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{ AT BAY A Thrilling Story of Society Blackmailers. (Novelized by) (From the play by Georg, borough, now being presented at the i Thirty-ninth Street Theater, New York, j Senai rights held and « "pvrlfihted by International News Service.) 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 lej 111 t 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." CHICHESTER S PILLS TIP DIAMUMI BKAMI. A IMaVoN!> ItKAMt IMTUVS f* r y*«skmwn»i Bwt.- *f«t. 4tways Rellabla SOLD BV ORLOHISTS tVIRIHHf P r Woman la Intrreatad and should know about th« wonder!j; Marvel i T rv Douche Ask ronrdrunriat for It. It ha cannot * up- ply the MARVEL, aroapt no other, but «rnd stamp for bo- -it Mm««I C«„ 44 i. 2 id St.. M. 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