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she 4 9 4 woe Tbe. Bvening, World Daily, Magazine, Wednesday, Degember...20 0 LOMd Liven 4 , . - | Net A shhh edith As ue Th '|G-o-o-d N-i-g-h-t! 3% -aRth- By Ferd G. Long | |The Two-Gun Man A LITTLE SUMPI MERRY CHRISTIAS FER THE ) | The Best Cowboy Story in Ten Years THE OFFICE Bors— ebay A | By Charles Alden Seltzer 1911, by ne Cuting Publishing jn’. I've been fn this country & tens any.) smart walle an’ T ain't never seen A= other man that could bore a can sit Umes while {t's in the ' i ® Leviatt's Ups drooped. could ao ery Nave en him 0 that an’ not have nerve enough to shoot atte hice by Biattond f @ coyote, Him st clashin' with Ber Radford proves be ain't got nerve.” Stafford smiled. The story of how the stray-man had closed Leviat''s ~outh stil fresh in his : omory. Ho wes tt J iew that {° Gopgridht, 1911, by The Publishing Co, Pr Eas’ Neow Tork World) “MR, JARR CRUELLY BREAKS UP A PARTY. B. JARR had stopped the psychic demonstration of the disappear- {ng Jewelry by making © phvalcal abies,” said old Mra Dusenberry. demonstrat! i “top!” enue aa makes you wr elvan Prof. Slurk, th at midnight et yer wants yer wishes door with ind Fy nary gig State | come true. And the witches or hants the controlling mental force, was close | Aue takes the money. ‘Cause it can't behing them. i never be found agin.” = * did not cons ‘Mr. Jarr, however, was in front of| ¢.1™ sorry, though, they them. Prot. slurk came out of nie| {ine the mind-reading _experimenth T’d like to know what MY husband {s waiting trance with a start and took the aia Sire, Reagle. Dandage from his eves, ‘wir max, the ment it they |] g ‘A MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ROPES Te Dore ah ee cemttaee | coma atl ite wrat t'-- thinking bout!" You, SIR! WILL You. KINDLY Jarr aside amd continu- said Mrs. Mudridge-Smlth. s TO- {ng-on with the experiment algo croseed | Ang then, by manner and tone, if not | | LBSCRIBE TO thelr minds, but Mr. Jarr looked 80) 4) words, they began to eriticise Mr. im og for atray catrle, On the 1 Ray luther be ty Witten by a retthamnake and te | saved from " | of Bea find out tf he's got nerve.’ Leviatt’s faco bloated potwonousty, but he made no answer, Apparently unaware a gasnes @ tender spot, Sted ued. iis ganie f# to get in with the that he'll be mv Mads chanest ever his game ti 5 @ season contract I ain't breakin’ my word with tt 1 ain't takin’ no chances wit ™ tr « eviatt wees tuem. Che git te dist ces@nd, Fearing Feviatt Way wnisconstrue ‘the action, | + - | Leviutt rose abruptly, lits face swelling ‘velligerent ey Lataeeawe Jars haste in putting @ stop to the } CHAPTER Xi. with an anger teat he was trying hard ourrendered ¢ tiflcations, ‘omtinus | to suppress. “He'd better not. e@ ty “Go hire » hall," said Mr. J "E don't say they would have come “Do You Smoke?” jfvolln’ with Mary Radford, damé ‘f., get away with this marvellous and mys | yack with the Jewelry,” sald Mrs. Jarr. EB laughed, en other Two | M", snappe tifyitig feat of the disappearing jewelry | «put they were wonderful men! W Diamond that took alg, » that wind is blowin’in twa #."° grinned Stafford, “When T I'l telt pim"— A clatter of eee. But you can’t do it in MY /aerful! I've got a headache from con- jcentrating my mind, It was wonderful “Oh, deat! I'm all in a flutter!” sald | what they did” (Mrs. Mudridge-> bh. “Do yop really | “wonderful nothing!” said Mr. Jarr, think the jewelry would Lave Mctually | wig was sulky at. not even. being aimappeared thanked. “T can read your minds, and | thine to you. I've heara that a! | you talked right sagsy to hed the ears of the two imens | them, But you aln't never | Stafford turned to, the window been sassy to me. Leastwaye, you ain't | “Here's the stray-man now,” be satd never told me to ‘evaporate, | She was suddenly convulsed, "They have told you that?" she questioned. And then not walting for an answer she continued more soberly: “And #9 you | thought that in view of what I have satd to those mon you had been treated or paratively civilly, 1 am ta f have underestimated you. He silent when Fergusoa Ho stood just inside, at Stafford and Leviatt with cold shortly to Staftord, ane from the range deliberately turned his windows “I'm gure of it,” ead Mr. Jarr, srimly. | right now.” “But it isa't going to disappear this! yr, Rangle laughed s6 pointedly and evening trom’my fiat. It would be fine | pugely that Mr. Jarr made up his mind if.4t id and for you all to accuse me of HIM. And Mrs, Mudridge-Smith, being in collusion with these fakirs, Sus kins, aakatea. GHD? “fir!” cried Dr. Greese, “Such words | «,1) right!" cried Mr. Jarr. “Sit out b.,. heegaerentnd it here, Rangle. Sit beside him, Mrs. Mud- | they are!” ‘replied Mr. Jarr. | ridge-smith, I'll tell you both what you taik lees Intimately to yo “You fellows act at once. Make @f| a5 thinking of!” t wouldn't do exit!” ‘With some scoffing the two victims} TIN pleaded, t need to be af had no effect upon t 14 bringing a queer ners of his mouth, He after 1 sivull *We rearet that, through no action of | seated themselves as directed, and Mr. ‘ efi et | 3" questioned the latter, ours, the influences are not—that is to . placing his hands upon thetr e ‘On, daw J, with a pre |“ ‘ oH 4 sical 2” adlinalbieegied | 8 t Smil Sy By Joe Ryan {iirc dei ree ie ve nce, avin sow tire om theming thelr mind r 1 S m a S m 1 e S i pA ER Rd le i MBs oar ae SS iaetaie Palee oeeneu lise Lee ¢ to Stafford,\ sneering, “Byn paletul | utes, on my Words, But £ am aot aft x you." Ho atepped back from the rock, 1 y at his cartridge belt. “I'm goin’ o wo Diamond now, And since you'y word) Mr. Jarr's brow was corded with thi strain of the concentration going on within. Phen with great dignity the two ad-| Finally he spoke to Mrs, Mudridge- venturers bowed and departed. And the|Smith with calm concisiveness and | last that was h : | Sturk smacking his lips and saying ‘ou are thinking about clothes!’ “You were too hasty in endeavoring to Then, turning to the unfortunate make the Great Experiment, Their | Rangie, right in the hearing of his/ minds were not attuned. But it was | wi added with measured slowness: | 4 you are thinking about the la- for the last time in Harlem—"‘a | dies!" fine dinner.” That broke up the party. “Maybe you were too hasty,” sald Mra, | It is only a few days from Christ: Jerr, “I'm sure they both acted like | mas, but the Rang! not speaking it gentlemen.” to each other, and it is not likely that; “qt very funny they always have/ the Jarr children will get any presents | , te work charms with money or valu- | from well-to-do Mrs. Mudridge-Smith, .j turned t | Ferguson's Nps smiled, but bis eyas hs) narrowed © Stafford stiffened u ain't | Chatt, fle watched the stray-mas furtivM@y, fearing the outcome of this meeting. But Ferguson's handa were nowhere near his guns, They were folded over his chest—lightly—the fingers of his right hand caressing his chin, tell hin that ahe had ex-| “You ridin’ up the crick to-day?" he “ Py witht thirty| questioned of Leviatt, His tone way fed on her Mps| mild, yet there was # peculiar quality ‘in it that hinted at hardness, answered Leviatt, without turn- ridin’ with pretty str up the erick thag you'd be \ Uekled ov Should st plored all of the The words trem but remained unspoken, ' “Why, L don't it she objected. Io you think tt is quite’ wate?” Ing. Ferguson. began rolling a cigarette. r When he had done this he lighted it and Vil ride over | puffed slowly. “Well, now," he sald, mornin’. He} “that's mighty peculiar. Fa sqrore that J saw you over in Bear P Leviatt tured. ‘You've been’ ‘pickin’ poster too tong with Mary Redford,” he angered. | Ferguson siniled. “Mebbe “I have.” |he returned, ‘There's them that she'll let pick posies with her, an’ them that ied down 1) (thins wea of him, him, radian’. : But |b did called. And then, roc |to this, she wate@d unth b Into his saddle and was waving # fal well to hor. bho wont “Don't come before 10 o'cloc she Le\latt’s face crimsoned with anger. | advised. . “{ reckon {f you hadn't beet monkeyin* She saw him emile and then she r@ | around too much with the girl, you'd turned to her manusevip\. have run across that dead Two Diamond When the’ Sun-Gods kinsed the erest-| cow an’ the dogie that fhe le/t,” of the hill and bathed her in the rich | sneered. “Well, look at all the stockings | could hang up!” (row colors that came straight down to |” Ferguson's lips straightened. - She Wilt the rift in the moun- | ‘yiow far off was you standin’ whey re igas P tari ‘ed up her | that c led? he draw’ od. ‘ ene ten another ‘A curse writhed through Leviagt's lips, “Why, you"—— ; ‘ when | Don't!" warned Ferguson. Ha coolly p to ihe door of Stat: | stepped toward Leviatt, holding by the and dismounted, He took | thongs the leather tobacco pouch from. ‘which he had bbtatned the tobacce- te, Betty Vincent's Advice to Lovers Qerters to Betty Vincent received at The Bvening World office ap to Moon each Gay will be answered in the following day's payer. n * A Letter of Invitation, — |“ Hs. vorunteinng| | ELE Day's ‘A girl who signs herself “0. K."|the truth, but don’t lle about it if he Good Ss tories ‘writes: asks you, “I wart to ask a friend whom I have “Naw! | got that stunt beat a block i'm going to hebble skirt.” oe “Are you going .o nang up your stocking this Christmas?” { ad not wr Timely Hints tor Christmas Shoppers. Hedgeville [eae was late tn .dhe, atiornoon ‘etien| Leviatt rode Editor} | tons om plently of timdé walking the short dis- pemmeen 2 | ee es B tanco that lay between him and the pyle 1 net seen for two years to a small din- ah imen who signs himself “X Almost an Angel. ieatUANE, th. All color at a cont aie y John L. Hobbie |e and growled « savage reply to a | Make, bis clanrette. | = : oe ner Bungay evening. How shall I do} “ have loved a young lady for two onan ADE was talking at @ June wedding I ts to a large extent, ]to0, come 3. boxes and so conte HOA sed puncher, who asked bim a ques- in © mony, Sspeciay ° ‘i HA, Wy Yas Publishing Co, | HON. * ei Lah years, but could never bring myself to land Catieebent es ae Kepeclaty is this the case in|and upward: one set in {mitation ba (ibe s Wales | Ghee in the oftice he dropped glumly smoke," ‘Write a aimple but cordial note of in- t Jn tdeat.| the Mne of dress materials and all) Irish la: vitation expressing your desire to Te- fabrics, from silk to cotton, are now) Belts tu i little too ne brides, rad! js in a glitter of June wage ati, Globe Dex he said quietly; "1 tell her of my love, Recently another} ,,¢ Matrimony Is, perhaps he nerves.” ke: Hinto & chatr, man has been paying her attentions. | their white v¢ i pee oy hat iI @yes wlittering vonge- Pea ern E Km REYNOLDS says they ain't no} fully awh 2 tock a’ ines panna te ess or waist |c cholee hp rl ean kno ‘ough grammar | who \ “| the etgaretta. ‘8 pretty fair t ; malrithe acquaintance. TRE tian aH) ocrileice Cor treet oie |e eit, Gaccanian ae al ito either dress or waist|cents, with a large chotce of desist ‘an know enough grammar | who sat at aged in his wo: |i" CUntinued, —“E found it about wen nicely, What shall T do?” As @ matter of fact they ars not eapable of any. | /¢8Wths and tied into boxes. Opera vags ia fancy silks are sold] to make fa lady when she mips! ¢ window Staf- | nites up the crick, on a ridge al ‘A man who signa himself “P. D.” Aaa eee ._ | thing of the sort, Those who prefer, can purchase Ma-|In boxes ut 4 cents, and very pretty [her tea ve yusly f bows’ coming | Gh nribyo, = reek Ager ct, u ‘tay le If you want to marry the young lady,| 1 om in hearty aympathy with old Browf, tol terials at the counter and have them] velvet handbags with the 1 val a latter had en- | Oty sftuve. = reson. 1's 70Ur tim ” you'd be 3 sOurag . hte € co) p them} velvet handbags with the new oval} ot your initials on It." :> you'd better have the courage to ask young Black said at a weld ging te t looked up. wot id tol “My ‘mother has agreed to give MY] her quickly. Ma good wile cau, male's Vatotie ange ofa td 1nto boxes, In fancy biack silks | frame at $1 Inrow Calitornia! Lane a apeme he eves of the two men met tm Tee aud elf a furnished apart sacl there are handsome p: »had| A combination set consteting of , ai | nlatied his work and | sient pattie. Leviatt's were the first to” and mys Ane ‘ S 4 mane set consi got can vate, ful candi-|drew back from the kK. Puen he aaa ee = ¢ Li ent for a wedding present if she can] A gir? who signs herself "B. K." oll rown agreed. ‘sy, wife lin walet lengths at $%, er ma-| suspenders and garters avr lata will be elected by a pretty good took up a pity, Aled It with tobacco, Then he reached out and topic 4 oard with us after our mari writer: terials range in price from 3 cents) tened in a box and marked § majority. ted it, and puffed with satisfaction, meine’: he eald ahOMte i y flancee objects, : “For several years a young man ha: . to $1.60, ; mils Undermusiins re being oe othin‘a * he questioned, ; eve § Te ts better for every newly-married | worked ner my house and I hi Abusing Freedom, Walats In white fabried tn both tight | boxes, and there are corset eo RS, DERKS'S husvand saya he ty | Tevistve nly eae a eee HN, Di : fo flock by themselves, and you|often caught him watching me, But| PpENIAMIN K, WALSH, the sonolociat, ald |A24 Reavy welghts can be had from i) cents, those in ph hand embrold- goin" to use his own judgment |ped down fo see how things was rune tes anything qleet j Would be unwise to begin your mar-|we have never met. Do you think he ‘of immigration ia a recent lecture in'Read:| cents upward, and among t ar ave $1.00, skirts $100, nlghtgovwns S clna We he Sas tb Commit Bula * ; } life by putting yourself under auch | cares for n mt nn np many of the corded effects that are g0*/ $1.2 and «em cormet covers In! (ogy ’ s lacquiet® returned \Mtaftord rguson siniled, “T ain't 4 Uottgations to your mother. Tt would hardly be posatble since he| wut some immigrants ‘eniering tor tie fire dime | HE to ve so much worn vext Spy fh 13 cents, z |: Ve been any cattle missed for] (MMs About anything else, e pissy does not iknow you at all. a free country abiise their freedom, Iu: they | mer. Men's slik vo. anc necktie to HE ned oe Ja long tine, 1 peck new stray ' toga eet ever that | There ta a wide choice of wash ma-)match a acked in boxes and sell at R V says it te all right toliman ta doin’ soite g Hsnenectingly, did Staffed, 7 op gn]. “We are all apt to oso tan d walat pat- /$1.25 a set. protect shooting ut ‘ ou cat {Watch and fisten” whi ese two men ; Post Card Etiquette. A man who signs himself “l §."| yao an ate Here |terlats tn tic o avers and walnt pat (31, ; ethos r AnOGS DEY te 4. cal | Tracteed ta. eae i hone ET ii Yort demanded e slaw of whisk terns auilable as gifts to the mafd,! Long, hemstitened, fancy site scarte es, lok thy 18 rd doin’ BOON, ete er ic oer A girl who signs herself “I, W. Should Task a girl whom Etove but! MH 1 sang ivkey is meamicea omy | C2unavess oF Jani os, in all colo bla | nelithbo he auapped. | | man, who, ” might have bate A : 5 om, in England your wiilskey 8 measured ont eckwear counter are quan-|are anothe: f ries! i olny ra 7 ba ed toa young man unit {WR F have not known very long tf! o> sonia a small tin measure, but in onr bar the | AE the Neckweer Simon ot ANA: ere. ANON : ; ON rae ee returned led piy that he wasn't ‘was engag y i |she cares for me? If she says sho loves! Englishman, to hls astoulahinent, lad the full | tities Of boxes containing jane trom |can be had cente. F TENS Baya SetiAt A odd dee)-of Me) Cerin te about ft now." # way vything about anything else," two months ago, and then we decided) no, would It be right for her to give) Wlle set betore hin He was given fur the fint |25 cents upward, #ide frills at 98 conte, | Widerdowy slumber shove are 25 cote 1 sound ike the author was|Leviett "L seen him to-day him an’ [Pere had t)) Leviatt that he Rad to part because we quarrelled #0 often: | yack some Jewelry given her by another | Mm tie freedom of the bottle. | | tangy alk ov velvet bows as low as) They are in neat eo) mand cats! lucky to get I¢ published ier holdin’ Hands. on top-of a Mil in] 0 intention of iting hts aveptetons tu But we are otill friendly acquaintances. | vying man? Is it proper for me to give! dom, He took an ciurmous dituk, Then he rose | 2 nd 3 ean be had tn all sizes for Children ax we > Flat." He sneered. "He's a bet. | iy nee Would it be all right for me to send)... an ivory manteure set for Chri handed the bartender 15 centa, 1! satin rose# and jay adult LEFT BEHIND. ladies’ man than a guntighte: a} ot moment would Leviatt him a Christmas post card?” art Hold on, at “the bartender called after him, men ip of broiderec hematitehed sin {Nhiw oak wellh poate reckon we made a mistake !n tory word Into the of Sioa stash b ve forgot by hans rt pf NGF ne moup.* “er _Jt would be perfectly proper, and 4) °Y snoutd advise you to wait a whilo} >" thought the drink sas 15 ceats,’ aaid the| 4 bow, Bows and luce are 9) xtriped dana; are 49 cen te iiaaad RaNecd” weklind’: Indisle Ferenhine Pleasant Lid of showing thas you bear) singer and be quite sure 9f your own| Exell bat , cents, and yitt’ sof maline o with an init and embroidered sp: I 1 ae Statto: nile nduigen he'nialice for agreeing to disagree love, hefore you dint to een, that ia aa,” said the bacten ‘tat | 95 cefitas a chou of knotted satin rib-'nre 74 centy, and they aro packed in| And lea er phone belt Pacey , " ont _ Yes, to both of ti Pee | rie reat es raaingtan Ma MO bon with pends of sam can be bad individual are dese it Is Would take a shin CHAPTER XIV, a \ A girl who signs herself "Q. BR." | ——————~ writ a On the Edge of the Plateau, Svea eater eeaeeenaaneeaemaanatads sataaaaaanaaammananamnanatenaanaannaRaRERaRtnty x — “My girl friend and I sent Thanks By — * : rguson wag gatis- giving post cards to two young men e my Coparighe, 1012, evineaal re beyond doubt that Leviatt whom we have known about eight ea ies Mee’ York Wark” C * s s | n concealed {n the Be, cc natise sak its str 3 lare Victor Dwiggins wa hove ie ad eae didn't. Did the latter mean it for an] & ———— | PIPPI PPP PLP PPP LOL LPLOLLRLPRRLL AA LAL tt O | SPP LPL APL LLLP AAPOR RPL LL PPD RR ALAA AAAS 8, » Where he had ceme inault ee si aS ee = siete oeCas uo Two Diamond cow, th Probably not. Many people are natur- =. a eet: Diamond cow, there ally careless in such matters \YEs MOTHER: ) (Yoo SEE, KIDDe, had seen riding !_— } z \L DoNe THAT “ from the array or ” Aj were 1 the 1d tit. it A man who signs himselt r. 1L"| MERC! —— | 08 Than ee 1 Taouctt? solutels ete writes: | | must Have Been You SIR!) | WE was GETTIN? * motive tn gon | “Would it be proper for me to send * noleen. ANG! | Too FRESH WT 5 this thes ae Christmas box of candy to a young lady : ae Oe B — see? was i whom I-met last summer? I have not | ys rk wwe me eet nem OI ) rider, ] geen much of her since, though we e $2 | ; a) . oe haltive that Leviatt would keep have corresponded,” , | euros hls ea S f | Peed pe wan acu Tt would be quite proper, though not ] \ Horning ve Was mot muc \ a | ae mysiery. Other thi necessary. Smarty! | | were troulling him. Would Sigg nade ee \ cto ford go riding with bh % Wout in “Other Man.”’ | ange her mind over night? ee The er Man. As he rede he consulted his silver 4 . Tent A aiahe piece, She | old } 4, man who signs himeelf “W. H, peprecs: a $a. tes anita Pot 10 eae 2 ite to ten thirt h nh ve fr was engaged to a girl, but we aero akg bie arrelled last winter. She has been ac: | he rode up to the cabln doer—to Jeepting the attentions of another man, lisa Kadtor rrayed in riding skirt Dut recently we met and found we still ity bows, gauntleted gloves, blouse” loved each other. Has she a right to ‘soft felt hat, awaiting him at the give up the other young man and come pack to me?" \ You're | snuillng a9 alg She would be doing both of you aj Ae he. hs fo wined i 2 mi great wrong if she acted otherwise, | her. thar es oh eon oe aR : —_ t io come watll afte> ten and that Ne Bad herself "A, 8, noticed that she hi him in spite of her of yeaterday mn (Tq Ba Con! A Giri who sisi writes: "4, “a man, inuch“younger than I seems | wey mar Wenge fa me, Ought b eee