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Se a The Eve OOOO The:Story of a New York Clubman an -@ Fifth Avenue Girl Who Met Under ~ Sentence of Doem. (Gena ’ Mad, 1912, b7 Louis Joon Vance.) CHAPTER I. Doom. HEN I'm to understand there's no hope for me?” “T'm afraid not’—Greyerson said reluctantly, eympathy in his “None whatever!” ‘The verdict vas thus bruequely emphasized by Hartt, ons @@ thie two cohsulting epectalists. ease ‘Maving spoken, he glanced bt’his watch, then wt the face of his colleague, Bushnell, who contented himself with tolerant waggle of his head, apparently meant to Imply that the subject of their deliberations really must be reasonable. Anybody who wilfully insists on footing the measures of life with a dofective @sahentien Hats ake has no logical right to batk at paying the piper. Whitaker looked quickly from one to the other of his th Arpaia his three judges, acutely Fae? thelr manners were otherwise at variance. “He Townd only one kind and pitiful—no more than might ‘have been pected f'Oteverson, who was his tri Srote bits twipaiennay, ° bea retal “What about’ an operution™ he de- Mmanded of Greyerson. . The latter ipoked away, making only allxbt negative motion with ale head, “The knife?’ observed Hartt. “That would merely hasten matters.” - Bushnell aMrmed. Plalely a tt Burt Win to init horribly atra'a dot and, wan im~ 4 moan to, whom vcasea;” he wat hin and hoping that soul bt decency. soon ave thom tee to talk shop— hla pt Aine pati thé gloomy consulting * root Waa hee on and took up his hat. ‘Well, how long will you mer’ Asked in a strained voce is Six’ month: diy, avoiding his eye, “Three,” Hartt corrected jerkily. “Perhaps.” ‘The proprietor of the last word stroked his chih with a contempla+ tive alr. sald Whitaker, “Thanks,” irony. He stood for an instant with his head bowed in thought. “What a darned out- rage!" he observed thoughtfully. And suddenly he turned and flung out of the room. reyerson Jumped to follow him, but Paused as he heard the crash of tne atreet door, He turned back with tching, apologetic smile “Poor devil t* “Takes it hard," commented Hartt, “You would, too, at his age; he's ly twenty-five.” “Must feel more or less the a fellow whose wife hae run off with his bast friend.” “No comparison,” "Go out, get yourself arrested for a ‘yareclt. brutal murder you did not commit, get \wi-the mischief can't be undone,” tried and sentenced to death within six \ ‘Bushnell considered the tast months, the precise date being left to dra his prerogative. Whitaker turnedthe discretion of the executioner—then ‘the leat glimmer attitude? any one + drew a. long breath, unself in bis “It's funny,” he said, with his fervous amtle—‘hard to realize, IT mean, You ace, I feel so fit’ “Between attacks,” Hactt interjected quickly. —. “Yea,” Wh: er had to admit, dashed. Attacks,” anid Bushnell ‘heavily, “re- current at constantly shorter intervals, each @ trifie-more severe than its prede- ceanor.* He shut dis thin lipe tight, as one who ha congelopsly pronounced the last ¢ Greyerson sighed. “But J don't understand,” argued the isomer et the bar, plaintively bewil- dened, “Why, I rowed with the crew hand running—not a. slxn of anything wrong with me.” “If you had then had proper profes- ‘sonh) advice you-would have spared ough strains. But it's too late without HE two = plece draped ekirt te one of the new. est and prettiest to have appeared. This one has @ novel fea- ture in the drapery low at the front and higher et the beck, and ‘the lines are un- usually. decoming. After the very lates: being eeamed, and, at the front they can,be, curved or straight at the lower edge. Tha. trimming of buttons) and simulated buttons holes is good, for tt gives effect of ‘Duttoning the fulness, into place, but any pretty treatment can be used. Gathers at the upper edge are found in the la |e and most fashionable modela, When made zo with the high watet line, the ekirt is ar- Tranged over webbing; x the natura) ist Une, it ts joined to elt after the regulation manner. Bor = th medium @ize, the rt will quire 3 fers of material 27-8 6 or 44 inches Pattcrn 7916—Two-Plece Draped Skirt, 22 to 82 sa ‘Walet. Call at THH EVENING WORLD MAY MANTON FASHION BUREAU, Doneid Bulking, 100 West Thirty-second etrest (oppo- OOODDOHHHOSHDDHHHOSOHHHOOHOSIDDHOOS significance to be detected in'the expression of each, how- |’ There wks a‘bricf, uneasy ailence ‘in waid Greyerson migera-| 115 TH ® OODHODHHDGOQDOODHOOSGOOSSOS: you'll know how he fects.” “Married? Hartt inquired, “No, That's the only mitigating oir cumstange,” sald Greyerson, distributing Classes. “Ho's quite atone in the world 's far ‘a I know—no near relatives at least.’ “Wall off ?" “Tolerably. Come of good people. Be- Neve his family had a lot of money at one time. Don't know how much of it thete wne left for Whitaker. “He's junior partner in a young law firm downtown—eenior a friend or class- mate of his, T understand. Drummond & Whitaker. Moves with the right sort of IT HA8 A PACULIAR SET OF VOCAL CORDS IN ITS THROAT 3 WAY DARLING- QBODHOHHODHOHDHS OO. e Destroying Angel DODHOHBDOHOS people. Young @tark—Peter Stark—is hie closest friend. Well—say when.” @hock, his mind wae alto- CHAPTER II. The Last Straw. - REYHIRSON was right in bis G gether preoccupied with petu- ri resentment of the unfairness of it surmise as to Hugh Whita- On the surface of the stunning knowl- ker'a emotions. ‘Hts soul still numd with “All aboard!” 2—The Mystery o1 the Wonderful “ Girl in Green.” BYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING INSTATATENT! Helen Doyen was born at century ago, She was beautiful Man after man fell in love with a fe rather thi ‘from his employer, Joseph ot | To avoid pep ray for Ghett he offered | Hoaie'’s daughter, Helen forbade this, was a questivm of marriage oF Jall, i yrner, Helen threatetied But as it obinson pre- was arrested. aia jrertD of @he crime and described it, (Continued.) HERE stood an elegant double mahogany bed, all covered with burnt ] biankets, pillows, blac en, as elndera, 1 looked around for the otdect of my curlority, “On the carpet I saw a Inen sheet, covering something, as if carclensly flung over it, © ‘Hore,’ aid the police officer, ‘here 1s the poor creature,’ “He half uncovered the ghastly I could soarcely look at it for corpee; mompat.or swe Slowly I bomen iw te: = : it Bessie’s Vacation ‘With « hand on the switch of a self-starting 60 horsepower cgr, Bessie 1s off to spend her vacation on the border line of Neptune's kingdom. Besate, carrying her far into the mountains, , ‘All aboardi” Whistles screech and hoot as stil] another Bessie waves | © us New York Murd (Covrright, 1918, ty B.'@, MeClere,) * Ten Nation-Famo Glacovér the Iinéamente of the corpse, 8 one would the beauties of a statue of marble, It was the most remarkable such another, Not a vein was to be seen. The body looked ax white, as full, as polished as - the purest Parlan marble, The perfect figure, the exquisite limbs, the fine face, New the full arms, the beautiful vust, all— all surpassed in every respect the Venus de Medic, according to the cast generally given of hor. A City Bxcited. “Tht) extraordinary murder bad caused 4 sensation In this ‘clty never before felt or known, It was Saturday n‘ght. t Milwood! Sho w: atfe character, and has markable end, The hou from the mob; let the authorit! to it, A morbid excitement pervades the clty.”" Let me hurry to a clore. The A pert @ romark- w mber of the City Hall, lasted five days, The first day the un- ruly mob hyoted the court into an ad- journment, The second day one hundred ppectal marshals ‘lubed the hooting mob into quietude peace, much sympathy and lying for Robinson, Mra. Townsand, a Mentt- fled Robinso 1p. fh DDHDOODOOHTHDOODOOOOON 3.—ALL ABOARD Treas Publ sight £ ever beheld—tI never have, and ¢ DDDHHOOO edge that he might count on no more than elz months of life floated this thin He felt very shaky indeed. He stood for a long time—how long he never knew—bareheaded, on a corner, Just as he had left Greyerson's office; tcowling at nothing, considering the enormity of the wrong that had been people were clapped on his hat to satisfy strode aimlessly down Sixth rr: them and AND OWING To THEIR ARRAN GEMENT- UNL IVE OTHER TIRDS- He 15 ENABLED ‘To SAY— ‘It was 6 o'clock in the afternoon of @ raw, chilly, dark, a day. Unseasonable brut ‘Me found himself walking fast, in- atinctively, to keep his blood in warm circulation, and this struck him as eo ine © aststent that presently he stopped to snarl at himeelf. “You biithering fool! What difference Goes \t_make whether you're warm oF cold? Don't you understand you're going to dio within half @ year?” He strove mantully tc grapple with this hideous fact, He felt no well, so strong and effictent, and yet he walked in the black shadow) avenue, came to his club, and @ farewell to But'no “ jends at the pier. "no matter where Dusiness! ‘nothing, 1i Tew, who roomed with Robtnson, swore to leaving Robingon in Broadway at § o'clock P, M. and seeing him next At 3.2 o'clock A. M,, when Leatherlead Brink awoke him with the arrest, at Robinson look upon the and remained until midnight, came to the night of oking and talking Threo weess later Furlong had tte repentant grace to drown himecif tn the North River, Who pald for Furlong? What influence was suarging Robins + Hoffman, for the defen alert, @bie, indofatizable, Mr for the prosecution, Iimpad, but went to slee Tho dea poisoned Migs Stever would have been, had Porter Cross of Hogle's stare testifid cipal witness, recelved but careless, to the hatchet. Mra. Salters swore to ual mention, It was not cies ‘saad ot te oloaty and dion, Treneh tald of Dla ns ie Kes we She is off on an ocean trip. she chose to spend her summer, ever ELEANQR SCHORER. By Alfred -Flenry Lewis. the areente he would not sell Robinson, Dut that wasn't emphasized, ‘The jury retired at miduight, te return in half an hour. on the floor, as if in shame—with ‘dict of NOT GUITe cloaka were wa A Mysterious Stranger. Ks uRhout the five trial days, @ mid- d Mysterious stranger eat at "a elbow, ‘In figure he was big, ular, powerful, Hie hair wae hie eyes were email, sinlat he t@ lem lacked the natural fervor of @ princtpal. Plagply he was somebody's agent. Who The was that somebody? question, often put, wae never ed. Rumor had it that the hard- i-fnksh indivédual repre a lady wealth apd sloppy sentiment, who and ran- hor beloved and tn tro years loathed himagit to death, —> | Passing tossed in the alr, @ hundred “Robinson” | alng World Dally Magaslag, Wednesdayt July a7 19TS ose he Author of ‘The Black OQOQDHHDO®HIDHOIHIOGDHGHGHHHDHGHDHOHOHOPOHOODHOOQHODOQHHODOHOGOSE A Strange Duel With Fate, Wherein Two Up-to-Date Mortals Undertook to Un. ravel the Web of. ith—a shadow from which there sation imaginable! He turned across town toward through the offi too well; hie heart ashe recognised it, & stone; for not only he must give up the fe stutted the, letter tate, hie etu! je let waned on to thé slevater th 1 mom door, when, tae arand st voices, ona ing. One wae Bitty Hamilten’s aways, “It’s only a few dsye ago.sint low Ladisias's daughter—what's name?—Mary—took the bit between her teeth and bolted with the old man’s chauffeur.” Bomebody asked: “How far 414 get Seton 014 Ladtslas caught ap wi ‘omre “He didnt give chase He's not that kind, Lf he wae put to it, old Thurlow could play the unforgiving parent in 6 without @ makeup.’ right,” ttle Bi he hadn't any daughter named Mary. “Meaning, of course, thag the girl had Aefied him’ and that, hig doors ware thenceforth barred to her.” mber his other daughter, Grace, Pott a years 14 Ladisias had a down on Pettit— who's '® decent enough kta, nothwith- atanding—o Grace was proses din. pwned-and cast into the outer darkni where there's weeping and walling and gnashing of teeth jude Pottit's only something-on-a-emall-ealary in the dip- Jomatio servioa, and they’ve no hope of touching: penny of the Ladisias . over mows, except iy them- forgot the cherub Who gives her such a bully, time whileaway. Dan Cupid | anne vinnre tering ive anscprote ‘Bu “All aboard!” And a big, smoky demon, dashing away with another| takes his vacation in the winter time, but in the summer he ts kept busy making things hum for Giriies and’ Bobs. You watch him'and see! : ably—getting first hand information a0 fo the quantity of cheese and trisses they can afford on a ehauffour's pay.” “What's she like, this Mary-quite-con- hi trary?" inquired George Brenten'e vote. “Anybody ever. geo her.” “Ob, nothing but « tad” ‘mettle’: Fiske. “T used to see bee ftom, leet. yee] kiting round Bo on @ Dike.” “The old man's so mean he wourin’t let -hor use the car alone’ Weeéy Mtde tege and eyeo—wkirte to-her therr ss Hitle isko armed. ‘The elevator walting by this |time, but Whitaker pauged an inatant before taking {t, ehtefly because the sound of his own mame, uttered by Hamilton, had roused him out of the abstraction tn which he bes overheard he proceding oonvers! ata Sm eorry, for Hugh Hele going to take this hard 20.—RADIOM, ADIUM ig an element. That ts, R it 1s made up of only one kind of atoms, It can be mixed with nothing, just itself, And a very valonble ealf- @ most valuable in the world, In proportion to Its quantity, Madium te found in the cruat of the earth. It t# found in rocks, on moun ‘tain les and in the sea, It makes |heatwithin iteelf, It does not combine |with anything else to make heat It te not influenoed by any outside heat. It |3tAKES beat in some way unknown to NZXT—The myotorious “Broadway: os It has deen found that radium helps ct eam by, haat just Hka that,” sald Hamftton, OO Learn One Thing Every Day: How to Galn a Fond of General Ifermation Copeviaht, 1018, bp The Hoes Publishing Os, (The Now Kesh Brening Wert, h Vance ass’ Bowl,” Be. Destiny. asked, an if George ton warprisedt “What? I "t kndw he wae inter eoted in that quarter.” “You must be biind. Alice Carstaire has had him going for @ year. Bverye body thought she was just out metter ke Peroy Grimahaw.” .. itaker heard no more. ony q At the first mention of the name Aieo Carctaire he had ematched ber let- 7 ane ohaw, “Halo! 'he eata, contrtvtng oy shea? accident to eatch sigue of Whit q who was almost tee in the chair, with ite back'to the Body of the, ‘What'e up? “It'e all up,” eeld pull himeelf together. a] it mean that T'm practivalty“e' Goad man—so near ft that ft makes Re, Gite ference.” “The sone Mey ay. atter, with you! woke Greyersen, 3 can't : ‘Whet's the, vesnarerbag) | 1 coulda, the, name-it's too lenerand pronounce it if I did." “What foolishness Gao py aetietst pA a i seo next. Thankeciving.’ 4 “Oh, shut, up!” Peter exploded» ebusly, ‘You make me t! ended M, Dsl” gy “At “ mt Gabe ines ean Wandin i int sort of thing. TI een't go round with’ my flesh creeping to heer the whisper- insert oom f Abrupt tion, Feo egination ef Peter Stark, and & to sputter with enthusiasm. ‘There is very Uttle ef this precious’! stuff, Out it ts scattered in microscopid quantities all over the world. If theress were more of It our earth would be’ come @ ball of heat like the gun. ., Radium wae discovered @ very sheriuy time ago. Two French people, Monaleurs and Madame Curle, first exploited 1 and they used the works of snot Frenchman, Monsieur Beoquerel, to!