The evening world. Newspaper, September 28, 1912, Page 9

ES" Matter, Pop?’ 4 OO_ WHERE DID YA \GET THE DoRG? Te we dad A RIVER I Courd SHow You How #E£ JUMPS INAFTER STicws MY PoP Got HIM YA ORTER SEE 41M JUMP INTo THe] RIVER AN FETCH STicrs out! ‘HERE, THERE AND ‘py IBV BiRW BODW HE old-timers hero have alwa: thought that Perrin Kelly was a cripple, but while sober one day last week he walked as well as any- body. Mrs. Fork «: ys The Hedgeville § her nusband Editor. must be the best man fn town be- cause he reforms nearly every month, My. Derks never ikea to go out with his wife because every time he opens his mouth she apologizes for what he The Exchange Bank has put up a People depositing money here do Nothing disagreeable has happened ip town lately, so Mra, Hareh Gm still talk- ing about the Frost case. Mra. Chatley says she has so little confidence in Dr. Watts that if he told her she was in good health she would expect to dle to-morrow. “If prices keep on rising I don't know that tve'li do.” “I do. We'll pay them.” PPMITEY had been walking out together for quite @ time and she was getting a bit tired of it. One evening they came to a use outside a gayly decorated confectioner’s “Look, darling!” he whispered gushingly. “I @ee your sweet face quite clearly in that y aetnaow!” AY But she was det ) That's all righ py ka aking a change. about my sweet she sald cold!y, according to London An- 3 "I'm tired of hearing about It! 1 wish You'd remember my sweet tooth occasionally (n- otead mined on Goorge, “How far from here to New York, as the crow flies?” “How in blazes can I tell? D'ye take me for a measly crow?” sparrows. ‘The man who stammered had tho first shot, but fatied to bring down a single rd, He landed the gun to \iis companton, aay- | ing | You t4-try your I-l-uck."” | With many contorttons and epasmodic move- mente the nervous one took atm, says Every- body's, and to the utter astonishment of both brourht down a bird, The atammerer gazed at him in silence for @ minute and then remarked: | Nenen-no wewonder you k-k-Killed a a-#-spar- | ro Y-you aimed all o--over the whole tet-tree."" “Is he a tightwad “No, indeed! Wis pocketbook hand is paralyzed, that's cil.” ) you dislike the custom of shakfiuc D hands? Many people do. spe clally if the other fellow has lammy hands or user a grip ike a Worse Than 3stone-crusher. But, Hand-Shaking. 3at that, you're bette OOOO. off than people who live In some parts of the world. tinental Europe and in the East, wher two whiskered men meet after long ab- apt to show thar joy kissing each other on In Con- sonee, they are at the reunion by both cheeks, In some of the Polynesian a s the f of Kreeting is to “rub i ea.” ‘The Moslem, m: 1. new ace en qvalntance, goes Qirough the motions of ng «is oWn breast and of casting ¥ ashes on his head, The Chinaman has j perhaps the most sensible custom of all. When he is introduced to another map r hakes hands=-with himself! The na bury He Made An ited Fleet PRERHART of Mt “4 sornewhe Hammond forwarded and 1 his a with considerable rothe report of the analysie to Ny @ few dave thi telegram was re. | expert chemint, | was glow yn 1 wen’ Aiving was crowded, 99 T sat. slow Eat hed ike lunch counter, jou put the eream in| ter girl, Beaton coffee!” Hecause the cream is 5 ares. and po busb ace me sa mind your the creams in first? \ ts coffee, Anything truck. {cso sou wish to koow, air!''--Woman’s “Home ‘Companion, —-- A Lost Dog. Wasn't Oil He RS, JOUN MAY HAMMOND, T. man with St. Vitus's dance and the P man who stammered went out to shoot abruptly, dog, HLLE: travel Serena the West, @ man lof Jost @ valuable di ind immediately pro- Conded to tw otis of the Huset's a. tor, “THAT'S OUR BABY Tne Evening World Datly Magazine, MEANING OF THIS WHERE DID ‘You Come, Saturday, September 28, m ‘ DING 1912, THADING DINGD DING ROUD PAPA carefully unwrapped a 18 by 16 picture and announced: And then for the steenth time the office | ANEW PARTY, EH ? Foous! view in the town where he was stopping, I be seid to the editor. ‘@ like to Lave you iusert this ad fo. Reventy-tive dolinrs “wut we'll manage to "Sova. the ‘ediidon “tor reward for the retum Vvour aa." After returning to the hotel dog decide) “Lye lot & to, the, naspe might be beat to add to bie No questions i jerybody?"’ he asked “Gone to bung th’ dawg.” PROUD PAPA AT THE ars “Our Baby” : @ S& By Eleanor Schorer) eee x WHY MAMIE! You DONT MEAN YOU THINK THIS UPSTART=-THI6 MUSHROOM PARTY =—HAG A CHANCE ? without remot the owner of fields, “pune » And the a ame from the distant Brother Was Lying. are not tory reolied the led. nameved io @ cout where o trey telusiovs mon ts vine. heard ali about the baby's cunning pranks and petty ills, much to the amuse- ment of the bored Bobs and the delight of the interested Bessies. QUOTE ME THEIR PROMISES 1SAVS SING ME THEIR SLOGAN - SHOW ME THEIR MOTTO! BAH! I'LL WAGER IT'S A THING OF Praise the Lordi Copyright, 1900, by the Prank A. Munsey Co, SYNOPSIS, CHAPTERS. | Vamatit, Lind have stolen a jirk hidden it in TAndiaay ane | pawntroker aud steal It era. and plane te Attica wth the. of stoln teens. rih and makes hls way at last to tin, drinking heavily ad rinks Jmacit to dewtth, met Finney finde are ty wid ‘finer per to tite’ nim! “itaxendale, finde, Clave soi kha y Kilner in confronted by Davidaon, @ police evant, CHAPTER XVI. Mr. Kilner Proceeds. OOD evening, Mr. Kilner,” he maid, aftably enough. “It's rather @ surprise to find you cloned at this early hour.” “Its very unusual, air, but I only closed for a few minutes,” answered Mr. Kilner. “My man ts away, and as | had to the back of the premises I juat tened the door for a while. I'd had jone alight robbery of the Ul! thia very moon,” he cont!-ued with an ax- “and [ didn't want an- “Ah, what wae that?’ fon, inquired Davia. 1 Mr. Kilner, “In comes a ratuer down-on-hin-luck Sort of chap as wore a pateh over his feve and orders a bottle of ale. When T’'d served him with the bottle of ale he | asks If I couldn't get him a bit of bread wand cheese, he was that hungry, “Well, Just to oblige him I atepped tnto | the back of the house for the bread and cheese, and when I came bac tleman had departed, and money—what the to lo Davidson, who had Matened to thin atory with great Ine ferent. “Now, it's rather singular, but ! called to inquire about that very man, Mr. Kilner, One of my men had lin under observation this afternoon and saw hin enter your saloon—he waited some time for him to come out, and he said Mr. Kilner dryly “He wouldn't see him go 6 took himself off by the a! and went down the alley with that trick.” rkeant Davidson went away her, after having locked the front door If to a drink, mixed another, and carried {t off to his friend M “sim,” friend, after Baxendale the time He done me ad My rejoined his and he was put him off for I be baek, Jin. and, Jim, we must Ket Bax- red M tak yan oda atone draft. “Where am Uto go” “I can put you where nobody but the devil himself could find you," repiled Mr. Kilner, “if the need arises, din Hut let's hope as how it won't.” They went uy wether and t put the dead man r ent and nd NOX. im down and And then Mr. Kulner 4 flagstone in th flooring 1 ch Was Inserted a sigan ¢ tron rin Help to wet that up, Jim," he anted, "It'e a lower cellaring that on an old sewer, There's nots er find him in there-and the rate NH clean hie benes in a day or two lothes ur no They Kot the up between them, and in the Mot of @ bintern whjch Mr Kilner had carried disclosed a short, Might steps leading down dark space, from which rose a Whitt of peatitential alr Mr. Kilner, mation of Hagust as they re set down toeir ‘What aid, *f wouldn't-—~"" Hus! raid Mr, Kilner, “What's that! More knocking, Hi Jim, watt a second while [ see what it is He ran up the slippery steps with wonderful agility for one #o corpulent, through the cellar above and along the basement passages toward the shop, Mr, Claye, Lstening In the loathsome cavern, heard his footsteps retreat, cle away, come tnto hearing again with eat clatter and bustle down the atens Kk od The Diamonds Romance of a Hoard ot Missing Jewels Which Followed im » Keene w ‘Down there with you quick—<here's lary and a whole gang of ‘ down there till T can get they'll not examine that Role,’ Claye, who had advanced half up the steps of the noxious dun- treated tly, & word the hi acroms the cavity and he found fe heard footsteps above him—Mr. Kilner’s footateps—and they seemed a Jong, long way off. Then came silence. He was alone with the body of his vie- tim. Mr. Kilner went slowly back to the shop, Lepr the street door and went hehind the ber ard mixed himeelf a of brandy-and-water, He had t hie plan, and the diamonds would now de wholly his when the man who carrie! them had at last died jess to say that Mr, Kilner pai a very bad night. When he rose at an early hour Mr, Kilner was a good deal of a wreck, wandered mii ly downstalra, and after a time admi the old women who came every morning to light his fire, make his bed and tidy up the room in which he Hved. He told her and barkeoper, Hennessy, that he was soon to well the maloon and leave ireland. During the next fortnight Mr, Kilner made a change in his mode of Ife, Af- ter closing hours every evening, Instead of remaining alone {n the house he locked it up and spent the night at a small hotel a little distance away. He pulled himeelf together at teat and set to work upon the task before him, Horrors or double horrors, he must have the diamonds for which he Rad bartered his woul. When he went to tle little hotel that evening Mr. Kilner carried the diamonds with him in his bag. Next dey he left Dublin, From place to place he wandered, drinking heavily, ever haunted by dread. At length he rented a cottage in Wales ¢, under the name of There was one person, however, who ay the firet two re of Mr. ‘# residence In this secluded spot knew « good deal about his money matters. ‘The mnager of the local bank tn two years could have told you that of his own knowledge Mr. Keene hy over twenty thousand pounds inves! in first-class ratiway stock; that he had at that moment a sum of about the thousand pounds lying to the credit of his ac the bank, and that cash payments alluded to above were still coming steadily in. It was about this time that Mr. recognized by an old ac- intance. ‘The old acquaintance uld not by any stretch of imagina- tlon be called an old friend. In sober truth he was a member of the police foree. At that time the old acquaintance Was « detective holding high rank tn the Leeds police: he was now enjoying 4 position of higher rank in Liverpool The two men met in the High street of Denbigh one afternoon when Mr. Keene was walking theough it in @ll # dignity of black broadcloth, He looked very solema and ver stately, and Inspector Nicholson, win tradesman ino pf the lat- artied, was talking to a friendly fashion at the doo ter's shop, was conalderably “Why said he, brings you here, and in sober Mave you turn w himself up in indig- is broad face his votce had # ring of righ You are maki some mistake, fr,” said he, evelng the stranger over ee if he did not know him from Adam, strange mis «, indeed, sir.” Inspector cholson could have Bit ten his tongue out Me knew that he had made a mistake, though It was not the mistake the man was accusing him of He td have “leked himeelf for his hasty tmpulue { beg your pardor -nost humbly sir’” he sald. The tradesman to whom the magte- trate had bi talking laughed as the “said he “Faney hailing him « [i Dec ho concluded. *A bit po: ery quiet: tr, but mi to vite OMe local peliee he saw the chief, amd talk about the inetéent int about the psuedo Mr. wl been anything Bat what he was Keene would not have cared so much. but the mere fact that he was a detective and uncommonly well Known in police circles by the still whitch he had displayed in unravelling certain mysteries made Mr, Keene as frightened as a child is of a weep But Nicholavn bad already left tor and was buay elaewhere making certain Inquiries. Among other persons he had 4 talk with Davidson and heard of ghe dlamond theft. (To"Be Continuedd |, 237