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“"BEATRICE FAIRFAX"
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I "he Stars in Episode No. 7
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“A Name for a Baby
Jimmy Barton— 4 Evening Jomeal © —Harry Fox
Beatrice Fairfax— ©Of the N. Y. Evening _ (5,000 Darling
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By BEATRICE FAIRFAX,
(Novelized From the Scenario of 8. Basil Dickey.)
(Copyright, 1916, International News Service.)
IMMY BARTON'’S knowledge of
J Richard Conley, plus my Infor
mation gained from Madge and
Margaret, gave us a fairly complete
story and a very definite feeling that
‘we understood the young lawyer with
all his lovable weakness. But there
was just one gap in our evidence—one
Bap which neither of us could bridge.
And that was later to prove a yawn
ing abyss before the feet of one or
two greatly surprised people,
As we made our return trip to Bluc
Cove Jimmy told me his part of the
story. Directly we suspected that
Conley was the man in the case. Jim
my had gone down to the law offices
of Conley & Conley and had sent in
his card requesting an interview.
Later that redoubtable youth per
suaded me to Involve myself in the
situation. Our position was desper
ate—and we fought fire with fire, as
you shall see.
“The interview” was readily grant
ed, but surprise swung to instant dis- ‘
may when Jimmy fairly hurled a
question at the younger man, “Do you
know Madge Minturn?”
Of course, young Conley swore he
had never heard of the girl—but as
tute Jimmy noticed that the match
with which the lawyer was striking
his cigarette had flickered out very
suddenly—but not before it burned
the trembling fingers which were
holding it
A tiny bit of evidence that—but
Jimmy, the sleuth, knew it was worth
following up, and when half an hour
later Richard Conley hurried into the
Grand Central and embarked on a
train for Blue Cove, Jimmy was close
on his tracks.
Jimmy Follows Conley.
Conley took the second of the town’s
supply of ramshackle cabs, and Jim
my had to purchase an even more
ramshackle bicycle. As you know, he
passed me on my return to the sta
tlon—but, as you do not know, he
turned to wave a farewell and blow
me an audacious kiss.
“That kiss didn’t get me much, Miss
Beatrice,” laughed Jimmy. *“Nothing
but an encounter with a stone and a
tumble which smashed none of my
ribs, but all of the bicycle's vital or
gans. I had to go on foot after that,
and by the time I caught up with my
quarry he was coming out of the
woods, and I concluded that he had
finished his interview with the girl—
but I was in time to see another in
terview begin.
“Conley bumped into a queer look
ing chap. Say, do you know he looked
like some of those mental defectives
cu were working over this winter.
orse than that, he seemed to me. 1
found out later that he's the village
character—some of them call him
looney and some of them say he's a
lcflnit. but all the brave inhabitants
of Blue Cove seem a little afraid of
him.”
Jimmy had discovered this much
and that the chap's name was Harry
Wflh:fi.
“And I have a hunch, Miss Beatrice,
that Harry Wilkins and Richard Con.
ley went through some transaétion
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that boded very little good for your
friend, Miss Madge Minturn!”
I remember my glimpse of the
man's sullen, evil face, with its loose
lipped animal outh and its furtive
eyes. I remembered, too, how weak
Richard Conley's good-looking face
had seemed to me as 1| glimpsed it in
passing ——, and sudden fear took
hold of my heart.
Mrs. Woods had not seen Madge
for all the long hours during which I
had gone to New York, interviewed
Margaret Payne, and made the trip
back to The Journal office.
Again my terrified fancy leaped to
the portentous question, “Where was
Madge Minturn?’ And hard upon it
followed a second question of equal
portent, “What affairs could Richard
Conley and Harry Wilkins, the village
ne’er-do-well, be discussing 7"’
“Do you remember just where Con
ley and Wilkins went?” I asked.
“Yes, and that's where we're bound.
You're going to see a tumble-down
little cabin which houses an absolute
renegade. And I think there'll be a
rather startling denouement and a
crusher for the plans of Wilkins, Con
ley and Company.” And more than
that, Jimmy refused to say, though
I begged him to tell me exactly what
he did expect to discover when we got
to Wilkins’' cabin,
In a lonely nook of the woods we
came upon the cabin. It had a brood
ing, sullen look strangely like the ex
pression on the face of its master.
Jimmy hid me behind a clump of
bushes and hurried forward alone. '
For a minute I permitted him to man- ;
age the situation to suit himself, |
Suddenly a sound came to my ears.
It was a woman's shriek—a call tor‘
help in a voice which sounded defi
nitely familiar,
Automatically I rushed out from
hiding and hurried toward the cabin.
As Jimmy turned the knob of the door
there was one wild, agonized scream,
which became suddenly muffled and
was followed by a thlt;k pall of silence
—sllence unbroken and sinister—si
lence suggesting tragedy of the most
evil sort,
One moment the woods had been
allve and thrilling with agonized
sound; the next moment they were
still—and deaaqa, ‘
1 stumbled forward with hot tears
Smarting in my eyes and my heart.
I felt that terrible harm had come to
the girl who had written to me wlthl
such pathetic pleading that I help
her get a name for a baby.
} A Fearful Struggle.
| While Jimmy and I were going
about things in a methodical, plodding
way, forces of which we knew nothing
might have been at work, and Madge
Minturn had perhaps suffered greater
evil than that from which he had
begged me to free her.
As these thoughts raced ACross my
brain I was forcing my body to race,
too, and a second later | followed Jim
my across the threshold of the cabin,
A second more and I was the wit
ness of a wild struggle. Wilkins Was
fighting with the physical strength a
man whose mental ability is far below
par often displays. It tock all Jimmy's
science to master him. But at last he
conquered, and Wilkine became utter
ly cowed—subdued and frightened—
and entirely respectful in his attitude
toward the man who had been able to‘
gain physical control of him. |
In a corner of the cabin crouched
Madge, sobbing violently that we had
come just in time, and that if we had
been a minute later there would have
been nothing for her to do but killi
herself,
“But my bnbg. Miss Fnlrtu——mako‘
him find my baby. If anything’s hap
pened to little Richard, I'm going to
kill myself. I couldn't bear {t—noth
ing matters but just baby. If he's
only alive and well, everything will be
all right,
“Don’t you know where your baby
is, Madge?™ I asked a little severely.
“No—he stole my baby—Williams
did. Oh, Miss Fairfax, do you think
he’s done him any harm?"
“Wilkins,” said Jimmy sternly, “it
will be just as well for you if noth-
Ing unpleasant has happened to little
Richard—first, we'l'! ind him, and then
you'll give a little explanation of your
performance this afternoon. 1 think
I can guess just about what It has
been, but I won't do any guessing.
You'll talk and I'll take down in writ-
Ing every word you say. Now, march
and be quick about it."
The frightened creature obeyed al
most automatically, Sheer terror had
possession of him.
T left the kid 'n the barn,” sald he
“l guess he's all right.”
As we passed out of the door he
lunged out vind'ctively and kicked a
‘dogh which came fawning across his
path,
1’ And as Madge watched him the
agonized fear on her face showed that
she wondered what sufferings this evi)
creature might have made her inno
\unt little baby endure,
(Te Be Continued Tomorrow.)
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The Humble Shawl
The working women ana girls of Lan
cashire and Yorkshire regard the shawl!
A 8 A necessity, and especially is this
the case in the colllery districts. A
writer in The Millgate Monthly says:
“Domestic duties, performed in varying
temperatures, on washing days and
cleaning days, in the house or about the
yard, are rendered safe under the pro
tection of a shawl. The mill girl could
scarcely get on without it. It shields
her between the mill and home, winter
and summer, in snow or rain. It is eas
fly donned and doffed. It is the handi
est of all articles of wearing apparel,
and, as made In England today, {s mod.
erate In cost, A warm, soft shawl
would save many a racking cough and
stave off incipient pulmonary troubles.
It is a tried and proved sanitarium, and
is growing In patronage and popularity
with ladies of the upper middle classes.”
The Monk's Wit.
An excellent story Is recorded of a
monk named Mainus, who, in the reign
of Francis | of France, owed his first
advancement to a clever retort. The
king was very fond of the game of ten
nis, and was playing a match one day
with Mainus. The monk finally ended
the hard-fought game with ‘a brilliant
stroke.
The king was somewhat out of humor
on account of hig defeat.
“Remarkable!” he exclaimed sarcas
tically. “To think that such a stroke
should be made by a mere monk!"
“But, sire,” replied the monk, who
Was as quick with his wit as he was
with his racquet, “it is your Majesty's
own fault that the stroke was not made
by an abbot.”
A short time afterward Mainus re
celved his appointment as Abbot otl
Beaulleu.
A Primitive Community.
Described as “very near being an
earthly paradise for the poor,” the Mex
ican Island of Cozumel, off Yucatan, is
inhabited mainly by the poor, satisfled
to lead a hand-to-mouth existence. To
gain a livelihood requires the minimum
of effort. The natives pay no rent be
cause they are abls to squat on a build.
ing site with all necessary material at
hand from which to construct a cottage;
they have free fuel, free fodder for cows,
food for hogs and fowls; small game and
wild fruits are plentiful, fish for the
trouble of throwing In a line, turtles for
the taking, to say nothing of turtles’
eEEs. And to provide such things u}
the island does not produce—clothing,
for instance—a day's work is sufficient,
Dovolo'?mont of Steamships,
In 1543 Blasco do Garay, a sea cap
tain of Spain, exhidbited in the harbor of ‘
Barcelona, in the presence of Charles
the Fifth and his court, a steamboat ca
pable of a speed of three miles an hour.
For nearly two hundred years Blasco de
Garay's Invention was lost sight of, and
not till the end of the eighteenth cen
tury was the subject taken up again.
European sclentists became interested,
and the result was the construction of
& steamboat on the River Saone by
Marquis de Jouffrey in 1750. In 1788
Patrick Miller, of Scotland, built a
steamboat. It succeedea so well that a
larger one was bullt |n 1789, when seven
miles an hour were made. Eventually
Robert Fulton built the Clermont, which
made its trial trip in 1808,
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Too Late.
“Hello, Tommy. ,What & nice little
chlx you are!”
“"Aw, go on. Its no use talking to
me like that. Sis Qot & sweetheart al
ready.” &
Introducing the Autumn Blouse
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“G OOD manners are the pleas
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says an aphorism wel!l worth
noting.
In the rugged democracy on which
& good many people pride themselves,
charm of manner has lost its ancient
prestige. We have a Bohemian way of
announcing that conventionality doesn’t
count with us, that we act as we feel,
that we believe in simplicity and nat
urainess. That all sounds rather fine
and independent. But it won't do.
~ We have all to adapt ourselves to
AN ever-varying stream of cireum
stances. And if we learn to adapt our
selves gracefully we shall at once save
ourselves friction, annoyance and an un
necessarily awkward appearance.
“Don't be affected,” says many a
well-meaning adult to an impressionable
child. And the child who was probably
only trying to be graclous and pleasant
and to meet its siders with a little air
of deference and sweetness suyly Won
ders whether ovc{‘body thinks it an af
fected littie Miss Nancy. 8o it tries to .
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be natural and probably succeeds in be
ing bolsterous and ungraceful.
Charm of manners is made up of a
number of things, First there is a very
genuine desire to please people rather
than hurt or anney them. Then there
Is an agreeabls perception of what is
awkward and ungraceful,
~ Next comes quiet poise and self-pos
session together with a feeling that one
Is a member of a social group at the
Same time that one is an Individual. A
deferential attitude toward other peo
ple’'s opinions, a lack of intolerant haste
in dismissing other people’'s preferences
and ideas, an amiadle willingness to fit
into the picture instead of standing out
from it from a background all Ko to
make charm of manner.
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4 steady brain, a desire to please and
an ability to perceive what is customary
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Jimmy Barton (Harry Fox) interviews the Conleys.
| * Do You Know That
The leading agricultural States,
reckoned on the total value of all their
farm crops, are Illinois, lowa, Texas,
Ohlo, Georgla, Missourl, Kansas, New
York and lndlu.u. Vil
What the firemen shall do in thelr
spare time, which in some citles is
most of {t, has been solved by the Wi
nona, Minn., brigade, which has fitted
Up & row of empty horse stalls into a
small, but complete motor car factory.
The last plece of apparatus added to
their equipment is thoroughly under
stood by the mex: b:em:u they made it.
The figure 6 appears to play an odd
part in the European conflict. The
naval battle of Jutland, the greatest
In the world’s history, occurred on the
666th day of the war. Lord Kitchener
was In his 66th year, while England
recelved the news of his death on the
sixth day of the sixth month of 1916,
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September ot. this .yur will mark
the 250th anniversary of the great fire
of London. It began September 2,
1666, In a baker's shop in Pudding
Lane and destroyed, in the space of
four days, 88 churches, the city gates,
the Royal Exchange, Guildhall and
many other public bulldings, besides
13,200 dwolllnc.ho‘nu.c. ‘
Attention has been called before in
the columng of The Hustler to the wide
employment of electric pocket lamps
by the fighting men of Europs. Ac
cording to a recent statement in a dally
rw. it is learned that two London
rms have &roodueod between them no
less than 2,000,000 batteries during the
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Norway owns nearly 200 submarine
telegraph cables, but thelr combined
length is considerably less than that
of one trans-Atlantic cable.
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Experiments on the Philippine Is«
land of Mindango seem to indicate
that the finest qualities of rubber can
be produced tho‘re .vm.h profit,
Statisticlans figure that 36,000,000
‘babies are born into the world each
year, about 70 a minute, or more than
one every second,
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Owing to the shortage of paper, the
Australian postal authorities have ap-
Pealed to the people not to use two
half-penny stamps when a penny one
will do,
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British coal production last vear
amounted to 253,000,000 tons, of which
43,600,000 tons was exported, 23,000«
000" going to the Allles and 17,000,000
to neutrals,
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The Bug River, which has been
mentioned frequently in war dis
patches from the eastern front, is a
tributary of the Dnelper and has a
length of &bout‘ioe m.flu.
The geological survey reports more
than 50,000 lett from ous parts
of the oo\mtr‘.. l.::ln‘ Qbo::r;'m u':'th'!
crust and what |t contains, were an
swered by it last . Even people in
South and Cux“mflu -f' seek -
ing information through it, here are
SO,OOO producers of minerals In the
United Btates with whom the rlr"'
keeps In touch, the report says. It also
knows where nearly mineral is
found and hlutm?t':.'uur" as
:n'J". ’"‘pm .amlh which the min
are brought
into “touch With saeh’ meires