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4 The fy =, (FOO. F0.0 0000000, JOO OCC 00) ’ The ‘e320 Se &’ Madison men ane. By Seward W. Hopkins, Author of “Nightsticn and Nozale,” / sie Winthrop, a New York gitl father was murd fatter belng ulned {n Wail atreet), 1s kidnapped by Kendrick Maple, a ian about jown, Blily student, who loves Beater undertaues ia flat her, Pimothy Wager, a crook, tells Brainard that Maply {8 digo Known as Poter Wizger, thief. p Willoughby ‘Thorne, tinancler, In 1 ebatully wooed Bessie: 1d Ail! er father, 1a Besste to the ‘and ne of latter guise ha unsu: hen impoverished 8 * 5 peed ot ® Phe head seoms allve. Brainard } powered and drugged. | He recove In & hospital i rom bis house, 3 F de working on the mystery, { Thorne ts her own father. easie'e chum, 18 caught {noo Gatmey, fireman of 34 Hammerton finds on the body ( Wikger CHAPTER XIX. “He Is Innocent.” HEN Hammerton looked up from W the paper he had been reading he found every one of,his aud staring at him. Each face had a rapt expression, and each denoted some dit. | ferent emotion. “My father—then—he t:- fa innocent” burst out ' “Judging trom the ‘negro, Sam Kleck."" said Hammerto “this lets vour father ou If Kle was afraid of Wigger, and was fina ‘illed, and tf Wieger !s still In New York, certainly your father {n London 4a not the man.’ e | “Then he will not be arrebted,” @xolatmed. eladly, clasping her ha “Well"—answeral Hammerton slow- ‘as to that—I've been thinking. 2 e done notlting—nothing has bean Gone—to change matters from the post- nee h tion in which they stood before this was found, It may be better to have him home to New York. I think it will.” 4 why--when vou know he !s {n- nt?’ she agked vehemently, be of great t 1s possible that he m | assistance to us. Gaftn cousin of Satan himse! rela Le “Ts dt possible,” ! Blink- “Grand, “that this Wigs gachter are the same 1 “IL have thought of Hammerton, "1 thot this was possible, Bu smothy Wigger t the statement hi the efte Binknw ea Austria, seems to preci e that ory altogesaar, No, dufterent thee It Is strange that Wigger does not It leave Yor! d Gaffney he could remain w York so well disguised that the fF e can O68: | nize him he could easily esc | More Mystery. | ‘He could, ibtediy,” answered Hammerton. “The difficulty woul d be to get Bessie Winturop out of New York. You can't very well disguise a fl against ner wh “Bessie? Bessie is dead,’ sald Br rd solemnly. Are util! w on the theory that F ja Gllve ask Mania. ‘I certainly sald ‘T tell you,” up angrily, “that 1 “Yes, I know, Nevertheless, I believe & throp is alive. It !s not proba my own mind {t {s certain that Wigger took Bessie away to make her his wife.” — began Gaffney, and there he opped. There was no motive for m ing Besste,"” went on Hammerton. "It was Bessle alive, Besste with her beauty of face and form, that Wigger wanted.” "put tn Nelle Thorne. < she was paralyzed.” “Kleck, ‘"Yes—that's It," said Brainard, “Her beautiful form was dead, They waved" — “Hush, Billy," sald Marcla, ‘ know such a thing {8 Impossible, | “Not to a man lke Blinknachter.” “All this ts Idle," said Gattney. “Let's hear what Hammerton has done. He hasn't had this statement in his posses- sion two days without doing some- "LT have tried," said Hammerton, ‘T must confess, however, that what 414 sounds very little when told, Act- ing upon the statement of Kleck I went | to that portion of the Bronx mentioned, | The bridge over the Bronx River ‘| | Edgewater “|taken bh ‘this time, has not married her. EVéning Avenue : Mystery a lonesome he Kleck enys, ft ts rather place. On one side of the river, west side, there ia new country re cently opened un for aettlement, and now bolng rapidly bullt up with small houses and some flats, On the east sido there 1s @ stretch of meadow land. The trolley Ine runs out this wa: through Untonport and Westchester, A Vacant House. "T found that the road known as the road has some very old houses on {t, and I found one that was vacant, Sht furnished, 3 I found the landlord of this house Hoe told me that it was rented some {time ago to @ man who called himeelf James Westly, who furnished tho house |and then, for some reason, falled to oc- |cupy ft, but visited {t occasionally in a big red automobile, always alone, “James Westly undoubtedly {8 an- other of Wigger’s names “He has changed the number of his machine, There can be no question of that, althpegh I found no one who knew the number of this one, “Tt {8 probadle that after the murder ot ok Wigger had Blinknachter | move again with Bessie." “But—I can't understand," sald Gaft- ney, “why there should be so much moving about. To a man with the resourcefulness of this Wig@®r it ous 1 to be an easy matter to get Bessie ovt of New York.’ Hammerton shook his head very avenue of exit from New York has been covered from the day appeared," he sald. “In disguise Wigger might go alone, But to get a girl through the lines would be next to ibie.”? on't see it. If ha has an auto- mobile, what would prevent ,him from taking her out er and getting her on bc Hammerton §: “Because every well known and aoove ai is clon ing the yachts, the steamship iin ads and the roads an ‘automo Of course the easiest wo warono- has wut susp arched, There are men watch- rail could travel. would be to take her out in an bile, But for gome reason h lone it" The Volunteer Detective. | ing strange avout tt “There's sorn all the same,” said Gaftnay, “I tell you,’ began Brainard, a enced hit with @& look, ow, this Is what 1 brought you her but to know,” sald Hawi Tee going to titke vp the ge now fro se in the Byonx, 1 may save luck, And if I don't unravel is ery 1 Unnk Di get of the oing with you,’ said Brainard, ar you could uever stund the this strain § much ig With you," insisted t me here to-morrow Im going to get the fas! line L can get." early ma You are welcome to cla. “But 1 suppose y: ‘Yes, 1 want a very machine,” | The ng broke up. Brainard was e by Marcia and Gaffney, and Hammerton rode home with Nellie in her carriage. ‘Mr. Hammert she sald, “now that we are alone, what do you think of said Mare a race | u want meet that nard has on his mind about an “T think 's crazy. The fellow saw something, of course, Just as his fa’ did {s utte is alive. “LT hope so." she said, | It isn’t that puzzle me so much,” d Hammerton. ‘What puzzles me than anything else why Wikger, having Besste in his power all It was all right to take her to Blinknachter at| first. But the delay {s puzaling, I judge of course from Kleck's letter that they | are not married." | “Something must have hapmened since Kleck wrote that letter,” said Nellie. | Yes, Undoubtedly something hap-| d between the time they moved fito that house in the Bronx and th jiling of Kleck. Yo one can {magine| what It 1s, but we'll know. I am sure we'll get at It soon, And we'll find Bessie Winthrop.” “Alive or’ — “Dead.” (To Be Continued.) er But what they believe they saw Impossible, Bessle Winthrop more World Daily Magazine, The Million Dollar Kid -- -- OW HUM! THincs ARE AWFULLY DULL Topay! To BuY HOMELES would To we SSG WOULD ‘YOU KINDLY WELP THE ARMY, SIR? OH, YES, HERE'S SOME CHANGE ANEW MR. MO MR.MONK You OWE ONE INSTALLMENT ON A Book = LIFE OF KAD BRoadD! 85 cents! VFEEL BETTER NOW TRYING Yo HOLD ME VP FoR 85 cents! JAMES! THROW THIS PERSON SA WUOW0y Monday, TM COLLECTING MONEY WE WISH TO BUY OUR CHURCH Mk FOR 3 KITTENS Nou CARE uP ys ORGAN, NK, FOR \ A BOOK AGENT, EH? Hie HyM! HERE ARE TWO MILLIQNS ~ GO Buy A NEW cnuRcH! Hie HO! HERES SOME MONEY = KERP UP THE GOOD waRK! August 17, 1908. By R. W. Taylor BLC00000 000000000000000000000000000000 000000000000 DK COC 00000000 Betty Vineent Rix OOD _ Javier F9DIOOGODH(OGOAGOVOSHOGVOHOOOHAVNOVOVOG D HPQOGOODOS ; ” Wrote “Upside Down. Dear Betty: | SENT a girl friend @ post card a |Iady's mother seems to object to you fon of yourself, Ww I would advise that you forget her and counts f try to Hve down the past. Think leas of y ° girl In quest short time ago, she wrote me a He Jilted Her, for the sake of getting mar: letter and T answered, I recelved & pear petty: tll you really fall in love post card from her to-day, and she sald | AM engaged to a young lady, and ing h tion may awaken love in ! she would be glad to see me, but her while I was out of town She went heart, writing on the card was upside down to places of amusement with other | on the space for correspondence, Dit young men and also disposed ot the en- CA Birthday Present, she mean anything by !t?) | R. F, L. Dear Betty «agement ring I gave her, She would T have never heard that writing upside rASUiaix eenivearivoringe not give me any reason for disposing down on a postal had any meaning. The of the ring, I broke tho engagement vited to attend a girl’ young lady probably made a mistake, | then and there, I earn {7 a week, also party. Will you kindly Qn Courtship a» probabty urself and miore of the Don't propose merely successful. is. the Marria Odoug OOO lately his coolness has changed and he same as ever toward me, Wil 00 Monologues of ee se a Mixologist By Clarence L. Cullen, Author of “Talee of #a-Tanks,” TOOK OCD OOO \ (oes No, 16.—So You Smoke Eh? ARR AAR that she wouldn't take the nothing that I meant too much to heart. Then she Well, Then, You niet mea package of snits and told me that [ probably was just what I Ought to Be Arrested. be. If that one wasn't above TICK up Lilly mean average ten ture ask the S bell's num-| Weather man, T didn't know what she ber, She wina| Meant, but I sald cer certalnly, breeaing, I'm not|*’_then I sneaked a couple more fad Goan over whiffs, leaning over and letting the wigl vaca ceva smoke come out of my ears, so as not te hurt the aisle lady's feolings, the res! I smoked of the clgar that way, leaning over like a tunnel hand suffering from about us smokers, Nicotine does brus tallga us, I'm Bx- F hibit A. prover (M¢ bends, and munching the smoke Moon myself last 7 ean night, I waa so 1 ashamed of myself CLARENCE LCULLEN that I could have aobbed = aloud — Porelval, fetch that tear-jar over here, I'm going to fill tt up, I went to one of those brutalized yau- deville houses where they allow us male marmosets to ke, If the "You car smoke" signal had- deen folded up I wouldn't have gone. I've done my ba jboonlzing along Lit-Up lane, But I saw jthe smokers nudging In and It looked to me like @ chance to sit down and see the show and gnaw in comfort on a classy two-bit Vuelta Abajo brutallzer perfecto that the milllonaire kid ed at mo In the afternoon. to me, In the aisle seat, w nwerte und-bisqiie effect that had the lance all for mo. In olimbing b op to roonch {nto my seat I noticed that 1 e was wearing that effluy ome dd fire ee or four Mania aheeal all the frangtpanr near bursting ff she ha made n sale of months maed “Smoke Out of My Ears.” lke plus, and I came | the like a sideshow ,fire-eater, and all the flowers | time patchoull mate on the’ aisle) aa kept up a sniffing and a subdued bark- like a harbor seal honing for lumps of fish at feeding time in the Zoo tank, If that didn't shaw that nicotine had, brutalized me, what did? Of course, I ought to've tossed the two-bit smoke that I'd been looking forward all day to sinoking, soon as the lady who'd taken the musk shower indicated that she considered me, because I smoked, to amount to about as much as @ ker hole in a hollow sycamore nag, | ought to've stamped on the weed that ['d been nursing in my vest all dag But I didn't. at's why [ hide my} nto tears r then. my |at my | Pa Tlean over and request her to res » t_ made woodpe head every time I think about it, Can you see my head from whem you stand? There's no ues in talking, Lilybell's right few evenings ago I crawled into the last seat in an open Broadway oar and spat up a jimson that 1'a. been saving the ride downtown, | I for o that seat climbed a gran'ma with wer Witte granddaughter, ‘There was room for thirty-seven people in the for-! : brea W ney vendo boll ue ward seats. But nunno. She took the Lo. | rear seat because s ied, Walt! ot you ' peeraes i ‘ se she saw something ae es If you preter the second young man brutalized, that being me, emoking rece toll the first one so, Lam gure he would there, and @he didn't believe in smoke 8 object's not care to continue his frlendahip tor ier you under the circumstances, Matter? HAVE been going with a Does Religion Dear Petty and am tn- 8 birt sugges jay |, a year. nim up on ac young man|could get a sulphur fumigate while she| smoke. My mother made me} waited? t of the differs ave heard that | ‘en tn that te 1; in | have @ bank account for a rainy day. me what present would be most accept: fyas pul WH ON mene ry Again |Would you advice me to give her UP hte? I have known the girl one s.4 would tke to en wit Dear Retty altogether? JOSPPH SMITH. month, NXIOUS. |ag7 ee rate ike we merageln I would advise you to give up the A book, flowers or candy would boy ES och a A oe ing company with a young lady one AM seventeen, and have been keep- | young lady. She has treated you very |quite proper. year my junior for the last twelve padly. Gontba, in which time I have grown to| 7» i ; A Fickle Lass, like her, Recently I was arrested, | He Proposes in Vain, Deer Betty!” charged with being a suspicious char-| pear petty: HAVE been golng with a acter, and later discharged with honor, AM forty. I have proposed to three for about three months and a halt. After I was released the young lady's mother refused to let her go with me, Kindly advise me as to what to do, different girls and none of them has accepted me. I am handsome and from another young man as ‘ave a good physique, Can you give |I would go with him again, that J may continue the friendship, | me any reason why I have not been ac- to answer the letter and let ’ M. 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