The evening world. Newspaper, January 5, 1914, Page 15

A New York Romance of Laughs, Thrills and Treasure 2 “ie By Jane e (Coprright, 1915, by Bobbe- Merril Co.) A Jewel-Mystery That Started No-One-Knowss yotoy Woman, “And Tve a the house with me Gus rig it here in feet, and the man pushed bis way into the house in spite of her, pushing her The Complications of a Manhattan Girl, a & were worth, then ne got isis pariner tars apiece, couldn't and he asked Eugene the same questions nd for the sever * 4 ’ 1 Fr aii over, and after that the iwo men rorty thousand dollars!’ I gasped, The front bell psatet thro the aside from the door, whi hut with y tay and a Million Dollars’ Worth § waits tre usee ant wiped noting’ af"hcr'noe" tar tel Wine. hae fonng and a “Wow then denaatone Where and That Reached a Whirlwind "| YS together, and Eugene—he's very psychic since I'd looked at the stones. Mra Delaric's hands flew to SOM bean to trie ’ ’ 4 of Blood Red Diamonds. vee Re eee any etree ed eaten ee wency ac icone ater aes ae rsfin! which room Ih the Foung. man Climax ina Harlem Flat. 93 2 ya” yg ing by Me | Bay of smuga@ling t We or thousan them, don't you think?’ My Heaven'=it's ¢ i She gasped sick’ demanded the voice, what ‘a . ate ta something of the kind—stealing the ru- «he fal Aren't rubles that sie and (he color left her face. “L toll you you ean’t see him=f re. Wh . Always thought this adventure might credibly have happened to fies, perhaps from them—and he put worth hat? fuse to let you ro Upstairs." Mra, De. & fake—that man ien't an oMver, ff dollars in the houge?. ef Anybody else but me. Since it did happen to me, I've come to the them in his pocket and ran ‘out, Ite “Rabies: 1 must have simply shouted CHAPTER Il. jario planted herself upon the lowest Knew It was coming—I maw it clairvoy- gle. I'll not help, but, Pi hat eae “i incredible conclusion that it's your atald, proper splusters who get into thinks he was follow but he couldn't the word at her step, one hand on the wall, the other 4ntly when Eugene came home. Murry life is too uncertain a: cy some of the bluggiest adventures. WOU: We TGL ane Gee Ge GHCUUG TOE Cy deen, Cay reelea? Oe,: Gont The Wicked Flee. asping the banister, f could nee her fet the ox on the edge of the diate o m the way home from Europe, where { had been collecting material for 7 i ila go EN a MOO as through the crack of the door behind room table, conventenuy, where @@re |) | Bf - 3 ; f woman of thegt— Hey evens fell beto bide . writing “Be n By wa. | saw much of Claire de Revenol, a pretty, appealing Fou muatn't labor under any false ness cane ba me vas out OF Tae. vig ts Paneer wine ing for just euch Y and her wad~ CONFESS 1 was frightened she snd when f thought of the dia+ dosan't_ know you're wirl whom her father, distinguished-looking M. de Revenol, had tried to put tn ty 1 * gh nto simply monds and y Uwe Wome: ne 3 ‘ 4 mhabby little Box fled with diamonds Mix care’ for the voyage, I had refused the charge, and Claire had drifted under lave a litte property-not enog’ to have a Alone if the house apparently | \What NigNt have vou forcing your JM simg'in the door and 1OKINe. for JImanied Ge tonaes, it, Ne ietane. thay the wing of Mrs. Delario, a clajrvoyant whom T had met in Paris when she and { Support two people—and what I earn, 1 “ad been Worth sui Ga ea Mra, De- po sod ily nee hy iter af, Hugene., I'll have time to telenberte got in tion, a eon ft ite ee chasioad to Buy iwo palrs of turauoise slineers at tho same shop at the same time, 1's lems (okt Mee ather tion's weak, 1. Wa convinced alie didn't: know—| , "Till ao to the door, “tts asked angrily, ‘ Only go-ao immed 4p the kitohen dum: walter, on comme Claire was to huve been met at the dock in New York by her iwother, The phe circle (al meats here tales tween adit taken it IN at ails ate thoughe better to seo who it is, Pers "Now, lady, be reasonable and Til you. down the gas-log into the freptads, : mother did not appear, Claire was heartvroken, She began to cry. Jt WAS hig parsonage, If there were ever any diamonds were wner than Fuulos, BABS (C's only a district i If show you,” he replied iy a tone meant She whisked up her skits And then 1 went to bed—and clept, we arranged she should go for the present to Mrs, Delario's house. wcandal—it they turned me out frou and red diamonds—off color! Ke isn'teif it should be they to conmiliate, T heard @ rattle of paper, spoke, pulled the box out of her stock- Decting to find that bom exactiy po bed f My eultcase and Mrs, Delario’s were side by side on a bench—open. J noticed re—f'd ‘be practically penniless, ‘ 1 severly, "Dean Might break in the doc T saw @ hand, and her hand ing and thrust tt In my hands, T was | put it. J so upset I said, pushing it back, can't take It—I might lose it of som thing.” out and take a pap warrant’ she ga Thave what. he for She left me, TF heard the front door pounding began again. What Is it?! and a man's ce answered, “Does I id he that one of the turquoise atudded slippers had fallen between the two gultenses. couldn't make & fresh start with that " a vin eatin f stuck it absentmindedly Into my own in. 1 bounced out of bed and looked to MAnalnK over me. And then, my fo iene stones are far beyond my rang suitcase gnd thought no more abgut It see that the chatn-bolt was on—that , Taalds SWell, wet the stones and Pil hut in iy honest opinion they're wort uytil L unpacked that magne ac my own as all that worried me: for Thad a look at them. if y re eS aiteniea tell on usomy words had port tive beret ee flat. ‘Then f found 1 had iny own pair "@igubor on a floor below who came 4° . Silence fell on c had sort h « seas cele HOtRe frequently at that hour of tie fei and that the odd silpper was Cvly night in no elated a condition that he CHAPTER 3. Help me" ahe pleaded Tcan't.” 1 felt 1 simply couldn't take More Troubk .. the responsibility. ND I did. For the only thes “Rut the: mine-f swear they're A an far as { Weentteti £ I. fad. “Want to woe my badge” There wae a. alight and DY assumed he showed it to ; ‘ . eid ently Mrs, Delario's. + never stopped ascending ataire wntil he : ry ‘ ‘ : A pia Mi | the whole of this adventure Next morning as [was starting OU% yeached the top, and as my flat directly j sta } ones Were stolen, into which I'd been @tegmed rn, SCtajre catled. corresponded with his on the lower floor, y ih me eae ae a 3 to fave a friend, the, em of] 1 told Claire Tuad to run and sue fole he tried to get in with his key and . 9 f oT peoanbeele thet bee ctoic, Devted hispomel, “ fowed me to my bedroom while 1 gut sometimes threatened to smash the doo: D C . from me. Don't you see it? That man’ T hurried to Mrs, Delariote wi my coaf, and it was she who exclaimed, I If “Minnie” didn’t open it, Td hart f . A thief," rho tnficated him with a Nhe declared she w ‘ sway, there's Mrs, Delario's slipper! the chain-bolt put on for his benefit i , ture toward the upper pari of the ho and bexgot me to keep theni Ad be er thinking he migit some night be wild “Cee th Jon, Ghe'a hunted everywhere for it. You . : d * im these stones away from hi k éaymini ked if t the cumtom house ang “HCUEH to try smashing. them for me to-night, oF till a y—two day pickes up a d So hearing the familiar key now fv j , p jecide what to do-—-thia may be only the Wat to do, Help un put ft In your sulicase, Wing, looked at the chuin-bolt, # begining of ty perse ts to you m the thief,” 1 laughed, slipping on (hen merely “hollered” through t i tham away from me’ thing’ —-+ my voat, iny usual, “You're trying to get in the " eid the tox, too paralyzed to know , The telephone bell suddeniy . Clalge took @ couple of steps toward wrong flat--yours 1s downatalrs.” P 2 what but Mra. Delario had her fom the upper hall. Her hai bs the elippers and sald, “I'll tuke it back The key sid out of the lock and there 4 “ : A to) wits about her if I didn to her heart, as they had th to her,” wasn't another sound. I stood there 4 P 4 Py . “Put It in your stocking and run," fF when the house bell “No, my dear—jurt leave it, 1 don't shi know which ts hers—{ see Mrs, Jimmson uny ring in my 1 colloquy Gat would toneiacs Mr m, ©. 5 she commanded; “Quick=your stock 1OVREe as mixed them all up—and 1 haven'< Man I wasn’t his Minnie and t hi "Kina T whisked up my skirt, even as gor U had 9 few we time to find out now." toward his own steam radiators; she had done, and stowed the diamonds T™!Nittes to think, and I took my ateud, e. “Oh, T can soon tell," and Claire was as he didn't favor me with so much as in my stocking, once for all: I'd help her 0 Ss moout to pounce on them, but I headed wn oath of revognition, I went back to ‘Rui he whi aa i * I therefore ‘Sopstatke ¥ her off. ved after a few moments and fell aslee ius’ fie Rite EY coon cde Dee ae 7 taken it trem, 3 i It never ed my head,that the pe a eee oe Preparing to leave with Mas fon at the other end of! the latchkey 9 oon as I could aay goodby to her, i in the house Wasn't the high-spirited Mr, Man that at hurry to get me off, she almost she roeied into the room, looking ‘i for you to carry. I knew and was prepared for, but au- Pushed me down the stepa. Then he she'd had the shook of ‘condi aaites 3 But she still persisted: “I think | other Mr, Man T didn't know anything wre aied OF her thin, aipper, Sha the igeke hy ba sasped, als ought to take it back to her—she reaily about. f I turned the ‘most with @ scream. i needs it, and she'll be cross at you for 1 went to sicep dreaming about slip- corngr showed her ramming it Into th® Hapeal “Those tren” are en bee, eine Keeping’ its you. Know.” On which I pers: I waked up to wonder about slip- crack of the front door to hold it open. com 1 got home after trying to throw any UFed. ‘In five minutes it may ponstvle pursuers off my tract, weores be caught—I'll lose ‘The elevator wae rattling down from ‘hing—my future—Lile’s fut 4 upstairs, but 1 didn't wait for It—which bey if you go instantly" — was, I think, @ place of pure Inapirati t waa incoherent, but rapid: for It the boy didn't gee mo, he couldn't S#Fnent. Bhe gave me & fee angwer the questions of the nefarious pnd Mardiy) Mnowihg what I person T felt was shadowing me—tel) fled the house—for the second snubbed her. pers. They were juat as I'd left’t “That is @ matter for me to attend to, which Kave me Teal disappointment. I Claire, and entirely between Mrs. De- was out nearly all day, and when I larlo and myself. If she has anything came home my first look was to see if to say, she can say it to me. Do you the slippers had been making any mors think ‘Im @uch poor stuff that I'll shirk ‘manifestations. # scolding off on your shoulders? ‘All three slippers were gon The girt blushed furiously an Wire sie . begs my pardon. By this time I had on my vell amd gloves, and hearing the ele- vator stopp! at Claire and bolted ‘Now I'd looked Claire spoke, and heel to the wall between a pair of ox. the floor, I shooed for it. at the they wi ippers as standing 1 called on Mrs, Delario that day. Claire's father had arrived from Euro: and had just taken her to his hotel, Mrs. Delgrio, after we had taiked for a few minutes, seemed to recall that 1 had once told her I had made a slight study of jewels, For she said: “I want twenty-four hours with 1 : him who 1 was or wh nty- © million toed up the stair ine. worth of diamonds in mpi vator drowning the sound of my steps. , “o 1 let myself in, put wp the chain-bolt , py bsg sought @ bag Pe And took a long breath. Then my knees i ¢ for the diamonds, At mS muddeniy crumpled up wnder me and 1 [it on one TF took them trom, went all to pieces in a heap. 0 ate tex ang tied them among ihe mst a ‘bunch of hyacinthe I r Pag emir eed ad Bays 9 ghd eintne in a lass on toote Se $ quintessence of excitement in an even- ue paper t! “y ing: Just rurh out of @ house where ‘amends had been tn. bet somebody ts wbout to be arrested and — A® | wae putting away my ae make your way from Mixty-tomethingth Co*t 1 pulled opes the oer, utrees and West Knd avenue to a Hun- !n the bottom of it lay the three _ dred and Forty-fifth street in the dead @olse-beaded slippers! ¥ of night with a million dollars’ worth My coat and hat fell out of my of somebody else's diamonds in your of the floor and I sank on the ford ties and a pair of bath slippers to sell some rubles. Can you help me?” that were toe to the wai, as were au “Why, Mrs, Delario, I'm not a deni the seat but those three slippers. When I replied quickly. . I got home one hour after seeing ‘— know you're not—that's why I that way and turned on the light, my thought you could help me better than eyes fell upon the sHppere—they were any one else. The stones were left mo ali three tosing the wall. le in France, and I may It gave me such a shock that J sat as well confess it now that they came flop down on the bed. Claire hadn't in duty free" touched them—I'd been between her and = ‘‘Smugs! her, ror sie gasped, “An oMfcer—a war- I interjected, rant!” and seemed to sway on the atair, the head of the bed all the time. Mra, “Well, a friend brodght over ’ \ ; eh I was timpelled to run out ant Join her, stocking! ‘ frightened, "Slow had’ Jimmson, who takes care of my flat, had and they weren't found wheg the bag- ‘7 j f /, but waited for further development It was almost 2 o'clock before I found tened. How left at noon.and she didn't have a key was examined. But don't you seo : ‘ : Now, lady,” he began, still conciliat- strength enough to undress and I w ind when? The: to the flat. So far as I knew, n human eoul bad entered during my my 1 could, sell them at a ( ng, “you don't want to'make any more "0 daxy T could hardly get my clothen when T took ow oe . a . trouble for yourself thas necewsry, Of. While I was doing it, | bad brief ing to go to Mra. Delarie’ sence of one hour and. some minut ‘Take them to a jeweller T sug- 4 ~ ye 1 fot to do my duty—and it ain't always thoughts of keeping on my stocking knew I could swear, for in nor was there any evidence that uny- seated. a q g3 1 / pleagant—but 1 got to do It, It ain't and taking the diamonds to bed with ‘to a id of her digmonds other a , tor ia wall, . % i 7 n't dot y en them when I weut ou: them toa place on Maiden lane yester= Sin Song IE te amie: Fane On, Bees Wippern then any more ti Pe day and the people acted so queerly GRE Mem Ane: Slee, OE Faby FER dh missed seeing them now. & $ahd3 know" — pow very ni ona? thet dinoyed senscen Kalan aleatiens Nee ue gor (ie nities ONT 4 ies “steal any monda!? she Interrupt- «lar feele when you have « mililon (To Bb Continued.) 0! t —w'l — ho y “He ne d 0 M A presy me. I was awakened about half long they had been in the country~who . ’ Me ite went stole w diamond tn his past 2 by the sound of @ key in the owned them—where his mother lived-- J understood in a flash what tad hap- frent door—some one wae trying to get but he wouldn't say what the stones Pened-—thin man, or an accomplice, was the one who hud followed her son home Favorite Reei es from the Maiden, lane dealer'a yester- day. He evidently thought he Was 5 > sid inaking headway, for he went on Ameri a’s Fo “If he'll give’ back the stoner be bargain’ sho 5 y. or tell where he's hin settled out of uirt and noboly wil be the wiser—if] The favorite recipes of famous | salt. aad don't say anything. See?" women of the United States are} Butter mould well and dust with gyaa- ed lence. Thy the en Well, Ie you wow, Us printed in The Evening World on| Wsted suger before putting in the wade Throw » tuoy over!’ ’ Reverse Way. “put the alloy wasn't rescued, He drowse, N PROSPEROUS farmer hae gained the repa- | Afier all hope of rescue was gone, the captain [KARATE ‘ioe jy ¢ A tation of being the stingiest man in hit | reviewing the efforts that had been made, said UA WAS GOING “ro F >, town, and consequently ts not general] to the gin hand: an's pose Vy 4 y farorite with is neighbors, says Hirerybody's WO you thew that’ busy one wien 1 toid| She left mo with a grateful amile, but A But you will: regres tt Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.| very | with.ut separating bet Mogasine, He owns be begs which, to ie you xeuenest rea cavienl i that 3 aeniee “Then I'll have to do it myneit.|Meny of the dishes described have | adding to the mixture, ee Me mildly, ts very thin, Av Moto make up for] © siyy id the green hand, ‘I couldn't rd she had the stones on he gee oe in? " i f, the lack of fish on {ie body, however, the animal ling « bos, ao 1 threw an old man over,’ | 900. It Wax a dingy little pastevourd © baad “come third oor, pacesuut you. cants| o" necmmes renetem Mre. Blleworth R. Bathrisk, * bas @ heed many times {eo, Sale | i Of] siuneapolis Journal, Lai ied: cone B 1 with Taaeies 4 up,’ and sho planted herself across (Wife of the Congreeamem) |” ° people tale about the hore, and the own le —=s common little elastic, She slipped 5 4 a oo Gobet lie it, Last week, fe inwanse, he aera the elawtie und placed the box in-my Ao POR a rasaa Mrs. John P. Barton. Old-Time Raised Cale, é} ‘reat to the expense of a new collar for the ani Overlooked. Dans a the tl 1 ‘ah 4 ye dindys don't want to we force 02) (Homemaker and Cludcoman.) ph ag Bd op hed) ; mal, A very few minutos after the delivery he MAN whos aay im Clovelond knows raised the lid. 1 gave one look at oe ‘i 5 ‘was deck at the seddler's with the collar, a ean sine vervtois In tleretang | he contents, emptied out the stone into ¥ / nf nia) you 1e)ge UBT avs Baked Codfsh. sweet ipilk, one cup bu “Den't you know nothin’! he blurted out, likes "wandered into our office the other| 7¥ hand and—nearly fei! off my chair! Fe ee eee mae anaae haenaeen NE cup cod (after it is soaked),/to make thick to atir with Sieaive mado 4 oe sual T can't qt Ht Oret day and stented wo endl, Sisal Ken caare wee ta, s f Ner she mink on the towest step and three aiipe mashed potatoes, om two 6am, one Die ead ee eR) nena bral petits A ney an OE Shes f Beean to bon, tok saat & aoeoral half cup milk (hot), one tabi rn sae eee hgypgpiegi as pace | (MUalls merry, “Wat seems to be the matter] © Mone Yeu Mor tum now there were * aot kal Y spoon butter melted in hot milk, three | taste, 7 | gl ll lil iad best yicel tieth Dirthday,*" he respond.| UCR Stones in’ the heavens or the eartis 4 " on the stairs. “I counted the steps thud- | hard-bolled eggs. Raise thirty minutes. Bake in moder - en onday is my sdxtieti Fo teducsg pal beite Dgy ing na atreocd yy h / | \ ding over the thick carpet and along| Chop fine w little parsley, mix all to-|ate oven. ie on A Simile ed, gravely. eee blood-red diamonds, absolutely Nawless, ae + the upp nd again, thump,| gether and bake one-half hour in a . “Congratulations, You “dou't look it and soul argt water gems, and perfectly ma , ia thump, thump, as he mounted to the| weil buttered mould in moderate oven. Nut Bread. , S(QBNATOR BOOT, ate don’t feel tt, and T don't see anything to be 60%) to the last facet, the last gleam and of stunned us both; for until I had wanted of him. » third floor, 1 may ‘have counted xX] gerye with egg sauc NE cup @our, one cup S en, amie, (aneernn, Gti Re more agate | sontel abet, twinkle In their radiant depths. spoken them aloud, the fill meaning of volvo sald, "E inust seo him at When Mra. Delario whipped into the flour, one oup sweet fnilk, the truss “lt dan't that, Vim pretty ember you told me once,” she the diamonds hadn't come home to me, seance room, my coat on her arm. Sweet Poteto Pudding. cup chopped nuts, one-halt hope that we al ell known in ‘this town, Lived here all (ing, "that the larger tie and that 1 eat there, casually holding & — And then, t sment, I heard “Quick--you must go." ered, NE cup bread crumbs, one cup| maple syrup, aepoon deking ~ guccmaafil businemes too hastily, too ienorantiy, | my life and am fairly successful in my wrofeadon, | gtones, the more Individual they br- quillion idiers an wos nant, tte alieat hier tell the mute sTieatrse, but you “You must save my: di " @weet milk, one cup sugar, one pag Be ee bis oe T hope that the business susceas won't be treated | And I'm the only man in fown, 1 believe, whol came and the harder they were too ma thinerto'be doing caittetonishtt hew sick in hed. 1 ganpod and aakes, : saa chsiall Sane PReaa ee ; like the olf man in the story. hex arrived at my age without ever having been | match.’* -an immens. ality. Cdropped et rather think T can tee him, then,” “While he's upntaire trying to set] oo currants, the one large] ,,ltenriated from ° tory abcut a ship, A sailor fell| called the ‘d of anything by the pape L nodded without taking my eyes off them back vr thelr put the Ld os was the retort. “And I will.” Into a locked room ip, » o <68 i a ty aml 1», and the captain shouted | What's the matter with you felons, anyhow!"'—| them, and ‘Gamdan. ahem ; There follow well, not quite a She was dragging my coat on my |#Weet potato, grated; one-half teaspoon | WB, f Cleveland Plain Dealer, ‘If they were worth five thousand doly Her own virst w howel the tmid souffle, but a very active shufiting of arms and saying at the time, “It's cach of cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg and! Pon wopkis d = FS “S’Matter, Pop?”’ w Sail eA ARISSMUS® lpont ~A KNOW ANY RET TER THAN | To STAND THERE AN LET THE BABY “put THE DOs ) sree in ois MOUTH i : \ THAT'S RiadT But | ] MBEAN (7 ISNT | BYACTLY ESTHETIC 4 dle BEST PEOPLE ARE NOT) ;OH-e- else THAT (ITH ALL) ) Wiad 2 INA Now THA | \ BABY HE HEH) co, NO TEETH ‘ LB)