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The Evening World Daily Magazine, Saturday, July 6, 1912 Coprright, 1912, (» ‘The Press Publishing Oo, (ite New York Workd.) | nih aie r ee Liciensi - WONT YA GET Sweic wen! | MAD IF we HIT Ais GENTLE MAN FOR THE STEP RIGHT UP ya.rop? | MISSES ALSO Love oF GENTLEMEN AN’ es a) 4 GENTLEMAN THe GREAT HOOLA | HIT +]O0L4 BOOKA KG MISSES.NOW ‘ L. : ON THE NOSE AN’ / DA) 7 BOOLA LAWES ( l)Get'A CIGAR!” bijekad THE GREAT LaTS HAVE THE }/ AT You, HE \ALL READY, ALL READY, | Hoora ROOL A OTHER GENT | Ripicures You, it |} TRY YouR AIM 5 NEVER GETS MAD. TRY +15 AIM! Hada Hada! | \GENTLE MEA LET ER GO! a opps ane os ET [- ) SON | ct’ «EO. IP, Spe eo: a | | (You Know PoP e's rif REGLAR OD z AHA! ALWALI IKE AN IDE Oh, You Ophelia! & (<Sk::~) Spotlight Steve in Vaudeville 3% (-2E%e> 3% By Bowen to 8k Ate with re Jed 4 C 7 see vere kyo, -! amr) CT Sorenn ano J zy) Much on THe TALK SALVE, 1 GoTeHA$ Zs or Believe Me, vane A leas ae CuNen $ ee eee an oe? eee . Noise tice a ]] OW MAMA, rf © basse f 2 \) GIRL Maxes U THU HAMLET WHEN SHE Ago erry caus A Aba tt ey + 2 COULONT Taxe A SALARY FOR THIS ~MUCH AS TLONG FOR A PORTION OF Gov. asy’ 7 7 OW KYo00: HAMLET Heago You CALL Him t LEAR, OUT UH . paaenenaneaaaenmesanananeaaaaeennaamanaantenaaaaaaeanananeeaaaanaee The Man in the Brown Derby 3( 4.0704 iu"Voen}e By Wells Hastings | (Coprteht, 1911, by BobbeerriN Co.) fence she had decided for any reason through the curtain folds and found known one or two men before with this — that our proposed marriage was Wrong, Unexpectedly strong. 1 remembered, #ame economical inquiaitivenans, wlione SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. = | was sure phe would have waited for too Nancy's nervousness at the ferry, Mtrange pleasure it was ao to reckon the MO Ney Xettting work Me and told me that veavon with gentle and the man in the brown derby hat, life of @ collar. fy the fact that bo fred in bravery. who had driven up just too late to These marks simply meant that this color. Tq seayer to an odd advertis uth I folded the note and pu: tt in my catch r boat Mow stup!d and un- particular collar had be Jaun od ‘man named Kobreim Bond. @0! pocket; then, with a sidden tardy pots oth 8 ‘ a that efor ae lntae incase he ing & nan in love may bel Wow eX times since its purchase, in all Must inary: Bond's niece” Mason “ineets Nines thought, cursed myself furiously and the Atet tine that Z connected eis probability by the eas And See neice, falls in love with her at ai aloud, for I remembered the galloping tmpatient man at the ferry gates with w& there were no ot ‘They are married: Aa, they start from the whit horse that had ao nearly run me down, of the night of than the Sl. 46 1 had Bond » ‘them to live, tall man it the swaying buggy, the lashing, eruel t, rocking in @eemed to me must me the, si Whip; Nancy must have passed me al- heen enough frat, that any n pode jag it os gg ey lice bape to cloud the happiness of the day for ty lived in on A A i Nancy. Surely, I thought, here was the What @ hopeless foo! | had teen, and "#0 even now the minutes were. flying, , Here wan the ma t. Aguin I found mygelf out upon the open further advanced? be road, running this time tirelessly and Seen bim wt the ferry and hod with @ new-found atrength. Kvening Sle! with him amid the glin ie miwing. had fallen, and here and there 1 passed moonlight the lawn; but on n izle inher ronm, Maiom ass Chit eet totlera returning home. One or two occasion had 1 clearly seen nt for news of el can learn bot!iing, M i Pay ajay nor could TL call to mind # : called afier me, but I kept steadfastly No" could taal to mind that in this me a known laundry, he tle was plain enough, but bore Je New York ant that my in New York, ana that per- ight be known to the firm me the tle bore, I knew, at Ing whether eto. marry each M 4 fortunately they prided CHAPTER VIII. fo twinkle before men Thou here and Ne who had Ingutred avout CREE Hr (Continued.) * there Latopped to make inquiries, fears nty weat. Here was « that, even in thelr own for nothing save wold but two or three of 1 ow at many turnings to lowe the Gone! pt Fe al es al phere omen The fact that the elerk wen very gure the game pattern, and 1 hoped that Pr Hee Noted orwo attrents that then he wore @ loth here T might chance upon « salesman BHIS, then, was the errand of A ie ne ed, teers at raote strengthened rather than weakened the Intelligent enoug.:, and with that. un- the midnight prowler, th betblit a Nencibarl 1 Abeer ets Wan itaal?. My probability of remembering @ the accomplished aim of the )1,{0 108 hurt CP taaltae feohad Tf the man J had stragwled with, and © that salesmen sometimes man, for he must have been gone through, but after that | absolute. Who had lost that brown deruy un he ea Ra aive me & H information the same, who had inquired jy lost track, It might have been aban. broke away from me, were Fae BOADE: he a a hom this he tually belonged for us at the County Clerk's office, Who doned tn some field or lane, it might Would not have gone about the coun: | bernave, even, tf bore mane latin. | he whether an agent of Zphram have gane on to any one of two or three {ry DATS: Lot Mali ve ai ke my untealied eye tl ralied the twe 1 Fond's or not, whether or not this was towns: the fact remained that tt wes so nite at replacing his lors, ‘That together very caret 1 wowed ! all part of the original plan, 1 could one ie ie ee ead HInMs. In the Ne returned for the derby showed more them away in my coat pocket “Do you keep stationery?” / ws know, and for the instant did not driven home, to work ® commendable eaution than anything — Outside ft was bright moonlight again “No; we move now every few months. It's cheaper.” | re. i Cut there @ plausible serene of pursuit, Cie: Ne MUAL have been pretty certain and T stood by the window for a mo-@. i } Tt was enough for me that Nancy was Pit there @ Plaualile achene of puree thar T had y in my care, and, ax ment, following with my eyes our wind. i gone and that she had been taken 4” 180 (ONnTy ol dhe whe planning to take her tng road, and unconsciously searching Horror, of the dream. Dully I looked It asemed to me that my beat course i roughly. I knew that I should find her nese ne rhe ae ee f it rearch the crisp black shadows for the intrud- #bout’my room; the chair upon which of action, at least the only one thas | again, !f I had to kill some one to do rds ei of te roadside rather than leave such @ er of two nights ago. 1 had put my clothes was overturned, presented {laeif to ic at the moment, | e a Oo e Ss \j; find her and tring her home. The sd i workable clue in my hands. Onew It seemed to me that T almost ®Ad tn the middle of the Koos, piled Was to go back again to the county next time this man came under my And with the though! [ got to my aaw bim: then IT recognited tae absurd- 08 pon another, were stacked my ae 4, with that as a centre, to start hands he should not escape so eastly : CHAPTFR IX. t After all, something was left; T ity of the thought and w angie ransacked bureau-drawers Yet there my ch @rom there, I went abot ] 7 n - ey me th is Nancy's , h need not start peolutely fn the dar ” serves mu ye In 4 neverthe. Was not a sound tn the house. the house civsing and locking the wine T ts quite apparent that the summer] so very pretiy and the prices are so} ®ut on Nancy's bureau lay something n t abe he dark, my nerves must in, F verth ra i" | girl is no longer # with the| reasonable, The k colored wil ta White, a mocking sheet of paper that Pursuit. for Upstairs in my Dureau lay the torn Jess, altho Uaintied a my own fool- Aw softly ae 1 could 1 searched room dows against miy indefinite retir aiakvla hcthine: Acie 2 geascn F iiieitanadranehe iment ¢ looked up at me, I read q IRST of all, Tate something; collar and tle © witnesses of our iahness, J tovk the collar and tle from after room; ‘he house was empty from had iived in tt but two days. " py rch heb ae Mos ene ia ieee I have changed my mind, tuck- for, now that I anderstuog midnight ence 1 took lamp my coat pocket, and tucked them under Karret to cellar. bly vinltor, whoover Ie the place was somehow home { as brought 1 he fac has ven r bright colored si | i Q t he . nm lo r all, they were about Waa, and there could be tut little doubt nade it secure, this very home ae a fly in time for us both, You muat a at op mbed t i] piilow, After all, th ere about wi 1 made it secur y clothes follow the al trond of f ides the taffetus, there are many| forgive me, but fT find that lam the biog. paw that Cane 1y only elites, and I should keep them of his provatie identity, had made © mosphere heartened me wubelievably. } fon and embody the same style fe satins to be seen this season, and of| uneble to overcome innate Te- _ nto detel noy's room was still as safe aw @ traveller in foreign lunds eafe escape The place was undoubtedly meant fer an do the oth umes of milad course, the serges and mohairs which| Pughance of physical diefigure- a th pen. How empty the house 1 guards his moneyDelt. ‘Then through | way angry that sleep had held me A 1 could not but believe that, Even the much-discussed pani has} are old-time favorit sent ica ES pain of the rare. Garton iat closed my own door behind me to shut sheer fatigue I fel! asierp so soundly, and chagiined to think that er or er, my 6 h would be 3 7 7 Se ean you . more need nou out the new and poignant loneliness, and | suppose | slept» jiy for an this man, whom | would have given 1 essful,, d' Nancy and 1 woub dnvadet the beach an the panier pte White terry oloth i 0 pepuier ge SUE ON Ue eet AnGhenticgm th giv. top te Fae BEB to look myself in to that familiar solitude hour ef two, until the first wumbing iMfe to lay my hands upon, had stood eye take up the quigt ie "heed ng sult te quite the lates! thing in « ny of| @ pain for us both. and ao Tam seriously 1 sat down to-consider t Ae had’ eran cart ce accuse edge of my Weartioss had passed, then Watching me as [ slept, and had egolly through utter unconactousness erept searched my re riteel? was torn and rumpled, the vague aud potanant etiiings of to find: but this hat botl of us so ly needed am sea clothes. The suit is of slik and the she ' 8.8 4 for what he wished that both of us would find so sweet, es silk serges are Anished| phiiatelpaia, There I @hall spend sand cuffs of Irish lace.| the night with friends, and Litde pannter drapery falls just over the certain of only one Y * oe, agiin Was tempered Ag J locked the front door I hesitated hips, giving a really amar: effect j One sop te showing silk serge morning taxe up the reat thing, thet Nancy h me of ast had ed before, of iy anxiety, Nuney's face, white and at by the reflection that his about the disposal of the key. It wal Re Another new sult shows the tunie| '® t¥ortone effecta at $15, Mohatre) journey ne Pe orgy her own free will, and even here my L eoothed it out on the terrified, came before me in changing had been In vain, for he could Qarely postble that Nancy herself : aot certainty was @ moral one WIth yong me, Koln ov dream and dream, It seemed to me come back for nothing eave the rn in my absence, that, by il mo ley 1 in this not to try to folloy 6 might return tn ) ‘s DORE Rev eLee RAHA solutely final, ANCY BOND. morning I must be ready to find her, og {jinn 1a Central Offer i that she tried to call but could not and Ue, which he left in my fe ingenuity of her own, she might ' ae 4 ne comprising a bathing eult,|_ Even ae I read it, T knew the thing (0 €0 straight to her tf 1 couldi on, Ao, and to make things more clear Jotted that she Way in mutne dim place where hands, and which 1 found atill safe be be able to ascape from waatever eltua- with lang be eynPayy ae *|was@ lle, I had never seen her writ. @! Any rate, T must have some def gown tn my note-book What meiKre ob- she belleved my eves could not find omy: pillow. tlon now held or coerced her. fered in one shop at and reticule, and some-|{0e? Dut whethe: this letter was forged Mitely determined plan of action, noth garvations and dedictiona T cold her, and that, flnadgy, In her deepera: ‘The very fact that he had come back — tr would bad enough for hee te oniraal , all matehing, are now rritt ing muen or gained by & VABUe Tie glare wan alxteen; evident tion, Unable to mpeak and struggling for them gave them adde rtance nd 7 least whe Contrast . written it herself, x oe va td ' 1 rates Fave them a 1 importan find ma gone, at least she should nog ach Rad’ tbe models 1 ng dis-| Of some compu!. casting about for a tra!!. And, a8 at man was either stout or st for a frantically in silence for 1 ntion, In my eyes, for certainly thelr Lnpers find the e locked agatnst her, 1 , the faney vests and decide; already I was fret T thoughy things eve seemed ng r fact | alread she overthrew at last rome nown tan e@ ne thuet Nave occurred to Him emiied as | Ufved the front door mat fact. all the newest tel around the | too sure of her to beifeve t:, Whatever for the moment bind and hone'ess tie latte It was marke 1 jofect with # crash With # ery & and st have strongly disturbed hii and dropped the key under !t; any arc :o be found in this season rote t do, or had done, ane would Then methodically I went back to the ing, Mo 4s, after te cuslom of stew ke wid eprang from the bed ’ ® made bin risk another return, woman would look there for # keye ean Ran fivaelin ven The tritn [ttle shoes tia n across never have made my hands Very beginning of things, Of a sudden jaundries. and there followed after Hix The first Klay of morning was come Tha, he must have come alone; either there of over the lintel of the black 1 navy blue, the instep aro lese troublesome {n ad-|the excuse for running away, nor in- 1 femembered the curtains that had faye upright marke !n varying degrees ing in the window, and bird’ were wh h meant that he had left Nancy !n door, Men, hkving pockets, do not @ lack and navy bi fusting and Bilk sults are unusually prom: nent, {jt ts no. wonder prova ey look #0 very neat| deed would @he have run away at all, stirred tn Bphratm Bond's house, that of freshness, four of them grouped to- twittering and astir, The dim couutry sore other care; what care I could pect to find the key of a locked howsg: they are being pre-! The thing was outside the possibility unknown eavesdropper et our first gether by a cutting diagonal, These lay in wholesome peace before me, and no guess, thankful for the in any other place. y due to the fact that they are’ ferred, of her mored courage, If in my @b- meetings wheee erm 8 bed grasped marke 1 took tt were nis own; I had yet my mind surged with @ living nevesslty all the same, (To Be Continued.) f ’ ‘ i