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Written for The tha Green Tohifa.) CHAPTERS. ‘Author of “The Le: (Copyright 6YNoPsr avenwe na ie ixa 1908, by Pre CHAPTER XIII. The Mill Stream. WO o'ciock. ‘Three o'clock. Two men were talk! below heir breaths in the otherwise empty office, “That ‘ere m tream never gives up anything muttered | other. certain places Janis body w bottom before . pool!’ The man b- 1 roamed J and ihis his towards id Jan, Dutchma of, fall in by imaelt ove. ome mich eat “Waal, the we d his old mother, we don't say. 1: was call r ‘The other man rose and walked rest- lessly to the window. Half the town {a up," he muttered “The lanterns go by Mke fire-fles, Poor Ransom! It's a hopeless’ job. I fear.” And ox his hand wandered to that breast p: + of a document could be seen. ket ,where the edge “I have half a mind to go out myself; anything fs better than sitting ti But he ust ATE. Mr. larper was no longer a yo it, The storm's bating, one. “But not the cold. I'm freezing.” The other man obeyed, red. A girl st « doorway. Anitra, with cheeks ablaze and eyes burning. her travelling "dress flapping damp about her heels, won a stick; then, looking before them and on her head tno red shaw! she preferred to any Behind her shoulder peered the anxious face of Mra, Deo. “I'm going out." cried the former in the loud and unmodulated yolce of the deaf, “He don’t come back! he don’t come back! I'm going to see why." ‘The lawyer rose and bowed, then resolutely shook his head. Ho did not know whether ehe had appealed to htm or not. She had not Icoked at him, had not looked at any one, but he felt that he must protest. “I beg you wot to do £9," he began “1 really beg you’ remain here and walt with me. You. can do no good and the result may be dangerous.” But he knew ho was taiding to deat ears even before the landlady mur- mured: “She docan’t hear a word. I've talked and talked to her. I've used every sign and motion I could think of, but {t's done no good... She would dress and she will go out; you'll see.” y of her door, throu: My Me and wan gone, my duty to fotiow lawyer, “Help me on I'l find) some her," sald with my wulde, the oat; one to “Here Ja a an not going with Ded, “but some house.” The New Yorker lantern offered Iitm: ou t watch the nodded, took th dowent stoic He met « man on the walk in fron Jie wos faced his way and was panung ' “They haven't fou no doubt she wen oo w hay juat be ehe Jett on & @ Kood-by, I iim from there Ne of mortal cold; to get warm. Who w just went ‘x I've just ast ying by out Us no place for’ wimm: Ong lost gal ix’ eno “Th what I lawyer, hurrying on, He was not a very Imagt: ome of his best friends thought ht a cold and prosafe one, but. he never for@ot that walk or the sensations ac- companing It, Dark ax it still wan, the sway would have been bie @ stranger ft not for guidance given by the noisy passing and fro of the awakened townspeople, "Those coming from the river’ approa:h- 3 li-a direct Line from one spt; Mose golhe to It advanced In th and to the same epot: A torna marked {t. It was near, ; where tha heavy deep pool, No one nor sy #he had syidently been firmt encounter to move with Joss pr wsipltancy, “AS he appronched tral interest, he too, The ground yover walked tn again he tripped upon bla face. T Ure waters “ avas Low Yery near; he could ee noth- ing but fiicker of the lanterns, he folC™tA® near rum of the {and presently wax ot Its Startled by, the neurness Sape, for he dng by his sud looked ayain at th turn and came upon th men bending over the t aureem where the watera ran most swift- for be daanddiladhanaut « on account of But he did not join them, Another * aah Evening World. The Wanishing Bride. -. By Anna Katherine Green. * and “The Woman in the Alcov A predentl; of Ranson Sight attracted hi ‘Thin was the wight earth he held in hie er reading In ita sorrow! Of tx " bantd: Anit i woul, wal tt reyes inet and a strange khock, perhaps, of sympa- veling, fasheg upon elther fac The lawyer saw Inatingtively’ Fe: treated from out the etrsie of light cast by the lantern; but the men at the ktream’s edge heard nothing. The flash of something white had caught their eyes and, one man waa reaching for came 1h astonished repe- the more 89 rt, ‘Georgian, To persiated: _ deeper: and Then ina wi Mr. Harper throuen ‘all "She loved other, atment...the feminine heart-moying sin- oreathed through that lps so untutéred Ransony Ah! persuasivenes: the en cerity whicl ¢ simple phrase! From it seemed marvel not insensib} grea under 1s eyes took But he made the stream He pad been do f froth; wome of ¢ neers, che atrl into ‘the light, ow to her face ne 4 a. him hand Gna wee drawing fc gentiy wa With a leap had thro come to make feet ond sad pecause he remombered her aff { the roar a and his own overwhelming pai hat she lawyer caught every ly th word; pos the wa ter edge did some of them quickly turned thelr heads. But she though she stopped short in the spoi where be 24 pushed her, gave no evi- dence of hearing his words or even o! Ing his mann “come?” ; Anitra who te 80 sort. h His tone. his look were almost those of n madman, Jie even put out him hands toward hey repulsion. He seemed to cast her awi a8 Kesture, if not hia words, ree er understanding. The lawyer saw h y. fling back her young Wend with # dishevelled locks to the night, an! all moaning. pitifully, 26 the ground Hero she lay still, with the wet xrase A about ‘hervand “the Anst lingering drops of rain beating’on her huddled form, Mr. Harper started to raise her, for Ransom stood petrified. But nb gooner had the lawyer made his known by this impetuous Ransom woxe from darting down, lifted the began moving h Ac ho pas ‘ed between presence movement ix trance and. in his arms the rae Ieoka too much like, Geos Me Af ge anowher man touch ker will care for my poor dariing's body. CHAPTER XIV. A Detective’s Work, Mornin; hongshold was atout {tr ¢ the night ® and the still unrel y before, was again at her pot yut this time with her eye fixed on an one door, the door vehi: wept the exhausted Anitra. “Ransom’t oom was o wan in the sitting ed swith Ue Inwye: en there & tles a and gla: ha en removed from the table, and chelr place were to be seen, a womar tant a ~ Uurpercs hand w ho owas wound wh za th! It before, stinct) ti the vell stil hear the entrance of the Jane tncd Rungom. ‘i Phen there ean be no doubt that ap Misa d tonne! Pes youched the sround, fig the shawl from her neck, pulled wer her head instead. You rememt towne had no lat on when th ought ner ine remember, This ts at without a le lawyer d this comb ru Were (wu the ward Lor two 4 mi i the talte Me eyed dt but did not tay instead. he drew a crumplod nd, han rat. T shoud No read ha tattece et for me. M ‘old lend me (To Be Continued.) | Ne roused him and he looked | “The Evening World’s Dai December — I Seah Lae ly Magazine, _ Friday, 21, 1906. | Necessity of Nervous Prostration. | May Manton’s Daily Fashions | HINTS FOR THE HOME By Nikola Greeley-Smith, | Meera Tom—Did y namo the Jack—¥: D' mieen'n Kidneys Jn skinned ana pepper and «alt prostra uimonds, half a! asirRow th ml siigar. the | i “ a quarter 4 ask Miss Dobson to | ‘Stow {s your renee daughter get- Pattern SY ts out in s for a 3, 3, 33 and 9:Inch host measure. HABERDASHER ting*along with her music? eer (x See : ca aie os Lee ceeniene nase eres Cee Call or send by mall THE EVENING WORLD MAY MAN- BPECTAT 345-347 Broadway 3 West 42d Street CADE TL itr threat hhh sins f s paki Mow to $ TON FASHION BUREAU, No. 21 Weat Twenty-third street, New a Cor, Leonard St 4 doors from Hun Ave, 1 orrow? < fer Uiptesiay saya, ue sho plays Obtain York.- Send ten cents in cotn or stamps for each pattern ordered. 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