The evening world. Newspaper, January 26, 1911, Page 19

dressed ‘tor question. “ my e olr, " ¢essor, impatiently. © to me and Is not for sale.” @ look that Gerbois's memory, neatly tionery, Betty Vincent’s Advice to Lovers|} “The Blonde Lady was there before his eyes, within reach of his hand.” Jere after the other, eam The Romance of the French" Thief "3". peo. rosso. ws ween Genius’s’’ Duel of Wits With ivi: i's. 308 fi A Woman of Mystery and Het 2° rs yy, mon “Why, that n his hands. Surel 5 ds ment WW Love Story. (Copyright, 1910, ty Dewbleday, Page & Cod | He had ¥ CHAPT LAL, Dumber 5/4, Scries 2%. N tho Sth of December last Versailles College, rummaging dea.ers, discovered a small w se of lis many drawers. “That's Just what I want for § M. Gerbois's means were limiied and, anxious as he was to please his daugh- ter, he feit it his duty to beat the dealer down. He ended by paying six five francs, As he was writing down his address, a well groomed and well young man, who hag been hunting through the shop in every, dir writing desh and asked fancy beca' caught sight of th “How much for this “It's sold,” replied the dealer. “Oh . . . to this gentleman?” M. Gerbols bowed and, feeling al ied him his purchase, left the shop. tely: “I beg a thousand pardons, sir “No. 1 went ment “The efore, y ticularly ? want it, that's 1 ecause {t's old, I suppose?” “Because it's useful.” "In that © se wou! midd ex- changing {i for another desk, a! do not want {* very useful, but in vetter nd “This one is !n good condition and I} * ate no int in exchanging it" "st M. Gerbois was a man easily irritated and quick to take offense. He replied curtly: must ask you to drop the subject, ‘The young man placed himself in front of him. “] don't know how much you paid, sir—but I offer you double the price.” “No, thank you.” ‘Three times the “Oh, that will do, rice.” xclaimed the pro- “The desk belongs The young man stared at him with ‘An hour later the desk was brought ‘to the little house on the Viroflay | + road where the professor lived. He Ned his daughter: CMePhis. ts for you, Suzanne; that Is, {f_you like it.” That evening, assisted by Mortense, | the maid, she carried up the desk to| out the drawers and | put away her papers, her sta-| her room, cle her correspondence, her pic ture postcards and a few socret souve- nirs of her cousin Philippe. M, Gerbois went to the college at half: ° Unkept Aj poin.ments, to keep all them lightly and without good cau rowd is not company, and faces aro has so h You should stop and think before you make an engage j Out @ galery Of motures, and te 4 ove itself wil oe ment with any one whether or not you are comparativel 18 r is no lif u hg, a detr gh: sure you will be able to keep It. H we 1 know girls who think it amusing ar wR written A r NEw of their popularity to make half ad hte for | fie or F nous one evening. They know when they m that n ie wa 10, will be possible to Keep but one, yet they wait until the la ment before | 4 n at | breaking the others. | Per is of analysis we » unter ry dears, consider the feelings of others, and how annoyed YOU would be | vo keen—tis t realized, Ho B: r Left Them. YOUNG man who signs his letter A “J, RY writes: “While another young man and @ out walking we met (wo girls we knew, and after we had joined them they deliberately walked away When we asked them Why rred myself wer from us. they did this they sald they pret to walk alone, Was this polite?’ Not very polite, to be sure, but at| not think I would return thom, were 1|SWeeter more gracious, More exqu ‘no doubt as a} least they left you in their preferences, The Evening a.8) Gerbois, professor of mathematica at coer cctn | THis Mother-in- La w the happier that one of his fellow-men Ty But he had not taken ten steps tn the | “Keen before the young man caught him up and, raising his hat, said, very | poll . Tam going to ask you an indiscreet | Were you looking for this desk rather than anything else? o the shop to see if I could find a past 7 the next morning. At Suzanne, according to her datly cu went to m 1 © was a Bee on | gracef. polished up the brass bh shine lke Gervois. writing desk was go wonderful simpli ployed. While Suzanne was out and the maid making her purchases for the day, a ticket porter wearing his badg remained Imprinted on M. | then turned on his! }, without a word, and walked away. | den in sight of t the bell twi Knowing that the servant had left the | house, & man w lute This fact must be noted: not a cup- board had been broken open, not #0 much as a clock displaced, — Eve Suzanne's purse, which she had left va the ma on the ad which it contained, theft was clearly dete Y dear young people, do not break engagements made M with your friends, Of course I know it Is impos appol but you should not break such an engagement unless it ts “RB: UT Uttle do n some one broke an engagement with you, eas Retuning Gifts. changed a number of little (gaye me?" turns yours. World Daily Magazine, Thursday TIDOOTDHDEGHOOHGODGSGGSHODGSGE trivial a spoil? The only clue which the professo | could supply was the incident of the Prom the first that young man dis- precious ticket played a keen annoyance at my re- fusal, and I have a positive impression that he left me under a threat It was all very vague. The doaler was questioned, Ho knew neither of the two and ad resold it at a tent inquiry revealed 1g volce: 2 consid that fair p A nothing furth But M. Gerbols remained convinced Vb |that he had sufferes an enormous loss.) “The one I A fortune must have been cc some secret drawer and that Wi the young man, kr ng of the h Place, had acted with such decisi “Poor father! What should we have) “When? done with the fortun: Suzanne kep: saying. Wibat! Why, with that for your ing t don't no one higher than who had nota pen- “Yes. r cousin P a bitter sigh, And iife in thi at Versailies went on gall Uttle how tadned now was Ww tn regret and disappoint-| “It co ment, | “On, fathe oe Oe eo she murmur Two months elapsed. And auddenty “A million 1 Bequere ning a sur hug nd, f | the most serious events, five, M. Ger father, with an evening par ho had just Does it re ‘Of cou and began to read. The esting. He t graph at once ca was u ow “THIRD DRAWING OF THE PR oF 514, Series 23." 8 | The paper dropped The wails wa f his father, 4 bent! the number tit by ac nis friends, for he part mong the stores at @ he thought ‘ anne's birthday, ) Rost * MAKE SO MUCH jO1ISE, , BOBBY , DEAR. Mama's READING. ap set of s vement They wal nd ho’ “Oh, it's lov the desk?” nse und I have dies tll they hout !t all this time. walked up the front garen. sor said yk at It before lunch.” e [wonces aut wuepene)( NOW RUN ALONG To M THE MATINEE CHILDREN PopByY AND \_ wiLL Tew FAIRS TALES. Whet's the m He followed her into the room, The ec. What astonished the police was the ity of the means em- stopped his cart before the ga e neighbors and runs The netghbors, not spected nothing, so that the s able to effect his object absv- y undisturbed. the desk, was found nt table with the gol! he object of thp mined, therefore, January 26. A New ARSENE LUPIN Story ae The Blonde Lady By Maurice Le Blanc GOEGOODDODODODOOO®) hold of the desk * * © His energy revived; nping his foot on the floor id} He took out his memorandum book, | was , Was jotted down on the| But where was the ticket? v to his study to fetch the box | he had put the he sprang up and, | friend and confidant of Holmlock Shears LIDDHDHOHHOGOS and this made it the more diMicult in luck; and now he had won! understand; for, after all, why @ man run go great a risk to secure 80; quick! ° laughter that greeted the publl- on of the two telegrams, The nar of Arsene Lupin alone was a guarantee of originality, a promise of anvusement the gallery. And the «a After all, sharp as he may ean do nothing either 8 for the money, we shall see, my friend!" of something, day before of stationery In which they'll lock him up! tas he entered and staggered back, a pain at his heart an awful thing idenly realized that the box had there for weeks. gentlemen, As for che desk. he had | “Suzanne! Suzanne!” bought it for forty francs at Chevreuse, She had just come in and ran up the at the sale of a person deceased, and ho stairs hurriedly. inqitlry was immediately set on the Credit Fe ascertained that No. 51s, serie been sold by the Versailles Credit Lyonnais to Major Bressy of the artillery, No af lappeared that he told his brother o ne@ time before his death ¢ been obliged to part with to a friend. | at friend was myself,” declared M “I shall defend our rights to the bit: ter end, come what may! * * © The million belongs to me and I mean to have ft!"* A few minutes this telegram: And we shall He stammered, he despatched no * * © the box * * © the of stationery * * ch one?” “Rue Capucines, bought at the Louvre led in) * * * on a Thursday * why stand at the end of the table” “Am owner number 514, pose by every legal method paymer j* * © We put it away together st the same time th received another ‘umber 614 serles ' wee That evening you know, the ik In thy pos a . dowry, you could have made the finest,* * * it's more than T can bear WOnbot tee Whenever I sit down to tell | ° | less adventures | the life of Arsene Lupin I feel a embarrassment, to me that even the adventures ty kn ssment, I took his ticket from him and gave him twenty fr “Have you any witnesses to the trans. In the writing-des! desk that was stolen?” to bless himself with, and she gave “In the desk that was stolen!” He repeated the less care- with a sort of terror. lessly than before, shadowed over as it hand, and lower still: a million Suzane ¢ ¢ ¢ y didn't you tell me?” 1 innocently. t important of were 30 ous wa to every ono Then he took her upon what do you base your doos know not bs ‘pon the letter which he wrote me the curtous eptrodes of Wining murder In the Pres “Profuice | ess of the disaster c a long time, they main silence which th: At last Suzanne said they will pay you all th reak hy? On what evidence?” sire evidenc nes that mark those two great what a din along the boule d the struggle t fn which hy shareholders—announced that he ‘And have you none?” England’s Greatest Detective |i" 00") Sor. It was in the box." “In the box th s disappeared?” F man will get the tery about these articles that have bee read over and over again; 1 interviews; had appoii you can stop the pay- but all these things Ir to act for nd classify and put te knows? ist be extrnordin: tevin te am also under ‘an occasional ob! \igae 2 Fy 3 owed the Ma. lett I d the you do not hold. Therefore neither By Clare Victor Dwiggins | sale" of the ticket, but dia hot mention | Us can do anything without the other, Copyright by The Press Publishing Co (The New York World). Vm é: | ‘OH HE'S WOT) | that 1 nave the letter. culty—let us divide. HE WONT PAINO Ql Bose, WouLD You A WORD 1 SAY, JUST AS SOON CUT up THis PAPER.? TwaT 1s ONE OF PAPA'S Nice BooKs. ‘VE “PPoiteD nim, A UT TLE ride ONCE. UPon ATIME THERE WAS MOTHER, Your Yes- He)| |’; when taking away the desk, knew thing of the ext ft the lott i See be BEY, ON) Npeeo \sinty stun A rat GoT_TIRED, ticket and that, in any “cane, no one wutlty of the colossal blunder of His LESSONS sible rrr rr em all etre! ents und. tances, percetve what) will m absolutely necessary to do £0, ude is and how far it ex- hun, 1 for @ You cannot expect people to care very much for you or ndeth," wrote Bacon as sup ¢ test ¢ to believe that you if you. "inconventence | *steenth century Wes Closing, For a) end Unsel! care for them it 1a great Truth, A rou! out by love, YOUNG man who signs his letter | d were A “F. B. J." writes: | Great @ as Dante was, the Ginming of | “I have been calling frequently | groping fl. of his fancy Moated| And upon a young lady, and although we and ¢ Beatri 4 spler a Were Not engaged to cach otacr we ex- | that has made her iin. sr y rice was an ord with a tempe not know. He did not marry hi But it ts this craving we have quarrelled and 1 wisi if I ought to return the py ff the gifts were of iittle value I do in your place, unless the young lady re. than Life has given bim, tuat turns the| of her own 4 The Woman Who Wins | e--and Holds Ic. "iGive and Take By Ethelyn Huston} oft n to him all that his esult is that the mas- for the Winged Boy, They sound plain | ele would Binother afer who has just 8 ness of a wo- 8 that has # t is changel man for woman newahing sw would have bored her lover to death, | domin fights of fancy else | Sighs and tears but dig @ bottomless pit ber lover's adoration threadvare, lwo Cute under the Cuticle, Every one [nian blandly indifferent thought of arred to the one women thay to bis epasmod! am aay DOODOOOSDE DOOHOS’ he unspeakable Wilson, the lera will remember the Ho- ° in was the whole world. | Ait was 2%, had ‘anon ¢ the Major had from his horse; and it ttl. at objected the governor of ncler, That'a quite easy, Twenty that T kept up con- ns with the Major, and that 8 there that, one ) a moment of finan lay, to al em nes for tt." pinned to the tcket." was in the stolen writing Was communtented to the Lupin, A paragraph ine ho de which has ing his official organ and m8 to be one of the prin- ing in h is of Maitre De . his counsel, the letter white Ma Bressy had written to him, Lupin, | “Where's that lady? And Lupin? We've cot hi: The house is surrounded.” was a burst of delight: Arsene u“ rep ed by counsel! Ar respecting es abliahed eqs. | UMe, somewhat sceptical and given to Gerbola received a letter from ted a member of the! i sadox Lupin marked “Private and nt Maitre Detinan was exceedingly sorry tal,” which worried him mot @ litde: * rushed to Interview {to #ay that he had never had the pleas ear Sir: an Influential sat/ Ure of meeting Arsene Lupin, but he! “The gallery ts amusing itself at dur y, @ man endowed with th ,-| had. in point of fact, received his in-| expense. Do you not think that the est Integrity and a mind of un ‘on | Structions, was greatly flattered at be- time has come to be serious? 1, for S WHIOh Was tthe barre | [hm selected) nly ative to the honor, My part, have quite made up my $$$. —___— shown him and determined to defend “The position is clear. I hold 1s ol | its to the utmost. He whic m not entitled to cash opened his brief and without hesitation You are entitled to cash # ticket se the purchaser's name, It began, “My| “Now you would not consent to simp, render your rights to me nor I to give | “'My dear friend? means me," added | UP my ticket to you. Arsene Lupin, in @ note enclosing the| “What are we to do? | Major's letter “And the best proof is} “I see only one way out of the dim= SPOILED yet hy OL reporters at once flew off | you, halt @ miition, rbols, Who could do nothing but faire Ang would he's Just Bue olomon “My dear friend’ ts no one but my- \self. Arsene Lupin atole the majors this as an equitable letter with the lottery ticket. tion, vut also an immediate solu “Tell him to prove it,” was Lupin's, It is not an offer which you have rejoinder to tye journalists, | to discuss, but a necessity before | “But he stole the desk!" exclaime circumstances compel you to M, Gerbois in front of the same jour- give you three days for reflection, nalists, “I hope bhat, on Friday morning, f | “Tell him to prove ft!" retorted Lupin ; may have the pleasure of seeing @ dis- | once again, crest advertisement in the agony 64 | And a delightfut entertainment was | mn of the Echo de France, | provided for the public by this duel be | to ‘M. Ars. Lup. 1d containing, |tween the two owners of number 614, | Velled terms, your unreser,.d assent'to series 23, by the constant coming and|the compact which I am suggesting 49 going of the Journalists and by the cool- | You, In that event you will at once re- ness of Arsene Lupin as opposed to the | Cover possession of the ticket and fe- frenzy of poor M. Gerbois. ceive the mililun, on tne understanding | Unhappy man! The pre: full of | hat you will hand me five hundred thous his lamentations! He confessed the full |#and francs in @ way which J will indi- | extent of his misfortunes tn @ touching. | cate hereatt |ly ingenuous way: “Should you refuse I have taken mens- | ‘It's Suzanne's dowry, gentlemen, | ures that will produce exactly thes that the villain has stolen . . For | result; but, apart from the very myself, personally, I don’t care; but | trouble which your obstinacy for Suzanne! Just think, @ million! | bring upon you, you would be the Ten hundred thousand franca! Ah, I] by twenty-flve thousand france, whioh always sald the desk contained a treas-|I should have to deduct for additional ure!"? expenses. He was told in vain that his adver-| “I am, dear air, very reposts ant OF FAIRY could have foreseen that this partioular |ing this letter and allowing It to. TALES - ticket would win the first prize, All he| copied. His indignation érove * p> a ‘as to moa every sort of folly i Don't talk to me; or course he knew! penny! He shall not If not, why should he have taken the shouted before the trouble to steal that wretched desk?’ — | reporters. “For unknown reasons, but certainly er! Let him tear up his ticket, not to get nold of @ scrap of paper which, at that time, was worth the modest sum of 2 francs." “The sum of a million! He knew tt! He knows everything! Ah, you don’t| rights, and thos: know the sort of a man he Is, the in a court of law. 4 ruffian! He haon't defrauded you of a] “What judge is going to take Aoqpes «4 million, you Lupin's word? leng| “i don't care; I shall go to law!” aN M. (To Be Continued.) a ] 1d have gone on twelve days Ia Modern Mythology’ By Barrett Hanson Witherbee Copyright, 1911, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York World), v | 14. Socrates, knows that some wives make a Women and others become Suffragett | (ergy) ENTION Socrates to your} but Xantippe didn’t even have this | Grocer, and in all probability] cuse, She was the shantyclear of: ti he will reply i st, a) right, and she raised " 1 Sorr DUE We're Just out Iuctions, Vege. and the Mortgage, some fresn| When she crowed, Socrates cackelated wut a nice head] that lt was Time to adjourn For Five Lead O'clock Firewater at the Acropolis, ur own Head) He was one of the Maay who doa't Home wonder- want to, but Have to, Come Beck~or » On Going, the literacy » was the kind of a woman who 1» Laws, a Man to Drink and thgn t tches the Bottle out of bis hands bs Who before he can say ‘Pr-oh, demmit,” % fs. (The missing letter Is “q’'.) ut while our Sympatht lun, but are fata Lveless, and “tule but one with a ¢ mn rates, nevertheless his Witt was nh Dinner speak nore to be Pitied than Scolded. From “a i u Ht accounts, old Soe looked lke o he Got Lp an ap-| He was the uglest man who ever tast, When bis longue | peered into a pler glass and—cracked 1 Suc had wo dy | it, His eyes were of the pop, or cork, ; heep up wita it, and he | variety; and tt was @ physical Impdb- t indo’) sibility for him to wear Spectacies, Fils t or @/ nose tri r ove ¥ a particle, V 1 to bury itvelf in the back of 2 is loved, who is great | ( v ) © to hint) pis head; and succeeded, leness, who wbout whom pose, Just so long 4s) His modus vivendl erat dives in nt uno h " va partes duas—efore and after taking the ‘dblica With, of course, the Usual One excep: the hemlock (hic) wassall, (Even writ: faye t x ' . Wo Is almost) ing about something to drink makes t . 8 " apor us Fa $ er lord and Mas some people Thirsty). He get i on at surrounded 4 hid t s the ore nal Double Hi, When | the Wrong Platform with the Thimy 8 of Greece'’=that woman will! griend Ww Nuntppe tptoed into the |Pyrants, ealled Interborough for ehoes, love, where @ tempestuous and Room, Soc tuok the Tip and Crawied} jendee * ring Cleopatra would » wear under her Thumo Where he Tried My y the funeral was neat bus wet excited abou voy