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Aignantly 4+ ham. Me to up. stery ame vor. must be ur cleared {f he hoped to remain her f His first step was to ‘ontn’s | shop In Pimlico ‘The shop was inn back street. where he would not naturally have looked for tt. and ented Fqualid neglect took Geoffrey by su pected to find a moi least, « more lishment an xppearan commonness | He had ex- etentions cing estah- faded and a satin hopeless which a god, There and gome unattra mos looking {n at the! fared a ha kind china, Chinese mon: deen honored an dusty books, too miniatures {nt Geoffrey was still window, when an old man a the door and addressed him wi of saturnine politencas, were | “If there's anything in the way of curfosities that you'd Itke to see, you had better step instde, sir. I don't keep much !n wind My business t mostly transacted upstairs, where I have a! -room and Mice” as o gleam of | Geoffrey's mind, ‘The old main, pro a money-tender, ay dressed man trance to his shop, was welcome nor an unit This theory explained a Geoffrey's opinion, and for him to ad probably seem Cronin. He turned, that worthy and contr therefore. with an al though probably always | His hair, which was. qu! rather long. fell on el stern and as absolute! Barchment | oan and. his deep eyebrows, glowed fire. “There ts nothing here man like you would care “but Tha upstairs Tle turned tow ease whlch led upper story: but, F sent a st ent call Into the corners, of the house Nan! Nan! Come here and mind the! People tas lots of name shop while I take this gentleman up-| % its convenient don’ atalrs.” “ «Jul And with some Interest Geoffrey stood | - and looked wh Nan warde= the siender, white-Giced gi ring round to Know “his big, black eyes whom Joan had « n't have met you te Da out Kense from. the wreck t was all. shattered train—to his mind eve » go, but Geoffrey caught ner, wilter and more sc than she had been on the n « eatastrophe. Ho wondered whether she would rec-| ognize him. But there was no sien of recognition In her great eyes “as i stepped out of the shado 1 vacantly at him, and then at her un as If walling for orders. Mr. Cronin frowned at her, hustled her/ aside a little roughly, and then Indicated to Geoffrey the way that he should take Ho followed Geoffrey upstaira, and to- ether they entered the room he called 13 office. “TL suppose,” began here to borrow mone x hundred pounds, POR Puindret?, Small business that, 1 even that ean't be got without. pros ity. What security do you off ‘one at all. But I have some f that] onta, "you're How much?" sald Geoffrey, hing with you In exchange You take valuables, do for the money. you not?” Nobody need to come to me with hat havo been @tshonestly ob- put on an afr of the strictest virtue 0 spoke, ire “not, always as particular, who thought had come for him to show @ little rising temper. Eh? What do you mean by that?” You don't mako inquiries of all your| clients, do you?" “Who sent you here?" asked Cronin, suspiciously. ‘ "No one sent me, Mr. Cronin; but I've heard your naine ‘trom one pe two sald Geoffroy, calmly, “Major Car- Fington, for Instance.” fajor Carrington? Well, lie’a not etter J Sealant of 0," EM vomething know, of the lidy and how good sho was to me. alngt name. was of it called D—Ht and you'd, go up: floor (ot all. atnirs, T am Jooking for?" tantly. thing, am 1? There's a. brass plate the doorpost, y; gone You, well. enoughe™ |. _ 200% IRS a RGAE DEE DOES tS ECO SRROEIS eee lergeanl Ce OPIRICHT 1901 By the “it composedly nfor DEO G09- 94.94 4- said Geoffrey, In ownley? No fear! You'd bet- ter for yourself when yo! there an you tell mo nothing more?’ in shook her head, “1don't know but what I've told you too much already, You must YWnd out the rest for yourself” She put her head down and + fast ax she possibly could awa from um. Me ¢ af! . bat she did not look back, and nk tgure was soon the darkness of the ight ‘Colum! o him: ah : to-ni Limight as well 59 Ao name He was delayed by breakdown the cab he had take nd it was tale sefore eared ton a [alighted near the en had given | him | He was in the act of paying \eabman, when some one passed him paver and entered the door the mans Geoffrey caught sight his profile, He had seen he guessed at kolng to visit of 2] the! ne but that wan quite enous! old Nathantel Cronin, and once that the dealer wax the mysterious occupant Nan can't have betrayed me! nr lasp, to the one as isso. ¥ = face ass lankne 3 FORWARD D STRUCK AT H iden I have nottced that there is hardly! | tor a home tn this country wit | With the exception of the very poorest | ame ul about} for sale I should be igottation Mr. opin turned ed mor purzled nga, ain't tt ver had 9 1 mean rusting the don't nky. for you If you Uke, \ man whore fir: anyth shilling “Don't you ia J aie said stolldly. K again. Some one cailed Julian dark. with a. jong mustach venda, T chink you k you wilt remembe je ratlw London after And then she! Nan. said or Ms a Julian? her asked! impatient sl- | ani him eatled Julian,” fan't all, Nan, You. « nd ty you. that ti kind. Don't you wish to help Wi t diMeulty, 1 Nan, at lilm solemnly. #0. she Is {from me, and back unless [can which 4 resent And, th “ohough he sald slowly, t when T think mind doing {ea pr rolng to mind putting yo! out something for your- ell me, Nant" now them tall flats in IKen- @reat high fate as seem to shut out all the light? Yes, thats the I'd clean forgotten ‘tt. If you go there, you'd find one part kD, thoy call it wits to the very to Aid thare ‘youd ‘come te his just “fronting the “And is that the home of the man ‘ou ean go and éee,"* sald Nan dls- “Tm not bound ‘to tell you any on oorpost, and youll see a name ybe you knows alre; What name, Nan? roneys the pame of Towale; FACE TO FACE. AN! he said to himself Geoffroy looked about for nm board con-| PLAYING CHOPIN ETUDE taining the names of the tenants. He none 2 for the | /Brilliant Young Master | | of the Piano and Fa- vorite Pupil of Rubin- stein Says Beginners Should Take Up Clas- ; i sic Music. | | In his second lesson to E Wor'd readers Josef Hofmann, brilliant young master of the piano, gives much valuable advice to be- ginners on that instrument. Try to play good music—classie music—is his advice. Get away from the mechanical by hearing the | masterpiece played by an experieneca | mustcian before you attempt it your- self, and bend every efforé to ferget technique in reaching for feeling. In this series The Evening World: places at the disposal of the poorest! New Yorker who is nustealiy am- bitious the knowledge which others have spent much time and money to learn. LESSON II. i POINTS FOR BEGINNERS. BY JOSEF HOFMANN. class, « piano seems to be one of the integral parts of the household. Every flat of four rooms and u parlor eeems to have its mustcal instrument. I don't think that there !# another counry in the world where so many peo- Adventure new thar| ple know how to play a little at least on one instrument. The enormous sale of popular music In America proves be- yond uw doubt the wide Interest that is felt in playing the piano. Now, I matntain that there is not a the ‘and the fat 10 ve pose quick fo stalrs, ont of t! wd begun tt. seven flights of steps. ery t nd the a steps he began to and tather wished their wor ye| Besin vy learning to play some of the white pateh on the] Czerney tudes. ‘They are simple und { took him a) availy mastered, You will find th Naathe isical value and will bo pleazed + your frionds, fy nut difficult to read muste tf you it the right way, Tue puptl took at voth y ned to the struck aomnateh and } which t printed 4 ht esouen J rwaie: ‘ownley me By about Nin with had called mus should not merely take a plec it man it owi and then uy to play lus Was tt a brother—a cousin? d Wis Towntey’ the ma name at alt? | . Remember, you must educate Mt meditated the} voth the eye and eur as well as the fn } he man with “the | ES eh PATH SEEMS HALF AS WIDE with the) Take & pleco first read the notes a chamee tn hie appear. | 884 sec an fdea of tts me and move You will tind my door?) yuu have tried it ae e Goes Northward in Its Fight and tn, on ‘Then practise with the rigat handand| in a Dinplay of Hrillinne i in learn the notes ughly, After iranmenent Mare way with the left hand, and afteryou lonicini vaftes | Have maste he lower and then play eee Ree the entire plece. In this way it De | Bikes ecinel Tovexolte Meron tapes ata found much easier 20 play a compoaition | Wiitam A yi Of Bayonne: Ne) Ji at 1945 v'olock Jast night a} a merely sitting down and trying to yiting ve Hear the Plece Firat. players make the mlataits of o without really hearing it They strike thy notes in a 11 fashion, and as long as they He nears firey with at 2 amaetilt, ownward Many playing a raed ves, mechante Good gractou! Like Ror another example It Funeral } form, to sustain thelr By vhis I mean that in thetr own frame. |tme crate, ay trated | the a stor the feeling of sorrow or rela! ne tthe hand and this yor ein © Chime of Nella, Here yement in chin Atethe: uu out of up very | 9 ; funeral Ata m quickly '¥] man or woman who can play a popular Fal tare pecover i moment (9) hcg who can’t learn to play tho simpler bait Play ther throug Hensal nnd nk. he had time to look classic music. And when they have +) {: Is nia once accomplished this I assure them aay If Advice Ia Taken, onld see t they will get much more satisfaction out After following the directions I have oalt hear voll of it than playing the other kind. given in regard to first making a mental of twee nen, ws Try Cxerney Etudes ira pietiire of the plece, yuu find. thie 1 JOSEF HOFMANN’S MUSIC LESSONS - TO READERS OF THE EVENING WORLD eocan do this ay that ef amen You wi! removed fs soon ry real earnestly to directions I have sed ut your own yen, Take Heed! true of women. away and riy a host are npe are sans of the 1 to begin t syatemat and in the r way they would fH attain a dextee of accomplishment Howil aze tie Aowhleh will them an amo f pleasure and ction that can never wet by puying the ordinary sone of the Ay 1 lesson 1 ostinil tel! some proctiing the what to avotd reports that LI GREAT METEOR | GHTS UP SKY, 1 oncrmss the Wh bright ronataltatt esky)» mit and stood at Town produce the tine they think tt all auf-| ments, Although us he dead Bae ele heard tho ma {Nght seem: R (To ba Continued ) In playing, nto the plece yourself, | Wide as the full moon. —————— Linugine (he way you would ke to hear] The Mosh of Nght mistaken by Varrant Queeniters played and bring It forth in tnag | Mr. Eddy a Hal for nening, and he northward Just int (Frota the Denver Repulil! t tot Gala peer eT Lal eh composition that ts the last hait < kK, Whitet head of the § au. SNOUEN fore anys dre) <0 reau of Child and Animal Protection, would s00n recognize trendedyatianyia great deal of mental angulsh d hat it ayed without t the northern Jo the Inst ten days, When the State] 20! heard some une else play tt, Think t started bee-keepers’ convention was fa sesdion | (hat you are the some one else when ae te State- louse, the room oveupied| playing it and how you think yy Mr. 1 Wits occasionally |e pla and then play : used as a cofpmittee room, utd. some Lacks ee ee ga eet eeentaes one of the dele loft on the table| 28 ether words, learn to play without & little cage, muide of Wire gauze and|notcing your own technique. If you wood, of the type used In sending queen| make technique your obsective point becs ‘through tho mails, One end of | you will produce nothing but sound, the box was plugged oa cork, and When playing, loces he othe: Anew a plug of Lump au-| you like. Dont atte Wor fed ec exainp Choplis. Be inside ‘There the Mr. Whitehead | part, isp entirely with th find out whow hand. Tr ot 5 me througt y the little enge conta ned, retary of the convention could give Rocking Cra on. Then he. tri oe CTL LH Ce Th we him no inform: find some one bees and give He was met with the p in rocking of « cradic, thin plese imagine the playing ‘There is the pame ome, postion that monotonous: t In Wale ental amnitl mon elders have attention sho urrived Lined Kaden whic r ctx distr n bees from one hive may be introduced | of the cradle, which ts pla signed “Joseph Smith, the Into another bee community, only by | left hand. wfriondiy hint that the Jers use of diplomacy and no one thought] It never varies, but keeps right on| is to ve found, ike every vilier iv worth while to make the effort. Solto the end, With the right hand is| date city, in America esterday Mr. Whitehead threw open{ played the wong. It ls played through-| Intimate their yen wide the window, and shook the two in: | out as though the person were softly | Welsh Kiting to nweeten the sects out on the window «ill. ‘They singing to the child, Salt Lake City. So far the 4 | soared away into the warm sir, and Mr.| Naturally thege i no, feeling in tho | hay wimply glanced at inetuppenle of] NEG ee | now wendering where! movemen tthe i mand. It re the departed Joseph Smith. and replied serettesa rameters” ing the pore ot 4o-bis-diacip) 1b Lor Joe,!t - ph Masten d kee ome Rane vets 08? Pedic os AATIE, COME HOME BEFORE NEW YEAR MITCHELL APPEALS THROUGH THE EVENING WORLD. “bf Only for the Childrens Sake,” and AIL Will whom she >») Ninth legerted ave Th loget ret Excellent Ingredients F ully combined — make Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar it is for all coughs and colds, It is hariniess and palatable aswell, All druggists sell it 25e 50c. & $l. : effective remedy THUGS BEAT AND DRUG HER Minnie Hahn, eee) Wife of Steamboat Captain, Un- | conscious All Day. | | nourn’ searching | nzmt with fear and anxiety, |Join Wilson, whieh ts tatd ap fe | at Morcts street, J) Clty, late [inet mieht found nilesing wife, M © Who Had mysteriously disappeared te Christmax night the boat | tim of a thug, | pretty and vivactons. twenty-elghth bir | Day | ight the cou da quar rel. Mrs Hahn left the boat, and al hough her repentant husband followel her a few moments later he was unable © ret any trace of her Capt. Hahn thought hia wife had been frowned, He remained up all nig searching for the body, and in the morn- ing the search was taken up by several of his friends. During ‘Thursday after- noon and ail of yesterday Capt. Hahn und his friends alzo made a tour of the police atntions, hospitals and morgues tn Jersey Brooklyn and New | York, but no trace of the woman did they find Last night word was received that Mrs Hahn was tn the Bayonne (N. J.) Hosp!- tal, whither Capt. Hahn hurried. There was an affecting scene of re- unton. The woman's condition was critt- 1, and the physicians said tt would be ineafe to remove her for several days. Mrs. Habn’'s Story. Uahn tells a straightforward story, and her condition bears it out. After rhe hed left her husband on Christmas night she started to walle up the Morris street pier, She had scarcely reached Hudson streret, the first block from the river, when she was set upon vy a man, who struck her on the back of the head and knocked her down. Then, nolding a flask containing a dark ifquid, he compelled her to drink. After that her mind {8 a total blank. Jate Thursday nlght a Bayonne po- Mrs. Nceman in patrolling Weat Twentieth found) Mrs A Hahn almost uncon- selous, the hospital vigorous trest- went brought her about, and she was nble to tell her name. “But she #oon gank Into unconrctouaness agaln, Capt, Hahn brougat his boat Rridreport, Conn,, a few days ago ‘BROKEN HEART | 1S “SUSPICIOUS.” stre from |pocToRs (NEW YEAR'S WE HUSBAND CAN'T UNDERSTAND THAT SORT OF TRAGEDY. Wife Now that she Is ne Forever. Menry Michael. a fish dealer at No. 4 First avenue, reported to the Cor- aner’s office to-day that his wife. Mary, had died under suspicious circumstances her home, No 28 East Hovaton street. An Investigation was ordered, Mrs. ma Hurst, of 12t Pitt street, alater of Mra, Michael, declared to. an Evening World reporter that Mi- cheel's complaint was spite work. 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