Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, August 19, 1922, Page 2

| | E <. 1 { f i | i i o ‘ b o SYNOPSIS { CHAPTER IL—During the helght of the New Orleans carnival season Jachin Fell, ‘wealtby though somewhat mysterious cit- Sxzen, and Dr. Ansley, are discussing a ssries of robberies by an individual known & the Midnight Madquer, who, invariably aftired as an aviator, has long defied the rob the guests. Fell and Ansley, on their ay to the , meet & girl dressed a ‘olumbine, seemingly known to Fell, b masked, who accompanies them to the CHAPTER II.—Lucle Ledanois, recent- 1y the ward of her uncle, Joseph Mall- Iard, is the Columbine. , “CHAP TiL—In bis library Joseph d and a group of friends are held 0p and robbed by the Midnight Masquer. CHAPTER 1V.—Lucie Ledanois, the last an 014 ;lmlli, in straitened circum- P illard's handling of unds bas been unfortunate. ~Fell is 2D old friend of her parents snd deeply interggted in' the girl. Henry Gramont. ly - the prince de Gramont. son_ of @ French er and an American mother, dut who spurns the title of prince, is eénamored of Lucie and believes himself & not unfavored suitor. " “Oh, your mother!” exclalmed the girl, contritely. “I was so absorbed in the Masquer that I forgot to ask after lier. How is she?” “Quite as usual, thank you.” “IN_come tomorrow night gladly, TUncle Jachin.” “And we’ll take a look at the Pro- teus ball afterward, if you like. I'll send Ben Chacherre for you with the car, if you're not afraid of him.” - MT'm not exactly afraid of Mim,” Lucie responded, .soberly, “but |there 18- something about him that I can't ltge. - T'm _sorry that you're tryfng to reégenerate him, in a wa 1 Fell shrugged lightly. Al life is an effort. little one! Well,.goodby.” Jachin Fell left-the house at: three- forty. Twenty minutes. later, the bell rang: again..- Lucle ‘sent one of the gervants to admit Henry- Gramont; she skept -him ' waiting a full - fifteen minutes before she appeared, and then she made no apologies whatever for the delay. | i Not that.Gramont minded waiting; he deemed it a privilege to linger in this house! = He loved to study the place, so reflective of its owner. He Joved the white Colonlal mantel that surrounded the fireplace, perpetually alight, with its gleaming sheen of old brasses, anG the glittering fire-set to . one side. The very air of the place, the atmosphere that it breathed, was sweet to him. The Napoleon bed that filled the bow window, with its pillows and soft coverings; the inla)d walnut cabinet made by Sheraton., with its quaintly curved glasses that reflected the old< time curios within; the tilt tables, the rosewood chairs, the rugs, bought be- fore the oriental rug market was flooded with mmchine-made Senna knots—about everything here had sn alr of comfort, of long use, of restful- ness. It was not the sort of place built up, raw item by raw item, by the color-frenzied hands of decorators. It was the sort of place that decora- tors strive desperately to imitate, and cannot. * When she made her appearance, Gramont bent over her hand and ad- dressed her in French. “You are charming as ever, Shining Onel- And in years to come you will be still more charming. That is the beauty of having a name taken direct from the classics and bestowed as a good fairy’s gift—" “Thank you, mansieur—but you have translated my name at least twenty times, and I am weary of hear- ing it,” responded Lucie, laughingly. “Poor taste, mademolselle, to grow weary of such beauty !” “Not of the name, but of your exe- gesis upon it. Why should I not be displeased? Last night you were pos- itively rude, and now you decry my taste! Did you leave all your man- ners In France, M. le prince?’ “Some of them, ves—and all that yprince stuff with them.” Sudling as he dropped Into Euglish, Gramont xlanced aboyt the and his eyes wofteped. N “This is a Tovely and’lovable home of yours, Lucie!” be exclajmed, grave- 1y, :“80 few hothes are Worthy the 3 %0 few have jn them the intl- matgir of use nnd {riendliness—why are #0 many furnished from - hatigain/ wules? This place Is touched with re- pose and sweetness; to come und sit heve I8 a privilege. It Ix like being in another world, nfter all the money striving and the dollar madness of the clty. YORI" The gIrl's gaze wearched Nim eurlonsly. I hape you're not go- g to take the fine urtistic pose that 1t 18 & erime to meke money 1" Gramont laughed, “Nat mueh ! T want to make money wyself; that's one reasom I'm In New glgans, Bt you cannot deny that 6 48 o cage abont the eternal, .| are not wealthy. ERY | “Poor Taste, Mademwiselle, to Grow Weary of Such Beauty!” clutching after dollars.” I can't make the dollar sign the big thing in life, Lucie. You couldn't, efther.” She frowneul a little. “Yon seem ' to have the European notion that afl Americans are dollar chasers!” ) ‘He shrugged ' his shoulders slightly. “In a sense, yes; why not?’ he an- swered. “I am an American. I am a dollar chaser, and not ashamed of it. I am going into business here. Once it:-is a success, I shall go on; I shall see America, I shall come to know ! this whole country of mine, all of it! I'have been a month in New Orleans— do you know, a. strange thing hap- | pened to me only a few days after I arrived here " With her eyes she urged him on, and he contirued gravely: “In France I met a man, an' Ameri- can sergeant named Hammomnd. It was just at the close of things. We had adjoining cots at Nice—" “Ah!” she exclaimed, quickly. “I remember, you wrote: about him—the man who had been wounded in both legs! Did he get well2 You mever said.” “I never knew until I came here,” answered Gramont. “One: night, . not long after I had got-éstablished in my pension on Burgundy street, a man tried to Tob me. It was this same man, Hammond; we recognized each’ | other almwst at once. “I took him home with me and lenrmed his story. He had come back to America only to find hiy wife Gead from Influenza, his home broken up, nis future destroyed. He drifted to New Orleans, careless of what hap- pened to him. He flung himself des- perately into n career; of burglary and pillage. Well, T gave Hammond a Job; he is my chauffeur. You woulq pever recognize him as the same man now! I am very proud of his friend- ship.” % “That was well safd.” Lucie nodded her hemd quickly. I shan't call you | M. Le prince any more—unless you offend agaln.” He smiled, reading her thought. “T try oot to be a snob, eh? Well, what Tm driving at is this: I want to know this country of mine, to see it with clear, unprejudiced eyes. We hide our teal shames and exalt our false ones. Why should we be ashamed of chas- ing the dollar? So long as that is a means to the end of hmpplness, it's all | right. But there are some men Wwho &ee it as an end alone, who can set no finis to their work except the dollar dropping into thelr pouch. Such a wan is your relative, Joseph Maillard. 1 do not wish to offend you, amd I shall therefore refraln from saying all that :Shall I tell you what I have discov- ' ered?” + ‘THE BEMIDJi DAILY PIONEER nds toward—" “Oh, yes I do! Quite clearly.” Gra- mont’s cool, level tone conquered her indigoation. “I see that you are or- phaned, and that your uncle was your guardian, and executed questionable deals which lost money for you. Come, that's brutally frank—but it's true! 1 came here to New Orleans and be- came involved in some dealings with your cousin, Bob Maillard. .1 believed, and I believe now, that in your heart sou have some suspicion 6f your uncle in- regard to those transaetions in land. Therefore. I'took the trouble to ook Ito the thing to a slight extent. “Good ! he exclaimed with boyish vigor. “Good! I warned you in time, then! If you will permit me, I must advise you not to part with that land —not even for a good offer. This week, immediately Mardi Gras is over, 1 am going to inspect that land for the company ; it is Bob Maillard’s com- pany, you know. Is my unwarrantable intrusion forgiven?" She nodded:brightly. “You are.put on probation; sir. You're in Bob's| company ™ il “Yes.” - “Gramont frowned. vested “perhaps . too hastily—Butc 1o, | watter now.’ I have the car-outsigde; Lucie; may I have the pleasureof }- taking you' driving?’ Y Lol E heatel’ will” “Did‘you bring that chauffeur??:+- m“}’:,’{ufiepn:g&:; m “Don’t Dowbt® “Yes" and he laughed at her.eags|your Wife”. This is the first of a erness. X series of “features being made by “Good!: -1 accept—because I nrust s see that famous soldier-bandit-chanf- feur.- If you'll wait, I'll be ready:in a winute.” a She hurried from the room, a snatch of song on her lips. Gramont smiled | as he waited. by the enmity exisl the town’s wealthiest owner of the newspaper. “ The results however, were not ex- actly those aricipated by the. elditor as' will be seen at the Elke theater next Saturday when “The Family Closet” a Playgoers photudram., will will be shown with lhe principal roles enacted by Hohies Herbert Alice Mann. Kemptoa Greene. Wal- ter Ware. John Dillon und cthers. John O’Brien direntes DON'T DOUBT YOUR-WIFE” AT -ELKO THEATER:SUNDAY Commencing nex: Su 'm\'b g - Lucle Ledanois gazed at him, her lips compressed. She liked this new’ manner of his, this firm and resolute gravity, this harshness. It brought out his underlying character very well. “If you please, Henry,” she mur- mured very meekly. “Well, then, I have discovered that your uncle appears to be honestly at fault in the matter—" ks for this approval of my she murmured. “And,” continued Gramont, imper- turbably, “that your suspicions of him were groundless. But, on the other hand, something new has turned up about which I wish to speak—but about which T must speak delicately. Has Bob Maillard offered to buy your remaining land on the Bayou Terre- bonne?” She started slightly. So it was to this that he had been leading up all the while! “He broached night,” she answered. for the time.” —=——————————— | ch Miss Baird, to be release sociated Exhibitors Inc. i As usual. Miss Baird appears in several artistic castumes that will delight the feminine eye. The auto- mobile dash through the blinding rain and lightning storm, the.raid by revenue officers upon a notorious roadhouse, ‘the return home after midnight of the wife, her clothes torn or missing, the subsequent discovery by her husband, the scenes”in the tig cabaret restaurant and the fol- lowing gay party—all create a sue- cession of thrills and- interest that is found in few motion pictures.of today. “THE MASQUERADER” AT REX THEATER SUNDAY “The Masquerader,” the cinema version of the book and play will come to the Rex theater Sundayto give patrons of the Rex their own opportusity to decide whether or not such a close resemblance can b accepted as a human possibili John Chileate and John Loder are the names of the two characters —_— If you want to grow hair —do this Science proves that = only 5 in every 160 need ever be bald. But thousands of men and women, too, are greatly concerned 'by falling hair _which leads to baldness. This is posi- 3 Continued in next issue “THE BACHELOR DADDY” AT GRAND THEATER SUNDAY ‘A picture which radiates happi- ness and which ranks as one of the most wholesome productions of the year, appears at the Grand theater Sunday and Monday. It is a picture which cemonstrates the power of d love and on better selection for the stiring role therciy could have been made than Thomas Mueig- han, famous as the ‘Good Luck Sta-’ The work of the star in this Par- amount picture is wonderful, while Leatrice Joy as leading woman acts her part with warmth and charm. Of the five kiddies—Ch: lotte (Peaches) Jackson, Barbara Maier, Bruce Guerin and the de Briac Twins—too much cannot be said. the subject last “I dismissed it “THE FAMILY CLOSET” AT ELKO THEATER TONIGHT Would you refuse to let your only daughter marr¥y the man she loved P tmnacesary, for because he was the son of your || Van Ess,_the new business emeny? If you wer: that :;’;f:: Yiania jscalp daughter would yoa 2 up the man || necessary to remove you lovéd'and marry the man of your || S350™ =02, (*0EE pair. van Eem father’s choice? Br through Ita selentifically designed appil; : cator, goes to the roots: of tie 3 In f‘Th&% - C tation of Will -Pay Evening Pest stowy, It's toasted. This oneextra process gives a delightful quality that can -not be duplicated ‘cleans out the infected Sebum which causes all Gf the troudle.” Tones. cleauses, ch s owth sat’ the adap- Saturday || G0g hurtures the hair roots w 77 1] live and in a short time develops of new, healthy hair. g ] Be sure to get Van Ess. We will give you a signed guarantee. z CITY DRUG STORE YOUR LAST CHANCE TO SEE THE “FRISCO FROLICS” TONIGHT! is In my mind But you have not hesi- tated to intimate very frankly that you Sosue_ time pgo. if you recall, te me How had Just missed /e “theough eold some lanid. ;1 have taken tha.lib- erty of looking up| 1 to some xtent, and T have s ‘ted that your mcle had -umq‘lnlnmn putting’ the sale through——" ' The grety eyes of~the girl flashed suddenly. “Henry, Gramont! . Are my family affairs to ‘be an open book to the world? Do yon realize that you are tntruding most WnWarrantably into my private wmatters?” “Unwarrantably?” Gramont's eyes held ber gaze steadily. “Do you real- 1y mean to use that word?” CQ Gt o2t Gpickere MATHSEES) 10c.25¢ | .. NIGHTS; 40c-30c j SUNDAY MONDAY BRI i - L. MORRISON in Feature Plcture— “TRAIL DARING DANGER” REX ORCHESTRA “I do, most certainly!” answered Lucle with epirit, “I don't think you replise Just_what the whole thing Evening 7:10-9:00—25c & 50c—plus war tax whose resemblance to each predicates the complications which the plot develops. One is a scion of an aristrocratic family, a member of the legislature, a leader gone astray. The -other is possessed of latent talents that have been con- sistently suppressed by lack of op- portunity. Richard Walton Tully, who pio- neered the stage many successful years, is responsible for the picture. 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