The evening world. Newspaper, December 17, 1903, Page 15

Pe ‘S500 IN PRIZES. A Prince Charming éibance of Business Girl Life in New York. BY ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE. +{ of ‘Wasted Crimes,” ho grawled. Ne a OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. ‘Hilda Glichrist, stent tig AG Is engaged to Jack Bruce, a’ law clerk. Inte uncle, FHtigee Hole Heiress ‘she swan uted ‘rich on, Filla ia anxious P'iniorder do nd, some, eiae.%0 to. | Clayton's ‘henchman, ‘Offers to help his master ti Raynor,» finding. the fortune, of hie arms and, before Clayton could guess his purpose, snatched off the handkerchief mask. As he did so he released his grip through’ sheer surprise, and staggered back a step. Hilda’ discovers in F Hrone nox of fer wets An -anparentiy, Wank | | “Mr. Clayton!” he panted amasediy, noet, of. bapar. ‘e figures are treated In-aympathetle Ink. Mr. Clayton, the lawyer—a common ptogram is thus formed which, by an | bank robber, franalate, Tt contiing @-) «we must kill him,” ead Hyde “ ‘ne | calmly. “We can't let him live with ain access 0 they believe the They are interrupted by an employee of the Safe~ P Plarry | Furlong, spoalt Company, CHAPTER xX. ated Crime—and Another. ee)\ ON'T shoot!” whispered Clayton, as Ezta drew his revolver; vaults aren't sound proof and We'll have the police catohing us lke rats in a trap, Cold steel is the thing. But stun him instead if you can." It was a strange’ picture that the one filckering @@8 jet disclosed: The low- celled, stone-floored room, the dim cor- ners and glooniy walls seeming alive with lurking shapes; the pale, furious man charging empty-handed on the two “white-magked robbers, the faint glitter of ste@ ‘In Raynor's hand. Taking no heed of Ezra, who stood somewhat in the. txickground, Furlong rushed at’Clayton and almed a furious blow for his masked face. Clayton blocked the blow and, relying on his great strength and welght, closed with ‘his lighter opponent. He found fMmself in a grip of steel. Back and forth the fighters reeled, now circling in the centre of the room, now caroming off the walls. And ever about them crept Raynor, knife in hand, ready to put @ sudden and fatal end to the combat the moment they should remain ‘stationary long enough for his knife to strike a vital spot. ‘Through a mist of red, Clayton caught one glimpse of his alert henchman. “Don't stab,” he panted. “He doesn't Fecognize us. A blow on the head from your pistol butt will do the trick.” Dimly Furlong caught the import of ‘the words, He had just succeeded in gaining the old-fashioned “‘underhold,” and, with both arms twined about the small of Clayton's back and his chin buried in the hollow between Clayton's shoulder and collarbone, Gradually backward, until the latter's #pine threatened to snap, As the sense of Clayton's speech wlowly began to penetrate Furlong’s slow-working brain he withdrew one ‘There “these |* ures for letters. Four words will be given MENDER'SUNAME. cp ccasccacelenceencntrcanaee= SENDER’S ADDRESS. that knowledge. Take him, Hzra."* He spoke as if urging @ dog on to at- tack. And, obedient as a dog, Bara Ray- nor, snarling with hate and rage, flung himself, knife in hand, on Furlong. What followed ts neither pleasant: nor Profitable to describe, . . . . . When Ezra had wiped his knife clean of the dead man’s blood he did not put the weapon back in its sheath or in the inner pocket whence he had taken it. ‘With a covert glance at Clayton he thrust the knife into his breast pooket whence {t could more readily be drawn. It was no part of Hara’s plan that he and Hyde Clayton should share equally (according to their agreement) in» what- ever treasure the atrong-box might contain. He intended, as he and Murjel had Planned, to stick to Clayton as long as the latter could be of use to him and then’to throw him over. The particular form of “throwing him over," which now 8 sted iteelf to Esra's mind, was to b him to death and leave his ‘body beside Furlong’s, a knife tn the hand of each. In the morning # would be supposed that each of the two vic- tims had killed the other. But @ cool, calculating element tn his nature led the murdorer to defer the second crime until he might determine whether the contents of the box war- ranted such exertion. It 4s even to be feared that his prom- ise to share his gains with Muriel did not enter largely into hs caloulattons. Wealth and freedom, he argued, were infinitely preferable to half that wealth and the enoumbrance of a shrewish woman for whom he did not care. “Come!"" exclaimed Clayton, off the @ick horror that the scene he had just witnessed bed cast over him. “Let's get at the box and begone. It ian’t theft, but murder, we must enswer for if we're caught now.” in stood behind him watching over Hyde's Solve the Simple Cipher in This Story and Win Some of the $500 for Xmas Money. SIMPLE, easy cipher will be found in one of the twelve chapters of ‘The Girl in Blue,” that cipher and write the solution in the blank given below. The cipher first instalment, but Is the cryptogram witch appears in the eighth which contains the cipher hints as to {ts solution will be scattered. In the eleventh chapter, io instance, occurs a sentence wihich contains the finst eight words of the twenty-three words comprising the translation of the cryptogram. Go it is necessary for the reader to follow the entire etory. re many ciphers in existence, pat ‘th Kerk which competitors are here shown conalits of the usifg of fis- In the key, and the other letters of the alpuribet not found in these words will follow. By the exercise of ‘itte thought and ingenulty the cipher may be readily translated. The story will end on Saturday, Dec. 19, and answers will be recelved up to ncon of Monday, Dec. 2 Fill out this Dlank and send it to “Girl in Blue Editor of Hvening World, P. 0. Box 184, New York City.” OPIE READ TALKS TO MONEY KINGS Distinguished Western Writer Beards Morgan and Dill in Their Lairs and Notes Their Peculiarities in Dealing with Big Events, . BY OPIE READ, Aathor of “A Kentucky Colonel,”’ “A Tennessee Judge,”” “The Jacklins,’” “The Starbucks,’ &c, ARTICLE Il. IRANCE may not be dazzled by wisdom, but over poverty there ts ‘east a spell when {t is permitted to gaze upon countless wealth. The ‘bellowers and groaners of the Stock Bxchange are-but the loud splash- ers in the seething waters; the causes of the choppy tides for the most part. He hidden from the admiration or the reproach of the'‘public eye. ‘And to common sense, when it halts to think and to Enem, more uninteresting. than the average nothing’ {s millionaire. In Wall street, however, the average millionaire is interesting weeates he Is uncertain: Jlis qualities are not settled enough to become elale. He ig not, like the typical banker of the town of 25,000 inhabitants, dimoult to approach when’ once you have got into his room and ehut the door. Morgan is easy to jentertain when you convince, him that ) is hope- Jess, In that powerful voice whose tremulo has raised so0ne-fes} smoothest of skin there isa plaintive and pathetio note, and ,the hand that may crush is not. devoid of a gentle touch. He takes one into his confidence to the extent of silently saying, “There, now, please tell me what I cangot possibly do for-‘yonu and run along. His intimates say that he has a warm and most kindly heart, and the estimate of a friend as to the quality of generosity is worth more than the observation of a thourand strangers, ( “Mr, Morgan, doubtless I have something that may interest you,” said J, and out of the deep basement of his echoing votce came the thrilling words, “Nothitig doing.” “Ah, si, but I come with a new scheme. "And upon me he turned that marvellous eye camera, catching the weak spots 1h man, and not without a bertaie tele, tm hiw'tones he replied, “AT out.” shouller for the opening of the box. lberty, our lives,” with a shuddering A clic and the out-of-date lock}giance at the huddled heap on the snapped. stone floor from which a trickle of blood was beginning to spread into a knife as Clayton threw back the lid of |dark pool, “We've staked them againat tho box. Nothing! Come away!" Then with a grim chuckle of disgust | * . . . . . . ho let the weapon slip back into his mn the followke¥ morning Clayton and Pocket and rose to his full height. dzra Raynor were at their desks on ‘I guess this comes under the category | time and the manner of neither be- trayed any effects of the previous night’s horror. “A nlee bungle you both made of * sneered Mitriél, when in Clayton's e heard the result of robbery. Raynor bent neater, half drawing the “Hmpty!"" groaned Clayton. ‘ot quite,” cried Ezra optimtetically. “What! exclaimed Hyde, a new ho fn his ‘tone, and peering again into the dim recesses of the box; ‘not empty?" | the “No," answered Ezra, “I see quite a |: “We played the best we could, con- UNMASKED. fot of dust at the bottom.” . “Idiot!" growled Clayton. Is this a time for fool jokes? We've staked our You are expected to solve Question was not the one given in the ter. In other chapters besides that “, sidering the cards we held,” replied Raynor sullenly, "What a joker old March ‘must have been to lead hi niece by means of a cipher to amempt) treasure chest!" * “Empty! echoed Murtel. “You nin- ny! Don't you see the point of the situation even yet? ‘The Gilchrist girl was ahead of you! She went there as soon as she read the cipher and she got out'all the money or whatever the box held. That's why you found nothing.” ‘Whatever. she found,” said Clayton suddenly, “‘she couldn't have gotien the whole fortune or she'd never have kept on working here. The box probably held some sort of memorarida telling where the fortune really was, She can’t have gotten It yet, What we must do is to track her wherever she goes. She'll lead us to the money. Is she at work this morning?" The lenses of his countenance glowed with a new and kindly pfful- gence. “Is that possible?” he inquired, 4 MORGAN RUBBED | rubbing his hands until the gener. HIS BIG HANDS. ated warmth made me feel quite at home. But he seemed just a Uttle embarrassed—not frightened, but you know how we sometimes feel in the presence of unexpected company. And he’had not looked forward to a call from me. The fact is, he did not know that I’had arrived from Paris. Doubtless he thought that I was stitt inthe Latin Quarter, So he rubbed his hands and after a time moved out from any constraint that I might have put upon him. At this moment it seemed that the occasion demanded something poetic, and I began, “I may be poor now, sir, but whén my‘ship comes sailing in I'— “Wihist,” he (whispered, and respecting his emotion my voice sank into soft and downy silence. But in the presence of greatness it is not rftin’s province to remain silent. He thinks that to be entertaining he must con- dnue to talk. “But my scheme,” said I. “You have not grasped it." They have sald that great financiers are materialistic, that in theit hearts they hold not the sweet memories of Itallan sunsets, but they do, they certainly must, for, as it dwelling fondly upon the past, he wanderingly replied: “Shoot it off.” “Ab, and I thank thee, King Agrippa, that I am permitted to speak for myself. I have a gold mine in Montana, and last year”"—— “Last year,” he broke in, “you took out $750,000." “Yes,” I cried, almost breathless. “But you put it all back to encourage the mine.” “Some one must have told you,” I exclaimed. “You had a two-stamp mil], and now you want to put in a’thirty-stamp. You don’t want to sell out. Oh, far be it from you! What you want is to raise money enough to prove to the mine that it is still worthy of esteem. You want a million dollars. You shall have it. Go home, and I'Jl send it by wireless telegraph.” MONG other great men I met James B. Dill, and he is @ great man in tois aay of conventional puppets; not because he drew the, charter for the Carnegie company and drafted the Dill for the mighty Corporation law of New Seraey, but because he thinks like an American and talks like a states- man. To the sa@tbbler more in- clined to dream than to work, who may have grasped the great affairs ¢ of history, but not of the present, it ~ is inspiring to meet a man to whom no current thought seems elusive, but @ living entity, “The time is past,” said he, “when the non-producing gamblers of Wall @ DILL TALKS LIKE A REAL STATESMAN. e themselves, ‘They. ane, Go Tihave not |stréet ean throw this mighty countty intow puntc, ‘They are simply geysers will drown (tet ove, may. spotings tay “We must kill him,” said Hyde calmly. knowledge.” Se Lica 4 THE EVENING w WORDS w» HOME »« MAGAZINE w The « Girl ~ in * Blue. S500 IN PRIZES. ga 10i Prizes in All. First Prize. Five Prizes, each é Seventy Prizes, each......... ry Twenty-five Prizes, each.... T'll confess to you that i her beduty much as her posstble fortune that Her face 1s fortune “No,” replig’ Murtel, after a tour of investigation. ‘Neither she nor Mr. Bruce.” ‘This linking of the names sent a hot enocgh for mé Murlel went pale, a greenish tint over- spreading her akin. Her light eyes blazed, but she sipoke no word. Turning on ther heel, whe left the room. S10 put cn her hat ond jackct and went out. After nearly an hour's ab- sence she returned, carrying with her a parcel | On the be od of Miss Gilchrist's desk stod a botti8 of violet water. Whon the close air and long hours of ork made Hilda’ head ache she was wont to bathe temples and ¢yelids in this cool- ing, rofreshing Mquid, THis was a dally custom of Hilda's and Muriel knew it. Passing carelessly by Hilda's vacant desk ehe cleverly substituted for the violet-water bottle a precisely similar bottle had just bought. Thi# second bottle had originally held the same per- fume, but Muriel had emptied it a filling the bottle with another Haquid she had had some trouble in purchas- Ing. This new Mquid was vitrio! “I fancy," @he murmured, as she returned to Her own desk In Clayton's oMce, “that after she's once anointed her baby face with that lotion Misg Hilda Gijchrist’s beauty won't attract my dear employer quite as much as it did, Fool that he was to think he could outwit me!"* Ezra and Hyde were atill in the inner office when she entered. The look of fury was gene from her face, Both men looked relieved at its departure. “Say, Muriel," began Clayton awk- wardly, “I didn’t mean ‘to rile yor you know, I'm sorry, and—look out! That chatr’s broken. me this morning." Hite warning came too late, Muriel ‘had seated herself in her accustomed chair before the words reached. her. ‘The chair carcened and she was thrown forward, her forehead striking the desk front with such force as to knock her senseless. Her unconsciousness lasted but a mo- | mont. Yet it was long enough to wreck .}her whole future. For, while Hyde wae j\trying to. ft her to the sofa, Esra Gashed into the stenographer's room in gearoh of @ restorative. The bottle on fiten'a desk caught his eye, ‘Muriel was just recov: consolous- eas. as Esra rushed dottle In ‘Don't! Put tha cos igd tor heaven's Bue even as as abe arg Porn Esra ze, (esese to women’s oto at Sot It collapsed with jea), je full in through the ins so emaplayes kp Fetes writhing i a ohtoud of quid (To Be Continued.) “We can't let him live with that wr —— —_—_ The next prize story will be “The flush of rage to Clayton's face. Girl In Green,” whieh will’ begin in ‘I may as well tell you, Muriel,” he! the Evening World of Monday, Jan. 521d, splteculy, tat ere marriea, (4 Five hundred dollars in prizes. 10 more thermometers of the country’s condition then a high collar and a Pa white tie represent the go@pé) of Christ. When pinched they howl and are tonished to see that America does not squimm. They are no more crea- tive than a faro bank. In @ way they are , but are ignorant of the great humane purposes of this nation. In past they have frigtitened political parties and even Presidents, but their days as en advisory or threatening political factor is passing.” In Wall street there is a poetic spot. One would as much expect to find ‘a flower blooming fragrant in Hades as' an oasis in Wall street, but it is there, and about it are clustered the tender memories of a home long ago. In the office of Nevada Stranaban, Collector of the Port, there burned a fire of hickory logs. Spacious the fireplace, broad the hearth, with embers slowly falling, how dear a recollection mounted with the flame. The tow- ering buildings mede twilight in the room, early morning, one, could fancy, and the children of the past came gleofully to take down their Christmas stockings. Out of the years fond faces arose, old faces, wrinkled with care, but bright on this Christmas morning. The boughs of the old apple tree waved at the window, and out across the lane where the snow birds twit- tered on the fence lay the farm, cleared by brave and sturdy hands so many years ago. 4 A sister's laugh, a brother’s romping joy! Some one left the door open and the dogs ran in.to sniff at the fire and to frisk, and about old Rover's neck a ‘happy toddler threw his dimpled arms. Sleigh bells tinkled, and from the roadway came the neighbor's lusty ery, “Christmas gift!” and back with the music of the bells floated the words, “And God bless yout” Misty the picture grew—those dimpled arms so long hidden by the stone; and in at the window came a roar and on the air was the cry of human greed. ‘Again it was Wall street. SO ROR ETN eR RENE TTT RN Fae PTET TG DECEMBER 17, 1908, The Old Jokes Home. By Prof. Josh M. A. Long. © IN REGARD TO THE OLD JOKES’ HOME QUESTION | VOTE Put a cross mark in the epace To Putin “{7) | %he ota Joven in tho O10 Jove! 30 bes make @ cross mark in the space To Take Cut’ 7] "| Taec samc canna ae ne NAME. s ADDRESS ; time as this_ momento: seftied by ballot, Prot. Jos’ Mt. 4 3 ‘ Long will confiscate, the st in for badges LETTERS! LETTERS! © Prof. Josh M, A, Long: Having lost my sense of amor, would like the joke released from | home as “overlined” {n above Ww. J. HE voting still. continues. On one ili side stands Prof, Josh M. A. Long and the reform element, who are advocating the Ifberation of every re- Juvenated Joke who, upon test, 1s found to have atrength enough to get over the footlights without the aid of the or- chestra. On ‘the other side stands the radical ele- ment, led by the once vigtiant and effi- client OMlcer Jerry Sullivan, and’secret- ly, but none the less powerfully, he 1s backed by Old Dr, Lemonosky. This politic and practical person but waits for the expression’ of public opinion in our famous “Pw In or Take Out” dal- lot to declare himself. Let them all come! Members of the Society for the Pre- vention of "Cruelty vote as your con- sclence dlotates. If your mind is a, Dlank Cut’ out the other one printed In this paper and put @ cross mark in Proper space. If you beuteve in keeping all jokes in- carcerated In the Old Jokes’ Home vote “Put In." If you belleve that It will help Wall street, the Christmas trade, the @heatrical busin’ the boanting- house gloom and vafe conversation vote “Take Out.” Relations are strained between Prot, Josh M. A. Long and Old Dr, Lemon- osky, but mutual friends look forward to a reconciliation if the trard times’ continue. NOTICE TO MEMBERS OF S.P.C.H. No more badges of the §. P. C, H. will be given out until It ts ascer- tained who is Boss, Prof, Josh M. w. Long or Officer Jerry Sullivan: (o1d Dr. Lemonosky’s catspaw). Until such the Old Jokes’ Home. SMS Ys: ek o” There {s eome mystery here! Obfects. Prof. Josh Mi A. Long: Do you realize ;what you are Did you stop to lconsider ‘the you will cause by your rash act?, Just before Christm which ‘have~ wrecked -4he tranquillity of so many happy, now, that they are resteg ind encd, and fefuvenated, will stark hungry and eager for poor inn victinis, and, Joining With tel eon cousins, the “old chestnuts,!" wilt to consummate their deadly work. BILLY B. rm se’ Wantn to Pat In, Prof. Josh M. A, Long! " Piet * a in my collar button for five (60 Tt is very dusty, but T suppose ys clean it off. Why is New York like an electri Because it has a Battery. ‘Why is Brooklyn like a blade of Because it has a Greenpoint. GUSTAV WILLIAM LEONHART, — > No., 214 East Eevonty- ete AN IDBAL XMAS. GIFT. One of those exaulsite LEIS an > Rt ea of ge SATE, SURE, nik PROPER Sreruop. 4 remove veins, wens, Yoo, ier ‘Amusements. ‘ onal dane eee Lure, aihoursnds ev eve mq KNICRERBOCKER | Seat arena beet THe aie Tew TERRE inti ea ANN A HELD fii peMtAY'SELLE NAPOLEON. Miisical comedies with the handsomeat chorur in tite world.’ WALLAGK’SBesty 20% 35 GEO. ADE’S Quaint Comedy, ‘TH! COUNTY eee" nit a4 . To-night, te Cc H A I RM A N.|. ean 33 others Mats, Wed.. Sat., Xmas & New Year's Day. ' WEST fergie THEATRE. . hit. Jn The Two Orphans, on a 3 clusively. EK: Cpe Orchaates Grand Opin in ei Christmas Week—OTHELLO—CARMEN, ‘ACADEMY oF. MEUBIC, Lath Bt. te trv 0 Original reduction se. WAY,_D EAST |& Lai) x9 weity WN "28 36, 150, By gi:b0s CONTINUOUS, PASTOR’ en fi Jules and Lottie SIUSON, PRO RES: PROGTOR'S Foss bs VED. 1 NOX OFFICH OPEN 9.20 A.M. to 10: MGW be tbr 4 NEW YORK ee OERTHA GALAN 9 =| DALY'S ce "A JAPANESE: Bi RRISON, Sty tare. 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Plerpont Morgan's great rival in the fron world is Miss Antoinette Bertha Krupp, helress to the great Krupp Gun and Iron Works in Germany. Misa Krupp probably 4s the richest young woman {a Europe. She is the elder of the two daughters of the late Baron Alfred Krupp. Hie last will and testament made her hetress to?all ‘his millions, {n- cluding the @un works at Esson, the ship works and wharves at Kiel and all] his iron ore and coal mines in West- phalia and in Spain, Conservative estt- mates thake the value of this great prop- orty at least $75,000,000. When Krupp -becomes of age all this wealth will become hers absolutely. She in nineteen years ok ooo LINCOLN'S SCHOOLMATE. J. W. Lamar, who Claimed to de the last surviving schoolmate of Abraham Lincoln, ie dead at Buffalovilie, Ind, aged elghty~lve, Miss | Since the world began it has been the custom of mar to hold woman respon- aibi« for afl his misfortunes and at the seme time to accese her of absolute irrespona!biity.—New Orleans Times- Domocrat. —<—__ BEFORE AND AFTER, “I as seen some men,” sald Uncle } Ben, ‘dat would lose any amount o' sleep serenadin’ a gal, an’ den refuse to jgit up early en: tp gtant de. fire Aftuh dey’ mari Washington Sta | CASTORIA For Infants and Children, MADISON ‘Adm. 50e, Seats SQUARY GARD 2 Athiettc METROPOLIS Lag 81. 3d a Next Weel FOOTBAI SI'Go asi. ntti Dec.19. 2 Games terscholastic Ci "ite Wl eters. in 'THE COR wARLI Meuse, | MADISON RUA The Kind You Have Always Bought BE Lofft of a Casinoere vaula Rdwardes “Wissie, Lyall Van Studaiford Sluddiford rene Aolow Ses RAFFLES, Mf ig Secramant of Judas” Pare GRackt ah Tosa x ig . i ee a Amy 2235 ser ~ STAR KEITH'S! 3.18 MON’S a ‘Foun Morton. 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