The evening world. Newspaper, March 29, 1915, Page 17

The Fvening World Daily Magazine. Monday. March 29 191 wo gee eer «The Stabilizer!” -oeve By Robert Minor ge AWAY Gc { ~ ITHE | By EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS Auther of “TARZAN OF THEE | i = | wren 1 are after Wed Wey and of a Treasure Hoard By | HOWARD F ITZALAN | oh & ee 6 bey CHAPTER I | The Pearl Puzzle. ! fo wae Marry Ney 14 4 A Komance of the Great White Rgure hove gome + agen aed were wow Bond 1) aed ah of & time to Ou Oper sate, Fes male ned peal! coedl wo within @ of « mat@ial for my ree vee 2 brown thas throug’ | FAs intended, by reagen of the nery #. uned » voneole in the en ee Y te Uriffony’®, end, through personal | eequeiniance with @ member of the |ereet jewelry Grm, wae aay | passed into the preseuse of the 4B- liars, it ®owld Lave been more Vrom tovdet of #0 indifferent eolleetion of eportin etood ow eb sheer eee He wae by We enormous head, bie erent ehee and shoul A and @ quarter fee of Welt, and bie two hun dret and thirty fre pounds avolrdupels, \apreseed oth with o eonse Wo insignificance Cloper taspestion revealed eu anomalous emaliness fer etand atl, he teetered and ihe diminutive bande te eel) thape peariet he asned ly, ooking Up trum bie laspee pend apo for @ proper price for (he secem- Lode a peers * handwrith evidently the man e0iee bie own eeript by Une © Mpenceriaa model. ‘Hat the Diack man?” | asked, ‘Tn ther deaf of dumb or tenda to be, Dut @ pertioulariy He's been Sellowed in an iting oapawity w wm walformed fr bone -eplintertug 0 the exiend of twitching whenever the Aeilverod with half oat i Min righ) vitation tom sonmelven off wt to Krak vlothew mas Headquarters, why was most «eo erally ty be found somewhere year Fo sond Mtrewt and Hroadway i want to apeak to you, Knight,” he wuld, # meen both men and wonw world tu whieh he was e nollie te © ure: and, while hie avocations » wot of the kind to etand rigid ineper un by the coprorensauivse of the iaw, found it we be his fr mpany them, took pearie uf that site and quailty a imo | | hundred apd forty doliars « «rain ow which would, In re und numbers, make and sont after him And he any bil, over @ hundred dollars. marked @ couple of theese, thie fen would be prepared lo offer you Mfteen thou. yiiare for the pair.” to well (hem, (haok r epecial reporte partiouiar evening, when | Thateber knew | did not like to @ rotsrod the Hawarden, hla einie yas hold converme with him in publte, aa bland and childiise ae ever, Afier Much of wy newspaper material was pushing we into « chair at bie taule, wathered from among the Nigher class be introduced me to the swarthiest of offenders aguiuet the jaw, and | 4 inocet strikingly bandeorme man [ had 4 reputation for telling sothing had over seen. that could possibly barm any on ‘Mr. di Tocea, HMarrtsou—any old even to the extent of sacrificing apace at $10 column, Clarion Bat plo are a suspicto gontinued Barry Keyb ou talking with a “pl forgot how to make newspaper men clothes bull” on the busiest corner of after be was constructed. You'll be t street in the world would} Just on ante with bim if you told do me no gool at all | ‘our life-ator; tire theat oul i. horus, Here, Bille wddreased the onise Thatoner, who knoe incre nae | walter—"bring my friend Mr. Koight New York criminalw than any one on poet ag ll aaa and break the bad the force; ‘ao, lighting « clgaret lod ‘That was a typical Barry Reyburn freind Mt yeech, He knew by bia firat name trey had j every mun of the aiightest conse: und nodding quence who drifted around the Tea- Quaintunce derioin; aud ouch particular one was ““Tiitcher joined me presenti: t iy; but ae introductions, the best of bis just es he waa about to speak he caught sight of an expensively attired Pe id ortunetory, Lega Ara oung man, who, becoming aware of cokes ee Gn e could “tip ime otf” "% Presence, tried to turn hasttly te something t would pro into ‘Thirty-fourth Street. But page of instructive and inte ee ¢, Gilberts" ne onl i reading, ‘See here, ert,” he sald, his tone “Murry, you stalling villain!" Tare vexed than eat! oned, tn « mae, were epeee ya. aM he ve. 5 read be: would eo lo alateen t o ine these pon “hy hetoas tae terrupted, know fr Rreo, at have been “Thank you, no!” | #ald, atretching recently Serereres for no! le out my band for the box and smiling. Unset pesiie about ‘em ye we a have no = to”. Want & monopoly o1 ad he rallied, “Seventeen iiegy t fold. him ot ey Towre net kidding me, Koi ener” “OU (he square, I'm got, Those are the facts." “I read 'y 4 onary ja the Cl Fal Wingined fe wad, ¢ then Mees Incredibie— ‘the pearls!” if you please,” he Wo've Savertieed, T oald, i bow #till tightly there'll be an answer, And fli clutehed, he went out of his little of- you know, Invernosa.’ fice and left ie alone. “Mighty of you, m sure,” returned, Co} arriba unple The horrible au joe he ey Intend to n ised hed to nome of the stones pearis nel and he) make foot ‘reading. for owing him, 1 confronte apects to Foeon, apparent he butler vi From Griffony’s = ook my way to riety, behind whom wi he expert. ag Clarion offes. It was well ager ‘Tho butier person rubbed both wok. I atopped at hands and looked pretouad (ee couleee looks in upon the ed: previ hough, then an fr senger to the Regent before the although in the face of jous auperd pearis, perfectly matehed, man ay tly makes a gift with at ine, ae thou red aS tye] Royhurn in feigned admira- $¢eh ase you've ‘grown tac ond of the evonine performance: ‘ertice disrourcgerents “fran Mise Their Ane lusver, heightened, by the no strings attached—no card, po misht have dlacove ‘ ot wn awful Crust to ete ee tivenyou any Teanache, Thanking you in advance for Valentine I was ashamed to own It pink satin lining of the box, hela my name"—— or Rh eae sine ie” the way Xo walk on the wie iene, Itt eacah you ESP, he eee even to myeelf-—I'm afraid that even as iy! wuze, ned ‘ “Ho'd Bob up Just en wee is nt last wtory L gave you—-that Wit! s ; Maithfully yours, 1 jously in love with her, | "Well? sho asked, claaplng beth gold them.” ahe responded weer! One about griaaly-bear hunting—was Detween Fifth and Eighth Avenues KATHLEEN VALENTINE. me ee ee i oupand wa ‘am only the agent of another I anid desparately; for te @till hy thot be had ad "bet ta urged. With to an occasional uc: | from my ohalr with the 1 eald #, the gentleman, Mr, is ie of the young | he ey I can ily gon,” watd the Bo, if there's any malt ia Bea @ 4 “| wonder why sho wants advice hands and resting her elbows on the “And I'd feel like a thief. Mr. indulging in further wish you'd baad it over,’ Pheerandeat Nature-fake 1 over road. horth of Fourteenth or gouth of Pt 4a curious message,” 1 sald, amiling about pearl,” Taueed myrartiat friend, ‘able, her face thrust anxiously £OF- Knight-—plonne uke it!" Bhe li utr cannes. “Prevent me t javen't you got any memory, you ‘y-Rin) see low the ‘vag’ act and handing the note to my compa: “Oh!” I said, atartied out of my Ward, the box abut ntieman, Mr, Lounsber othe | Om, . *, ” rd ‘i 5 y—If the be ; Saha be EOP, raleyeed to Gin that, T lacked and thirty days on the Inland auits fon, a well-known painter, who was beautiful drew, Thad forgotten "They are beautiful” f atammered. "re you wiil be eo kind as to me to Fentleman will ho my Kind” He to sive is to ie ah te ze $e ing to lunch with me. He read it Her tone became a little Impationt. Griffony'’a to-morrow, leave them hands, transfers youn we phic style of narrating actual leave town? ad ‘handed it. bac ba Na i “Oh, that us evident, But their value?” there and get @ receipt, and Due that conned to worry hile hands, tranets aidents, and that J found it easier Aw, say, Frank!" protested the ribg po waa two ‘ery—for Misx Valentine,” he com- “I should may they were worth ® advertisement in the paper swt moan square mented dryly. “You're lucky, Knight CHAPTER I. great deal of mony,” was my Weak handed me a dollar DIL whiskers, coy Le 3d on the imagination. one addressed. “I'm on t “ yo now, honest! Why can't you give @ Kitty Valentine ts the bravest, pluck- " Teaponse, For ‘advertinent ahe ex- “My y name is Knight = ivier: ‘out for at cade 7 . Uy a chance? fet nue thoroughbred that’ pes Kitty Valentine’s Way. Sut," she sald disappointediy, ‘ned. oT inwlate™ erie the/outior person, ae yar that’s iu” I ele. “Late “What're you doin?" inquired found herselt out of piace on Wroad- ¢ & T was eo kind of you to “their actual value. You know a great 11) being the change to-morrow, t¢ MizInu ee tind! fT aaid cold; BAe H. Thatcher, explosively. way. She's rather reticent, but from be here,” sald Kitty @ ris, Can't you toll?” | 1 may," 1 anid, laughing. "And, 1 9 208 Ath Maen, te too ovidently that may toia you the ie 7oUNg “Selling life insurance, Hones: what I can make out, her father waa Valentine, taking my 294 think T know ® hope, some news, Your trust in me, Pot Nie iT tor future personal Dave of you." he yl Reyburn. you inust of necessity kuoW hon beat it home and get your an actor In a “fit-up’ compuny that Page t bout pearls?” Luaked tn surprise. (ny "ieaving this small fortune in my of one propitlating fot Rn bean very t Geilveres tha an hour Shooafelt; he is his shadow. Two papers and show ‘i to me inside an got atranded in noine Western town. eager hand. “Will you “Lndn't you write an article about charge, ie very much appreciated, and Benefit, "And you Rake hein Ley amankin hin, 1 turned gay: upations has Shanufolt-sieeping hour in front of the Hawarden. And He went clerking in the general store increaso my debt to them lust Sunday? Your name waa 7 qun't tell you how glad I am that Kint, tan On ott stretching Durning with tm so vag AC " A ‘ 1 o -hurn. "‘Phese he always prefaces: ‘D® V#x man died and left them the store and P& to laugh so heartily that my hande shall see you tomorrow, ,. one moment, Mr Knight.” Began piers worth se Sree’ hed 4 Ho turned away. “One of the clev- : ) ook ths cat aT ia muna ‘; Rarry gut off a funny one iast ey a Ittle money; but Kitty's father Overwhelmed by my good fortune, sh # table, and the pearls Thank you again, Good night’ of a door, T night.” Fe eee a phon, theushs anti Went buck to his old habits, atarted to 1 stammered incoherently that 1 {wnped in their compartmenta, Miss then? yo ght” "The butler person inserted himselt LT Hell him what you and Peter were 1/8 #0! into a three years’ trick, rink hard and gamble heavily, and youlg pe delighted. sates big brawn Gan Grew ER U1 Datween us r ¢ and was admitted by the - talking about, Barry," he suggested. & Be ea eh fa within @ year or go lost the ato; a we . bt q vexed as sho watched me CHAPT! . ‘Mr, Knight, being a gentleman of “Well, I will,” said Reyburn gener- Once mugged, that's the end of a lett town. He braced up again, got ‘You needn't be so terribly polite, ‘Dear lady,” | said, atrugeling with on, Mr, Loune- vant. d ie ously. though you must keep my Dickpocket. All the thoroughfares MYON, seo company. and used @he sald, smiling, as we Went down my mirth; “you are an innocent A The Mysterious Blackamoor. Fok hg d, rained rebuke, 4. ‘You've Seen awfully kind.” oni, name out of it, and Mr, a! Tocca’s, @Md crosstown lines are barred for ‘to’gend money home regularly, Then, “Hecause | really haven't newspaper man knows nothing about EEDLEWB to eay, the adver- “has undertaken mission for @ om gd are ’ too. It's are my boy—-pearls. Mo him. But say, Knight, 1 want to ask 19, 0r a auddc Iiearihee neonnent and I'm probably taking anything. I waa hard up for @ story, tising forma were closed by friend, no doubt; and with that end ‘on, bag. ed arial a 4 f ®and Mr. di Tocca’s looking or ‘em, You something, Come over and bave ang mother and daughter were left arty of friends. and some people gave me some in- in view cannot be regarded in the thantes. what und we can't find ' Pete buys & drink. 7 ., penniless, That's pretty bard Unes 1 know. formation about pearls being source the time I reached the vulgar light of a salesman. 1 must 1 those royal nobs on the “Look here, Thatcher,” I com- tor qa woman whose father was one But you were ao king 4 and hard to match. The rest 1 got Clarion office, and theearly hag you to remember that gentlemen Russian princes and such, plained, “you know IT Mke YOU, oF the men of the village.” fully untrue article about from the encyclopedia and other ref- mail edition of the paper like Mr, Knight do not haggle, If ‘em, see; which is no cinch. but" mother went on the stage, erence books.” ™ Syren yeti are getting scarce, Harry, He nodded. "Sure! I juat wanted "T asked. ia Weak and staggering attempt to For some little while she made no had already gone to press; ‘so distasteful Is that to them ‘go bet your last dollar on that; that to ask you about that durk fellow 1 "No, Nothing like it. You see, do something beyond mo," I tried to response; then she auld angioual managed to get the story of the af- ost they frequently request other 18, good pearls—Orient’ is, they saw you talking to in the Hawarden. ygitty was a ied then-—eight. years #ay; and, indoed, it was 40. For she “And think of ine sonding for you fulr ready in time to cath the newe- gontlemen, great friends, to ascertain reah-wuters’ are 0 | got a hazy idea J've seen him be old. And her father, who had evi- had a charm that dofies the printed and being so bold, and*—— stand edition, and banded it to the first the price that can be obtained Who's he supposed to be dently been a comedian or a clown, Word, I had little time to observe Hut she bad a sense of humor, aad before thomue!ves offering |t for sate, uro { don't know,” X answored, had taught her to turn handsprings, ber then; for hor apartment was Juat w 1 to laugh, alao, ripples ef Mikht editor, Hut at the hands of thia fem, Mr. but 1 they have a thing to sell; they salt It cgood—N. lusts fore. iyo went into a thorough discuesion = * pearls, Larry Reyburn was prob- yuardedly. do the double somersault, of Fifth Avenue, overiool Mali; merriment dimpling her cheeks, He was naturally rather surprieed ienight—catering as it does only to wbly the best-informed man I ever “Aw, come, Knight,” he cajoled. clog, walk on her hands and fon Square. limhting up her eyes, and showing heF that @ Sunduy apecial man should be the best people—a gentleman ts Knew; aid When a pubject interested “Just his name to Kive moa Jolt of port of thing, Well, litte Mins Kitty it Was In an old brownstone front wirons white tooth, doing “loonl" work, but whon he die- apare’ tin mortifying obligation of . bin, he pursued it {nto every minute gyemory, CH get it, anyhow.” was around when the bix cirouscame With a long Might of winding steps 1 arowe to ro, “Um aure I'm awfully offering an artlole wale. If Mr. Jair of detail, In ten minutes I knew — ©Not from mo you won't,” I as to town, atunding around the ald once the abode of some distinguished sorry, And L hope you'll let mi | Covered the nature of the yarn he Knight wil! give the name of nis rl sured him, rn wa orime's beeO shows, and wien one of the clowns family; now temporarily convertod again." looked up at mo with ® reproving friend and his addrosn, T myselt that Panama, miitied Tim the first to help the pulled ont hin Uitte bag of tricks Into Kpartmente until the owners Hut I'm no stool-pigeon, Be- Miay Kitty sticka up ber nose and should be ready to tear It down ani u've no reason to think Ul of prove to show him he's not #o bulid a modern office building. She n't you a rioslly at ally” & may be made through the gontle- bought a tleman.” inuch, ‘The press agent apots her act, apologized for the darkness of the ite formality,” T returned, aink- “Good Mek to the fair deine’ man's servant t an Absolutely solid Jewoller was hink I haven't?" he responded, takes her into the show, gives her a and lod mo up two tights, usher- tng back In my chair, “I asaupe you “It's not that kind at all, Hu,” TE T put the eandaiwood box in my ble to be tricked, satirically, “He's with Barry Rey’ front row seat and feeds her with me into a studio-like room, with PT have no wish to Ko." protested hotly. "That story's on the x “Gentionoen,” T sald stiffly, ; ‘ell him about all those new pearls burn all the time, ain't be? And if pink lemonade and candy and then a sloping roof and dormer windows “Weil, you Will Nave to #o Very jevel. It’ a ot daden” . tha Griffony’s got from somewhere,” 1 could get something on Barry that gets the manager around and has her Under a shade of Japanese beaten goon, because it's after midnight, Hut a ‘@ NO preas agen’ se" Fagaih prompted Shanafelt, the brac- ‘yg yet fin to making little ones out fe her little stunts for him, Manager s/4#8 4 gas lamp burned low, since I've draxged you up here and 4° deseribed hinvelf an af Miasourt t of seltzer and lemon— o¢ pig ones with a hammer I'd take jg delighted, goes to the mother with A Compiaiuin voice from the next oyved you impurt What?" sho oxolaimed, laying @ smile go to bim with @ chock fo fe hand on my shoulder, gure, 1) run.’ Harrison,” be gai@, Glready filled tn, and the exchange exclaimed the butler person, ough in great pain, “You do not planation from me, and fell “ 4: BUMRIOUR BnG SRLEAEOR Ah, but f can seo that you dering, Suddenly ehe epek Barry Would allow him no intoxteants the lock oft the Ludiow Street Jail @ proposition and a salary that looks 700m wrested us. “That you, Kitty?” hoon angry becau est ; a Hanaiian, Bom se having opened his eyes half-way. Ang throw it away, That's the master good, The mother, willing to do any alise Valentine gathered’ up her them Lemay aa weil, tell voueabout ot Psy receaarlnveerah aah hiad 4 you will give his name, bis “tt tt wae stolen, I knew whe @ié z is meditating BAY criminal mind of the world, Kaight, Oise to get away from her relatives, skirts and flew to the inner oor, these pearls, They w you about ton tay iba float, Odst10m OR the alton: Hiitrean: and. hin aserpilone that fit mae etalon Yaa us vurn, “Here we've been wa ng a } wecepta: and Kitty is taken on the Which she opened, revealing @ sraall v t ‘9 NOON paper—the 10 o'clock. Cast your a bd hp, manifests of vessels coming tn, “never been convicted of any- road with the circus. Mother dias of bedroom. ‘Just’ a moment, Bir. prege the qoctyr tity atta we emeetey eye over that.” er es Fee Si ye ore i yA lag pk > tboking for a chance to buy pearls I protented, pneumonia during the first year and Knight,” she said, and closed the ‘phere was no car! attached, no way M4 awit woul doncr! re] yO. st a Da x fs ‘I don't follow you. and all of a sudden, right under ow “1 Know,” returned Thatcher re- Kitty iw turned over to one of the Goor, of finding out who sent them, lo read aloud slow! vey AW _ ntl eh “inde , “The man I showed those pearis to Fhoges, xomebody alipw Into Griffony’® greitully, “Ito's too smart for us, that trapese performers to be inothered, 1 remembered tho artiat’e tale of wine doorkeepir brought the pack “Miss Kath ie Thin madiline nome’ “8 taat night—that friend of Grace's who AY wella him elght Orient pearls. Guy, But he's worked more wite-tap- Ahe has beon in the wire uct all along. the paralyzed trapeze performer, and .9.'06 “ng Mieker jccukee the pack: = “Merry Whirl’ Rahter, thin, aquiline aose”—— he a 4 pls ‘On, come, sir!" i _ offered to introduce me toe man whe tro cola? ap Patera tgritteny Ae aren br sayoody to New en eee teraeee, ob Guastion. te ee toe any intlite: locked Grace Hopkina, who shares my dress- patie ‘Ta vite FOU hla SUR LER aanees| would’ give toe Ave thnuiane datens stro or 5 Yor ni raped ) ignora: uneducated soul; hi ot > eur id the p 0 , ¢ round and given us tho first’ Gie'geemed aware that It would be ghe's” wood to ity, oad whee PHS about te room, and noted the excel- tae Tage: Baia a pear were worth pulkted auwiringly. quickly enough if I had them. But { for them! knowing we want pe Now wo launch no further unproved peta aore and Tent taste displayed jn prints. hang 1 said angrily. haven't. And [ have no way of find- “Whereas,” I broke | rly, erent ataiony because “they've Pougutions againat 4 man Who was fnenks Kitty off with her ‘aie turne ee FUMMICUrA, und books. | roallaed oi ialked UP to “having Leon the Feciplont of 8K out, eithnr, ¥ must really Wish won worth cette thessecken ‘Cor been not. Pete here pute the ; Keronaut and high dive artist at the {N8t 4 girl who read Carlyle and Whom wiv know caine Along, abd ane SPOR DEAF Of vonsiderable value au food day. mand finds that out. “Won't | dago’s name, beaches and county fat and Kitty *aetertinek could have little in com- i nene. te Hing fed that he from an unknown source, wishes lt Was necessary actually to push notifies us that they'¥e thon, eh? learns to go Up in a balloon and ta On With her charg * ty en Jowelp ana to thank the donor theresf, and lo both men aside before | could make What they offered me @t we light over l ghock my head smiling, and bade cive forty feet off a platform. Nut, 2 small negro girl in white cap and hat they. were MtAt@ Chat sho makes It a'rile to omy Way out uf the room and turn Griffony's—elghteun thousand dollars suine 4 by the time Kitty ia thirteen, the “PFOR came in and cleared the table mat ney MOTs accept no presents from persons aguin toward the office of the junior So ‘Grace's friend,’ we you call him, 44 goodnatured, and trapeze performer seta consciences Of BOOKS, Papers and Kowing-baakot, WOT ny surprise when he wuksfown to hor Tie poarls are member of the firm, with whom [ mud lave been pretty wise, No won- “k up Broadway, ne stricken und packs her off ton con. @XPOSINE & Mahogany surface, Upon L y how In the bands of 4 tind party was, through inutual’ membership in dar he Was ange.” 1 he had a friend who would give Pt ; 0 “uo oiny W to ‘e. Vent school Ket some education, this she laid [ttle duilies worked with [109 be jad a flend Ww pee ge f' who will take pie © iu retura- ambol Club, ob # tolerably in why should he steal my let- went out together, Forty-second Stre they blue Fe f oreon fr . =, K iy 0 root ‘ ef denly, : aell at all With the susistance © Hho keopw her there four yours’ en Pue silk, and act thoreon fruit, annd- "E $%000 for the two atongs | ing them on pi jon of sation ing _— ter?” he aeked sud : ain't had any manite reference. books, —[ turned out a an accident, und comes out of it with Tied ita rule nevur to aocept stage “*auy OFidebe &8 Lo OMRSIDID, Mae Rare, Lnveraoa" T sald BOY, sopliod, and told herof the mretent yin that time. V'd like to gat scholarly article on the searcity of both lower tmbs paralysed, Sues door presents, and that no man in his very “Clever, indeed, Larrleon," to cell these | Yeoh manta valtes Diack servant, of the slip et maivig and how theY Well-mutchod paris, and left It ti the circus, nnd the case la oompro- gle whe s 1 hope yi ry Menmen would wend auch valuable was the night editors favorable cutie And a doten tle person paper, and of the anaxlety manifested the Sunday editor's box. r or 9 fo stones, and that I was going te adver- 2 di Tocea © bwo weeks elapsed befo - “ . because, if you're not, you'll make me 1.) A imane ment as ho banded tt back, “I've al- he maid dolighted- at Grit a Two weeks elapsed before Its pub Kitty comes out of convent, and, awfully ashamed of my appetite, Tim tie for bim and make him take them wayy couteuded that Sunday wpecial ly. Nother word--£ know It's e: “T HAY® jeation, signed with my name; and being the plucky kid she la, dever- back sar! collara and on the following Thuraday | found a mines that it’s up to her to support %0 oxcited befo of the i I go on at night to bys meb make the beat press a ry Brough. Vve told them to keep tia “Well, if I cam halp you r I t oa ¢ ‘ “Ww i id a 1 everybody but new! Cl nd upon pearls jetter waiting for me at the office, It the invalid lady. So she goes Dack i meee aie supper with a girl Way, don’t hesitate to aak mi edly. OY en ew Renee ane pean A tad FAR oka iasnier | that the black man had procured i. ym ansious to Pro was from the youngest and prettlest in training, and last summer she did whom one admires tremen ivourly is terrupted, “This case heara Grit- ~“} know, I know," be sald, with « Buy thas letter would’ we dcube eae tla of 4 mize. But you uctreds on Broadway—one whom { the beaches with her own high-dive not a dally oecurrenco: tt ro, fouy's mark; they'll remember who guperior grin. “It's all right, Harrie bellevo. mo, | know Brough! But piuu everythings we'd bettor get baek raention my name, * had admired tremendously, and about stunt. She's got wonderful lunge and whether 1 was hungry or not, | aie they made it for, And, if you like, son. J've given your story @ double about thowe pearis--won't you sell?” to that. Who was this friend ef «Dia whom 1 had written a eulogiatic Sun- physique—can dive forty feet and gna imarvelled at the oxccience ot Til ) put an advertisement in the head. Anytaing’s all right becween “They're uot nine to well,” [ree Grace's, and where can I find him See rie eer! day story; but while she had been stay under water for a minute, sverytnings rough Tcould. not have Clarion to-night for the Mag who fiends. Live don't four-dush, Masri. turned, itu wuriy toae, “Must tal clo. the Hawarden, most, likely,” Pa te Saniaeraby te. very ‘hind, she Had Bok sHOcHmees ut the Convent achool training told you at any time what I was nat. sent thom, and write 4 story to @t- eon,’ everybody that?” eho returned, 4 trifle contemptuoualy. Mian considerably to Marry fey> Frequent calls, Consequently Twas had made her modeat and ana naved (oUt YoUM AY time what T war nt, ta Ce eetiar ti ade OF couse, ened intended. to show bis the "Id fellow, Hut pourta ““Phat's his conrt; they oall bu "Ging | vavra's nar . Several times 1 considerably surprised at the receipt to come out in her little one-piece of her amber-brown hair, tn the delle it's not for me to advise YOU, Dutt Mow: But pease SPRAYS bis cone fried to get @ oad look at him as be of the note, which was as follows: diving auit before so many people cate eoloring of fea, bit, although his heavy lashes My Dear Mr, Knight: May I when she met the manager of the derful oval of by ‘ally whade his downcast eyes 8 not pearls, but in the face of such al or akin, in the won- ‘Oh! I know what you're wolng to ficient knowledgo, I decided that it face. 1 had even #ay. You'll tell me I'm foolish not to was useless. o go around, But ‘You don't mean Barry Raxbuee re it on account of our | “Indeed, then, 1 ta ask you to call upon me at my = ‘Merry Whirl' company down there at forgotten her excuse for bringing mo keep them, I know! But what right = “Have it your own way, Bill," was friendship, bi off Reyburn!” returned the ‘girl, ole the mo nt he was In- apartment to-night? It is terribly the beach and found her a job re; cons ntly, | was surprised have I to put myself under obliga- my resigned comment. “But don't don't kn all as ing her nose a trifle more, d his head and met but Cam in cons with the company at seventy-five a when whe ra har olenr, fra tions that { cannot moet? Helieve tall anybody I'm In on this, will you? headed business man, Now conceited brutel” thoneh lye ss, and you seem week, slie Sumpe it, And that's most boylah oy and ope me, Mr. Knight, 1 bave had If they 4 NOWspaper man “Oh, ahut up, Inverness “Oh, Barry's @ good fallow,” Searing Id not enre for pofmy acquaint- — how she camo to Broadway. She's subject of pushing forward a small sewelry offered me, quite as valuable doing it for her, they'd think It was « “But, really, Why are you so anxious my deprecating reply, “And Iapovcople examination He & ows enough about he girl T kno’ I-box of sandalwood as these pearls, and But, really, fake, just as you do.” to get these pearls?” think he's conoait: Miss Valent the impression of a watching pe aria toadvise me, way she tends that poo T want you to open it, Mr. Knight, I'm capable of mak os my owe way: = “Think!” sniffed the night editor, “It's not so much to get those two, "I've met before,” ahe 1 live near Loudon’s; if you orate ralytic she's got on her and tell ma what you think of them?” ‘and won't you excase me if I prefer [left a carbon copy of the story and although Yeanaberry saya they're shortly, " a y Shennfelt reminded Rey- will vwait me there I will meet aN bring tears to a wooden In- TI snapped tho catch. "Griffony” to do it?” the advertisement, with the price for beauties,” } \ responded; “but to find of yours; I an engagement he had, and you at 11.80, If you have another aterpped ja gold letters on the lining } “Dear lady,” [ assured her, “your insertion, in an envelope directed to out where se remarkable Oriental pe's the man tld after extending me a formal engagement, please pend @ mes- al thle was music to my ears; for, of the lid. The ox contained two ttitude is Mmpeccable, But this the city editor of the evening edition. pearis come fou, As I eaid, the peo- eo ee ee ee