The evening world. Newspaper, January 6, 1914, Page 21

° _ The Evening Wobld Deily Magazine, Tuesday, January 6, 1914 ———~— ‘ Diamond Cut D The Complications of a Manhattan Girl, a oe L A New York Romance of Laughs, Thrills and Treasure Be By Jane Bunker (Coprright, 1918, by Bebte.Marili Ca) o you Knew What she wishes to ae ed angrily never mentioned the fact to either Mrs. aubsect to duty. OF, of course a <aet Presa da Million Dollars’ Worth vce only tat tend tor yon Renan ew Heirig on inetd ns NT AN hay ce duty t supigne they are worth A Jewel-Mystery That Started No-One-Knows: ° f 0 af i yor. Naturally, @he says why Uh wo you to ge el okt ’ \ renchman and a Million Dollars’ Worth mediately, and Tayey"her itive: the maak dropped. He 40k 9 en shat ie? on rN ma what Pie aiNanT dee ae Where and That Reached a Whirlwind , of Blood Red Diamonds Ps es Ys Yes—immediateiy, I'll be there in feant ley hands one. anipel “Ino ane wan lyou sink 1 ask your qoveen: Climax in a Harlem Flat. Be & Pe yg about twenty minute out my hatpin and contr ited him, my wantry t of my Kk for zone lost Jew : { rushed to her, buttoning my coat as t my tecth set so hard uatome Ni aughter? Diable ORSIS OF The ena wan sate thing else 4 4 eves blazing and my teeth set so har \ ughter able — pardon —and lore 4 . a ran downstairs, and it was not until [ heard ther rit without our knowing It » we could BOO 1 And Lad “ yr Was safe, as far as 1 could see; not # 3 i them ar r boy ee eae tek He ‘ertainty, drawn downetairs, ‘et chal waa out of place tothinne had } ub ease as bad bs : ene, that Ix madame Intending to converse wig tell her to dec items wr “Not you, Gut IT will agk the cuss “Hax monsiear ever acquainted him- Ainger—T knew i mos o monnagtics sae remenybered pad left her diamonds me, holding a wea in her han “Smugaling? She is taking em to her house officials to take up the self with N on vet H since J left the fy my fatt His tone was distinctly surt miuster—aey have once been purchased with New York State laws pulled an edge of the shade, and an ‘0 forme exten en," eye peeped at me. “With the criminal laws? T rammed my hands in my poekets ‘0 gome extent.” @nd stood back still, Just in the pleas he couldn't -wrin 7 se. onverse in America, 1 you expect her to tell “You will do nothing of se fs of is carrying @ fortune about He fairly hissed the worda at me. “You will tell nobody sat se jewels have ow beon etulenchotndis: And you wit give “Well~ab—l waa merely wondering, Ute of felt . . _ The wild-eyed Swedish mild let me “is monsieur intending to chef, teirwrm, (fiw 1 resolved to Ket a now lock for MY gn, She looked inore Wiid-eyed than with me behind locked doors 1 Toma diamente UOT! Hut by Koln out for one. 1 AS @he had in the m< ning, and when "Kor ne present—yex." Mrs, Delario le closely (00 y seared by the sl she recognised » 8 whit! L . “Ve ve e e ver, Wha “L don't belleve she had any Jowels, talon. who would N the diamonds row alone in the flat Li me, he hispered, Very well, then, get it over, What I don't b ve mh J in he My bs) ~ or it oor eat the yy - Steraly heck and longed to do it ori Jewel ‘Oh, miss,” gasped, looked furtively is it?” 1 felt very sure by this thne it 4 bravely. “Merely to #a¥ me your promiae before you deave sis YOU Know, If monsleur were aware of 0 do 1 was in the < ter ides the veh ce but by finding a locksmith in the tele- over her shoulder, and then vanished had nothing, directly, to do with Mrs. d she hasn't got them now foo: Lach y fe the fact that in New York State kld- MKat of a grin of derision at Rim, prove anything, You ftonwe 2 when My eve was caught by something “What were the Jewela? You must "4?! it norn he finde that he phone book and inviting him to cwil: gown the basement stairway, Hefore Delario, % Miyper has somevow been restored to 8 and 1 wan diligently pursuing him thus ¢ could follow ber and demand the “It js zis—my daughter, Claire, was have sense enough to Ree that for y at least tell mo that—since you tly but ag at an upper window. It was OuRe _— when my telephone rang and I threw pe a A : URE imp 4 [thought ‘Waving hand—a hand i im them, What were they? 7 . hand that said, “Go CHAPTER Ill. down the book to answer It. aria “And now, madame, we lay all sub- | A i ar capital yeah ed way—#0 Way—so way!’ as faet as it (Continued, welea of abonut ere fe Les ig Yd terfugen and evastona to zo alle, Zere ANN Ot en Tan wo a rie ini sald it to me. voice of Monsieur a . are but two persons who could have PU" An instant later [ saw a face More Trouble. “Why, how do you do, monsteur?” T ' te Jewels of my daughter-yourselt and “But what hae kidnapping to do wis recognized Mrs, Delario, ‘Then the esa our present cam he asked, frowning. was gone and the hand said, "Go way!” . onty that monaleur tm at the again ant disappeared also, nomant in the act of Kidnap: I can't add by way of touching wp the! Story that whe “wore an agonined @x-/ Madame Delario. 1 have already ques- tloned her, fully—to be quite frank—« have search ze house—wis her permis. sion I have also search her person by there that had been paid over to speak wis you about. She meets wis to me in the settlement of an an accident and w estate and I'd not had a minute to take mediately.” “An accident’! , BHGAN digging into MY yoianned y bureau drawer—E had five “ay Gin well as always, sank you, but yi hundred dotiars cash buried jt i. our friend, Madame Detario, I wish means of a woman detective—and sha ‘That hit him, but he held his ground. pression’ —1 didn’t have time to i has convinced me zat she has mot ze ‘I do not seo tt, madame, Kidnap- expression at all. Thea barely time 40 | in taking ge person by take in that (t Was Mra, Delario, Jeweln of my daughter." ping oonuies “Neither have 1," T snapped, + violence a Monsieur, seh Ho went on an if 1 hadn't @poken. “Not in New York State. Monsleur apparentiy interested im Periph “My evidence Is poattive, and wis forgets that he is not in Franco or Ger- pening upstairs, pulled the shade owt 6; Madame Delario's denial of ali knowl. many, but in New York. The New York jittle farther, Ho what I did was delB- ; edge—her wish 2at L aend for yau and courts hold that forcible detention erately to crosm the street and signal “ Eivo you 29 opportunity to explain” sainat the will is kidnapping. Surely him to raise the window. “Yes, monsteur—t shall make you Monsieur is not aupposin ter locking = "The: tune thts cape to court” T Wonton @e fa—that 4 am ataying Rére Of MY the cans” © ener Of NenmnMenae rabidly. “After that I shall mie you own free wil? No, mons‘eur, 1 am not the windowat want to apelll s, for false arrest— and impr.sonment, If “ ‘have already asked you to open ined = Ms, o Tim imprivoned. But meanwhile T shall the door, which proves It, You are there- 0 Immediately set the customs house of- fore, at this moment, in the eves of the \eney end monsieur yen’, be atx, clala on the Imnt for your daughter law, a kidnapper.” Keueruie e } Jewels and find out whether they were = ‘“imponxiblet" he exel " bath de pa i actually brought Into America or not, "Certainty," 1 returi “Fou BONO Ast then ¢ canpeel my pote beg and if this is a trumped-up charge er only to look up the ad convines Qin tngn.g cuvgeee my Gneete as aoe , yourself, In the Halloran case, a year “1 é te = ne thought biased through my ming; adame, will you listen ¢o me @ mo Halloran only locked a girl up and cintegn minsiig, jewels were the 3 fused to Jet her out when eho anked. non Without heeding: ‘Tf the He did her no harm a diamonds Ofra, Delario had forced inves ave in the least valuavlen~as here I looked at the my care 1 drested to go bacbh: tetaar nificant Way but he got twenty (at where they reposed among years. But in the Cominaky case—the hyacinth atems. man who was electrocuted last week,’ ! lunched at @ French restaurant. as you probably read in the papere— Later, I met Billy Rivers, a reporter Cominaky locked a woman up and Who had once been a school pupil af threatened her with « revolver. mine, Still dreading the iden of m the death penalty,” home I made him take me to di ‘Aa these Actitious cases dropped off SM! to the theatre, tongue, monasleur, with a catlixe sly- Tt tried to fix my attention on the nean, slipped the revolver back Into his Show, and the songs went, M, pocket, though he made no move to is up there now, hunting for the dine open the door aa I had hoped. still, £ Monde. Will he find them? Yeo—yemes yea! and other things like thet. 1 ma na Eanes Ero cer iay out. didn't need to see it to know what hed happened. Billy and T came home on a lovat that dumped ita passengers at One ne ee aed ch ieeseeeney one I be ~ “Let's walk up,” and pul m out ee ee eee roee toms the station and then into « side street to a0 point of als most instructive in- Ard around a block until we were oub terrion § Madame ha se Jowoleof sat fT eaid: “Billy, I've got Tam ive—oiser upon Person, OF HV be i in aome place concealed, and until }\ve bean robbed while we wore at that inadame decides to return sem, she will "Noe. Youve gut te com he make herself comfortable here without (jy nY: —— food or water, but if she wishes to give golive G0 five hundred doilete ine Se See MeN: On AY Sepert: ey ras ae good an explanation as any, and 2 it wae true. 1 ry ule Ce shout the diamonds and my afterneen's anded. venture. “Zat depends on matame,” he fre turned with @ alrug endo algnificant 91 \fcueorge has sone off the slevelor. . aiance at the shuttered windows. Sit cacasw uatene 4 Billy, and phe: é ‘ou speak ap though you suppored your part, for if I've been roubed, bs nobody knew where I was.’ a mustn't know tt: If George is ‘He started and ft langhed again. i him Cay ag from oe “ANd #0 monali Neat tittle plot come up for some papers,” Sulla so he Stee ail on auiy at the eerator ne DEN eee ah iercmner to Mademe re car alld up—my heart alid down; ‘tT wasn't thinking of doing it. But my Monsieur was in that flat walting fer pate ed come! He know: ha Tam “the ca here ane he Se coming See me, tee. should and 1 replied in @ rather in my house when your message came oud yoice, that it might take some lit- Ho had come over from Philadaphia tie time to find the papers for Mr. with hia awyer and some papers for Me Rivers; petter xo down again, for the to sign, When you told me Mrs, De- gront door was ntill open and larto wan ao (il [ waited for nothing— micne ailp in. 1 fumbled with my key” rushed down tere as fast an I could. MY {5 let the car descend, and when te brother and his 1 holxe had grown fa'nt so that monaleur’ ime here In an hour, cous, bear averd Guek tana © with them to the no +4 door # crack and held it white f° papers, The hour |s ab : out the key, saying so the words ‘Thia took the wind out of his eal8 would carry through the hall, “Billy, for a minute, Then he rose to the ait- ¢ you mot @ match?’ Won't yous : Maude Adams Makes the Best Of a Barrie Joke. BY CHARLES DARNTON. FTHOR all, what te murder among friends? This ls the by J. M. Barrie, to suit his fantastic purpose, in “The Legend of Leonora,” told in four acts at the Empire Theatre inst night, with Mise Maude Adams imftting eocke as the accused ang shelling peas as the acquitted. ‘Twas a pretty picture, solely for the reason, let it be sald before going fur they éxto the case, that Miss Adams has never looked #0 pretty as she did on this eesasion, partioularly in the court dress, so to epeak, of Leonora. To give Barrie fale €ue—and he's certainty) getting (t this eeason!—the play was good comedy for one act ané anmusing farce for another. Then it dragged on rather tedlously and desea like a picture book of which children have grown tired, Vor once murder wouldn't “out,” while perjury passed as @ compliment to a fa@y and a mother who had pushed @ man out of a rallway carriage because h pertisted in keeping the window open, with no consiteration for her child. The pete wasn't eo much that the youngster had a cold as that it had a “eniffley” eol4, Judge, prosecutor and jury saw this at once and virtually sat at Leonora’s fect, adoring her as a mrother of the old-fashioned, or vintage, kind. What did \ye matter 1¢, in oringing up seven children, & woman had sent a man down to his ‘eaath? Leonora, tor one, didn't waste @ thought on her victim, At the same dime she didn't attempt to tide anything. Ghe was hopelessly! addicted to the twuth. To save time and catch “the six-thirty” to Wimbledon, she hastened to eay, she had chucked her fellow-passenger off the train, and, what's more, she ~ Gedtared eho’ Go it aguin. To relieve the monotony of the trial, she discussed ed. van without music, and if any Barrie had been the author of £ \ i) Ni WA in atrangely enough, appeared also to be 2 @N)il) mmm) i @ member of the bar, betrayed his love il id melodrama that ft fell flat. By thie time, in fact, there was very a ttle play left, and the burlesque of Maude Adame ae Leonora. court of justice merely recalled ‘Trial Oy Fury,” withithe verdict in favor of Gilbert, For my part, a little of this sort ef @iing goes’ long way, and I can't eee why there should hav uation In @ masterful way: and T must ptrike it before we go in—the flat is ef when on @ct would have answered the purpose quite a» wall. Sanation of ak } ‘ F Admit for him that he was no mean gary. eourt tock e@ccoss merely to allow Leonora to come back with her knitting. bee ation of her pes ullar eerie ' ti adversary. Drawing the key from hi “uly struck a match and the kitchen Possibly this touch of the “womaniy woman” was suggested by an incident of! Konweur do Ravenel at i poi 3 5 pocket he unlocked the doof, sayiN&, door slammed ax I opened the front "ef the trials of suffragettes in London not many months ago, Then, too, per same to greet men bi 4 : 5 ‘ att FA Oe ene MNe to Gries: Siettag! ANON, UY (RA CARE: Cp: Rttetiew A pe ‘ of the @pinion that women can get what they want if they stick | He whispered, “T must speak wis f + aren te Ree te ones te-dhy ADGUE BO rhe Nel tr ihe neteste Gan daha iting. , 6 and sentiment are @o mized after the first act, however,| you before you see her,” and moved tan! ern.” ¢ howed , ‘to thelr knitting. , Satire Important pap Nothing out of the way—that had et thie whimsical affair grows rather banal. out of the vestibule, motioning me te IT saw my one chance lay In pratend- prearranged to let me get inside and ‘But Barrie’e cleverness was distinctly felt last night when the six women de- ba 4 4 Ing I'd do it and then breaking loore, the door without suspicion. to the earthed by the host of the dinner party were rolled into one—none o Ten ae E koo Saaene,” p08 ao Latepped out—he at my Heels ready rest of the fat'~words fall ene! Tt than 4, This ingenious and more or leas surprising turn gave ¥Xnd' followed him at once ta tho To grab me-and making a feint of ilerally turned inside out And wpeide her Gest opportunity, and she made the most of it, though she talked a bit too} seance-room, the door of witch he , foe bathe suet ane ee ta 4 ors bbe the ger ential oe mach from the jaw for a woman in an evening gown. Later on she was arch, | gushed open, standing aside and s4y- popped of yome very valuable Jewels self.’ you seem to be trying to Make Oul— lowest step, At that I 6 a loud. with other things to get them out of ~, ‘@batinate, tearful, absurd—all, in short, that Barrie thinks adorable in| ing in French, ““Penme mol * * * on ge steamer coming over. Zere are “L have ze proof, madame, zo absoe there'll be quite a neat tittle duty to wiid Western “whoopee! right In his the way. Even the book: had Aprez yous, madame," to let me enter but two persons who could posslbly lute proof—aat » ize jewels wik her PAs, provided they're not confiscated face and punched him in the chest ®® moved and searched Sexier one b reres nese when she played BP ie dupcelan tale nosh pry. MYO committed xe seft—Mrx, Delario wien ahe went on board xe steamer; 2uttieht which is more than likely. har aa ever I could. He lost ha bal’ dreds of buoks were heaped on the aor, ‘0 so, the room was - and yourself." and while on board: and up to a cer. Monsieur, you have overlooked gha fact ance, went reel c a Mt helter-skelter. Pictures had been taken qoment filled with the love of children. For the rest Mise Adame made the best} yaniiy lighted with all the electric “Twas dazed—so dagea that I atam- tain date, T can fumish’ proof mit tat L asked Claire—and 1 hetd Mrs. gown on the floor. from the walls and pillow cushions. cut of @ Barrie joke that fell short as a play, bulbs in full bloom; and I turned Just mered. would arcept’ in’ any court-it Delario ask her-if ahe had anything to" Hefore he recovered from the shock open; actually, the breakfast foo@ tn Aubrey Smith, who looked very well in}in time to Ace ‘him lock the door on You say Claire was rovied coming madame renders It necess declare and she told me she had not. ge iy untadylike bemavior I had bolted boxes, the butter und food in the te- in his lawyer's wig. His a ting was!us and pochet the key over on the steamer-and you think 1 hen you admit #he was smugeting SF shall be a witness In the BOveRN= through the front door and reached the frigerator had been searched. = @0e4 and his courage 6° mounted a rocking horee in the last act, It| The thought of my hatping brought aid Jewels Inte vantry mentia & Bilis h Ot} u atrect And ia the midst of the disorder, ene takes @ brave nan to ask a woman to let him be a fathor to her seven children, my welf-posseasion~! was anmet lwely."" he Jew Biter WoO gh AS Tat eed out w amall eee thing gions had appaventiy net Saas ‘Ae the presiding Justice Arthur Lewie was p credit to the bench. Ho even} {oui ei Nin one Kood Mons, 80 4 ding gift from h “if you cai hi po 7 F touched—the buneh of hyaelnthat saw tréwmphed above the sentimental speech made to the mother of the Ittle ail] Monsieur, you will kindly unlock that Nh Sneeine _ "Perhaps als will refresh madame'e CHAPTER IV. it the moment 1 got the dining-reem whe had that awful cold, and when sho said, “Call me Leonora,” and he politely | door immediately.” Pe Mat mymory.” ho lecre) 1 See Through the Plot, — sve, just as T had ieft it when T ted inquired, ‘May 1? this ordinarlis1 serious actor won the biggest laugh of the} “In one moment—when IT have sald Sail, JE betrosned na's some. ie crowded the diamonds ‘down among @ night. Morton Selten was a prosecutor to win the votes of women, and Minn Elise have to say," he + 4, lef, ee Wank Cts better terra: Tl Gale HB impetus of my rush had stems, Hut were the diamonds there: to to keep up somesings of 1 ain abou a wood look at if you please: our Jowela—take Clarens brought a domestic sense of humor to the witness box, It was by no means the fault of the actors that there wasn't humor enough for four acts, And move beautiful by far than "The Legénd of Leonora” was Maude Adams, This time Barrie owes everything to her. a stranger in Hime he ft ey street, and in the jubilation find out, when 1 remémbered Bilty= is mon: of my freedom and safety Billy nyustn’t know. York City—w! back = ment—is in N Import~ ol ir sicr | carried me clear across the 1 wan in the act of making a dah te mean to tell me t I inter- valuable jeweis on the + Clatve hed teamer 1 stopped and ie house, (To Be Continued) = men WHAT FOLKS START SUBWAY Ww ew THA OPERATIONS THEY A USUALLY LET TRAFFIC DING KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT Copyright, 1914, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Evening Wor'4,) \ JDIN.G IT-YES INDEED; e Nw Cc? ra NEARLY ALWAYS cr ale