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« A ■ BEHIND CLOSED DOORS One of the Greatest Mystery Stories Ever Written rS Beauty Secrets of Beautiful Women By ANNA KATHARINE GREEN. (Copyright, 1913. by Anna Kathartn* Green.) TO-DAY'S INSTALLMENT In the interval not a word was uttered not a. look interchanged between the lady and the detective. But the mo ment Dr. Cameron returned, a sudden change took place in Mrs. Cameron. One Pretty Girl Finds Nature a Most Efficient Teacher Advice to the Lovelorn By BEATRICE FAIRFAX. ^^y^vNCK , on a time 1 1 Laura Hamilton, raoi 'Your conduct is not so inexplicable.’ he went on. “Women think much of ap pearances and are not apt to weigh the consequences of their impulsive efforts ! to preserve them. But a mar. usually and rising she confronted Mr. Gryce j h a it s long before he enters into a scheme that must end in perjury, and Dr. Molesworth comiYiitted perjury, Mrs. I had seen him at Mrs. Olney's, where I have been more than once. I had even had some talk with him. It was the situation which made us like friends at once." "I understand," asserted Mr. Gryce, but his looks did not bear out his words. a cross between a Maltese and a French poodle. Fie had wonderful long silky hair, and we used to keep began .re rem iniscently than her very evi dent youthfulne s would seem to per mit, "I owned a little white poodle with a frank and grateful air that lent quite a new aspect to her ever-chang ing countenance. “You are very kind,” she declared. In a grateful tone that was in itself a shock to both her hearers. “ Know In began to show itself in her face this frightful tale; seeina as you must have done that. If true, Mildred Farley did not die after I went downstairs, but before, you have come here In confidence and without scandal to hear what I have to say about the matter and give me an opportunity to explain myself. I shall never forget this consideration, sir; and as proof of my gratitude I will at once tell you what I can about this poor un- fortunate’e death, hoping that you will see the matter as I did. and understand in a measure at least how I was driven by my fears to keep back my knowledge of this frightful secret, even from my it in order by treating it with oil of cocoanut. Now. a few years ago my hair, which was very long, suddenly began to come out a bit—to thin at the ends and to show a tendency to Cameron." I acquaintance with an up-to-then She dropped her chin upon her breast j stranger, dandruff. First 1 worried, and the presence of a growing dread then 1 vainly consulted a specialist "Not only that," the detective con tinued. "He engaged to do a fearful thing when he promised you to get a dead body out of the house alone and or two, and then l thought of doggie." Oil of Cocoanut. "Sermons in stones and beauty bints in the silken coat of a Kranco- dow. Grasp a straight chair by the j rear legs, just midway betwen. the base an i the first rung, and learn to elevate the chair straight out and above your head, taking deep breaths while vou do it. Ten times fog each ( exercise is the correct amount. The ast exercise sounds simple, hut it J tills out and rounds the chest and j j helps you maintain an erect carriage Place the finger tips together above the head and far enough In front so you can just see them, and then In flate and empty the lungs ten times. Your Morning Swim. "Now take your morning swim, wash your fate in clear, hot water, and without soap; da-h a bit of witch hazel across your face and rinse in cold wa*er; dress in pretty, simple clothes. and eat a simple breakfast, and you are all ready for a happy, useful day, with every part W. C "T'Xv, without discovery. Have you thought Maltese poodle, thought Miss Inler- how much nerve and determination it would require? What self-sacrificing devotion it would need to lead a man not only to take the risk of such an act, but to subject himself to the hor rors of it? I find it difficult to recon cile what I have seen of Dr. Moles- worth with such devotion to a lady so little known to him. I would sooner think ” He paused; she looked at mother and husband, till it was torn | him breathlessly ‘ that he had his own reasons for keeping the matter quiet,” he pointedly added. "Perhaps he had," she simply replied. "I can not tell all that passed in his mind. I can only tell you what we did." from me and shred by shred as you have seen. And now for the truth. "This girl, whose death you consider swell a mystery, committed suicide. She committed it in my presence, just a few- minutes before I went downstairs to be married. Tt was a terrible shock and a great surprise to me. T had been dress ing. and was thinking of anything else than tragedies or death. Nor do T think she meant to die then or there. But she was desperate. She had had «; talk with her intended husband and had be^n disappointed in him. She did not wafr.t to see him again, and the contrast be tween the hopes expressed by my bridal attire and the dreariness of her own outlook maddened her, I supposed; for in a moment, as it were, she seized upon that bottle of poison and turned it up to her lips, and the deed was done and she was dead before I had got over the terror which held me breath less and immovable at her side. I was in my bridal dress and veil, sir. The ceremony had already been delayed and T was momentarily expecting the sum mons to descend. Should I mar the happiness of the whole company by re vealing what had occurred? I thought not in the moment I had to consider. So I Just drew the poor girl into the alcove, and in grief and terror enough, God Knows, covered her over with some dresses I had before pulled down from the closet and thrown on the floor. I had barely done this and readjusted my veil when the knock came and I had to descend. "It was frightful, but I did not know how frightful till 1 came to think. Then I almost gave way to my terror and agitation, and when that scream came down from upstairs " She stopped. They did Pot wonder; at such a horrible experience, who would not shudder! Her husband for the first time realized all she had been through and reached out his hand In sympathy, though there was yet much to be explained before he could feel reconciled to a past so full of mysteries and shadows. "And how," asked the detective, noth ing but formal respect on his part, “was the body disposed of? When next we hear of it, it was in the keeping of a Dr. Molesworth. who, as we have been informed, was not one of your wedding guests." Mrs. Cameron did not flinch. She looked, if anything, more winning and candid than before. "Dr Molesworth was the man who j a fa,lin * one, and that the doom she had expected to marry her. He had j aad 80 long dreaded was rushing upon gone to the hotel for that purpose and viewer, who was sitting - in the wings of the Winter Garden in New York talking to Miss Hamilton, and glimps ing bits of the wonderful marchings and Mings and dancings going on out of wonderful New Wynburn's won derful Capital Steps. And the three “wonderfuls" in that sentence are none too many. "1 thought of doggie." went qn my pretty little brown-haired neighbor, "and I invested in 10 cents’ worth of oil of cocoanut. And it is good for good hair and so kind to poor hair. Use it every other night moisten the finger tips with it. and rub thp oil well into the scalp. It won’t make the hair greasy or oily looking—-but it will give it a natural gloss and luster. "And you repeat that it was through Shampoo the. hair once a week and his agency this dead girl was got out brush it a hundred strokes every of your room and house?" day. Part it down the middle from "Yes, sir.” "Alone?" "Yes. sir." "And when?" "That I do not know. It was after I left.” "What, you went away before she was j removed from the house?" "Yes, sir. Having made up my mind to trust the whole affair to him. T only ! thought of escape for myself. Then it could never have been managed if I had not cleared the backstairs bv having my trunk carried out. Tt was down those he intended to go." "And did he?" "T can not tell. I only know he suc ceeded in his undertaking. How or un- \ der what difficulties, he must himself inform you. I have never had an op portunity to ask him." “No," she returned boldly; "not while he doubts whether I have spoken of the matter or not. He has too chivalrous j Ideas of duty.” “What, when his life is at stake?” "His life!” "He was on the point of being ar rested for murder when this testimony of Celia’s came in." "I suspected it, or rather I knew that he was under the surveillance of the; police, for he told us so in an inter- j view he had with the doctor about a case of his." "And you were going tef allow him to go to prison upon a charge you knew perfectly unfounded?" "Mr. Gryce. I was not two weeks mar- j ried. I know that my husband hated 1 deceit and I lacked the courage to ac- j knowledge that I ha<j become entangled In it. Then I trusted to Dr. Molesworth 1 discovering a way out of his difficulty, and was so sure that he would I never even thought of his being in any danger of his life. Tt is also only fair to my self to say that, had he been brought to trial, T should have relentlessly sacri- leed myself. It was my hope that he would not which kept he silent so long." ! She was pleading her cause well, and yet her shadowed brow and paling lip j showed she was conscious that it was j her. had not found her; so he came where he suspected her to be. He wa& not one of my guests, but that did not keep him from the house. He came in^ at the front door and stood in the hall, and T happened to see him and immediately knew what he was after. So I arose and went out—I was then receiving congratulations—and, accosting him without delay, told him that the person I ia . h,ch he,d lf • he wanted was in my room and bade "I except your explanation." quoth the detective, "and it only remains at present for you to Inform us where Miss Farley got the drug with which she poisoned herself.” T can not tell you that." came in fainter tones from Mrs. Cameron’s lips. "Was it from her bag. her pocket, or the folds of her dress that she took the TELL HAVE HER WHAT YOU TOLD ME. Dear Miss Fairfax; I had been keeoing company with a young girl for about four years. We w ere to be married last month, but about three months ago we had a little quarrel over a foolish thing I had said to her, which she took up in a wrong way. The quarrel started when 1 wanted to kiss her after an en joyable evening before I left her. but she objected and I got real angry. Then I paused the re mark that started the quarrel. Kindly let. me know how I can regain her love, as I have suf fered enough. HARRY "B.” Apologize and make your apol ogy humble and sincere. I can't believe that a girl would refuse to kiss her betrothed lover good-night because of a whim. You must have done more to offend her than you tell, and must make your ' apology fit your t rime, and your con duct exemplary after she forgives you. YOU TALK LIKE A MAN. Dear Miss Fairfax: I am in love with a girl 21 years of age and I am 19 and have a good position and am able to take care of a wife. She loves me and I love her, so do you think i am too young to be in love, as I am thinking of making her my wife? So I would like your advice, as she is always speaking of mar riage. ANXIOUS. You are not too young to be 1n love, but 19 is rather young for a man d marry. You say you are in position to supnort her. which would Indicate that you are older than your years, and are a good deal of a man after all. But why not wait Just two years? Believe me, the time will go rapidly and you will never regret it. WRITE HIM A NOTE. Dear Miss Fairfax: I am a young girl of 19 and have been keeping company with a young man a year older than myself for a year and three months. Just because I sent a card to h1s friend 1 think he is angry at me. I did not mean any harm. Kindly let me know what 1 should do to try to make up with him. as I love him dearly. j. k. I do not like to suggest that a girl apologize when she has done no wrong, for the reason that once hum ble, the man tries to keep her so. But you have been sweethearts so long, and love is too precious to risk for pride's sake, so write him a little not* of explanation. I hope he will be man enough to love you all the more be cause of this proof of your affection. LET HER KNOW THE TRUTH. Dear Miss Fairfax: I am a poor man and have been keeping company with a young lady for the last couple of months. Would It be proper for me to give her up. after accepting a diamond pin from her at Christ mas time? I am willing to give the pin back ac I do not care for her. P. w. T am sorry for the girl, for such humiliation leaves a scar, but I would be more sorry for her If vou married her without love in youf heart. Tell her you no longer love her, and be manly about it. And. al ways, till the day of your death, think and speak well of her. I think it would oe better to re turn the pin. I AM AFRAID NOT. Dear Miss Fairfax. I am in love with a Cubgn lady and I am sure that my love. Is reciprocated. My many friends embarrass me quite a good deal by claiming that she is a negress. Do you think if I should marry her I could be happy with her? I am thinking seriously of pro posing. GEORGE S. My fear that the step would be fa tal is based on your anxiety. We»*e your love of the right sort, it would be impossible for your friends to em barrass you. and their doubts would only strengthen your resolution to marry the girl. Think this over se riously. 1 want you to be happy, but you must not marry a girl only lo break her heart by being ashamed of her. CALL AT HOME. DEAR MISS FAIRFAX: I am in love with a young lady, but she does not answer my letters. How can I meet her and tell her of my love? RALPH. Perhaps she has never received them. Call at her home and learn your fate from her own lips. It may require courage, but boldness in a lover is a trait which all girls ad mire. Daysey May me and Her Folks By FRANCES L. GARSIDE. Genevieve miserably shook her head him go upstairs and I would follow. For j Mr. Gryce looked troubled: he hesl- 1 not only saw that he was In a state of i «<*> * «“'*• suggested kindly feeling that bordered on frenzy, but l! You her carry It to her lip.?” a“o saw that If the matter vsas to be j <5e "« vleve fa,nt >. v acquiesced hushed up and the body got out of the house without disturbance, he was the ! ,<,r " man to do it; and I relied upon him and 1,1011 I lv i 'omornn «•»»>„.I, _ ... . hair ia sure to result.” Why can not you answer?” he asked I “ And then w< ‘ do " ot take our i glowing, abundant tresses and torture ’ she felt for a chair and j them with hot irons, do we?” I asked. “If you are trying to be attractive, don’t make one part of the general scheme play Cinderella to the others.” This is one of the maxims of Miss Laura Hamilton, based on her own experience. "T can not answer." went up after him and explained what i ^ str ”< le °"<- had occurred and showed him the dead ! *>ls w.fe body of his bride, and asked for help and got it. I don’t know that I should call ! gen ;j y in a low crown to the nape of the neck; bring hthe two heavy strands over the shoulders and brush each section fifty ’And did you see where she took it times with a long sweeping motion that swings from the scalp to the very j ends of the hair. Plentiful glossy step It help now." she added, voice, "for it might have been better for me If 1 had called In the whole house to see that dead girl, and so es- j caped the days and weeks of deceit J that have pressed upon me like so many mountain weights of lead." Her husband looked as if he con- j curred with her, but he said nothing, and Mr. Gryce asked another question. "You read the account of the pro- i ceedings before the Coroner, which was 1 printed in the papers "Because • sat down. "Because you will not be- j lieve what I say.” "1 will not believe what you say?" She turned her eyes, which had been fixed upon vacancy, on his face. There was unfathomable love in them, but there was unfathomable despair also "I think you would,” said she, yet It Is very incredible." "The true things are often the incred ible." observed he. She smiled, but in a hopeless sort of way, and in an altered tone, mur mured; lently. She acknowledged that she had "You must have seen then that Dr. j “Very well, then, she got It out of a Molesworth testified to having found the ; box • girl on a stoop^ in Tweifty-second * box s ^ e carried?" street." , "No; one she found in the room." "Yes. sir. It was agreed between us j p> r Cameron stared; so did the de- that he should tell some such story as ; t ec tj ve Genevieve sat and shivered si- that. It seemed wisest to us at the time. Since she had killed herself it would not hurt her and it would re lieve me from endless complication, to have It thought she had committed the deed in the street. So we thought then—with how little judgment let this moment testify." The detective fixed his eyes upon her and opened his ilps to put another question. But he evidently found it too difficult to say what was in his mind and turned it into the simple suggestion, "We do not,” replied Miss Hamil ton. "We trust the natural gloss and add a little training as to graceful curves and scallops, so we may look as well a^i possible—and we don’t beautify ourselves at the cost of our and hair. Give It a Chance. “If you are trying to be attractive." e,he went on earnestly, "do not make one part of the general scheme play Cinderella to the others. ,Give every thing a chance. Let me see—I start by trying to keep calm and cool and well and rested. My first rule is to avoid restaurants at night. After the theater, instead of going into a res taurant. with its heavy air and heavy of Ireland which they had been examining. Said Harry: "But i think Dublin should be higher up than they have it here. Don’t you think so?" George replied; "Oh, no; you must be mistaken. These maps are quite reliable. They’re all done by latitude and longitude, you know." Harry gave a doubtful assent. "I suppose they're a tip-top firm, and they ought to know." of your body in trim and ready t meet the demands of the hours to | come Dr. Gorem: "Oh, yes, my be And then, ever ready to meet the j *V, ! my C ,° unl1 v i ,• .. . . — ! Boy; \\ eren t you scared. | "Scared. You wouldn’t hav< demands of the hour or moment, Miss Hamilton tripped across the stage to add her own glowing young person ality to the glowing ensemble of "The Passing Show of 1913.” LILIAS LAUFFEIITY. \ Unusual. "Queer mix-up over the Wombat es tate." "As to how?" "Seems the heirs got more than the lawyers." Mixed In Her Dates. He—Do you love me, darling? She—Yes, Jack, dear. lie—Jack! You mean Harold, don’t you ? She—Of course! How absurd I am! I keep thinking to-day's Saturday. tht barge Jght the so if you had seen me enemy." "You charged 'em all, right I suppose. But you couldn’t make ’em pay, could you?” Jock: "He's a good ’un. Jack. He’s a millionaire who made his money out of iron." Jack: "Well, look at that now? I made a few half-crowns out of lead and I got six months’ hard labor for it!” The Crooked Billet—an inn which i still stands upon Tower Hill, as it has stood for generations past—boasts it- [ self as the oldest wine and spirit house in London. There is every rea sons to believe that the inn dates from the time of Henry VIII. Cer tainly no London inn is more ro mantic in the matter of sliding panels and concealed doors, secret rooms an 1 underground passages—one of these reputedly leads to the Tower—and thick walls richly carved. There !s a tradition that Oliver Cromwell on'e lived (or lodged) at the Crooked Bil let. • • • Clocks are now made' to run five years with once winding up. In 1881 the Belgian Government placed one of these in a railway station and sealed It. It has kept capital time, having only been four times wound in 1386, 1891* 1.806, and 1901; and there is a clock in the ChufPh of St. Quentin. In Mayemc. which has only stopped once during a period of ofiO years. * * « The construction of a cigar box may seem to be a very simple mat ter to the novice, but the box passes through nineteen different processed before it is ready to receive the ci gars. • • » The cost of the navies of the world la^t year aggregated $725,000,000. I T would appear to those who have noted the great number and va riety of women's clubs that wom an can have no longing that will not find a society organized for the ex press purpose of its gratification. If she aspires to project her spirit ual insight into the occult or to squelch that worm of the dust called Man, or to get bacon at cheaper prices, she has only to join a club, and such a desired end, if not at tained, is at least set In motion. But that every longing is not met is proven through the organization by Daysey May me Appleton of a so- | ciety for which the heart of every woman has unconscious-y yearned. And the greater the number of her I friends, the greater her yearning. Daysey May me had had the parlors I of her home made hideous by thv ; gifts of loving friends for years, but not until she received a water color I of a yellow lamb on a cerise field with a purple shepherdess did she decide to rebel. The result of that rebellion | was the recent launching of a club called The. Secret Society of Breaker? No woman need admit she belongs to such a society'. Such an admission would cause the estrangement of generous friends and result in charges of lack of appreciation of their gifts. "The members," explained Daysey Mayme, "are known to me and report to me for assignment and our method of procedure in this: "A woman receives a fish platter on which is jointed Jonah insido the whale or some other appetizing ma rine scene, and the donor expects it to be placed on the plate rail of the din ing room. "The recipient appeals to me. and I deputize one of the active workers of our order to make a social call at her home. The active worker sees the platter, she is enraptured with it, she asks to hold it, ?he lets it fall, and it breaks into a hundred pieces. "She is overcome with remorse, of course, which I appease by paying for her work as soon as it is reported that the plate is beyond mending. "Our organization is only two weeks old. but in that time members have made calls on other members afflicted with generous friends, and have carelessly dropped and broken seventeen goldfish globes, nine lamps, six vases and fourteen china plaques, and have borrowed four oil paintings and eleven sofa cushions for the purpose of copying, which they have lost on the way home. "The Secret Society of Breakers will appeal to every woman who has kind and generous friends. In future no woman need go thrqugh life with her love for an artistic home blighted by purple and blue vases against hei green wall paper or pink camels worked on a yelldw sofa cushion. "All she need do will be to drop a note to me." . ^ Talc tun fowder I The smoothest, finest talcum powder made. “Borated. ** Two tints—white and flesh. I Delightfully perfumed. madb by Talcum Puff Company Miami aa4 ■ anifartarara. Rath Trraiiaal BalMlaft IROOKLYN, NKW YORK | GUARANTEED PURE. "Look here, Boxer, a common ass?” "No, Fopson uncommon ass." "Aw, that's different. 1 stand having anybody call mon, y’know.” 1id you call me I said you were an awn t com- "Took a vial containing prussic acid glare of artificial light, I motor out from a box she found in the room?" "Yes." "And how came prussic acid to be in your room, Mrs. Cameron?" It was a question for which she seein- lrgly had no reply. Though she opened her lips, no words issued from them, and she sat the image of shame and de spair. The doctor, struck aghast, started impetuously forward, ana would have spoken himself but that the de- "You must have known Dr. Molesworth ^ tgetive forestalled him. well, Mrs. Cameron?" A flush, hot and vivid, answered him from the doctor’s face, but her cheek did not alter and it was with much composure she replied: "I had learned much of his disposition *rom my conversations with the woman no^nr^ As for his face, "You do not think I have the right to ask that question," he remarked. "Well, I withdraw it and will simply inquire what sort of box it was which held this vial, and where in the room it was kept?" To 3e Continued To-morrow. The Best Foorf-fSrink Lunch Fountains into the pure, clean country. "An hour under the stars every night—an hour with the cool wind blowing on my lace and the pure, clean, unused* air of night blow ing the cobwebs out of my brain—and I t go home to restful, dreamless sleep. Then l w ake up ready to sia:. t ‘ day with about ten minutes of exer- I else. 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