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- ne <hr sme 1913 The Evening World Daily Magazine, Wednesday, August 20, My Hunt for a Wife A New York Bachelor's “Quest of the Golaen Gwi.”” By Victor J. Wilson. Copyright, 1013, by The rem Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), 7.—THE HOME-LOVING GIRL. FTER my utter disappointment over Dorothy %., who could not face the plainort incident of life without embroidering it with romantic colorings that were always picturesque and never true to fact, I longed for an unaffected, simple-minded girl aa a friend if not @ aweetheart. I had confided my tnfatuation for Dorothy to Helen R., the motherly, com- BY CHARLES DARNTON. fortable kind of girl who permitted a man to rave indefinitely about other fair “nae : a) evade. Sommared {¢ Seu Soulde’ mi ry s van charmers, Helen did not lack admirers of her own, for there were men galore A ¢ marreeey Se eesti Suiseie ekaulng $00 Guat ae ineras Sod ie ee Heol i , : who realized the golden worth of her character and disposition and would gladly to be @ fugitive from justice—and what adventurous epirit hasn't ’ = : [ony er er Cbs nese ceseaeey fOr Wat By exercised his imagination in this way at one time or another?—you're auro One summer she accepted a position In a settlement on the east side when to get @ lot of fun and excitement out of “Belleve Me, Xantippe,” at the all her family and friends had left town. It was Helen's firat experience of Thirty-ninth Street Theatre, . the heat of the city, And any of the boys she knew who happened te be in Tf managers and autiors weren't so deathly afraid of calling a farce a farce New York cheered her in her tenement surroundings and gave her what help ft would not be necessary to explain that “Believe Me, Xantippe,” is not a they could Socratic discourse. It !s farce of the | It wan a revelation to see her play with the poor little tads, to watch the Ughtest, most inconsequential and im- ames she Invented for their amusement and to witness the love between them. probable ort, and John Barrymore, who With motherly tnatinet whe took the young imps, no matter how dirty, to her played ‘ite engaging. youne (hero tine bosom and fondled and petted them, Helen's friends saw that she was making commonly well last night, was wise in @ Wreck of herself phyatcally and mentally by overwork and fina ty persuaded emphasizing this fact, Just what Fred- her to wend in her resignation and join her family at the seashore, I was selfish erick Builard’s firat play would be wi: enough to Infilot my gloominess of spirit on Helen, who was always patient out this particular actor, who seems | about Hatening to my woes, fairly to have drifted into it, I hesitate Dad was going to buy me « seat on the Stock Exchange aa soon an T showed to say. But at least It may lay claim a liking for Wall atreet, where 1 was apprenticed in a brokerage firm of hie to a new and clever idea and fresh friends. Every afternoon at 3 o'clock when the market closed I came uptown treatment, What it needs is a@ little to meet Helen, whom I took to tea or driving in the park or automobiling or te more elaboration, or the addition of a ee the tag end of @ vaudeville pertormar An nympathy is kin to love, owe iN curtain raiser, to make it @ full eve- 4 FARM HOUSE. AND friend@hip noon developed into a deeper aentiment. Helen was less conventional (| i (te ning’s entertainment. And even now PACK IN A BIG than moat of the girix { had known an well as being nobler and finer. She the plece gets a bit thin toward the end, had no ubjections to going out to dinner with me alone. And many an interest- XJ “THOSE OLD DAYS WHEN | WAS Barrymore Makes AKID ~ AND I'LL HIDE MY “Believe Me, Xantippe,” Rattling Good Fun. Hoomey AND Come Down, HERE with “HE Kins TO Swit EVERY — Now "he BEAT IT BACK “"G THe OLD But let's be thankful for small favors, \. OLD FASHIONED 3 4 Ing restaurant did we explore together, bf gantidme homens eae ~ . : One night Tf took her to an Italian table d'hote. She seemed so rare and r y « t ‘om thi t dal RUKG tithe couch ecanea cr owt . sweet and apart from the environment that I Nad almost a feeling of possession. In any event his by-play helped im- mensely 10 keep the house fn laughter, Full of the Irresponsible spirit of the Between the hore d'oeuvres and mpaghettt 1 qused into her ¢: if there wax any hope for Finally 1 leaned acre “Tell me what kind of man the lucky fello mutely askin, in the table and pleaded: ; , must be to win you, princess?” . : ‘ , Bhe cocked her pretty blond head to one alde and chirped: farce and apparently enjoying it #0 é ‘el js ‘ “ " . ” r much that for once he was completely % . « i . . ‘He muat be a man of decent eter, He at be a man of weight. je muet come home on a Saturday night ina thoroughiy sober state, He must know how free from nervousness, he proved him- N » how ta Saki Ge: avery aatiohor Gastions F “ to love me, he muat know Row to kies, If he hag enough to keep ue both I ghan’t an whic HE. refuae him bites.” Mary Young as Dolly Kamman. one in wns bh the shting ofa CLdTHEs “Helen, I can vouch for the requirements of alse, weight, sobriety, devotion, John Rarevmers. C George Mac c Bee eae ialow ed ty ik abate ARE HERE tenderness and well-filled coffers, 10 I fill the bill?" [ asked her. ‘arland. don ase . EBale: ment at the brilliant work of the stage manager. seas ‘ ‘The plot was diaclosed with equal clearness in the beginning when the adventurous hero made a bet of $9,00) with two friends, a New York detective and a lawyer, that he could commit forgery and escape arrest for a year, He got along very nicely until he reached the hunting shack of @ sheriff's daughter in Colorado, where his pet slang phrase, "Belleve me, Xantippe!’ betrayed him to the knowing Diana, who promptly “got the drop” on him. ‘This is where the fun really began. Ordered to bed at the point of @ gun, the restless Barrymore raised one of the biggest laughs, together with the blanket, when he declaved: “You can make me go to bed, but you can't make me go to sleep.’ Before this he was induced to engage in Mght housework, and although ho, peeled potatoes almost as well as Dutiful Sara's did in A Christman Night," he was sent to bed without lis supper. Minaily he proved of won around the hou overpowe social highwayman who happened alors ang took an impolite Interest In the sheriff's daughter Dolly, She felt she had done a good night's work when ‘Then she put @ series of quextions to me. And whe ended by outlining tdeala of married life, They were too humdrum and primitive to suit my tastes, They entailed a deadly domeatic future ax middle- atay-at-homes, 1 frankly confenmed wuch a@ life would bore mv. Helen completely feased me | by muytn, | “Then you fail in my most important requirement, T could never be happy with a man who does not love the kind of Life | have just pletured. Mo we decided not to net up housekeeping under the same roof. Stop Thiel @ [ie Gect lenghtiory of te Seane SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS, dowes Cluney is about to marry Madge ( by H, K, Fly Co,) dome and personal effects, al] furniture, one tee box? "—— He had got as far as thin before he And my mone: daughter of an alsent-minded old merchant. could stop himself, Then, as he looked son boixterously costly wed presenta have been went to the in amazement at the paper in his hand, . Jamison’s atock certifi. must have those certificates within an! yrriait, by The Wrese Publiening Co. (7! put In Douglas Jaml- ‘The sergeant was perplexed, Mr. Jam- | COOLING DRINKS “Don't forget mY inon was @ man of @tanding in the LTHOUGH the clink of tee fe "Then, as he banged a fist on business world and it would not do to A ing in almost any iquld se Camm itiverside ‘Drive house value ex- he bellowed: i, ' » making Cluney jump as if he appetizing in warm cites the cupidity of Jack, bm Rice enue O94 I've lost my Warrant! This fe a list had been hit, instead of the tad! Is apt to tire of the aa a fork, Pour over them the juice ef foup ns, & half glaseful of orange jules, tableapoontuls of shredded pine- apple and a half cupful of granulated He had intuence ‘he with some of the big men at Poli: rather, o ” ' o 4s old coolln® | sugar. Put the bowl on the bee, Whea 3 aid of Nell cmt he te engaged. Of furniture, “Come sergeant! Let's @et Headquarters, ax the sergeant knew. . | vA " both visitors were safe in bed, It was Seater es Ay Carn “Jack ‘Doonan was obliged to etoop bes Boren eratestak chins there. gue dei a o6 9 oman " It Mr in | thorough! \d remove the geranium only a matier of another act for her to me the, mOrRlOd oF Fhe ite Route hind the table so that he could grin “I'm going to search the house and of reflection ies Kladly pend the afternoon | leaves, pour three tableapoontula of the get them into what Barrymore polit hii to marry, lent aly gecentric unt mental in comfort without being observed. rybody in it," interrupted the aer- Jamison! You hurry a ver, if only she Won't serve Jem-/ mixture into each glass, with cracked called her papa's prison. falinee, say Aare bere BN dase a eee tose ——— feant. 7 ‘ © Headquarters and bya an sponge ue natu lee, Fill the glasses with ice water end There was nothing to equal the situa- mong the welding pres Ualeinonce CHAPTER XXIII. ‘Walt a minute! Walt a minute: another Warrant” emonade In a good drink, It Ix alm-| Anish off with a couple of maragohine tlon at the end of the second act, bat Sic dieasanerery t piece a tnterpoxed Jack Doogan, ¢ ine 2 protested Jamison dinguat- ple, cooling and beneficial t ont _peo- | cherries and a fresh geranium leaf. tripping Hehtly with hall-and-chatn tho if bonds weiding present (or Sad A Police Hold-Up. ward with a bustnesaliite air, ‘OW edly, “that will only take more tire, ple, but there are many variations to} ‘Toa Fruit Punch—To a quart of tee debonair BarrymoM kept up the fun Settee tat any aa tel HERB did you ose yous an't search this house without @ War gng——* which it ean be subjected that disguise | cold tou add a half pint bottle of rasp with ease and as much era 9 the AS he t ae 66 ‘warrant, do You suppose, AME OE. ays: le WASP EE Go, on, Mr. J it on the it and make it so much move d te! berry syrup and the jules of three leme Minciusstances would ne hero's eT a tah cermeant?) ausried) gaint tne vergeant tia ontinariiy red Tune I'l wtay’ here and watch out for and attractive, fons Chill thoroughly and float a thip ismay at news of che aaah of Nis Fog a on ‘ son, jovking about the Drucht scarlet with indignation, (hls Cunch wotll you get back, Go Lemonade de Luxe-Wash off aix|siice of orange and a tiny bunch of friends, who alone could save him from a .. leaves of a le diin't he have a warrant on geranium p about them ina bow! and brulae silaht! it. Mat) fresh aint ing Sing, gave another turn to the sit- n the crack cack All right. 1 puppone that ba a.) ewhere in this arr bome stock cert ed Jaminon, taking bis stand by the (| with ! glass tion, but they turned up like the bad Sumer tartedeem the cer: reoin, ‘Tiga place ix full uf crooks. ANY= side of the sergeant, the only thing t6 be done, Hut don't wee actors they were Just a few minutes too itieates, oe Yue pare heen tite. body can tell that, by what has haps “tow du wa know he had one?’ in- let any of them Ket Ce ees 2 Jate to win thetr bet, Hy thie ume, of \pollee, oU M pollect therpreents in pened, and I'm going to hold somebody siated Doogan. “He gaya he had, but | “Trust ime” responded the wermeanhy trumpet to catch tie conversation, and erating way. “L think you would i ' . a miitcase dance to eam Sith pexponsitile, how do we know th grimly, Wan eager to join in " Dolly and the rawh youth were iHetoro they, tan. get ie pall a“ i . " i rf J iny bands were thd, hare a lfe-senten: Liat aid eupouace ‘that’ everbody musk te ‘The sergeant was In a flaming rage, “Well, 1 did have @ warrant," howled | "If I don't get my certificates TH sut perstated Dr Willoughby, Hang’. ‘There wes @ riot on the ine a arg A ak aos ba Mathanine tata aa Wielee | searched. and he looked at tie iunocent William the worgeant Jail every one of them,” was Mr. Jamt- wyoy haven't looked in the safe lately stant, TG i Sa While Miss Mary Young did not sug- rhea Vee MeueK" 'K —_—_—_—— Carr as if he belleved him to be the “On, you did? Wall, where ie the #0n's parting hot, as he rumhed out Ong in th at few minut Pe he sergeant almed a blow at Doogas. gest the romantic type, she was pleasing jodore Roberts as “Buc! am CHAPTER XXil. thief who had stolen his warrant under warrant?” on his minaton hEBE od mistaken, You'd bet- with his left hand, which Toowan meats and competent, and It must be con- At (Continued) his very nose, *Daat’a &. refoined the sergeant, ‘I understand,” called the #ergeant ter look again.” ly ducked and would have landed @ Jolt fexsed rho acted With authority when she ordered Mr. Barrymore to “alt The Search Warrant “Let everybody look for 4hat ware oWo g after him, “Hurry up The seraeant stared at Willoughby with his own left If the other three pes down.” Her vocal tricks, however, grew a trifle monotonous. A change In the e Searc! e howled the sergeant, “Uf Ws on ry ‘replied Jack Doogan, Having seen Jamison mafely away, with dark sunpicion, and was consider: licenen had not rushed between them fortunes of Theodore Roberta made him the sheriff, He was rough and : P was now that Jack Boogan the floor tt must be somewhere clone at “Rut you can't mearch thie house with the sergeant walked back te tie table ing whether the du torn suggest! just in time, E de but like some of the other actors he made too much noise. Miss Katherine proved tis chivalry in the hand, Get under tue table, youl outone, T know the law.” and looked over bis prisoners—-a# be about the safe did not put him in the muon, but the fou were too much Harris, the pretty young wife of Mr. Burrymore, created an amusingly viclent face of adverse conditions, This last was flung at Mr, Carr, who who at ou” abruptly de- considered them—when Jack Dooxan jet of criminal suspects for , and although he shouted, ibe Mecene” as a ruffled jailbird and mado at least one of the most striking pictures Although it was decidedly under the | ta the serg i are talking stepped tn front of him and #ald, 4U- “Perhaps | wax mistaken,” obseryed Fitzjames to Roderick Dhu's warriors ¢ "the morning after” ever placed on exhibition. Frank Campeau played the to hie pervonal Intereat to While bis wife and daughters, Cl Now, who are thoritatively: |. Mr Carr. “PI look in the safe again! for tiem all to come on, and declaredé ja r sty ea RoBi NE dam Clon G OhATaOtEE GF IHRE RlvlGm AHA Alhant foberte make himself as taconspicuous as pos- Wiloughby. Doogan, = nan andthe F mind whe replted ‘Hold on here! You policeman can't “Yeu, take another look, William,” !n fo many words, that he was “just “ f and A < Bible, ho could not resiae the piutul fur pollceinen groped about th dooman, with signif stay in this hous udvined hin wife. dying to trim @ bull.” he did not a wan capital as the obliging Jailer who took everything guod-naturedly, expe- [Svea ae “Mes. Carre se he stepped On thelr handy and knees, ike a lot of haven't got a warrant, and that wtopa "If you don't keep your trap whut Mr. Carr and Madge knelt down tn » do it, but was Torced *otally the wet sponge that Mr. Barrymore let tly with an aim for which hasty |holdly in front of the sergeant and said ildre mying @ game, | x0 Vi have to chastixe you, sWeetheart,” front of the safe, while Mra, Carre 4 until he was well out of reach rehearsal should be called, | $0 him aterniy: eral minutes they crawled There are few things that x've @ man returned the @ergeant, with ferocious mn expectanty. ter hushand roh foe, the sergeant. Like that sponge, “Belleve Me, Xantippe." is a big hit. It's full of that) "stop! ne vider the furniture and + Aportwace in such @ situation @&@ humor, “My warrant wad gto: no heré. had vexun to turn the combination knob auiet, Doogan,” adm Aetshttul tomfoolory for which John Barrymore has a real gealus. What yelled the sergeant, ate r of the 4 in the (Care hone just then ‘Thats proof of a felony, Am aure of when the rattle of it attracted the at NM . eolnge ~ ae — a [tempting to wither thia presumptuous Ragu Stnnghad cot mystery a8 to his exact finding tne wat Mr. Jamison tention of the sergeant, and he swung Yeu, he's not worth bothering with,” . > y man Ww ad da to beard yor ae ae ed ton Hosoolety. ‘There WAYS & gets back, So olng to atay here around see what was going fed Willouxnby. ‘Thrash him some B tt Vincent's Advice to ov: Jhim in the execution of his uty, "Get been nah tie wall oF aun vy tint he inay be a personage and get a Httle satisfaction on my "G ay from that #a he shout: it you like, but this te not e y L OTS \tack there or Ti put handeote on Into the earnet That wan W Mi uence that it woula he dane gwa wegunt” ed. “Nobody will touch anything in thin :, vith oman witho you.” BL ey ays Mealy at iat disregard him, 3a OORAN Jack Dougan did not delgn to reply, Heute unth Jamison wets back with that « calming words had more effect Self-Sacrifice. | Rit an unloving woman without dls] 785, yon wan't,” shouted Jack Deoe though the xorg untly cummnanded woe a pant-inaster in the gume of tuft ,,2a%k, Bowran Al sian fe Cents warrant, When Vil Go ine eearehing® ‘oman than might have. seemed — ho + him. \gan, as determined ax the other. “% ‘im to “Shut u fedid net help BER and he was nis talents now to walked over to Py Doogan marched over from the book. Ukely. The fact wae that he thought of SELESS self-| Its very proper to have an abhorrence | Want you to do this thing regular if you ‘9 find the prectuus anent atnomt. The sergeant looked doubt. 1 the titlen « © volumes with 1 planted himaelf ja front of the Neil aud what it might mean to her if sacrifice Is) of breaking one's given word, Buti de it at all." T sermeant sudde fumped to tts Ate TIC AP ert t trucuiently he were dragged away to jali for ate foolish aud) when the love that should be behind} “On, I'!! do ft all rlgheit anaried the {ft at last, and as ne brushed the d io ant sald De Wilivughby to Oe iby he wok he he sald. “You can't tell tacking @ police officer, This reflection wasteful, every promise to marry has departed, | sergeant. dom the knees of hist trousers, Yiooan Tell him who you are! much part in the cont « Kenteman what he can do in his Dad more to do with the sudden sube ‘The engaged girl} the promise is already broken iy apirit,| “AN right! But you haven't aerved he tested the dictum | vas exept Mr Care and Doug’ fore, Hut he was getting tired an holes, F ee idence ‘of hig purnacity (hen eayiming who finds that) No good can come of clinging to the the Warrant vel a ae P L " eTTOREd WEEE oe ee anarof the aereoant Vil wallop you In a minute,” threat. anybody could have said, has promised to) be discovered and correvted during the atituted for the warrant into tatorially you peor Sa hee and er thin excitement about? Wiate BOO raniers in hin ward in Chivago, and The sergeant was a shrewd rea@er of iurry, and yet) engagement period. [Carta face, and the old gentle ple something You can't buff me, Thm “Whats all shushing about, any. stylen when he wcnted battle in the air ie men, and he saw that Doogan had dee determines to wed —_— |wis going to take it out of his hand, is a frame by in tals rein haw? Mr Jamison a ateel stock certify y tow ready to rush into the fray, termined not to ght any more—fueg him, not only ine] 4@, writes: “I am in love with| But the sergeant enatehed the paper fas ticks warrant. Now, f didnt slush. remarked Mr Carr, Cates,” replied the sergeant aw the wecond time within a few the least. Bo he cal out te the sures unhappiness! two girls at once. 1 care as muci for | Away come ont it?" he wound than i ne an moved "Why. the steel storks are in that that the sergeant had’ talked Uh men: “ for herself but! one as I do for the other, Is there any |. “What is itt" asked Mr. Carr, "Don't a valve of th , ea he stared har f thy reat of family, the Safe , ae King him, and Jack Doogan ‘That's all right, men, Go back en@ VINCENT brings it upon!way of deciding which T sould marry?” | ZOU Want me to read it at Mrs, Car feeling self-protection strong with No," Interposed Willlain Carr, shake that the moment had come to %e- suard . Ga. doo: But keep your her futvce hus! If you think Love cach mauaty fac Nob much." replied the sergea “Do you mewn to intimate that somes hin ing his head disconmolately, “We Just sent tt a thie fel indicating ans tk nab aheleal you think you love each: equally jy read it to you. one has stolen your warrant?’ demanded Come, sergeant, come! urmet Jami: looked In the safe" “You'll wallop me, miti_you?” @ ‘Welil take him with ua when hend, Her sacrifice does ¥ you probably don't love elther Tre opened the document with a flour- that lady, bridiing. son ' Por heaven's aake, ao something, We have looked evervywhe put sneered, measuring i — tt a Tor po br a live lens enough for marri: tom ang began, 12 & oud fone: "My ‘Tou, 3do, Just the game aa somegge My vroker: tended the time, Out ZB io Mire, Carr, who had beld be: ear: Sil ae ce) eee A Za Cantinved.) z ests 1 “e Beta!” sg dame “ reer. vows <n — — = ee — ~ = —s i i —— : '