The evening world. Newspaper, May 13, 1912, Page 15

- . - |} OF FICER 666 x The Story ofa Young New _ Yorker Who Has to Pley A Laugh-Rowmance of Quick-Fire Girl. With Policeman For ton minutes there weapetralt geyser. ith a smothered ilttle cry of pain Helen’ ee abut tight and ehe groped stamped out of the room. He was a mighty good looking chap, amartly attired, and if you care for de- acarf in tails, he wore a heliotroy which there gleamed a sup: pearl for which he had paid price | stamped heavily upon the pet corn of Several Odd Roles He Never Rehearsed---A (Copyright, 1912, ty @. —. Fy Oo.) CHAPTER I. A Grapefruit Prelude. ]‘cotean: The grapefruit hit her in the eye! lash! His psyohic wave was dashed to emithereens! S 1 “Oh! Oh!" the tw girls screamed tn unison, | “D—t" the young man eitting near ejaculated. in the Oak Room of the Rits-Cariton fhe had Ideals and a With Ideas than ever, pivoted on hi Walked majestically away. he oe “What is the trouble, My. i aeked the clerk deferentially, tor te the & better student of exteriors than John Ajax. Gome day he's going to turn int solid marble from the dome down, ‘when you will have @ most extraordinary piece of statuary on your hands. By the way. have there been any telephone messages Set I am expecting a very impor- fant one.” ing, only @ir Ivory AJax for gome wubticty that might have deen ‘She Was Determined Té Unra vel The Mystery. By Barton W. Currie rigible Helen. her curving rep Mps and the the Same Name caaimed “aren't they exquisite, Aunt mre hak “T asked you, Hen Gear, who oo have eent them?’ There wae something Matmetiy feline in the purring tones form to send ing room by @ page in butten: Helen shook her head and assumed aa air of great rerplexity, She stole o glance across the table at Sadie, but that ehy iittle cousin a ‘““S’Matter, Pop?” on AT THOSE yee ARIES AT PoP! IF I SWAT THEM LL WAIE PoP UP LT INOW WHAT JEL Do- TLL GET Some FLY-PAPER i 7) Garant : ; (Saar o vicious.” i Action With Plenty of Suspénse and Many Tangles--Based on .the Successful Farce of bay ning Hone the narrow intervening space this mental comeand to the “Look here! Look at me! Let me eee you | Look here!’ Deere re ae ad been conscious of fis insistent ese and hie mex sage. But with ae mach will power as hé himesif displayed ehe bent her Hibben Dater—aid tri head Mre. Burton looked et the end or that sort of th! vee ber plate and eent back along fia telepetnic tranemtesion this reply: then at Meles's Gree. ‘There Wes.eceu- familyr | | “INE ¢ver run in our But ehe was weakening. the orche ‘rere of'a. peculiar’ tng acre” "7t! What are you arty. “ ” ¥ t ‘Badie,” she said to her companion, “I do awfully want to loom up. I want righ golden brown, matohing the ene. “Not eee tar t-Pngd at me so hei I can just feel tt all ¢tough me. OF pM ae i gy Te ahi She ; on, “Well, that all depends on WHO i8 —why"— turned the bouquet over several times, = For Jookit you, Coil Gogen't it? If it Pi it—@mith!* cried the "Snes one ” rows wera horrid old man”—— . “How could I ever 1° Could Mies Ps nhc argh Renal Sig gO RCT op dla Ey aor: Halen capladn? Stra, Burton. inhaled s te mustang bat ow to ex: janes ‘on maggeran Plain it—really it isn’t unpleasant et “Thomas, of course: at jenet that’s the Seeotaoes! howerks Saar all.” wey you registered, Mr. Smith—Thomas “Helen, dear, who could have sent grim old sel ‘Why, Helen! And you engaged and Smith and vatet.” ‘The clerk's eyebrows these beautiful flowers? They are he resumed: woing to elo” —— @arted straight wp his head. vosttively q@uperd.. He must certainly be, «4, T tnetet tn Hush. Sadie, you mustn't say that Pee ag Nag _atectly. ow are you Errartiee” ne intend. Toy onal be 2s in here. might—bvut I l= ” . yetective, tl Otherw! tively cannot = my eyes ‘done a Reving 60 up and cxaraine aty toanege? on auickty vaitted yy ry Gefense. pg to wort aa eainr? et Hore ween or momen( 1 ———— convinced am a reg- Bie tad emy watted to ty sure there and compel live ‘Then tatered rt, ould, ry you on 7) 2 vicious little Jab of the have me walk e chatk line-cod convints was no cords ne teeminatin’ Oe oe te interest yewreie there followed « disastrous THs tania eee Week te Miki ner elbows, sighed rapturously and ex- founded and that. my jnestion was repeated. want ind staticeque Mra. Bivire Burton of Reuss, twenty years & precinct dete Mnwhy tort there any card, Aunt AY" tren rouse aie Sehcre taint ia! el take haughtier ced the . blood, The young man who had failed ao id rl Plain-clothes man in thie most tRSome, olen, my dear, why keep me name pape efgnatly in what was perhaps nie “atl lous of metropolitan hosteiries, fm euspense? You can eee there is no den effort at hypnotism viciously “Vo trouble at all, old chap,” laughed card. Can it be one of tha young men ere twenty-four. I cam Ronestiy aetzed al! the change the waiter pro- “eyoung man. "I lost my Httle capri, we met at the last night? 1 ‘ve been nothing ferred on the little eflver tray, flung Onc ‘hen by accident I discovered a stray hardly think ao, for it 19 execrably fool. You are ft back with a snarl, get up ani the herd belonging to yonder flowers to a publie’ éin- “sCan you deat it!” he muttered as, aywil soe Mr. @mith, oe coer 2 I a f ire tone “thee ateor the Bigeonholes. ‘Tea, Mr. Whitney nervous, 1 suppose Satie looked to see expres Suppote of, Spmmmunicating to in her tay boots ae she pictured her He bore in Me arms @ bouquet of 4 phi >) about in etif? groups, idly chattering Barnes called ‘Word he would {f you had frightened him off." you the ¢ ite ‘of Mr. Hogg’s letter. aunt in one Of her hysterical outbursts magnificent orchids. Bvery person in the or wh ‘oo 1 looking as if they bored one Al! Up again at Satiarp, Will you be in The blushing Sadio was amazed at her rigtt there in the midst of a host of the room focussed upon the tiny flower on ae you leave % to the another to the verge of desperation. yeur room, sir?” cousin's resourcefulness, and stole a atrangers who seemed to the unsophist!. bearer, among them the wrathful eyes se eometimes good judgment of “Can you beat it! he exclaimed D0 ,,7ou think fl be safe in my giance from under the ourling fuzz of cated Mise'trom Omaira te represent the of Mrs, Elvira Burton. = ci again, fairly biting off the words. room?” asked the young man solemnly. her golden bang to note the effect pro- letters or evan anewer his telegrams.” very cream of New York society. “Mith Helén Buython.” vent you amy ome tn mind, con?’ So vehemently occupied wae he with _Ssfel” exolaimed the clerk. “Why, duced upon her august guardian and "Did he say he wae getting thin—that Bven Helen wae sobered by the gath- The rage of the older woman had eoked Jestrea Bemnes, ‘anxiously. hin chagrin and annoyance that he “hat 40 you mean, air? grunt. Mre. Burton groped in her mind would be charming,” teased the tncor- ering storm warnings. The gmilo left some ewhat coated. she managed. to fed peony ag be gra. eaten, Ten bess " . er iy e a ln came geome suspicious of me and might comtained in her ni remark, failed Mre. Burton gasped and the color vanished. All that Mngered of forward briakly with fie precioce bur- ‘but what : oe dene aera ioked the gunk it.into his head to come up and see if T St eay piausible solution and then el- surged into her cheeks In two flaming ful humor ehowed in the impish lights. den of Sloome and laid them on the graph meter hee to carey on my, codie of a famous prima donna and Nedn't murdered my valet. That's all. most vindictively returned to her orig- danger signals. ‘The giance she turned that played in her expressive eves. table, then right-about-faced with mi- "TP os sneunatty of the state {fell and senre ce ‘You haven't a4 frought up with a thud against th» Um soln to my room now to walt for inal une of attack. upon the mischievously laughing eyes of But ehé was spared the storm. A tary precision and marched away. ment guve Tt cataalyemic foros, Fetes ine, Waet hen whet @ your eon ts, ‘i. J Nerate brawn and muscle of the houss Mf Barnes's telephone call, Kindly be “areien Burton, 1 must insist that you her miece was intended to annihilate tiny page, reaplendent with myriad but- Now it was Helon Burton's turn to gmbraged Gadle with her ayes and then pms Barnes Wy, a mother-in-law = fetective. who stood aa solidly in the Sure that he te connegied with MY iisten to me. I have broken an engage- every vestige of ¢rivolity. Her ample tane, appeared in ghe entrance to the diush and her agitation was ae pretty added ner own broadside: teoke to me Git something in petticoats mid@te of the lobby ae if he had taken “Om nie out Ment for the matinee with my friend, bosom struggled in ite purple velvet Oak Room and Meped the. name: to see as anything those who contimied "Tat -reaily was splendid of him, thet comes Ky ap with e cathe root somevhere down in the founda- ripeehs Fo aeetnine uared'the clerk re. Hobbs-Smathers of Chicago, for the casement. Sadie Burton actually shook ‘“Mith Helen Burthon. to stare in her direction had ever Wit- aunese Bi x Set me bagel Se bana o, Bet and tone. ° 64: Red eres Baha, Hil about his iter.” 4 as he watched the object of sispicion Dc pe eg Mogg teem ‘asus those ae pee fda asked the house Santen Into oe! itt. Fiore tt, te te ha, Se err _—— CJ testing over my shewtber, My, Dit he war an angry young man, Saied atter a pause, “he ought to be all F bl f E d F k leted your, Sp the wumnee off editone yon dre oat and he fairly snarled at the magnif- I think T'A took him up in the a es tor veryday ro s the chede began de cent individual he had collided with: ” — “OD, peat, a drum, ‘bent an. e4s,, beat me CHAPTER II1. “ae il te your foot imagination Grow around the bush—go as far as you like Coprright, 1912, by ‘The Press Publishing Co; " lowing her—that réally and truly taere ,caped and was trailing along, he would ; splendidly he looked she was fixing her Whitney Bar U; eon 08.0 5 here beat your grandmother {f you pre- RIL (Tae' New York Word), were 20 many other lions seeking her|bleat out to her with a ‘Come Hack’ |shepherdess hook ror some terrapin nes Under Fire.) 9, reo cr werd une t caper ee for CHAPTE: ‘if favor and that they were all caged as|song—tis swan song In the everlasting /and peach melba, A fit of “nerves” ad Zz; sometimes pan pao tig Her @e , om, ‘The granite faced house detective Enters the Lists. Mary and Her Little Lamb. | tar os axe doncerned. ‘fohowing game." For she nad| brought @ bunch of American Beauties; referred to in the daily press te my ob @réend wan not used to that sort of treatment; Mr. Hogg En e bers lan nar dogg ha ie ules ob "Osieese Aloe” ae Old Grim Barnes, the mus- just out of eaege. T bear ehe'e a furthermore it distinctly galled him to VING asrived in the grill By Sophie Irene Loeb And when he wasn't ¢oltowing ner |TRAINDD him well. | SAG Oa te renee cata tard millionaire, wurned sud ” — ‘4 bas incident 5 and thought that one of them had es-| Many times when she told nim nuw | produced @ box at the opera. ou - mer.’ wn ne recalled ag an wien S dveminting eruption NCE upon a time there was a girl. Mary's little lamb followed her to} 1, ry \iadiagedbte Nadu Pnyy/ bags i era 0 oe at vag! with 6 5 i ° ned him: who made an odd no! of grape fruit, Mrs. Blvira Her name was Mary. She hed a jane one day— hoo! of LOVE— “Why don't you get ie she is the sence of Burton set out forthwith to {ithe jamb, It was @ HUMAN j which was against the rule, Mary's! wrists just it, pat eee aan rr Of tenening. ose T tate team cut of that her un- lamb, and every AN PO K TT |Httle rule, since it was “not the leawt| sie the ¥ : college three years ont Sars syneene “ expected advent was lik place thet Mary |what the Indy meant." But a lamb |""Swen wy domt vou, thent? etormea %2 forget auch @ jolly Jot thee X peep ne 4 nature of & went the lamb = | must follow the NATURAL bent im foi-| J Barnes, . Gian down coman't calle ‘ore a i: the insolent retort, the lordly ‘spread out wen arts tae 5 ite calpeya or ed A nang fa Oe Sahe a detective plucked the young man rich sable furs @at down at aid 'tha wath 2 4 1 ‘Appa and bag aa” mahegan; me Greek. forse than thet, che 8 fopay. tafe: don't 0 40, eee ee ee re Ore ener 004 am play but «lamb grows out of taing «| Another bang lifted the red-neaded of. amie Browning. Ne. pose Mney “Stags loony talk don’ h at received a le! om 5 y u ve 0 oe the Rit: {4 under hin breath. au an with a Yet, unitke the 81, Why are shrubs more likely than trees to be frostbitten? | iittle lambkin and becomes @ real sheep, fice boy in the next room olear out of a pt typ reyes 4 Ho Deen ai other Mary and 82. Why does iron rust when exposed to the air? which brings with it WigsDOM.’ He Quich cestce. mm. ay oe ae ‘a her ittle lamb, it] 88, Why ie breath visible. in cold weather and not in warm? wanted to follow her to the “end of the may ‘defers aight. man, vainly endeavoring to shake his PAt tiie bespattered eye i . | a : is yi me oe. of the houset"' de: vA twinge of something more than aecegemon r,| 84 If you run @ knife blade along a strip of paper, why will the paper worl.” But Mary's world ended with « Ne ated ‘ieais eiatiil manaed tue Immeculately garbed minion mere physical pain ewistad Ske eyne: 0, end Mary naa} ourl? - ‘ iHale hour Gr aero, a gone,” aie’ teen Barnes relied. out of the ofthe Ritz. girl's features at the men’ a‘FULL SUPPLY 85. Why does a black garment sometimes turn red at the seashore? to laugh him off, but yet to KEDP her 6 eee anes oo 4 “| am, so kindly remove the pair of ‘ ot the encourage- Uttle lamb, uw sat eS > C 3 % Maisie Ve MP HORE Ot Of OY ment thing, She /q HESE questions will be anewered Wednestay. Here are the enewers| But having OUTGROWN his lemmb- Grecia the coumay Matas. ‘don't Khow—that !s, I've forgotten.” Bea bin tant ale foe would tell the lt- } to Friday's queries: ness, he said, “Bah! bah! The wool fon could, ecaresty “Now I lmow you need lookin’ after. she tle lamb how wonderful he was, what 76. (Why 48 @ woollen garment warmer than one of linen?)—Wool-| would not be pulled over his eyes. And from under Come over here to the desk.” 1” exclaimed Mr Seautitul eyes he hed, how well he ton 19 @ bad and linen © good “conductor” of heat. Whollen garments, like little Bo-Peep, she LOST her |r. Tguven’ taunt te aaa ‘id oe tae perpomal The house detective had manifested 20 accents of bitter reproacl knew how to order « dinner and about Prevent the warmth of the ody from being drawn off by the cold | sheep. pascln Sk pee pet Oy MS toads mersicd'so adroit wae he in marching _ ‘I just won't have him for tuncheon, | Bie aplandid good taste, “You're so dif-| air, Linen has an opposite effect. : He figured up on the back of one of} “Now, you know, my dear father, hat conospt that wee, sella 924 {iy Pong man to the deok that not an and with all thie grapefruit in my | ferent,” would ive the final surmning up| — 17, (What causes @ chimney to emoke?)—Chimneys emoke because fresh air| her “sweet” notes what the “follow. |I couldn't ¢reat eny wife Mke that. The x lobby was attracted to the me hotly. which aiways appeals to all Mttle! is not admitted into the room es ‘fast es it 1s conaumed by the fire. A current! follow” stage had produced, and the|tfoudle with you, pater, is that you Viscount sabe Naess pay Ay lambe. of ai, rushing Gown the chimney to supply the defectency, draws the emeke| numbers ahowed HOW WWLL he had - her eo between man was at first inclined Mrs. Burton's other pretty Suds In a word, she made him feel as if he| down with tt. been fleeced. = ee hy are noes, Sat ee a ae ae im rf to-make ieee eaves and deeen ae Hash wea a LION instead of @ lamb, Human 78. (Why doce a thunderstorm turn mifk eourt)—Lighting causes the afr’s| fe was glad to become the strayed Launéress, Me hed lod the Pg The absurdity of his predicament, “What are you looking ‘ambe insist on being lions, and Mary! gases to combine and to produce nitric ack. This acid sours milk. \ sheep. where she was concerned. For jore than ene of her however, ‘stirred his sense of humorand demanded Mrs. Bi suspiciously. ‘mew how to satisfy the insistence. 19. (Why does paint blister ¢rom heat?)—Heat, penetrating the paint, extracts |.the human lion becomes a black sheep ana in her imenen hearts te “meekly docile when his captor Sadie turned w! blushed | That was her forte in drawing to the! muisture frony the whod or other material on which the paint te spread, and! only after he is well shorn. she. Bad cberighed the arraigned him at the desk and addressed furiously. 8h ares ae erene | P14: turne the moisture into steam, which in expanding owuses biisters m the pant.; MORAL: hat one Gay thelr orbs woulg mee one of the clerks: ToPly wen ine lene timid congin came) ge hed such @ nice uttle way vi| 9. (Why do two pieces of ce melt when rubbed together?)—Ioo contains a! A HUMAN LAMB MAY BLMAT AT ‘& head-on pore yy “Do you know this young man, Mr. to her rescue. | | oo /meking him think that she was confer-| certain amount of latent heat. When two pleces of ice are rubbed together | MMING A SHMUP, DUT BALKS AT Teterred' 20 90 Seve at Mach eaphe ET es Reagan—this is Mr. Smith flirt with us and we were both a \y | "ime @ FAVOR upon him by his fol-| some of thie heat ts made actively potent and serves 40 melt the ios. BRCOMING A BLACK SHHEP. (To Be Comtteued.)