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a : What’s Her Name? SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. ‘Roderick Van Nostrand, a wealthy young Rebeet *! caught you. It was through no clever~ lyn man. ts told vy, fortune-toller, ok’? te destined to bri Or death. Rebek: ht ico fe written: “When Vi ‘Shalt Fate's Want Will Wrock tha ¥ 4 ays, Nostrand ‘mects and loves the Gh tn rueas her hat the | 9990 Washington avensie, very mach atydrawback. your service,” replied the — other.s| dle. easily. You seem surprised) to see| As he spoke he once more folded the me."* check and started to put it Into his Roderick could not speak, but still stared open mouthed at the otter man, It wasalmosi as though he were gazing at a mirror. “I see.’ went on the stranger, ‘point- Ing toward the table. “that you have just been reading two letters addressed to me. Was that. wholly honomble? But I suppose It was no more than might have been expected from @.com- mon housebreaker. But when it comes to annexing a check,” picking up Kate Clark's gift for $1,000, “that makes the offense a little too serlous, my friend. You should be carcful and stick to petit larceny,” Ho laughed softly, and folded the slip of green paper, preparatory to slipping {t Into his pocket. “Drop that!’ cried Van Nostrand, hoarsely. “I don't understand this and it's all a mystery beyond my reach. But I see enough to prove you've been impersonating me at my club and at the homes of ladies I know. You've biack- ened my reputation by your vilainy and entangled me in at least two af- fairs that it will take all my ingenuity to explain away, Who you are I don't know, or how you chance to resemble me 80 closely. But you shall not kesp that check and you shall suffer the pen- alty of what you've already done. Your game {s up, I've caught 'you.”* “On the contrary, my dear double," sneered the stranger, calmly, “I've hess of yours that you discovered me. I came forward and announced my pres- jc.| ence. Coming home from a call this in this sentence are scattered rs gon jetters which form the name of the When Van Nostrand shall guess tho e. Rebekah nays. he will win’ the evening,” and he tapped a well-filled pocketbook as he spoke, “I enter my room to find @ strange man reading my letters, And when I interrupt him he remarks that he has ‘caught’ me. The shoe is on the other foot, my friend. It seems you've relied on a certain resem- blance to myself to enter my house. I die. | catch you before you have a chance to personating hi * CHAPTER VII. A Likeness and a Fight. VAN NOSTRAND turned fm. silence and faced the intruder. His face was deathly white and huis eves seemed starting from his head. ‘There, in the soft glow of the cluster let electric lights stood a man, tall, ath- sally built, well Gressed. A mane of golden hair crowned his classic and a pair of big blue eyes looked + i | Answer This Simple Question and Win $25 in Prizes. By Harriet Hubbard Ayer. the sattation of the question now _¢laiming the attention of The Hven- “ing ‘World's readers does not result (nthe wholesale reformation of all the wandering husbands of Greater New Weute, it will not be because of a paucity of, working rules for creating and i marred men stay-at- — i i 4 Reet iii! tell ¥ Ag Hi] t : k fo will permit thetr ‘wives H fogsd%s ofei j i eet E g i -wearing anxie(les @ now set of ie uy ene the pudlication of these ictters. one night to find himself nied bY an unexpected visitor. prefer the glow of the sitting- to the glare of the outside inside informetion as to means for keeping his lord- ‘themselves abject slaves to caprice and self-indulgent scarcely worth ¢he time and f-sacrifice bestowed upon other hand, there are e happler homes than nightly. We all know| stays numbers of hard work- @ home afier a day of imoreasing ist of should never even hear hoped that the wives keep thelr husbands hom @ some helpful suggestions more fortunate women through Tob me. I ought not to let you go, ‘but"— “To let me gol" echoed Roderick, stu- Pidly, “So that’s your game? To make yourself up to look lite me. to try to bluff me and then to live on my money? It isn't worthy of a sane man. The firat friend of mine you spoke to aaah spoke to would see “GoT™ queried th . “How bout those ftatids of t dies 3 the olub be sol kindly sant me money? If I my temper I'd tie borrowing ‘from them yet. How about the fair ladies who have engaged themselves to me? That ts, of course, supposing I em not Roderick Van Nostrand, which I am. Also, supposing I were an impostor (and what mere impostor could have made himself up to look precisely like |Roderick Van Nostrand?) Do you sup- Pose I wouldn't have taken the precau- thon to discover everyttiing about your Past, your mode of life and your habits, before playing this master stroke? To be frank with you, my friend, I belteved you dead. When I entered this room to- night I thought that you had died, rather suddenly, last evening. The fact that you ere still alive is of course s [with a pocket. Vag Nostrand, shaking off, for the |moment, his amazement, sprang forward and seiged his wrist. With the other hand he grasped at the check. The other struck him @ frighttul-blow in the unguarded tace, following the assault with blow after blow upon the half-stunned man’s face and head. Van Nostrand reeled pack, then, dazed and dizzy from pain, rusned in and grappled with his mysterious an- tagonist. Strong as he was, he met trength and skill equal to his own. Moreover, this brain was bewil- dered with all the incomprenensible events of the evening and groggy trom Perhaps you would better A Romance of Six Girls’ Love For One Man. BY ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE. Find the Hero!ne's Name. SECOND PRIZE 13 OTHER PRIZES, EACH... $100 In Prizes, the terrific punishment he had recelved, while his opponent was cool, In perféest condition, and made doubly strong by the furious anger that possessed nim. It was an odd sight, this silent, ter- rible struggle in the luxurious, softly lighted room. The two men, each the apparent counterpart of the other, linked in @ death grapple, their faces purple and distorted with rage, their stamping feet making almost no sound om the thick Oriental rugs, their heavy breathing alone breaking the atifiness of the apartment. (Roderick fought blindly, madly, con. Gis sole idea was the primal instinct to get at bis foe's throat; to strangle, tear and worry ft. At the eame time @ vague fancy that it was egatist/ fighting solely on the defensive, hus- “” HOME MAGAZINE ~“1strength not been sapped by the strug- gle that would have proved a death- he relaxed his hold on Roderick and sent his right fist crashing to the young man's Jaw. Van Nostrand’s fingers loosed thelr ‘rasp on the stranger's throat and he reeled backward. Drawing a full breath of air into his exhausted lungs, the stranger gent his left across to Rodet- {ck’s Jaw. There was but a fraction 6f a second'’s interval between the two blows. Roderick Van Nostrand collepsed in an tnert heap on the floor. For some seconds the victor Jeaned against the wall, panting. The battle had shaken even his iron physique, and for a momont Death had seemed to e him in the face. recovered himself, however, and began a systematic search of the room. His first step was to take the bracelet from the floor, clasp tt about his wrist and study carefully the sentence scratched on tts tarnished eurface. Next he picked wp the rumpled check, smoothed it out and carefully put it in thls pocket. ‘Then he went from place to place an- til at the back of a oloset he discovertd what he was looking for. He returned to the middie of the roam carrying a suit of ragged clothes, It was the con tume which had been put on Roderick by his mysterious assailant of the pre- coding night. Van Nostrand, remember- ing nothing of that attack when the @rug had worn off, had been amazed to find himself thus olad. He had hung ae ) \\ | a =< 7; 7 eos Roderick fought blindly, madly, confusedly. Do You Keep Your Husband Home Nights? en fees How to Keep Your Husband Home Nights, HE EVENING WORLD offers tho following prizes for the best answers to T the above question: ei A prize of $10 for a letter trom a wife who has successfully kopt her huabanmt home nights for the longest number of years. A prize of $10 for {ke most convincing letter telling How 'o Keep Your Husband Home Nipats. A consolation prize uf % to the woman who has tried the hardest and failed to keep her husband home nights. Letters must not de over 140 words in length end must be written on one side of the paper only to receive attention. Address letters to “Mrs, Harriet Hubbard Ayer, Evening Wortd, many men who are permitting oF ox- acting of their wives the humilleting Services that betoken a condition of| domestic inequality, the wife, the menial and inferior; the husband, the lord and superior being, may recogn:! thelr pen portraits and mend thelr ways forth- with, Remat Dear Mrs. Ayer: bd I HAVE been married more than six- teen yeans, have Hved in the olty, end my husband hes never been have I kept him home? I have studied his Ukes and dislikes, and I take the eame delight in his happiness as be- fore we were married. I love and trust him and let him know ft. I have mae mysclf as agresable all these years as though it ‘were the first year. I continue as I began. I avoid tho first quarrel; avoll harsh words. They cannot be recalled. Love ds a plant that flourishes best under good cultivation. Tt 1s no task to serve one we love, My husband remains where he) is mate most happy—at home. ANNA B. A Homeopathic Cure. Dear Mra, Ayer: AM married eigtt years and my hus- ‘band always came bome at 8 and 4 o'clock in the morning. I would not stand “- him oumiog homie at thar hour, 4 packed my trunk and went back to my father’s house for two weeks, He would come over and beg me to come home with him and pro- mised he would come home early at Dear Mrs. Aver: . HAVE done all in my power to make married Ufe a success. When only look married a short time alwa: clean and neat.’ Your home must be weet and clean, your meals good and appetizing. Do not complain of aches and pains, Read to one another. I hap- pen to play the plano, and many even- © also areatly to. be wished. that ings are spent In ttis way. I never sew at Home Because Happy| or mend in the evening. My attention ts given to my husband, and when he is out one evening in a long time he tells me he df not enjoy himself without me. A DEVOTED WIFE. Temperament Must Be Studied. Dear Mra. Ayer: N regard to husbdnds staying home at nights. I have been married ten years and can say truthfully that my husband has never deen out’a might —unless I wes with him. We started that way and have always continued it. He ia & man that likes life, and f am the same, Whenever he wants me to go out with him I go, You have got ¢o atudy husbands’ dispositions like @ book. In my home f£ do everything thet 1 know he likes, He nover does anything unless he asks me firat. Mrs! FRANCES B. Men Relish a Pinch of Spice. Dear Mra. Ayer: oS the fives a ewest ant fragrant fife, phystoaily, mentally and morally; keeps herself immaculate aid daintily attired. ber mind full of kind thoughts, her morals above reproach, she will be prised above rubles, and her husband wl want to ba with her always emd to bask in the sweetness and rest of the home she will oreate, It és the ol prin- ciple, “More files ere caught wit sugar than with vinegar,” but at the same time ft 4s well to remember eugar alone BTOws monotonous, and a pinch of spice at the right time is relished by the best of men. A Happy Expertence. My Dear Mra, Ayer: N my twenty-two years of married Ife my husbamd was home every even: ing except when he took the children or me out with him. As soon as his work was finished he came: right home and stayed there. He preferred my com- iy to all others, and he loved his and family, Mrs. T. B., College Point, Evening World and a Cigan Dear Mrs. Aver: 'O keep your husband home nights just supply him with The Bvening World every night end a good cigar, and I think that’s ail that is necesmary. Mrs. N. H. Northampton County, Pa. Self-Sacrifice Its Own Reward. Dear Mra, Avert HIE wage I found to keep my bus- bam home et night were, first, to be @ good cook and have what ee. he iiled for supper and greet bim Vane crock has @ cause, and if | vith @ amile, never mind how I fett. because he is better entertaimed away from his home, Duty alone never holds either man or woman through to the end. There will be an outbreak somewhere, The personality of the wife creates the atmosphere of the home, If Beoond, to have the home attractive and apeak kind worls always, even Uf he was tired and felt cross. Thin, to made all ithings ready, for his com- tort. It ‘tove: an miné does Re'wni siny home nightie, Mra T. BL OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES. Grandma—Now, Johnny, sit down and tell me why your father whipped you, Johnny—I'i satber stand up and tell you. Gunday-school Teacher—Do you love your enemies, Tommy? ‘Tommy—What kind of enemies—the big ones or the little ones? Aunt Mary—I do wish the good Lord had made me a man! Little Flossie—Perhaps he did, auntie, and you haven't teen able to find him yet. “Bay, mamma,” queried Uttle HaroM, “am X @ berber?” “Certainly not, dear,” replied his mother, “What put that {dea into your head’ “why, Uncle Bob called me a little shaver this morning,""explained Harold. “An abstract noun,” said the teacher of the juvenile ewammar class, “is the name of something you can think of but cannot touch. Now, Harry, can you give an example?” “Yes, ma'am; a red-hot poker,” promptly replied the gyouthful student.— Chicago News. banding his strength, waiting for Rod- erick to exhaust himself. slowly, Van Nostrand's splendid strength | ing them. more itself down. breath heavier and more labored. Slowly, very Once he Pretty, but Serviceable. I expett to be marnied somethin: , but ser- viceable. I have about twelve yards of thirty-mine-inch goods. “I have a S-Inch ———————— CREPE CIO’ TH DRESS, DE M. M. Your pale crepe cloth will be very artistic made Uke the combined with some shade of gray band lace and a darker tone of panne velvet. The design is bullt on a two-piece cir- cular skirt and plain blouse walst and ‘The lace extends down the back of the waist and skirt from the neck to the hem aimilar to the front The ‘darker gray panne velvet is cut in circular shaped disks the size of a half dollar and applied on the pattern of the lace in @ set desigh with gray French knots o; outer edge of the disks me de: i in tan or golden bishon sleeve. and brown brett in the all eame 0! materia! A Foulard Waist. Dear Mma, Judice: NCLOSBD you will find a sample of foulard, regarding the use of which!» I wash you would give me a little advice. I have only about two yards of the goods, with the exception of a few pleces which might help. might do for a waist, {f J used it with strips of wide lace. e‘ght would you advise? € am eighteen, of medium height, with a Am pale, and have What color of lace bust and 2 waist brown hair and blue eyes. Your {dea of usin strips of lace is goo a suggestion of © lace {n the atrl with the black and white e scraps with came} Quickly the stranger disrobed Van Nostrand and Gressed him mn this ragged broke through the other's guard and|suit. Then, with @ pair of shears he won the longed-for grip on the throat. ‘The stranger's eyes stood out and his|halr into a rough uneven fringe. Into tongue protruded, from the awful pres-|this he rubbed tho contents of a gure on his windpipe. Had Roderiok’s|phial. The golden hair grew black ¥ The Home Dressmaker § & BY MME. JUDICE 8 »# If you wish advice concerning new gowns or the making-over of old ones, if you wish advice concern- ing home dressmaking, write to “Mme, Judice, Evening World, Pultt- zer Building, New York City,” and pied will give It to you In this column: ‘Old rose silk. A soft finish \Iece of white, rather wide, with @ narrow edg- ing of black edge, elther gathered or Aworuan girdle OF Blase eee wilt cin Aa irdle oO! sal a chic Touch: ye How to Trim a Waist. Dear Mme. Judice: INDLY suggest some pretty way to trim a waist Mke inalosed sample for a young lady of nineteen, with 28 bust, blond hair, brown eyes and very pale complexion, Mra, Me L. Your mixed blue, pink and mauve vole needa a trimming of a very de- | cided pattern to give the waist chan acter, Any of the shades more pro- nounced, as @ band trimming or all heater yd narrow satin or velvet rib nm—laid one over the other as ee piping, in spaces between tioks Sei Y. I would suggest ola ‘rose pink and golden Drown Trees are per shades of the material and will help bring out your complexion. Amusements, sioneo| HORSE SHOW MADISON SQUARE GARDEN. s NOV. 16, 17, 18, 19; 20, 21. sararay band /GRAND BXHIBITION UF HORSES, MONDAY, NOV. 16 SHOW OPENS AT 9 A. M. Jadging Harness Horses, Road- asters, Snddie Horse Four-in- Hands, Tandems, Hunters and Thoroughbreds, CONCERTS BY LANDER The Seats in the Two Upper Gal- ___leries Are Not Reserved. 14th St. Theatre sai LAST TWO WEE nen Fo tte LIGHT! Manhattan’, K. th Av, Wed. & Sat. F HOME Matinee Saturiay at HACKETT 2 g03 xt Mon, Chas, Richman in Capt. Barrington IRCLE Broadway and 60th st Ladies’ Mat. Daily, THE OREAT THURSTON, MR. AND MRS. SIDNEY DREW. Tap ‘ _RAYMOND & CAV otnens, Mon., Wed Sat ESTAR’ The Price of Honor. KEITH'S HARLEM OPERA- MOUSE, RD AY. Mat. To-day vas, 8.15, Mats, ‘The Wizard of Oz, w ontgomery & Sto |A HUMAN SLAVE grip for the Unknown. As {t was, lights | danced before the other's eyes and the) blood beat Ike a trip-hammer fn his! brain, With a last superhuman effott | seriatim spell the herot tures trace." “Lofed" should have right letter for the correct word—was Girl in Biack’s name, The nine other letters will be found in the same way in the nine other chapters, i letters in the last column, following them downward, will spell the name. misspelled word, the corrocted word and the letter found for each chapter must be written in this blank. Don’t send in tank until {t ts completely: filled and the story finished. until 12 Wooo No, of ; Name of Sender........cseccecessvsessessee sess 1354, and greasy in appearance under the quick action of the dye. The eysotows were next treated In Ilke/ “I think he's coming to his manner, and the blcodstained and| observed the man. bestowing a swollen face was smeared with dirt. imnly ‘Thedaspstep was to saturate the trans- formed man's upper garments with whiake: “Now,"' mused the stranger, “tt will be a wise man who oan recognize Rod- erick Van Nostrand in this rum-soaked tramp.” So gaying he picked up the still ense Jess Van Nostrand, carried him stealth- ily downstairs, opened the front door, MONDAY EVENTN NOVEMBER 16, 1903. How to Find the Heroine’s Name and Win One of the 15 Prizes. HERE will be ten chapters tn this story. In each is a misspelled word— not a blurred or broken word, but one plainly and clearly printed and intentionally misspelled. The atisent letters of these words taken ‘3 name. n the first chapter pf the story was this sentence: “The lofed one’s fea- That fs the first letter of the Fill out the appended blank day by day as you read the story and the 2 The story will end Thureta, Saturday, Nov, 21. Chapter. | Misspelled Word. Corrected Word, 1 LOFED LOVED Vv 2 wt 3 3 4 es | 5 | 6 oe] ire 7 soi Shi OC eas at ‘ cl ee : 9 ee 10 al THE HEROINE’S NAME, .00......c0..ceceeccneeceee Address.. Send replies to “Girl in Black” Editor, Evening W: x BRIG ge World, P. 0, box and dropped the beady on the pavement outside. No one had seen them. kick on the inert body, and ca’ entering the house. (To Be Continued.) —_— LOOK OUT FOR The Girl in Red’ New Prize Story. Next Monday. the clothes in’ a closet, after speculating vainly on how he had come to be wear- clipped the senseless man's long silky STREET SELEY ST Ot” OEEe . NEW EMPIRE seTan.] PROCTOR’S tecmcscncs. sera 4 AUDIENCES IN TOWN. 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