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A Thrilling Story of Society Blackmailers
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Alim? Graham, the beautiful daugh
:«r of U. S District Attorney Gordon
Graham, is beloved by Captain Liw
ence Holbrook, a soldier of fortune, free
lance and all-round good fellow Aline
loves him. but, because of some sorrel
<n her past, she refuse* to marry hirn
While Holbrook la at her house she re
celves a telephone message from Judson
Flagg, a lawyer and notorious black
mailer of society Holbrook begs Aline
to tell him her secret. She refuses and
makes him leave her The message
from Flagg has made her frantic, and
•he finally derides to go to his house
fn the meantime the reader Is given a
glimpse into Flagg's d<
is closeted with tils nephew, Tommy,
the only human being for whom hr ap
pears to bear any affection Congress
man Rowland's butler. Jones, ■ alls ami
sells Flagg a letter compromising Mrs
Rowland. As the butler starts to leave,
Flagg presses a button and takes a se
•ret flashlight of the man He rushes
from the house In terror Aline slips
away from her home unobserved urul
reaches Flaggs home She finds the
front door open and goes to his study.
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(From the play by George Scar
oorough. now being presented at the
Thirty-ninth Street Theater, New York
Serial rights held ami copyrighted by
International News Service.)
n l: FLAGG? queried lit*
iy I girl, pushing aside the
heavy curtains beyond the
Hicat oak door.
Tin- man was standing at his d#y4.
xatnining a letter he had just token
Ijom a japanned tin box. A satisfied
-mile played across his dark, rrafty
euures and the smile deepened In
niensrity as he looked up and saw
>e pretty girl he had drawn into his
• eb of trickery and deceit. He was
y connoisseur in all things beautiful
as the warm-toned hangings, hand-
(ooled books and rare paintings in
hue luxurious library den testified.
He had a midden instinct to hide
his box of shameful letters In his
safe, but as he started a paroxysm of
pain marred his face beyond Its usual
evil and saturnine leer
“Oh- pardon," he said, pressing his
hand In grave-pa in to a heart weak
ened by years of unholy excitement.
Parleying for a Soul.
Aline Ignored his pain. Her own
was grave enough. She could have
no sympathy for such as he ,
’M phoned you," »h© said ooolly.
Her blood was throbbing In wild
fear. She was alone, Iste at night,
with Washington’s master fiend, the
blackmailer of sooiety—the creature
who fed full on the loves and sorrows
of his fellows, whose Heartlessness
was sated because men and women
had foohsh, errmg, loving hearts.
Flagg controlled hb sufferings. y
"Hit down," said he.
llu girl continued to stand, slen
der, alluring at the side of his great
oaken desk.
PI cm hh let me see that letter you
say you have."
"Hit down, Mina Graham”
”1 must hurry!”
"We won’t be disturbed—here.” He
said it* with slow emphasis—with
poisoned innuendo.
“Let rne that letter if you have
It,” replied The girl impatiently.
“Presently.” The man sat down
with impudent sang-froid, and scruti
nized her with admiration that fairly
reeked of insult to the girl alone with
thlH'ijnsavory creature in his den.
"Please hurry!”
"You're a pretty woman, Miss Gra
ham!" he insinuated.
“I didn’t come here for that, sir.”
The girl spoke with simple dignity—
she must not let this man see how
she feared him
“More beautiful than the lady in
my picture good painting Ha Ion —
Paris.!” He pointed to a magnificent
portrait of “Justice” satirically hung
above the portals of his injustice. His
linger wh.h on the electric button that
controlled the camera and flashlight.
When his visitor turned to look at
the plot tire she would be posed full
face for the camera. Aline Graham
would soon be photographed In his
gallery of Immortals, thought Judson
Flagg and, like his other vlctlrds, she
would be powerless to deny that she
was a client of
Rut Aline did not turn. The plate
the camera was saved for later,
more fiendish work!
'T haven’t time for pictures 1 must
hurr\ You know it Please
let me see tho letter and go.”
“You said over the phone you had
not written any letter you were afraid
of!” Flagg enjoyed prolonging the
torture of this pretty victim
"F haven't!”
Then why are you here?”
"If you have such a letter
forgery!” the girl declared. *
“Why didn’t you forge a marriage
certificate? One of them covers a
multitude of sins?” The man was
sneering openly now.
The Book of Shame.
The girl struggled for self-mas
tery. This creature should not—
must not guess the extent to which
he'* terror of him was growing. His
daring insult and the abyss of shame
which gaped before her anguished
eyes at his words must loom before
her eyes alone. He must not know—
he must not guess how he was terri
fying her
“You said you had a letter of mine
—I've come to see that. If you won’t
let me see It, I’m going! Please
hurry"
Rut haste was not at all to Flagg's
mind. The girl was pretty -she was
fair game for his chasing This
promised to be sport of a sort as dear
as the blackmailer's very self to his
cankered old heart. He rose in
leisurely fashion, crossed to his safe,
unlocked his Japanned tin treasure-
trove—and slowly selected a pale
plst le from its contents ,
Pink! The color of the rosy tinted
young dreams of the girl who had
Here’s a Chance to Get YOUP
Christmas Money
'Tell the Readers of The Georgian How YOU Harp
Solved the Problem of Present-giving.
E VERYBODY seems to be planning the selection of Christinas
gifts ahead of the “rush” season. To-day’s mall brought ax
avalanche of letters containing suggestions. Married realms
of The Georgian seem to be very much interested In the offer I maot
the other day, and which Is In force until December 18.
I venture to say that from the day the custom of gift giving */
Christmas was inaugurated husbands and wives have been perplexed
over the problem of suitable presents. I have been worried year after
year, and I thought It would be a good plan to get the Ideas of other*
on the subject.
That was the reason I made the offer of gold pieces for beet. **
ters. If you haven’t sent in your letter, read the offer carefully mtxr
then let me have your suggestion.
READ THE OFFER.
To the wife who writes the best short letter telling what m the men
useful gift for a husband, one $10 gold piece.
Three awards of $5 each will be given the wives whose letter s or-
judged the next best.
Also, 1 will award the same prizes to husbands who vrrite brief letter*
outlining the most appropriate gift, for a husband to give his wife To the
husband's letter that is adjudged the best the writer will receive « frfi
gold piece. Husbands who write the three next best letters will receipt >1
each, a gold piece for their thoroughness.
Send vour letters addressed to
MARY LB A DAVIS
, Editorial Department, The Atlanta Georgian
Hex •.me letters that have Just arrived:
TURKEY AND DUCK.
Miss -Mary Lea Davis:
Husband would enjoy most a
turkey, wild duck, oysters and a
box of cigars. MRS. R. H.
Seneca, S. C.
written it after those dreams *ere
meeting rude awakening, and the
d reams were bitterly black and
gloomy, with only the hope of a
kinder tinted lining behind.
The man was consulting a red mo
rocco book that contained an index
of shame—an “Index expurgatorius,”
it should have been. He fingered it
and read aloud cynically, while the
tortured girl wondered how soon
someone would come -and discover
her here. Why had she come? She
questioned her own heart. Why had
she not trusted stronger hands to
guide her course? It was too late
now she must go on and on to the
depths and abysses of which she had
no illuminating moment of “shadow-
before.”
Flagg was reading from his shame
ful red book—reading with shameless
enjoyment Graham—Aline—that’s
it You ladies. Miss Graham, seem to
go upon the theory that indiscretion
Is the better part of love—but that’s a
mistake—the. next time be sure to
steer vour gentleman friend against a
magistrate and a certificate—prosaic,
but safer and in the end—cheaper -
at least for the woman. Ah, here it
is—Woolworth—Graham! Does that
recall anything td you?
“Woolworth—Graham”—did that
recall anything to her? In the midst
of her pre: «rit agony, the girl recalled
those other days of vivid agony—the
days of horror and shame and useless
regret that had followed hard upon
the glowing days of love and hope
and trust—and—the three days out of
a lifetime the three days a lifetime
ago - the days that had brought her
into the toils of Judson Flagg this
night—the days that forbade her ever
to dream of the love and protecting
care of her man of all men—Ca.ptq.in
Larry Holbrook, soldier and gentle
man.
Flagg dropped the book back in the
box. locked his treasure-trove, hid it
safely away in Its fastness and came
back to the desk of intrigue with the
little pink missive in his clawlike,
clutching hands.
The pink letter! It was to claim It
—to regain it—that’Aline Graham had
dared name and fame and fate to
night.
"Oh, let me see it!’ The words
fairly leaped of themselves from the
girl’s fast beating heart to her
trembling lips.
“No. listen to it!” said the crafty
fiend w-ho knew just how far to play
his devil’s tune on human emotions—
how far io drive—how far io install
fear—and when to drive his bargain
for the pound of flesh.
With fine knowledge of effects he
read t6 the woman of 25 the little
heart cry of the girl of 19—the girl
Aline had outgrown in her fatal leap
to womanhood six years before.
‘‘Ob, Tom, you can’t desert me now
—I won’t believe even your own
words. You can’t go to the other side
of the earth—and leave me to bear
the horror you suggest—the torturing
fear—the shame!”
“Do*you remember it?” asked the
arch fiend quite casually. Then he
went on slowly, each word a drop of
water falling, falling with delicate
torture on the same spot—a woman’s
pride—a girl’s joy in her honor.
To Be Continued To-morrow.
THE fSSBW FAMILY KSS CUPBOARD
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MOTHER COMES TO
DAUGHTER'S RESCUE
When, Daughter Thought,
Every Avenue of Escape
Closed, Mother Came
to Rescue.
LoulrvfTle, Ala.—In referring to her
-ecent troubles, Mrs. Bessie E. Bruce,
of thia town, says “After childbirth,
I suffered greatly with wasting, and
various womanly troubles, and was
n bed for six weeks. Half the time 1
could not move, only when I was
turned over by some one. Oh! how 1
suffered, no one knows j
“T was told that I would have to go
through an operation, but at the time
of the operation I was too weak to
undergo it, and I decided t^ere was
no chance for ms
"As a last resort my mother ad
vised me to try Cardui, the woman’s
onlc, and my husband bought me a
buttle. 1 could tell from the first
lat it was doing rtie good, and by
it* time f had taken the first bottle I
could stand on my feet. 1 got another
bottle, and before I had taken 1t up I
was just about well. The pains all
stopped, and in a short while 1 was
able to do my work.
“1 know that Cardui saved my life,
and I would not be without it in the
house. I almost waited too long, and
T advise all suffering women not to
wait, but to begin taking Cardui at
once.”
Your druggist sella Cardui. Get a
oottle to-day
N. B.—Write to. Ladles’ Advisory
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anooga Tenn , for Special Instructions,,
and 64-page book, ‘Home Treatment for'
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•nest—Advft.
(Novelized byl
(From Owen Davis' play now being pre
sented at the Playhouse. New York, by
William A. Bradv Copyright, 1913, by
International News Service.)
TODAY’S INSTALLMENT
"Not for a mltlion. Tm through with
that game I can't fluit. I won’tl Not
fpr a million! Don’t talk to me any
more -I’m sick of it," said Kitty,
crossly
A little of the gloom went out of
Dick’s face he shrugged his shoulders
an<! smiled with a slight change of
stress. Dick Le Roy was not quite
through yet.
Kitty rose and began walking un
easily about the room
"Where’s Ken?" he yawned. “He
seems to be out early Never thought
how much earlier than the bird who
caught him, Mr. Early Worm, must
have got up!"
"He’s looking for the job he's talking
about," said Dick.
Kitty glared at him then more ac
cusingly at Jim.
"This room Is in fine condition. I sup
pose Potter won't officiate while you are
here.”
"Potter has flew the coop along with
the rest of the Nelson family!” an
nounced Dick, succinctly.
Jim tried to he peacemaker.
“What’s a little dirt?” he questioned
pleasantly; "it’s healthy!”
Kitty flung herself into another chair
with an obvious air of bored discon
tent. Dick stared toward her with an
access of tenderness. He stood back
of her for a moment "Kitty," he said,
low and soft The girl did not stir.
Dick stood earnestly thinking for a
minute, and then he made for the
piano stool He sat down, struck a
rancous chord or two, and then, as if
suddenly given an idea, he exclaimed:
"Say Jim! Play that thing for
me, will you? I think you know it."
He stepped back with an ingratiating
bow and a fine flourish
"Every one on this floor knows it,"
grumbled Jim.
But the tone and the smile tempted
him. He got up and strolled noncha
lantly toward the piano. He sat down
and played a scale, then some chords.
There was a dash and a swing in his
stooped figtire He played through
Dick's favorite. "Meet Me in Spoon
Time. Dearie,” and turned for his meed
of praise Dick was grinning broadly.
His experiment bade fair to work! Kit
ty was leaning forward, gazing at Jim
with a sort of speculative respect,
"Fine!” exclaimed Dick.
"Got a light?” asked Jim quite as if
Dick were In the habit of fetching him
matches. So easily success succeeds!
"My piano playin’ is gettln’ sont of
rusty lately, and I got a. stiff thumb
where my old horse bjt me. Maybe I
made a mistake glvin’ up my music—
but I always did love a cab! The click-
ety click of the bosses’ hoofs is some
music, too—but them blamed taxi clocks
a tickin’ is not at all to my earl”
He lit his pipe, puffed away furiously
to see that it drew quite well, then
turned to the piano and went on.
"Talk about your tin-pan operas—
this sofig reminds me of an off-day in
a barber shop!" he ventured in a su
perior tone—delighted at this sudden
admission to an equal footing with Dick
LeRoy, and bound to make the mbst
of it while it lasted!
He played the song quite through
Dick sang it. At the end of the verse
they both turned anxiously to Kitty.
They were both actuated by the same
desire to reach her—to penetrate her
reserve—to make her consider them and
the things they could do. So the ban
tam rooster struts before h1s hens.
"How It is?” asked Dick anxiously.
"As full of expression as a disap
pointed oyster," said Kitty vigorously
if inelegantly.
Her Indifference was falling from
her. She looked suddenly vibrant and
full of life. "Here! Play It over
again," she cried.
"What! AGAIN?" exclaimed Jim.
"Yes! I’ll show you!" v
The Break.
Kitty leaped to her feet -buoyant,
sparkling -and fairly bubbling with en
ergy All the lassitude and Indiffer
ence had fled. She made a mocking
little bow to Dick, and stood hesitating
a moment, asway, ready to leap into
pictured motion.
Dick's face expressed his delight.
This was more than he had dared hope.
Why. he HAD Kitty!
In a throaty little soprano she hum
med the tune. Then she caught her
narrow skirts high. pirouetted and
pranced a moment and. becoming at
last quite sure of herself, began to dip
and sway to the syncopated music of
the dance.
She stopped, sang the chorus through,
bowed to a mythical audience—ana
then ran toward Dick with her eves
aflame.
"Shall we do it together! Want to
xlanee with me?”
"Want to dance with you? Gee—Kit
ty, you witchi”
He caught her roughly in his arms.
Jim went on playing the sensuous
music of Dick’s song He did not
glance up. He had found himself
again. Under his chapped old fingers
the piano gave out luring, witching,
velvet melody.
Dick anil Kitty swayed and whirled
in each other’s arms. A little wisp of
her hair trembled out from under her
hat and laid its soft gold across Dick’s
face. He caught It between his lips
and drew her pulsing young body close
in his embrace. Pink banners were fly
ing in Kitty's face. Her eyes were blue
flame This was living! Closer came
Dick’s burning eyes. He loosed the
strand of hair and sought her lips with
his. She trembled a little but did not
draw away. Kitty May was knowing a
real emotion—a big feeling, though It
was born of the sensuous strains of
the dance. She had forgotten herself
and her plans.
Dick's lips found hers—clung a mo
ment—and then the music stopped with
an awakening crash.
Kenneth Nelson stood In the door
way. His face was pale—he looked like
a man awakening from a bad dream.
Had he seen?
Kitty pushed Dick away petulantly.
"Dick, I’m surprised at you! 1
wouldn’t go to all that trouble trying
to teach you the tango if I’d thought
you would take such shameful advan
tage of a latfy!"
"Oh, It’s you!” Dick spoke con
temptuously and ignored the scene that
had Just passed, and all necessity for
apology.
"You get but. I’m still a hit above
entertaining chauffeurs in my apart
ment. and don't you ever dare to smoke
that pipe in here again! This is neither
a servant’s hall nor a barroom. I won’t
tell you that again."
"Why the grouch?' queried Kitty
lightly.
"I won’t have It! You go! said
•Kenneth.
This time Kitty did not think It worth
her while to Indulge In a bit of play
acting and add a histrionic, "James;"
"Oh. all right," said Jim. the oft-
snubbed. "I don’t ^£©e much In this
place, anyway, but let me tell you some- |
thing, young feller. Pride’s all right j
when you are somebody, but when It
ain’t travelin’ with a bank-roll it’s a
bum stall."
He slammed the door after him. The
measure of the fall of the ’ son of the
house of Nelson was marked by the fact
that Jim Garrtty slammed the door after
him and that Kitty scorned to pretend
indignation at her supposed servant's
Imprudence Instead, she said very
coldly;
"Now I suppose you are satisfied!''
"Satisfied! Good heavens, Kitty. I
am learning a gTeat deal lately. But
It takes time to learn to associate with
some of your friends."
Dick came toward Kenneth in ruf
fled Indignation and with threatening
manner.
“Kitty's friends are hard to asso
ciate with—eh? Meaning me—per
haps?”
"Perhaps!" said Ken very coldly.
"I suppose you can pull that haughty
stuff on me Just because I owe you a
few dirty dollars ”
Kenneth answered with a quietness of
manner that almost impressed Pick—
at least it made him honest in reply.
"When I had money I shared It will
ingly. It has been a lesson to me—to
see how quickly your manner changed
More Money.
when you found out that It was gone.’
"Why wouldn’t it?” exclaimed Mr.
Le Roy, disingenuously. "What else
would I want of you? I'll see you be
fore I go, Kitty, but I’m done!"
"Dick, too! I suppose Fll be next!”
she flung out, bitterly.
The boy crossed to her, his arms held
out. In the tone of his sad young
voice there was something of the love
that had not yet been destroyed—some
thing of the despair that was destroy
ing everything.
"Kitty!” he pleaded.
The girl drew away from him petu-
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lantly. What use had she for a piker
—a failure? She hardened that hard
little muscle called her heart.
"No! You’ve started something—how
are you going to finish it? I can’t see
It! You don’t seem to be very well
able to take care of Kenneth Nelson—
let alone Kitty May!”
To Be Continued To-morrow.
GIVE HIM AN EASY CHAIR
Miss Mary Lea Davis:
Let the wife give husband an
easy chair. She wrll enjoy see
ing him comfortable.
MRS. S. P.
Madison, Ga.
MONEY FOR THE WIFE.
.Miss Mary Lea Davis:
My idea of a present for a wife
is $5 or $10 that she can spend as
she sees fit. I know by expe
rience. J. L. P.
Fitzgerald, Ga.
A REPLENISHED WARDROBE.
Miss Mary Lea Davis:
I give my husband the things
he needs most. 1 replenish his
run-down wardrobe and pay for
it out of my own earned money.
He ib always delighted.
Kirkwood, Ga. MRS. J.
MONEY FOR PRESENTS.,
Miss Mary Lea Davis:
I always give my wife the
money that she wishes to spend
for Christmas gifts. She buys her
own gift and seems pleased with
the arrangement. W. J. O’B.
Atlanta, Ga.
A GRAFONOLA
Miss Mary Lea Davis:
A Grafonola and some choice
records is about the best pres
ent a wife can give her husband:
that is. if he likes music, and most
men do. MRS. W. F. M.
Atlanta, Ga.
HIS HOME PAPER
Miss Mary T^ea Davis:
I think the best Christmas gift
a wife can give her husband is a
year’s subscription to hla homo
paper. It reminds him of tho
giver each day that It arrives.
MRS. M. W
Atlanta, Ga.
MONEY FOR HUSBAND.
Miss Mary Lea Davis:
I am going to give my husband
the money and let him purchase
his own present. Then I know he
will get just whar ha wa.trrs and
be pleased as a result
MRS. Qk W, T
Atlanta. Ga.
A DAILY REMINDER
Miss Mary Lea Davis:
I think a man likes to reed \
good daily paper when he come*
In from his work and T am golnjx
to present my husband with
year’s subscription to The Geor
Sian. MRS. R. G
Dallas, Ga.
A WOMAN’S IDEA
Miss Mary Lea Davis:
I suggest as the most appro
1 prlate gift for the husband a re a'
promise to spend the next year
at home looking after his and the
children’s Interests. That would
be appreciated In many home®
next year. MRS. S. A. W
Atlanta, Ga.
LOVE AND RESPECT
Miss Mary I,ea Davis:
Give your wife love and reaper t
and thank her for her kindness
and admire her In her effort to
please you, and she will aocep
any gift from you if true sent!
ment is felt, from a block o*
chewing gum to a beautiful home
Roberta, Ga. J. L. D
LIKE USEFUL GIFTS
Miss Mary Lea Davis:
Men, as a rule, appreciate nse
ful gifts therefore I make it a rule
to give my husband the thing*
I know he wants. I always ma!"
a. note of the things I hear him
say he needs. Some of the thing*
very much appreciated by hin
were a leather bill fold, a hand
embroidered collar bag, a pair of
gold cuff links with the raon«
gram engraved, a hand-mads
newspaper case with a pocket for
each day of the week. Thit
proved to be a great convert
lence. He also found much com
fort in an easy chair and bed
room slippers
Eiberton, Ga. MRS. C. A, P
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