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a he Es ent nég 3 The Mysterious 5 “Mr. Smith’ Found &® & The Adventurer o Following a Postal Clue, Kirk Relocates His Employer, and Is Given Another Chance to Join the ‘‘ Desperate Adven- ture.” . BE SPOCESTHRE E Stat any rate, of my inteilence,” i | Mx. Tregurtha amliinely conceded the polnt. te “That's the hardest part ef t," leaidsat bast, ‘Ou Were, pre-emitRently | the type of man we wanted—and want: jt Dadly. 1am not penalizing you for Giling in your eppolutment: I wouldn't EL er RE, oer that stand ‘in cad i eee | Ho “stopped abruptly. } taprens, | WHIT inquired Kirk. Ooo er al "Oh, you're too Iate, ms> dear man. jon. |The whole business has nox passed ou! of my hands. I couldn't help you ‘t I he! ater-| y the ndvertiver, x | would nith, who save the teak) py mean that you are rot ti ZT bet ho MUL not reveal tee| leader? ‘That honeatly and truly you that of a sudordi-/ DV £100 nats (¥: Seturn tne no! D), and tells thm if he can! position was o intact the following Monday | ; ened f 4 mill Ue @: ise not “Prociaely. | Joana his hundred) “And that now, having acco: | money after much ithe duty you were intruated with, others | Jeeertel, Hel are carrying the enterprise to the next jaa bill lett at Kirk) stage?” | imation’? | | Mien That is tt oxa | © the letter’s office. view jus is elmply @o persuade me vs ue and not give away the 1! fou couldn't put tt better.”* | "Ot course 1 wouldn't do that.” con- [tinued Kirk, “You've treated me with | fa xreat deal of consideratt-n, You've mide ine a-present of aluindred pounds. | only ask you to make suine al-| wrances for a deeply disappolated man "L want to flatter you, but you've me feel that anything you are connested with is Loung to be worth while. ‘To iose my chafce now {s al- most more than I can bear.” CHAPTER VIII. Mr. Smith's Alias. IRK took the frkt hansom, and giving thin address {o, the cah- < man, was rapidly born’ toward aia destination. His rain in a @hirl, He hardly knew what he meant fo say to Mr. Trexurtha find bim teas the creat thing to find and con- front Bim! Chancery Lane was so nar @ow, and the hou on eth and #o Algh and dark, that {t was with the e@enration of entering 2 collar that Kirk Mr. Tr rtha 4. His face ras durned into !t out of Holborn, and shiv-| all ay hy and kindness. Hin regret ered in a chilly gust that struck him! was unfeigned. | Yo tha marrow of his bones. “ue Beye i) CME lnee they drow up before a dingy | 42 BEI—Not Extort! foorway. Kirk paid the cabman and| | 109 bad—too bad,” he murmured @au in, stopping to run his even over) “NOW, see here,’ wont on Kirk with jes of an plates that bore, in, RoFeasing confidence; uo muat do me ing letters from which the pafnt{*® 8004 turn. You must move heaven tad lone since fled. the names. of tha) 2nd earth, You fork me in @ccupants of 20. 719. On one of them | £ehow Hy you must Wan J. M1. Treximha, Solidt ond | Mind the way! | Mounting phe stairs(and divartea | Te steamer lett two days ag | Ailther by a pagsing mestenger, ts at) N° sooner had he wald this than angth reached¥a giazed door on which | eked ax though ho would have gia There was @° similar legend. Ito was|tecalleg ft. His moun tightened ahout to knock when the door opened! Kindness died out of his eves, He eu 1 the had ag Stself, awd he found himself face to| Pitinly mado a sin, and was palling Ptetonhestetenien | Mimaelt cogether to undo his blunder. Me waited keenly, defonatvely,.. for k to take ady ntage of be afrald, Mr, Cis to be aw enough y questions about t OF ry <0 crowbar my: way 1@ do that fast Kirk took) thought I could succeed, ndsome}y |. can't. My only liepe te t rroon on your gencrosity, & Discovered Seeret. Ix 3¢ Kirk was surpr! require| “Don't @ stronger term to fo fiisticn *o Mr, | eld Kirts @raith's expression. -Dixcomposure, atu. | Ut» L know we aefaction even, wos written on those rosy | Won't ask a @eatures. He staried violently and fell] steamer Weck. stil staring at Kirk as though he! Your 0 @xuld not believe his eves. fm the fact tha: was siressed in conventional ¢ famme—frock coat. slik hat. nto enough If] But I know throw my- To beg—not ex- he i Immaculate! tort. | Mblte waistcoat, faultic: trous * aed enna Su i B rich dark tle held in place by n ctrclet ei ot peruano ®f pearls—gloasy, wel! eroomed. almost| onc ps : lent, ang Pandboxy, A singular morphosia| ones eae the room in the sham- Wadeed from Mr. Smith of th@ threadyare |) 4 Rimless faniton: that helps some | * \ pereeda and the dirty collar. men to think. IH» reiured and. mat Kirk was about to perk when Mr. |“ haitaeet crossing dis fat leg Benith stopped him with a warning Kes- you take 4 gumble? Ine +, are, ~~. quired, + 5 “Don't talk here,” he sald, “Come itn- gamble t: ide to my private office.” And with] JE Fighting Chanee. rat he led the way within ai NEMean Won ie eo fow, my dear man,” he sald. with = Fi lade Road to his ordinary breezy and Te Marts ry Jong 4. umey, very ikely peed-natured manner, ' {or nothingre Journey in the dark gmed to drive « four-in-hand ean A rive at a certain piace, » @ aecret we thought we had guaried) 0 Nate Apinch) bag! will walt for at € mary carefully. I will be qilte frank | 70% Jt asm, Pertiaps Instruct a. with you and will admit that I reg ay keach you~perhapa they ine + R exceeding: you can do us want you they wit! | f@ny farm, If much by “any. chance Do not’ fear about i mhould be your intention. ¥ trun t-they will flnd you mame is Tregurtha —well—and what But if they don't | e me itr He will hear nothing tran : . At the expiration of Three Days Late. Seiimayeenslachvetecaeee one k . Kirk wan embarrassed by thin some- You ninderrtamd ewhat provocative address, The tone, en hayo not heen re-| ough ind; pore on undertying all the assurance 1} @roat. Mr. Smith—or rather Tregur It je wat sportsmen (Ma-—was plainly ill at en and ap- catl a long shot--a ten to one | , peered to be arming “lmselt for a dis- ted to onal A ohh it egteendla intervie. were I in your Tt'aq none of my bualners who would. absolately not consider tt, we ald Kirk with apirit. “1 haven't |It lea chance-and wil you take tit | me remotent intention of doing you any | aaIm. MY only desire in, un it alweys @as been, to enroll mysei¢ in your un-} ) anything,” raid Kirk, com f @ariaking, iA explain why I failed to| d-got rid Of-sent on w fool's i @ep my appointmens.” fand=If no call Ix made on you, and i Shue speaking, he jaid down the hun-|¥Ou find yourself in a distant country. AY @red-pound note. [#4 ignored, as apparently forgotten. as Hthon were the deiiherate de-eption?”” afr, Tregurtha’ showed no Interest in Victim of sme “My dear man,” tie nald, “you're jut) tard to Decide, @aree days too late!” s [the two men - el nhtieduldad elie * men's eyes met. Was Tre- jecntha sincere or waa his proposal « ‘masterpiece of duplicity? A scheme de- Isigned fo get .rid-of him ally, oom- pletely, and forever? Kirk mas at a loss to decide, In. whole instinct was to believe, yet yearns of contact with the seniny side of Ife counselled caution. Than all I can do,” added Tre gurtha, “Take {t or leave i, : Mr, Tregurtha,” said Kirk, “have I that on your sacred word of honor?’ The solicitor solemnly raised his hand. “Indecd you have,” heCremarked, ‘I pledgo you my honor, And I will only tepeat that you must not misjudge me tt you fall. - “That's understood,” said Kirk T wish you could see your wi =Too lat @eolly. “Then what am I to do?* é Tresurcha shrugged his shoulders. “You've made a hundred pounds,” he @Becrved: ‘Your time wasn't altcseth- for wasted. I would suggest that you go Brey att spend stand, tf you'll do me & favor, keep the thing out of the news- gepers.. My principals would resent any pebiialty; and blame me for the leak- | @#R Though, of conrse, t€ tt should bo- Bene common propery, I would have fee hesitation in giving you tho Ile, and @enying it in toto.” Wo Hope! Fepeated Mr. Tregurtha, +}out violating the confidence of your “OR Mrs Trekurtha, you're mlatax. | Prititpale-te enlighten mo us to the! ; eivieg | Renera: pature of thy erprine. ee Me) kind “oC man Tam. Kina) Menta icinte, be on iand ot ate, Boge Bole was Cull of pleading, and a con-| it invo A& question of weeks or Pincing.. sincerity. animated his hand. | months Any P50 COUR Moy pslt for any fome face, “I have set my heart on | *hectal kind of 4 al i |-nBvery thing bas been arranged. for, Bela thing, You've told me-conraelf | ho sail, “Tere are others to attend, bo | all that. Nothing har been overlooked, CAN ASAUTE Du. 'Dhis le a queation of | picked men performing an arduous and hdangrrous task. and, considéring that | the cot ef Fecrullipg them hea OAC nearly four hundred pounds each, you! il, take the Mak I'm the very Kind you want., Don't Bhrow me over without at lexnt listening Be tnx story—to my explanations: After @IL though I do wey it myesif, I am tao “good to inne. I have arit and loyalty, nd Whe fect that I have auccerafully - Wwranked you down ouxht to bea proof any understand Thacewex exce care 1 hie Be Continued.\ id pers am we CAN'T GUARANTEE. ‘Yo DELIVER THIS PROMPTLY — WE'RE NERY BUSY You OW! HOW BEMTIFUL! Now “Ivory” Made of Skim Milk. |The Product of the Cow Taking His Arm. Dear Ty | Given the Appearance of Bone or Amber. Here's ALITTLE SOUVENIR FoR ‘you, MISS SWELL! Sit proper for a young man to young giri’s arm ——, IT dO You DO, MR. MONK? ARE YOU OUT SHOPPING Too (cees IT MusT BE GREAT \Jo BE RICH! LeTS or tie The Million-Dollar Kid # # MAYBE 'D BETTER) TAKE ‘You HWE EXQUISITE TASTE, MR Betty Vincents # # w Advice to Lovers. as there tn ,itttle or no step-of from Subway trains to the platform? It 1s your piace to ask him ‘The man ahould precede the lady, 1 WOULDN'T BE SEEN CARRYING A BUNDLE! FOR THE WoRLD! JIS VULGAH ! WELL, T GUESS THATS ‘ALL! WoW SHOW ME ® REAL SWELL BROOCH! ¢ T THINK ITS FUN To CARRY BUNDLES! SO DEMOCRATIC, ‘ou KNOW! “Poison Squad’’ Historical Characters Who Could Eat Won- derful Things. to call, BH to take the young When ou: walking? M. 8 ‘He Lobes Her Friend, The gir} should take the man Deer Het : Ae ; i S Me naw entese into Et and: thes only after ark, beet olne with a young | QOME of Ne great Matortcad char Ure of a sirpri ara Man for about a year. I Intros eatara gol a would farticles: 1 ead d : xeetlen sor pumber of arth eat He Wants to Call, [tea fil to & wiefefond of mine | ai, made Up “an excellent <polzon Austric was the pioneer in this direc Dery wtp Jnot long ago, Tuey 9: pecan to thing | MUNG” for Dr. Wiley te Goverament tion, but the new Industry has now be- AM g young lady of tighten, and al of each othe-. H-= ace: a | 00d. expert, Kun to develop in this country ami very fond of a geniieman one| perfectly delighted to find her at my | TAX® Peter the Great. of Rusia, for The skimmed silts is trated chemt J year my senior, Ho takes me out oc-|home wien lie cals and. ainaya tare, | instances. Baked goore, stuffed witli np- calls and thus a composition Anes 28) casionally and 1 think he would lke|her heme, He even asks me about now | Pies Was @ dish which he simply adored. Filalith tr produced. Thi looks won-! ig wyend an evening at my home 0m0 |, cen we mee: on tie street. I dour | Frederick the Great dectared that of der(ully Wea” Wor tor, “which It 14" tine, butiho Js loolbaahfil to-aak per-| like sto: appedr Jealous, hit ie. MaL‘ | all the dainties set upon his table there largely uned ax a rubstitule—but It CAM iseion | would t . * ant ven th = Gn pea plain to we be dyed, and it cen be given the an-l ut don't know tier he ahould ask |. noth their actions wiat the outcomes | POrk and cabhag pearance of amber, bone, celluloid and] ye rmission or tier T should he thee Pee (een ecrone eat, tle outcome even hard Gus of tiie | ST8t {0 broach the mithfect. Would also See ania "P? tmy favorite,” wan the maxim of Na- ‘Articles which are now made of this; yo, Niner a ‘8 M. BJ, % er iaciudarbiliinralballaidollea|ceeete re: ee ea aD Rent) troy] You murat accent” thé Inevitable, ),| Poleon. Bonaparte whien te was at tabi cone Hee aang Umbseliae |SHQUd precede a lady in alighiing fr Wo young people love each other, ANd If all reports are true he certainly ee aiper aha kernel tae ea eaee ou ear nope to retain the man, and | couldepuntaliwsood.., and cance, KARL 4 canoe, {20 When wetting off @ gr imust sive him up gracefully. You should | While Nupoleon was a Penlgleary » HOXeR, CAT “i tx tt more proper for tie lady to lead, apprar as indifferent as possible [quite the reverse ts true of mantelpi cks, plano keys, paper} z = Beat at epunenld SETAR nk Eeats len, pint collar buitons, picture R It q L f Child n~ . er part of ts lite aU Ce oosevelt’s Love o ren. Sie NAA area sramey, ; 2 ive on the rations of a common ner articles for Ww ambor, celia-| Idler , oP ACS ata oh aaaeuignce tend ex} By. U. S. Senator Carter. | soldier.” In those day's the rations of a univety. ‘ AST Week a lltUle boy and girl, friends of mine,’ said Senator Carter,| ©7minen foldier weren't anything to cluatyely, ry; y ® talk adout, either, Alexander's object | © In Auatria a hundred thousand gallons Of Montana, “‘aucceeded n getting into the Presicent’s omce, It was a) C0 1 aa aaa ans is sobsect} of akimmed initk are usd dally in mak- bu: me, and the President was worried witn tne Wall street crimia. (00" (0 20 & sae enol essat a els ing the In that country Ce phe Title gir demanded the President's signature {n a book which she planted Prrimbiluguanenitha HEALOS, galalita turers frequently’ f+ | yetore him, | : Be Eamntert “The President smiled, took the book and started to write his name, | k Propiie:. was also a! rathe Ag ite industry Di theres’ over here,” commanded the child x Aa in eh acer onto TEat its effect. pon the “The Prepident obeyed, and was abollt to write, when the Mttle girl again) n vandful of dates and A mower! oe may soon be felt } rrupted, ‘Not theré: aC the top of the page.’ sald - water, Saree 7 ‘The President wrote jis name, and pasted the book overs ‘Will that do? he jn Jf Kie2) Dune of pbarpuet cher- His LIMIT. 3 asked. : ; bis he Rreates: € tton of any day seem xa--Haa Hardup any cregit? ‘Blot it.’ commanded the Ittle girl, Ne eouNeA Aa EG Wicka-—Crealtta ase dardtp cal oThe President hlotied the slenature. Tha done, the two children walked out int. take # violent er Ket a. siphon pottle charged Bost viin all the dignity of grown-upn.” ; nenirebest sine) €or Rite neste: Pranacript. The Rivalries of Youth “What's the trouble, Johnnie?” — “Aw, Chimmie says dere ash can {s er Yandaomer plece of furniture dan ours,” ‘ i $0 have iim call, lis know how to-act, J ah! if “You'd better not call me er coward again.” “Aw, wat'll yer de?” "I'll Wneck yer Iittle brother's head off de ne. eatch him out, dats wot!" It Cd | was none which could compare with alt By T. S. Allen “I'm tree years older'n: you.” “kw, wot of it?) Yer don’t wear man-size shoes Ike me jest de same.” / of Great Men.) "i “World Daily Magazine, Friday? Decem By R. W. Taylor! ;#tation all winter, 20 one | in white. }out & amack on the Ilps to every lady {n the countr; ber 1 : Boarding-Heuse Fables. The Story of How Henry Tried ~ to ‘‘ Take the Fatal Step” With= Lizzie and Made a Fluke of It. : - By Joseph A. Flynn. i EEE by the papers that @ class in courtship has been ‘ | started in a Western high soool,” I rematied to, gy ‘Text at dinner last evening, trying to conceal my") delight at discovering a potato in the stew. ee It's about thne,’’ khe reptied. narrowly watching = tall” Kentioman opporite who was tapldly making inroads {nto the butter. “How many Harrys nowadays know how to do the Romeo act-with Henrietta? Some husks think the only way to get a wife In to Iny for poor Genevieve some dark night witli “a small cannon, hustle eff, and sign the papera before aie has time to ‘open ‘ner ruby tips and awk | what it’s all about. rs ee, “Ym ot jn the mushy class, but ‘give me somebody” who breaks into the parlor with aqgvy atorm.telling me my. dale is the color of thé morning. though he may méan © rainy morning: I paxs up the fellow who holds down tbe best chair in the Rowse - for ‘two hours trying to met/rid of his tands; I want the Jolin who'll lose no king for hin hat whén he finds 4s’s in wrong. 3 pune, “Hub min off the Ist of the Harry ¢o whom..you always have to ety: “T y don't know what's -jlim matter with me to-night; I cah' hardly keep my open.’ Give me romgboly who, when he proposes to a girl, tells, het he’ Tall the stare for i belt if he could, and who awears 3 things by Mr. Wei ime Ie Moon le naverintends to Keep. Tf he don't, cok at all the fun you'n get y Rentiy reminding hin, whenever he gets too way, that once upon a time he, ; ‘© you were tim only thought in his head. S M3 { 1. nayer told youAlh Ms first name’ w. experience TAszle had with & fellow last year, @J@ I? © I 4 Qenry. Ile hed been using the house fon a ceaiing ; islit ie bought « clean shave and haircut and decided: Pp. He took it all right, but broke the news to Lizzie as ax a wop putting a paying stone through a plate-glass window. ‘They were both up in the parior and it yas twenty-four minutes by the ek before lie took a chance and got away from the barrier. Firat Henry loosened up hix collar, and Lizsie knew she wes going around « curve, #0 she eld on to her iat good and tight and came out all right. Next he locked at all the pictures on the walls, expecially she one over the plano of Mrs. Stsrve-em and first, meal ticket, taken the day they were married. You know the one, ~ tere he $s altting in every place on the chair but the right one, all decked out Poor No, 1 ia standing betind her in an open-faced ault, looking iike & sccond-story man being measured, with his fingers all/tangled up in the eld loce of Irish lace which wan worn by her grandma the day Lafayette handed Wail, ) take the fatal » Mt rs w “That batile scene braced Henry up; he got a good grab on the arma of te chair, and fitniped off, He started py telling hier how hard he had to fight for . his yellow envelope ever » what his Inundry came to on Saturday night, and all the geod “hinge the bose never anid about him, ‘ahd ended the hymn by saying that mother getting old now and wasn't strong, enough to more Plano twice a week and cook fir three girls and five food destroyers like necif, and if TAxxle wanted to become Mrs, Work the job wan hers. Now, Henry gets hix money as eaxy aa plumber, and if fie went about tt the right way he mixht have landed Lizzie, but whenshe beard that game she took the count and then said, ‘Wen't you let me help you on with your scouts’ And what do you think? He didn't even try to kiss her during the whole perfermance.’* “Well, I must contesa he was rather blunt, and that his proposal was anye.-L thing but romantic," I remarked with a amile, haying come: off the victor in my encounter with the pran “But. as regards klesimg, don’t you think he ought to have walted for an inyitagon?” : “Invitation? Crullers!" she replied, turning a deat ear to the fifth plaintive appeal from a young girl at my left for a eecend portion of bread puddinx. “Tho right kind of a fellow doesn't wait for am invitation to kiss a girl—he | walts for a chance. 3 j duiuniota Lo Just One Minute,. Sisters! _A Sweetness Brief. a By Helen Vail Wallace. ‘ou look sweet instantaneously? Then Iist te the following Httle- | | | “The thing thac ix nearest to me {8 jump-qigar thoughts are so pientifult od was) merely human compromise with the clock, the spangied heavens and the wate | indeed, | Warm and comforta: J years) is 3 yards story which 1 heard somewhere, some tim: Once upon &, time an old colored lady went to ait for a phote, The Photographer, thinking she @id net look go pleasant! as she might, sug- if gested in the usual fashion, “Look a little pleseanter, plesse. he replied, grimly and without ebangtsg her expression one atom, got nuffin’ to look pleasant about." ire ‘The artiat said, coaxingsy, “‘Oh, vhink up semething—enything you ifke best! your husband, for Instance.” £05 To thie suggestion she responded very lugubrieusly, “Don't lke mah old Can't look happy If I done think about him.” _ The photographer, feeling almost discouraged at the prospect of geting @ sultable expression, tried egain desperavely: ‘Ob, there must be something yeu ke. Think a tthe Ee he thought a little, and her face lighted up with a look that had memeries back of It. i DO like Jump sugar," she sald.) ‘Ail right, then, think of {ump sugar,”’ said the reHered photographer, ” ‘ She concen:rated on that sweetening substance for a moment, and the resuft ’*! was a look of complete serenity in the phote. ° . 5 . 5 . "Ah aint Now, what 18 the use of having « ead er sour expression, my sisters, wt |} Why not start a sugar-plum tree at once? @oon you'd have an abuntencs of)! home-grown mrectness, ence +-—____—___—_ Correct Time Is a Fake. By the Greenwich Man. IIE man at the odservatury In Greenwich was anked the time. he replied, “It Gepends upon whether you want solar time, sidereal time, local time, standard time, apparent time or mean and ‘he looked like the draper who has several other destrable lines under unter, He admitted that the Greenwich moon does not correspond exacthy with ule sun or the stars, the heavens or the earth, and that Greenwich time is a of the earth's axis. Thia awful confession from an eminent astronomer wes starting. For, glancing around to make wure that ne one was listening il the pdmission, he whispered “There's no auch thing aa the right time—we fake it." garments, not for the exercise HG alone, but to be worn in place of petticoa's during the winter months, They are much warmer, much anug- cor and @kogether more satisfactory, whiie they do away with a great deal of unnecessary bulk. 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