow,
wlmn a sudden impulse led him to pause
and meet the other's eye. with the sar
castic remark:
Vou Lave exures. ed, or so I have been
1..1U, some surprise at my choice of
mechaniciiui. A man of varied accom
plishments Mr. Clialloner, but one for
vimin I have no further use. If, there
you ivLli to call off your watch-dog
c..:i are at liberty to do so. I hardly think
J:.- an be serviceable to either of ns much
]• nger."
Tim elder gentleman hesitated, seeking
p . sibly lor composure, and when he an
swered it was not only without irony but
with a certain forced respect:
"Mr. Sweetwater has just left for New
York. Mr. Brotherson. He will carry with
1 ini. no doubt, the full particulars of your
g: at success."
' rlando bowed. this time with distin
guished grace. Not a flicker or relief had
. isiurbed the calm serenity of his aspect.
Art when a moment later, he stepped
among iiis shouting admirers in the street,
i L- air and glance betrayed a bounding
tot which another source must be
i mnd than that of gratified pride. A
chain lind slipped from his spirit, and
t mg . lie people shrank a little, even
• hile they cheered, it was rather from
a«r of his bearing and the recognition of
fiat sense of apartness which underlay
Ids smile than from any reception of the
man’s real nature or of the awesome
purpose which at that moment exalted it.
.Bin had thej known--what a silence would
have settled upon these noisy streets;
ii what tenor and soul-confusion would
■ ach man have slunk away from his fel
lows into the quiet and solitude of his
own Lome
Brotherson himself was not without a
sense of the incongruity underlying this
ovation: for, as he slowly worked him
self along, the brightness of his look be
came dinned with a tinge of sarcasm
which in its turn gave way to an expes
sion of extreme melancholy—both quite
unbefitting the hero of the. hour in the
first flush of his new-born glory. Had
be seen Dotis' youthful figure emerge for
a moment from the vine-hung porch he
wa; approaching, bringing with it some
doubt of the reception awaiting him?
i ossibly, for he made a stand before lie
re-u-hed the house, and sent his followers
l ack; after which he advanced with an
miliurrying step, so that several minutes
• lapsed before he finally drew up before
-Mr. Scott's door and entered through the
iow empty porch into his brother's sit
t ing-ruum. .
Me had meant to see Doris first, but his
mind had changed. If all passed oft’ well
between himself and Oswald, if he
I mind his brother responsive and
wide-aawke to the interests and ne
cessities of the hour, he might fi.-ego
his interview with her Hll he felt
better prepared to meet it. For call it
cowardice or simply a reasonable preeau
any delay seemed preferable to him
’ii his present mood of discouragement, to
at final casting of the die unon w’l.'iii
hung SO many and such tremendous is-
? U f s '. It was the first moment of real
halt ill his whole tumultuous life! Never,
as daring experimentalist or agitator, had
shrunk Horn danger seen or unseen or
irom threat uttered or unuttered, as he
shrank from this young girl's no; and
something of the dread lie had felt lest he
i-liould encounter her unaware in the ball
’■nd so be led on to speak when his own
JUugnient bade him be silent, darkened
features as he entered his brother's
nesenee.
Hut Oswald was stink in a bitter rtv-ry
nis own. and took no need of there
I'igiis of depress! m. 1? . the reaction fol
lowing thee,- <!• •
" uim o„ . g,, , exei lenient.
• past had icai-i -rlc .J itself, and al) was
■l' oin in his once generous soul. This,
| 'rlando had time to perceive, quick as
’o '-hange camo when his brother really
realised who his visitdr wa-. Th, glud
"rlandol" and i,,. v;<i ~, , hoI
■ r eive him. and his , Me,, qua vered a
I ' he 0,1,1 i.ui ,i. packet with the
"or ;
I have C om c . to sb , JVI vou whal tbe
"or ,i rays of my invention. We will soon
gre.-u men." be emphasized, as Oswald
"pened the letters. "Money has been of
"red me and— rfradi read!" he urged.
’th an unconscious uictatoriulness. as
' 'swald paused in his task. “See what the
fates have prepared for us: for you shall
' ’ re all my honors, as you will from this
day share my work and enter into all my
' ’.t'eriments Can not you enthuse a llt
■; bit over it? D„„ m't the prospect con
-in any allurement for you? Would you
•’lter stay locked up in this pettv
town- "
les. or die. Don't look like that.
•'Hando. It was a cowardly speech and I
'our ]ian on. I'm liar.llv tit to talk
today. Edith "
' 'Hando fr.iv ~w | .
e,i IBt nHn,e: •'« harshly interrupt
ou must nut hamper your life with
Z'J'T ""Mhories. Ten: dream of your.-
■■■ saerrd. but j- b, longs to the past.
« great .. os you. When
' • hate full;, i (1 ~ur health, vrfur
""■ll manhood will rebel at a weakness
'■worthy on, ~ur name. House your-
• iswald. lake m count of our pros-
Hive mt your bund and say. 'Life
-■■lds something for me yet. [ have a
pother who needs me if 1 do not need
Together, we can prove ourselves
■ i )ie and wrench fame and fortune
rn »m the work].’ ”
a , H ’'.'. lhp hand he reached for did not rise
" ' "mniand. though < iswald start' d
t and faced him with manly oarm-st-
' > av< ■ . and
-i'.'t. “h*duie I t.»uk upon niv.Mdf
' ” Id.. Iheae. i -.m broken
'i'll'- III' I n c,iam' must ■,-
n ' - h **■ I i!I • .1 nr.,. ;fI i
1 1 ' < i • l»-li\ .i m me
1 should be a poor assistant to you—a
dtag, rather than a help. Deeply as I de
plore it. hard as it may be for one of your
temperament to understand so complete
’ an °y ert^row ' I >' et must acknowledge my
i condxtion and pray you not to count upon
me in any plans you may form. I know
how this looks—l know that as your
brother and truest admirer. I should re
spond. and respond strongly, to such over
tures as these, but the motive for achieve
ment is gone. She was my all: and while
Plight work, it would be mechanically.
■ The lift, the elevating thought is gone."
Orlando stood a moment studying his
brother s lace; then be turned shortly
and walked the length of the room,
n hen he cante back, he took up his stand
again directly before Oswald, and asked,
i with a new note in his voice:
Did you love Edith Chailoner so much
■ as that?"
A glance from Oswald's eye, sadder
than any tear.
So that you can not be reconciled?"
A gesture. Oswald’s words were always
i few
, Orlando’s frown deepened.
. Such grief I partly understand," said
he. “But time will cure it. Some dav
another lovely face—"
'tie'll not talk of that, orlando."
1 I mt ifl ik of that." acquiesced
■ the inventor, walking away again, this
time to the window". "For you there's but
one uump.n and she’s a memory."
"ivilled!" broke from his brother's lips,
.slain by her own hand under an Impulse
' <>i wildness and terror! (’an I ever forget
. that? Do not expect it. Orlandu.”
'Then you do blame me?” Orlando
turned and was looking full at Oswald.
”1 blame your unreasonableness and
’ your overweening pride."
Orlondo stood a moment, then moved
toward the door. The heaviness of his
. step smote upon Oswald’s ear and caused
t him to exclaim:
l-orgive me, <>rlando." But the other
cur him short with an imperative:
“’lhaiiks for jour candor! If her spirit
( is destined to stand like an immovable
shadow between you and me. you do rignt
I to warn me. But this interview must
end all allusion to the subject. I will seek
, and find another man to share my fur
, turns; <as he said this he approached
suddenly, and took his papers from the
■ other s hand) or—” Here he hastily re
t traced his steps to the door which he
! softly opened. ‘‘Or.’’ he repeated- But
though Oswald listened for the rest, it
. did not come. While he waited, the other
» had given him one deeply concentrated
. look and passed out.
No heartfelt understanding was possible
t between these twu men.
(’•‘oss.ng the hal). Orlando knocked at
I the door <»f Doris' little sitting room.
No answer, yet she was there. He
? knew it in every throbbing fibre of his
body. She was there a al quite aware of
his presence; of this he felt sure; yet she
. did not bid him enter. Should he knock
again.’ Nover! but he would not quit the
threshold, not if she kept him waiting
there for ’..ours. Perhaps she realized
th.is. Perhaps she bad meant to open the
uoor to him from the very first, w’hu can
tell What avails is that she did ulti
mately open it. and he, meeting her soft
. * eye. w ished from his very heart that his
I impulse had led him another way, even
' i if that way had been to the edge of the
, I precipice—and over.
» i For the face he looked upon was se
: ! rene, ami there was no serenity in him;
i I rather a confusion of unloosed passions
fearful of barrier and yearning tumuliu
( ously for freedom. But, whatever his re
f I volt, the secret revolt which makes rm
. | show in look or movement, he kepi his
; ground and forced a smile of greeting.
; If her fa<-e was quiet, it was also lovely-
I too lovely, he felt, for a man to leave it.
whatever might come of his lingering.
I Nothing in all his life ha<i ever affected
him like it. For him there was no fit her
t I woman in du- past, the present or the fu
ture. and. real r 'ing this- taking in to the
• ! full what hei affection am! her trust
might be to lim in those fearsome days
! to come, he > o dreaded a rebuff—he, who
.•had been the courted of women and the
i admired of men ever since he could re
. , member that he failed to respond to her
I wel< ome and ti e simple congratulations
she felt forccu s o repeat. He could neither
I j speak the com: jnj>!ace, nor listen to it.
. ; This was his crucial hour. He must find
. ■ support here, or yield hopelessly to the
[ maelstrom in whose whirl he was caught.
» ! She saw his excitement and faltered
i i back a step-a move which she regretted
t ■ the next minute, for be took advantage of
[ ' it to enter and close behind him the door
5 ■ which she would never have shut of her
1 own accord. Then he spoke, abruptly,
I passionately, but in those golden tones
, i which no emotion could render other than
I alluring:
| *‘l am an unhappy man, Miss Scott. I
; see that my presence here is not welcome,
j yet am sure that it would be so if it were
i not for a prejudice which your generous
; Eatiire should be the first to cast aside.
I lin face of the outspoken confidence of
mj brother Osw’ald. Doris, little Doris.
I love you. 1 have love<l you from the
. : moment of our first meeting. Not to
man.' men is it given to find his heart so
. j late, an I when he does, it is for his whole
i | life: no second passion can follow it. I
i j know thai 1 am premature In saying this:
' that .vou are not prepared to hear such
words from me and that it might be
i ' wiser f'»r me to wlthhohl them, but I
• | must leave Derby soon, and I can not
Ii go until I know whether there is the
: least hope that you will yet lend a light
to my career or whether that career
must burn itself to ashes at your feet.
Oswald nay. hear me out Oswald lives
iI in his memories: but I must have an
active hope a tangible expectation- -if 1
am to be the man I was meant to be.
j W ill you. then, coldly dismiss me, or will
I you let u whole future life prove to you
i the innocence of my past ? I will not has
; ton anything, all I ask is some tndul
gen< • Time will do the rest."
■ •impossible." she murmured.
' Rut that wa« a word for which he had
i oar. He saw that she was moved, un-
. ♦ .xpictedJj so; that while her eye- v.an-
< cr*'d restlessly at tin es toward the door.
■ I they ever camp back in girlish wonder, if
I not fascination, to his face, emboldening
i him >o that he ventured at lapt. to add:
“Doris, little Doris. I will teach you a
marvelous lesion, f you will only turn
your daintj eai inj waj Love such as
.nine carries infinite treasure with it.
Will you have that treasure heaped, piled
before your feet? Your lips say no. but
your eyes the truest eyes i ever saw
whisper a different language. The day
will come when you will find your joy in
’he breast of him you are now afraid to
truei." \nd m»t waiting for disclaimer
or oven a glance of reproach from the
ryes I had so w ilfullj misri ud, he with-
I drew w ith n movement as abrupt a.s that
’ wit h w u < I h» had .lit. • on.
T© Be Continued in Naxt Isaua
44 A Happy Marriage Is My Secret/* Says Ada Reeve in “Beauty Interview**
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Miss Ada Reeve, the charming English comedienne, now in vaudeville here
as a B. F. Keith star.
By Margaret Hubbard Ayer.
HERE'S a great deal of Peter Pan
I about Ada Reeve, the English
singing comedienne who is just
beginnig her tout of America at the
Coloniai theater.
Whil.- she was on the stage singing
those rollicking songs "f hers, with a
merry, gallant air, so whimsical and
funny, she was so boyish, so very Pe
ter Pannish, that it is easy enough to
believe she is England's most cele
brated leading boy in the Christinas
pantomime.
Now. the Christmas pantomime in
England is just as much of a conven
tion as Christmas pudding, and the girl
wito plays the leading boy in the pan-
Up-to-Date Jokes
Visitor—l saw your husband in the
crowd in town today. In fact, he was
so close tiiat I could have touched him.
Hostess—That’s strange. At home ho
is so close that nobody can touch him.
A purchaser of a riverside property
asked the estate agent if the river didn't
sometimes overflow its banks.
"Wei!," replied he, "it isn't one of
those sickly streams that are always
confined to their beds.”
Miss Passay—You may sneer at pet
dogs, but they’re faithful, anyway. I'd
rather kiss a good dog than some men."
Mr. Sharpe—Weil, well, some men are
born lucky.
"Poor old Jones! He had a windfall
List week."
“A windfall'? Then Wtyy do you say
‘Poor Jones?’”
"Well, you see. he's an aviator."
Old Gent—-What do you wear specs
for, boy?
Bootblack—'Cos 1 puts such a shiny
shine on gentlemen's boots that it hurts
me eyes.
Wife W at is mi ant. John, by the
phrase, "c;’. r? ins: <mils to New castle?"
Husband —It is a metaphor, my dear,
showing the doing of something that is
unnecessary.
Wife—l don't exactly understand.
Give me ait illustration -a familiar one.
Husband —W "11. if 1 were to bring .vou
home a book entitled "How to Talk.'
that would be carrying coals to New
castle.
A youth, who thought that he had
become very fond of a certain maiden,
persistently begged her to accept his
hand in marriage. Here is a bit of
conversation between them which was
snatched by an unintentional listener a
few nights ago.
"I assure you," he commenced, "thgt
I will not take 'No' for an answer."
"You need not take ‘No’ for an an
swer," was her reply. "1 will answer
Yes' on one condition only."
He was all impatience to hear what
the question was she wanted him to
ask, and this was her gentle reply:
"Just ask me if 1 atn firmly deter
mined not Io marry you in any cir< um
stanees."
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Miss Aca il eve is the great and par
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sh is known as Santa Claus. Junior.
A Joyous Air.
She carries with her of!' the stage :.s
well as on. that air o| ioyousnets and
gayety of tit" boy who neve would
grow up. Her slight figure and humor
ous ways, her funny jerk) little man
nerisms. all make you think that she is
Peter Pan or Santa f'laus. Junior,
dressed up in vtry pretty lady's clothes,
and doing a stunt in vaudeville as a
infge joke.
Behind the scene- Miss Reeve is just
the same, a sympathetic personality
with a keen and delicate sense of hu
mor.
She had just been singing to a large
audience of women, and told me how
glafl she was to be popular with her
own sex.
“I am always astonished at the Amer
ican woman. at het extraordinary
smartness,” said’ Miss Reeve. "But
isn't she a bit extravagant now? The
women over hete seem to think a great
deal mo.e of clothes than we do in
England; especially of all those little
extra frills and novelties that cost so
much and last so short a time.
American Sentiment.
“It s always interesting to a foreigner
to test an American audience of wom
en. and I'm always especially con
cerned in finding what songs they real
ly like.
"The American audience, besides its
keen sen.-e of humor, has a great deal
of sentiment. And 1 am hoping some
day to lie able to try sqme of my
straight, almost classic, numbers, the
old ballads—some of Tom Moore's old
songs on them.”
I u minded Miss Reeve that she must
talk of health and beauty for the edifi
cation of the public.
She totally ignored the question of
beauty, though she is a pretty and very
fascinating woman, but there is no post
about Miss Reeve, and she refuses to be
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self-conscious or to he made to feel so.
even for an interview.
“Let tne see; what do I do that es
pecially benefits my health besides
working hard, in England I am out
in the open air almost all the time; 1
have a motor ear there and never trav
el by train We do not play Sundays'"
Miss Reeve looked gratefully to heav
en—“so when I am on a tour I can
make the long jumps in my open ear,
taking all of Sunday to do it.
“Os course that would be impossible
in America, where the distances are so
great, and 1 know I am going to miss
it, for I travel in the car without a
top. wrapped up in furs in winter and
in raincoats anil waterproof caps in
bad weather."
Good For the Voice.
“Don't you find that harmful to your
voice?"
"No, on the vontrary, it seems to do
me i great deal of good. I think there
is no inedi' ine like fresh air, and noth
ing so invigorating, in the summer
time we live at a little place called
Yarmouth, in the Isle of Wight, and
there 1 have my garden: and then I
'nave a ijwim every day, which is the
one sport I really enjoy."
There is evidently no English actress
in the world who does not adore a gar
den, mil now i know why the English
landscape is a succession of beautiful
ly set-out and caretully-tended flower
gardens; all the pretty actresses devote
their time to this work in summer, witli
Hie same regularity that they spend
their winters in elevating the stage.
But Miss Peter Pan Reeve was stili
bending her thoughts on the health
problem and continued:
"I have one advantage over most
women, for I am never allowed to wor
ry over anything, and it's worry that
i lakes people ill, isn’t It?
"You see, 1 have the very best hubby
In the world: he manages everything
for me, and straightens out all wor
ries that might fall to my lot. I think
that is the secret of my success as
well as my health."
Almost a Shock.
It came almost as a shock to think
that Peter Pan was married, hut since
she ha- the very best hubby in the
world, both are to b ■ congratulated,
; nd evidently Mis. Reeve and Hie cei
■ •brated Dr. Arnolii’Lorrand are agieed
that a happy marriage is Hie greatest
possible promoter of good health and
good looks.
Just then the best of all hubbies came
| in with a concoction of some sort, made
of eggs and other soothing things, and
warranted to chase away a bad i old.
which the artist had caught in our
most changeable climate; and so ended
out talk.
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* Little Bobbie’s Pa *
By William F. Kirk
PA brought a fine looking gentle
man up to the house the other
nite, the mrim of the man was
Morgan. He is a actor. Ho must be a
good actor, too, beekaus he has a fine
•fc deep voice, that sounds kind of
ernest like the butcher asking for his
mutiny.
While Mister Morgan was sitting in
the front room Pa caiin out in the
kitchen whare Ma was fixing his din
ner & sod Wife. I want you to like
this friend of mine that I have
brought hoam. He is a swell fellow
from Boston. & lie is differnt from
sum of my other Boston trends.
I doant care one way or the other
about the Boston part of it, deerest.
sed Ma to Pa. beekaus long years of
dwelling with thee. Ma sed, have con
vinced me that the good or bad quali
ties of yure trends is not a matter of
geografy.
Will you be nice to him, deerest?
sed Pa.
I will treet him like a angel sed Ma.
1 will be all dlmpels & smiles. It isent
his fault that he was With you.
Doant be. too nice, sed Pa. beekaus
he is a actor & he plays tn a show
called the Siran, & he is likely to think
you are a stage struck gurl. He gits
lots of mash notes. Pa sed.
But I can be like a siren without
taking my <ien & paper in hand, sed
Ma. 1 ain't a mash-noter.
Pa beegan for to look kind of queer.
Mister Mogan was a awful fine look
ing fellow, & Pa isent tine looking, he
is jest kind harted, when I grow up
I am going to try to be fine looking
& kind harted too. If I can only be
one of the two I think I wud rather
be fine looking, beekaus thare is a lot
of kind harted peepul that wants to
marry sum gurl thay luv & then the
gurl says no.
1 am awfully glad to meet you. Mis
ter Mogan, sed Ma wen Pa interduced
her to his frend. He was'telling me
how splendid ou were in yure part In
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the play. I wish my husband OSH
adopted the stage for a prerfe! * s?>
Thare is sumthing so romantic i ( i
it. the gainor of the foot-lites,
pin use of the audience, the love
the moonlite.
But one is away from one’s hoam "
so much, sed Mister Mogan. It is ‘
then, wen you are far from yure neer- ;
eat & deerest. that one reelizes the
emptiness & sadness of a actor’s life, s
The words ring in my eers sumtimes,
Away From Home. Away From Home.
Away From Hoam.
Thay ring in my eers & husband's
eeis the way thay do in vures, aed Ma.
JI) husband is a«aj from hoam & I
am thare waiting.
Doant you always tellefone yure wife i
& tell her whare you are? Pa’s frend (
asked him.
Sumtimes, sed Pa. Not often.
That is ded wrong, sed Mister Mo- i
gan. You can always git a tellefone f
in five minnits. Newer fergit the lit-’fl
tel woman at hoam. he sed to Pa.
He is a fine man. sed Ma to Pa wen J
Pa's frend was gone.
PUT TO THE TEST.
Fltzdaube has all tb« sensitiveness t«S[
color of the true artist, and doesn't i
mind showing jt.
His neighbors are really very" nice"
people, but they have absolutely no ;
taste, and Fitzdaube frequently criti-.l
cises them very severely In the bosom?
of his family.
One morning little Ethellnda Fitz
daube knocked loudly at the neigh
bor's front door.
"Show me the new rug in your draw
ing room!” she said, with childish im- <
perlousness.
The good lady took her to ths room
and Etheltnda planted herself in a chair
and stared at the gaudy rug.
She stared until her eyes watered,
and still she spoke not.
Her host was just beginning to won- ,
der what was the matter, when at last
Ethelinda pronounced her verdict.
"Well, it doesn't make me sick!” she
declared, decisively.