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A Thrilling Story of Society
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(From the play by Georg,
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TO-DAY’S INSTALLMENT.
A Filipino boy—his namt
—but (I’ve out off the ‘din
him a Christian.”
Harney' smiled vaguely at the witti
cism and departed.
"Flagg has just died suddenly an
hour,ago,” went on the Captain. "Chief
Shannon calls Flagg's death a murder
1 called It a suicide.
"Well?" asked the doctor, quietly.
Tho diagnosis of this rase was very
imperfect as yet.
"There’ll he an autopsy. The Coroner
will be under the domination or at least
under the Influence of the police. I want
an independent surgeon present—a mar
of personal courage and of authority
in his profMSlOXti
THERE’
"I can't do that.” said the doctor firm
ly There was no anger in his tone
only surprise that such a man as Hol
brook should ask a favor like this.
"You can’t do that -you can’t
what?”
"Assist in an autops>
"You ran witness it, can't you? '
"I don’t rare to.”
"Who does rare to? But as a duty.
Why, I've a vital interest In be
lieving this man a suicide."
"Are you asking me to distort the
far ts?"
"Do you think I’d Insult you? To
prevent their distortion—I want a man
of my own there to see all that’s dons
or discovered. . . . It’s a matter of
life ami death, doctor and every move
must be covered expertly. . . . There’ll
be the best lawyers money can get And
they’ll want to confer with a man of
their kind the best surgeon money can
get not a coroner but Doctor Franols
Elliott the last word In his profes
sion
"When Is this?”
"At daylight. 1 think—I’ll find out?”
"My assistant could —" began the
doctor, move/1 In spite of himself by the
plejj by the ring of desperate earnest
ness in Holbrook’s voice.
"Your assistant won’t do. . . . Come,
now. doctor, would you send vour as
sistant if I was to be cut open my
self 0 "
"No but
The Warning.
"THIS IS A THOUSAND TIMES
MORE IMPORTANT TO ME. . .
"Who's that?” usked the doctor, nerv
ously. as if caught in some flagrant
wrongdoing, as he heard the sound of a
knock on the door.
"How can I he telling through a wul-
nut door?" luughed I^arry. easily. He
went toward it, nodding toward the de
canter of whisky the while. "Help
yourself—’tis a fine bracer, they tell*
me.”
But Dr. Francis Elliott knew well
that the "brucer” might stimulate for
tiie moment but the pendulum would
swing back again, ami depleted inan-
hoiKi would pay in greater nervousness
for the toll the "bracing" drink had
demanded for its moment of warmth,
lie smiled atid poured himself a cup of
tea!
"Ah. Father Shannon come in," cried
I<arrv in the warm tone of affection that
crept into ids voice at the sight of this
fine man and friend and preacher.
"I’ve very urgent business. Captain.’
said the father in a Voice whose hid
den pain betrayed that the business that
brought him was indeed "urgent."
"I’m leaving." said the doctor, dryly.
"Not without your promise to do w hat
1 askej you." interposed l#arry. Into
his vole** came some of that command
ing quality that had kept Tommy Gil
bert from telling too much at the
"third degree” in the spider’s den.
There was a pause and none of the
men could dream how much hung on
that moment of silence.
"I promise.” said Doctor Francis
Elliott.
"God bless you I'll phone the horn- "
And I .a wi ener* Holbrook closed the
door after ills guest after the guest
whose visit had meant so much, much
more than he could know
"Larry," said the Father with slow
meaning. "There’s a lady In my taxi
cab downstairs."
Eaperlv and nnxlously the Irishman
spoke “Herself?”
"Herself"' cried the son of the land
of mists and dreams — and action, when
there was a cause that caught the ten
der Irish heart. "Herself!"—and In all
the world there was but one woman that
could mean to Captain Lawrence Hol
brook.
The Father nodded ' To see you "
"Bring her up please." cried the (Tap-
tain. What if she should be seen by
some midnight marauder . . what if
some one found her alone »n a taxi-
rab outside of Washington's greatest
bachelor eyrie .if the deeds of that
black night had left Aline Graham one
shred of reputation, all who loved her
must seek to preserve it now!
She Arrives.
"Are you alone?” asked Father Shan
non
"(»nly my Filipino boy he’ll not come
until I call him."
The Father went to fetch the lady
and i h< man a h 1 >:a\ • > 1 Is rooms that
were >*<*on to be honored by the pres
ence of the woman he loved slayer
and fugitive from Justice though she
might be a critical inspection. He
whisk* d up the decanter and started
for the concealment of the buffet he
paused and returned the tra\ to the
table with a little gesture that said
"abide ir. peace just where you are.”
And to the flourish of returning the
decanter he added a question aloud in
the silence.
"No’ Why all this finesse" He
twisted his mount a bit wryly thereat
and walked to the door and stood wait
ing to welcome his guest.
"AUneT cried his heart aloud. Then
he closed the great doors of. Circassian
walnut and followed the girl across the
room.
Aline was again in soft browns of
the copper hue she loved. She rose
in the paleness of a lily from her calyx
of bronze. Could this girl of flower
like delicacy tx* all- be any of what the
scandal-mongerlr.g world would say she
was at her trial'* For to-dav the world
is not reminded that only the guiltless
may cast the first stone- and pebbles
and rocks alike hurtle about the head
of a woman who stands on trial before
the bar of "Justice.”
To Be Continued To-morrow.
Little Bobbie’s Pa
By WILLIAM F. KIRK.
I ” T snowed yesterday wen Pa
calm hoam last nlte he was two
(2) hours lait for dinner.
Ware have you been? sed Ma.
With the Sons of the Snow, soil Pa,
my deer old pals. Once 1 was pure
like the snow, but 1 fell, sed Pa. Hoo
ray.
Who in the world are the Sons of
Snow? sed Ma.
tt is a jolly bunch of fellows, Pa
sed, (hat get together onst every Fall
wen ibe first fall of snow cums. & we
have a littei celebrashun. They are
grand fellows, all of them, sed Pa. &
1 have belonged to the order for yeers.
I thought you knew about them.
No. I dident, sed Ma. Between yure
lodges & yure clubs you are a busy
cup of tea. Well, sed Ma, come now
& eet yure dinner.
Wen Pa was eettng his dinner he
was telling us how he culm to join
the Sons of the Snow. All of the boys
In this order was Wisconsin boys, sed
Pa. tVr you, of course, know thut it
snows n grate deel in Wisconsin. We
think of eoch other offen in tlie sum
mer, too, Pa wed. but wen the first
Hurries of snow cums out of the hev-
ings. the tellefone gits busy & we all
git together in sum snug tavern and
drive dull care away for three or four
hours, while the Wintry blast is
howling outside.
The snow, the snow, the beautiful
snow, sed Pa. I heeleeve peepul shud
git together moar 1 beeleeve in fra
ternity.
So do 1, sed Ma. & and that niaiks
me think, the Sisters of Song are
dimming <up to the house aggenn to-
nlte. I am glad you are here, for one
of the new members is a famus suf-
raget from England, & she wants t'>
talk to you about suffrage.
Then Pa began to look kind of blue.
1 am afrade that will conflick with a
engagement I made, he sed. The last
thing beefoar I left the Sons of Snow
? asked them all to cum up to the
house to-nite. I wanted my wife &
littei boy to see my noabel comrades.
1 know thay will not be at thare **ese
with a suffrage! around. Thay hear
all of that thay want to at hoam, sed
Pa.
1 doant think any of them will git
here If thay feel as sleepy as you look,
sed Ma. But if thay do cum I am
sure thay will enjoy meeting my
frends.
Then Pa went Into the library & lit
a seegar & sat down in his big chair
& started to smoak. Pa newer wares
carpet slippers like the married men
wlch I have red about that put on
thare slippers wen thay git hoam at
nlte. Bobbie, Pa toald me onst, nev-
ver ware carpet slippers if you git
married & have a hoam. A good sol-
Jer shud always l»e under lite march
ing orders, & maybe you mite want to
beat a retreet on sum winter nlte.
You wud newer be abel to git far in
yure carpet slippers, Pa sed, & the
enemy mite have yure shoes hid.
Pa Talked to me a few mlnnits, &
then h«» went to sleep in his chair.
The Sisters of Song calm to visit Ma,
but 1 shut the doar into the library &
Pa dident wake up. Ma & me let him
sleep until her frends had went hoam.
& then we woak him up & asked him
ware the Sons of Snow was.
Dident the boys cum? sed Pa.
No, se 1 Ma, the boys did not cum. I
knew thay wuddent cum. The gurls
was all here & have went. • Cum on.
now, deer Son «»f Snow, sed Ma. A go
to yure fleecy bed.
HIS was on a trolley car. where you hear lots of things! A sweet
j little voice-—that sounded like it usually used tletter grammar,
but was so excited that it forgot—piped out right behind iny
velvet back: "Ain’t it awful—WHEN YOU’RE HERE AND UK’S
THERE?” And I knew right away what was the matter, and I knew
that it was AWFUL.
< >h, all lovers who are far away from tho smile of one another’s eyes,
here’s ail kinds of wishes wishes that a special letter is starting lover-
ward this very night ; for fortune that will suddenly, in good humor,
twist your destiny so that you may lx* w lie re she is and she where you
may lie; for a private wire to girdle around the world: a lover’s line
with gold-dusty headed Danny for Central to fire every other folk off.
Oh. all good, f/ood wishes. For when there are two lovers and the two
of them make one, and the One is divided into Two- -and one hairs
on one coast and the other half is almost on the other- nothing’s right!
The sunset is a faded tiling. It used to be a heart of flame and feathery
fire when she watched it with you -and now it’s brown just BROWN!
The end of day used to lx* “twilight" and the Dills turned tender purple
in that short season between night and day—but now it just "gets
dark!” You watch the theater go dark at a moving picture show. The
square of Speechless Romance flashes on the screen the girl in the
picture looks like 1IEK! The passing stranger who hustles by you
on the street makes your heart trip up and hold its breath for a dizzy
moment. It looked like HIM—just as tall with a coat belted in—
could It l>o that lover of yours himself? This is a station (and it’s a
wild lunatic thought for you got a letter an hour ago and he was clear
across the continent then 1, but may lie lie has conjured himsclr ngnt
here. And then he turns the face of him around and. oh, my gracious!
how could vou ever think a plain chap like that could be the only man
in the worldV It IS awful “WHEN YOU ARE HERE AND HE IS
THERE.” And one mile might as well lie ten thousand and three
thousand feels iike two!
Advice to the Lovelorn
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
Up-to-Date Jofes
A 1
alk to the Ma
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX
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CERTAINLY.
Dear Miss Fairfax:
In keeping company, do you
think it is proper if a girl is
about a year older than a young
n an? STEADY READER.
A year’s difference in age is too
little to think about.
LET HIM DECIDE.
Dear Miss Fairfax:
We are two very attractive
young girls and have many ad
mirers. but both of us seem to
be infatuated with the same
young man. He is very bashful
and shy, and for that reason we
can not tell which of us he loves
the more. ANXIOUS.
That is something he alone knows
and the fact that he is impartial in
his attention indicates that his love
for both is the same. When he learns
his own heart he. will make the dis
covery known, and there is nothing
you can do to hasten the discovery.
THAT IS NO BAR.
Dear Miss Fairfax:
I have been in love with a girl
for three months. When I asked
her if she would marry me she
said she would marry me next
January. My mother said l should
not marry because she is blind
in on*? eye. J. B.
It is not clear to me who is af
flicted, the girl or your mother, but
in either case it is no bar to your
marriage.
So Changed.
"I gave up smoking to please her."
"Good! ”
"And drinking.”
"Well?"
"Now she says she finds me very
uninteresting.”
When at Brecon the other df -I
Archbishop of York told this stor, IlJ
said he would not say anything aiir.sa
Yorkshiremen, but they possess* onl
characteristic which might be cisiffl
ered as a virtue or as a defect, a<r.il
Ing i" the view they took of
Yorkshire native, who had beeom.\ I
to-do; was asked by some one -r d
subscript ion. lie demurred, ammajj
|
"But see how you have i>pen row
pered in your business." W her pud
he remark e/1:
"Don’t you come any of your ligi
ion on me. The Almighty wouldn't avd
trusted me with so much brass it Hd
didn’t think I could keep it!”
* * *
A well known university pror- rj
was lecturing to some students oihy
glene some time ago when one orhd
class from the provinces asked i1i:f
how he. the student, could safejanf
himself in drinking Croton water. ’he
professor rather startled him by riv
ing; |
‘First boil it. then filter it. aml'terl
that—drink beer.” j
Mr. Closecoyne (during his wife -••I
ception): "She gives 'em lights; hej
gives ’em music; she gives 'em >dj
flowers, champagne, and that's ’at]
she calls receiving."
# Tabloid Tales
What, Mother Dear, is meant by lead- ,
ing the double life?”
if a man. Innocent One. earns $100 a
month and gives his wife only $00.50
of it. she suspects him of leading a
Double •Life with the remaining half
dollar.
But has she grounds. Mother Dear,
for such a suspicion?
As a woman learns the other sex bet
ter. My Child, she learns she has
grounds for every - suspicion that enters
her head.
What. Mother, is the test of the suc
cess of a woman’s dinner party?
If every guest. My Dear, hunts a
dream book next day
In what. Mother Mine, does the
housewife find her most engrossing oc
cupation ?
1 can not determine. Daughter; hut
it seems to me to he one «*f two things
Either in keeping her spare room ready
for guests or in roaring because guests
are coming
Why, Mother, did you order the maid
to put the eggs in the bedroom? Sure
ly a sleeping room is no place for eggs
Hush. Little One there are burglars
about, and we will sleep to-night with
the eggs under our pillow
What. Mother, is a bandit? Are there
any these days?
In olden times Inquisitive One. a man
rode up to a house on a bold black
charger, and. picking up a maid, gal
loped off with her. In these days the
bandit is a woman who in a sweet, gen
tie voice gets the maid at her friend’s
house at the telephone, and steals her
away by offering her more wages The
minlern bandit is an object of greater
hatred than the bandit of old
What, Dearest Mother, is the Yule
Tide?
it is an expression of sentiment used
commonly Just before the 2oth
of December t'M* the purpose of hypno
tizing Father and getting his mind off
the bills.
In whar respect. Mother Mine, do you
think the Bible shows most that It was
written in ancient times?
In no place. Studious One, does it
say in re’&ting the downfall of Adam
that Eve was a blond.
What. Mother, is Hospitality?
It is a virtue. My Child, that has its j
origin In lonesomeness and careless j
housekeeping. The woman whose idol is
an immaculate house and a spotless I
tablecloth ts never out looking for
guests.
FRANCES L. GARS1DE
Dear Miss Fairfax:
I have been calling on a girl
for three years, and now I have
fallen in love with somebody else.
The somebody else is a cousin
who is visiting the other girl. I
think the cousin knows that I am
in love with her, and I know that
the other girl is very jealous.
What am I going to do about it?
EMBARRASSED.
I ~^ MBA BRASSED, well. 1 should
think you would be embarrass
ed. you poor, weak, shilly
shally. dilly-dally creature, you.
For three years you have taken up
this girl's time; for three years you
have made her believe that you were
in love with her. and now just be
cause her cousin is new you are ready
to break the other girl’s heart.
A fine fellow you are. to be sure.
So you think the cousin knows you
are in love with her?
Why don’t you tell the truth for
once? You know she knows it, for
you have done everything you could
to make her know it. Be honest now
for a few minutes and admit it.
Every time you’ve had a chance
you’ve given Cousin to understand
that you never really breathed a long
breath till she "came into your life.”
Poor cousin. 1 hope she. at least,
has sense enough to see through you
and t»> estimate your deep and tre
mendous passion at its true value.
Why, you aren’t worth a tear—you
aren’t worth a sigh—you aren’t even
worth a little crooked quirk of a
smile.
What in the world would any wom
an of any sort of character do with
a poor weakling like you?
Fidelity is the one great virtue a
woman asks of a man and a man de
mands of a woman. Without fidelity
you are no more use to any one than
so much straw scattered by every
wind that blows. Run along, little
man, run along. Nobody wants you
or your kind anywhere in the family.
“Eating” the Evidence.
The counsel for the prosecution in
a recent trial had a frightful cold,
and when he rose to make his ap
peal to the jury he had in his hand
a box of lozenges. In the course of
his speech he had occasion to pick
up a pistol bullet, which was a very
important piece of evidence.
"Gedlebed.” he said, "this is the
bullet egstragded frob the body oh
dor bad. Dow. gedlebed”—he took a
lozenge—"id is gontended by the de-
fedse dat der brisoder dever had a
bisdol dat dis bullet would fit. ad—
ad " He stopped suddenly: his
bosom heaved. his eyes seemed
starting .from their sockets.
"Oh gedlebed. gedlebed!” he cried
in agonized tones; “I’ve swallowed
the bullet."
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