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_—_—_ Or, The Manor Mystery By Fergus Hume Auther ef “The Mystery of a Hansom Ca’ oF PRECEDING ea) Rich Sir John Newby has « twin bro! Wichard, who is his escretary. Newby's murdered bod: gecret room ; manor Nowe @wned by Francie this room, cen- } Suries earlier, Claire aniceator won the manor Me Rar" ofasia for"his Setar Dorobty 18 4 fanned for his dave! wed Sir Sonn. ‘Bhe Is engaged to Percy Thal Jon, @ young engineer, wiv lives with her friende, ‘Wilhelmina and Billy Minter, At the quest testimony is given by Mra. Broil. Newby's eccentric housekeeper. Wilhelm! Suspects Clair of the murder, the crime hay- | tng been committed with a knife he used to ‘a Russian Nihilist, | funde for the revolutionary Russia, Ho tries to blackmail Clair by 90- | using hin of Newby's murder. Hallo seeks lve the mystery and meets Sir John Glive. “Sir John explains tt was Richard, who | lain,“ Suspicion of murdering Rl 3 falle on Sir John. Berkoff, at Cialr's order. | 1s pureved ty the pollor. | Wilhelmina res: @uea him. She and the count fall in love) . With each other. A woman claiming to be SABIF John’s wife calls on Clate SHAPTER X!X. “Your Witel’ OROTHY uttered: an ejaculation of D surprise. If this was the belt | fi the blue hinted at in Willy's Jetter, it was Ue Inst King of bolt she expected to fall. Can you deny it, John?’ asked the! range lady, speaking for the first time; and Dorothy noticed how distinct | was her enunciation, “I have already admitted | stolidly. “But I though dead long ago.” erfed Miss Sanding, raising herself on tip-toe to produce an effect. “When T have been winning laurels in Amertea"” ‘There was that know. John r sald that railway smash, inded her. T admit that 1 was you Powus in its y fn it. But T escaped mafe tn life und limb. A false yt of my death wa sent to England, and on that, I pre- ume. vou courted th» young lady. But | had you cared for me, John, you would | have ni ina and would have learned try But I returned a anentis age to my Humpstead home, and heard of your death and afte: is of your return from the grave. Gossip, busy with your name, 1 t you were engaged to marry Miss Clair, the @augrter of the owner of this Manor, wn to save her.” smiled strangely. so 1 came “Yes, y Newby “Tam not angry with you In the least, | Clair. Things looked black against me. uu will find later on tha a scoundrel, Miss Clair! He bowed politely. said Dorothy 1 And ope I admit, but ye Tam not qu Lady Panwin! “Good-b;. Sir John, pulsively seizing his Tl see you soon again A Dark Hint. “When my cleared. Good-by Jules Schwtyz, the Swiss but! @ great favorite with the other vants in the Manor House. Dorothy also Hked Jules, who was al- ways ready to do what she wanted. It occurred to her to send him to the Bono house. Being a foreigner, he might pick up useful informamion the He agreed and departed, ostensibly on . was ser- @ “holiday.” But Jules never came back, Three! Gays elapsed and still he was adse Wot a letter or a cant, or even a tele- gram, came to explain why he had taken—very approp‘iately—French leave and great was the sorrow in the Manor kitchen for the loss of the favorit Dorothy was seriously alarmed, as she thought that the poor little man might ble with the Anarch- think of going to Perhaps must not she said to Hallon. Boho,” Jules has been killed, and these horrid peoply would kill you.” ‘IT shall Hallon, ebstinately. Willy was alone when Hallon came Dack, and immediately asked if Jules} certainly go,” said had been heard of. “If 1 tell slowly, you something,’” she said ‘You muset promise not to be “No. How could I be angry with | you? I have no right to be. What | te itr” | Miss Minter wasted no time in fenc- ing, but related the fight and the @aving of Count Beskoft. Willy handed him Count Beskoff's ard. ‘You eee that the address ts in ®oho. Now this may be the very house where Sir John was taken. Go there, and ses Count Bezkoff. He may be able to explain what has become of } dul 4 It was after 5 o'clock when Hallon | , found himself in a shabby street in| | Boho, and at the door of a shabby house, , Caught! | A slim, olive-complexioned woman, | Gistinotly French, opened the door, and when Percy, in her own tongue, asked | for Count Bezkoff, she not only ad-| mitted that he resided there, but ehowed him into a small, dingy room on the ground floor. When she went | upstairs to tell the Russian about his visitor, Hallon glanced around the 11I- ametting, ill-looking apartment, and yondered that so clean and smart @ man Berkoff, and an aristocr | @hat, should inhabit #0 mean a dwell- ing. Buried in these thoughts, Halim) mobd by the dirty window, looking out on ts the dirty, narrow street. Behind | him the door was opened, and s0/ quietly that he did not know anyone had entered until a shaw! was thrown ever his head. At once the young man stipped his revolver; but before he The Chorus Lady By James Forbes A novel founded on the very successful play of which Rose Stahl was the Sta ‘Will begin in The Evening World Next Monday. -- | were turned out to starve in the streets. at |" © could draw it many hands grasped ! him, and immediately afterwards @ stunning blow on the bead reduced him to _unconeciousness. Hallon's last! thought, as ho fell to the ground, was | that a third victim, in the person of himeelf, had been added to the Anar- chiatic list pane cee CHAPTER XX. In Disguise. SON, the rural constable, al- | ways complained that Beltan | seemed to have a magnetic at- | traction for all sorts and conditions of tramps. Billy Minter and his sister had their abode on the high road, and, theref found their cottage wo infested by these desirable creatures that oftentimes they made up their minds to remove. | On the day that Percy Hallon went to London, on the quest which had endex 90 badly for him, Willy, the Manor House at 6 o'clock, was ac costed in the gloaming by @ wild-loulc- | ne figure in ragged garments and armed with a formidable cudgel. Willy gasped, “Count Beskoft: “At your service, now and always," said &:he Count, gracefully. Willy hesitated no ionger. Catehing up her skirts, she walked swiftly along the road and Beskoff followed at « slow pace ‘The cottage was only a stone’s-throw distant, and Miss Minter, entering the gates, intimated thi food. The Secret, Sh riiv Miss Minver emerged wisi) Billy at her heels. Brother and sister walke! straight to where Bezkoft| our 1 on the award. | “Will you both promise to keep what I am about to tell you secret until I give you leave to speak?" asked Bez- koft. “Yes, yes!’ broke in Willy quickly; do you know if Jules Schwytz asked Billy. added Willy, before the Count could speak, “Mr, Hallon, whom you met, has gone to the address you gave me, to see you, and inquire about Jules| Schwytz.” “When? asked Berkoff, quickly, hanged color. “To-day—this afternoon.” | Bezkofft bit his Mp. "1 wish you had| andj not given him that address, Mi Minter. There may be danger. “Can't you save himt" asked Willy, turning white “I wish to tell both how I came to be connected with auch a society. The his- tory will not take me long.” “Go on," said Willy, looking at idm intently “To be brief,” sald Beskoft, “T was born at Moscow and my parents were wealtay and noble. Owing to the jeal- ousy of a high oMolal my father was cused of conspiracy and was exiled to Siberia, He escaped and returned. The police came after him, and he was cap- tured In my mother’s boudoir. In try- ing to defend him she was #hot.” “Oh! sald Willy, in horror. “Yes,” said the Russian, and rose, his blue eyes blazing with swift anger, and looking like two sapphires, “you happy English people cannot understand what We suffer from a corrupt government My father returned to Siberia and die! there in miaery; my mother, as I was shot. My only sister and myself and our wealth was seized by the high official who had caused all the trouble; and then Anna disappeared.’ “The Vowels.” There was a sympathetic slience. Then Billy spoxe: “And this soctety? “It Is called the Vowed Soclety, as I have explained,’ said Bezkoff, rapidly. ‘I got money from my uncle, who, in act, allows me an income, not knowing that Iam a member of the society. But I have joined {t in the hope of alding my country. Should I leave it I would be killed." “Do you want to leave *? said Willy, abruptly. “Yea,” sala Beskoff, and brought his hand heavily on the table. “As soon as I can I hope to leave {t, but I de #0 at the cost of my tmmediate death, unless" —— “Unless what?’ asked Billy, deeply in- terested. Berkoff started and passed his hand across his forehead. ‘Don't ask me that—yet," he sald, significantly. “How many members are there of thie society?” asked Billy, bluntly. “Only thirty, who are controlled by five more—A, B, I, O and U, as I told you—thirty-flve members in all. The aim Is to get money in any way, hon- estly or dishonestly, as occasion serves. We tried to inveigle Sir Joon Newby into our nets. I was chosen to do so, | and therefore I came to him, But he was too clever and would not do business with us. But Michard"— “Then what is to be done?’ ssked Willy, anxiousty, Bexkoff, who had assumed his disguise apain, turned quickly. “I have told you. | is8 Minter, I’) go up and see what i can do.” ed toward the door. | I can, I shall_write—only| ive me a week, to do what Ican. Only @ thing remains to be said. Should! you hear nothing of me or Hallion oF jules within a week, search the vault.” Billy rose, quite amaged. “Search the vault!" she “Do you mean) Abbot Hurle: ' “The same!” Be ‘opened the door. “The whole secret of these troubles, | and, I truly believe, of the murder {taeif, Is to be found in the vault. Walt for @ week, and then search. Good-by!”” (To be continued.) Phd alate Magic {n Odd Numibers. VEN in the matter of weighing gro- ceries there seems @ magic in odd numbers,” said « housekeeper. returning from | § | these glad the young trees on the other side, not! SOOO ODO OOOCOOUO! COPYRIGHT 1895. By G-P.PUTN4&m's SONS: (Continued from First Page the gorge at the moutt of the basin, the trail leading along the sides of the eep hill, which were dotted by open ‘ glades, while the roar of the cataracts) sy which the stream was broken as- cended from below. Here we moved with redoubled caution, for the sign had grown very fresh and the animals had once more scattered und begun feeding. When the trail led across the | glades we usually skirted them so as to| keep in the timber. At last, Ca nearing the edge of one of . We SW a movement among fitty yards away safe shelter yielded by some thi. green bushes we speedily made out Shree bizon, a cow, a calfand @ yearling, grazing greedily on the other side of the glade under the fringing timber, all with their heads uphill. Soon another cow and calf stepped out after them. I did not wish to shoot, waiting forthe appearance of the big bull which I knew was accompanying them, So for several minutes I watcned the great, clumsy, shaggy beasts, as all unconscious they grazed in the The Million Dollar Kid I WusT Love CAMPING OUT, MR. MONK!) Pres. Roosevelt's DDHOHOQOOGDOSE: fone open glade. Behind them rose dark pines. At the left of the glade the ground fell away to form the sides of a chasm; down in the depthe ne cataracts foamed and thundered beyond, te huge mountains towered thelr crests crimsoned by the sinking sun Mixed with the eager excitement of ¢ hunter was a certain half melan- choly feeling as 1 gazed on these last bison, themselves part of the [remnant of a doomed and nearly ed race, Few, indeed, are the » who now have, or evermore shall ave, the chance of seeing the mig test of the American beasts, in all | ita wild vigor, surrounded by me tremendous desolation of fly far-off mountain home. At last, when IT had begun to grow very anxious lest the others should take alarm, the bull Mkswise ap- peared on the edge of the glade, and stood with outstretched head, scratch- ing his throat against a young tree, which shook violently. I aimed low, behind hia shoulder, and pulled trig- er. SAt the crack of the rine all the bison, ALL. RIGHT, BUT IT'S AWFULLY “HARD WORK , MRS, CHAPERONE ! YOUNG man! OOH! I'M. “TIRED, To DEATH Butt PROMISED, To 4G BAIT, FOR our’ JSHING “TRIP (CASINO, YOUNG MAN 2? the without the momentary halt of terror DOOODOGOODOHHGDODDGOODOHHOGOHIOGHDOGGOOODGOLCODHDOOGHODIDHTSGIGIGODE Own Story of “SPLITTING THE HERD” struck surprise so common among game, turned and raced off at headlong speed. The fringe of young pines be-| « yond and below the glade cracked an: swayed as if a whirlwind were passing and in another moment they reached | ,, the top of a steep Inciine, thickly] ; strewn with boulders and dead timber Down this they plunged with reckless speed; their surefootedness was a mar vel in such seemingly unwieldly beasts. A column of dust obscured their pas sage, and under its cover they disap peared in the forest; but the trail of the bull was marked by splashes of | !" frothy blood, and we followed $t at a| Hunting the to burn all aked lo meat with the utmost relish a cold wind blew the torrent roared as It our words bled down near to the torrent, and some search found a good spot amping. Hot and dusty from ay's hard tramp, ok a plunge in the \ter making me gasp. ullt a alight lean-to ragged together night, stream, the of brush, enough dead tim| we cut long al sat apart, wigs, and grilled and ate ‘ight had fallen; valley; past and drowned saped 1s we strove to talk over our advent- I undressed and Then, having and down before some embers | Ways different employments. Free Stenography. Dear Mrs. Dorr! INDLY tell me of free classes in wtenography where a girl oan continue her atudies through the summer. I heard that you hed given this information, but I have not been able to get the paper. i. W. I Gid refer to free summer olassen at the Hebrew Technical School for G: but in this I wee mistaken. I have since learned that the free classes there are only open to the pupils who have been attending through the winter, in the summer, I regret to oa; Costume Destgning. Doar Mrs. Dorr: ILL you tell me where I can W learn costume designing? I am sixteen and have spent a year in High School. enter @ trade school? Am I Gualifled to L. @. M ‘There 1s no such thing in this coun: try as costume designing, and turally the schools do not teaah It. Costume design illustration js another thing. 1t is one of the highest branches of com- mercial art and you may attend clasees at the Manhattan Trade School for girls, No. 206 East Twenty-third | street, or at the Waschington Irving Hilgh School. You will be taught to draw or paint, from a design made in Parts or Vienna, a picture of a cos- tume on an attractive figure. The fig- will be your work, Gixteen {8 a good age to enter trade classes, and your year in high sohool is a great advan- tage Froofreading. Dear Mrs, Dorr: WOULD lige tnformation concerning I proofreading, its requirements, its pay. How shell I obtain a poel- tion? I have a high school education. L, F., Glen Ridge, N. J. Proofreading is a part of the print- ers trade, and formerly @ man or woman had to be @ practical printer in order to be a proofreader. Now the requirements are not quite rigid. One must have an exceptionally good knowledge of English, especially »; - punctuation and grammar. af- for the fey ber der ae our Thi proofreader must be able to detect the ing, most obscure errors. She should hav some knowledge of French and Ger- although this {s not abeolutety r Gir to Earn a Living By RHETA CHILDE DORR. There are no public schoo! trade classes ure and all the details of the costume | e Mra. RHETA CHILDM DORR hererepiles to questions about girls’ work from Evening Worid readers, and gives advice and Information concerning |helder tn a printing office, publishing house or newspaper office, ‘The oopr- holder reads the cony ti the proof reader, who does the oorreeting. In time the copy-holder learns the proof marks, the rather complicated vonahws jary and the general minutine of the | trade, Wages vary trom $10 to $0 # week. A high school education should | be autficiant, | Wetting Poetry, | Dear Mes, Dore; We chances are there for e, young lady aged twenty-five with a talent tor | etry? I am told that this talent ‘could be put to good use. uy | _It could, {¢ the poetry ts reali; Cod, You can find this out only by sending some of It to the magazines, Have the | Verses typewritten {f possible, and tm clone a stamped and | letter for reply. Send to one | sfter another, and !f none of them age, | cept the verses you will have to come. | clude that you can't write yet. Bi that need not mean that you learn to write. Try again. Demonstrating. Dear Mra. Dorr: 8 a young lady of seventeen, with [ fair education, qualified for em- Dioyment as a demonstrator? What course of ntudy is necessary, and where | Should | agply for a position? PUZZLED, | Mort of the demonstrators I have, |Pecn tn the grocery departmonts of the big stores appoar older than seventeen, However, if you can do the work & don't think your youth @ serious handle cap. ‘There is no special course of study. Did you have domestic science jt the public schools? Many demon- | strators have to cook, you know, and | have to handle domestic utensils, | Embalming. | Dear Mrs, Dorr W T are the requirements for learning to be an embaimer? 7 am forty years old, and have jtwo children to educate. I think I should like that work. Are there schoola where it {s taught? Mrs. 8. W. Ww. Tf there are schools they are private ones {n connection with large under- Why not call at Fate onder taking establishments. one Of these and inquire stand that a number of wo: employment as undertakers’ a at good pay man, trot. Fifty yards beyond the border of | ures and su ss; while the flame of es |the forest we found the stark black|the fire filckered and danced, lighting | (Mental Apply for position as copy: body stretched motionless. | up with continual vivid flashes the He was a splendid old bull, still in| ¥ his full vigor, with lange, sharp horns and heavy mane and glossy coat; and! I felt the most exulting pride as 1 handled and examined him; for I had procured a trophy such as can fall henceforth to few hunters indeed It was too late to dress the beast that evening; so, after taking out the tongue and cutting off enough meat | for supper and breakfast, we ecram- loom of the forest round about. STORY No. 3. Fights with Grizzlie WIIL Appear In Saturday’s Evening World. Betty Vince Ss Ask Her to Waitt. Dear Bettys os Loore. GEE! BUT THS KETTLE Is HEAVY ! AREN'T WITH ISA'T THAT =! ‘By RW. Taylor 1s You GOING 05 , MONK? NOPE. 1m Too TIRED! 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