The evening world. Newspaper, December 26, 1908, Page 7

Masculing clumsiness {s the y column,” not necessarily with the dramatic instinct. This mere man doesn't know what Miss Maxine Elliott said as she stood in the cust and disorder of the new Maxine | Theatre that is waiting to wish you a Happy New Year. | ‘fnows thet she said tt with her 5 o'clock eyes and her twilight smile, and ene be was not the only workman on the premises who forgot the hum- Abliiott }@rum ¢ofl of every day life. ‘Whet were the Corinthian columns of this brand new pile compared ‘arith the Ionic Miss Elliott herself? (What couki the poor man do? ‘ee short as his memory. Dut elwaye awlowardly, while the trim From GHaos to ar. “Tt is chaos!" exclaimed Miss Elliott Deautiful despair. “‘Ien’t it?’ she | tasked from under the brim of her black- ‘plumed hat as she gathered her skirts ‘wbout her ankles. “Dear me! we can't talk in all this confusion, can we? We can't even hear ourselves think. Do ¢ome along home with me." And so the helpless man was carried away with her. The t atre was left to finish itself, while Miss Elliott’s car nosed its way out of Thirty-ninth street and joined the chugging throng on the avenue, Th “inter- wiew” started ru like an | urchin trying to “catch a ride,” but it was soon left far in the rear I scarcely Know what to say about my little theatre,” confessed its ap- parently dismayed owner. “After all, {t's not what you put on a theatre— time and thought and materiai—that counts in the long run. It's what you put in it that must tell the story. For the past elght years 1 have worked and planned to have my own theatre, , but even now it doesn't seem possible that I am to realize my drear The penting car stopped a a corner! and held its breath while the hurvied on another directic now the cleared aven ned north, and Miss Elliott spoke freely. Beauty on a Stepladder. “All last summer," she said, sending @ emile through the glass that kept the raw air at a distance, “I stood on @ stepladder tn London examining Ughts and other myster: to learn’ we what would be best for the little thea-{ tre I looked forward to calling home Most of all I hope it m more Uke home thon a the those who visit it My ¢ f aim ha been | to make .it pleasant and comfortable restful, jor comfort is a8 necessary to the theatre as to the home. it help people, ta, forget the bad plays they | see, don't you think? We have good, plays, of course, but the poor pla >| always with us,,aren’t they? And it's @o much nicer to take them ecomf rrta- | diy! Then, too, it is pleasant to have @ well-behaved little play and the audi- | ence on intimate terms w h each other | Many of our theatres are too linge to] make this intimate relationship ble. But the Gar k is an exception. ‘Her Own Way’ scored a much greater @uccess there than it did in large theatres afterward, Last night I went there and enjoyed Willie Collier's per- formance immensely. But if you whould see Willie Collier in the Gol- Aseum in Rome you probably wouldn't! whink him at all funny, would you?! [When I stop to think of the plays that have been lost in a big house, I am | glad that my theatre will not nold| many people," “How many will it hold?’ asked the! @izzy man, grasping ut the fleeting tuct, | Ker Business Instinct, “I don't know,” laughed Miss Elliott All I know ts that tt will hold fourte hundred dollars. That sounds dreadful- | ly business-like, doesn't 11? 1 haven't stopped to count the chairs, but I know | every inch of the theatre. I've worked fever the, plans and watched over the ‘Mr, Ghubert, of course, has work. Fa Dus my, idqar have SY A DES MAXINE ELLIOTT Realizes Dream of Years PHPTODODOGOOODDHHDQOODOOODOS) BY CHARLES DARNTON. ‘wea The Interview Beautiful. The “interview He stumbled about here and there, willingly (yer way through the confusion of scantlings, carpenters, decorators oe fenarble finishers Iike one who knew every inch of the ground. | car swung around a corner. ine, I | Evening World Baily Magaz “A Hazardous Business” lOO GO00000000 DODOHGOHODODDGOGHIGIOHHH That it should be bungled by penalty that goes with the “dramatic He only What is cold marble to living ivory? * was as long as art—and mistress of our newest theatre picked | been carried out almost to the letter, Here and there minor changes have been made, perhaps, but on the whole my suggestions have been found prac: | tcable. This 1s one reason why the| theatre means so much to me. Merely | to have a theatre bear my name would | mean nothing to me. A proposition of | that sort was made to me on two oc-}| casions, but I insisted upon being OI partner, This time a partnership ue been formed and the new theatre will be conducted along strictly business | nes, Bookings will be made for tt just as for other houses.”’ “With a definite part of each season reserved for yourself?” | Horrors, no!” she exclaimed, as the | “I shouldn't | dream of inilicting myself upon a help- | | | less public in that way. I shall appear each year in the house, of course, but my stay will be determined by the merits of my Miss Marlowe, Mme. Nazimova Miss Mannertng, | so appear there.” the home of play. and among others, will “Is it women stars aig stars, not to be essential will be identified with woisen answered Miss Elliott, “though restricted to them. It be largely devoted to light come- but never to musical comedie will it given over to ‘society pl Let us hope it will be the home of good plays that! everyone will enjoy.” At this moment the car drew up be- Miss Elliott's home. Please don't ask the street and number; they're not } for publication. Be content to imagine @ room ail in chintz and warmed by a| blazing fire in the grate, There tea—but it wasn't compulsory, necessarily’ Neith called be s0- fore was Over Saturday, December 26, 1908. >. CHODSOODHSHOHOSGEOS: By “Scar” f° ® Fg) to THe XMAS H.W M © & 00) OW. Alla wressing oa yawn with the tips of her ade, sur jewelled fingers as T stepped inio the varem, “Did my ress agent send yee hither? Be ause,” she contin- fhe aia't amy 1 MUST RLENROAND alk!” And t WATCH THE a lady-author of the q Lirne Top! Arabian Nights kicked the toes of her little red slippers petulantly against the velvet hassock at her feet “But,” I protested gently, “I thought talking was your great specialty. Any woman who could keep her husband awake for a thousand and one nights, Just by her CONVERSATION" — “My dear girl!” broke in $ leaning toward = me pia really think 1 doshe laughed him to sleep pped my pencil nodded. so accustomed to the sound of my voi she explained, “tnat he couldn't go to sleep without it. I be came his nerve tonic, his soothing ‘sy- you What?” Shahrazad, ‘He grew rup, in fact his—his 1 sity !"" » that,” I exclaimed, with real dis- appointment, “was why he didn't kill you after all—just because’— Just beeause he forgot all about It interrupted Shahrazade, daintily lg Ing « tiny cigarette. “Just because I— I sidetracked him 1 beg your pardon “1 took his mind off the subject,” d Shahrazade nonchalantly. “Man is a creature of habit, my dear. Start him in any direction and he'll keep on going that Way—until he Is sidetracked He ean concentrate his mind on only one thing at a time, whether it's busi- ness, or murder, or flirting, or a woman | dit remains on that thing until it |is ‘jolted’ of. ‘The only way to make aw him stop thinking abeut anything— jis to give him something else to think about | “But you can't hinking about make himseit any ‘Lo man stop ected bit- s, you can," yetorted Shahra rfully, “if you can start him thinking about YOU." I shrugged my shoulders doubtfully, to be the question in Miss Eliot's mind. But prefer to devote he of he a suspicion that she might self entirely to the was soon management theatre | dispelled 'CKe Lure of the Footlights. j “I don't think I could be content off [the stage for a very long time, confessed. “But the management of a theatre interests me tremendously. It seems to me that an actor one person of all others who the theatre. It is the place in whic! plays his wares, and he sho best how to do it. | Mrs. Fiske, for example, you know you will see a performance that shows intel- ligent direction. There ix always the question of a good play, of course, and incidentally this quéstion is a more seri- }ous one in this country than in Eng- land, where the actor-manager has | greater opportunity for securing good plays. Here the plays of successfu uthors are bought and paid for before [they are written, and so the fleld is necessaril limited. At the same time one must be in a position to get good plays, therefore one cennot be so inde- pendent as the Loudon actor-manager. As for the actress-manager, Miss Lena Ashwell has been immensely successful with her Kingsway Theatre, That's en- | couraging, isn’t it?” } wee See she the knows he dis ld know When you go to see Up to Date. “ab TER," said Mrs. Pneuritch, P “I want you to have that roof taken off our garage and one of an different kind put on.’ “What ; for?” demanded Mr, Pneuritch. “What's the matter with {t?” “I heard an architect say the other day that it's ja hip rovf. Everybody knows that hips lare out of style now."’—Chicago ELLIOTT THEATRE, | Tribune. | @ li A Romance of @ ‘What Every Woman Knows,” 3 | her cup woman knows Miss Hiliott told what every about the theatre, “OL course, women are the main sup- port of thi led 1 theatre nA she assured the man usually €265O OOO i (Copyright, 1908, by Bobbs-Merrill Co.) goes to the theatre because Kittle or Nelle wishes to go. Left to his own tastes| syNOPsI§ OF PREGZDING INSTALMENTS he would probably prefer to stay at). Philip Kirkwood, a young Californian, is ‘almost penniless, in London. | He stranded, Mi an adventurer named Calendar, falls in Wit | home with his pipe and his book and a| | cheery fire, I know I should tf 1 were| MAose daughter, Dorothy, wis the ama A wome 8 ore: - thy Koes 0 a deserted house by nigh’ the teeta atenly fnters | Tray ert tatnsr a masterious Mack theatre. It means more to] Rlone’'bag biden there.. “Phe ‘bag containg s compuratively els Fyrom Mrs. Halla an emy ot paratively Mttle at- | the*Gatendars, Kirkwood learns. that, Bord etion for a man, He 4s not easily | thy stole them. This the American denies; interested in a play and still lesa in w| Lorothy and her father, with, s Iman aetine woman in @ play." | called the Aleth Mrs. Hallam fol i {o'get the Jewels: Kirkw04, Not even in a beautiful woman?’ ‘o Join them jn order to protect "Doro: He steals-a catboat and ails out ino Only for a moment, perhaps, if at| Thy. He Meals @ catbos! and salle ut in. a All,” declared Miss Illiott, “Beauty in feck of the Drigantine, halt’ drowned: but jeans from. Strvker, the captain, that ¢ A woman on the stage is a detriment to, 47% 10m, CHYE boar i er Alethen is hei o r : ve Antwer) is tho trip ‘Burvker her unless she can rive above tt, une | bound (or ABtwerk, DESIRE tte tp euaits less she shows that she has something more than beauty to justify her pos! tion, A woman without beauty ts read- ty ‘ly given credit for cleverness, whereas | ett ee ea ae ee eee @ beautiful woman must work twice ag| to see Calendar and @ confederate ‘nained hard ¢o he considered wt all clayer, On| Mulready, emerge from the buildin the stage beauty carries its own | ally CHAPTER XIII. wood Anda. tat hy and’ Galendas fate’ gone to Holland by another route and pavata'to hunt tor then theres fanding penniless at Antwerp, Kirkwood , oman, ‘The ec doesn’t remember the beautifui Progressive Crime, votee | with which she first won her position, | ‘RS, HALLAM was Interested She js still @ beautiful woman, But M the Hotel du Commerce? she has done more for herself than h | Thoughtfully Kirkwood — fell beauty lias done for her, By her own | back to his former point of observation, eflorts and sheer cleverness she has| now the richer by another object of su this Year scored a distinct success in| plcton, the hoatelry, comedy. She has won this success hon-| He started to beguile the time by estly, by hard work. She has not been| wondering whet she would do, if idle in the years of her beauty. Apa|* * * Ugbied doorway of the ‘the Qauses of "ish iaaistonoel ais canta 2 oe Myster Love and Adventure. Too Busy to Be Beautiful ; By Margaret H. Ayer. BWOMIOHODIANS SOLDO® WRITES that a life full of cares only temporarily and business has prevented her | ing continues from wasting any time on her continue YOOOHNE As long as the worry- the wrinkles “also A fe!! determination to * will walk looks, and now! softly” and take her work quietly will for the first time do more toward restoring lost looks she realizes that| than all the cosmetics in the world. In| lov after all, taking the massage treatments have | should be a part the scalp massaged too. The hasty of the business of lunch habit will have to be overcome. life as much as Good, nourishing food and a Jittle walk earning a living. /at the lunch hour or before dinner in This is an inter- | the evening will do wonders toward re- esting letter and| storing shrunken tissues and overcom- touches a very ing that tired, apathetic feeling which vital subject to|comes of all work and no play, If there the business girl, | i8 no time for the walk take the equiv- has |alent at night before the open window by practising deep breathing and a few rm-swinging and front and side-bend- ing tle blood ts impoy- jerished get a who, after all, only a little wh to devote to he s chief trouble seems to appearance. B. gxerainene lt be that her face looks wan and is be-| Physician to suggest a ginning to show crowsfect. Her hair |80d tonic. And another caution: Don't is fading and, from snatching hasty {eat In a hurry. If you don't masticate noon, she feels anaemic |Your food thoroughly you might as well “I have never | Mot eat at all and Hye on liquids, bothered about my appearance before,” | There 1s no reason why busy people she writes. ‘I've always been so busy, |S8hould have to lose their looks. It is and |true they must concentrate their time luncheons at and tired out generally. I admit that I'm a very nervous : ae paneer tsa : ORME: ny work worries | {0 exerelsing and so forth into a brief aSilARIe Rerscniand iy Wenls Wernlee | snacan but a cone “breathes mranerly me. Do you think worry brings crows-|eats properly, bathes every day, allow feet?" I certainly do think so, and T/a half-hour for exercising—or even ft pate aay ins’ (falta a {teen minutes~and sleeps seven hours a jwouldl-adyisa to learn what the) night in. a. well-ventilated room, and, mental scientists call “mental poise’ HJastly, refuses to be. dissolved. into g if she wants to stop the crowsfeet be- | wreck of nerves by petty worries, there fore they mark her face too deeply le nothing left to do. And most even of the busiest of working women can jbe smoothed out by massage. And mas-| accomplish these things by making then , sage will smooth out the wrinkl fixed habi but OOOO? | men were momentarily sketched, as believe that of the woman; it wasn't | they came hurriedly forth; and of the| like her, two, one was short and stout, and even! He started across the driveway, after |at a distance seemed to bear himself the flacre, but it was lori in a tangle of with an accent of assertiy s, while | Side streets before he could make up his the other was tall and heavy of shoul-| Mind whether it was worth while chas- | der ing or not; and, pondering the woman's At singular action, he retraced his steps to |with intent to the promenade rail their pace had Without a quiver of hesitation~mo |resolute. He hung fire on the Issue, | ments invaluable, if what he |dreading to reveal himself, unable to! feared were true—he strode to the gang- |deoide which were the better course, to; Way, passed down, and with absolute |pursue the or to wait and dis-|nonchaiance dropped into the nearest cover wha Hallam was about. | boat, stepping from one to another until In the end waited; and had hia}he had gained the outermost. To its disappointment for recompense. joy he found a pair of oars stowed be | Vor Mra, Hallam did nothing intelli-| neath the thwarts. \gtble. Had she driven over to the hotel,| He pulled a good |hard upon the departure of the men, he| distance prettily, | would have believed that she was scek- | blades Just jing Dorothy, and would, furthermore, | brought Uttle the outset he had set afier them, accost endar; but been swift and his tr- were men, Mrs. he reckoned his! and shipping the the right moment, boat in under the oar, the | have elected to crowd their interview, if | brigantine's counter with scarce a jar [she succeeded in obtaining one with the| An element of surprise he held essential irl, But she did nothing of the sort.|to the success of his plan, whatever For @ tine the flacre remained as it |had been ever since stopping; Ms far | nocked out his |: and whip, and! ck on the that mfght turn out to be. Manding up, he caught the brigan- 1 with both nands, ono of 2 painter of the purlo'ne! od his head above tie deck oat, | pipe, disentangied rein and lif | wheeled the equipage ui line, A short survey of the deterted af jit had come, disappearing in a tersdeck gave hin furcher urance side street leading eastward fre The an watch was nol ‘a sight embankment may have been keeping well forward by Kirkwood waa, then, to belleve that) Stryker's instructions, or ie mey nave Mra, Hallam, having taken ali that! crept off ter forty winks, Whatever (ho trouble and having waited for the twe| reason for his absenve from ‘iu post of sdventurers to appear, had been conten uty, Kirkwood wae reiievel aot to - fo ia yh it hi Wi olght Of theme He ceuld puenegin pave, him, ca Geel wie, onf, & THE BLACK BAG PPPPIOOODDHY OOLOSLLOG4HOH9-00004-000 90940006 00.9090H9.90:96-99-00:9H8 29.006O0 20006 Heart Topics By Betty Vincent, 22 Loves 37, | Dear Betty ILL you advise me, or, rather, a young man who is in love with me, and is persistent in wa to ry me? The young man is twent two while I am thirty-seven. 1 cannot make him believe the difference in our ages may lead to unhappiness later. What shall 1 do? CLARA You are right in refusing to marry & young man who is so much younger than you, for unhappiness is almost sure to result from your union. If he will not listen to reason you must take more strenuous methods to break up the love affair, Refuse to see him, and do not Answer his letters, He will in. tine nmnoying you if you pay im no on | atten! Daintily Lighting a Cigarette. “And you can make a husband stop |thinking about how he is going to get nights," continued Shahrazade, “if i you can start him wondering how he is going to keep YOU LN.” “That's a new idea,” I exclaimed, de- lighted! I believe,” broke in Shahrazade with A Broken Engagement. Dear WAS engaged to a young Indy, and | while talking matters over she said it ts the Intended husband's place to give her mother money to celebrate wedding with a supper. She also said that as the wedding would be held in thelr house they would Invite who- |. dainty moue and a littie wink, “thet evar thoy pleaeod, I said it jeiterimoth: ovary mani ia Just great bis chorea ene) place to’ pay for this) and that! nium,’ and that the only. way. to win friends and relations from my side) out “against him in. any gare from should be invited as well, What Is your) oer to matrimony ie facto ‘eal, hie iden in this matter BP. B. piu!’ He's the simplest proposition in It is customary for the bride's fa nity the animal kingdom, be ‘ause he doesn't : Immortal {aterviews -: No. 10—Shahrazede Tells How to Sidetrach a Husband DOOOOGOOAOO AS By Helen Rowland. | ; day's shopping Oe D leads over hev prostrate body or under her heet Ret? 1 protested: with Hy ‘gure 1k how tong he's ‘I'm-your? lord-and-master—you're-my-white-slave’ | lea beaten into his brain.” i's your fault! ort 1 Shahrazade shortly, Mine!" 1 jumped, indignantly. “Don't you newspaper women always write articles on How w make a Huse band Happy’ and :How.te Bi Like a Playful Kitten, sarcastically, with a wave of her ette, “on ‘low to Make a Wife Happ: or ‘How to Fascinate a Woman? Who ever suggesicd that'a’man ought to lay out his wife's, isimono andy warm. her slippers and have a cup of tea waiting: for her when she comes in from a hard or that. a husband ought to study his wife's moods and dance around like a playtul kitten when she’s blue, and sinooth her forehead and talk baby talk to her when she Ured, or keep the children out of the toom and sing her soothing lullabi when she's nervous? Who ¢-or men- tioned the ideq that a man qught to keep on hig coat and his collar and keep his hair and beard in-curt, summer and winter, in order to retain his wife's love? Nobody’ and Shahrazade brought her Jewelled hand down on a sofa pillow dramatically. “We've all been so busy. isying to please man that it-has never |to matrimony.” occurred to him to tilnk about pléasing |%s, He's acquired the idea that ‘ti a revolves around. his wishes!'— ‘And that he's IT!" put In. bitterly, “Yes,” agreed Shahrazade, “and his | mind will go on working-that way until | We turn it in another direction.” 1 “What?” | "Checkmate him! ‘Tramp his two-spot of conceit with the ace of indifference and selfishness and: you'll win in any. ‘ame you choose to play, from flirtation. ve always noticed,” I sighed, ‘that it is the most selfish wives who haye the most devoted husbande”—. “And the most cold-blooded © little | firts,”” put in Shahrazade, “who. have, to pay all expenses of the supper and festivities at her house. ‘The bridy- think or act in curves and circles like | groom pays only for the carriages and ja woman. He just goes straight ahead the bouquets of the bride's and her at- tendant, a8 well ax the clergyman's fee, At un engagement supper the bride's family pay the expenses. in whatever path he strikes, and tt re- mains entirely with any woman igets him to decide who imvelf gently er made In over the rail, r fast and etepped noisel [ know the breed there's honor among gentlemen that knocks the honor of thieves higher’n a kite, the old saw to \track him! whether that path’ wink, ! most attention”. ‘And the woman who climbs wu: throne and takes the whip hand at th altar who leada in thé love chase”—— “And the woman who'makes her hus- on tha band belleve that she HAS to. HAVE What she ‘wants—who gets !t!"” finishod. Shahvagade. | “Aman 18 lke’ a baby. angle a toy in front of him and he wall forget the pin that. ts hurting him, When he cries because he doesnt get what he expeots—give him something ne joesn't expect. When he loses interest 1 you—find another Interest. “Feed him on fairy tales and surprises’ —— ‘And cover his head with ashes!" I murmured devout! Yes,"" laughed Shahrazade. If you want lim to stop wandering, start him WONDERING!" Your in a ‘slave, Jam. “The i, Ale saya that the cot "Give the King urance of my: mont devoted obedience,” returned” Si - zade calmly, “and'ask him if he forgot 10 order those silks he promised m: Now," 1 cried, rising, ‘whi n, ‘t] silks for?" o keep him from bother: he Someay retorted eas ianent aly, With & wave o} To aide. and she ambled gracefully her rendezvous. with a smile of perfect contentment—and, a parting. forth to By Louis Joseph Vance, Author of “The Brass Bowl,” “The Private War,’ Ete, make this loi Wot is it? ‘Simple ' ard the lighted oplong of the|the cont nothing doing, * * * You | solemnly, e Bot hag Pepounded funpanionway. A’ murmur of voleos| understand me, I'm sure, Mulready?"| bag here; Miss Dolis'n ‘at the iat from below comforted him with the he concluded with envenomed sweetness, |that's her papa’s bright. noticne be knowledge that he had not miscal T don't see yet how Kirkwood got \thinks she's to be trusted @'* © Now PSNR lenin | #8xthing to do with Dorothy." jihen, what's the matter with weighing m1 this time; at last he stood within | “MAG Ee to to you, Mister Mul- anchor and slipping quietly out to coast striking distance of tds quarry. re dy!" Calendar. re, Leavin’ the tiful darter?" The syllables of his surname ringing | there, now Ret excite *], “Cert'n'y. She's only @ drag any GipAriy dnt Hey cate cea an ee ab avon) Midian chia etalient ma|"Hetter off “without “her, s*s 8) Tey is cars wy word that a man from th 1 was) We can wait our thne and get hiehoe Stryker's fleering laugh, brought him to waiting on the altar steps for me that! Market prices” s' A pause. He flushed hotly in the dark- | KiWood came In. He waa dining close | | "You forget, Dick," Calendar put tt ae ane ety ai ‘ by; 1 went over and worked on his feel- | “that there's @ «housand 4 ‘or ‘each y u n wan retailing with | ize until he agreed to take Dorothy off |of Us if shes kept out of England “ap relish some rcessful wits my hands. 11 | had attempted to leave |#ix werks. "A thousand's tre tinea ticisms at Kirkwood's expense, * * ©) (he place with her they'd ‘ve spotted me |i the land I hail from: T can use thy You'd ought to ‘ve seed the wye 'e{ {2 sure. * * ® My compliments to, ‘eusand in my business,” Dick Mulr looked at me!" concluded the raconteur | 704 . ‘ re came of chair legs in a wale of miych. 1 harshly on the cabin deck. Ap. Mulready iaughed with him, if a little; parently Mulready had leaped to his uncertainty, endar's hue! was | Teet in & rage , lender's chuckle. wa T'va told you''—— he began in @ not audible, but he broke the pause that] voice ‘thick with, passion followed. Now, then.” Calendar proposed, 1 don't know," he said with doubting; "M®, Kirkwood aside—peace be with *\ timimlet's got down to cases, hn “'Wot's the row?’ asked the captain. I don't] “The row, cap'n, ts the Hallam female, Of course, | WhO has unexpectedly shown up in Ant: emphacis, “You say ‘anded i without @ penny {i his pocket? call that a good plan at all Dee e wultte: | Werp, we have Teagon to Delleve. with he ain't @ factor, but Well, St) matlcious Intent and a private iletective might've been as well to give him his|{o add to the wavety of nations fare tome, He might take trouble tor| “Wot's the odds? She carn't ‘urt us 28, BoMehoW * J don't mind tell>| without lyin. “p trouble for “erselt You, Cap'n, u're an ass. | RAN ee Oe Pep gree Yes argued Mulready; “but suppose} can't. do anvihing tf my lady is. going ¥ Kirkwood lad taken on with you |te camp, on Our trail end tell, every Thats ‘another secret © got tol] ion aw before the board ss now your mat be abe’ to sae hie nd how? ip. culled « chap for that very dam," Mulready chimed tn. purpose, but l saw at a he wasn't Qu that in the beginning our men. Ho. sinelt @ rin the! “But ‘ag either of you @ plan’ per- woodpile and most politely told me to | aistod Bty: @ had come ed Mulready; “and ite oquesiod | tho, bas abd ‘best, Uf You ‘could only The dispute continued, bu had heard enough, bf tbe Hatener ‘The American arrived. at the head of the companionway at a critical junctur, As he moved to descend some low, coh: toned retort of Calendar's seemed te enrege his confederate beyond ream He yelped aloud with wrath, sprang his feet, Knocking over @ chatr, a leaping back toward the toot of the steps, flawed an adroit’ hand. behind him and found his revolver. “T'ye stood enough from youl* screamed, his volce oddly clear ta moment ‘of tnganity, ‘You've pil with me as long as you will, you hy ing American hog "in going to permit his ge- nme, Kirkwood, @p- alied to find hinself standing on the eshold of a tragedy, gathered him together and launched through the straight for the madmen’s shoul- ‘As the ney went down togethe: ing, Mulr dye head struck agelner a. dye head fi transom and the revolver tei! From * Ump Gogere. (To Be Continued