The evening world. Newspaper, December 12, 1910, Page 19

The Evening World Daily Magazine ‘““Becember 12 nother ARSENE LUPIN ~ St DIOGO GOGOD AOS iu By Maurice Leblanc 3 60808090909H9OHHOHDADOOHDHNOOAHHOSOOOOSSOOOOOOOOANANG HHOSOOOOGOSS’ PAACDIGSOODONHBDTGATOOVOG ness below them camo tie sound of a) better go down by the staircase and) fere were informed o'cloe! w | struggle, @ crash of furniture over-| make straight for the Httle door in the] morning and at cree procesiea 3 the witch Had ween HN er ao htm \fimed, words, exclamation and then,| wall, That'a the only way he can es-| spot, after sending an express to the|Geavres, together with the Tien horrible and ominous, @ hoarse groan, | cape.”” authorities at Dieppe with a note des-| tapestries, by his maternal unole, the the gurgie of a man who 1s being mur-| Victor hurrted off, but, before hel cribing the circumstances of the crime,| Marques de Bobadilla, a Spanish | dered, reached the park, the man fell down] the imminent capture of the chief | grandee. Taymonde leaped towant the door.| again, Raymonde called the other eer-| criminal and “the discovery of his| M. Filleul remarked: | si nne clung desperately to her arm. vane headgear and of the dagger with which! ‘If the motive of the ertme wae theft, | {o—no—don't leave me—t'm fright-| “Albert. do you see him down there?} the crime had been committed.” this drawing room, at any rato, pot | savin Near the main clotster?’— At 10 o'clock two hired conveyances | Not the object of tt Raymonde pushed her aside and dart-| , “Yes, he's crawling m the grass, Me's) came down the gentle slope that led to| “You ean't tell!" said the deputy, who | ed down the corridor, followed by su-|4one for’—~ the house, One of them, an old-fash-|#poke little, but who, when he did, in- zanne, who staggered from wall to| | Watch him from here.” foned calash, contained the deputy | Variably opposed the magistrate's views. | wall, screaming as she went. Raymonde ‘There's no way of escape for him.| public prosecutor and the examining Why, my dear air, the first thougnt Neached the staircase, flew. down. the| ON the fight of the ruins ts the open) Magistrate, accompanied by his clerk. | of ® burglar would be to carry off thors ‘¢ stairs, flung herself upon the door of M@wn"—— In the other, a humble fly, were seated | Pictures and tapestries, which are uni 4 the big drawing room and stopped | ‘And, Victor, do you guard the door! two reporters, representing the Journal | Versally renowned.” el short, rooted to the threshold, while |n the left,” she said, taking up her gun.|de Rouen and a great Paris paper. “Perhaps there was no time.” ae Suzanne sank in a heap by her side.| “But, eurely, you are not going down,| ‘The old chateau came into view—once | Ny ae ‘ a Facing them at three steps’ distance | 8% nis the abbey reaidence of the priors of| At that moment, the Comte de Geavren | os stood a man with a hk rnoin his} em, yes," she satd, with a resolute) Ambrumesy, mutilated under the Revo- entered, accompanied by the doctor. | * se rh The count, who did not « t hand. He turned {t upon the two girls, accent and abrupt movements; “let me} jution, both restored by the Comte de’ i, . i een to feel iteg| bef have a cartridge left—f he|Gesvres, who had now owned tt for| {he sffects of the attack to which he| blinding them with the light, had been subdjected, welcomed the t ong at their pale faces, and then, | *ire’—— some twenty years. It consists of a Without hurrying, with. the calmest| She went out, A moment later Aibert | main bulldive, surmounted by a pin-|mcials. Then he Spened the door of ae tn The world, took tie cap, {*8% her going toward the ruina, He! nacied clock-tower and two wings, each bie is pet Ficked Up a scrap of paper and two| Called to her from the windaw of which fe surrounded by a filght of}, This room, which no one had been al- bits of straw, removed some footmarke| , rie's “ragged himesit tehind the) steps with a stone balustrade. / Looking lowed to enter since the discovery of from the carpet, went to the balcony T can't see him. Be careful, | across the walls of the ‘park and be-|{he crime, differed from the drawing a rate Ml : wpland supported by th {tod asmuch as it presented a scene tow @ a dis epee weercge oon, ymonde went round the old cloisters Kerman elite, pon eaten a Zuungae ‘ot of the greatest disorder. Two chairs Meanie wKe oh to cut off the man's retreat, and Albert| the blue line of the Channel between Were overturned. one of the tables Suzanne was t soon loat sight of her: After a few mine| the villages of Sainte-Marguerite and *mashed to pleces and several objects— first to run to the jas Lesgpstlls by hoa See Eek Weer Hd not see ter return, he| Varengeville. Pinineretine Ge Git ine heer iee drawing room from her father's bed-|tecame uneasy and, keeping hia eye on| Here the Comte de Geavres lived with | station lay on the floor. And there room. But at the entrance a hideous | +p, was blood on some of the scattered Tulns, Instead of going down by th daughter Suzanne, elicate, fair= ene appatied her. By the slanting | gisirs ne muse an afore to renee Ane | trek eens creature. and ‘his tece, | Pieces of note-pape edn OR a hie gm kites ad CO en he nad aucceeded he! Raymonde de Saint-Veran, whom he|_ The doctor turned back the sheet that parentiy lifeless bodies lying close to] scrambled down and ran atraight to the| had taken to live with him two years |(ovrred the corpae, Joan Daval, dressod fach other on the floor. She leaned| cioisters near which he had seen the| petore, when the simultaneous death of |! his usual velvet sult, with a pair of r ort r 5 ae man last. Thirty paces further he found | her father and mother left Raymonde | Maled boots his feet, lay stretched “Father! Father! Is it you?) What} Raymonde, who was gearchtng with) an orphan. Life at the chateau was on dis back, with one arm folded be- has happened to v she cried dis-| Victor, peaceful and regular. A few neighbors neath him, His collar and tle had heen ractedly. Well?” he asked. Pei an oreasional vislts In the sum. |femoved and his shirt opened, reveal- After a moment the Comte de Gesvres There's no laying one’s hands on| mer the Count took the two girls al-]' ® large wound in the cheat. moved. Ina broken voice he sald him," replied Victor. ot every Dieppe. He was aj “Death must have beon instantane. “Don't be afraid. I am not wounded.| “The little door?” tal Seah ine Sasduea, nates tace | Us dectared the doctor. “One blow Daval? Is he alive? ‘The knife? The| “I've been there; here's the key.” and hair that was turning gray, He was| 0% the knife was enough.” knite?”— Still—he must — Very riche managed his fortune himaeit| “it was no doubt the knife which 1 ‘Two mensservants now arrived with “Oh, we've got him safe enough, the| and looked after his extensive estates|*@W On the drawing-room mantelplece, candles. Raymonde flung herself down] scoundrel, He'll be ours in ten min-| with the assistance of his searetary, | xt to a leather cap?’ sald the exam- yefore the other body and recognized | utes.” Jean Daval. ining magistrate. k Jean Daval, the Count's private secre- ‘The farmer and his son, awakened| Immediately upon his arrival the ex-| "Yes," said the Comte de Gesvres, calmly took ary. A little stream of blood trickled| by the shot, now came from the farm | amining magistrate took down the first the knife was ploked up here. It comes : Ge I from his neck. His face already wore] buildings, which were at some distance | observations of Sergt. Quevillon of the| from the same trophy In the drawing. | drawing-room.’ I t the pallor of death on the right, but within the clroult of] gendarmes. The capture of the|teom from which my niece, Mile, de} got up and sof { ‘Then she rose, returned to the draw-| the walls. They had met no one. criminal, Imminent though it might be, | Saint-Veran, snatched the gun. As for] leading to this be . e oe ve tall Bone Rig Lehi Gia her Honey oo ng room, took a gun that hung in a ‘Of course not,” eaid Albert. “The| had not yet been effected, but every| the chauffeur's cap, that evidently be-| moment, the door movements, her repose, her sjlence and her voice! |trophy of arms he wall and went out| rufan can’t have left the ruins. We'll| outlet of the park was held. Escape |!0nss to the murderer. n the baleony. Not more than fifty or| dig him out of some hole or other.” was imponsible. M. Filleul examined certain further} thrown back and y seconds had ed since the man] ‘They organized a methodical search,| ‘The little s foot on the rung of the| beating every bush, pulling aside the|chapter-hall and the refectory, both of |to the doctor and then askel M. de He could not, therefore, be very | heavy masses of {vy rolled round the| which are on the ground floor, and went |Gesvres to tell him what he had seen] this without any far away, the more so as he had taken| shafts of the columns, They made|up to the first story. They at onve re-|@nd heard. The count worded his story Juge d'Inatruction, (Copyright, 1910, by Maurice Lebia ompany next crossed the | details in the room, put a few questions | leaped at me and CHAPTER 1, The Shot. AYMONDE listenod., The nolse was repeated twice over, clearly enough ase from using It. And so to be distinguished from the medley of va, ence of the night and yet too falntly to enable her to tell ister put the gun to her shoul-| The search was fruitless, any gap among the ornaments or fur-| seemed to hear notses, when, sud jor, calmly took alm and fired, The man| There was but one discovery: at the | n the precaution to another with broken. They went round the Cloisters | furniture, not an ornament but appeared | sleeping badly, for that matter, with | 0 cs coande that formed the | iim skirting the rematna of the ol@| and examined every nook and corner. | to occupy its usual place; nor was there | gleams of consclousness in which 1] Mes¥ “And after th: Breat s' whether it was near or far, within the wal nly of the big country-house, | foll. place where the man had fallen under! magnificent Flemish tapestries with | at the foot of my bed, with Is candle in} When 1 came to, I or outst m he y recess he pe 4 | ont . ' ” ' . ms Z bo candle in GE OUSRTOY OBR Tt ete ane Ath i. | tithat'a done it! ‘That's done it!" maid} Raymonde’s gun they picked up alfgures. On the panels of the wall fac- | his hand and fully dressed-—as he ty now, | My kde, mortally She rose softly. Her window was half open; she flung ft back wide. The] one of the servants. “We've got this, chauffeurs cap, in very soft buff|ing the windows were four fine can-|for he often worked late into the night "At first steht, Moonlight lay over a peaceful landscape of lawns and thickets, against which | ong. I'll run down leather; besides that, nothing, vases, in contemporary frames, repre-| He seemed greatly the strogeling ruins of the old abbey stood out in tragte outlines, truncated col-| “No, Victor, he's getting up. You had The gendarmerie of Ouville-la-Riv- senting mythological scenes. ‘These | a low votce: ‘There’ umns, mutilated arches, fragments of porches and shreds of flying buttresses. : “+ —_——__—_—__—— — —_—— tinned xp Had a A Ught bre ered over the face of things, gliding notsele wn ‘“<""VLet George Do It! w By George McManus s of the trees, but shaking the tiny budding leaves of ‘the shrubs. r And, suddenly, she heard the same sound again, It was on the left and on Copyright, 10910, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World), but love and frie “Stull, there has the floor below her, in the living rooms, therefore, that occupied the left wing there has been am xetted amd said, in| oe : some one in the “No one.” You have no en Daval! An ¢ creature that eve my secretary for may say, my ¢ } oof the house. Brave and plucky though she was, the girl felt afraid, She slipped on her dressing gown and took the, old chapel and turn toward a Uttle door Jin the wall, ‘The door must have been Soon she saw him. * * © She put the gun to her shoulder, opens into the bi« drawing yrder to prevent the tnmates of the! locked and that none of the panes were |In the drawing room. Not a plece of| “Jean Daval woke me up. I had been facts, and that these facts followed upon ure. On the right and left walls hung | opening my eyes, T saw Davnl standing | “After that, [ don't know -T fainted. | heavy lo 1 know of none.” Nor M. Daval elther?”’ my? He was the best| ‘The two cousins were sent for to the 4 nftdant; and I have} Raymon¢ never seen him sur ship. tory aim and fired. The man fell.” neard a notse myself,, “The motive? Why, tt was robbery tly pushed the door] pure and simple. yudotr. At the same] “Robbery? Have you been robbed of over there, which | something, then?” m, was] "No, nothing.” 4 man appeared who} “In that case?” stunned me with a In that case, if they have stolen ‘yon the temple. I am telling you] nothing and if nothing 1s missing, they details, Monsieur le] at least took something away.” for the almple rea What? the ladder, inj sure that the chapel was properly | marked the perfect order that prevatied | 4% follows yon that [ remember only the principal) ‘I don't know, But my daughter and y niece will tell you, with absolute extraordinary swift ertainty, that they saw two men in os the park, and that en were carrying fairly those two 1 aval lay stretched by wounde do you suspect no | dre he young ladies he young ladies may have been ming, you think? If should be | tempted to ve It, for I have been | exhausting myself tn inquiries and sup- mney? positions ever since this morning. How- | easy enough to question lived. M. Daval was] big drawing-room, Suzanne, still quite twenty years and, 1| pale and trembling, could hardly speak. | . who Was more energetic, of a man, better looking, too, with: » golden glint in her brown eyes, de- nts of the night and the » had played tn them, unded by anything | mor en a burglary and nurder; there must t her cousin, came out of the room and| “No, the stairs and the hall would BE A LOAFER’ (etl into her arms brought him out more to the left— “Raymonde—ts that you? Did hear?" — | same Idea struck them both. They Yes. So you're not asleep?" lieaned out, Below them a ladder stood suppose the dog woke me—some time | against the front of the house, resting go. But he's not barking now. What) on the first floor, A glimmer lit up the time is it?" stone balcony. And another man, who “ ¢our.'t Was also carrying something, bestrode peut eoercoly, some one'a walking| the baluster, alld down the ladder and nfl ran away by the same road as the fir in the drawing room . seared to verge of poner ae He fell on her knees, stammer- Gown there, Suzanne “But there 19 danger for him, His room {s next to the boudotr.”* “M, Davai is there, too” — “At the other end of the house. could never hear.” They hesitated, not knowing what course to decide upon, Should the out? Cry for help? They dared not they were frightened of the sound of) Ra, heir own voices. But Suzanne, who ne he window, suppressed | finger. They heard the bell ring up- LATIN GREEK A had gone to the wind pre stairs and had an impression that its . as Copyri Cha'aoters: Mim, W RS. WILLIS, \V) and sees the Mrs. W. Let us call out—let us call for help"— | Who would come? Your father—and yee of them left—and they He | !f there are throw themselves upon him Then—then—we 1 he 1 the ser- ants. Your bell rings on th floor.” 1) “¥es—yes—perhaps that’s better, If rn burl only ‘the ne in time!” " Mon, N. (aupore | Mende felt for the electric pusl WHY DONT YOu <0 TO | i Mieke it heh her bed and pressed it with her COLLEGE AND STUDY i) Measte ( n oe Duet—Sh! sh! Mra, W. (gest! Mrs, W.—Co: | Qfrs, N., left a ROWLAND. Dumbwaiter Mra, N. (answering) —W there's a burglar trying to get up on the walter! Mrs. N. (brilllantly)-—Maggte, you know the r A man always fancies that the best way to win in an argument with a The Home Girl. having as @ sweet, modest girl should! | To a Dance. | waiter creeping up , 7 er and her how pretty she looks~-and it . there is no other uy. ° Maggte (shivert woman is to kiss her and tell her how pretty she looks--an usually is D™ Penis ap ronciae noc intan 16 aria ry | f i canlvert aa of fame and money to be earned out in the wide ‘OUNG man who signa his letter pon Of Ree The way in which @ woman works out a problem is as mysterious to a world, Make good in your own home betore you be- To a Restaurant. " a. Bch watcan : rot erman—Whi 4 Pinto Sane vO’ 6 Depa popes: es ; *¢ * R ow “IT have been calling steadily on &ether wo e way in which she works douya. | gin to fancy you can conquer larger spher GIRL who signs her letter “T. ‘ (With afl the a manras the way | I am prompted to these few lines by a letter I received M."" write BET GRA She AA Sie OBA T AKO dese eg . | to-day, It is written by a mother, and it reads ‘q tlave seen & young man| Her !f she was going to @ certain dance, | ‘hey null the warn Funny how a husband and wife can cling together through tragedy, My girl knows a young man who Js continually telling | every day for a couple of months, on | Shesald ‘No. I went and saw her thero| Seerrey poverty, illness and sorrow and then fall out about a little thing like the er of the financial advantages of the West. He has|the car. Yesterday he spoke to me and | With another man. What do you think? a yer in ke possession of the morning newspaper fired er Imagination she insists she will go West. And|asked me to go to @ restaurant with The young lady may almply ave) Mre. W.—So It a | she does it will break my heart hin, He seemed to be a nice young| changed her mind, She 1.ay not Poll ell, I - : | ca here lk A guageation tor sou; toollen girl You caprl mac, acd aa 1 werk’ weed all day 2 | lmeoded to way somethings untros 24 ? Man's “infinite variety" consists entirely in the variety of his faults,| Nth, roach anything higher in this world by stepping on your | would like to have @ little fun in ¢he wear If all men were perfect the world would be te rribly monotonous. | VINCENT. mother's he a i aunt fe the silly stories the you « man | evenings." Another Man. | Panlicr (nearly fee us been ng and use your common sens ou can-| pear Ittle girl, of course you should 4 bd Policeman iT? not succeed in your own home where every one knows you an akes allow not have permitted the young fa | OUNG ma o signs his lette Nothing makes a man feet so injured as to have his wife keep perfectly | (.. ee as 1 are surrounded t Seine palate t ; Rok have y tt “ Ag fom | A Yo NG: mAn tens t | here! or you; where you are inded by your frle ow much chance do youl speak to ypu without an Introductio wr | ome silent about something that he fully expected to ‘ve nagged about, think you would have among utter strangers? Uitte rrr ergy grote ro pi eh ae Meares a Sita gil ne oa Sih h fiend | mother and to her love just as long as you car would be far better to see him in your] #he says she loves me, but she persists | Pa eman (x The difference between courtship and matrimony is something like tne| own home than to go to @ restaurant | in telling all the thine another | aenty.) “ ,) " | nds tel! me Tam very pretty, Tam] wit aim, After a time when your! ma who ia a to her, Do ot G re ts a pnce ween listening to a “travelogue” and taking a trip abroad, | frien p i , i (Phere ae aigerence vet lipoele | Loves Him. in tove with s man older than I am,| parents have met and approved of him, | think she really cares for me | ancotg dawn tie Girt who signs her letter “L,| but 1 do not think he cares for 110. |you might then accept his invitation to| Probably she does, and only tatks of| — Maggio (wildly A little college is a dangerous thing—for a girl who wants to be 1A M" wr What can [ do to gain his affection?” |go out. I sympathize with your destre|the other man because she fancies It] Janitor (afraid shining light in the matrimonial market, | “Lam a yourg girl and all my! 1f you cannot win his affection by bee! for “a litle fun, _. makes you Jealous Choruse-Oh! * 4 ; ‘ r ‘ cident an entice ! rn. “Raymonde—Raymonde!” , for the man disappeared suddenly WHAT WOULO You WHY SEND HIM iL SHOW HIM a motive for all that (To Te Continued.) 4 ‘A voice low ax a breath was calling| from view and they failed ty hear the ADVISE ME TO DO TO COLLEGE - THE ADVANTAGES shia iets Be Siecle tian mies to her from the next room, the door of ial grating of the hinges. with My SON LET ME TALK OF COLLEGE: which had not been c 1. was| “He came from the drawing room,” mM AFRAID HE l" \ feeling her way there, when Suzanne, | whispered Suzanne. 15 GOING TO Dialogues By Alma Woodward ght, 1910, by The Ireas Hist! Call the Police! ha, Maw, Nichols, Maggie and other, ise in the dumbwalter shaft, looks down 4 slowly, a man's arm protruding, —Mra, Nichols! Publishing Co, (The New York World), Keene: Palimde Ara, hearing a slight n o walter moving up (calling in @ whisper to Mrs 17 lating gra hteally)—Don’t say anything out loud, but T'm eure ssing @ little shriek)-Oh, what shall we do? Ob, I wish my floor above)--Shure, what's all the row? }iceman on this beat, don’t you Mag san ' the fountaint | sirill sound must also reach any one | Maggie—Shure! Ho's me cousin on me uncle's side! / eee ay at a rapid teon | | Mrs. Ni—Well, you run down quickly and bring him up here, Awa hurry, 4 A’man was wall Mgr a cataly | vaited. The silence became ter- | Magule, because the burglar may Nave a pistol or something! | paces ae ar te a aS A SoD Te and the very Drenae: 0 longer | | Mrs. W. (cautlously)—He's moving very slowly. I guese he dosen't want te i large load, the nature of Ww ney | mhook the leaves Of the SHrUbs, make any noise, I'll bet he's a desperate er! What ever would we do 1f | pathy Vue Gay Leas if z me rep s =. Seleiitan ed Crlatten es ate he pulled the walter up on a level with our floor? I'd drop dead, I know I wouklt egeinst his ¢ a Hed fea ear piat | M fler a moment's thought)—I've got It! You get your troning board y hi ne! And sudden’ m the profound dark- | Mrs. N. (after @ moment's thoug ‘ y i. progress. ‘They saw him pa he And suddet nly ¢ro: he pr | and we'll put {t across the shaft; then we'll hold down the ends, and when he brane wy | gets up this far he'll be caught just like a rat in @ trap, Ky Mrs. W. (admiringly)—I don’t know how you can think out such @ clever solu. fl t 7 of a @ % % tion when you're scared to death. I know I couldn't o eflections ‘airs, W. gets the board and carries out instructions quletly. ‘They stand : grimly stlent holding down the ends.) B ac h e ] or G 1 rl Maggio (suddenly, In @ hoarse whtsper)—I've got ‘em, Mra Nichole—two ay tem! j patent a as \\cathahctaagaronitt lane ihite? By Helen Rowland Mrae W.-8h! sh! Don't make #6 much noise or he'll escape | Mra, N. (to men)—What are you golng to do? It's an awtully dimoult place } to catah a burglar ‘Copyright, 1010, ty The Press Publishing Co (The New York World Pollcoman—We're going to pul him up sudden before he has a chance to get N the end nobody finds life quite so flat as the away. Ifo won't take the chance of dropping thirty feat Nt f | l rounder, |v Mra. W. Co terror)—tndeed, you're not going to pull him up past f¥ floor, \# He might shoot in at m aie | | Mrs, N.-If you want to pull him up come down to our floor. We don't want After all, the difference in husbands consists | | to take any chance merely in the degree in which their wives happen to foeman (mpatiently)—Well, 1f we spend much more time talking about It 1 Jind them out. we won't have anything to pil! up! | town right away then, I'll open my front door for you, lone at shaft, glances down furtively and to her horror sees slowly.) g)—In the villain there yet, M at's this board doing here? (Throws tt ast4e.) Now, Pat, alto. onuousness they have not displayed tn patrolling thelr beats, 1p on a level with the floor.) : % gun from hip pocket)—=Now, me fine fellow, we've got ye ysterica! Uttle shriek)—Why, it's the Janttort ts y)~An' what were ye don’ sittin’ on the watter, Timothy re in’ the slide tively)—=An' that’ they wus po dry, not the only thing that's dry around at An’ after the thirsty walk ye're Deen taking! Mayne 1, ladies, 1¢ you instst! (Lets go walter rope suds a gasp and a aft—then a dull thud.) Are ye killed ny O'Flynn? ' neglected)—Not unless {t's dyin’ from thiret T amt uple of feminine shrieks as the waiter