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| OO, wie! Look AT MY T3UG The (Wepgeight, 2012, by Dodd, Mead & Co.) GTNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS, ipsa phchug onic Yet Aan Rag CHAPTER X. (Oontinued,) The Black Hand. ENTERED. There was a sin- ister-looking man, with a , Sort of unscrupulous intel- gence, writing at a table Ae he wrote and puffed at hie cigar I noticed @ scar on hie face, a deep furrow running from the lobe of bis ear to his mouth, ‘That, 1 knew, was a brand set upon him by the Camorra. I sat and moked and sipped slowly for several minutes, cursing him inwardly more for }, bie presence than for his evident look ef the “malo vita.” At last he went out to eek the barkeeper for a stamp. Quickly I tiptoed over to another cor- ;, ner of the room and ground the little ‘Dottie under my heel. Then I resumed my seat. The odor that pervaded the room was sickening, The sinister-looking man with the gcar case in again snd aniffed. I Then the proprietor came in and sniffed, “Bay,” I said in the toughest voice [ could assume, “you got a | Wait. 1 geen the gas company wagon on the next biock when I came in. I'll get the man.” ed out and hurried up the atreet Place where Kennedy was waitin: Rattling his tools, he fo! Nth apparent reluctance. hop he snort- the manner of gas-men, ¢ de leak?" mS find. Jeak,” grunted Albano. ‘tm you g you pay for? You ‘want-a me do your work?’ “Well, half a dozen o' out o' here, that’ sorte he ipes and ci growled Kennedy. ‘They retreated precipitately and Cr. Bastily opened his bag of tools. tied “Quick, Waltcr, siut the door and held it," exclaimed Craig, working rapifly. He unwrapped a little pack- one and took out a round, flat dis Jumping up on a thing of black vulcanized ruboer. te the top of the reflector over the gas Jet. you wops get ‘youse all ter pieces wid dem rettes? Clear out,” table, he fixed it from the floor, ler his breath, ot even when ‘Then he attached a couple of wires ¢o ft and led them across the ceiling toward the window, concealing them eerefully by stick.ng them in the shadow of a beam. At the window he @ulokly attached the wires to the two that were dangling down from the root ané shoved them around out of sight hat no one enes them, do at auch short notice, @ room #0 bare as this, anyway. fom’ another piace I Id put thing without its being » ‘We gathered up the broken glass of e ges-arippin # bottle, and I opened aid Ci that right now,” ti atmosphere, & en An Absolutely NEW Type of Detective Story By Arthur B. Reeve glad to get df irs Behn TN) The Evening we & “S’Matter, Pop?” « & « « Tdee! I TAN WEAR (T FoR Hy orld Daily Magazine, \ May 31, 1913 x Ew See By C.M. Payne Saturday, La sa iele-deiost- tanec Lis Neale torlerdesiedarldanior~-toabeyimd-ieslesledecinodedecke dl ‘Copyright, 1013, by The Pree Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) PAR BABE PRS: DREEREDE ABESORE BODE BREN BEERS DEARIC, IF You HAD SEEN BY GOLLIES, YA CANT TELL A JAP INVASION FIROM AN INSECT IM NAB I} ‘ the outside from the back yard and in at a side window. It was at last done, however, without exciting suspicion, and Kennedy attached them to an ob- Jong box of weathered oak and a pair of specially constructed dry batteries. “Now,” sald Craig, as we washed off the stains of work and wed the overalls back in th» suit “that ts done to my satisfactior can tell Gennaro to go ahead safely now and meet the Black Handers.” From Vincenzo’ we walked over toward Centre where Kennedy rn to his restau- ith Instructions to be at Vin- at 11.30 that night. | ned into the now police he quarters and went down the long cor+ ridor to the Itallan Bureau. Kennedy sent in his card to Lieutenant Giuseppe | in charge, and we were quickly ad- mitted. ‘The Heutenant was a short, | full-fa fleshy Italian, with lightish hair and that were apparently dull, until you jlenly discovered that that was merely a cover to their really lees way of taking in everything fixing the impressions on his mind, it @ sensitive plate. tre and 1 left Luigi to rant, ely associated with ctor O'Connor of the Central Office number of cases, so that I think nM trust each other. Would you what you know about you that I, too, have something to reveal?” The leutenant leaned back and watched Kennedy closely without seein- “ in Italy last replied at | ih, “I did a of work In ing up some suspects. I had a tip about some of them to look up thelr record—1 needn't say where !t came from, but It . Much of the evidence against some of these fellows who are wathered by t clues that here In America urce I speak of, 1 suppo‘e ally no need to conceal It, The original tt certain banker here tn “"y Crai can guess who if you know, this banker te He is the man who organ: ized the White Hand—an organization which is trying to rid the Itallan popu- Jation of the Black Hand. His so had @ lot of evidence regarding form 3 of both the Camorra In Naps and the Mafia in Sicily, as well as th Black Hand gangs in New York, Chi cago and other citles, Well, Cesi you know, is Gennaro's father-in-law. “While I was in Naples looking up the record of a certain criminal T heard ecullar murder committed some ago, There was an honest old master who apparently lived the st and most harmless of lives. But It became known that he was sup. ported by Craare and had recetved ome presents of money from him. may have acher of Gen- covered him One might have been at a loss to see how he could have an enemy, but ther was one who coveted his ‘small f tune, One day he was stabbed robbed. His murderer ran out into the street crying that the poor man had been killed, Natur lly a crowd rushed up ina moment. for it was in the mid- dle of the day. “Before the Injured man could make it understood who had «truck him the Assawnin was down the street and lost fn he maze of old Naples, well knew the houses of hii who would hide him, The known to have ¢ Francesco Paoll--excaped to New York. We are lookin for him to-d ‘(His Own Master.” NCE upon a time there a man. He was a very clever In- dividual. He did many splendid things, inthe world of men he Was in truth ONE ainong them. He was what we call a “worthy elt- igen." He knew the Laws of Man quite well, but Ike some other clever individuals he set up HI8 OWN standard. And after setting up his own stan- dard, he stood by it, for it, and on tt, He believed that he could formulate @ certain code of morals, lawe and re- gion and “live up to I pter. of the c to the end The man arrived at this decision some- thing Uke this: “1 came into this world without ASK- Ina, I have not been told WHY I am Fables for Everyday Folks ii eauty Secrets ono Of Famous Women Ooprright, 1013, by The Pres Publish ing Co. (The New York Evening World). a THE COMPLEXION OF LADY HAMILTON. FTER oupper ts over the distinguished company are invited to assemnle the blue drawing room of the great house of the English Ambassador 88) Naples, where they are to witness the famove “Attitudes.” 34 aa Court ladies are tnere and gentiemen in close attendance on the of this tiny Italian kingdom. There also are wealihy art connoisseurs and Unguished tras from England and served and talked about of all the gueste in Capt. (afterward Lord) the gallant commander of the Agamempon, He has been sent by his to keep @ sharp watch on the manoeuvres of the French feet. Almoat before the company Is seated a beautiful woman in a Greek enters the room, The host, Sir William Hamilton, the Ambassador, hastess her side, and, picking up from a friese, next turning her classic file to represent @ cameo or & head @n, an antique coin, until al! the art levers) | are enraptured and the bold eyes of the pea! ler glow with tration. ee ‘The applause which follows parently just as pleasing to the a Ambassador as it Is to the lovely 3 titudinizer, for Is he not a well ry and patron of the Gne wert ! po Yous= TWINK ‘YOUSE. CAN KEEP Dat Bart 2 Np: the young and beautiful ‘ Hamilton? . ‘This was » the Geet, meeting of Lord Nelson and the woman © who to have so great an influences | over him and to whom he was to be a devoted slave as long as he lived. That. | she had very great beauty no one could question, Her mass of auburn halr was ; carelessly drawn back from a broad and well shaped foreh: Her big biue eyes sparkied with animation. Her small mouth with ite short upper lip dreke every now and then into the moat distracting of smiles. Added to these attrac- tions were a brilliant complexion, good teeth and a tine figure. Her voice waa {extremely musical and she sang delightfully and played on the harpsichord. while most fascinating of all were her high spirits, It was sald of her that “ahe could, and often did, keep a roomful laughing ‘or an hour together, ‘This young woman, so well favored by nature, who now occupied such @ commanding social position in Naples th had become the bosom friend ‘of the Queen and shared all her confidences, was of very humble origin, Mar | father was a blacksmith in an obscure English village, In her younger days | Bmma Lyon had been a nursemald and then a shop assistant. Her extreme | beauty attracted the attention of @ society lady, who made her « pald compam-” fon. And in, thin position her handsome face attracted admirers by the score, Bhe was pai by every celebrated artist of her day—Sir Jowhua Reym olds, Lawrence, Heppner and doxens of lesser lights, while Romney painted Re | fewer than twenty-four portraits of her. Her beauty was entirely natural and | owed little to the arte of the toflet. Coprnaht, 1918, | When her complexion began to fado, 4m )] nt \ j ver took ee ree a co, It did rather arty, ax ake never rte Now York srsleg Wine the lenet care of her WAN Ox> |tremely fond of eating and drinking. here. 1 leave this world without being many tines had to seem to be what he rae stumbled | she employed quantities of rouge and Many Uimes,—alas!~his consulted, Therefore, in the interim, Was not. And the practice of DECEIT and fell, since its strength too was pearl powder to take the place of her T shall account to no one but myself. | was inevitable. tried. In other words, even his own | former ronen and filles A commetic ‘l have to live MY OWN life, and I} Now this man thought hie conduct tn standard was FAULTY, for it was made | called “Spa shall dictate HOW it shall be liv No life was not wrong, according to his own ‘of himself, for himself and by himself. | sidered to he one has any right to mal for ME, | standards, And yet he wanted to keep He suffered many disappointments. And | time, and 1 Hamilton ts sald to for f am @ law unto my the truth from her who would have! onc morning he woke up, very tired have been moat successful in applying Now it came to pass, that in the | been HURT by it. man it. ‘The recipe, copied from an old book uatural course of events, this man had) So he had to live two lives, In other to live, move and have his being WITH | words, he was trying to rife two horses. his fellowmen, many, many of whom) And to keep them apace required all had not made any standards, being con- | the alertness and energy that he could tent to abide by those that had been command. Retrospection taught him the reallsa- of the period, runs as follows: tion that you can't make a world of! “Take good new scarlet wool cuttings your own and atill continue In the same | and spirite of wine (alcohol) and ball one that low travellers trave: them In an eart pot until we taatd In the course of time the and with them. | naw charged itself with the color of the in usage when they came on the scene road became more difMicult, his struggle! Man proposes but the world disposes scarlet. 8 some cotton In this and of lt jm labored and bis strength ofttimes He came to know that some decrees | ing for rour ‘Therefore, the man, in order to move | sorely tried, j and doctrines are made for um and thes@| y. thin was jone before the era ot among them, compelled to RECOG-| Finally, the man woke up one morn-| we must meet, even though they may neral dyes a comparatively harmless NIZE their etandard, the common ing to the cominon realisation that no NOT seem just, 1 do not know If it was etable coloring wan the result of the But if the lovely Emma had aniline dyes from modern wor- jsteds her rotiplexton would have been ae ruined, Finely powdered Nght carbonate of magnesia was then used for paimi-e ~ ing the neck and shoulders a snowy white, while the finest of starch oF Flee © ere performed the @ office for the nose and chin. Before Emma Hamilton died, at the of fifty-one, she nad become fat and coarse looking. Even t of the period against (powdered myrrh thrown on a red hot shovel) failed to keep the 7 from her face. everyday one. |man can serve two masters, or can he |too tate for this man to assume again Also, In the natural course of events, | ride two horses, or lve up to two stan- the way he had seemed to go, But the man married, And, usual in| dards, One has to go. the fable has thin moral: such cases, the opposites met. Hin wife! This man chose HIS OWN way. And| THE MAN WHO INSISTS ON HIS to follow the|now came the real it. OWN STANDARDS MUST CARRY tablished by the! He proceeded in the path of hie own THR CROSS OF DISAPPOINTMENT. world, And the man, in to win | making, but somehow he found it strewn | her, had to carry out, at t in AP- | with many obetacies, i THE DI RENCE, PEARANCE, these decrees that she be-| For in order to be st peace with bis; pud—What is the Mfference between Meved tn, fellow creatures he had to continue the gn ortinary co-ed and a college widow outward semblance of travelling in Welser—One stays four yeare and the But, in order to follow his NATURAL bent, and live up to his own formula, he| THEIR way. other stays for years,—Siren, confidence,” hat it's my theory that old Ci has seen Paoli continued the Heutenant, re knew he was here, wanted for that murder of the old muste master and gave me th ils record, tip to look up At any rate, Paoli disap peared right after 1 returned from Italy, $98 ao Reren's bean elie te Savet Oe carébeard im his ’ $1,000,000,000 Lost in New York. seed BILLION DOLLARS hae deen) Mdfoso's great New York story, lost right here in New York. Not|M#AN WITH A BILLION.” “THE MAN WITH A BILLION since, He must have found out in some way tMat the tip to look him up had been given by the White Hand, He had “It le my theory of this case that If cheek, could locate this Paott we could Well," aa! solve the kidnapping of little Adelina | back the card, “whether or not he Craig, quietly henénee b A been « Camorrista, in Italy, and had |Gennaro very quickly, That's kis plo-|man, | know wher spent or gambled or badly 1- |. 01, seria! publication In next many ways of getting information here | ture.” kidnappers to-night, Meutenant Vested, but lost. Has any ope found | gay» Evening World. Jmee | in America,” Kennedy and I bent over to look at It, | It was Giuseppe's turn to show eur ity fore ty @ clue: It to the of story 8 He an@ balanced « piece of and I started in surprise. It was my | prise a t Wookost for Jena & te bf naad, * evilieoking trieng with the scar oa bie (Te Be Continued) e op fee at for reat Le: Sy © a.) Libya sa il we

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