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TOO00000V00000000000000, The Mystery of =-— The Devil’s Ace Or, The Manor Mystery By Fergus Hume Author of “The Mystery of a Hansom Cab.” (Copyright, 1008, ty the National Freee) Lady Panwin in the Grawing-room. Lee Dorothy waa in tears, when ehe con- BANOPSIS OF iECEDING CHAPTERS. a Rich Sir John Newby haa a twin brother| #!4ered that Peroy had gone to Boho and hed not come tack. A Mad Resolve. secretary, Newby's murdered body ‘ound In a secret room under the tower of an Bngilsa manor houre owned by Francis Clair. In this room, oen- Rich: who Curlew eariler cinte's uxcestor, wan the manor| “To-morrow,” said Mr. Clair, very Ge BY, Bini tet for hia daughter Dorothy to|CHtedly, “I shall send for Inspector to Percy Hal- lives with her Relmina aid Billy Minter. Count Berkot?, a iussian Nintiiet, learning that Clair hae ‘inherited a large income from Sir nr. She is engaged K engineer. Ww Trusk, of Axleigh, who previously hed | charge of the cage. Possibly my friend, Sir John Newby, will be down to-mor- | John, comes to the manor to seek funds for | row, and then we can examine Jules and | Faery eats in Russias vie, eriea | ONC | the revolutionary eure," gtousiag him —of|make him confess all that we wish to | Newby's murder mystery and mee John explains it juspicion of murd on Seeks {0 801V8 $88) know. You agree with me, Gelinat” Richant who was alain.| “Yes,” eald Lady Panwin, unexpected- | ly; and immediately carried Dorothy | Richard falls on Sir Sate Sa eamina and the count fat Im ove Eee cance Bir sSiata twits calls on Clair [Deyond reach of her brother's foolish | tongue. | Dorothy agreed to watt. She could do | |nothing else. Her lover appeared to be| in @ very perilous position, and in the hands of extremely desperate men. The least false step ard he might bo killed Bdmite he ia rai butler, goes to a Soho Fequest, "to probe the. Damned the room, under the tower If Ila! Foturn within @ week ery. He does not re and is sand: helmina to search Hon does not CHAPTER XXI. Suspense. lee. o out of hend. When Lady Panwin deft the room the poor «irl went to bed and | tried to forget in sleep the terrible po- ILLY MINTER was «@ healthy Sition of her future husband. ‘girl. with great control over her| Then @ sudden thought came to her, €motions. But the next morning | Which made her flush and rise excitedly. ehe was unable to get up, and so|It was midnight; everything was still; assed a few hours in bed. whe would mot be eeen. Why should she Gince Willy was, therefore, in bed, | Dot go to Abbot Hurley's Tower and with more or less shattered nerves, she | @gain turn the Ace?—forgetting that ‘was not able to go to the Mancr House, | she had not turned ft on the previous as usual, to see Dorothy. Which was| visit. Then, again, Willy hed eald that, as well, since Dorothy and Lady Pan-|the Count declared how the secret of win had gone that morning to London |all theee troubles could be found in the to call on Mrs. Broll. The elder lady|cryot. Dorothy made up her mind at bad certain m ous questions she|once, and draswed herself rapidly. She wished to ask the housekeeper. {haa Drought misery on herself and her, On making inquiries at the door Str| family by visiting the vault once; now John Newby proved to be out. When) she would visit i again and ave tf the Lady Newby was asxed for the footman | second journey would bring better luck. etared and said that his master was not marvied. Lady Panwin, therefore, sent the servant for Mrs. Broll, and when she was safe in the drawing-room with) Dorothy made a mystic remark. “As I thought,” said she, with oalm satisfaction. “Sir John did not bring fis wite here; therefore, as yet, has not ac- knowledged his marriage to the world. Also, she might discover what Bezkoff meant. Into the Underworld. In a few mimtes ahe was dressed in | a morning frock. She tied a woollen | scarf over her head, and slipped a) |candle into her pocket. Then, taking her shoes in her hands, she crept down | said Mrs, Broll, nds and looking aged parrot than ed, your lady- Bhe drew forward a slippery borse-hair seat. “Miss Clair, will you recline on the sofa. Me and Julia, my lady, have been making records for poor slum people. We do it to tickle their intellects, my lady.” “What Do You Mean ?”" throwing up her more like a gayly P “Please be 3¢: “What do you mean by maki ords, Mrs. Pr she asked, 6 The housekeeper II with great volubility | g tot t| t ind speaking as though hool, “is a gramophone yn this part > place @own by when me and Julia h slum we turn on the machine aga: tit comfort the poor p with Have you seen Lady Newby?" asked the other w Mrs. ked star- tled. “There is no Lady “You are quite uilte sure, my tady.” Lady Panwin's tone expressed great satisfaction, “1 was certain that there was a mistake. Sir Jolin, now- | ever, acknowledged as his wife a cer- tain Miss Amy Sanding, and"— The housekeeper turned as white as death. “Yes, yes!" she said. “Of course I remember no’ She is Lady Newby!” | “How ciever of you to ren | said Lady Panwin the way. Mrs. Broli, was aways y¥ | Yes," choked t “You meau t! n Mrs. Broll spranc up like a@ tigress. "Yes," she said shrilly. “You have guessed the truth. The man you think ie Sir John ts Richard.” Dorothy rose from the sofa with a quick little gasp, not being able to grasp the situation, Exposure! “That is quite enough,” said Lady Panwin, cutting short Mrs. Broll's an- gry voice. “Dorothy, as you well un- derstand, I have known both the Newbys for years. I was well aw that Sir John was not married: and even if he had contracted a secret mar- rlage—which was not his way— I should have known. Therefore, when he so readily admitted that actress to be his wife, and. made no attempt to brave it out, I guessed in a flash that here was Richard masquerading as John. To | marry an actress, and secretly, would be exactly what Richard, the sneak, would do.” “But, auntie, Miss Sanding called her husband John.” “Then she is in the conspiracy along with Martha here, or else she believes that John is her husband, Richard | may have taken his brother's name fo marriage, in the same way as he has unlawfully selzed it to gain posses- sion of the money.” “I shan't say word!" cried the houackeener, resolutely. Yes you will And, what is more, Martha, you and Julla’ Flint will come | down this very day to the Manor, | There you shall stop under my own @yes until this mystery is cleared up.” CHAPTER XXII, | intently, but e lin | the shallow onken stairs and stole cut | by the Ubrary window—a French one, | | which she could open almost noise | |lessly. Finally, lest her too vigilant | | aunt should chance to come down and trace her, Dorothy closed the window— that 1s, she drew it to, since ahe could | not fasten it from without—and watked | softly round the corner of the manor, toward the tower of the ancient mon- astery. When below she lighted the candle) | and proceaded along the narrow pas- | sage which she knew so well, and} which she had last walked along with she heard a Perey. Then she fancied stealthy step, and paused {n terror. Bowing out the candle, she listened 1d hear nothing. Think- ing she had been mistaken, the girl relighted the taper and walked swiftly to the niche wherein the key was u placed according to tradition. There it was, where {t had been left after the trouble of the murder, so it that no one had been to was evident the vau since then. Dorothy took down the key and slipped it into the lock. To turn tt she had to place the candle on the ground. bortly she managed to turn the key | and open the heavy door. Reaching for the candle, she walked in timidly. As e did so, and just as she took three | s into the crypt, the door closed a crash, Dorothy was terrified out It could not be the wind, | was no wind In these cata-| combs, Some one must have followed her. Who could it be? ‘an to the door again, but before she could try and open St a kind of groan made her turn sharply. She saw on the stone table whereon the corpse had rested—another body! With a 4 perate effort she went up and held the! candie over the face, ‘Then she dropped | ft with a cry of terror. Before her, Kagged and nd, lay Percy Hallon, | alive but helpless. CHAPTER XXIII. | Imprisoned! | © her dying day Dorothy never I knew how she kept her senses| at the critical moment. For a time she fumbled with the ropes, | but on finding her efforts vain she cooled | down to unnatural self-control. Taking a calmer view of the singular situation, | |she reflected that It would be best to Mght the candle. Then she could re-! move the gag and untle the bonds, ‘Afterwards— But she did not think further ahead, since the necessities of | the moment had to be attended to. Percy, by inarticulate gurglings and writhings Itke @ marionette, was evi- dently trying to make her understand that he had recognized her face before the Nght went out. Feeling in the dark- ness, Dorothy discovered, more by intul- tion than in any other way, that the gag| Hallon'’s mouth was of the kind| known {n mediaeval times as “a pear.” ‘There was a similar one in the Manor | |\prary, which had been found in the | monastic ruins, and she knew well how | to touch the spring. In a moment her nimble fingers had closed the four quar- | the pear, and she slipped it out | y's mouth. He sighed with re- \ief, but his jaw Was too sore to permit mmediate speech, Shortly Dorothy's aid had its due ef- fect, Percy svoi was able to invve fis fingers, then his hands. finally his arms, ‘and worked himself at chafing | his legs, to overcome the numbness. In less ‘time than Dorothy thought ossible, considering the dire position fr "Witch “she had» found. him, Perey was walking about the cell, gathering fresh Ilfe with every exertion of his | energy. While he was thus restoring his vigor, Dorothy went to the door and tried ‘It “Locked!” she sald, with a cry of dis- In Danger. HEN Billy Minter returned home W with the information that he had been to the Manor Hou his sister guessed at once from the downcast expression of his face what had taken place. * “You have told Dorothy that Percy is in danger?" she said. “¥e: admitted Billy, looking sheep- fah. Willy said no more, since it was idle chief was done, She walked swiftly to me Manor, and found Doy -v and A to scold her brother now that the ar may, (To Be Continued.) | The Chorus Lady By James Forbes |] A novel founded on the very successful play of which Rose Stahl was the Star. |] Will begin in The Evening World Next Monday. | very fine, juice of one lemon. 0990600606002 OOOOOO8ODD4 94 0904 D906 6520060666 | ©O0DO0090-94 69909 90990-90909 OFS DODOGHID 9D OTLGHHE GIDE LOGOS GOEDOHOS DOO? The Evening World Daily Magazine, Thursday, AM} PAPA NEARLY RAD NAUGHTY Byseene iT he Newlyweds » Their Baby ¥ céorge McManus PLL GOSH Y S YOGI OD. THERE HE ; 1D AGAIN) Now WATCH an PAPA cet nin! Sowers THE LITTLE DEAR WANTED To HELP YOU WILL pM + Things - Women. To Know. _ }| Hints for Home. | To Mend Hemstitching. (ss the space of the worn hem- stitching with insertion and etitch both edges on to tray cloth, and It will then be as good as even prettier. 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Dear Betty: Sit proper for a young man calling | on @ young lady to amoke during the evening in her house? When out walking, if the lady gives her per- | mission, 1s {t proper for a man to smoke? My father #aya that {t shows | disrespect to him if I smoke in his or | my mother’s presence. He says that it | 1 must emoke he has no objections, but | 1 should not do #0 in his presence. I am seventeen. WwW. G. W. If the people in whoee presence you |are do not object to your smoking, ‘vhere sno reason you should not do 80, either In the house or on the street, though it is usually considered in bet= ter taste not to smoke on the street with ladies, You are too young to Smoke, “and certainty It, would be fex- cus to smoke {nthe presence of | your parents, or of any one to whom it , | is objectionable. w «= By R. W. Taylor H-A-DOUBLE-R-I —G N BY] SPELLSH HARRIGAN 1 3p wish it wasn't quite so far! Say! Comin’ back le awful! \ Guys soused till dey kin hardly see. All singin And floiting wit de loidies Die comin’ back te awfull “Harrigan. Dat's Me!” Gee! THE EVENING WORLD'S Civil Service -:- By Ernest L. Crandall, Pormer Ctvil Service Commissioner. LESSON NO. 35. Coming Examinations. Police and Court Attendants—Sergeants of Fire Service. phinsoas HB next paper to be considered is the arithmetic paper. Thin te of the mest elementary character, ye tt fe surprising to pee how (many poor fellows fal down on It. Now, we cannot write a treatise here on elementary arithmetic, but there are certaim “standard errors,” so to peak, that the unsuccessful candidate makes nine times out ef ten, and if these are pointed out you may with a little prac- tloe put yourself In line for 100 per cent. ‘While the examples may take the form of “protiems,” the only processrs involved will be simple addition, sub- traction, multipHoation and dtvision—no | frections or decimals, In addition there js but one thing to Evening World's readers are interested in the court attend: ants’ examination that we shall fur- nish instruction for it as soon aa the conditions under which it will be held are @ little more fully determined. The mental examina: thon will probably not be held till Suly, The duties of sergeant of aque- duct are to patrol that structure, mounted. A test of horsemanship 1s required. If your appHeation is SS" @ large number of The not in it ts too late, | be observed. If your numbers are not all of equai length arrange them ao that the last figures are all in the same You reduced the 1 in the tens column to 0. As you cannot take 9 from & yeu must again borrow from the left. But what are you to borrow from? In the third, or hundreds, column there ts only a 0. Hence, before you can bor- column, Guppose you have to add 357,856, 7,002, 452 and 29,360. Fottowing are the right and the wrong ways to ar- : Tow from this column you must make ane ee way! Wrong way. [this 0 a 10 by borrowing from the bt] ieee | fourth, or thousands column (count- oe js {ng your columns always from the 29.360 DBO | right). — — But again here you find only a 0, and ‘This arrangement {8 necessary because| so before you can make even t! of the inherent properties of numbers| “borrow” you must borrow one from an expressed tn figures, under what we|the 2 In the ten-thousands column. call our dectmal system, which means|Now see what happens. With the one simply the practice we have adopted of which you have finally borrowed you expressing our numbers in multiples of | have made the 0 left in the second or ten. This arose from the fact that we) tens column into a 10, and you take 9 happen to be born with ten fingers, and | from 10, which leaves 1. the| our ancestors, like our ohildren, learned to count by means of those very useful In the aystem of counting every place, or column, counting from the RIGHT, has a velue ten times greater than the one in the place or column nearest on the right. Thus tn the number 36,542 the first figure on the right represents “ones,” the next ten times as much or “tens,” the next ten times as much again or “hundreds,” and eo on. We really READ this number beckwerd when we NAMB it, for in HANDLING ft in any way we have to start with the last figure, representing the “ones.” ‘The number really means two ones, four tens, five hundreds, six thousands and three ten-thousands. It ta built up thie way, really by addition: 36,043 Now, this principle underiies the processes called “carrying” and ‘‘bor- rowing.” You wish to add % and #7. Adding the 6 ones to the 7 ones you get 13 ones, or 8 ones and 1 ten. So you “carry” that 1 ten to the column where it belongs, leaving the 3 ones in THEIR proper column. Thus, in your tens column you have two ten plus 8 tens plus the 1 ten “carried,” which makes 6 tens; and your result ie 63, or 6 tens and 8 ones. Again you want to subtract 19 from 38 As you cannot take 9 from 8, you | “borrow” one of the three tens, mak- ing your 8 into 18 and subtract 9 from | | that, leaving 9. By ao doing you have left but 2 tens in your tens column, and so there your subtraction Is now trom 2%, leaving 1. Hence your result 1s 9 ones and 1 ten, or 19 Here {s an example in subtraction, which was once used and which Is Mkely to trip one up as any that 120,018 Now, you cannot take 9 from 2, se/ you “borrow” one from the left and| make your two 12 Then 9 from 12/ leaves & In borrowing from the left) Now. here is where you forget some- thing. When you started out to “bore row" you had to go away over to the 21n the fifth column; that made your 0 In the fourth column a» 10, but you immediately passed this one on to the third column, which left only 9; an@ again you passed {t on from the third to the second column, which left only @ 9 In the third column. Hence you have now a 9 tn the third and tn the fourth columns, and your results there Will be im each case 9 from 9 leaves 0, Coming to the fifth you have a 1 tn- stead of a 3, having borrowed 1; and you have to borrow again from the 8 to make your 1 inte an 11, obtaining 9 from 11 leaves 2; and your sixth and last figure being reduced from 3 to 2, your last result is 1 from 2 leaves 1. Thia last part is easy, but one out of practice lp almost certain to forget that his (es in the third and fourth celumns became 9s, If you have any aiMculty with subtraction, study out the pro- Ceaves in this example until you under- stand them and you will never make & mistake again. Now, as to the shape in which the examples will be given: The plain problems in addition will be unmistak- able. Yeu will be told that a concern sold 27,856 barrele of flour in one month, 38,462 the next, fc. and you cannot well run off the track. But you may find both processes involved in ono “problem,” and you nwst then be care- ful to understand just what is meant by the question, so that you will knew: what you are expected to do with the figures. Take this, for example: “A had $3,468 and B $4,895. A gained $1,146 and B lose $602. Which then had the more and how much?" Here you must add A's gain to his principal, that isthe sum he hed to tart with, and subtract B's loss fron his principal: then subtract the smatier résult from the larger, stating which is could be eet, Subtract 199,99 from|the “winner.” Thus: 013. The result is as follows: 2,65 06 cig 320,012 ‘Li ‘2 wey ae 4,611 $4,003 aT} Answer. A has $318 more. We shall finish the arithmetic series in our next number and after that take up the government paper In the same thorough manner. New Girl—Yes'm; how do Hera. M “Bometimes one doctor can think of occurred to the other,”—Smart Set. ee) Funny Fancies. ISTRDSS—Heve you dolled the clothes, Lucille? you want ‘em seasoned?—Leutrvélie ‘Why do they have consultations of physicians, pat” something te operate for chat hasn't A mall city child, on visiting the country fer the first time, wag to the Darn to eee the milking. She was much amused, but refused any mile @uring her visit because “she did met want it after the nad it''—Harper’s Monthly. ee Bogss—I'a like to have my face on . all the $10 bts. Cogge—I'a prefer to have my hands on them.—Harvand Lampoen, as M SPELLS SHAD