Atlanta Georgian. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, December 12, 1913, Image 12
$ Even You Old Scrooges Must Admit There Is Nothing in This World as Empty as an Empty Stocking
AT BAY i
Thrilling Story of
Society Blackmailers
Youth and Age
Coprrtfht. 1*18. latsnutieea] Km Ferric*.
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From the play by George boar
•rough. now being presented at the
’"hliijr-nlnth Street Theater. New ^ ork
-©rial right* f old and copyrighted by
ntemational News Service.)
TO-DAY’S INSTALLMENT.
Honest sir.*' said Tommy In grow-
g fear of thla big. Arm man
tvho’a Leen here to-night*’" thtin*
■red th# Interlocutor.
For the briefest second the boy her
tated. and Holbrook caught hla eye
"A man/' raid Tommy.
What'a his name*
vgain the boy hesitated
•T don't know.” he said at last In a
reathleea tone.
The Chief looked for a flickering mo-
ent from the soldier to the hoy
■■T)M he come before or after I was
hereT* asked Holbrook In the matter-
of-fact tone of a aeeker after knowledge
The Chief betrayed surprise HOL
BROOK HAD BREN HERB—WHY, he
wondered Aloud he said.
"You were here to*nlght, Csptsln?”
Oh, yes. Chief, but the boy said
Flagg wasn't at home.” Then address
ing Tommy, he continued In a per-
fectly pleasant tone: "And I'll bet you
lied to me when you said It—didn't
your*
He-he didn't want to see you
again." murmured poor Tommy
The Chief looked thoughtfully af Hol
brook. Later they would both remem
ber Tommy's admission.
The Faptaln continued his question
ing- "But who was the other man who
came after I did*"
"I don’t know, sir."
Ah, yes you do! Out with it! His
name!” thundered the Chief
Ion©*.” whimpered Tommy.
'What did he want?" Tommy best
ta'ed ‘‘Got any handcuff*, DonnellT*'
"Sure, Chief.”
* I’’.ease don't!” cried Tommy In hor
ror ‘He sold my uncle a letter! It’s
In the drawer, there!”
On the Rack.
Chief Dempster opened the letter and
smiled with an ironical twist of his
grim lips Now that it waa too late for
the court of law now that Jutaon Flagg
was claimed by the. higher law—the
proof of his despicable blackmailing las
In his hunter's hand.
“Who killed your uncle?" he shot at
Tommy with disarming suddenness.
"I don’t know, sir He called me —I
was in bed and -"
"What time?”
" \bout eleven. I think—I opened the
uoor and answered "
’•And then*'' went on the Inquisitor,
f hurried down and uncle was
• edd " The boy sobbed out some of
his forlorn aloneness "Then I opened
the window and oa’led 'police.' "
Donnell grinned: "You could have
ieard him across the Potomac."
The third degTe* continued.
' How long after you heard your uncle
t ailing did you get here*"
"About half a minute.”
"And you're sure there was nobody
here at all?”
"No, air. asserted the frightened boy
with certainty He wondered dully If
they would try to fasten the crime on
him why. he had loved hla Uncle Jud—
and he was alone now—surely they
cou’d not intend taking him off to the
prison.
"Only «>ne answer. Chief " broke In
Holbrook, with calm assurance. The
more bitterly certain he became of the
true answer, the more desperately h*
wondered if he could make the trail
lead away from the girl who must not
be hunted, hounded by the death of
the blackmailer an she had been by his
life.
"This rose' Where did this come
from*” went on the Inexorable ques
tioner.
Breathless stillness for a moment.
Larry wondered if his heart was likely
to ruffle the tucks on hla frilled shirt.
"1 don’t know. sir. My uncle didn’t
nave any rose* " As if In sooth a
spider would have a pretty taste In pink
roses!
• He might have bought out a florist
after you went up«tairs.” declared
Larry
A Danger Line.
did not flinch. Now row was the mo
ment when he must decide and decide
quickly, what to DO.
The Telephone Call.
But Tommy shook his head vaguely.
The chief tried another tack.
"When did ahe call?”
"While the man was here, about half
past 10 ”
"Was she to coine here*”
"I think so.”
Chief Dempster allowed himself tht
relaxation of a full smile.
"Now will you b© good, Captain?"
He crossed to the telephone while Hol
brook turned the battery of hla qu©s
tlon marks on Tommy. But mercifully
enough, the lad had no more to tell;
and "central” seemed a bit uncertain
about tracing the call that had been
received on Flagg’s phone at 10 90
But now there entered a new sleuth
hound to ferret out the scent of the
trail Inspector McIntyre came to Join
forces with Chief Dempster
And at the chiefs answer to McIn
tyre’s, “Well, what have we here?" Hol
brook winced anew For the word that
followed was so hopelessly ugly and
the (rell he had tried to confuse lay ao
hopelessly plain. Would the Govern
ment'a hunting dogs give tongue soon
would the pitiless pack of the law fol
low the scent? For this Is what Demp
ster said
"Murder and a tough proposition.
too."
To add to the danger -there was a
plain clothes man detailed to give the
whole house hla careful Inspection.
And now Tommy’s examination was
resumed. Even the reflection that
Tommy probably liked it no better than
he did was of small cheer to Aline's
self-appointed protector.
"Tommy, Is this a flashlight for thal
camera *"
"Yes. sir."
"Where do those wires run*"
"The desk.”
"Oh—did he take pictures?”
Tommy nodded
"Himself?”
Tommy nodded again
"What for?"
"T—I don’t know, sir
"Take any to-night?”
"I—I think so."
"Out with It. kid." thundered the
chief.
"The man’s picture” . . . stumbled
off Tommy’s gray and twitching lips.
“Tell us about it quick or you’ll
get a free ride." said the Inspector, tak
ing a hand In the game.
"The camera stayed up there—on the
top of the bookcase with a plate in It
—and the flashlight ready my uncle al
ways took anybody’s picture when they
first came to see him.”
“Did he get mine?" asked Holbrook j
with a flash of the wit that no diffi
culties could ever quite restrain.
"No, sir.”
"Go on.” said the Inspector, who did
not consider this the time for jesting
"My uncle Just pushed the button
and the camera opened and the flash !
exploded. When my uncle called me,
I heard the flash—and I heard my un
cle say: ‘I get your picture for the
police!"
And at the awful possibilities of the
single sentence, Holbrook’s staunch
heart went dizzy and faint.
Whose picture would thaj all-reveal
ing camera contain? Whose picture had
Flagg, devilishly resourceful and re
vengeful even in death, taken for the j
police? Who would be given over by j
that picture to the police?
The Chief was blazing his trail now
Or, as Holbrook pictured it, the blood
ed dog was nosing out the scent—and
he would follow It to the death.
"That's the stuff—there was your
powder-smoke, Captain ’Get your pic
ture for the police'—don’t sound like
suicide, does it. I^arry, me boy?" He
laughed In triumph.
"No It sounds like a pipe dream to
me.'' said I^arry the dauntless
"Take charge of that camera. Don
nell.” ordered the Inspector. "And don't
let it out of your hands a second.”
"Yes sir,” said Donnell, taking the
camera carefully In his left hand and
keeping the right arm ready for at
tack or defense For absolute safety
he rested the camera on a high chair
back and held It full In the range of
his unwavering eyes.
Holbrook wondered Idly how many
men an ex-soldier could handle. And
BY NELL BRINKLEY j THE FAMILY CUPBOARD
A Dramatic Story of High Society Life in New York
[Novelized byl
(From Owen Davis' play now being pre
sented at the Playhouse, New York, by
William A. Brady -Copyright, 1913, by
International News Service.)
TO-DAY’S INSTALLMENT
"She's Just fhe Sams with me—quits
me cold, like this—then blmeby. shell
come back and Rive me all she'e got
Kenneth looked up, his attention sud
denly arrested, hts mind focuesing on
•lames. - ’
"Why should she give you anything?!.’
“I’M HER FATHER," answered Jim
very quietly and simply.
Kenneth looked at him tor a mo
ment tn sheer horror So. this maudlin
eld driver of cabs—this servant with
his vapid-old face waa—Kitty's father!
He laughed bitterly. He had sacrlllced
so much—for so little. He had Judged
hie values with sueh youthful cocksure
ness. He had turned his back on the
old life he knew—he had driven away
at last even a tine old friend like Pot-
ter—and all for the faithless daughter
of old Jim Garrlty.
But Jim was Inured to Insult. He had
no pergonal pride to take arms for of
fense or defense. He went on with a
sort of meek resignation that, if either
of them had known it, was own human
brother to Ken’s attitude of hopeless
helplessness.
"Sure! I’m her father. She’s
ashamed to have the gentlemen know
it. so she takes me as a servant when
she’s keepln’ house with one of ’em.”
Who He Really Was.
"One of them? Good God! One of
them! Has there been more than one*’’
Ken sprang up—he stood facing the
old cab driver.
"Began when she was about six
teen.”
"I know"’ said Ken full bitterly.
"Workln’ In a store on ”
"Yes!" exclaimed the tortured boy.
“He weren’t a bad sort. He’d a
married her, I think—only he died."
Kenneth had turned hla hack on the
narrator of Kitty’s story, and was gaz
ing out of the window- out where there
was sunshine and clean air a man might
breathe without polluting and choking
1 his lungs to the point of anguished suf
focation.
Now he whirled about, and came
'quickly—almost menacingly toward Jim.
"NO! NO! HE DIDN’T DIE!” he
cried with his bitter certainty.
"Sure he did! Su-re!” said Jim pa
tiently. “I was to his funeral. Kin®
big feller—name of Sam Livingstone
Big Sam Livingstone ”
Completely overcome — with wav®
after wav© of horror sweeping over
him—with the cruel vision of his blow
In defense of this girl—with the awful
phantasmagoria of his misspent dayi
and nights—for this—woman—with bit-
terness clouding his eyes and wrenching
at the foundations of his mind, Ken
sank—spent, weary, baffled and beaten
Into the only refuge ha could hope for
now—the relaxation of his deep old
chair! THE TRUTH AT LA8T. And
truth was a two-edged sword to emit®
him!
His Only Thought.
"Then there was " went on Jim,
with the shameless rell«h of the scan
dalmonger who finds an audience to
whom hie tale of horror *;• new.
"Don’t! Ha, ha, ha, hi, ha! Don't!
It's too funny! It’s too funnyl Hs, hi,
hal Don’t tell me any more!" Thor®
wrs no mirth In Ken’s laughter. But
to him It seemed that he was a suc
cessful raconteur—and wtth delight in
the success of his story telling he went
on. How could he teH a mind was
breaking before him?
"She’s drifted around, sort of, for the
last ten years. She’s a bit older than
she lets on, but she never says any
thing—she’s smart, but she’s always on
the move. I think a lot of Kitty. But
—she ain’t—always very good to me!”
The maudlin old weakling knew no
shame for what his daughter was. No
horror of how ahe came by the means
for being “good” to him—he only felt
terror and resentment at being desert
ed, left in the lurch now. Perhaps—
perhaps that she had such a father was
the reason why Kitty was—Kitty!
"She never struck you—did she? Sha
never struck you?"
Jim was quite shocked at the thought.
"No! She wouldn’t do that!”
Kenneth laughed again hysterically.
"Well. I got to go look for a job. I
f uess, till she drifts back again.” said
im. with resigned patience. “Jobs is
hard to get nowadays—all I know is
drlvin' a cab—an’ these here darned
taxis ” He had almost a philosophic
tone of resignation and meekness.
Ken interrupted. "Here!” He stooped
and picked up the money he had >:
ten for this man's daughter--the 1 s
he had dropped to the floor in the emo
tion of learning that phe was .Tim's
daughter. He picked up the roll «f
bills and he’d It out.
Jim took it wondering—and slowly
counted It.
To Be Continued To-morrow.
100 STORES WHERE YOUR CREDIT IS GOOD
Y OUTH is thankful that It has YOUTH; thankful for the faery
things that go with it; for the dreams that are; for the things
that are to be; for the daring that swells its heart and takes
Old Time by the beard; for the stir and the strife of life; for red blood
and love; for the colors and flowers and gems that go with this decorat
ing-time of life; for the mighty joy of TO-DAY and most of all for the
high, delicate hopes of what IS TO COME! Age is thankful that its
feet and body are warm—that a soft chair closes it round; thankful for
the things that it has known; for the dreams that came true and that
it can forget those that never did; thankful for the wisdom that keeps
ita heart from hurting and loving too deeply; for the peace that it has
found; for the youth that sometimes surrounds it; for a fine old book
and the crackling hearth—and, most of all, for the end of strife for
the warm, even heart-beat that finds pleasure in meditation and feels
no more the tormenting, bitter-sweet flame that distracts the heart of
youth. Youth and old age; wild birds and dozing pussies—each thank
ful for so widely different things!
A Widow in
Distress
Th© chief chop© to ignore him That i then he decided that the diplomat s
worried our Irishman a bit Never a
bit did be mind being disputed, refuted
• -ver but to b© ignored, that shewed
that the chief wa* doing his own thlnk-
rg along a line of his own—a danger
u nc.
• You didn't hear the oiftside door be-
or© or after you came in here?”
* No. sir ”
"You opened the window right away?”
"Yes. sir.”
"And you stayed at the window until
\ou saw the police coming*"
"Yes, sir ”
“And you didn't. Donnell?”
"No, sor
The chief spoke wilh quiet certainty
that fell on Holbrook's heart with dead,
ly force. "BEFORE THE BOY GOT
r HK WINDOW OPEN SHE MADE
. HE CORNER.”
"SHE Chief?" inquired the captain,
with elaborate unconcern - and the while
he wondered that nobody heard hla
heart doing a reel that would be Attest
for a wake
"IT WAS A WOMAN! YOU
THOUGHT SO YOURSELF WHEN
YOU FIRST CAME IN!”
"I thought so? Oh, Chief, you’re
,esting. I thought —
"You caught perfume in the air!”
Holbrook countered easily. "Perfume
isn't confined to women." H© sniffed
at that.
"I think a woman called my uncle on
the phone.” ventured Tommy.
"Ah. the arrant young cub. now.”
thought Captain Larry. “If I couldn’t
die* ipline him for that volunteer serv-
ce!”
"Who waa she?” snapped the chief
iujibreo*.* kauakiaa sMuria—Lux m
Waiting game must be his
"What’s in that room*” asked th© In
spector in a curt tone. Then, still more
curtly, he pushed Tommy before him
into the darker inner den of the dead
spider The plain clothes tnen and Chief
Dempster followed on the tour of in
spection. leaving the room to the grim,
sprawling dead form the guardian of
the camera, and the hopeful fighter for
a lost cause
Larry Holbrook came and stood by
the able of this other Irishman. On
his face was a cordial smile that was
Just matched by the unctuous one on
Donnell's countenance. Larry’s fingers
were twitching to be at that camera.
Donnell s Angers were firm on it.
"Didn't ye have a brother named Mike
Donnell In the Fifth Cavalry?’’ began
Captain Holbrook, in a pleasantly con
versational tone
"No, Captain.” replied the guardian of
the place, smiling
Holbrook took a judicial survey of
the other man.
“Indeed? Well, ve favor each other
very much." The bit of a brogue was
very much In evidence for its brotherly
effect.
Quite casually now' he began to ex
amine the camera "Old fashioned sort
of a contrivance that eh. Donnell?”
"Looks like a good one. though.” re
turned Donnell with due importance.
" 'Tis—German lens.” And now, hav
ing seen just enough for his purpose.
Captain Holbrook changed the subject
with disarming purp-'selessnesv
"This Donnell ! knew Ir. the army
used to be on the New York police
force." the figure* twitched toward the
camera again But iVrimll’s eyes were
twin wvteh dogs
a* Centmusi T#• merre**.
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
Dear Miss Fairfax.
I am a young widow'. 28 years
of ago, and for the past three
years a man has been trying to
Induce me ot marry him. I re
fused hint repeatedly, telling him
that I did not intend to marry
anyone. He induced me to prom
ise that if I over married 1 would
marry him. Some time ago I met
a man whom l love very much,
and married him. Since then the
other ban has become a wreck and
says ho can not live without mo.
1 love my husband very much,
and lie loves me. but I can not
be happy know ing that the other
man U unhappy on account of
mo Ho says that if I would let
him sec me sometimes it would
make it easier for'him. Please
advise me if it would be tight if I
should let him see me.
S O if you should see him some
times it would make it easier
for him—would It?
Well, how about making It easier
for you?
And then the man you’ve married—
what about him?
You’ve promised to love and honor
him Do you think you would be
honoring him if you saw this other
man just because the other man wants
you to do so?
When you married your husband
you gave up every sentimental obli
gation you ever owed or might, could,
would or should owe to any other
man on earth as long as that hus
band Is alive and you live with him
This man w ho Is anxious to have
you think about him when he knows
you are married and ought to forget
him isn’t worth anybody’s thought—
for a single minute.
If he was. ho would try to help you
—not try to harm you. He knows
perfectly well that lie Is asking you to
do something you have no right to
do at all—something which will get
you into trouble just so sure as you
even consider it for a minute.
Who iS he that he dares presume
so far?
When you married your husband
you were through once and for all
wit! till* man don’t see him again
at all if you can help it.
Don’t risk a good home and a good
husband for the sake cf a vain fool
w . want t* oaue you appear as
By WILLIAM F. KIRK.
jjiF that wart ever comes In here
I again and gets Into my chair
1 h© will think he Is gettlnf
shav©d at Fish’s Eddy by the oldest
inhabitant," said the Head Barber,
glaring after a retreating figure.
’’This is the fourth time he has been
In here ami I have caught him every
time. H© wants more waiting on
than Caruso, and he ain’t kicked in
with the sign of a tip one of the four
time* Walt till I catch him in this
chair again!”
"You should be more patient and
gentle. George.” said the Manicure
Lady, soothingly. "As we Journey
through life we ran Into a lot of
queer nuts, and you must treat them
kind of forbearing the way you
would treat a lost child. That's the
way T go along, and I find that it
makes rqe more happy than putting
the b®e to folks that is » thorn In my
aids
"T ain't never noticed that ou have
any patience to sell," declared the
Hoad Barber * I have heard > ou
recent enough telling some guy where
to get off
"Never unless I have plenty of vo
cation. George. ’• said the Manicure
Lady "It takes a awful !o; to gel
m«. When I ain’t got perfect control
of my temper of course there la
times when I burn up a little, but as
a rale I try to b© kind and gentle tc
all which comes Into my dally life. 1
believe I will live longer that war.
and as Robsrt Moore, the Scotch
poet, once wrote. 'A# we Journey
through life, let us live quite s
while.’ ”
"I don’t expect tips from every
one.” said the Head Barber, "but
when a man wants a lot of extra
service he ought to dig down and pay
for It That’s what gets my goat—
a man wantinr the whole barber
shop and th*n sneaking out without
paying me nothing extra for my
trouble."
“There is folks In this world that
the more they get the more they ex
pect." observed the Manicure Lady,
i "The old gent was telling mother and
me last night about a fellow that
worked for him !t seems that the
eid gent was going through his fac-
* *
tory one day and he saw a old fel
low there that used to work beside
him when they ras boys together.
That was when father was poor and
th# factory was small. He asked the
old fellow If he was still working at
the same Job, and the old fellow said
he was. 'Well,’ says father, ‘you
have worked long enough. Go home
and rest from now on. and you will
get your check Just the same every
week.’
"That’s the kind of a sport my
father Is. George, but that ain’t the
end of the story. For about six
months he didn’t see no more of the
old fellow, and kept sending his check
regular, but at the end of the six
months the old fellow actually had
the nerve to come to him and say
that he thought he ought to have a
raise' Father thought he was Joking
at first, but the old fellow explained
that on account of the high cost of
living he had to have a raise Now
If he had kept on slaving in the fac
tory h© wouldn’t have ever asked for
a raise Can you beat that?"
' I suppose your father gave him a
raise.” said the Head Barber.
"He did not,” said the Manteuro
Lady. Father tied a can to him and
aln t never saw him since You
wouldn’t think any man would be
hoggish enough to asW for a ralae
when he was pensioned, would you?”
"I d think anything.” said the Head
Barber, gloomily. Maybe he is the
father of that guy 1 Just shaved."
Going Cheap.
Some time ago a man was awak
ened in the night to find his wife
weeping uncontrollably.
"My darling' he exclaimed, what
Is the matter*’’
"A dream”' ahe gasped *T have had
euch a horrible dream."
Her husband begged her to tel! it
to him in order that he might com
fort her. After long persuasion sh«
was Induced to say this
"l thought I was walking down the
artreet. and I came to a warehouse
where there was a large placa-d
’Husbands for sale.' You could get
beautiful ones for fifteen hundred dol
lars or even for twelve hundred, and
very nice looking ones for as low as
a hundred ."
The husband asked Innocently;
"Did you see any that looked ike
me ?"
The sobs became strangling
"Dozens f them." gasped the wife,
"done up in bunches like asparagu#,
and sold for ten cents a bunch.”
Up-to-Date
Jokes
"Speaking of hens," said an Ameri- 1
can traveler, "reminds me of an old j
hen my dad had on a farm in Da
kota. She would hatch out anything ]
from a tennis ball to a le’mon. Why, '
one day she sat on a piece of Ice and , I
hatched out two quarts of hot water. ’
“That doesn’t come up to a club
footed hen my old mother once had."
said one of his hearers. "They had |
been feeding her by mistake on saw
dust instead of oatmeal. Well, she t
laid twelve eggs and sat on them,
and when they were hatched eleven i
of the chickens had .wooden legs and 1
the twelfth was a woodpecker."
* * *
A clever lawyer succeeded in win
ning his client's case and getting the
better of a rather bumptious barris
ter. The latter couldn’t conceal his
chagrin, and, meeting his victorious
opponent In the smoke-room of the
hotel at which they were staying, he
remarked, in a loud and spiteful tone:
"Sir. is there any case too dirty for
you. or any criminal so much dyed
in crime that you won’t defend?"
"No." said the other. In a quiet I
tone. "What have you been doing j
now?”
• • •
A witty judge declared recently
that "a patriot was a man who re
fused to button his wife’s blouse. A
| martyr,” he went on. "Is one who at-
| tempts and fails, while a hero tries j
j and succeeds.’’
"Then, what is a coward?" asked a
curious bystander.
' “Oh. a coward,” replied the Judge, i
j "is a man who remains single so that
he won’t have to try.”
* * *
“I am thinking of touring in South
| Africa next season,” remarked the cp- ,
; median.
“Take my advice and don’t.” replied
| the villain. An ostrich egg weighs
j from two to three pounds.”
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