The evening world. Newspaper, January 10, 1911, Page 17

[i i i ABA AC * . . { ’ . ‘ xz The Evening World Daily Magazine, Tuesday; January 10, 1911. _ pi he New *Plays/On, You Ophelia! eee % - Copyright, 1911, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York World). | | Another ARSENE LUPIN Stor — a8 ore “The Hollow Needle” By Maurice Leblanc ; By Clare Victor Dwiggins ( “The N Havoc’ Leaves Ibsen a Harlem Wreck. \ AN’ BELigve. ME - HE'S WORTH Tice THe ~MONEN ' IF A MAGNIFICENT GIFT LIKE Tus «DONT PUT A CRIMP IN OPHELIA misteR GINT, Then BRCOM Fon. ; WROTE. GHAKSPEAR , THATR ALLE (Cop Mu Present Him TO COME on Pip! 1910, by Maurice Leblanc.) these papers was the fa copy which the captain of the guards saved from the flamos? taht , that among | | mous SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS "" | Lite Gani | 1 have conaulted the Country-tHouse L| Yeardook. ere is a Baron de Veliner BY CHARLES DARNTON a raeaack foe § aes ee % Raymonde (the bray be a descendant of the marquis? | At the Bijou tast night that {t echoed with “The Fall of Nora” and left Ibsen rx ta i sersion a little old book hearing onfite Sook fhe" aricer wirvorte To titi tke Wegpey | Cue Pawe the Word aignille; Gh mime Wag the title of a book that Richard Craig's wife was a mysterions ti aie | awaiting his reply ading when the curtain went up because her star boarder, Paul Hessert, Hietfow'S rene Tt would give me the greatest ofes. ought it would help her to remember him and fotwet her husband. Richard Fou. it you can poate thet fas a good railroad man, but when it came to a question of “advanced ideas” ahd oie toe TE bag a por re travelled by slow freight. Although Kate had been a stenographer, she had ce in search, of 8 Of course, I shall not eem- soul, and up to the time Paul came to board with them that soul had starved stalled Wim, municate these little discoveries to the love. When Paul needed any extra help he called in Tosen, 80 you see how —_ press, Now that ou are gear ween ings were going. | > CHAPTER VIL. | on is esnential, __ Matters might easily have taken a comedy turn for the better, but the, <t: Reautrelet absolutely agreed. (Gie (Continued) uthor, H. 8. Sheldon, was not disposed to be lightly entertaining. He wa: t further; to two journalists ler Thsen in dead earnest. Ibsen had created quite enough havoc with his worrying him that morning document ta | -S- Oey, ye oO) ire i the most fanciful particu o ‘advanced {deas"—Mr. Sheldon would put a stop to the nonsense. What right 4¢ Thave, with | ¢9 hia plane and bin state of ond | ad Ibsen in Harlem anyway? I léave the answer to you. | cots A {4 | my own eyes, seen the) Th the afternoon, he turrted ropmd It was quite apparent that thi dull, uninteresting people didn’t know —_—_—+ —— _ ie Lies bad tg red se +) aes Masaiban, who lived at 17, Quat they were talking about. Richard, in fact, didn't know “The Fall of Tane Hin, Kid YOUT CAA HAVE Hite FOR - — herself asst date oF ties ton a9 told t t Mw Massiven fad gone OEE fora’ from his ratiroad book, for both were bound in the same leather. So he | We's Your fe cents | eof is WE A Goo in her hand, that the whole story of | toWR unexpectedty, Jenvitg & Dela iae pot the wrong book in hie bag and then ceme back from the “depot” for the | h my Hira FoR CARSTMAS |Ncarren ? the pamphlet. Ae printed ime Mf. Mae-| im in case he should call. lsidore M@ht one. Kate had made an even bigger mistake by locking herself in her | [conpument Bur He's TOO le ly a Mia i vrtil ba hebitke ded ee Opened it and read Jom with Paul. It all seemed very sudden, even for Harlem. Kate, quite | Ka) SAVAGE FOR ME ~\ alban, {s correct, because a problem o I have received a telegram which Haturally, was a bit flustered when her husband rapped on her door and she the Hollow Needie really existe, Tam | gives me some hope, So I am leaving came out to explain that Paul had gone away and she had locked herself in ag Sites ie Maeataee witcted a jas iy a sleep at hee Bt ne >and hat on a chair. He pretended to atart for the depot" again, but he sneaked you do not manage to decipher it, be-| little station of Velines. We Would?” ‘back, and then everything, including Paul, came out. After a somewhat painful nes tub Set trovat the boon | Meet at the castle, which Is two miles argument, the husband brought a pistol into the discussion, but instead of using that gave the explanation.” and a half from the station it he agreed to go away and let his wife get a divorce. Then Paul could marry | Yeu. but. the other, copyy which |;t>@Sresramme appeated to Beautre. her and Richard would come back and board with them. | Kirig Lovie XVi'e captain of. the Slit oes oh teers i idea that) he *__ This lovely dea had its humorous side, and once again there was hope that | guards enatched from the fames, wae} satin ie. ; aasey tend % arvgre es * Mr. Sheldon wouldn't be too hard on Mr. Ibsen. As time passed and another | not destroyed.” some blunder on the part of that Inexe @ act came along, Richard seamed quite happy in his new role of boarder. Paul, | nate ab poh RG NST perience man. He went bach eo Re however, was getting peevish. He didn’t like having Richard around. Kate | “Prove the contrary." friend and apent the rest of the day Said nothing, but went right on making baby clothes. However, Paul was get- | After uttering this deftance, Beaus| With lim. In the evening he took the ting on her nerves, She didn’t like it a bit when he came back from the corner | ltrclet was allent for @ time and then, | Brittany express and got out at Velfnes saloon filled with suspicion and something more stimulating. To his inquiries slowly, with hin eyes closed an though |@. ® O'clock in the morning. ' about Richard, she said he had gone to his club. She didn't know he was trying to fix and gum up bis thoughts, (tde.O8 the two and @ halt miles, ‘be. out on the balcony, though enough cigar smoke came in through the open he sald: ¢ ses te pr bggecl e Bags; He cquid window to make this cléar to anybody. When the discovery was made, Paul Possessing the secret, the captain of | trom a distance e saciye cnn height, got out the family pistol, but Richard called his attention to the fact that !t the guards ins by revealing it bit bY |@ mixture of the Rena ance and Louis wasn't loaded, so once again Tragedy stood on one foot and grinned pleasantly “it in the al found by his descend-| Philippe style, but it bore a atetelys Henry Milter, as Richard, had been oblized to fire off nt. Then ¢ allence. The answer |alr, nevertheless, with its four ¢urtete & speech that rang with noble sentiments, but this time he had better ammunt- the riddle {* withheld, Why? Be-|and ita ivy-mantled drawbridge tion and he peppered Paul with his own shot. It was a comedy situation that the temptation to make use of the Isidore felt his heart beat as he ap. renewed one's faith in the author's sense of humor—but no!—Mr. Sheldon was | secret creeps over him littie by Httle po yre Was ‘he reaily nearing he only waiting to make grim work of his last act. The individual was wrong, the and he gives way to It. A proof? THis pes I yd bi ; bee gs castle contain majority right. Tbsen had got it all twisted. In following his “advanced ideas’ aaa - - ~ -- -- —=| murder, A further proot? The magnie | "P S°% te abe Phe toa, Shue Paul had gone from bad to worse. He had stolen $2,000 from the rafirond | ( | nice ewel found upon him, which Ne |seemed too mood te be fart alii company. th ust have undoubtedly taken from | asked himself éf he was not once more Love That AS a friend of the family st seemed only reasonable that Richard should help some royal treasure the hiding place of " \ 3 Paul out for Kate's sake, but he wouldn't do it. arrested unless he cleared out for good and Kate went back to her old job) aa Ws stenographer. He wag ready to have him It js to be hoped that the poor woman's job turned out to be less tedious than the play had proved. The acting was the best part of it. After Mr. Miller succeeded in making himself understood he gave a fairly interesting perform- anc her Daniel Pennell, vemional and you'll Miss Laura Hope Crews played Kate 60 well that it w riously for once, and Francis Byrne did everything possible for Paul. sa clerk, completed the small cast. “The Havoc" takes a step backward in the way of {deas. It happy.” Perhaps—but not in the theatre’ no effort to take ‘Be ¢on+ . Maxims for the Girl HB girl who ts always polite and | in harmony for form's sake, and the girl who turns handsprings at herswork for the sake of the new: open- ‘ng, may approach the {deal in the of- fice, but— Ideals differ, One girl says she can't feel civil to the girl who tries to ride over every- body's head and who !s friendly to you out of mere diplomacy. Another says that the girl who is all for the firm and not a bit for her fel- low workers ought to get some sort of @ hazing. Certainly there Is no love lost between the general run of office girls and the manager's “pet” whose doubled ener- Giles and studied efforts to please au- Who Earns a Living. thority cannot hide her vast eelfishness, One may work hear and soul for the manager and still lose out when it comes to promotion because of nostiil- | ties of others who must be taken into account. Sometimes promotion doesn't compen- sate for the unpleasantness of know- ing that others are constantly knock- ing you. It {s just as {mportant to have and to hold the respect of your fellow workers | as to earn the confidence and favor of your manager.—Chicago Tribune. We admire ambition until tt reaches the extreme of overbearingness, greed and indifference to the rights of others Then it looks like vice. Betty V Advice t When Farents Object. incent’s o Lovers object to the attentions of some man, Msten to their reasons for eo doing. Remember they are older and wiser than you are, and there ts no M’ dear girls, when your parents heart. aversion to the plat ITY Pinder your company, pause to hearken to the! human nature better than you do. some young man who 1s calling upon you is unfit to be in one else in the world who has your interest so entirely at I have said often enough that I do not approve of parents who simply forbid their children to do some par- | ticular thing and refuse to give any reasons for their) n. But, on the other hand, any one who has an honest, disinterested reason for opposing something should at feast be listened to. true of one's parents. And this is particularly hurry and flurry that we have No Dear girls, you cannot blame them for being over+|mryim to think of the things that. be. solicitous, ‘They have lived and learned and they know | put in the UNDERCURRENT, sentl- | When they tell you ir reasons for making such a statement, Only stupid people refuse to listen to advice. Zs He Toc Old? GIRL who signs her letter "C. P." A writes: ‘I am acquainted witin a young man whom I Mike very much, He is twenty-five years old and Tam eighteen. Do you think he ts too old to call upon me I do not think he {# too old to call upon you, but you are rather too young to accept serious attentions. Father Objects. GIRL who signs her letter “A. 8. A G." writes: “A young man has been call- ing upon me quite frequently tor some time, A few evenings ago he told me hia father objects to his. attentions to! me, What shall I do’ The young man should not have told you such a thing if he intends to con- tinue calling. I think you had better tell him to observe the wishes of his father. For References. A YOUNG girl who si D, 8." writes: ‘A young man has asked me to become his wife. He lives far away from here. Will it be proper for me to write to his home town for references before I marry him?" ‘ her letter — Ask the young man anything you wish to know about him and if you do not feel you can take his word do not mar- ry him, Other Girls. still continue to call upon other My flancee objects, put I ike the girls too well to give them up." You should never have become engaged girls, writ “I care very much for a young man and he has called on me quite often, A few days ago I met him on the street and asked him if he would like me to write to him. He said ‘Yes,’ and that he would send me his new address, whioh he has not done. Now, what shall I do?" It was not proper for you to ask the young man if he would like you to write to him, and evidently jhe does not care about it very much or he would have eent his address, i} A GIRL who signs her letter “A. Y,," A oR. ice iad MERE in leap WITH you. Weep and you weep NOT : 1 y bo some disinterested I am engagea to a girl, but z| sone: There may be om ntereste other If you “ike other girls too well to give | " ; her, she “loves her would |them up.” Your flancee's objections are | | pote AR saieatio 0 forgive all.” Ah, verily no greater love hath mortal than this, ' Shall She Write? Now there is the twentieth century Her Dreams at Eighteen By Eleanor Schorer . Never Dies | ” By Sophie Irene Loeb. Copyright, 1011, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World), WOMAN writes pathetically a A tells of the INGRATITUDE a daughter. nd of That after she had done “all that a mother could” the daughter, “now married and in BETTER circum- stances, forgets} the mother who bore her."* She hopes that article written | the suvject Teach not HER daugh- but many thoughtless an on may only ter, other ones. At the same time another letter comes |from a great soul who reads the! HUMAN gamo at a@ glance, The day before Christmas she was Pasting a country churchyard, The snow very deep and there was ro |@ soul to be seen on the road. But | right there in the yard was a woman. | Her hair was as white as the snow she| was scraping from the grave at her! Reverently she laid a holly | th thereon and looked up to SMILE | at the passerby. | She had no GRIEVANC? against the | world, Only LOVE filled her heart and| she sought to express it In the silent | Act on the resting place of her child I venture to say that this woman who BMILED tn her action of love also| decorates the lives of her LIVING as| well as the graves of her dead My friend hurried away. For she, too, | 1s a MOTHER, and the tears were} | streaming down her cheeks. She A, LINEA i re- turned to find that the stone marked | the by ns of a YRARS ago. | We may SCOFF at SENTIMENT. We | may relegate it to the stage only, We may be so warped with the veneer of girl MANY] ment rules THE WORLD; if we would | but RECOGN i> | It may de the sweetheart letter, the | brother's protective si confidence or even the business alr, the good wishes—all proclaim the un- spoken feelings GOVERN. | Yet any of the ay be duplicated, A} man or woman may get y sweet~ heart, sister or friend, But for each one of us there is but ONE mother. She is the world that laughs and she laughs fathers, but it fs a RARE case indeed \that a mother wilfully FORSAKES her own, | And so this woman goes on to® say that though her own has FORSAKEN SMLL and attitude toward things. There are the so-called neW thinkers who belleve in| “1” first, last and always. ‘Their war cry is, “I do not owe anything to ANY-|__ * veh, unknown to all, would Just con- | acting tn ot» plan lence to some infernal contrived by Lupin, if Measiban stitute the mystery of the Hollow|was not for instance, a tool én ¢he Needle, Lupin conveyed as much to|hands of his enemy. He burst eut me; Lupin was not lying.” laughing: “ “The Beautrelet “L draw this conclusion, my friends, It would be a good thin ise this story ag much | so that | the papers, that at conclusion do you draw, possible, | without even waiting for It to produce a he did not hope to reconstruct a orime perpetrated two hundred years ago. | But, all the same, there are crimes | that leave traces in the memories, in | the traditions of a countryside. ‘They are recorded in the local chronicles. One day, some provincial archaeologist, ne lover of old legends, some student the minor ineldents of the life of the the subject of an yer or of a commu- nj! of his depart. WSD oad eww three or four of these yogists, With of them in particular, ve examined the prison re the ledgers of the old bailiwicks and the parish registers. There was no entry referring to the murder of a captain of the guards in | the seventeenth century, He refused to be discouraged and cons tinued his search in Paris, where the magistrate’s examina‘ton might have n place, His efforts came to noth ing. But the thought of other track sent | him off in a fresh 4 tion, Was there | no chance of finding out the name of that captain whose descendant served jin the armies of t Republic and was quartered in e during the tm- prisonment of Royal family? By ut of patient working, he ended by ‘making out a list in which two names t pre an almost comple resemblan M. @ Larbeyrie L TV., and Citlsen L under This was an important point He stated it with precision in a note which he sent to the papers, asking for information coneerning thhs Lar- beyrie is dante th Maasiban ber of the Inst As been suppresvod tn all 1 it sald ntendan 4 y the ha finances, who avd the Caumarun nd 1 ie had been r ugnificent xcited an All {4 loat~all In t ollowing Jewel You will #9 BODY but MYSELF." They think be- Pte fete io gas aR , profit that. can Wve rom thle cause they did not ASK to come into the | For the fact r ns that willy-nilly you |can NEVER be paid in FULL, pother and her mother needs her. Teci- | passage and th dent tink eatabliahed world that they need Answer to NO are here, B mother and her UN-}| But some of it may be can belween the twa Aadventurey ae t ONE'S wisHes, | TIRING care you could NOT HAVE |HERE and n sometimes it tal WHILE YOU MAY THE ibe bargin pee Rect: These people seemingly SEL 1K. | been here ttle. A 1, a smile, a flower, a | NEVER DIE te vag pete waa the. ate FICIENT gain only solidity of § erefore, all Joy that you Jds fuel to the never-dying flame of pel bisa = paces ieyerantaa ISHNESS. Their cold, sinister coun-| reap, but for HMI perch 1 would MOTHER love EQUAL RIGHTS. umatances; but, on the other hand, tenances repel and we expel then from | not have POUNI), And as to SORROW It is perhaps an old subject, but a new "What parlor socialism sked Seeing that M. di ri left son, | our thoughts as BOON as possibie, bo mother wiles to bring Unat iid ix born BE HOUR, and anew graye. who was proba Brandfather of Aside from any religion, even to the) No use to tell Ue payment DUK| mother greets the dawn of anxiety and) “faving two callers at the same time M! pear citisen oon and iam & NON-BELIEVER the righteousness of her, Since Mother Eve have the poets hope, nd letting eoth holt a hand,” ex-| pose that a part of the papers left by honoring the parents must be apparent. |and philosophers told of the debt, It The daughter of to-day needs her plained Maybelle, Washington Herald. Larbeyrie came to the daughter and Fy . » to ad- ple may know, through all we are looking for a “Tut, tut, I'm becoming absurd! would really think that Lupin was) an infatiivle person who foresees every- thing, @ sort of divine omntpotence |Agninst whom nothing can prevail! Dash all, Lpin makes is eistak n, tod in at. the mercy” of cireimatanten: Lupin haa an occasional slip! And tt | book entitled “The Treatise of the |t8 Just because of his slip in losing the | Needle” It may be famed out from the eae tae, at by br wey Ci ve | baek shetves of some provinetal library." . Everything The paragraph was drawn up forth. | ers from t cepa eis | with: and Beaurelet set to work at once, | ose plunder, , coma And blithely, full of confidence, sult. A first scent suggested itself: | tretet rang the bell. the murder was committed near Gallon, sir?” said the servant Who He went there that same day, Certainly, | op the door. i “an I see the Baron de Velines?™ And he gave the man his card, “Monsieur le Baron ts not up yet, Mut, ff monsteur will wait""— “Has not some one else been for him, @ gentleman with @ white a and a slight stoop?" asked Beautretet, who knew Maesiban's appearance ftom the photographs In the newspaperm | “Yes, the gentleman came about; 10 minutes ago; I showed him into drawing room, If mofslour will this way"—— The tnterview between Massfban dnd Beautrelet was of the most cordial chiar- acter. Isidore thanked the old man for | the first-rate information which he 1 to him, and Massiban expressed his @d- j¢miration for Beautrelet in the w: terms. ‘Then they exchanged impees- sions on the document, on their prospects of discovering the book; and Massthan repeated what he had heard at Rennes regarding M. de Velines. The Baron was @ man of sixty, who had been ieft = widower many years ago and who led very retired dife with his Gabrielle de Villemon, ‘This ieay bed Just suffered @ cruel blow through} the loss of her husband and her eldest gon, hoth of whom had died as the remult of @ motor car accident, | “Monsieur le Baron begs the geritle- | men to be good enough to come up- stairs.” »] ‘The servant led the way to the @ret floor, to a large, bare-walled room, very simply furnished with desks, plgeon- holes and tables covered with papers pad account books, The Baron received them very aftably and with volubility often displayed by | people who live too much alone. ‘Phey: had great diMcuity in explaining the object of thelr visit. ‘Oh, yea, I know, you wrote me abput {t, M. Massiban, It has something to dy | with a book about a needle, hasn't It, a book which Is supposed to have come down to me from my ancestc ‘Just 0,” “I may as wel! tell you that my an- cestors and I have failen out. They hat funny ideas in those days, I belong '¥ my own time, I have broken with the "sald Beautre impationtly, but have you no recollection of Bay Ing seen the book? 0 ‘Certainly, ( sald so in my telegrain,” he exclaimed, addressing M. Massthan who, In his annoyance, was walking p and down the room and looking put of the tall wine “Certalnh or, at least, my daughter thourht she had seen the title among the thousgnds f books that lumber up the Ut upstairs—for T don't care about re myself—I don't even 1 the My daughter does, som es, but enly When there {s nothing the matter with } rremalying son! As for me, as my tenants pay thelr rents are kept up —-! You it hodks: I tive in them, ; and I confess that T khow nothing whate ry of which you wre er, M, Maasiban —" és dore Beautrelet, nerve-shattered. a all this talk, interrupted him blunt) “I beg your pardon, monsi 4a the book — My daugh looked for It “Well?” “Well, she found it; she found ig few hours ago, When you arrived t=" And where ta it Where is it? Why, she put that table—there it fe—-over there | (To Bo Continued.) . r about that > me in your t ie er has looked for ft, all day yesterday, - —