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“THE SECRET KINGDOM" .." .. ByLouis Joseph Vance |
See the Thrid Episode of This Greatest of Motion Picture Stories al Your
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EPISODE NO, 4.
(Copyright, 1917, by the Star Com
pany. All Foreign Rights
Reserved.)
SYNOPSIS.
In Alania, King Simond the Usurp
er commissions wsecret agents to
bring him proofs of the death of
“Lost Prince Philip,” legitimate heir
to Simond’'s stolen throne * * *
In America, "Pster Barr,” Aying,
oharges his putative son, Phiilp, to
deliver at a Parisgian address a mys
terfous sealed packet, which §i
mond’'s agents, led by Mlle. Victorine
Savatz, unsuccessfully endeavor to
steal. Meantime Philip falls in love
with “Mliss Nilia Stmond”——in reall
ty the Princess Julia, King Simond's
ofly ohild, touring America incognito,
n
The New York Way. |
HAT there was nothing unpre-
I meditated In Mr. Philip Barr's
ohoice of the Hotel Belflm’are‘
for &« New York residence was proved
by his selection of Suite 201. The
management vainly endeavored to In
duce him to oovupy other and better
sccommodations on upper floors.
Nothing, however, bdut Sulte 201
would do for Mr, Barr. Anda this m.‘
solely decause the windows of Its
sitting room commanded a view of e‘
residence across the way which hap
pened to harbor the object of his un- ‘
divided affections. ‘
He made certain of this by smndln.‘
ai the window, looking out with a
casual air, indifferent to the offorts of
the room clerk to interest him in the
various conveniences eormprehe\dea
In the apartment, until he saw the
door of the house opposite open for
the exit of a party of three voung
people, to wit, the girl whom Philip
kngw as Miss Julla Simond, with
Miss Muriel and Mr. Robert Man
waring, the daughter and son of Miss
Simond’s hostess and chaperon.
Incontinently Mr. Barr signified his
#atisfaction with Suite 201, and de
sired his luggage to dbe brought up
immediately, and fumed and fretted
and fussed about getting his trunks
unpacked, so that he might change
from his traveling clothes, until his
body servant, Juan Lopez, all but for.
Kot lne his exasperation the respect
that was due his lord and master.
At length, however, Mr. Barr was
properly appareled, and started forth
£ ’ ’
- “Cheating Cheaters
;Ruth Disappears and the Prisoners Chafe at Their
s Confinement.
By JANE McLEAN.
(Novelized from the play by Max
Marcin, produced by A. H. Woods,
and now running at the Eitinge Thea
ter, New York. Copyright, 1817, In
ternational News Service.)
““ H, you know the law, do
" O you™ he said, and then,
with a few hasty directions
to his men to guard carefully all pos
sible exits, he turned back just in
time to see Steve make a hasty grad
for the jewdls.
“No, you don't” Holmes sald,
whipping out his pistol, and Steve
sullenly backed into line.
“Pipe the sparklers,” Holmes whis
tled as he caught the light on the
table which was strewn with gems.
“Must be pretty near a million dol
lare’ worth of stuff!™ As he spoke
he sat down before the table and be-
San to finger the jewels with satisfled
fingers.
“Wall, boys," he sald, a self-grati
fied amilé spreading over his face, “it
certainly looks like a good day's work
for us.” .
The discovery had been a night
mare for both the gangs, for, after
Saking possession of the Hrockion
gang and bundling them unceremo-
Blously into the patrol wagon, Holmes
And his men had driven over to the
Palmer residence, where Grace and
Mrs. Paimer had been rudely awak
ened and forced to swell the ranks of '
those already taken
Lidttle had been said on the wi) up,'
for the ride was chilly. The women
Were all lightly clad. Ruth and mo'
Puimers wore evening gowns When
Urace and Mra. Palmer had been
-hz: they were fully wowned. Neol
e, sed for a jourtey., was the
only one sultably arrayed. but she
Was 100 mournful to care one way or
wnuther
Steve was sullen and ugly. Georgs
Brockton was moody and very quiet
‘&8 was the senior Palmer They wers
oler men and not as able to meet
fallure with thelr heads In the air,
Grace was babylah in her discomfor:
and Mrs Palmer was plainly angry
‘Because the affair had been bungled.
But Ruth and Tom were the only ones
- thought deeply of the oconse
- To the others it meant Jall,
10 Tem and Ruth It meant separation.
They bad been the claver loaders. but
hey would also be the ones to suffer
in search of the party of three, walk
ing at a pace which went ofdly with
the ldle manner he promptly assumed
the instant he hove In sight of his
quarry.
He had guessed, and shrewdly, that
the three were bound for a walk in
Central Park, TLovers' luck guided
his footsteps that he, without undue
lose of time, espied them on the hor
ders of the little lake just north of
the Mall.
Ingenuously surprised and glad, he
hastened to join the party as soon
after their discovery of him as suf
ficed to register his aimless purpose
in ochoosing’ the park for his initial
stroll,
‘ His effort at deception was so
transparent that Muriel Manwaring
"hud to stifle a giggle. Nevertheless,
she proved herself the owner of a
‘klnd heart by hastening to maneuver
iher brother from attendance on Miss
Simond and so permit Mr. Barr to
‘lfl-nmplluh his design, thus proving
‘lhut woman's intuition is a penetrat
‘ln' thing, since Murfel knew what
Phillp didn’t, that he entertained a
"duln‘
- On his part he discoversd it only
‘when feminine strategy had removed
an openly mutinous Robert Manwar
ing beyond sight and earshot of
Phillp and Julia.
Then, suddenly, the former found
himself stricken with a temporary
‘but distreqging paralysis of the vocal
chords. \
They were loitering across a little
arched bridge. Midway Julia paused
to look westward over the waters
that glowed like a vast field of black
opal with the swiftly fading glory
of the autumnal sunset.
There was a hint of frost in the
evening alr. A soft, rich color glowed
in the face of the girl. Her eves were
darkling pools of gentle shadow.
Framed In rare furs, her head seemed
to Phillp the most exquisite thing he
had ever viewed. He seemed to lose
consclousness of self in the flood of
his desire to fold her In his arms and
lay the warmth of his lips against the
coolness of her cheeks. Her hand, In
Its small white glove, rested upon the
rustic rall of the bridge. Without
definite appreciation of what he did,
Philip closed his own hand over it
the morning when they arrived at el
number in one of the husiest streels
of New York, and were bundled out
As unceremoniously as they had
been Wundled in, They all ex
claimed when they discovered that
it was not jail. Well, it didn't mat
ter much, thought Tom: this place
wWas probably tb.'ofllce of some of
the big fellows, probably of Ferris
himself, who was about to crow
over them all. That would be the
bardest thing to bear, that knowl
edge that Ferris had been smarter
than they, that he had beaten them
80 cleverly at their own game.
And then a strange thing hap
pened, stranger to Tom than to any-
Oone else. Ruth disappeared. It looked
ominous. Left to themselves In & sus
picious office, the gang looked care
fully around. It was a pleasant
enough place, a typical office room
well furnished and practical, There
'wm t'x‘“hm windows and the awn
ings ou bad not yet been taken
down. Far below them could be heard
the roar of the city, and the windows
ufforded a splendid view of Broadway,
Not epe of. them falled to think
with & stAb of the last time he or
she had come to New Yofk Nellle
thought of yesterday when she had
driven Into the cits in her own car,
Yestorday had spelled freedom; today
they were all eriminals about to be
held for justioe.
l Headquarters for Ferris.
Aocross the windows were embla
roned in large letters the words, Na
tUonal Deteotive Agency. Then he had
been right, after all, thought Tom.
this was where Ferris stayed. Well,
It would be curtous to mest that much
dreaded personage, particularly now
that Ferris had been strongly Instry
mental in awarding Tom the Car
negle medal.
As the first light slowly forced ity
Way Into the affice the gang pre.
sented & sirange appearance. Most
of them were worn out with long
vigll and with the suspense of not
knowing what was about to happen,
Nellie stretéhed out on the hard of.
fice setiee In the offort to sloep, the
| others all sat or stood around the
room in varying stages of discomfort,
‘l‘o-hhl tried more than once to
draw fool up into the chair inte
which he had dro “but falling
in thia, he mrbmgmy
“I'm stifft from sitting bere all
night.”
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was curlously remote, strangely un
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“Julla—*
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than to turn her face toward him.
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ROS waves his torch, wherewith he warms the hearts of all the
vald.nncl will' never belleve that any vow can be kept that
would smother his lovely la-.mwbhnuyw-m
“Never u‘la will T work lke 1 Aid last week-end to feed and enter
taln that little army. They are an ungrateful lot—l have too many
triends "‘"..f"““ 10 b wise and cold this year!™ Love holds
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eye in » wink
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for only & hermit is safe from the fire to GIVE. And he -he h“.":;
mm-ummumu-u: Love knows
Deep in the divine mystery of her
shadowed eyes, a new light kindled
and glimmered. Her lips parted a
trifle. But she did not speak.
He repeated her name In the same
tremulous accents. And then, in a
twinkling, he knew that he had pur
sued her solely to tell her of his love.
And in the same instant, when all his
being seemed focused upon the one
object bf that declaration, he found
his fongue a rebel; he simply could
not speak.
The litti# pause lengthened imper
ceptibly. The girl knew well what he
would say, and, with all her soul,
wished him to say it. But he delayed
too long—long enough, that is, to per
you-—and he hears yw—‘l‘hinx-tmm kids of mine are going to
have less foollshness and wore discipline. It's good for ‘em, discipline
‘: Love twists the curl above his right eye In an effort to keep
fat face somber-—but down i{n the sparkling deeps of his sweot eyes
the glimmer of mirth swims—and looks much ke tears.
He knows. He knows that you will wy after a ux-n and the rain
of childish tears, “Come, old man, | diduy mean to hurt your feelings—
let's forget It—l'll forgive you if you will me. An' lets go look at
racing skates!” Love knows,
So write It down all you will—this year--that Love's torch will
leave you lov. There's one resolution that's Muo stub its toe and
§0 down, N BRINKLEY.
mit her censcience to remind her that
she must not listen. With a start she
rulled her wits together, disengaged
her hand, stepped back a pace.
“Please,” she begged, unsteadily,
“let us go after the others.,”
In painful silence he fell in by her
side.
They walked rapidly, but they
The Stars in the New Romance
Charles Richman.............Prince Philip '
Dorothy Kelly ............Madame Savatz
Arline Pretty ..%............Princess Julia
Joseph Kilgour . .......The Prime Minister
Read the serial here; then see this week’s episode
in motion pictures.
fatled to overtake Muriel and her
brother. And Philip failed to find his
tongue too long; when at length he
was able to speak coherently the time
to speak was too long past. He heard
himself gossiping inanely of utterly
uninteresting matters.
And those moments of priceless op
portunity sped beyond recall with the
speed of light., He hardly appreciated
that they had left the park before he
found himself standing, hat Jn hand,
on the doorstep of the Manwaring
residence, saying good-night,’ while
Julia waited for the footman to an
swer her ring.
Then fortune chose to favor Mr.
Barr for a littls. Instead of the foot
man, Bob Manwaring opened the
door, the messenger of his mother’'s
invitation to” Philip to come in for
tea,
The infatuated young man went in
for tea. He was profoundly grateful
to Mrs. Manwaring, but two minttes
after he had come into her presence
he heartily wished her a thousand
miles away. It was not that she was
ungracious, but that she was—like
her children—very much an obstacle
to his desires. Tt had needed only the
company of others to ’restore his
mental equiltbrium. Now he knew
what he wanted and how to express
himself-—and there was no possible
opportunity.
~ Again fortune seemed to smile. Mrs.
Manwaring was called away by" some
immaterial detall of domestic man
agement. Bob had already taken
- The Woman of It
{OTHER of the wholesale marry-
Aen has been overtaken by the
law. Having swindled a score
or more of women, having married a
half dozen or so without subsequent
diverce proceedings, and caused the
suicide o&{ne who had less heart re
bound than the others, he has been
lodged in the Tombs, the New York
prison.
While he waits he talks. He s
making the usual speeches of whole
sale marryers and swindlers about
women. “Tell them you fell in love
with them the first time you saw
them. That always gets them.”
“Women are easy marks." “They can
all be fooled ilf you begin talking
love to them.” “I am sorry it hap
pened, but part of the fault is theirs.”
I am ashamed. I am always
ashamed when a multiple husband
boasts that women are silly little
moths, burning themselveg at the
flame of love. Aren't you ashamed
that this can be sald with some de
gree of truth of us?
Men say it is because we are valn
that a compliment changes the color
of the world for some of us. 1 grant
that is true of some women I know.
But behold and beneath the gullibil
ity of women in matters of romance
there !s a deeper and more funda
mental truth, _—— |
Everyone likes to be approved. The
most rudimentary of human units, the
eight year old papoose, or the grown
Hottentot, Is gratified by the praise
won by the fish brought from the
pond, or the deer hung over the
shoulder as trophy of the day's hunt.
Love of apptobation Is as natural as
hair or teeth. A woman should not
be blamed for possessing a trait so
human.
After another generation a woman
will be better pleased if she Is
praised for the work of her brain or
her hands than for her c's:. or her
complexion. But that ti is still
years away. Pretty eyes and skin
‘md hair have been thelr trade marks
'ef success for so many centuries that
we can't expect women all at once
to ignore the old and honored label
. Deep and ineradicable in the heart
’I. the desire to be loved. Daudet
deplored “the terrible need of loving
" Love of two happlily mated persons
s the nearest approach to heaven on
’m The worst of the mismated g
ke the other state. lLives and b
or have been lost In the mrcl‘ror
gold. Every days’ newspaper spieads
the story of theft, or fraud or em
bezziement in the pursuit of money.
Disgrace wrought by the pursuit of
wealth is common. Disgrace caused
by the craving for lowe is set down
himself off in a fit of sulks. Muriel
hastened to efface herself. Philip
grasped at this chance with the fa
bled fatuity of the drowning man and
the straw.
He found himself surprisingly
seated beside Julla on a settee. He
had no coherent idea how this had
come to pass or how it happened that
he_ held in his her unresisting hands,
of how he had found heart to say
what he heard his tongue saying?
“l love you * * * I want nothing in
the world but to make you happyv
* * *lf you will marry me * * »
At this juncture fortune proved
herself anew-n cruel jade. Julia de
layed her response. Her head was
averted, but her tremulous hands stilly
suffered his clasp. He bowed his lips
to them. And, like a thunderclap,
there broke upon his senses the ultra-
English accents of the Manwaring
footman:
“Bég pardon, Miss Simond—ahem!
—there’s a person within to see you
In the ’allway. She says this will
explain ‘er business.”
Julia freed her hands hastily and
rose, taking an envelope from the sal
ver proffered by the footman. Open - j
ing it, she withdrew a message writ- fi
ten on a Commercial Cable form;
Philip could not help noticing that
detail. It took her but an Instant t
read it. She swayed a little, then
steadied herself by grasping the back
of the settee, »
(To Be Cosptinued Tomorrow.)
as evidence of mental aberration., Yet
the last craving is more fundament -
ally human than the first.
“The woman who makes a fool of
herself over a man who eares noth«
Ing for her” is the butt of a com
munity’s jokes. But when a man’s
ship of affairs goes aground because
he wanted to get rich quickly that is
regarded as a tragedy.
I wish women were strong enough,
sane enough, clear-eyed empugh to
avold wholesale marryers, the swind
lers of hearts and purses. I wish
they walked so earefully in the path
of life that they never stumbled. But
if they did, how uncompanionable they
would be to men, the stumblers!
The less men say about the heart
mistakes made by women the better.
The only reason theirs do not come
#0 readily to the surface is that they
find a deeper hiding place for them.
As it Is, whose silly love letters adorn
the dally newspapers after a day's
reading of them in court in a breach
of promise case? Men's, "
Who is it who tell the unsympe -
thetic courts that their wives never
really_loved them, that they have
every reason to believe they weres
married for their money. Men.
Who complained loudly that a for
eign enchantress whom he had mar
ried had persuaded him to make over
all his property to her and that he
wanted it back? A jnan.
A United States Senator stood out
side an office building In which his
charfier was employed and gazed
fatuously up at a window beside
Which he knew her typewriter stood,
Ull guarantee that Miss Rankin, the
new #ember of Congress from Mon
tana, will do no such thllsi.w
Let us stop saying, s the
woman of it.” ¢
Let us say, “That's the human of
It,” granting that both men and wom -
“n have a deep seated love of ap
probation; that vanity is to be found
In both, and that bath desire to love
and be Joved,
That granted, let both eall the head
oftener into conference with the
heart,
ANCIENT MUSIC,
Recent exploration in Bible lands
have led to the discovery of o wealth
of materials throwing lght upon the
arts and crafts which are referred to
in the OM Testament. The disoov -
eries relating to music have & charm
all their own, and excavations at Nip.
pur show, among other thy "
shepherd of 6,000 years ago, m
on the grass with a lambd on one side
of him and his dog on the other net.
Iy plucking at the strings of a h
er-covered lute. Professor
has recently unearthed lhn?m
instruments of Beni Hassan--a
hu:.". pair of M’ reed flutes, "
timber drum-—all found in
tween the age of ‘a {
of Moses, e s Lt