Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 7, 1916, Page 28

it 1 i i oo e | i ! | i i R The Social Pirates - Story No. 5---The Millionaire Plunger “You needn’t try Lo argue wiih me, you know, dear,” suld Mary. “I think I'm even more firm than you are! And this fsn't what you started to say, is it? If it's time for us to resume our campalgn ~why, I'm ready “It s time, It's the tme of timod We've got some nice things—and heaven only knows how lomg theyll stay nice! The fashions have been changing over night lately, But right now, this minute, we can go out and know that there won't be two better dressed girls in town. Jt's time for us to strike our next blow—be- cause iron's as hot as It ever will be “Agreed," said Mary. "But—where the iron “We've got to find "Think, Mary! And—let me while you're doing t!"” “I helleve that was what all the time, wrald Mary “the paper. Still—there you are!” Mary had finished bronkfast and #he went now to the window In the next room, and dooked out while Mona, with a smile teok the paper. Bho glanced through it while she sipped her second cup of coffee. And suddenly - she clajmed, under her breath, as her eyes fell on a certain headiine, Bhe the story beneath ft-and then resd it again And then, very slow her brows knitted in thought, she went to Mary “I wonder!” she sald, half to Mary-did you see this? The hot fron?’ sald Mary wkeptieally “Bo soon : But took t paper and looked at the article Mona pointed out to her “TomMfnson Gerry!” she sald, surprised “You're flying high, Monn!"s “Weo've got to!" sald Mona. “It isn't #mull game we're afterd And read the rest. Do you wee what It pays? That he 18 tired of the bright lghts thlked and written about just spender 7 That he's going 1o work Hinson Gerry, with his millions 10 work!" wald Mona #eo the paper him! wanted susplelously, you her read herself Non Tom “As an architect!” suld Mary, reading on. “He's opened offices in the Sterling bullding! Mona=I believe you're right!' Gierey, befors he had Inherited hin uncle’s milllons, had been the principal in some rather shady transactions, and the girls were more than ever determined o go after him when they learned that he had swindled her paltry savings. he had b their laundress out of The fact that, since come to monoy he had tirgd of ng a profligate and had. settled down r six yoars of riotous living, to a' de- cent ocoupation, the girls decided, should not save him, As always, Mona and Mary worked rapldly, and two days Iater, Mona went her card in to the architect, “Miss Hartley?' cried Gerry, Angly. rising, and glancing at card. “$o good of you to see meo-when 1 came without an appointment, Mr, Gerry,” snid Mona, holding out her hand, which Gerry took delightedly. “You sed =oh, I'm just like every other woman, I suppose! When I get un idea 1 want to carry it out at once S “U'm oyery much at your service,” maid Gerry. “I want to bulld a home, Mr. Gerry,” sald Mona, “‘and 1 haven't the least idea of how to go about it! But T suppose the first thing to de Is to gey an architect- Inquir. Mona's [ tired of belng | Is golng | 'D THE It proved that Mary would-which wasn't Iprising Inee the whole eplande had been carefully planned, down |right; A man who was alwa 1 easy |to the last detall, the night before | victim of a stronger will, ahd m‘m,‘.,,,nul as the two girls gushin ex | therefore, in all probability, be used in |pressed their delight at seelng\on !m vagne plan she was already forming. |other again, which seemed to hitm to be She crossed the street and walked entirely unaffected.. He admired Mona's {along behigsl Deering, studying him. It | tact in talking to this girl who was less {'was plain that he seeing bad daya. | fortunate than herself; it seemed to him | 1ils clothes were shabby. His clbows |that it was exquisite W hiny; his heel e run down Dad?" sald Mary, her eyes becoming There was « dispirited sag to his shoul- |troubled, “Oh, I don’'t kn Mona, dear ders. His whole bearing spoke eloquently | ~I'm afraid he's bothered about some of discouragement, of a ready surrender |thing! You know, he's been with the to adversit 1is gait was shambling. | Unlon ‘Telegraph for ears, and they He lacked purpose. Plainly he was one [don't treat him well at all. They're just |of the great army of down and outs. 'as mean and stingy as they can be, And Mary's eyes brightened. ¥he caught up he says that, Iif he wanted to, he could {to him make eve A over so much money! “Why--Jack Deering!" she sald, heart He ought to do it sald Gerry, ‘ lly, "Whoever would have thought of |~1I'm glad to see u mean outfit like that seelng you here? stung any old time Ho responded instantly o the WArm | oFhars what [ say'" sald Mary. “But triendiiness of her tone, And he made |he doesn't like the idea—and, beside, he an inastant effort, too, to braco up: 10 [yuyy §t would take some money, and he prevent her from weelng how hopeless | huen't got enough to make It worth he really, was | while, ] ‘Hello, Manr he wald It'n good l“‘ “f eould lend him some,” sald Mona, wwo you! How every little thing | tmpulsively | But the gasety of his volce was forced. | «[f that fan't Just like ¥o a Fine, Jack!" suld Mary, “How 18 It |Mary, “l4sten to her, Mr. Gerry! Bhe with you? You look—well?" doesn't even know what Jt ts—and she's I 7On, Pm wil right? he sald. “1I've Mad | willing to take a chance!” a little havd luck, but things are goE | ~“Ii's peopla who da that who got the to break hetter ‘for me now.’ 1've heen | big rewards, though,” said Gerry., He slck, you mee was convineed of the innocence of the “Come dnto the park and we'll have |wo girls, but he, himself, thought he a talk, for old times’ wake,” sald Mary. | had an inkling of wiit in the wind He went with her willingly, and when |1ia was decidedly Inteiested, and quite {they were peated on o bench Mary | glad that Mona had seen her old school- | turned on him frankly mate | “New, Jack,” she maid, fess upl| Mary tried to chanke the subjeet, But | You're up against I, aren't you? You|Mona eame back 1o her father's Troubles, | needn't be ashamed 1o tell me—1've boen wnd hisyides, again and again | to you for helpr h, I don't know, Mona! wald Mary. Ho broke down quite suddenly at last. “But VIl tell you what we ean |1 didn’t think 1'd ever go crying to a do, We might go down and see Dad! woman," ho suld, bitterly, “But you're |Then you could talk to him' | right, Mary! What's the, use of lwing?| “Splendid!” suid Mona. =~ “Let's start | They've got me pretty nearly down and aly onee!” out(" I'd Nke to come, oo, sald Corry “Hore,” wald Mary. Hhe slipped him, | TN get my car' and take you down very qulotly, a bill, “Tuke it!” she satd, | 110w about that? | furlously, wh he tried to refuse, “What | “That would be splendid sald Mona. [ good's & friend it you wow't lot them | “Are you willing, Mary?” I help? Besldes—this dan't u gift, 1Cs an| Mary was. And so Il was arranged. | mdvance, I'm going to need your help, |Gerry, If course, did not see Deering | 1 want you to ko to some place where 1| Who was walting outside the restaurant, | can reach you at any time. Youw're ready |$Pring into a taxicab when Mary dropped | handkerchief, Bub that was what | her for pretty nearly anything, aren't you “For unything at all,” he said, “Gog|lappened, And when, a little later, they bless_you, Mary!" eamo to the Unfon sgraph hullding, Il give you u chance to prove ft,” | A* downtown. and went up In the elova- | sho nald. “Now, §o Lo thia littla hotel | 1O t Wa# Deering, in alpaca offico cont | and walt till you hear from me. It wow't | Ereon shade, who encountéred them, Yo long,” to his own great surprise, In the corridor, | He wan standing outside a door marked | Mona, meantime, had thoroughly en- “private wires”” And at the sight of | joyed her fide with Gerty, Almost from the tirst, Gerry had been disposed to be| ) he started, In grent Alsmay. | bring people to | ry yeyou shouldn't more friendly than it (s necessary for an | gee me here!” he exclaimed. “You might | arciitect to be with his elient, but Mona | make ull sorts of trouble’” | had had no difficulty in keeping him at| “Oh’* sald Mary, disappointedly. “I arm's Tength. She had adopted the sim- | thought—" plest of all women's expedients; she had| “Go away now—hut meet me around| simply pretended not to understand the | the corner,”’ sald Deering—or Burnett, as| significange and the real meaning of his he was henceforth to be known. “You advances, g | can walt In the restaurant there, 11l m’ And 80 the enslavement of Gerry was| °ff duty In half an hour.” | begun. - It went on mpace, Before long| TMeN he dashed into the room. And,| of courge, ay they were in the elevator, | the state of his feelings toward Mona | 1 1 | was no longer a secret, jy s plebae s not #ee thag he was out aguin| fo do anything to win her, But "Mvn. a moment, with a man angrily asking prétended a blisstul unconsclousness, and bim what he was doing, and that he lmlkg s d | unother cost from a nearby washroom, ""”””"'"‘ the heartbreaker, ~thel .4 1y (ho green shade in his pocket squire of dafies—was actually afrald of | | OMAHA SUNDAY {along ahout on { than much more difficult to maintain their relationship on a formal plane, And he hought, too, that what he had seen was enough to prove that there no po bility of dece . It was the evideMee f his own eyes that he relied upon And it was upon exactly this fact that they had all counted ome back to the office, won't ¥ ho begged M I've got some more sketches that you really ought to see at once “Well—I might,” she agreed. And so she did. Mary and Burnett, as/ oon nx they were alone became decld- edly busy people. ;A good deal was to be done; and there wis not much time. They had been afrald to make many wrrange- ments. But now th went out and closed a lease for an empty rownstone house in a slde wtreet. A ticker and severnl telegraph Instruments were has- tily installed, and in a fow hours the place looked like a fully equipped pool room. Deering had provided the neces sary “supefs’ for the farce; operators, | cashiers, wheet writers, and even cuse | tomers. The trap was halted and ready | to be mprung | The next day Mona and Mary again mat Gerry for luncheon, Hut now Mary | was very nervous | “Daud sald he'd telephone to me here a8 Koo Ak It was safo to do something,” she maid, “Oh, 1 do hope nothing goes wrong! 1'm afrald to think of what will become of ws if this doesn’'t go through | an we've planned ! “Don't you worry,” wald Gerry, “There's no reason why it shouldn’t, And it Miss Mona 1 both divide winnings | with according plan you | won't have Lo worry about the future for and our you, to our |'mome time, 1 can tell you! Aro you really golng to make big hels?”’ asked Mary, tearfully “This lsn't any gameé for pikers,” sald “A ke Gerry. chanee this only comes | o in A litetime, you see, | and you want to Jump on it hard when it does come, No—you can rest easy abayt | this, I've made arvangements to get hold of n good deal of cash-a good deal more I ean usually command in a hurry And it's golng when your father glves the final word.” ! "'m taking a big too,' sald Mon, “Oh, Mary-don't let anything &o wrong.e I'd be In the most perfectly | dreadful hole i we lost.” { “We can't lose,”” sald Gerry, confidently, | “There's no chance of that, All I'm| afrald of {5 that we won't have the| chance to win. 1'd think that was pretty nearly as bad as losing myself,-after our hopes have been raised this way.” And just then a wafter came up, “Miss Burnett?’ he sald, “You're wanted on the telephone, miss,” | Gerry and Mona were ready to leave when she came back, with flushed cheeks | and shining eyes. | “Dpd says I's all right,” she said, | “Wa've just got time to hurry over and make a bet, I'll do it today, you see I've got enough.” “Oh, we'll all risk a fiver or 80, said | Gerry, | ‘INot very big—this is Just for a try-| out, you see,” sald Mary, “'But hurry- hurry—or we'll be too iate.” | In the pool rogm, however, they found | there was plenty of time, minco the clock there was sfower than Gerry's watch, “Dad’s had that fixed,” she whispered. “That gives us even more of n margin, | down chance, &nd 80 hero 1 am! They were waitpng for him cagerly when My wants are ever so modestt” con- | her. He was-afraid to qut his fato to| "V RO lh'-m.yul‘lnflr o e |‘.:.|‘r driolions: [ tnued Mona. 1 have got one or two |the test. Sometimes, it mbemed to him, | o ooybC Rl LT Tl R sure Gerry wmiled reassuringly at ‘her. It general ideas, but 1 think you'll find that | Mona lked him immenscly, Buf there| .. o0 o) aa I the. Wind. | cortainly looked good, Then came the| they don’t Interfere at all with your con- | were other times when shé was cold and | wppo aicty hounds, suld Burnott, as|C198108 of (he window, and the exciting ' ceptions, | want a bungalow, you seo— | distant, and he was never sure Which| o wonic 1nto a chalr Oh, 'l get ';w"j few minutes In which the man at the & nice, rambling sort of place, and I[way Mona would greet him when he|witn them now, if It's the last thing 1| W'F¢ read off the description ot the race, | n't you help we with the feame, with the fast-growing pprtfollo of | ever do. Twoenty years 1've worked for| 1Y had bet on Tessle, at even money, sketchen of the bungalow ho was to bulld | them=nnd today they gave me twol M the fourth race, and at last came the “Ill do my best” said Gerry. “lhi|for her. He nevor saw Mary when he | weeks' notice,” { final announcement; tell you what-it just nappens that I |called, as he did, now, nearly every aftor-| ..o aeq Mary, and burst into in the strotch—Blus Kid ahead—-Tes- have an option, rlght now, on some sib-'| noon. If she was in when he came she | ..o " o ool T Sl b a9 #le belng ridden out—Tesslo loads Tessie urban property, It you Ike it, LIl turn [ always stayed in ‘her own room; if she| .o bt ol “f_ M:‘_ ""‘m; v u'm-ufl Tessle a length—Tessle wins.” the option over to you. Why don't you | wins out, she looked up at the window | . noa e ot & Wev in et ovéi. 3 They cashed in the small bets they had let m¢ drive you out to have u look wt [ when she neared the house. If Gerry| pangled the racing ‘wires M the. At made, and Mona was almost hysterical the (land right now? My car is down: | was calling, Mona always arranged a| rangement with all the pool rooms we| ro . dellEht. Bhe managed to repress stairs,” She consented. signal, and Mary, seeing It, would turn | yold the results back for ten minutes :I‘I m”'v““d' m until they were outside, Mona had gone alone, according to the | and walk for an hour or so, to give Gerry | hut T know them, I'll find some one to M. ,:I el s plan the two girls had arranged for her | time to leave &0 and bet and give him hale the win-| yat xl )I wmt' n.fu until v..“m.unv«, ‘....u; wisit to Ugrry, But Mary had followed, | "It seems a shame, almost—he's #0 | nings, I'll telephone him ‘the winner ’:' 3 \|“"‘_‘\; 10 sure™e be all ll»;)f{v and she waited anxiously acroas the [easy.” said Mary. And 54'li Binge bis bot. Siis horse wik| I"'“" lv"‘ lan't it wonderful [ atreet from the bullding that housed, “T hate him-and it may bo easy for | have won already—but the pool rooms ST RIS gte NI Gerry's office. When sho saw Mona and |you, but it fsn't for me!" wald Mona. | won't know it. (There ouen to e | more,” snid Mury, her relof plain in her Gerry come out toggther, chatting eag- | “Ho's always trying to make love to me! | up for all I've ddne in one big killing “,"::' orly, sho smiled. And when \iarry put|And T-lwouldn't marry him JC he were| By Jove. Sounds good,” sald Gerry, | wxee CoLrie noL” sald Gerry, heartily Mona luto his roadster with the utmost | the only man on earth! 1 might tane a flyer myself, vou know Now-—about tomorrow : o'~ 'tude, tucking a robe about her and| “You certainly would not, my dear Then theve had te he oxplanations. ‘B Need we walt until tomorrow, even? making sure that sho was comfortabie, | sald Mary, “I'd marry him first! nott was distrossful. hut he weakened | 84 Maury, suddenly. - I think Dad Mary smiled again “All joking aside, though.'" wald Mova. [ when Mona, his daughter's friend, | " kot have something more even today that's all vight,* she eald to hers [ “I think it's time to put your plan into | vouched for (orry We'd have Lo get s>me renl money self, *1 might have trusted Mona. Sho's |execution, Jack Doering knows his part Well=wa'll thy 1t (othorow." ha. satd; | "4 -Gerry such & dear/that no man of Gerry's sort | thoroughly. And.1 think Gorey in a8 FiDe | “1 slip Mary here the word on one | . THC Panks haven't closed yet,” wald tould help falling for her for plucking now as he ever will he taee; ANd yoU can Dut down & atmll bet. | MOUS: Bhe wasn't anxlous abont Mnoa for a | “I've been thinking that myself, Monn. | ¢ yoi 1o, It it goes all right we'll pull telephone R < atl inute pry'’s - reputation, of course, [ Bupose you let him take you 10 1neh | 4t o big one the next duy Gerry. 1'll.drop Mona at her bank, and wis well known to her. 1o was rather | tomorrow, He asked you, didi't he b oyttt A R SN N g e e e e gotorious for his easy conquests of | “Yea—and T maid I'd telephono to him | o0 Nl BEE EEEE MO SR OE OSME | piek, it you've got another good thing women who were generally supposed ‘o |In the morning:* Tniadlt. bt 754 ,),.‘ AT O why, we'll make the big plumie 96 imporvious to the Whnfts of Cupid Al right Il him to make It th el : R » it i arranged. They dropped Mar Mury know théve was not the slight- | 8an Marco at 1 o'clock. Il be there—and Ty Rbout m T B S e S g esl danger for Mons, ne matter how | YOu can notice me, after you get com y y "o ¢ ot 1t S e éitig A '? porsonal Gerry tried thielr rela- | fortubly settled at your own table. Yo . o “' ,I\‘ : y : ton naw what (o do? We've rehearsed An delis = o Aary, | 0ften onougy Mona in m v 1 I the luxury o ..‘H\‘ S "‘ .. ¢ .‘{ - ! Halt past twelve ald Mona, af | & rea ACea - n “:\'n l"'l y i abvid T Monia_ (o ke |8 Moment’s th R T rendftully 1 e ) 1 .(hat, | O " ! \ th I‘”:_:‘y ‘.‘ g J:f 1y | eaTly, but we. don't w oave w ) would fing jt | bar nandbag, whi-h wa under conty Mar as more and ¥ "”" '_ . 1 "‘ . ! e ne o - :‘l::u::l\i by her " v\.‘”-l y.- \ “‘ ' \‘. A gl 1 ‘( R e . o k open hand \ Mary prof hoa g ole of wirey ne 4 \.l b e taaeed]| € ON CREDIT drams » Pt o those A A ¥ s A A - i ¥ pA N Sy shos. it : R e RN e No mattor what you wish in Diamonds, Watches, Solid Gobd and Plat. e e ™ P i Jewelry, SEVOPware, ote., we cin save you wmoney, Take advans We're gning asea B e of onr Low Pricos and Fasy Ters, Your reedit s good with us 0 hers M ' . b Bad . watehed Aona and y s had. a . ' Mt T don't sem how we N [ \ aidl war am she . . 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He darted another glance at the jscrambled to her knee sand—there’s the slip—' “Take mine, too!"” eried Mona, pushing him asl “On the eame horse! The bets were placed. Almost too, the story of the race began to com in They had bet on Hal o-Hallo was off to n flying start, and set the pace through the early mlages of the 1a-e And then, Just at the end, another horso, | it once | Chimes, the fayorite, swept 1p and won Ly @ nose! Hallo was second—nnd they had lost! “We win—we win!" cried Mona, “And the odds for place were five to one’ wo bet to win! volce suddenly, her | “You never wald place sald Mary, finding he “You~=bet to win” face white, "I sald win “No, joined Mona, place not erled Gorry, furiously” s a trick. “You sald win “Of course you did!”" snapped Mary. For a tense moment the two glrls glured | at one another. “You-you miserable, lylng _eheat!” breathed Mona. And then the sifuation to a climax so swiftly that the onlookers were spell-bound. With a mut tered cry, Mona flung herself on th other, whipping out a long pin from her | hat, It gleamed in the light. Mary stag gered back, and then something els: kleamed, It was a tiny revolver Mary had pulled from her muff. Before the group could interfere, or even cry out, there was a sharp report, a little awirl of emoke, and Mona sank to the floor, #o a red staln gathering on Her temple, | “Oh{" shrieked Mary, “I have killed | her!"” Gerry, staring In horror, suddenly re- membered his own plight, It would be ruinous to be involfkd in a murder! He dashed for the door. But two of the “cappers’” held him back, “Walt, young man! We'll need yop when the police arrive!” / The words added to Gerry's growing Alkali Makes Soap Bad for Washing Hair Most soups and prepared shampoos con- | tain too much alkali, which 18 very in Jurious, as it dries the scalp and makes the ha® brittle, “The best thing to use s just plain mul slfied coconnut oll, for this {s pure and entirely greaseless, It's very cheap, and | beats the most expensive soaps or any- | thing else all to pleces, You can get | this at any drog store, and a few ounces will last the whole family for months. Novelization by Hugh C. 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Tlere, vour money and go. We glad your help, but we won't need you any longer, |1 think.” “The only thing 1 am sorry for,”" sald little later, as they were hur- up in their cosy apart- we whl have to move! made a splendid haul, with bills. Gerry tapped his coat pocket | prostrate girl on the floor, but it was significantly anl they drove on to th: |not of her he was thinking. All of his arug store where thay had left Mary selfishness and baser instincts had come fhe came rushing ont kot a sudden to the surface. He was con- “Oh, your fust in tyme!"* she cricd, hys 4 cerned only with the thought of protect ferfeally, “Dad's just givéh me the daps | I8 himself, Desperately he produced his on the fifth mee hureshurry-husry? | Check book and fountaln pen and hur- | She handed Gerry the slip of paper she | T1edly seribbled a large check to ‘‘Cash! i o e e B e The group avound him hesitated, Mary i rib o Fings e noran | W8 bent over Mona, sobbing pitjtully ock | wli g at the name of the horae SR BEVEP RN S TN S < | But at a sign from Deering the check Tiiey hurried on 4o the pool roum, and | oo U0 P found iliey were only just in time g et o T el et amaitidiy I'll take a dhance,” he sald, “after it at (he cashi:r's window. ‘“¥iltoen thou. | '® cashed take of | were a packing ment, "is that But-we have | haven't wo dear And Mona, her head and shoulders | burfed In a trunic, nodded agresment (End of Episode No. b) Mary riedly Valeska Supatt, America's Self- Made Beauty-Actress, Tells How Surpassing Beauty May Be Simply and Kasily Attained. course no one ean ever he sure of rucc in this regard, Mix two ounces of r tone, obtainable at any drug store, with nalt' a cup of sugar and dissolve In pint of cold water Take two teaspoon= fuls after meals and at bedthme vo H, D, H.—8es how aquickly and beautis tully your complexion will change to one of exquisite beauty by using my com- plexion formula, All freckles, muddiness {and blemishes promptly disappear. Get | at the drug store one ounce of zintons and mix with one tablespoonful of glyces rine in a pint of hot water. This pakes many times more cream than you would Ihave to pay for by buying prepured i"rr‘uma whicli are much weaker in res aults, v ee MRS, G. T.—I note what yol say about !'not helng able to get the zintone at the driig store, for muking my complexion formula, | regret this, but it you will send the price, which 1y fitty cents, to | “Becretary to Valeska Suratt, Thompron Bldg., Chicago,” you will be supplied by [ yeturn mail. no tion, BELLANA-Talcum ” powder @oen | good ‘in armpit and other perspir Uso hydrolized tale, which is especially | medicated und which is astonishing in | controlling excessive perspiration in the | armpits and other parts of ‘the body, such as the feet, walst, etc, 1t prevents your gowns from becoming faded and riined or Injures the skin, but aves it clear, | by excessive perspiration. It also come Rott and smooth, Use It on iny part of | pletely destroys odor ”‘H' l:"l’ly. no nm;lvr how delleate 'h!‘“ | v skin. It never fails and works in & few i " moments. The uulfo solution can be se- | MINNIE G. H~-A teaspoonful of eggol | Sired af any Swig store in haif & cup of hot water mskep tha most exquisite shampoo possiblb, Tt | cleans out alt the pores wonderfully, and | lets the bair “breathe.”” It dlssqjves away all fatty accumulations and mwlm{:‘, n hard serubbing, can, do, It is very eco- nomical, an for A moderate price you can obtain enough eggol for over a dozen of these extraordinary head-washes | o'y | MADAME Z.-—Yes, you certainly cam get rid of blackheads in a few minut | #prinkle some neroxin on a sponge, wet with hot water, and rub this on the blackheads, In'a few minutes they wilk be all gone, Blackheads should never be pinched out. 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