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ry) id going ai a ‘& THE # EV NI psa, mre se Ghe Girl | The Romance of a Kiss; | A Clouded Honeymoon. By Albert Payson Terhune. 10! Prizes in All.... Fest Prize. ° Prizes, each. 10 Prizes, each...... | ’ \ a | 26 Prizes, each... ON CGOUOSMOGSING ts $2 ned CHAPTER I. dinner party, The first they've had. A Kt and lin Consequences. You know the urleighs have just “ce ui, Ae. come with Mrs. Fair-; come back fron ir honeymoon. They 0) lei waist Ul sign for It. | got home last week. And to-night Mrs. “L waa told to deliver it to| Falrleigh's father and Mr. Fairieigh's parents and scme other relatives a dining here and one or two people are coming in in the evening. Hark! The up to the drawing- her in persov. She insisted on having it here by 8 Golock to-night, and Mme. Cumpan seid I must give it into her own hands.” ladies are going “Well, you can't see her now,'’| room now. I'll take your message to snapped the ma “he’s at dinner.| Mrs. Fairleigh before the men join You'll have % fait here till they're| them, | through.” Left all alone in the stuffy lttle re-| ception-room, Mercedes. Garth laid | ide her long coat and fell to exam- ining the various articles of bric-a- brac. | So absorbed was she in this con- templation that she did not hear the bell ring, nor the opening and closing of the front door, “Flello said a breezy voice behind “what are you doing down here lone, May Fairleigh? Waiting for fhe ushered the messenger into a tiny f@nte-room off the entranes hal]; then steed in the doorway looking at her carly. ‘Swe girl who had brought the waist noticed fy servant's scrutiny end vaguely resented it “Is there anything the matter with she asked. No," replied Elise, the maid -rear- | wanging her dainty starched cap as she spoke, “but I was thinking how much you tok like Mrs. Fairleigh, And now that you've loosened your coat I see lyou're dressed all in pink, just as she is to-night. Only her dress is pink chiffon welvet and cut low in the neck, while Mercedes turned. In the doorway stood a large, somewhat stout man, florid of face and a trifle loud in the matter of jewelry. At sight of her face he whistled in — surpri “While mine is high-necked and cost) wy, it ten't Mra. Fairleigh at all,” ewelve cents a yard,” finished the Mes-/ng said, “It's little Mercedos Garth. anaeee. " es ag » n-| Hello, Mercedes." ‘I wasn't going cunt | “I think you have the advantage of ewered the maid. “I was golng 10 SA) mo,” said Mercedes coldly, returning arse bee Nee rea hers 410." his admiring stare with one of stolid as on-recognition. “Why shouldn't it?” laughed the m: jooner or later I get the advartage eonger, ‘T made it myself. Tam Mme.) .¢ rost people,” observed the man with @ chuckle as he seated himsclf on her cleverest pupil. Do you suppose dainty gilt reception chair. “That ut the same amount of genius into @) 11, bq Henry Q. Barrington, million ereation I made for any oustomer th"! aire, instead Of plain Hank Barry, seo- put into a dress I make for my: tion-gang foreman." These oustomers—take Mrs, Fairleigh | "°/ SOME, /cr hea Mercede: “then you are’ “I'm one of the hetrs of the Townsley estate, Or rather I'm THH heir. And I tell you it's good business. Five years Garth, ago if I'd so much as walked up Fifth taste and skill to to the | avenue in my working clothes the swells shouldn't my best efforts get into the) youq nave pulled their skirts aside to making of my own clothes: tery | Mee” from contact with a common labor- The maid looked bored, but politely/;°2 on" “Ang some cop would have evked: said, ‘The wharves fof yours,’ andhe'd- “Are you going to be @ dressmaker! )..4 fanned me with his club. Well, @ll your fe how s it now? Hey? A few millions “Yes, but not an assistant. “'m going ‘to have a place of my own one of days. ‘ou've saved up money, then?” “No; but I am going to get it some ‘@ny by the queorest sort of legacy you ever heard of. I haven't got time to explain what the legacy is, It is queer }and Incredible enough to be in a dime tmovel. How soon will they be through winner?” “Oh, any time now. have washed the dirt from my clothes and made me one of the most-sought- after men t&: town. When I go down Fifth avenue there's a dozen match- making mothers spraining their necks to get a nod from me, When I blow into the club there's a mob of impe- cunious yotng swells fallin’ over each other to shake the hand that used to swing the pick. They like to be seen talking to Henry Q. Barrington. It helps their credit. They wouldn't have It's a family in Pink-- FAIRLEIGH’S WHOSE PORTRAIT IS THIS? Name How to Win a Prize. A portrait will be printed with each ehapter of one of the characters in “The Girl in Pink." There will be twelve portraits in all. The reader is required to write the name of the character tm the blank space under the portrait and outting both out of the paper, to send them to “The Girl in Pink Bditor, Evening World, Post-Office Box 283, New York City.” Send all twelve portraits and names in at the same time in the same envelope, Don't send in one at a time, as no attention will be paid to any answers that do not eontain all twelve portraits and names. Answers will be recelved until noon of Monday, Feb. & see been seen at a @og-fight with Fiank/ In no wis disconcerted he scrambled Barry.” to his feet. , As he spoke he leaned back triumph-| “Two hundred pounds ts too much antly in the fragile ttle gilt chair. It|welght to put on one of those measly collapsed with a crash, and Barrington | skeleton chairs," he commented. Never | found himself seated on the floor amia/mind! I'm rich. I can buy all the gilt) S500 in Prizes FATAL BLUNDER. Ho Slipped His Arm Around Her Walst and Kissed Her Full on the Mich., {¢ I want to, Only I don't want to." “How did you recognize me?” asked Mercedes, curiosity momentarily rising above the contempt she felt for the rich vulgarian. ‘I remembered you, of course, as the man who got the bull of old Mr, Townsley's fortune But I never met you before.” “Oh, yes, you did. You met me all right, Only you weren't introduced, and I suppose you didn't take much notice, There was a whole lot of us there. “You mean at the reading of Mr. Townsley’s will?” “You win. That was the time, You were the prettlest woman thera and there was a big bunch of them at that. Gee! It's all as plain in my mind as if it happened yesterday. I was workin’ on the Jerome Park reservoir, standing in a six-foot trench swearin’ at the section gang that 1 was foreman of, Up comes a slick-lookin’ article and he says: ‘Is this Mr. Hank Barry?’ ‘You've called the turn,’ says I. And then he holds out a document. I sidesteps, for it @ tangle of gilded splinters, - chairs from here to Grand Rapids, might be a summons or a dispossess or 7 ii TRE ange pape ameye “2 WORLD'S » HOME MAGAZINE 2 -- She H | Mouth. subposny or some other fool paper such as folks hate to get. ‘Good news,’ says he. ‘Well,’ says I, takin’ the paper gentle like as if {t might bite, ‘If you're puttin’ up @ con game on me and ringin’ in a subpoeny, I'll alo twenty dagoes on you.’ And then I read !t. It tells me my greatuncle I hadn't seen in twenty- two years had dled and died rich. There was @ gang of heirs, and they was all invited to the lawyer's office that after- noon at 2 to hear the will read. Well, I scrambles out of the pit and leaves my dagoes workin’ there, and there, for all of me, they're workin’ yet, I never went back to find out. At 2 | she said, Girl in Pin “MONDAY EVENINO, JANUARY 28, 1204. A Thrilling Marder. and a Haunted House, This Story Will End on Feb. 6. Mercedes gazed in frank amaze at the man's good-natured vulgarity. “Tou are the rudest man I know,” “And the richest. Don't forget that. Well—let's see—where was I? Oh, ves —I went to the Iawyer's and fovnd the room crowded with a lot of folks all more or less swell 1 was ashamed of my poor clothes and 1 sat down in a corner with my hat between my knees. And the Inwyer begnn to read. My eroatuncle was dead. He had struck {t rich out In Colorado, His will de- manded that the bulk of his money fo to his nearest living relative. You re- member that muddle?” 'Yos, but ag the lawyer rattled it out in legal verbinge I couldn't half under- stand It." “Well, I managed to figure it out," resumed Barrington. “It was this way: Old Townsley had threo nieces. One was Mrs, Barry, my mother, Bhe was first cousin to his other two nieces, who were sisters. ‘cir family name was Bell. The elder of those two sisters was Mrs. Slocum, mother of Mrs. Fatr- leigh, In whose house you now are. The younger of the Bell sisters was named Helen, Now, tf old Mrs. Slocum had heen living at the time Townsley died, the bulk of the fortune, by the terms of the will, would have como to her. But she was dead. So that put {t up to her sister, And there's where the tangle came in. Mrs, Slocum had been a poor girl, She had married her rich employer and had cast off the res her family. So her children didn't even know of the existence of this sister of ‘helr mother, who was their aunt. search was made and {t turned out that the sister, Helen Bell, had been among the world's millionaires? So changed it to Henry Q. Barrington jut what does ine Q stand for?” ®t “Oh, nothing especial, I just thoucht I'd be fashionable and part my name in the middie. And now tell me what you were doing at the lawyer's. Were you a Townsley heir, too?" “On, no. T was Biss Kerra taal. She fs Mr. Fatrletgh's cousin, you knoW. She took me to the lawyer's because was attending her on @ shopping expe- dition that day,” “You aren't her maid now, are yout ©. Her brother had the bad taste te fall in love with me, I refused ‘bitin and he talked about me. I was fired.’*: “That's just Uke Claude Kerr. I knew the cad. What are you doing now?” “I'm assistant at Mme. Campau’a” ” “Good! I ike your looks. I'll "fn and take you out to lunch some “You'll do nothing of the sort!” / “But I'm a millionaire—" began Baw rington in surprise. “Why"—— “And I'm a working girl,” retested Mercedes, “and that's reason Barrington shrugged his shoulderscatsd left the room. In the hallway dutsiiie he almost collided with some onesie “Why, good ovening Barringtomd’ Mercedes heard a voice say in greeting; “are you on your way up to the draw- ing-room?"* ‘ “Yes,"’ replied the millionaire, Théd, in a low tone. “Take a look in the, ception-room, Fairleigh. It'll pay 3 As Fairleigh turned into the roam ° where Mercedes was waiting, his 2guRE if) wife, to whom the maid had fust gi the dressmaker's message, was on thi way thither from the drawing-rooj Her mother and Miss Kerr were w! her. They met the men coming “oat from the drawing-room in Fuirlelghy brought up tn a foundling asylum and had lef there, That let out both those sisters, So, by law, they had to start on the next generation. I was the only son of Townsley's oldest ulece, so I was the nearest and I came tn for the whole Jackpot.” “If this younger sister of old Mrs. Slocum's—this aunt of young Mrs. Fatrleigh's—hadn't died, she'd have been the nearest living relative and"’— “And scooped the whole fortune and left me borsing a section gang on $2 a day. But she isn't living. She's dead. And I'm rich.” “If she were living,” went on Mer- cedes, taking a certain pleasure tn the worrled look that crossed his face, and trying to prick the bubble of his seif- concett. “If this sister of old Mrs. Slocunr were living she would be the aunt of young Mrs. Fairleigh. The rich uunt,"” o'clock I'm at the lawyers office and'— “I remember the rest,” interrupted Mercedes coldly. “Bay expostulated © Barrington, angry that his flow of reminiscence should be thus rudely checked. “I'm tellin’ a story. And when I'm tellin’ a story I'm tn the habit of bein’ Us- tened to. I like to tell stories. I tell ‘em fine, If you aren't interested, just a dear old lady in corkscrew curls, and they'd be petting her and consulting her and asking her to the house all the time and hating her like poison, Just as they now do with thelr beloved second cousin, Henry Q. Bar- rington,” finished the man; “but she's dead, And I am’— “T thought you sald your name used to be Barry?" broke in Mercedes. “go it did; so it did. But what sort think about all the money I've got, and that'll keep you from interruptin’, ——_—_—- “I'm from Plissouri; You've Got to Show Mel” THE MAN WHO SAID IT “[m from Mis- }expression which 1s the rounds Jjand which is sald to indicate that light | or explanation | wanted on subjects which appear n- comprehensible. That 1s—that is what Missourl peo- plo say it means, and as the phrase originated with Congressman | WIll- ard DP. Vandlver, of Cape Girardeau, | Mo., representative from the Fourteenth | Missout] District, Missouri people may ba supposed to know. Chicagoans, however, claim that the cxpression indicates simply thick-head- edness and that it belongs particularly ty St. Louls people. The celebrated phrase was first used NE of the very latest tricks per-| 0 formed by the magician {s shown by Nate Leipsic, now at Procto who ts probably the most expert presti | aigitateur in the world. It is the thim- | ble trick, the magician making as many by Congressman Vandiver in the heat/ as eight thimbles appear and disappear | of debate on the floor of the House of; at will on the finger tips of both hands. | Representative {In this thimble work Prof, Letpsic| Instantly {t sprang into popular favor] snows improvements on tho work of| and in a surprisingly short time was| David Devant, the noted English con-| taken up everywhere, jurer for so long associated with Mas-| When asked concerning his first use} kelyne and Cooke at Egyptian Hall. of the expression, Congressman Vandi-| You will need two thimbles. Red cel- | ver said: "I did not realize that I usedjjujoid is best for the purpose, Placo tits expression on the floor of the!one upon the first finger of the right) House of Representatives, or that I/nand, as in the illustration, Bend the | was the Beet tpimake-use of it, but my | gnger to the crotch between finger and Isc i HEE ee saeete, expressiona| ‘tum #2 In the second photograph. If possible grip it with the flesh at the aro often used which, while they seem | base of the thumb. If you cannot fol- commonplace at the time, afterwards! iow the third illustration move it over become famous. toward the finger. At any rate leave “tC remember once referring to Con-|the thimble firmly held by the palm and GFessman Grosvenor as ‘the famous! withdraw the finger as shown In the} member from Ohio,’ it being against) fourth picture. It will take you several | thé rules to mention names in Congress. | days before you may even feel certain | “‘Bomebody asked who I meant and I/that you will not drop‘the thimble. replied that I could best describe him| when you feel sure you can do this as the man who looks like Santa Claus| with the right hand train the left the| @ talks like Satan. same way, Now conceal the thimble in| ‘ongressman Grosvenor has ever) the left hand and show the index finger | since been known around Washington | of the right capped by the second thim- by chia’ description, ble. Palm the second thimble and at "He finally got back at mo, though. | the eame time pl: the first on the left 1 have always been thin and spare, and|index finger. Reverse the movement one day Co: an Grosvenor, in al~| until it appars that the thimble’ travels luding to me, that while he might/ from one finger tip to the other, Then bear some resemblance to Santa Claus| you will have mastered one of the very and talk somewhat after the fashion liatest tricks; one that even professional | jot the King of Inferno, yet his photo-| magicians are still practising on, T! graph could never be mistaken for @/are other figures which you may study! skull and cross-bones.”, 4 from this, - | Mientione: Hate ‘ininele If you were to play poker with Leip- the corner he rubs the surface of tho | sic you would find him the best card card f moment and the card is t handler tn the country. He is not a! king smonds, Most magte card sharper, mind you, and he cannot |} th Clamend in the other hand. cheat at cards, but he can rub a pip'|Lelpyic spreads his fingers that you from the flye of hearts and make it|may observe that he does not do this. a four—not {n a card game, however. |Murther he will hold the cards in one Lelpaic, although now doing his first hand and perform the trick without the stake work, has been mystifying such |ald of the other, hand. past masters of the art as Prof, Keller'| Hoe will let you take a card from the and the members of the Society of |pack and replace tt yourself. The pack ‘American Magiclans for more than a|is shuffled and returned to you. Count ‘year past, into his hand, as many cards as you Some please. When ‘vou elect to stop the last Gard you touched Js the one you first ther you count out five car the whole fifty-two. In ‘The Evening World office he ex- In one he shows the king of clubs. Pressing his finger upon the club in |you selected 1s not there, The Newest Mystery in Magic Is the Wonderful Thimble Trick The Conjurer’s Hand Showing the Four Motions Made in Doing Trick. hibited @ trick which few have seen and but two men know anything about. He holds out four face cards. That he may not force you to take a*card of hi aelection he permits you to make a men- tal choice. That he may not judge from your eyes which you have chosen you id behind him. Te places a card in pocket. ‘Three are shown. The one You do not touch the card; he does not even see you look at it! ‘There ts no way in which he may obtain any iden of tho card, but with the chances three to one against success he never fal Se a eel Amusements. THEATRE. Sydney Rosenfe' SEASON FE! ) Much Ado About merican Comedy. (3) Ours, Drania. othellg, f eats iow on, Address 1432, Broadway, making NtuRY THEATRE co. CENTURY I checks p ne.) 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Is atiything the matter?" “Mistakes me for his wife, just ag. maid did," thought Mercedes, turn! to undeceive him, But she was tov’ As she turned he slipped his arnt amet her waist and kissed her full omutue mouth. a A glance at her face anda ery amazement and reproach froth the Nail apprised him of his mistake. Bit the Kiss was already given, and Itssnnnne- quences were destined to cause untald complications, adventures, and death. (To Be Continued.) Amusements. PROCTOR’S thie 98d St.) ) CONTINUOUS VAUDEVILLE. Prelle's Dogs. iy (AE §th Ave, re The Brixton Burglary." Geo. imrose, Foley Boys,’ 58th St, {Bas Vod.. Thurs, ‘asad, {25th St. ‘Slrange'S Sarge Lang a emidaey Se HER’ MUSE acta LALA: - Boy and Girl—One, Yet Two. | Tyg Human Benes Merged ipeare » & toe Sh Troadway and bth ® IRCLE LADIES’ MAT, DAIlg Annie Abbott," Murphy & Nich 5D NEXT WEE. 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