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“S’Matter, Pop?” [No, i= barrie wat IF YER CORN POPPED WoukDd it Be PoP CORN, POP? ‘ | PoP. iF YA Gor YER { WPOP PoP? No ories 0 - €Famous Novels By Albert Payson Terhune YOOOOU000 HODOGQOSDOHOOGSOHOOS: The St (Copyright, 1912, by Dodd, teed & Co.) GYNOPSTS OF PRECEDING INSTALMENT. Copynaht, 1013, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), No. 13.—MONTE CRISTO; by Alexandre Dumas. DMOND DANTES, merchant captain at nineteen, returned home to Marseilles from a long sea voyage to marry Mercedes, a girl he-had loved ever since childhood. Edmond was the most popu- mS lar youth in all Marseilles. But, unknown to himself, he had two bitter enemies. One was Danglars, who envied him his captaincy. The second was Fernand, who loved Mercedes. These men plotted Dantes’s ruin. During tie, wedding to Mercedes they had him arrested on a trumped-up charge. le was hurried before Villefort, a magistrate, who saw at once that Edmond was innocent, but who, for political reasons, condemned him to imprison- fiient fn the island Chateau d’If. ,..Thus in one blow Edmond Dantes lost his career, his bride, his liberty. For six years he lay helpless, bitter, heartbroken in the solitude ot-bis Chateau d'If dungeon. There 2t last he met a fellow prisoner, the Abbe Faria, who had tunrelled a way into his cell. Faria spent the dreary days of captivity in educating Edmond. The latter, from an ignorant eailor, grew under Faria’s teachings into @ man of deep learning. The Abbe did more. He told Edmond thi et of @ huge fortune hidden ‘en the island of Monte Cristo in the Mediterranean. Eight years passed thus. ‘Then Faria died. It was arranged that the body should be wrapped in a sack and cast into the sea from the castle walls, Edmond The Eecape $ took Faria's place in the sack. He was thrown into the from Prieon. water and, cutting himself free, escaped by swimming to a passing vessel. He made his way to the treasure island, secured the vast fortune and then prepared to avenge himself upon the men who had wrecked his life, ‘Under the title the Count of Monte Cristo he returned to France a few years lgter, where his fabulous wealth and lavish expenditure of it made him at enee famous. He found that his three foes had prospered beyond all belief. Fernand had won a fortune by an act of treachery in the Greek wars and was now the, Count de Morcerf and the husband of Mercedes—who had consented to marry him after phe believed Edmond dead. Danglars had become a rich banker and was a Baron. Villefort was the Public Prosecutor. + "* Steaithily, with Infinite cunning, Edmond began to epread his web about his unconscious victims. So changed was he from the gay fisher lad of old times that none recognized him. Mercedes alone felt by intuition that he ‘was her old sweetheart come back from the dead. Presently Danglars’s bank fell into difficulties. Fernand’s unsavory military record was dug up and made public to Nis great injury. And the Count of Monte Cristo was responsible for both misfortunes, Adding to the subtle but terrible pressure he was exerting he drove Fernand to euicide., He wrecked Danglars's bank and sent Danglars himself into exile, a fugitive from justice. He then dragged Villefort to public disgrace and heaped: on the punishment until the luckless man went hopelessly insane. Danglars had fled to Italy with what money he could scrape together. E4mond had him seized by bandits and imprisoned underground, There he ‘was made to pay enormous’ prices for every scrap of bread and drop of water doled out to him by his captors, The penalties inflicted upon Danglars in this subterranean prison left him a white-haired, broken man. But he alone of the three former conspirators against Edmond Dantes was allowed to re- tein life and reason. ‘The vengeance of Edmond Dantes, Count of Monte Cristo, was complete. And in punishing the wicked he had also rewarded the worthy. ‘Those who had befriended him in his youth were enriched, even es those who had wronged him were terribly punished. His Inst act before leaving Paris was to ave the life of Valentine, @hughter of Villefort, and to make possible her marriage to Maximilian Morel, son of Edmond’s old employer. ‘Then, reward and puntehment betng meted out, Edmond Dantes vanished, Out into the eastern he salled—away from the scenes of his triumphs, away from all who had loved and all who had hated him, away into the mysterious East, to be heard of no more, ‘the CHAPTER Il. (Contionsd.) The Scientific Crackeman. UST defore you came in,” he J “Jack Fletcher ‘but it has been privately re- ported in the inner circle af the Univer- sity thet old Fletcher was to leave the foulk of his fortune to found a great wchool of preventive medicine, and that the only proviso was that his nephew @hould be dean of the school, The pro- @essor told me over the wire that the ‘will was missing from the safe, and that thing missing. “From his excitement I judge that there ts more to the story than he cared to tell over the ‘phone. He sald his car was on the way to the city, and he asked if I wouldn't come and help him— he wouldn't eay how. Now, I know him pretty well, and I'm going to ask you to come along, Walter, for the express purpose af keeping this thing out of the newspapers—understand?—until we get at the bottom-of It.'* ‘A few minutes later the telephone rang and the haliboy announced that waiting, We hurried down uffeur lounged down care- Betty Vincent's Advice to Lovers Much Love and Little Money. TVEN @ young man and a young woman with a great deal of love and a very little money, should they marry or should they not? It seems to me that the personal equation ts the answer to that question. What sort are the young people? Are their tastes simple and their energy and ingenuity con- siderable? Are they willing to count their pennies ‘and do they really know how to epend those pennies wisely? Do they really love each other more than they bove ease and merriment and independence? ‘A cynical lady once remarked: ‘Love in a cottage ts all very well, but wait till the chimney begins to amoke!" But the loving husband who lives in @ cottage should know how to fix a smoking chimney, just as his wife should know how to manage a rickety stove. Of course, no one should marry on nothing @ year, but poverty, per se, 1s no reason for delaying one’s happiness. An Unconventional “8. 8." writes: "I am about to grad- by tate from a conservatory of music, A Meeting. young man who 1s well-to-do, who is “g, H." writes: “A young man has|°! ¢%¢ellent character, who loves me been paying me attention for nine|#"4 Whom I love, has asked me to months, although we were never intro- | Marry him. But if I should marry him Guced, He insists that he loves. ma|™Y Own parents would disinherit me, found myself half a doxen times on and wants me to be his wife, Do you| What shall I dow” | the point of hagzarding a suspicion, only think that he can have love and re-| If you are of age and Ifyou love the to relapse in into silence at the in- spect for me after our unconventional |™&" don’t let any sordid inheritance scrutable on Kennedy's face. What waa the mystery that ewalted us to It; the lessly into his seat and we were off across the city and river and out on |the road to Great Neck with amazing speed. ‘Alrendy 1 began to feel something of Kennedy's sest for the adventure, I meeting?” keep you from him, in the groat lonely house on Long Apparently, since he urges you to] | a Island? { erent’ aufeaoait dat exelal V. A." writes: “A young man who We found Fletcherwood a splendid has been paying me marked attention estate directly on the bay, with a long ron. a ‘A says that it Is a) refuses to accompany me to an affair driveway leading up to the door. Prof. ugg Man's place to ask permission to|for which I have obtained invitations, Fletcher met us at the porte cochere, Gai.for. the frst time, B says that the| He admits he has no other engage. 84 I was glad to note that, far from lady whould extend the invitation, | ment, Do you think he is treating me king me ae an intruder, he seemed rather rellaved that some understood the ways of the ne could stand between him and any re- Porters who might possibly drop in, ’ “ ‘ushered us directly into the library Which ts right?” fairly?” ‘Thesgentioman should ask permission} It doesn't look that way unless there or the giplis mother may invite him to is some factor in the situation which 3 you haven't mentioned, ea eRe cies aire api ot hee 9 the with excitement, Ww oO nde rl! eamacoe2aee. and closed the door. It seemed as if he could scarcely walt to tell his story. ‘ennedy,” he began, almost trembling piers ‘look at that safe We looked. It wad been Grilled through in such @ way as to break the combination. {t was a heavy door, closely fitting, and it was the beet kind . of small safe that the state of the art had produced. Yet clearly it had been tampered with, and successfully. Who was this scientific cracksman who had apparently accomplished the impossible? It was no ordinary hand and brain whioh had executed this "Job," Fletcher ewung the door wide and Pointed to @ little compartment inside, Whose stee! door had been jimmied open, ‘Then out of it he carefully lifted a steel bes and deposited it on the library “I suppose everybody has been le ling that ‘box?’ esked Craig ae A smile Aktted across Fletcher's fea: tures, “I thought of that, Kennedy," he sald, “I remembered what you once told me about finger-prints, Only my- wel has touched it, and I was careful to take hald of it. only on the sides. ‘The will was placed in this pox, and the key to the box was usually in Wel will ts gone, That's 4, But for . Now on @ hot and humid summer night like (net night I should say it was pretty MUkety that any one touching this metal ‘box would thave left finger-marks, @houldn't you think 90, Kennedy?” Kennedy nodded and continued to examine the place where the compart- ment had been jimmied, A low whisti aroused us. Coming over to the tabi Craig tore a white sheet of paper off pad lying there and deposited ® couple Gf small particles on it. “I found them sticking on the jagged edges of the steal where it had been forced,” he said. Then he whipped out ® pooket magnifying glans, ‘Not trom @ rubber glove,” he commented half to ‘himself, “By Jove, one side of them shows lines that look as the lines on a person's fini other side la perfectly smoot well, erica knew that stunt,’ “What stunt?" “Why, you know how keen the new detectives are on the finger-print sya- some of the Well, the first thin te criminals in E wear rubber gloves s would leave no prints. But you can't very well with rubber gloves. ris I heard of a fellow who had given the police a lot of trouble, He never left & mask, er al GOOD To EAT SAME AS Absolutely NEW Detective Sto {,.eeita eect WELL IF YER CORN Did POR POR Woutd IT BE The Evening World Daily Magazine, Wednesday. April 23, “1913 PRET ATE TES least it was no good if he did. He Painted his hands lightly with @ liquid rubber which he had invented himself. It did all that rubber gloves would do and yet left tim the free use of his fingers with practically the same keen- ness of touch. Fletcher, whatever !s at the bottom of this affair, I feel sure right now that you have to deal with no ordinary criminal.” “Do you suppose there are any rela tives besides those we know of asked Kennedy when Fletcher had left. to summon the servants. “No,” he replied, “I think not. Mletoh- er and Helen Bond, his second cousin, to whom he {fs engaged, are the only two.” Kenedy continued to study the Ii- brary, He walked in and out of the doors and examined the windows and views4 the safe from all angles. old gentleman's bedroom is here,” he said, indicating @ door. ‘Now, @mart nolse or perhaps even shining through the traneom from the Mbrary might arouse him, Suppose he woke up suddenly and entered by this door, He would see the thief at work on the safe. Yes, that part of recon- atructing the story is simple, But who was the intruder?’ Just then Fletoher returned with the servants, The questioning was jong and tedious, and developed nothing except that the butler admitted that he was ‘uncertain whether the windows in the brary were looked. The gardener was very obtuse, but Anally contributed one possibly important fact. He had noted In the morning that the back ¢, lead- ing into a disused road closer to the ‘bay than the main highway tn front of the house, was open. It wae rarely used and was kept closed only by an ordinary hook. Whoever had opened it had evidently forgotten to hook it. He had thought It strange that it was unhooked, and in closing it had roadway that an After the servante had gone Fletcher asked us to excuse him for a while, as he wished to run over to the Greene’, who lived across the bay. Mise Bond ‘was completely prostrated by the death of her uncle, he said, and was in ai extremely nervous condition, Mean- while If we found any need of @ ma- chine we might use his uncle's, or in t anything around the place. gald Craig, when Pletcher “TL want to run back to town nd I have something I'd like y to have you do, too," We were soon speeding bi along the splendid road to Long Inland City, while he laid out our programm: “You go down to th tar office,” he said, “and look through all the clip- ight steel magn pings on the whole Fietcher family. Get & complete story of the Itfe of Helen Bond, too—what she has done in so- elety, with whom she has been seen moatly, whether sh: made any trips abroad, and whether she hes ever been engaged—you know, anything likely to be significant. I'm going up to the apartment to get my camera and then to the laboratory to get some rather bulky paraphernala I want to I take out to Fletoherwood. Meet me at the Columbus Circle station at, say, hatt-past ten.” So we separated. the fact that Miss a had always ‘deen intimate with the ultra-tashion- able set, had spent last summer in Bu- rope, @ good part of the time in Swit- serland and Paris with the Greenes. As far as I could find out she had never been reported engaged, but plenty of fortunes as well an foreign titles had been fitting about the ward of the Craig and I met at the appointed time, He had a lot of paraphernalia with him, and it did not add to our com. fort as we sped back, but it wasn't much over half an hour before we again found ourselves nearing Great Neck. Inetead of going directly back to Fletcherwood, however, Craig had told the chauffeur to stop at the plant of the electric Mght and power company, where he asteed he might ace the record of the amount of ourrent used the night before. ‘The curve sprawled across the ruled surface of the sheet by the automatic registering needle was irregular, ehow- ing the ups and downs of the ourrent, rising sharply from sundown and grad- ually declining after 9 o'clock as the lighte went out. Somewhere between 11 and 12 o'clook, however, the irregular fall of the curve wae broken by a quite hoticeatie upward twist. Craig asked the men if that usually happened. They were quite eure that the curve as a rule went gradually down until 12 o'clock, when the power Wan shut off. But they did not mee any- thing remarkable in it. pose nome of the big houses * vohunteered the foreman, “and just to show off the place perhap: they turned on all the lights, I don't know, air, but It couldn't have been in, or we would have noticed it time, and the Nghta would all have been dim." “Well,” sail Craig, “‘Juet watoh and nee if it cocurs again to-night about the name time.” “AN right, air." “And when you close down the plant for the night will you bring the record card up to t” aaked Craig, My search revealed - . ceeereothee M mother said: ye * old, famous fortune, There were other boatmen in that harbor who wanted to be rich, whi y in drink and their time in allly pleasures Cornelius a! and slept with one eye open, looking out for the main chance. firat $300 he earned to his poor parents, In 1813, when it was expected that New York Harbor would,de by the Britiah, all the boatmen except Cornelius put in their provisions to the military posts all around New York. To please his father, Cornelius put in a bid, but he aid not go te hear the award, To hie astonishment the contract was given to him et » higher prise, The commissary sald: “We have given this to you because we want the business DONE. Aaa were not willing to pay the price, mo He wondered why. we ki you'll do it.” Capital is not what a man has, but In 1818, now twenty-four year of age, he owned three of the fig achoonera in New York Harbor and had a capital of $9,000. In power for accommodated he established steamboats an: fornta, and by 18 transportation in and ebout New York. then in rapid succession the New York Central and the Lake ‘gan Southern, senting an aggregate capital of § Everybody was benefited. Merchants secured lower rates, Employees made larger wages ers got bigger dividends, orn ant Cole her connections between New Yerk an@ he was the owner oF controller of nearly the whele watey But the people wanted to travel faster. He saw his opportunity and acted 4 he withdrew his capital from shipping and invested it fn rail. Harlem road, then the New Haven, then the Hi River, L) ané Miche by He helped them all, until by 1877 he controlled etecks repres of which he owned one-hit, Farmers sent their produce to market cheaper and tacthahty the In 1861 he presented the $800,000 steamship Vanderbilt to to be used for the capture of Confederat Vanderbilt University He died Jan. 4, 1877, Ladies’ Day at the Club. E aure to impress the significance of the day upon all your femt- nine invites. Talk of it for weeks Ddeforé, Make it seem a reckless, dasb- {ng thing to look forward to. When an ingagement presents itself always Preface your acceptance with: “Now, just let me see—ten't that our Ladies’ Day at the Club?” On the auspicious day purchase a large box of the most expensive con- |* fections, take several pieces out of the ‘box and hide the rest somewhere in the reading room. It’s going to make tremendous hit when you bring them out, Because no matter what you say @bout buying them EXPRHSSLY for that day, they'll digbetieve and be per- feotly gure that they're the risque left- overs from the last mysterious wild |)’ “amok: " when some real profe: ele entertained you! ‘Remember that you have to be cordial to everybody—even the ledet popular member's spinster sister, who keeps house for him and who entertains you with the fact that “It's the fret time I've been out since fall, on account of my neuritis” Maintain @ subtle atmosphere, Try to keep the Indies from discovering that a man’s club in redily just a series of rooms, with floors and ceilings and walls just like any other building. and if any one, who's going to resign any- way, apologises for the furniture be- cause the house committee couldn't raise the two hundred necessary to put tt In shape, choke him off with some pleas- ant remark about the weather, Surely the time hee now come for “Uht refreshment.” There ts a punch! A delightful thing just FULL of Ice oocasion. slipping @ bill into the pooket of the foveman's shirt. T will, and thank you, ir.” It was nearly half-past eleven when Craig had got his apparatus eet up in the library at Fletcherwood, Then ha unscrewed all the bulbs from the chan- delier in the library and attached in their places connection ith the usual are Ik-covered flexible wire rope, These were then Joined up to a little trument which to me looked Hke @ Next he muffled the drill with 1 of felt and applied it to the eafe d AW doo I could hear the dull tat-tat of the drill, Going into the bedroom ai closing the door, I found that it wae att] audible to me, but an old man, inclined to deafness and asleep, would scarcely, have been awakened by it Got Their Start By Hadison C. Peters. Copyright, 1913, ty Tie Press Mublish ing Co, (The New York Breaing 2. CORNELIUS VANDERBILT—Boatman to Railway King. AY 1, 1810, Cornelius Vanderbilt, having imbibed « strong liking fer the sea, asked his mother to lend him $100 to buy @ beat, The ‘My son, on the twenty-fifth of this month you will be sixtesa If by that time you will plough, harrow and plant with corn the eight-acre lot I will advance the money.” The Uttle patch of ground on Staten Island where the Vanderetit lived was not large enough to support a family, and Cornelius found work among the boatmen in New York Harbor. boat, and to get the necessary money to atart on harrowed that rough and stony field, And the was fully doubled, She determined to help him aad the peetiy. ravellers, Vanderbilt opened @ hotel in Elisabeth, N. J. A boat was needed to acoommodate the people of allen Dilt’s boats floated on the Hudson, the Delaware and Long Island Nashville, Tenn, He gave a ighty-three years old, the richest man America, hie fortune being estimated at upward of Guidebook to Gallant By Alma Woodward. Copyright, 1013, ty The Prem Publishing Co. (The New York Brentng Weslé), wanted to be sure of It 60 I 4 id I'd try this apparatue which I gled fn from Paris last year, I But he wanted to have his ia own hook he ploughed laid the foundation of 3 tt the other boatmen wasted « on § 8 | what a man IS. Character Er y, and soon Vander i wateers, He f { : 000,000, ry. and things, It has @ pleasamt Pinte tinge and it tastes Wee somata the doctor ordered! ‘Urge the ladles to indulge. Oh, they MUST have seme of Dunch—no one can make it tke tuck ‘to But it’s not your acquiesce. No! They thing, thank you. But t @rink, Just @ drink Please. Yea, just water. 3 they have taken water.” ‘Then this chorus: “Oh, that doesn't Just plain Croton te us—we alwaye érink ft way.” The faucet through Croton runs 1s located aide the elty line! it before, #0 you don' Dut you make @ brave ft, And while you're “nas It In for you" gets wi mirt and pours a lot ly about you, into h return balancing “just all your hands your And It takes you six back to where you hi Ah! Ladies’ Day ¥ i i i he 4 3 3 i j ii ii je Hier ui oh | ee In about minutes @ neat little hole in the aite the one made by the. crackamen ths combination, i f ha make you last night's job!" He | class of art of scientific safe-c: if the power company's curve ie 4 the same to-night as last night, 4 will show how the thing was dona, the old man happened and heard it”