The evening world. Newspaper, May 10, 1911, Page 19

— a DODOVHMHDOODONOHIDGDOO ‘The Professor’s Mystery RS arien HOoeee ‘ou preter, a book. Rh ee PARADA AP PALL PPP PDL LAR PPP AAD P AAPA rt A New York Romance of a “Summer Girl’s ’ Strange Adventures : es ODIOOOOHSE sneceenesenuioeeneonmneeas 009099O9O99O a In ever conscious of success at the time, [nothing more interesting te @o, Then) ing out of the windo “ " J ci2im ,ROInE, there myselt" she sald |my train was late and T shoud Bave| her ctiain, while £ cursed enyoslt for a [went oo Sut Badia, Tne ola ran suddenly, “Isn't this a coincidence” |missed my steamer anyway and—and | tactioss clodhopper without the sense to | be"-— =! wed ily that. Let me amend the|then you came along and I thought T avoid a danger sign ‘Just th en we struck a curve, T had nd cal: fem Mspensation, But t just as well make the moat of ‘Then T found myself wondering what | one tnstant’s sickent oe a arances, are against. you. You|the situation. Now I can go down and) this trouble could be that oy the mere {as the front wheels bumped and thudded Wien ee ee te ne ele tart Want (0 990 Me} touch of an accllental allusion sould over the ten lise Tabor caught at my & doxcart.” ond @ wei | atrike the Jo: of ac} nate "0 ty “Twonder where you ought to be go-| ‘len, sald Mise ‘Tabor, “usualty find | ‘rally ‘radiant, “Whatever it wae, it | sirehed dfunkente te the eage ef Ihe tng." she mused. “Probably to the|® logical reason for what they do on had come tipon her within the last embankment and: Mowly rolled over. British Museum to dig up a lot of dead bg PRs aren ata’ | months, or the chances of our C nt al iy re . authors that everybody ought to know| “And the prot at women alware) mas wee! aft &bout and nobody reads act reasonably," 1 retorted, “ie the | semindere of 1k Guid there Oe deen CHAPTER IT. This was nltogether too near the| they never give you the reason. bly any connec tha Ce ae eyes, 40. Meee “he | Instead of taking that for the Mippaney| cain with ins hidden portant? Or way| 2ae Meadow of Ilusion. | Btamford,” 1 said, “You appeared last | it Was, she thought about tt for eome tt only by accident that her hand went WAY for @ moment half Christmas in the character of a dau minutes; or @lee it reminded her of to {1 in her montenta of brooding? I etunned, my face turted in ter of Gotham, Wasn't there an an- | Sometht seoniad to have noticed the chain be the motet deptne of the) cestor of yours who went to sea in @| “Beside: “thie te an a@- fore, and her habit of playing with ft In graen, It aa tf Barth bowl?” venture, little one, | idiene T could not be sure had been suddenly engwited Her @mile faded as tf a Mgnt had|!f you like, but q@till with all the ear-| She roused herself preser and the in a wartiering star, aa if gong out in her, After a pause she| marks of romance, It was unexpected, | talk went on, though with an under- all known and = famiMer anstvered wearily: “We've only been| nd tt fits into iteelf perfectiy—all the current of discomfort. For my part, tT] things had come to an instant end in Stamford a few month, We had| parts of the acene match like @ pictura-| was ath! repenting my clumsiness; and {and I must eather my vague eout to! | always lived in town befare.” puszie—and it happened through @ mix- she, I suppose, felt annoyed at having | face unimagined eternities. | We looked out of the window for alture of chance and the taking of shown so palpably an emotion which{ Cautiously I ratsod by head and few motnents in allence, whtle 1 formu-|Chances. It's fwmt that enatching at she had not Intended for my eyes, Bo| looked abowt, A meatow stretched lated a haaty hypothests of financial|casual excitement that makes things | that, tn spite of regret for the ap | blooming before me, — To my left reverses which had driven the family |happen to people.” pronching end of tie adventure, Twas [loomed the abeurd bute of the up: | from thelr city home, and registered aj “Don't things enowgh happen to people hardly sorry en our arrival at Stam: | tarned troiley, on its back with wheels resolution to avoid the uncomfortable | ad it their @eaking them out’ #he) ford supplemented speech with action. |in air, look! for all the world a mubject. Still, I reflected, the lower | aske | Are you expecting ane one to meet | atupid miastodon puppy. A very muoh “There ts nothing you can help adout—nothing that I can ask or tell | shore of the Sound ts not precisely the| “Not to most people; and Mot mown: yout" T anket, then ) emptied frie ned conductor stood near by. resort of impoverished pride, Had 1| Gays, tf they ever Aid A left us standing alone. “he asked hoarsely, ° touched upon some personal. sorrow of |. “I don't think anything very much, “No, they didn't know what ¢ratn T]@ll ments Kin you look The Story of a Man Who Missed a Boat her own? She was not in mournin, has ever happened to you,” she @aid | was coming on, Rut there's the trofiey | tll Joe an’ me eit back *, Yet as she lay baek in the green chatr, | slowly now, And It's your car, toc “Look after things?’ f E y Gi 1 ° one hand listiess in her tap, the other| “Well,” sata 1, “I'm not pretending | you're still going to the duly. or Curopeya ir ho A Him Into trieine'at tae sender chain that ran | to be Ulysses; and you've reminded me| A short open With wn ace of pute]. "Sure, the Ipdies, T mean, Sure you about her neck and lost {tself in the|of my tender age @o often that L can|ting its wheels clow together in omter| kin, Well beat tt gisht off, an’ T Odd Misha S and a “Yi FF Th t N bosom of hor gown, the fringe of ter | hardly forget {t in your presence, Rut|to buck, squeaked nround tie curve and| Nope to gown Joe xobere up on the ‘ PS, oice a Oleveld clear against ‘tie soft shadows of |T have had a few exciting momenta, [took wus aboard. When wa were well| WAY! Bo long. > her profile, I imagined in her something | and I want more, I don't care whether | Under way a ®ior!, heavy man came} He was 6 ther my One Could Ex lain—The Best M ga [ot tie enchanted princess bound hy evil| they are pleasant or not, wo long as I) around tie corer of the station on an} 8's for a question, and uncomprehend- VSe\speiis in eome dark castle of despair, come eafe out of them somehow. They'll | unsteady run and pursued a itttle dis. |inly F watched the two Dlte-comted Ma: And immediately, with a surge of ab-|pay for themselves with the gold of | tar with Inartt » shoutings and|ures scrambling up the ateep, acarred tery Tale of the Decade Bah [turt vator, saw’ myseit wtriding, ewora | memors violent gestures. We were too far of sides of the viaduct. Frantically they in hand, across the drawbridge to blow| “That's just what T mean,” whe re-|to see lin very distin Dut T thought {scaled the top and made off down the the brazen horn and do battle with the|turned. “You talk about tiings as {f|he had ‘somehow a foreign look, and| tracks without so much as another enchanter, the only question of importance were|unless my cars w at fault he was | glance in my direction “Anything that either of vou say.” ' “ > Copyright, 1011, by Bodte-Mertll Company.) “You inight have gone to some ro-| whether they are exciting. One looks |cursing vs in Italian, Then of a sudden momory eame upon apciait LA asda vou say,” put in the thin Italtan, “wit be weed mantic piace,” she suggested. ‘Three|at books that way, and pictures, and) Woe left him standing in the middio|ime, and my heart contracted with © you! CHAPTER I. monthe would hardly be time enough|things that are not real, A moment lof the road, shaking hiv fist and mop.|Kreatness of fear that If had never}. ay. a . for the Far Kast, but you might havel/ago you put highwaymen in the same |ping hia face with a red handkerchief. | known, rattles emer heey aie, very Straight and waan't there another pasmengeer™ Things Are Turned Upside Down. tried Russia or the Mediterranean.” 8 with inns and goose gifie. bo} ‘There was only one otier pe cor! For a moment I could see her nowhere, | 4 little mpart, busying herself about hery IT gasped. I ded absolutely forgotten hat's just the point,’ T returned. you suppose any one that was actually the car, a fattieh woman with blond then as T staggered to Uncertain feet h Giving @ practised touch to her] the other woman, AB the two-forty-five for Boston gone yet? “Romance and adventure don't depend |held up and rotted of hia fortune The farther ae tT found her, She lay behind me, her} alr and the laces at her neck and) She was lying not far érom eo Gnié ‘The train announcer looked at me a long the; then he shifted hie/onr time; they only depend on ped would think of the robbery as merely t could hardly he called [hand pillowing her cheek as if she alep:.| or per mimes Marcely ruffled breadthe| Iittle hollow of the long grass aa) plug of tobacco to the other cheek and drawled: If you're the kind of person things hap- |e pleasant thritl private or a comfortable con«|And as I knelt beside her to lator] Mer are Co iA |the moment I thought that she faouw, Reported forty minutes date.” pen to you can have adventures on] «1d rather be robbed by @ highway- | There was a badly fattened | rfully her heart I laughed with) were ¢ ty . of ng Meet pag to | dead The sallow, foreign face wes An Wid BetNe T UalleFO;T. RWOES. “AY leant I Give no récniigction OF Teil invitee ait ire measles inien aed | AMUN ty, @ raultoed Sheewar., Jt} and which banged and jolted | the beat caine surely atid | gp F knee dy Th: @ aust pope |igrioged, “ae 1fUk oomne Geet cana MUTTERING Ges kad | asccsid tardy ave toreee : Walk through all the Arablan Nigiits And) tne worst, I'd have h run for my | and the motorman, Instead | With growing strength. stood sleepily knee deep in a small Pook / gripped, an J in some past convulsive 5 ould hardly have forgotten ao eminent an act of virtuelonly feel bored and uncomfortable. It] money.” Ps + On that Wnt | “The sudden easing of my tear came|A meadow | ne and crossed thal agony, above her dyad, and thie same | under euch diMouit circumstances, It wae not only that I had worked myself/all depends w ring out of Your!” she went on without mmling: “And | tS mpend mania ine|over me drowally until it seemed as itlend i” ereatic, wavering Mant. A iittle) Teecaiey Pigiaty oe ie eee \ ap heat for nothing But the train could hardly fail of losing yet more time NRE a Pe oan se tans even trains run off the track some-| duced by artificial happiness, He bumped) all the World jay in the hollow of the panned amare @ brightness and] Incong veg + a formiess line of t MEG Weisiss would’ bo: 6 vertionl whiboutume: pres do-and tnaulelilve: alias | CnncLIMe TEE parseH SeuNt ckton nisin I Ce teeter erEE gc ORE ag My ete Oe erate the: :tiottey -lny| ln dikd Re-ge vetiapeeaee oc ana Wondered how T could possibly have doubted my desire to go aproad that eum. |or It may be the tall of w Aragon: ANN) uigy and mechanica that Hf anytiing [newspaper and chewed a tvothpick with-|A wayward tendril of dark’ halr Wad| ner fost then sie tocmed te we lewgh Peet eee entaitecghly ane, ee ae wer iss fone ea tne Seat #rousts the heavens fell: 1 thougiit, Insanely CAD AE lees ph talb a dy Hin Hea ed | does Ko Wrong there fn an ugly amash, | out paying the slightest attention [fatten across her eyes. 1 smoothed: it] que Ls itebashiae bi) eG to mie late Dut get ait Cursbied the PUie hand automor: om n came the reaction and I settled pack com-| to geath. It's the same way with modern p iy along |Roftly back and my fingers brushed, her! “r never saw anything look eo! Caught ming in a grip that made me y fortably hopeless into the hands of fate, After all T did not caro an improper| By this time I almost believed in my |Me- Moat of us live auch an ordi Mie came along |halr lightly and atrayingly, aa my mot ja never | saw, aneihing, jock a0) eiae (he osdieen ihe IMEI @rection whether I stayed or went; let the gods decide. Only I wished something|own explanation, But Misa Tabor did| habitual life that tf we get thrown off} and proceeded to have fun with us after jer's bad mine in bygone days, tenderly | “Hpeak to It Kindly, Mr. Croshy shuddering moan, and without opening would happen. not seem particularly tmpressed. ethene as likely to break up alto- | the me of Joyous automobiles nd ad if wo shared in the wecret of! ean't lie there with ite feot In the air | her eves she spoke ’ The shinin ached amvay to sh ve Z bor She put on the voice and manner of a | Seth " {ran la y antit sleep. forever.’ “Tt is hard, hard,” she eal, “there ta Sees SALA acto wan abe di ioe Hebieagetod i Biataee ores rant | child of ten, “You must de awtuliy| I had struck the wrong note again. {at c wit rls Ido not know when her eyes opened,| 1 shook my head ruefully, ‘ft am|too much light. Will some one turn ° be brave to like being afrald of things,” | e ut im her face, as a|toot buzzed half aw head Then it} but looking down T found them turned| afraid that it will have to st there} down the ight” A long convulsive {ty stood about under the dingy roof of) slim hand. I dropped into the chair|she fisped; then with a sudden change | cloud-shadow kena © sunny fleld, | waited for us to come ‘aud repeated |to mine, She smiled, sighed softly and| for the afternoon, at leant, tremor ran over the entire body and the the platform; and the wind across the| beside her. ff tone, “Mr, Crosby, suppose—only for| and ahe looked away without answer- | the evolution, “bark Is with the| closed them. ‘Then again they spened. | “Rut how are we—how am J—going to] hand tn mine struggled in angulsly harbor brought a refreshing aroma of| “Weil, this de luck," I said. “But|the sake of argument—that you're mak-| ing. Not to make my mistake worse by | ongine, The motorman's songa turned] “E think that I should Ike to sit up,” home? Where are the crew, and (To Be Continued) ' tidal mud and dead clams. It occurred! what are you doing here tn the world|ing this up aa you go along and that| taking notice of St, T maid: “After |to muttered anathemas, And as wel she sald. yell eeeaint Ne dated gti ih lit edt ‘secbeed: to me that my collar was rather aticky| in July? You. belong to Christmas In| you did know perfectly well where you| What sheuld we do tf things always | turned from the rondside along a low! 1 helped her carefutty, you ail or on the inside. ., | % setting of frosty white and greqn.|were golng, where do you think yo went § hly and there weren't any |ambankment of sand across the mea right?” [asked I walked the platform fanning myseit| You're out of season now would have gone adven’ Jows we hed ty w rate of speed that was] (She amtied uncertalnty, “think s 9 \ with my hat, I bought cigarettes, mag-| She laughed, ‘Surely f have as much} ‘Then I gave up and explained, “T was| She" said quietly: really exciting lt am very i e t t Iincen t s i anines and a shine. 1 explored the sta-| rigut in July as you have, Mr. Crosby. |@oing to Europe to study," [ said, “for) “We might be normal and who! | “Are we making up time?” T asked.| My arm was ue hor. and for tion, scrutinizing faces and eearching| You are only a sort of Yule-tide phan-|no Detter reason than that Thad | and comfortable,” and continued [or is tr @ festive motorman?’ a tong moment her head rested axainst ; vainly for matters of Interest. T ex- " a B és ihe j Best ts ik Uacicaaiced sabia \ hausted my resources in filling up fife a dolly. weenct 2 A d vice t oO 3 8) Vv e r S teem minutes, and the hand of the elec-| Miss Tabor's smile war wan aaaaaanaaaoaaaanamaartaaneaaasaaaanaanaae taameaaaaanaa desaaamenanaamaamannmaaananaaaamaaaememennaanaaanaeotanmaamanaannae trie clock seemed as tremulous with in-|‘Then turning half away with a face M ; l i decision as it had before heen ferky| grown suddenly and strangely bleak: arita usin g s By J. K. Bryans} } with haste, Nothing happened, Noth-| ' was the best Christmas of Trast Must Go With Love. \ ing would happen or could happen any- she sald mechap! . , Z where. Romance was dead a iden return to ¥ dear gi if wou love a man, trust him, De at Feet scraped; a bell cluttered e the p ~ listen to idle gossip about him from persone breathing flame and sioke. ned pilarin 0 toe your friends, Do not give your love teo @ ebriek that would have put | or the great Mbraries of the first place, Re eure the young man ts te Giter rout, the down express affection, But, having made wure of it bee | ween me and the sky, and & 1 me before upon my attow your love to be tneuited by ‘te : heavily to « stands’ And the ating, which: a6 t tht bee be insulted by lstentng to whet other framed tn the wid window, | t explained, was but’ & It y ‘ waa a face tha 4 suspected fundity you do not trust a man ft is better to give him up and sent me among began, deliberately gro entirely, Days of suspicion will cause you more pain thea and hoil for a on among the tangled fates the one big Wrench of renouncing hin altogether. Afeo, Not that I had kuown her well: but|o¢ the afternoon, my doubtful steamer remember it ly assumed when you promise to marry @ a grudging pions, you man that you eare for him more than for anybody eee ~ mas house party had th, Miss ‘Tabor’—+ in the we nihlbbe” 418 46 ead aweetly merry, so W \< Are ‘ Le, n 1@ you should not have heart and brain and body, that the steht | op tis w A Ha BrP eat ot rags promised to become his wife of her renowed pleasant memories, like | haven't 1 time enough for that ren » you would better learn from the Deginning to take hie ward the reopening of a familiar book. She| now Da hortyevou musine. take! ‘ore the Words of aM! others, tat me, but wi ‘ | r fame ; Ue cama shucrerouaiy’ pendive lets | Hanoe? | Does Not Care. S| prenent'T np aul Of) @: Seiea tae omile that I remombered, that seemed| The platform was slipaing by faster GERL who elgns her. totter: “| ele ce Make: che nony eee Hee eee ewihin’ and AGH tuaten, and it anh Maud a) r fetter “R. | wish to make @ny social engagements, a MES wutoDe UBOE tik wa common sense o the i" writes: | How shall 1 explain this to the young — pe aH One ip hy ten On the ot hand tay | There t# a young man who calis| dy? qditt, dare brows were listed 1m cool | te comedy’ of the present and. thit upon me, although T do not care for his| , Write the young Indy, you ere were Over the comfortless crowd; and al-|Mouting of one's own arrangements attentions, de sends me postal cards| soe¥tier: wo tint the fret @pportintt though I was now somewhat more at| Which Is the last word of freedom. TI and brings me candy. As I do not Uke | fou find, sou will take wien opportumt peace with the world, end no glanced down at her ticket, where it him very much what do you think [| invitation. tl AR SOVANCRES SE ae hot nor hurried, she seemed face upward on the window-slil. ought to do?” o . ait there in the window of he : » tell you the truth, Miss Tanor,” Do not allow the young man to cai |fder Bérthday. ing car a thing aloof and apart, the od, "I am on my way to Stam- too often. Occasionatly when h rat 2 1 “mm embodiment 1 unruffied daintiness, and I settled back comfortably Pep eR ier epdowte, wa ae mee) preload signs his letter “A HM,’ Her eyes found me and she nodded,| into my seat. | se yea mun ot atl emiling. 1 went ftward eag Here,| Miss Tabor regarded me tolerantly, | a { am {nm love with a girl and at least, in a stuffy and uninteresting| with the alr of a collec pining & have Deen calling on her trequentiy world Was somebody cc ebody | doubtful apecimen; one eyebrow a trifte An Excuse. during the past year, Mer birth@ay, amumng, somebody I’ kr I picked and an adorable twint at the! 4 /oo Soy arn as rears rant MAN who slens his lettes “H, C.| Will be soon, and I wish to know what) up my bag and ran up the steps to her|corners of her mouth. As for me, T iage with you hae been a failure?” “ " Nu" writes It will be proper . cat ‘As 1 came down the aisle she half| tried to look fnnocently unconcerned, “I'd rather call it an ‘artistic’ succe: It means the same thing and Ate you an nmarrisn! wecan ts “t admire @ young y very| You map ure paige He ‘haa rore and stretched out @ welcoming |It may bo possible to do this, but nv one! sounds bette “No, but I'm willing to be!” much and young lady cam@y haw asked me to call.| or fo: TE hem Was the Happy Days Copyright, 1011, by Tho [rem Wubiishing Co, (Tho Néw York World), oat enna “Wal wal aa . feet CUT HELLO ALE! na! watt - ot, ee! sere a er | hag “saa | Dio 1 SuRPRIse You? Ha'na! /| | qt } SAY ALF, Do You Rememeen The ew Te SIE Gece | / \ aru tr. Jes THEM Was THE Time’ You MADE ME TAKE OFF tay WCW Ge SMAMHAD mt SAR! \ ' ome os va | HAPPY DAYS ' BHoes & STOCKINGS @ WALK THe RK Rveveo ORT IN HAIR —~ | | HELLO ~ |} 4u ree BaRB wire Fence —— 4 \Tuere's y) mete abe pert new atl! | by ("Yess > aa ZS) \y 1 7 1 THovent 36 (r CELLO} Nou vieR® A/ FRIEND OF fo7 — erent eee . 7. senna Samnatatconaase ot . ean