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; ‘ ($8 cute Symes and does ‘not ten the dying _{ Woman that ner son ts a Tors CHAPTHR VI A Combat of Wills, ATHLEEN VPRNON looked up from K her mintstrations to find Arthur had departed, Where iy Mi, Gray?" “He hag gone," said the litt tary. "He did me the honor to {He asked that of you?” asked Kath- leen in bewilderment. Gray had seemed #0 bitter against the forger and had deen so determined to prosecute the onae that he could not! understand bis leav~ ing Gymes at large. Ehe was sorry, too, that he had gone,for she had resolved jto make a final plea in Jared’s favor on THE GIRL IN RED. i, @ivorsrs. or PRECEDING cHAl J N Ve .PTERS. Arthur Gray, @ young millionaire, falls be inysterious woman whom ithe Girl in ed.” “Sh th ee all Mo wake torn et ray to the eras fg mother Grey’ retuses the way home. Bhe was disappointed that the scene they had both just witnessed between mother and son should have rowey ted tle impression on Arthur eae be anxlotis to escape from it without trying to do something for the heart-broken’ little man. She had thought him more generous, more kkind- hearted, And even ag she regretted his callousness a pagg of self-reproach shot through her that she should mentally blame the man who in her mind was the ideal of everything that waa noblest and best. Mrs. Carroll had‘sunk into a light slumber. Noting this, Symes crept closer to Kathleen and whispered: ' “You probably know that I have forged, Mr,’Gray’s name on 8 checks?” Kathleen bowed’ assent. “E did it tor" — r dying mother,” finiahed "to buy delicacies and medi- eines for her, I'm sure. I shall explain that to Mr. Gray and beg him not to Drosecute. But surely you must know that even such a noble cause cannot ex- cuse a crime like that, and'’—— Qfiss Vernon,” ‘T canno@ gail pnder false colors. My mother never profited by one cent of those. forgeries. 1''— myself. It was an unrewarded crime, & case where the devil’ fished with an unbaited hook. I cannot explain. Wnen my mother—when the end Tomay be able to speak—but mow . Ups are, sealed. Call Ut crime for crime's sake if you will. It was not of that I wished to gpeak.to you, but of Mr. Gray.” “Tih already told you,” said Kath- leen coldty, “that @ will intercede with him for you"+6o" “It 1s not that," he said quickly, cing at her tone of impiled reproof. Around Town. By Josephine Robb. No. IIl_—The® Move-Forward, Step-Lively Man. mind Wiows with especial vigor and has @ partioumr brand of keen- Taperved for your individual , where you epend a good deal waiting for a car, of course, barely time to Uevbgp Ea Ae old on Meiranl Skat: fem: off: first.” ” you endeavor to signal the rapid- “@pproiching trolley car. “No passengers!" yells the motorman, cheerfully, as he puts on extra speed and whizzes by, followed dy your re> Proschea glare. ‘The cdnductor ledns against the closed Boor and evidently enjoys th: spectacle ef your nage. ‘You, tuna, with expectancy to ee next stosety following car.. “But this motorman has time to make _ said carefully avolas seeing you at Yertdle the wonductor congiderately ‘Sages bie sc , A You, determine to ‘waylay the next that comes. But it is a long An! coming. Binally it arrives knd—foy!—it stops. oil shurry tothe step. |, Dak there now! Passengers Gyetor Is so used to rej ae thet he doesn't noti¢e, Wine Before the lavt passenger has left thie lage the condustor, his hazid on the strap, alls ont Otek ¥ ieee “given you. Brtpre you are ‘ car starts. But you are ted with its tricks from long itter experience, so you grasp the mit aright. end are. all tient sed alana Jn tea 0 in poetry pt yanr, think thoughts framed in th oat Violent language you know, and tt does very well, but the repression, though line, doesn’t seem ‘dest thing for % byes you on general prin. it tm best to keep a large stock of pa- handy place where you can & when-riding in @ cable Have you ever been indisareet enough to pay your fare when stending in a crowd? The conductor does not notice you. He takes the fare nutomatically, then, a ¢ew. mihutes later, when you Hane, found & seat, demands tt again... ‘You protest, but it isn’t exactly pleas- ent, and when you reaéh your corner you are pursued with a vindictive ory: ‘Remember, you beat me out of five cents!" You smart under injustice, but you conclude it better to be weld up pas- sively and pay this tax than to pose as’ the star in a drama whioh, It is. need- lens to state, is hugely enjoyed by the other passengers, ‘Then, of course, you or the conductor Lbave gooasionally become hopelessly Samed <> ip. Memetire—but that is to be hy eae s On whole the conductor nes need of paticroe, too. lly remarkable how nee teol questions can be saked sot @ conductor in a minute, ‘48 4 rulo he answers them with a fair amount Of courtesy, but he is a long- suffering man, If you ride on one line frequently yeu learn to know by sight some uP choge | T° men. You may fancy they don't know yo: Dut they do. a Conductors have to learn to see pretty phe ‘ogeuir bri backs Cd their heals sad * eons oi rat | 4 weak es at the face 1 toned age ane | ned ome mornin name ‘uttered ti 0 Nora is ore 3 ff yay: ‘fare, Just think! To stay home every h wighed to tell you What he has done for me, He had me in his power. Hé allowed me to stay here with my mother when ho might have denounced me to her as a thief and thus have @ade her last hours @ torture. He might have had me arrested at the door as'I was lekving. Instend he has forgiven me.’ iad ven “yout? echoed Kathleen, with ‘a little cry of happy iyeredulity, “Yes, He has refused to prosecute. He, lets me go free.” - “How splendid of him! I know you'll show your appreciation by leading a better life. Won't you?’ Again Symes quivered with shame and seemed avout to break out info a confession of some sort. But he checked himself and safd, enigmatl- cally: - “I shall hope to show my apprecia- tion ii a more personal way than that, Dangers whereof he knows nothing threaten Sir, Gray, I dare not say more. But I — give my Ufe, if need The Eyes—Topaz and Black—Fought Fierce Becat be, to ward off those perils from him, ‘Greater love hath no man than this; that a man jay down his life for his friend,’ you know. It may even come to this, But whatever befalls, rest as- sured I shall not let this clemency go forgotten.'* IO What Awful Hushande! TE LR ANE Ar rial eI garet aaptaiag | | Oh, What Awful Husbands! They Won’tStay Home o' Nights: 1: $25 In Prizes for Those WhO Can Tell How to Keep Them at Home. She Plays “Don’t Care” Game. ‘To thé Editor of The Evening Worl JREAD letters from the wives “every night, and‘cannot help think: how many good hysbands there really nizht for years! I believe those hus- bands would stay home, no matter what, kind of wife they bad, I have beén mar- ried twelve years and I have tried over agein, in every possible way, to keep my hu#band home at night, and now at last I have found g’ eure. Just let him un- derstand that you do not! care if he goes and rather like it. Let him under- stand that you do pot iniss him, and you will see that tie will stay at home or you along when he goes out. That) is Whe rronsou! For if he don't noth. Ing'in the world will keep him home. Ravenswood, 1. I. Mrs, A. I, A. Trying to Ruy To the Editor of The Evening Worl T geoms to me that all. these poor wives are trying?to be heroines by, buying thelr husband's love at ‘the &c. I am thirty-nine years of age. spent twenty-two years of happy mar- rhea life, but I never for a moment thought that I had to coax my huaband to do his duty. We had good and bad times together, but always af the price of true love. FRANCHISE, He Had to Work Nights. | Editor of The Evening World: 7 AM married eighteen years and /bave | nine children. The first five years he was a great man for his home at night. I would not expect my husband to stay home every, night and work hard all day.: I wonld) think I was cruel, as jong as, he '* a sober man. For seven years he never was home ong night with his family. He had to work nights, padyey wm and a We Did Lover. @ Hditor of The Evening World: We bbme at nights is to treat him with the same consideration you Mrs. R. W, A Lady Physician, + ‘0 aa how to keep a husband home nights Is the same as to ask how price of a good table, a smiling ri Mrs. M. A. G., a Happy Mother. HE best way to deép your husband asa before you were married. Kaito; of The Byening World: | 1 to keep him continually in lowe with bis wife, «It a peeps setae his |, wife, he will stay home with pleaeure ms ants ‘ail preden nee society t0 any ever | e vt nay amet cure mts a1 A bkove-bed Quest From Shop to Shop of the Girl in Red. BY ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE. Find the Girl’s Age. FIRST PRIZE....... SECOND PRIZE... SIOCO in Prizes. I3 OTHER PRIZES, EACH A ring at the distant bell brought him to his feet. He glanced hurriedly at the recumbent form on the bed. THE BAMILE a Terrible ‘Battle, None the Less use Silent. ‘Miss Vernon!" ho sald In the same Guarded tone, “there 1s somevAing else for which I beg to enlist $our ald. My mother's second husband treated her most unkittdly and, tiring of her, se- cured a divorce in a ‘Western court on grounds of incompattbility. They lived -How to Keep Your H T the above question: A orlze of $10 for a letter from husband home nights for the longest number of years. : A prize of $10 fon the most’ conyinoing letter telling How to Keep Your Husband Home Nights. A consolation prize 3f $5 to the woman who has tried the hardest and failed to keep her husband home night Letters must not be over 150 words side of the paper only ta receive attention. Husband Editor, Evening World, New In spite’ of all that she can do to make| go, no majteh how tired. He would not {°F love, without which Industry, econ- If he} the home attractive. Study the eslence of love. and you' will keep your hus- bands home :days and nights at every foment Which they will have free of business,» A LADY PHYSI{CEAN, A Woman's Iden of # Man's ' Paradise. ‘To Wo Halter of ‘Fhe Evening World: F tHe, nome {s filled with mutual love happiness, contentment and heath, ins the midst of which dwells amiable wite who keops it beantifut, entiro and clean, surely it will be a paradise in which any husband will be eager and &nxtous to remain, ANNA RAUSCH. Reversal’ of the Situatio: To the Baitor of The Evening World: WANT a recipe on how to keep a bieband out. Instead of nalliig him to-his house I should like to nail him out once in awhile. In the house eaak evening after business, and now after seventeen years i has grown too ‘monotonous for human nature to stand. What a relief {t would’be hear him say “I am going out to-night!” And he is an extra kind husband and father ‘and our wants are always supplied A STAY-AT-HOME, ¥o/Strategy tn ‘Tilts, To the Editdr of The Wvening World: Y husband and I have spent our M evenings at home together for for- { ty-two years. He is never out ex- cept when Iam with him. It te not any Gtratemy of mine. I Luisa is because he, wanted ‘to stay at wr Mrs. WILLIAM C. Family Keeps Him at Ho: ‘To tho Editor of The Byening Work ¥ advice to Wives (to keep their ) tumbands home fights) tx to have feniily.’ The wenees love ones, and HE EVENING WORLD offers the following prises for the per answers to together ‘0 @ year of 2. After the divorce my mother resumed her maiden name of Cafrojl.. There was one child— ‘OF THE EYES. a girl. The father reldinea custody of the daughter and petfned her mind against my mother. Yet, when my mother was told this evening that she had only a few hours to live, she longed to seo he? daughter, and the docfor telegraphed for her to com think she would come, bu be she at the door. She has love for her mother—nothing but con- tempt. Yetshe is the sort of girl who would come-to a place litce this at such a time from {die curiosity. I fear she may speak harshly or contemptuously to my mother. Will you'"— “Tl do my bést,"" promised Kath- leon in a quick whisper as the door of the sick-rooms opened. ‘As has. been said, the apdrément's only remaining illumination was a tiny night lamp that cast a Taint glow over the bed andjleft the rest of the room in deep gloom. Kathteen, turning nervously and with + —— @ plea for silence on her lips ax the door swung easily open, couht not at first distinguish either of the two fig- ures that entered. One of the two re mainai near the door. The other ad- vanced, with loudly rustling skirts and choding heels toward the ped. Kathleen drew in a quick breath of surprise, for, emerging ftom’ tite gloom into the jfile circle of Heht, was the Girl in Red! “Well,” said the neweomer in tones far different fromy the xllvery voice that had won Gray's admrration, and taking no pains to lower her voles; “here I am, and a nice sort of errand it was to bring me to town for at this time of night! Deathbed scenes aren't much in my line, but I'd @ certain eurlosity to pte what fort of looking oman my mother really ts before she dies, If . “Hush!"" broke in Kathleen, in an agonized whisper. ‘Do you reallze you are in a death chamber and that It {s your own mother who has besged to! gee you before her eyes close?’ “Of course I realize it," snapped the Girl jn Red withom modulating” her) ‘1 suppose you're the nurse?) Well— Why!" she broke off in insolent surprise, “if tt ten't the handkerchicf girl at Fhak’s! Making a little extra money by nursing? Well, let me tell/ you, you necch't expect my father or) myself to pay your bill, I haven't come here for any affecting scene. I've come to take’ a look at this woman and to tell her what I think of hi way she treated my fathe> 1. and me, “Go! sald Kathleen. The recumbent figure on the bed had | stirred uneasily. ‘The loud talk was be- ginning to pierce the optate which had given her .temporary uncons@ousness and rellef trom prin. that the dying woman's last moments usband Home Nights. a wife who ha ticcstilie kept her 8. in length and muat be written on one Address letters to “Wandering York City, ask you if he didn't want you. cares to go alone, very well, Don't pout; jet him go, Always think, ‘‘Well, he won't stay long, and“Y?t he is out half ; the night, meet him with @ smile, ber ‘cause if there is sunshine at home hus- bards will nbt seek it elsewhere, This is my advice after fifteen years’ experl- ence. r A HAPPY WFD AND MOTHER. ‘an| Stop the Habit in Ite Deg! To-the Edltor of The Evening Worl TGEIT gt the beginning of his going out fg the time a wife should be _interestdd, and if he goes and does not let her lnpw where or what for, I consider {t'stthen time to prevent going. To-do this a wiff shquid set ber house in order by living a good Christian life. (Go not humor @ man in the wrong and he will goon seo where he stands and begin asking his wife for adyive, and mat stay at home nights. 9 Mre, T. L. H. Srreet, Fripas fc, bat Firm Her Mo ‘To the Mititor of The Evening World: * haVe been slarried six years the 2% gf next January and can truthfolly;may that in all of those years my husband has not spent one evening of pleasure away from my side. I havé always noticed what trait he ‘admired most in other women and then tried to oultivate it myself, Always have myself and little girl neat when he comes home, If I have the blues or don't feel well I appear cheerful ah don't tell him the minute he gets in the} house, Dut wait awhile and then tell him, ‘We are confidants, and evenings, when taby ts put to ded we tell saci other al of| otir plans and our Little trials that we have bad all day 1 trust him implicitly and-4 I % rs ly satary which I'try to use diséreetly. | The six years I have been married have been the happiest of my life, My motto is to be “sweet, sympathetic, cheerful and’ firm’ (when you are in the right). HAPPY WIFE. The Law of Love. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: AVING successfully kept my_soctety ! loving, politically inclined husband home nights for thirty-seven years, jalso seven young men sons, nephews | and wards, I, by request, enter this contest, hoping thereby to help some Ught-seeking, discouraged wife. My first rule in home-making was the law omy, hardly Perseverance and patience will follow; but with these virtues practised home is a hayen of rest for the tired, home-coming husband, I al- ways tried to’ have ‘the supper ready and house and children ‘tidy. Always found some time to read to keep mywelf abreast of the times intellectually, En- Joynble, bright games in the evening, occasionally pleasant friends, or calling out together, or a good book, read aloud dy different members of the family. Put all work out of the way evenings is one of my rules, and afi enjoy the happy, well-earned evening together, MOTRER AND GRANDMOTHER. ae CASTORIA For Infants and Children, The Kind You Have Always Bought Beare the ture ox y Amusements. Mal Ts a'fine objet how to laugh until you! cronol i eat” Samba COUNTY rh for the} Kathleén resolved | « How to Tell the of her old. Now then, to find her age: T ‘There ier GIRL SIN seep 88b> [100] Age the Girl in Red. © begin with, the Girl in Red fs in her teens and there ts no traction . She in so many integer years and so many integer months ‘ou have’ that informatiun to start with, willbe twelve chapters in’ this story" and in each chapter three of the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 wilt printed as numbers or figures—not spelled out. One of these numbers is be selected’ each day--you must pick one of the three yourself—and when the’ story is completed add the four selected numbers tn the ‘first four Subtract the selected number in the fifth, add the numbe: Ing the sixth, seve enth and eighth chapters, subtract the number in the ninth, add the number) in the tenth, multiply by’ the number ip the eleventh and divide by the ber in the twelfth. in years and months, And remember ‘The quotient amd remainder will be the Girl in Red's she ts’ under twenty. «Read the carefully and you may find therein something that will give you a glue her ege. ‘The number in the first chapter was 8 Fill out this blank when the story ts completed and send tt to ‘Girl In Re@ Editor Evening World, P. 0. Box 1354, New York City.” The story will end Saturday, Dec, 5, but answers will be The Right §No. of Number. recetved up to noon Monday, Deo. 7. The Girl in Red’s Age. Sender's Name... Address ...... should not be embittered by wih this unnatural daughter. “Gol she repeated calmly, toward the door, “You forget your place, my” good girl.” said the Girl in Redy haugnttig. “This” — “ relterated ; Kathleen Vernon. th th * same ty calm. { full minute her topaz eyes— honest, ablaze with righteous Anxereheld “and grappled the black, sleaming orbs 8f the Girl in Red. Tt was a conflict of wills. ‘te patrician, whore contact pointing nerves and | haughty -wilfulness had carried her vic- | torlous’ through many a wordy battle, | Stool opposed to the work@ng girl, who Was alive to the dire need of saving her | from heartbreak. and 2 wag thrilling with desecration aying frlemt Whose gentle nate: indignation at ‘this uth’s presence, The eyes—topaz and biack—fought a terrihle battle, noae the less flerce be- cated silent. A paune. hier Hfe, Then, for the first time in the Girl in Red lowered ner| ot xaze-hefare an opponent'# She shrazeed ver pretty shoulders contemptuoi ind turned to leave the rodm, “At toor she hesitated, ‘You wil lose your position soe tte neolenceg eho snecreds “Tm 0!" whiroered Kathleen. The beaten and furlous, Jeft | athleen, exhausted by the 1 ashamed that ‘her gotten the detter/of sank back into & ohalr beside the. “Magniticent!” muttered ‘ Jeon, in rea] admiration,-ax’ ba turned from, his post at the door ona prepared to follow the Girl In Red. On the threshold be aught! aight | red Symes and beckoned to him. zy, like @ whipped — followed his tyrant Inte ! Re. make her fourth and three days. On) ¢ At Have everyubing ready as to hide our traces: for on iwe shall kill dim,”* | (to Be Continued.) 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