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The Evening World Daily Magazine, Monday, November 10, 1913 Where There’s a Will & sy By Mary Roberts Rinehart ‘ A . “ 4 id cy . And sudden! a closed soft! : * The Amazing Adventures of an American Girl, a temanaea. “ C'%% Bowe WB Tien it Nak ime: to atay ore, and avtchool teacher, which ta what 1 and there wuss ruse senind me when The Complications That Rose From One of the don't know,” I sald; “I hi help Mr. Dick sell the olf place for @ studied for, I was thinking to myself I turned It was Mise Patty herasolf. Foreign Prince, a Yankee Youth and a Woman ‘eat since the inst explosion summer hotel, For that’s what hell bitterly that all that my experience in Bho saw tho clipping immediately and Cyeerest “Last Wills and Testaments” Ever ¢. ; went down the steps to the epring, I 40," the apring fitted me for was to be a stopped Just inside the door : , heart th thi ot “Me won't well It," declared the olf mermaid, when I heard something runs “You, too,” she sald. “And we've a ~ With Red Hair, Who Got Into a Series of Mat across the Noor, and ‘f knew Me wae doctor grimly. “All I want is for you ning down the path, and it turned out come all this distance to get away from Penned and a Three-Cornered International rimonial Tangles and Couldn’t Get Out Again. Snontound you, Minnie," he ex- OO EN ‘say’ teeta, ot wont “and auwied tha door behing Rew and uve 1, Torban't talk about tt? 1 ra: Love Affair That Wouldn't Run True to Form. The Funniest Story of America’s Greatest Woman Humorist ~ elaimed, “if E could get along without le, eaten | threw the Finleyville evening paper at piled, not h ding out my hand, pads wy you I'd discharge you this minute, 1c er the me. jer, So to epork, next door to bel oa, : 1 Dick thinks it Phorer “ve wo 4 en—but ah [ wi to this emelly Mttle While Um up f might as well get ‘And it \ There! she sald, “I've won a cak but sh ned right over an ae (Copyright, 1012, by Bobbe, Merril Oo.) quchereng Berit nave Gon poy comes vut of the earth just as we Foll of toilet p from Bathhouse Mike. me, f could hardly belteve tt. talk things over with ar something else off my mind,” I said, CHAPTER 1. dozen times in tho last year” req %,With the whole pharmacoporla In it.” qe Kniperar'a consented.” “Why won't you talk about It? she aharp - tongued, | moan - lap it know what's In that will but f 1 Have a Warning. torted, “I'm not objecting to Mr, Dick ell, tt made the old doctor happier, — “Nonsenae!” [ snapped, and snatched thing mo by the shoutders SPring ®' anything to do with it, Mr. Van W HEN {t was all over Mr, Sam camo out to the spring-house to eay me to burst into song about it. Shy Lvs ding me off. "Minnie, your eyes And with that FE began to blubty Alstyne. He took advantage of my Aine your hate 8%" and she came into my arma Ike @ being iald up with iotuenca last apring t approve of it Teald, “You by. They thought that was funny, but @ well know it now as later, “You're all I've got." I declared, over few minutes later they weren't ao cheer« Matty 1 dou’t believe In mised and “and you'te going to live In fol You see, the sanatorium was a paper. Tillie Was right; the Em r had! L sat down and read tt vugh, and there wae Mies Pattyo« picture In an oval ant the prince's In anoth with @ tutned-up mustache th Boodby to me before he and Mrs. Sam left. I hated to see him go, the door behind you when you go out.” bat acinw to have bel suck, ant fees after all we had been through together, and I euppose ho saw it in werine fidn’t go at once, He stood @ jump then, T might have known my face, for he came over close and stood looking down at me and \* i Me pollgh glasses and get 10 there was trouble ahead, mad | , f hand on the handle of Ni ©. Thad a cousin that married & Country Where they harness women michty fine plece of property, with smiling. fad something ae ire te hal Mg 7 : Shard: and pekweat: thom Werk WOR The and, what with him making the with doge, and you'll never hear an sr park and goit links, We'd had “You saved us, Minnie,” he said, “and I needn't tell you we're grateful; Minnie," ho sald at last, “you're @ CHAPTER II. ‘I Iron nroinive (bo Rood on the Tale STURN BNO pate Wee Hite anak: Rota cut oe cae hoon dean do you know what T think?" he asked, pointing his long forefnger at me. ‘I ShTewd Young wo an—maybe more Mies Patty Arrives. over my a ilnta, tha Wrettatinge te that mied “He speaka aa good English as { do, That was ong of the reasons think you've enjoyed it even when you were suffering most. Med haired women Chough’ “And with your temper unde - i st ine tt ing #ald, “but the awa faleand, up that tts pitiful” Cieirteshc dla dad ban dhe) Hein Che, wil if are born to intrigue, as the sparks fy upward.” Control. you's a casatio’ yelne house that Gay after the old. ob, Minnie, lan't he Took She got a little red at that, but ehe “bout him—you're worse than the - The whole estate was lett to Dicky ‘Enjoyed it!" I snapped. “I'm an old woman before my time, Mr, Sam. woman.” doctor left. It had started to at his nose fat down and took up the clipping. papera”” Sho took off her things and Carter, who hatn't been adle to come ‘What with trailing back and forward through the snow to the shelter-house, = “What has Mr. Dick been up to snow and only the regulara Well, T sat there and thought it over, “He's much battor looking than that, Ly Mohd my hears Lp in to Erte call fo his being taid up with an ag: nd not getting to bed at all some nights, and my heart going by fits and now?" I asked, growing suspictous, came out. What with the old Miss Patty, or Miss Patricia, being, #0 Minnie,” she said soberly, “and hea a fof the popcorn, “Oh, how glad f am tack of mumps. ‘Che family sat up add “1 They'd ¢ b * ahe sang out to me. nodded at starts, as you may say, and half the time my spinal marrow fairly ohilled—not ‘Nothing. an old man, Min- doctor talking about dying, and Misa to speak, a friend of mine. They'd come good Catholic, Hut If that'a the way (0 met Away.” a 4 te antion putting on my overshoes every varie from taree ot habit pe nie, @ very old man. Patty Jennings gone to Mexico, when to the springs every winter for years. you feel we'll not talk about 1 I've tent even Derewny deewtnnen: Whore faving to take them off again, I'm about all tn.” r, the pop-corner or th “It'a been the making of you, Minnie,” and can combine them properly, which whatever you call it Feading of the will-and not @ day later he said, eying me, with his hands in his jen’t common, And when folks came Bhe was as happy to have escaped the —Mr. Dick was to take charge of the pockets. “Look at your cheeks! Look back I could call them at once. It reporters and the people ahe knew ae @ Sanatorium and to stay there for two at your @isposition! I don’t belleve you'd would do your heart good to see eome or heid up ite heard there wae e dition they breathed easier, corn-popper of Hexinning with one week after the child, and ehe sat down on the floor in Montha without a day off, If at the end stab anybody in the back new!" Politiolan, coming up to rest his stomach front of the fire and began to shell the Of that time the place being gua. (Which was a joke, of course; I never from the free bar in the St House corn Into the popper as if she'd dons cessfully conducted and could show that etatfbed anybody in the back.) at the capital, enter the ig-house it only the day befor it hadn® money the entire property “1 guesp you're sate enough here, becamo hia for keeps. If he tailed it sald. “It's always lack tn January Was 19 be sold and the money given to only @ fow chronic and the Saturday. CNMI ds have to insow BiaM Ge to-Monday husbands, except a drummer 441 °1,™oll have to know Richard Care now and then who drives up from Fine wi Cua Mont bie) excitement ti leyville, It's too early for drooping wes ont 0 I reckon, like clety bude, and the chronic tivers don't 15° nq Gumeinen nie vey never, dared ouraely old had get around until late Marah, after the gone ty bet at 10 ioftbnoke a fone | banquet a wall elo It will be pretty got up at 7, and #0 he had a en e quiet fora fondness for 7 ‘And at taat minute the door waa (ONdness for the one particular grand Aung open and Bathhouse Mike wtan- “twiog dy ny Loni kagt? ed at all. } ered |i i} He sauntered over and dropped a quart- where everybody in playing cards and ter into the slot machine by the door, drinking water and not caring a fap but the thing waa frozen up and refused whether he’s the man that cleans the te work, I'vo seen the time when Mr. windows or the Secretary of the Navy. Bam would have kicked it, but he merely If he’a been there before, in sixty nec: looked at It and then at me. onds I have his name on my tongue “Turned virtuous, like everything else Klass of water In his hand, and round the place, ‘Not that I don't ap- ked him about the rheumatism prove of virtue, Minnie, but I haven't in his right knee and how the children got used to putting my foot on the bras4 are. And in ten minutes he's sitting in rail of the bar and ordering a nut sun- a bridge game and trotting to the spring dae, Hook the money out with a halr- to have his glass refilled during his pin, Minnie, and buy some shredded dummy hand, aa if he'd grown up in wheat in remembrance of me." the place. The old doctor used to say He opened the door and a blast of my memory was an asset to the sana- ‘ebruary wind rattled the window torlum, ames. Mr. Sam threw out his chest He depended on me a good bit—the under his sweater and waved me an- old doctor did—and that winter he was ‘Other goodby, pretty feeble. (He was only seventy, “Well, I'm off, Minn! he Sata. but he'd got in the habit of making It “Take care of yourself and don't sit elghty to show that the mineral water too tight on the job; learn to rise a kept him young. Finally he got to bit in the eaddl being eighty, from thinking it, and he “Goodby, Mr. Sam!” T called, putting died of senility in the end.) down Miss Patty's dolly and following He was in the habit of coming to the him to the door; “good-by; better have spring-house every day to Ket his morn- womething before you start to keep ing glass of water and read the papers. you warm.” For a good many years it had been his He turned at the corner of the path custom to sit there, in the winter by and grinned back at me. the wood fire and in the summer Just “AML right,” he called. I'll go down {nstdo the open door, and to read off to the bar and get a lettuce sandwich!” the headings alowd while 1 cleaned ‘Then he was gone and, happy as T around the spring and polished glasses. wae, T knew T would mixa him terribly. I “I gee the President is going fishing, not a wire hairpin and went over to the Minuie,” he'd say, or “Alrbrake is up Slot-machine, but when T finally dug to 183; 1 wish I'd bought dt that time eut the money I could hardly see It for 1 dreamed about it. It was you who tears. persuaded me not to, Minnie.” e ° ° ¢ © 2 bd And all that winter, with the papers in when the old doctor dled, ¥ full of rumors that Miss Patty Jennings Gasuose you have heard of Hope Sana- Was going to marry a prince, we'd fol- = ‘ in his teens did Dicky Carter run “The ald doctor!” he gasped. “He'® trom mchool, and twice his grandfather dead, Mise berg nara just now Licliovey kept him for @ week hidden in the hot room tn use! One an ahelter h 4 i age Ne meer uy derees use on the golf links, Natu: / rally when Mr. Van Alsat ! oe nner and the next—I'thought he Wa8 to pide him again, which Is, fine on Joop. in the story, he went to the old shel Something that had deen heavy tn MY house ilke a dog to its kennel, only rin L breast all afternoon muddenly seomed (0 time—but that's ahead, too, : burat and made me feel faint ali ov: Well, the family went back to town tn But T didn’t lose my head, © buzz of indignation, and I carried "Dooa anybody know yet? I @aked my waistcoat buttons and my “An- quickly, He shook his hoad. atomy” out to the apring-house and had “Then he didn’t die in the bathhouse, @ good cry. ‘There was a man named, Mike,” T osaid firmly, “He died tn M8 Thoburn who was crazy for tl ‘Brop- bod, and you know it, If tt mete Out erty axa summor hotel, and every time that he died in the hot room have 1 shut my eyes 1 could see ““Thoburn the Coroner on you."* House’ over the veranda ai rn ' Miss Patty was standing by the rall- nailing paper bdoate in the ‘on poral tng of the spring. IT got my shawl and gpring. started out after Mike, and she fol- sure enough, the next afternoon Mr. j lowed, Thoburn drove gut from Finleyville with & eultcare, and before he'd taken off his i) the: 'll etampede, Start any excitement Gyarcd ring: in a mnatorium,” I sald, “and one vd Koo, heed SL. al) they'll dip thelr thermometers tn hot sitgito, Minnie, h ° A, . exclaimed. “Does water and swear they've got fever! the old man's ghost come back to dope And we hurried to the house together. thy wpring, of do you do It?” the guests ever get hold of this the mincral spring that ‘owed {t by the spring-house fire, the \ rlasiedes Shs oF do you do ttt? | in an ee perhaps you have scen old doctor and J, getting angry at the i CHAPTER III. enh tye Row what you are tatking the blotter we got out, with a flash- Austrian emperor for opposing {t when pty shout, Mr. ‘Thaburn or ot sharp light interior of the spring-houge on It, We knew how much too good Miss Patty i that ite origin in— we got the poor old “In Schmidt's drug store down tn Fin- doctor moved buck to his leyville,"” ho finished for me. room, and had one of the ‘4 been filing him m glase—It being chambermatda find him there, @ matter of habit with me—and he tank and I wired to Mrs, Van It to the window and held It to the light. Alatype, who was Mr. Dicky “You're gettin Minnie.” he Carter's @later, and who was on her paid, @quinting at it. “Some of those honaymoon in South Carolina, drugs ought to be dissolved first in hot The Van Alstynes came back at once water. There's a lump of lthia there in very bad tompers, and we had the that has Schmidt's pharmacy label funeral from the preacher’a house in on it." nieyville ao as not to harrow up the = “Where? mand. sanatorium people any more tan Mecre: for“it ity faughed ee Aree ates eae wary. Even ae tt was, @ few left, but ting the gl a rf about twenty of the chrontes stayed stond wmiiine at me oe Mme over and und It looked an if we might be able to As ingenuous as a child,” he sald in kgep going. hia mocking wa! little red Minw Patty nent to town for # black falred chi vell for me, and even’ went to the yourg Garerr ne how old te mie funeral. It helped to take my mind *« nf my troubles to think who It Was eounting on his Pepsin lied Magic that was holding my hand and com: “Not at all," he broke in baatil forting me, and when toward the end no hasn't too much charact of the service whe got out her hand- aniy succeed, 1 hope he tan't a fool, kerchieg and wiped her eyes I wae he isn't, oh, friend Minnle, he'll stan@ almost overcome, she being, #9 tO the atmosphere of this Garden of So speak, in the very shadow of for about a week, and then he'll, Aftog J€ was all o' some ff them and escape, Where is be rathered in the aun parlor of the torlum to hear the will—Mr, Van Al- "%, . styne and his wife and about twenty i,juenern, wick.” T entd, more who had come up from the olty ang tell to laucht i 14 r tho funeral and stayed over—on friest ane: ae ones Well, the old doctor left me the but: J tons for hin full drena waistcoat and his O1,,'he knob. “Minnie, the eld plese favorite copy of Gray's “Anatomy.” I © a “j ie hammer in thi couldn't exactly net up housekeeping peeks and if you know what's with my abare of the estate, but when fF you you'll eign in under the tho lawyer rend that part of the will M&naement while there's @ vacancy aloud and @ grin went around the room You've been the whole show hare fom flounced out of tny chair, olan Soa It sll be Mee Fae tee "Maybe you think I'm disappointed,” ‘to line up in the back row of ald, looking hard at the faintly, who ehorue, weren't making any particular pretense | “It T ding the old doctor a glass was for any foreigner, and then getting Sf ielueral. water and wearing the em- nervous and fussed when we read that broidered linen waist that Miss Patty the prince's mother was in favo. of the Jennings gave me that winter. The match and {t might go through. Miss Wlotters were a great success. Below Patty and her father camo every win- the picture it sald, “Yours for health." ter to Hope Springs and I couldn't have Afd in the body of the blotter, in red been more anxious about it if she had lettering, “Your system absorbs the been my own sister. health-giving drugs in Hope Springs Well, as I say, it all began the very Pwater as this blotter soaks up ink.” day the old doctor died. He stamped ‘The “Yours for health” was my {fea, out to the spring-house with the morn- Thave been spring-house girl at Hope ing paper about 9 o'clock, and the wed- Springs Sanatorium for fourteen years. ding seemed to be all off. The paper My father had the position before me. sald the emperor had definitely refused but he took rheumatism, and, as the his consent and had sent the prin old doctor sald, it was bad business who was his cousin, for a Japanese policy to spend thousands of dollars cruise, while the Jennings family ware in advertising that Hope Springs water going to Mexico in their private car. cured rheumatism and then have father ~The old doctor was indignant, and 1 king Hike a rusty hinge every tlme remomber how he tramped up and down bent over to fill a glass with It the spring-house, muttering that the girl Father gave me one plece of advice had had a lucky escape, and what did the day he turned the spring-house the emperor expect {f beauty and youth over to me. and wealth weren't enough. But he “It's a diMecult situation, my girl,” calmed down, and soon he was reading he sal “Lots of people think that the papers were predicting an early aimply a matter of filling a glass with spring, and he sald we'd better begin water and handing {t over the railing. to increase our sulphur percentage in Why, I tell you a barkeeper's a high- the water. iced man mostly, and his Job'sa snap | padn't noticed anything atrange in this. I'd like to know how & bar- yi, manner, although we'd all noticed Keeper would make out If his custom: pow feeble he was growing, but when era came back only once a vear and he he got up to Ko back to the aana- had to remember whether they wanted jortum and I reached him his cane it their drinks cold or hot or ‘chill off’ gromed to me he avoided looking at ‘And another thing: tf a chap comes in Mug, He went to the door and then With stale of woe, does the barkeeper turned and #poke to me over his have to ask him what he's doing for a ft, and listen while he tells how much a the way," he remarked, “Nr, Welght dhe lost In a blanket sweat? Richard will be along in @ day or so, air; he pushes him a bottle and lets it sfinuie, You'd better break it to Mrs. go at tha Wiggins.” Father passed away the following since the summer before we'd had Winter, He'd been a little bit delirious, to break Mr. Dick's coming to Mrs. and his last words were: Wiggins, the housekeeper, owing to his “stuiy and nonsense,” I exclaimed, I'd been looking forward to her and In my washstand drawer I'd kept all had enough trouble at home as it ia’ at grief, and at the house people stand- straleht es, siri hot, with a pinch of salt, finding her fulse front where it had glarmed. “You're only seventy. That's her cantankerous old fat coming to the clippings about her com! pit and “L guess from that your father Jan't Ing around the door. ‘Maybe you think Out any new carpets y air?” Poor father! The spring hat yiown out of a window, having been what cv of saying In the advertis- Hopo Springs’ for February, as they the winter she spent in Waslington erazy about it!" L remarked, getting it's funny to see an unmarried woman I promised the old doctor I been his career, you may say, and I yung up to dry, and his wearing tt to tng th x t you are elghty—to show what mostly did, 1 was depressed all day. 4nd was supposed to be ed to the 4 glass of spring water, Tho pa- Ket @ aet of watatcont buttons and @ Dick, and I wil like to think that perhaps even now he juncheon as whiskers. Mr. Dick wa@ the springs have done for you. It's I got to the point where Mr, Moody Pres: 4 son, and the magazine arl- pers had been full of how Mr, Jennings medical book. Well, that set of buttons ‘Bo you're actually going to fight ie sitting by some rlasting spring the okl doctor's grandson. enough to m ke A man die of senility nickels measuring out water with @ golden gob- — “Ifumph!" I said, and he turned to have ten years tacked to his age. ing inte “machine cle that told how Mr, Jennings hod ¢ had fe the how \iden the prine wan the act he bought in London on his opt,” he said, grinning, “Well, the pack with his money by robbing widows a when he had been in America the wedding trip, and the book's the on In your favor, You are twe instead of the old tin dipper. I said around and looked square at me. “And Mf," he went on, “if anything nervous, After a phana, and showed the Ittle An® BUMMer defo: he road himself lo sleep with every night that to Mr. Sam once, and he said he “fte'a a good boy at heart, Minnie,” happens to me, Minnie, I'm counting t to sleep over it, and when house where Miss Patty was “9 ‘Certainly hela crazy about it—al- for twenty years, I'm proud to get felt quite eure that [ was rigit, and ho gail, “We've had our troubles with on you to what you can for the that whore futher was the water would hin, you and I, but everything has old place. u've bean here a good be appreciated, He had heard of father, been quiet lately.” many years, Minnie.” ped a nickel led to p yohia mouth {f had anything to do w zwieback In the ma- And now L was cutting out t It most lisani » pide mein her she said, and amiled at them.’ @ will be hindered, #0 to epeak, 4 way over tho top of the Mr, Van Alstyne touched me on the having certain principles of honor ani o he muttered something and went turo of her and the prince the glass. Then she put down the glass arm. honesty. You have no handicap.” Well, for the first year or sol nearly When { didn’t say anything he = “Kourteen years 1 have been lading up to the house article underneath which told tow many and came over to me “Minnie, Min- _ "Everybody knows how loyal you've — Ifo tried to think of a retort, and net went orasy. Then I found things were jooked discouraged, but he had a fine out water at tils 1g.” T said, try: 1 waa glad ta be alone. I drew a castles sho'd have, and T don't mind she pall, “If you only knew how been, Minnje,"" he assured me. "Now finding one he slammed out of the » wanted to get away from t down ike @ good girl and listen to spring-house in a 5 ewspapers and the wips and ll. (To be Continued.) Be ve ¢ Wim By C.M. Payne éoming my may. I've got the kind of way of keeping on until he gained his ing to k mind that never forgets a name or facepoint, had the old doctor, “LT would * 9? eo 288 an dateninda i invllaiatoindatodnihi totes ‘*S’Matter, Pop?’’? & 2 vw Hw Tae eons y ips from trembling, ehatr in be at home any place else, What I w fire and wondered saying { wag si he old doctor died, 1 couldn't get us filing a little bit, for A to the idea, Deh ie io jew York Evening World) AAAI SOME NEW EY,GIVE HIM GINE THAT CHILD TAINT FAIR, NoHOwW, WTAE ER HOT FANGLED GAME THE UNDER THe LivTLe FELLAH THEM'S SOME TAN6O Like FOOTBALL STEPS THEYVEPICHED TL Wa RRANT eee