The evening world. Newspaper, December 15, 1903, Page 15

| SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. ‘NAS Glichrist, a stenographer, is engage Jack Bruce, © law clerk. Hor late uncl ‘+6 Sheet after sheet of paper pe eqvered ‘whose sole hetress a! vith figures, tore up and throw away. lis eycs ached and his head was dizzy, Ait still he Worked on, At the top’ of “ach fresh page he would write the words “The Girl in Blue,” and woukt | poly to Its letters every combination us brain could devise. | Long after midnight, his mma be- ng too weary. to wrestle with any more deeply compligated theories, he tried ip desperation a clue of which had seemed to him so easy that it could not be the } was reputed rich | Hyde Clayton, Hilda's employer, ts anxtour Se piers her tn order to find some clue to Ship uncle's estate. Clayton's henchman. | Bare Raynor,< offers to help his master 1: fividing the fortune. Hilda discovers in « box of her unclo an apparently.» shybt of paper. On this paper words eal Key to the seemingly hand prob- < len ’ HIB paper, exposed to the fire's! Ho recalled a story he hadonde geaa warmth, read: of a child found, with a locket arouna (ts neck, 4n which ‘were the. words, “The Géld Bat's Head.” A character in the stary had discoverel the phrase to he a cipher, and had worked jt out As follows: Beginning with the first let- ‘Hilda—In the following eryptogram you wily] , ead the directions for finding my wealxh. At’ you have been clever éiouigh to dischver this paper you will be clever enough to work ‘out the cipher. Kor a key, remember! my favorite pet name for you. Then followed the ensuing ter (T) and numbering that letter 1, the orypto- 1-2-8 9-(18)-8-(18)-(21), . B-C1B)-1-8-(21)—8-1-(12), 2)-(18) -(17)- 9) 8-5 -(21)-5-8-4 Bey 19)-@-6-(21)-C18)-8-(11)-7 1-1-3 Q2)-6-74 9-8 5-8, 9¢f8)- (24) 8)204) 1-2-3 oes 17) -BaUe$-(96)-8 GBID~(11)-44)-8 (19) -(18}~(21)-B-1 (18) = (17) (10) + (11) -8-(25) TET 8-(11)-(21)-(21)-(11)-0 )-1-4-3-3-1. Together the lovers went over the eryptogram and then read it again and get again, Thon Bruce copied it on ‘the back of an envelope. “We don't seem so very much nearer the fortune,” hazarded Hilda at last. ‘phat jumble of figures makes my head ache.” “wait,” muttered Bruce, still poring wover the cipher. ‘We may be able to . Wort, it out after all, The dashes be- ween the various numbers probably in- Glgate that the numbers separated by uch dashes all belong to the same word, Where no dash follows a num- ber or letter it evidently means that one qword Ys ended and that another Js about 40 begin, It's the same as the ordinary gpace between words in ordinary print- img. For instance, the first three fig- ures, 1-2-8, must form the first word, and the figures 9—(18)—8—(13)—(21) must form the second word, and 90 on.” “And the cipher or cryptogram 1s fo, be solved by finding a key to the meanings of those various numbers and letters I suppose, and by applying that ‘key to the cipher,” added Hilda. “But thow to find the key?” “Your unole ‘has given us a clue to that, too," answered Bruce. “See, i the note that precedes the srypiosran’ the says the clue will be found in his faxcrite petname for you. What was that pet name, dear? Do you remem- wer?’ “Wiby, he had mo especial pet name for me,” sald’ Hilda; in a puzz'ed votce,| “Head.” Following the first ten num- “except"'—she added in a flash of mem-|bers, the ensuing numerals had deen wry, ‘he alwhys used to speak of aye ag| employed in their order to represent the ¥ “The Girl,in Blue.’ Do, you suppose that| letters of the alphabet not found in the _pauld have been what he means? 1 told] phrase. ‘you blue was his favorite color and he| Bruce applied this simple rule to the elwaye Hked me to wear it. He’— | oryptogram in his hand, using “The Girl “That's ‘iti’ arled Bruce excitediy,|in Blue" instead of “The Gold Bat's ‘THE GIRL IN BLUE! That's the | Head" key. second letter 2, and so on; be had sub- stituted the first nine numbers dnd a 0 for the first ten letters. Where one let- ter appeared madre than once he applied to Its ‘repetition the’ number designated for it/on its first appeandnce. This, the “I” in the word “Bat” was num- ‘ered ‘1."" Hence 133 4697 8910 stood “The Gold Bat’s” and 239 for Sa to the cipher, Now to work. tt out." As he appiled the simple rule to , , Reluctantly he took his leave, as the] word after word im the cryptogram he inner hour arrived. But, Inte into the| grew more and more excited and jubl- aight, in his hall bed-room tbe young } lant. man tolled away at the cryptogram.| “I'm on the rat track et last! he “THE BEST WAY TO PCP THE QUESTION. | + EDITED BY MARGARET HUBBARD AYER. .. t ; $10 “FO; THE BEST LETTER from a Woman on he Least Em- barrassing Way. for a Girl to Pop the Question During Leap Year }$10 FOR THE BEST LETTER from a Man Giving Directions.How to, Pop the Question Most Con- vineingly ; $5 FOR THE BEST LETTER from Man or Woman on the Most Delicate Way of Refusing an Offer of Marriage Address letters to, Margaret Hub- wife. It is with regret that I feel com- pelled to décline your proposal. For- give mo that I cannot love you as you deserve to de olved, and try to forget that you have honored me by your choice. a. 8B, The Sweetest way of All, Dear Miss Ayer: HE best directions on the eubject of ut “How to Pop the Question” are Gently enfold her in thy arms and whisper ‘..-- you be mine?” LwuUIs PRICE. When He's Not Good at Talking. Dear Mise ayer: SUGGHST this more of popping the | question: Miss Brown, will you be my wife? I canfot say all I think, for I at not food at talking, but if you will’ marry mg L-shall be always telling lyow glad you*have made me, and it will not be all talk, FREDERICK SIGGUBKOW. The Coup de Grace, Doar Misa A: _ BY MARGARET HUBBARD AYER HERE seems to be as many ways of Popping the question as there are men and women to do it. The ardent, the perfunctory and the purely @racticaland® business-like man each pives.us his peculiar way of coming to “the point, and each letter gives us an Mineight into the writer's heart, As to the propriety of a girl's taking ‘Whé matter in her/own ‘fair hands, there weeme to be a decided difference of ’ opinion. * Shobld ‘she, or should she not? ‘Ts It placing her'in a wrong light, “or not? It will be Interesting to Watch the werdict’ of ‘the sex’ on’ this vital subject. Leap year 18 a ‘topsy-turvy yeur, any- how, ‘with an extra day thrust in, to Keop At outof the cold, so: to speak, Bey ineescrear imeane: An oxertod’ and ‘oveavrowded calendar, and this time a wwenuous Presidential ‘campaign, why should not woman make lta red-jetter yeur for herself, availing hersalf of the privilege bestowed on her hundreds of ago by mere yan Mh those Mshtly HE most delicate-way of rofuring “ieee aan ages,” Never for an in- an offer of mafrlage-that I can an 8 auppere that Is humble think, of Is thie: The Jady oan say, ‘hand-maiden wot dare ‘to make use the rights so condescendingly gt ver she flaunts them in his tac Now BS Frather think he likes it. Don't to him—"I love no mah enough ¢o wed him.” ‘This 1s a coup de grace. C. L, Bring Him to the Point, A Tadtfal Refus, Dear Mias Ayer: {Deas Mise Ayer: When a”young lady and gentleman SHOULIY refuse him after this fasnha] 2° Keeping company for a year or fon?) Allow, me to express my grate. ful sonme-of the great “honor you Spave.done me in aking mento be your ways and habits. The peat .way, tor wir to pop fhe-aueation da $0, pai, hin don't let him waste your valuable time bard Ayer, Evening World, N. Y. City more they ought to know one beget Yuletide, anyway, and \that Is enougn. |reat nice Christ r des Sas HOME: The « Girl ~ in + Blue. A Romance of Business-Girl Life in New York. we. By Albert Payson Terhune. PSI S a an “Do 101. Prizes in All. First Prize; Five Prizes, each... Seventy Prizes, each.... Twenty-five Prizes, each.... gram?” shouted aloud, aad, his weariness and confusion forgotten, he bent himself again with renewed enedgy to the task + All went well for a time and he fotted down word after word of the solution as he worked, When he came to the letters “H-N- L-R-E" he paused, and again the bope- leas, worried look crept into his face. But in a moment his brow cleared and he wrote tentatively a few figures und letters on the margin of the paper. “I've solved it! I've solved it at last!” cried Hilda joyously. “Good!” ‘he muttered efter elle cried Hilda joyously. this new rule to ‘the cipher. “‘Even| “Solved what? Oh, that page of silly |e week?" easier than I dared to hope.” figures? Hilda Gtlchrist!" sitting up in Five minutes later he was reading the} bed with a little ory of indignation. 1 you mean to say you've been | working in this cold room till 2 o'clock |in the morning over that old crypto "But, dear, I've solved It! I'VE SOLVED IT!" chanted Hilda, 1, what doeg m all mean?” asked Adele, with the meptyr-l:ke alr common to people who t lesaly mwakened. where to find Capt. Kidd's treasure or THE MYSTERY EXPLAINED. is it a rectpe for a happy home on $10 neilther—and both!" laughed Hil-| gerly to the one @a. “Listen!” and ehe tead what (ro Aap ‘ had translat Adele, all Sth gicep mists from her, brain. and open-mouthed, IN PRIZES. track at last!" she gasped. lucky, Weky girl. e sy designates!" Te aolved | £9,,the,Diace he deals find it closed at this hour. thing in the morning”— Gray nx they've been need- “Does ® tell you vory gates of Paradise. Hilda and ‘rips hat only characters in this! donly. tween Ezra and the woma: intrusion, on the part of the duped bride. on which figures were written. senses. an expressipniess stare. "Here ti uncle left ther,” Clayton the, paper. on her desk'some days ago." | aR he eats i solved this On was her ow he the secret. vrughed regarded her openseyed eams of that eame morn were already superseding the darkne of the night before two eagerly whisper- ing, excited, happy siria, wero able to 4. CO castles ha ae out ‘oan alia: oars h trom LONE and Old Dr. Lemonosky are in,no the ttle .boarding-house! ‘room to the passed a sleepless night. Nor was A the only person to be awakened sud- Hyde t knowing |sbiutton, “in the 0 the evening had | Purtoney Clogten answered 0 “Oh, we. deciphered, Ht, in the Aaron Burr le thine Clue and ment on the faces of thi cleverer than I juriel, ruingly. you any idea how wi ‘the voutests of Hox 4261 fetus did act chesrve his wart. Bo was the true box number, and not “The vaults are old-fashioned aa impregnable,” be said. 518 ONE REE aad ae MAGAZINE ww e “D yerlly belleve you're! on the: right “O-, Let's eo righty away you “At 2 A. M.? It's barely posstisle we'd | But the first ng Dloyers, of the woary ol wheezes were not been the Mates and visitors of the home and story who had When remonstrated with flew into a | °G¢'tf dele fenzy of rage and endeavored to aa- {if you will give bond not to ov © convermation be- fica neve abel Twho so sud-, Examiner Old Dr. Lemonosky. denly and so strasigely dinoovered her- self to be his wife Hyde ‘Clayton had re-entered his bachelor rooms. Curiosity jas to the resuit of his ruse as well jay the knowledge that a scene of re- proach and anger must be gone through with sooner or later incited him to the He softly entered the sitting-room of his bachelor quarters prepared to en- counter a wild outbreak of vengeance To his amaze he fou.id husband and| oa sques committed to the h wife calmly discussing a slip of paper cits ‘A faint flush of anger rose to Murlel's | pale cheeks at might of him, but # died | away and she gteeted ‘him civilly, |could scarce credit the evidence of his He turned for explanation to | era. The-latter returned his look with ‘that cipher Miss Gilohrist's said Murtel, handing “I found this copy The oipher in question was, of course, the firet one, with which the reader is fj | siready tamiliar, and was not t togram quoted at the beginning of this between us," believe—in fact I ape ieee have not the wit to translate it to offer to sell LuNprise he eryp- ut to he had overheard feb e in the latter's nese’ ta iy. Tt tells De; was about to aff that t was a that there was no No, SE) In, thoge ala. vautta, but the amaze- is hearera made 'THE OLD JOKES’ HOME. By Prof..Josh M. A Long. -- »," * * 4 Scandal at the Sanitarium! Inmates All Frantic! Ringers, but more recengly: in Broad. venated old gags from the Old y musical productions, Officer Sulli« Jokes' Home has been the cause of | ¥@n violently assaulted those whe imany an affecting scene as former em-| brought requisitions for release, , Ww ihe n remonstated with by Prot, J foal’ ty to the welcoming arms of their] in: 10ne and Old Doctor Lemont fi eer Sullivan leat alcatel of ers and friends. self, calling Old Doctor Lemonosit however, a contreteipts|fakir and a quack!” and Prot, Jos! red for which ris A ny pee Prof. Josh M. A.|7,,0ne, “@ grafter—whutever His conduct ie now being investigat Meanwhile his duties as. watcher-at a portal are being performed ‘by the tron of the home, Mary Mi at whose bands ail whe come to weeMi the release of old jokes may expec Courteous treatment. is a joke you. have mi T release of the renewed and re- Juv restor ise responsible. OMicer Jerry Bullt- n, of the 8. P. C. H., for some inex- |plcable reasgn, grew dneulting to in sault our eminent and celebrated super- | °Ome and get it out. pipes 4 | artist trade may not stagnate, t ng and jart of oratory may not die, that nerated Medicad | theatres may no longer Tangulah Roing to open the Old. Jokes let out the inmates. Come an Home favorite old jokes. All we ask is” they be not abused. Letters! Prof. Josh M.A. |intendent Prof. Josh Jour renowned and vy. jt appears that Officer Jerry Sullivan, | whose vigilant and efficient efforts in carrying out the plans of the Soolety Be bie Prevention of Cruelty to Humor, A. Lone. with the Busy Bive Ambulance. and onty horse with,a hyphen, in capturing person? ‘They look and act exactly and incarcerating old jokes, ia not in|and it 1s very strange that af accom with the present policy of the | the Ol4 Jokes’ Home was closed fof managers of tho institution in releasing | pairs on account of hot weather eld Inmates, This ia ‘a long sentence, (gan to hear frm Dow! VERBUM but OMcer Sullivan believes in long j Sentences, especially in the matter of] wr. Gap ts greatly mistaken: only one Ok Dr. For some days past it has been no- pect Sane than piggragsecess tloed that Officer Jerry Sullivan, who, PROF. JOSH M. AL now that the Busy Blue,Ambulence is Ner no longer int, commission, guards the} prog Josh M. A, Loms: portala, of the Home, has been even! Are fle groceries used at more brusque of speech and gloomier! prated Institution, the Old Jokes" of manner, ‘ |trom the Odell Grocery To all visitors to the Old Jokes’ Home| purg, N. Y. he hab trvariably made the following ss ietted ; Prof, Josh M. A. Long: “Put in or take out?" Sau ola oy Where the visiter or patron brought housing the oM jokes for an old joke to put in, OMcer Jerry Sul- me, ‘but now, ‘ire Uvan's manner became profusely polt : By and 1g, now teat . In case, under our recent ruling, ee tren 4 ! Visitor was one whose business was in| | Depew, rr, Dockataater, a aa eane gh , | connection with the release of an 4n: gttfer practical Ce rons, if van was offensively | inure them, Dut wer the p ‘pospie at rude, In the case of some friends of) will suffer, Once more T sake 1g the two old Indy jokes, formerly em-|my eake, for A ployed in a sister skipping-rope dance, | f mumanity and three venerable old witticisms for- menly employed by the The Swiss Bell Letters! An Offection. +, ARMOR LES. “How did the bridal party make out?” “The carriage, was wrecked before they got one -block.'* “Coltaton with the, trotley-car?” “No; the bride's brother is a peetarks nei ie" pa Lee News. - —$—=___ THE REASON WHY. “I wonder why Jane is willing to marry that stupid young Sappington?” “You aeem to have forgotten that Jane idea. tt ‘he out! Be Continued.) complete ¢ranslation of his cipher, “And to think I might have’ solved this, hours ago if only I'd tried the eas- fer method first," he laughed to him- self as he put out the lght-and sank into dreams of resculng Hilda from monster treasure chests hurled at her by pirates, each of whom had Hyde Clayton's saturnine visage and Ezra) Raynor's red-rimmed eyes. At almost the same moment @ de- cldedly pretty girl, clad in a pink wrap- per and further, protected from the chill night afr by the masses of wavy hair that billowed over her. shoulders, was excitedty shaking the shoulder of her slumbering room-mate . “What is it? What's the matter?" murmured’ Adele sleepily. “I've solved 1t—I've solved it at last!’ * Win Some sentence So it is n There are many ciphers in existence, ures for letters. Four words will be given as a these words will follow. By the exercise of & SIMPLE, easy cipher will be found in one of the twelve chapters of “The Girl in Blue.” that cipher and write thé solution in the blank given first instalment, but is the cryptogram which which contains the cipher hints as t6 Ite solution will be ich contains the first elght words of the twenty- for the reader to follow the entire story. but the one which competitors are here shown consists of the using of fig- art in the key, and the other letters of the alphabet not found in je thought and ingenulty the cipher may be readily translated. day, Dec. 21, Fill out¢his ‘The story will end on Saturday, Dec. 19, and answers will be recefved up tb noon of Mon blank and send {t to “Girl in Blue Editor of Evening World, P. O. Box 194, New York City.” if he intends to make her his wife. It he refuses, why, well and good, and ff he does not refuse, why, fet him ‘ take you for better or for worse. But SENDER'S NAME............ -- ENDER’S ADDRESS too long. MJ. WEIR. ' ———S— on Duainese f Toe. acl Deen may "itteners drew neuer, listening ees ner mt . lined. ——————_—_—_ Solve the Simple Cipher in This Story and — [iin ‘of the $500 for Xmas Money. “You are expectéd to avlve below. The/cipher in question was’ not the one given in the appears ig the eighth chapter. In other chapters besides that soatteged. In the eleventh chapter, for instance,‘ occurs a three words comprising the translation of the cryptogram. is twenty. aT Cleveland Piain Deale: ant CASTORIA sree For Infants‘and Children, — Sho Kind You Have Always Bought | Meese nett ae te. Xmas, Wed. & Gat.. 2 WEST END. THEATI RE ‘To-niaht. 4 KATE Sianetare Grand Opera. in Eng lisy HAIR. .EAGE | in} rmanent! ove how and exclusive merslesttie treasmenc, Ho | GARDEN pain, no mark or aoae to. tell of former ex Istence. In'the fetch of. all {ny charges, sie toaere!"ioten 986 Sau” Sect pow Aik eee Ch AMPIONSHIP. Tats 2 FAB HO PASTO: HORSY. aeEY TUTE, A CHRISTMAS GIFT MOTHER ‘WOULDN'T *Jerome he takes his highball, The Doc he taxes his nip; The barkeep rolls his eyeball And the grafter smacks his lip. F these long, hollow-stemmed glasses |One never knows what to get him;" (none the tess acceptable for that roa- and the tray they are peg&ed on do and atraightway vhey sally forth and | son. hot appeal to the Christmas bachelor | buy the poor man more aMictions in the | what, will? way of penwipers and woolen slippers. They are bachelor novelties for the | These glasses, as gift for a bachelor. At this seagon wonten exclaim: "Oh, It | True, js ao hard to get a present for a man, |mothor would wet aim, | bus they are s nich . Sie ei i ae as a ai Bd Jolly little suppers in a bacheloi |are more the rule than the exception! the young man likes to hav whose long-stemmed glasses fit over silver spikes In the wood which prevent them from tipping oyer if one’s however, would be a|now, and the narrow stained wood tray, | tllustrated here, they are not things that his| cately tinted liquer glasses and glitter ing beaten silver mounts, the men will] hand should prove a bit uunst GIVE HER BOY. x r=) . é Jerome, he waves his trusty axe, The Doc's talk ’gins to eoz The man 'gainet whom they make their cracks Keeps right on selling booz declare to be “just the thing.” his hand, with its set of deli Sacucdiabadabs. v sista lke Seve ¥ re | revelry grows more spirited and glosses | def | are more in demand thun chaling dishes a tray in Amusements. WALLACK'Sers’ peter fats 25, ‘AMERI GEO. ADE’S Quaint cou NTY ep OUR Eva, 8.90. ‘3D WRB! NEW MINIS le BARGAI CH Al Rr a Net MATINER TOMORROW, TERDAM chcwss Mats. Wed., Sat. 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