The evening world. Newspaper, June 8, 1908, Page 11

The Evening World Da ily Magazine, Monday; June &, ’ “eon 0. ‘0; 1 ~~~ SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. Rich Sir John Newby bas a twin brother Richard, who is his secretary. Newby's @urdered body is found in a secret rom Snder the tower of an iongiish mance, Doone y Francis Clair, In this , Cone turies eariter, Clair’s ancestor won the manor by playing the “Devils Ace.” Clair ia Door le bas planned for his daughter Dorothy to wed Sir John. She ts engaged to Percy Hal- Jon, a young engineer, why Ives with ber friends, Wilhelmina and Billy Minter. At the inquest testimony is given by Mrs. Broll: Nowby’s eccentric housekeeper, Wilhelmina ‘of the murder, the crime hay- mitted with a knife he used to Bezkoft, a Russian Nihilist, own. Count learning that Clair has inherited a lance 1n- @ome from Sir John, comes, to funds for manor fo the Fevolutionary cause Me, Diackinall Clair DY ac- murder, Hallon seeks and meets Sir John, fins {t was Richard who on of murdering Richard Newby shows Clair in the sarfpin he had seized seessins. Bexkott | reek “gurden (a one of Richard's a from @ppears and claims the pin. CHAPTER XVI. The Russian Again. ZKOFF was not in evening dress, ‘and Newby guessed from this that he could not be stopping at any house in the neighborhood. “T ordered you out of my hous the squire, haughtlly. “But not out of the grounds,” e@id Bezkoff, gracefully. Tt !9 the sam » sald (hing. You are tres- “T understand. Pardon my tgnorance of English law. Now that I have re- covered my property I shall depart.’ “Stop! shouted Newby, who was pur ple in the fete with angor. “I want = word or two with you, Count." “A dozen if you like” sald Bezkoff, re- | turning. “I am waiting, str. “Why are you lurking about here?" @emanded Clair, since Sir John, after | bis outburst, did not seem inclined to! epeak. | In your own house you were brave, | Mr. Clair, but when I hinted in London at my knowledge of your guilt you were | eufficiently afraid to ask me down and try to pacify me.” “You shall be arrested,” Clair, following the Russian. a you put in jail for ing. Stop! Stop!’ And, was siill retiring, he plunge: and tried to grasp him. “Take care, old gentleman," sald Beskoff, sneering, and stretched out Ais cane to stop Clair coming forward. ‘The esquire. furiously wrenched a: it, ‘and in #0 doing pulled away part of vociferated “Twill blackmall- Bezkoft forward The Mystery of ==— The Devil’s Ace Or, The Manor Mystery By Fergus Hume Author of “The Mystery of a Hansom Cab,” lq and delicate. Newby turned to F koff, who was picking the other por- ton of his cane off the ground to re- sheath the weapon, “Go-gol said Newby, hurriedly. “You will be arrested.” “Nonsense! The policeman has no warrant." “Clair can give you in charge for tres- | pass.” Bezkoff started. ‘That puts a differ- ent complexion on affairs,” he sald alr- fly. “I thank you for teaching me this much of your law. I am also obliged to you for your solicitude for my safety. May I ask what it springs from?” And still, clear light, “I don't want @ scandal,” repeated Newby, who was much agitated. “Of course, Iam Innocent—but I was in the! Grove. I aid see my brother's corps and censorious people’— | “1 understand,” suid Bezkoff, cutting ; him short. “But I did not think that you would give in so easll “I have not given in at all,” said the other furiously. ‘But, for reasons which I need not give you, I don't want to be accused by you, Count Bezkoff.” “What !f 1 understand those reasons?” | “You cannot understand them." “One of the Vowels might,’ sald the Russian significantly, | The “ Vowels. “What are you talking about?" “Our society for ihe reformation of Russia is a very small one, and is di- rected by five people, who suppres their real names, and call themseives. in England, mind you!—by the vowel he laughed like Mephistopheles in the| | letters of your English alphabet: A, E, 1, 9 and U. Very convenient, isn't it? And I think that O might know of your reasons, He {s high up in our society, you know. Ah! of course you know, Sir John, Why need I tell you all these things?" “I don't know what you are talking about,” said Newby, gruffiy: but drops of perspiration were beading his brow. “What, did not O—or, let me see, it was A—explain things to you in that Boho house, where"— | Sir John selzed the Russian by the urm and pushed lim toward the ave- nue, as Clair, followed by the bull form of Hobson, came quickly round the corner. “Go-go! You will be ar- rested for trespass.” “Au revoir, then, until we meet in the stick, which proved to be theffiondon,” sald Hezkoff, and walked @beath of a slender rapier. *] Am Well Armed!” | | “You see," said the young man,| pointing this weapon at Clair’s breast, | “I am well armed.” | Mr. Clair stood comfounded, and ate John intervened, “Let him go—let him 60," he said, trying to suppress his fury: “we don’t want a ecandal ‘Let him o the squire, stamp- ing. “‘Are you mad, Newby? This man | tried to blackmall me, and he certainly kidnapped you.” “That is not trug” seid Bezkoff, quickly. “It is, You admit that the breastpin | 1g yours, and Newby”-— “T heard how he got it," interrupted Bezkoff, hastily. “I was Mstening at the window, remember. I might say that some ons stpin se wore thie bre. on the night {n quesifev. To other wit- nesses J) could deny that {had ever belonged to sco then," added Berkoff, mockingly, “tbo could swear that I had anything to év with the dis- appeara Sir John And the ether hand’ volce became grave—- “T could say that I saw Str John stab his brother.” “Oh! cried Newby, larce han ts, “vou Met" You know best if T do,” aald Bez- koff, significantly. “However, since it fa useless to discuss these private mat ters in the presence of a third party, I hall wo," and he howed. Clair fiunz down the sheath of the cane furiously. He was too frail to! seize Bezkoff himself, ang Newhy did! not seem inclined to assist. But the! esquire, now certain that Begkoff could @ nothing to him. since Richard and not John Newby was dead, decidea to do what he could to punish him. “I'll all Hobson,” he declared. “He ts, I know, in the kitchen, as he comes to ece after the tower, ‘Trusk directed him | to do so, to"— | *To Catch the Murderer |’ “To catch the murderer,” said Bez- off, mockingly. “Well, here he in| He pointed with his bared rapler to Sir, John. ‘Take him to jail.” “Take you-take you!” cried the squire in his shrill, worn voice; and he set off running round the corner of the house in a surprising way for one so clinching his | pected back from London. tly away. “There he is!" Mr, Clair, “Catch He Is trespass! T want him arr I give him in charge. A sovereign to Hobson, if you have him locked to-night.” Hobson necded no Incentive to carry out his official duties, Mr, Clair ned iinted that murderer of Hichard Newby was at hand, and that the charge of trespass was a mere excuse, %0 that he could be arrested out of hand. Berkoff. dancing along, found the po- There crled him! he Is Lock hi you, |Neeman on him almost before he knew | where he was. Then, indeed, did he set ff at top speed for the railway sta- ton. “Save Mel” Worse than this, the constable called on several people they passed to help him to catch the Russlan; and shortly the cry of “Stop thief!" rang out loudiy on the still night air, By the time the rooked street of Beltan village was reached quite a score of people tore at Bezkoft’s heels and he saw now that his plight was serious. It was impossible to go to the rall- station, as he would simply be arrested on the platform, and if he ran into the open country he would cer- be captured since he! did not know the lay of the land, and his pur- suers could come wp with him by side roads It was necessary to seek shei~ ter somewhere, and “Bezkoft raced hrough Beltan’ village at top speed, 8) quick a spurt did he put on that he was through the village and beyond i before any stir oould be created, Hts. pursuer hind, so now, If atyany tme, was the moment to seek @ harbor of refuge. ‘As juck would have it, Bezkoif passed by the Minter cottage,” and by chance | Willy was leaning over the gate walt- ing for Hallon Billy, whom ahe ex- The Count Saw a pretty woman lcoking at him in amazement as he sprinted along; and, agth an intuition which almost amoun| to genius, swerved aside in hi Course fo leap'the fence. Willy scream- ed, as well she might, Beskoft rapidly | 1 e lained, and 6 , eoRrr. Clair wants to have me arrested for trespass,” he sald, breat with much’ gesticulation, ‘They ifter me—save me! [ can put myse! right in your eyes. You are a woman. Bave—an!" ‘His ejaculation was caused by a sight of Hobson and his horde sweeping round the corner. Before they could catch sight of lim, Bezkoff dropped be- ning the quickset' hedge, which co! cealed him entirely from the road an, clutched at Willy's dress. ‘Save me he murmured. (To Be Continued.) Aa S Wfhiris ts miEvay TOME ADOUAR HA? AMERICAN COIN [3 PRODUCED HERE ? 16 /O-O-6-? OM? a Dowse. were a good distance be- | All the Comforts of Home. VO RATHER HAVE HIS Witt PowER. THAN ROCKERS FELLER'S MILLionS! preemies, CAN SEE SMITH Now HAVING THE Time, { OF H\6 LIFE! (SMITH USED TO Like @ WHY HAVENT \ 1GoT HIS HERE OLD MAN TAKE MINE Too, WE HAVENT ANY HOMES OR WIVES! {SMITH WITH ALL. THE COMFORTS OF |A Home, AND \WHAT HAVE WE! | MR. SMITH’S WILL POWER 1S SOMETHING WONDERFUL, BETTER COME ON TRY YouR Luck WE HAVE PLENTY OF BAIT AND YOULL HAVE To TAKE DAT KIO By Gene Carr SORRY BOYS BuT. (M GOIN .To TAKE THE WIFE To A MATINEE ——— Goon Luck! OAT GUYS BEEN WALKIN DAT KID UP ANY | iBetty : Vincent’s : =! acon Oe JO0O Women Do Much Courting ; They’ ve a Right to Do It. COX p 1 Things | | i \} Advice on 3 By Hel Oldfield fo ome H |;Courtship 3 y Nelen teld. 8 To Know. H * cannot be denied that the women of to-day do much a) |} and Marriage. I re, ull thelr venaking i at least, HEINts for Home.) sekerer eS be done sub rosa. The rose may a hb sant of foliage and pall Of stature, but, all the same, | She Does Not Answer. it ts there: the form of oblation to te propricties ts re- Cranberry Pie. | Dear Bet lgiously ¢ d, For example, patent to every one AKE a crust on an inverted agate ReavellingRemociethenitical who chooses to see that Mary Smith is “running after" pie tin, When baked fll w! Johnny Jones. Fo laugh, more or good naturedly, Jellted cranberry sauce on wht at her transparent at | HL | irl, with whom I fell in love at first sight. After going around ts to catch him. and regard as a pile whipped cream, sweetened, and Just \s ® girl about six months I was good joke his sheepish acceptance of or evident efforts, 4 suggestion of vanilla, | suddenly called to New York on busl- clumsy or adroit, to avoid her. But some men, John him- |ness. 1 sent her several letters, but self t of all, and all women would be by far more Cranberry Sherbet. |recelved no answer. It {s five months shocked than amnsed if {t came to their knowledge that OIL 1 quart berries in pint water |since I left her. Kindly advise me Ma actually csked John to marry her, Instead of ul skins burst: strain and add 2 | whether 1 should continue correspond- merely plainty giving im to understand that he had only A/ cups sugar. juice biked lemons, 1 ‘enc 0 order to receive. Every one can instance .. tablespoon gelatine wh has. bi nee. A. 8. K. topesil en 4 Opty, h n instance mar- toistened. with cold water and die. I advise you to forget the young inay | riages of which people say more or @S8 goon as possiole. She is evidently! marked emphasis upon the pronouns, |very fickle and has forgotten you, for riages rarely are happy ones. ‘The old | with some it 1s “out of sight, out of the same, being worn smooth by long jmind.”” Sbe Returns His Gift. Dear Betty S it right for a young man to take back a present from @ young lady when they are not on good terms? 1 love a young lady very much and last fall she sald that she loved me very much, #o I sent her a present. Is {t right 10 take It back from her or let her keep {t? She does not care for me any more, bh bh ie 1 think if you still love the young lady and want her to keep the gift, you should refuse to take {t back. She will probably consent to keep It if she thinks you really want her to have the present. In Blue Ribbon Row w to sue, P riage lice! field, in the Chicago Tribune, Besides, none can der that the men who absolu have the nerve, so to spec out 80 much as a bi not the hunted, RCH. HERDACKE « sing = INK POT pares o1P oy JANE Finer = eres Fins own Fu usage, | ’kely to stumble than they who seek out new w: Yet, if every woman must perforce sit at home until a voluntary suitor comes if neither ehe nor any of her friends may take any steps with the pur- ose of securing a husband for her, {t 1s beyond doubt that the number of mar- | !t. nses yearly issued will be fewer than they are now, writes Helen Old- ‘She married ‘him, to a woman the right to encourage a man nor claim ly need no encouragement are the rule. , to swoop down upon a woman and annex her with- koning finger or an inviting look upon her part. couragement includes and the precise point at whioh it degenerates into “run- ning after” a man is the momentous question. ‘There ts no gainsaying the fact that many men would never marry the women whom they do were they not tactfully, skilfully beguiled into matrimony. But the snare is not spread in the sight of the bird; the man gently and sweetly is ted into the toils; gradually drawn on so that he fancies himself the hunter, uf with a It 1s worthy of remark that such mar- ha may be dull and prosaic, yet all they who walk therein are less ys by which to attain their ends. Few men What en- solved over hot water. Place in freezer and proceed as for ice cream. Lace Waist from Curtain. AKE lace curtains, one made of fine net {s the prettiest, with border or design running around or through Use good waist pattern and cut out If border ts In inser- tion form use ft for a pointed voke, cuffs and collar. Tt makes a lovely vet waist {f worn over some color and ts inexpensive. Jam Tarts. AKE some tart shells out of fine, flaky ple duogh—using more bak- ing powder than usual ts the only differ you make. Fill with red raspbe: jem, to which you add @ generous amount of coarsely chopped waist from net. nuts, Add a tablespoonful of whipped cream and dust with finely crushed dry | macaroo! By Bob Addams | | | | | | | |for each, though the character of the) | whtoh hi: : , Civil Service School By Ernest L. Crandall, 1@ Former Clvil Service Examiner. DODHDOHGODTW®OHOSOGDODOSS SOOOD03 0000 0000000000000 0000 VING fully considered the Physical requirements, we) will now take up the men- tal tests applied to candl- dates for freman or patrol- man. The subjects are the same | This series began in The Evening| Whatover your paper is about, or how- World of Tuesday, June 2. The sec-| ever accurate your answers, tt je almost ond lesson wi In The Evening) a moral impossibility for an examiner World of June 3 and the third In'to look as favorably upon @ paper The Evening World of June 5. badly epelied and illegtbly scrawled as upon & ‘neat, well worded, correctly spelled paper, This especially in view LESSON No. 4. of the fact that you are a candidate as |for a position where you will oon- Police |stantly have to make entries and re ports, at least of a simple character. i Defects along these lines are not fatal— and Fire but, if you are rusty, brush up, It . | will pa Service The Memory Test. Of the actual papers given we will discuss the simplest. firat. The memory test in given as follows: All candidates are required to stand at “attention.” This 1s so that none | may write surreptitiously tl) the test Is finished. Some one in charge of the examination then reads In a loud, dia- Alestlong eet mee Suey alightly aa| {net manner a short paragraph. ‘This between the two departmentsy as wo {8 Keneally of a character similar to pecwoen tne the Instructions read by a police cap- Candidates are examined together. | ‘tin an turning his mon out on patrol, usually several hundred at a time. This| °F the Instructions of a foreman to a In accompilaned by tiring some large ®teman. As soon as the reading ts fin- hall, like Grand Central Palace, in !shed. you are to sit and write out which folding chairs and tables are in-| Yerbatlm what you have heard. De- stalled, the candidate furnishing his duction will be made from the mazi- own pen and Ink. Men have lost their un! of 100 per cent. for any omission chance by forgetting the latter pro.| °F change in the original, ONIse. Here 8 a passage actually used: “Tt The candidates’ papers are numbered "AS deen reported that the pavement in such a way that It is {mpossible for O" Madison avenue, between Forty- the examiners who rate them to dis.| frst and Forty-second atreets, has been cover a candidate's identity, thus insur-| torn up, so that an engine could not jocoabae nial talinaea safely pass through. Go there, ascer- The subjects of examination, with tain the facts and bring back an exact thelr respective ‘weicht, are as follows: fport of them.” Elementary knowledge of government. 3, hy) Locallties (by boroughs) . 5 3 A Real Description. Memory test.. : assage based on an Arithmetic ription of a fugitive i for Charles Web- How It Works. for burgla He is By the “wetght" of a subject ts meant Fe eee eeu eree this: You will sea that these Ha ele lee non nasy wanted ster, twenty-two my Hine inches tn 1 aggregate 10. The process followed 1s 2h Of mediim build. Ife has brown to multiply the mark which you obtain Pai". blue eyes, medium dari com- jexion nd no mustache. Has a scar in each subject (on a scale of 100) by the number opposite, add ali four re- sults thus obtained and divide by 10 to get your general average, which must equal 70 per cent. with the excep’ made for the Fire Department, as shown in a previous article, on the pa In the Unt worker by Both these passages are short and simple, yet It ts surprising how many nd omissions even a pretty well a, Was born is an fron- rors Thus a candidate may fall below 7 'Tlined mind might make in the effort per cent. in one or more aubjects and ‘© transcribe them. Practice alone will yet pass the examination. make perfect in this sort of thing. Get To illustrate, suppose you get 75 per Sme friend or member of your family cent. on your government paper, $ per | to read you passages about this length cent. on localities, but only 65 per cent, from the newspapers, or, better still, in memory test and 60 per cent. in to invent similar tests; write the: thmetic. Your mark will be three down f meinory, en compare and times 75 (225) plus three times 8) (240), | ca ully note your errors, By a little Plus twice 65 (180), plus twice 60 (120), or practice any one should become sufl- 715 altogether, divided by 10, which wilt apt In this exercise to get 100 givo you @ general average or rating per cent. on these tests. As this means of 71. per cent., although you have a full 20 out of the 70 per cent, re- ee Me te eae quired. It ts rly worth while. @ fractions of a per cent. are count- r n ca, and there wilt often be ten to Essential Foint, twenty candidates between 71 and for Another essential point tn the Instance. With candidates of exactly practising, as weil as at the time of the equal rating, priority in the filing of actual test. 1s to pay the very strictest application gives preference. tention to the meaning of the pas- Abolished Tests. There was formeriy a test in speiling, been abolished. Also candidate’ handwriting was marked on a paper relating to applicant's pre- vious experience. The experience paper less words, with results that are some has been eliminated very recently, be- tines ludicrous. caus as stated by the commission, I all one description which turned whatever a man's previous experience, out a cross-eyed suspect arrayed in a very sage, get the gist of {t. Note carefully. thing to then be done or a letting your the precise tended to, rath mind dwell on thi Candidates frequ Jumble together what h been to them a mere string of meaning- he has to learn the business, lke any “brown shirt and pink pants." No other, after he gets ‘ton the Job we he was a ‘suspicious person.” In ‘consequence, handwriting ts no But if you will practise with the prin {Acally. But we men- ciple in mind wi we have state longer rated pecifically, But we men- Iii "nabit of recalling the wording ac- tlon this because both curately will come of itself, Remember. spelling and importance. it is a posstble 20 per cent. handwriting are still of HE blouse that 1s a slightly open at the throat is al- ways the ideally com~ fortable one for warm weather, ‘This one 1s absolutely simple and the material is one of whenever found desir~ | able. the pretty cotton vell- ings, with tranming of filet banding, and the waist 1s unlined, but it an be utilized for sille and chiffon, for almost every seasonable ma- terial, and can be lined The quantity of ma- terlal required for the medium size 1s 3% yards 21 or 24, 2% yards 83 or 1% yards 44 Inches wide, with two yards of banding, or % yard of all-over lace for the yoke and cuffs, (4 yards of edging for the frills to make. illus. trated, 1% yards of ma- terial 18 inches wide for the yoke and cuffs, if high neck and long sleeves are used, Pattern No. 5,993 |9 Pointed Yoke Blouse—Pattern No, 5.993, cut in sizes for a 82, 34, 86, 33, 40 and 43 inch bust measure. 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