The evening world. Newspaper, January 15, 1916, Page 9

CS eheaeemenenaaneineieteeneemmendenr meminnnatenennamenetumeenen nent oe wee c= - cote ee cy THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 1916 VOODOO PODTGOHOCOHSSHOOOHSTOWOOISGTGSS DDOGIGDOGVGSDIE DHDOHESDHDS AAG HGHIAGDOIVNEPIGG DOOYOOHOOSDIPPOON NOONAN AGO Maya OnanwaenysooIoooows o A Mystery By Albert Payson Terhune Romance The Newest PATHE Picture, Now Being Presented at of Heredity . - 8 Di Leading Motion Picture Theatres of Greater New York DODO EODD GOODE GOOHHGHHOOGDODDDODDODOH GHOSE GDDOIGODDOGDODOOGOHDSTFBOOODI DH DOOGHODODDOGDOGOODHDOOGODHOODOHGOG) VADODOOQOD DODO OGIO GOOG tho several short cuts from the busi. the p'lice it I'm not. If some@ the amusement. “Why, I can remember “ ‘Circle Jim's other children?” nexs section to the residence part Of shoes tliat come here to be mended the day when I'd a run a@-ncreechin’ efled Sam, in a wonder that war the etty, pa happen to have things in their heels up a@ tree if you came In sight. Lord, pably hildren 2 muine. “His oth “The Red Circle,” repeated Borden dully. ii Sam deen shop f “ on niabis hd I try to do ie poor fellows a pe) Ad Worth while not to be scared Why, man alive, Jim Morden never jer an behind it waa a disreputable good turn by taking them off your att Syety time a detective happens had another child but Ted, 1 at rn “It is still there, on my hand, al looking back yard separnted by a lands. If you don't like my prices “round!” hin waddine, a, hat lets of Peale ‘“‘When I am myself,’ sobbed June, “I ’ y ways rickety gate and a tumbledown board go look somewhere elac. Find a . P did Jim, but he in bia Vf >} there. And it has marked one member fence frova the alley at cha rear fence! who'll aauoal to. the cope at he’s an Angel.” looked at any woman but bie own loathe the things The Red Circle makes me ne ner was uninviting, ev! he first pinch and land you in the ot 4 stoctive,” wife, He just fair worshipped ber . in every generation of my family. The for corer loafers, | Yet one such coop. Find a ‘tenon’ who's wiling to Max. oft 48. tetoctive! demurred When abe she was auot {o & do. But when the circle begins to throb and er femter at al * take the same chances as me, on got- - er” - road agent , ne © », almmont person marked by it has always been a day, This consistent Idica wasn thick ting rid of what he buys from you ® ffarette?” I don't go ia for fmbt atter ‘Tod was borniit Just glow on the back of my hand, something set youth, clad in ehabby gray. His and pays better money to You. see Ti "suet take a breathor with “bout killed Jim, He took thelr baby f criminal. The ‘Decoration of the Curse Tee Cee ld eee Tek HAIER STOOD TY OHS ey Orie tor tare this old pipe of mine instead—it you SWAY into the mountalna and he scourges me on from one mad crime to fe HO 0 h se ing. Itil cost me y, Ware ¢ d ri " never showed up again for al ths, ‘ § of Heaven,’ I have heard it called!" ; : Against the lintel of Bam Karan’ the right folks and get thee stones TORY mind. Have a light, ale?” Naat mowed up asain for ale montis another ;—some power I can’t control.” | doorway putfing oleacettes. tha: ate, 8,th9, market. Twenty’s the Drie nore” commented Maz, acceptin, the Would even spenk a olvil word to any pI ‘ . “ or lea 7 “4 your ‘ . tight atch, “Bust he woman, No, no, Mr, Lamar, you're deigtbers Nad osadad te’ inverdot pm not potas 0 tt ioea, Gaive it Me eirian ai only faitish, Things barking up the wrong*tree.. Jim Bor- } thomaelves tn him, back to woe Lidia : got dull. And then after @ while they den hadn't but one child. Til take Novelized From the P. "m helped 4 couple of thousand oaths on that © Photo Play of the Same Name by Will M. Ritchey. Had the neighbors looked closer “sure, led Fagan, blandty, re- Kot duller again, But . . Kendal smile gited to his red fade, whose extreme end was a pler, ‘Be- (Copyright, 1918, by Aibert Payson Tertune,) they might perhaps have noted that turning’ ss Grea to him; and at the S10Ng, Misa Travis got me up here, “T'll toll you why I ask,” anid La- was looking down at the twenty-five ward. this Juno hastened, Dandie MYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS, this half-ehut oyes wore na bright a#4 game time absent mindedly pulling YOU know-Gawd biess her pretty mar impressively, leaning ere dollars June had so generously hand, climbing lightly over the Borfen, master crook, i» marked with an red circle on the ted (cireke has pent) ‘on the of member rary at eects ae eee ae int ated rele han Yen ean iamar oAmt) . rat’a and that those same apparently 1 of bills [40e—and she paid my frat month's 4nd emphasising his words by foreed upon him, Tut, pean his pery rock and leaping from one to Growey eyes wore forevee’ GbIEtIng Coreg Toueete poeeee oer. rent, Every now and then she drops ping the shoo againat hie knee. “Iie. eves were Axed on the money in his other al © Up and down the street. in to seo how I'm getting on—like cause I happen to know that no Jess hand, his mind was not, me dott fine efit Mae Donn at intarrate would bee Fane tne ae or Tite wavered, You've dono to-day, air—and if trade's than two people In this very city to- After a. moment of thought he samelaceny CSRs Bet che poems iden Begin of ore dhe step back into Smiling Sam's #hop. Then S bad she gives me a@ itttle something day have the Red Ciroles on the nodded hin head, stuck the money ¢: ~warped boards were tel Waleed ae Wes ‘tron en ret one Sometimes, after vanishing thus, he | 2° 1” he toward the rent. If it wasn't for her backs of their right bands,” into his pocket and locked the door pplayed, in several places, u Sey Adenaiy lane drains Teil "ke &Ucn' esa retro ' Fg Rag ER would reappear at once at his old _ “Ob, take you swine! © I'd w boxed down before now. But of hia shop. Then he went to the #e- looked like the alits in trent of @ Bam she's itabon burglar, et as though he had merely slunk @Towled, tOsning the brooch down upon 7 Keep at it. I keep at It, And is A New Mystery. oret door among the shoe-sholves and house, As June sped past the [iso the eben to borrow a Meht for sme ae leathor- a a cant botter'a sf alt in the pen. She taught wnat? oried Sam in amazement °POnd It. Passing into the bidden house she chanced to notice @ CHAPTER V. his eternal cigarette. Sometimes he age eg ged» Foy ee ge ihe, OnLy almont forgetting the show in bis me faery eh a mtone—-juat the thin to woul not come out again iro ones. ie les Weapone of War. the doorway at all. But he would be bills from the roll, handed them to is, ‘That's what she In An angel, Omenment. bed se as tae ” Laétting this calendar, Aiecloged 5 people,” reiterated Lamar, J 4 up, opened the bundle wat one BELIEVE the Red Circle never shows on your hand except when at his former place outside none the hed Eng the we he Sched Sas Gawd bless her! “Two people. A man and a woma cupboard behind 4t, operon J into cores | in the stone and fastened ore ee ” ittle later, And this was odd, - ‘There was « eanctimonios lilt tn thia, he pulled forth a it you're planning some wicked mechtef!” croaked old Mary, ep she Sonees everybody know there waa no brooch, As he did #0, Nel Bune the old biackguard’s tone that, to Tr Gee to core hae hie tee the reelver from the book and sailed Sess moment How ihe hack c. wag paused at the door of June's bedroom, early next morning, ber arma exit from the cobbler shop except by Max Lamar’e trained cars, rang a8 Red Circle, and each neama to be a 8 number. hind her she heard a man's way- piled high with clothes. the ingle door in front, “ false ao @ !saden half-dollar, crook as Horden uket phone tee he ing impationtly: 4 wy . " on: at by Coun’ “Yeu." ald June, dreary, with « guilty qanoe at her, haad TOP una c or smiingaamenope stghe numbers en the Houses.” qeound hore thie morning 0 see it T Gtk you tree, NY | “NNO here to Almat—kam—Come around here tae Comm down to casen, "What will you tg Sat ad Sher eo i “Geo!” dabbled Jake, “he'll #Pot can get some information from you.” He broke off and looked down with "US There's something big. Hurry pay?" " ” emoking an ill-tm: a h “It was there last evening. It isn't there thie morning,” went on the {01% : me, dead sure! He's" —— con ” D iB away the early hours when “"y, ” Certainly, Mr. Lamar,” said Sam, sudden curiosity at the shoe he was June dropped the bundle she held. M4 woman, depositing the clothes on a chair and beginning to arrange them, most of the world was at work. ‘Out the back way!" ordered Sam. sinotuously.” “I'll be glad to tell you holding, The “Soctety Thiet” She stood transfixed, there, om ths one by one, in a wardrobe trunk. “What were you up to, deariet’ Tell Inside the dingy little shop, 8am The Secret Door. all about ‘the rise of shoe leather “There's something loon in the rocky beach, In front of tee anneke ca himeelf was up to his eyes in toil. prices or the neighbors that are good heel of this shoo.’ he sald, “some. Alma La Halle wa perhapa twenty. Understanding came to her with w “Nothing at all,” declared June, her eyes fixed anxiously on the trunk The shop's dirty walls re-echoed to | The lookout caught the shaking Jake pay or bad pay, or how my rheuma- thing that rattles like a loose bit of five, porhaps a Mttle okler, She w rush, So the atory was 1 "Tod Mary was packing, “Please don't let's talk about it, It makes me eo miser- the quick taps of his hammer, as he by the arm and hustled bim toward Hinta aches mein wet weather, ‘Tut metal” of medium ldght: wiry, dark and Ine Drew had really come to Burfton to blo, Tye packed part of the trunk,” she added, “Don't disarrange that drove tiny bright nails into tough solo the hack of the shop; to a place where that’s about all the information I've Sam did not answer. Burreptitious- clined to salowneas., Nevertheless, negotiate with this foreign agent for @blo, I've packed : leather, He Was a busy man—a con- tho biank surface of the wall was got in stock nowadays. If you're ly the cobbler had reached bohind she was decidedly pretty, and she the walo of the murderous war engine Peet OF 1%, Mary tented man—an fdeally reformed man broken by several shelves on which looking for some of the crowd i used him and had pi up the heavy, the faoulty of fitthwe herself to any plans! The two men had apparently 1 The girl threw on @ negiigee wrapper, as Mra, Travis cailed from the wa! mer with which he needful role, from @octety gin to fac- chosen this out~- smiling Sam Eagan, His broad stood @ sparse array of shoe boxes, to travel with—why, I'll tell you flat short-handled harm f-the-wa! r outer door that sho and Yama were coming in to search once more for tracks rubicund face was as joviulasacomic Dunn thrust his hand in among I don't know anything about ‘em. had been work!ng: tory hand. A clever actrens, a clev. thelr conference, #0 as to be trom of the supposed burglar, June helped them in the futile hunt and presently opera cobbler'’s; the fringe of gray these boxes, Instantly, @ section of One or two of em used to brace me Holding the hammer covertly in his erer thief; in fact, one of the discovery or suspicion, they departed. curls on each side of his bald head the wall—shelves and all—opened on the street when I first got out. But hand, he bali eight and, am pickpockets and “crowd workers" June held her breath. Shamelesaly : Before breakfast June also went to Mrs. Travis; and, on the plea of feel- fairly exuded Kindiy honesty, The outward, revealing @ passageway bo- as soon as they found I'd turned his arm-muac » measured the State. she listened. Another voles was fag “run down,” she persuaded her to It, either of us. And it's same Most suspicious of pessimists would hind. Through this opening, Dunn square’—— with his eye the exact distance to “Hollo, kid," was hia greeting aa ing now. In excellent Engilsh, but close the town house that very morn- way with any ordinary man. ing and to go for the season to their “Well, what then? If—— she arrived, “You didn't waste any with a trace of foreign accent, AONE time, That's right. You got @ train “My dear Mr. Drew,” she heard & summer cottage at Surfton. ‘This dumb chap took hold of the to catch and some fancy packing to Count Freel say, “I have no wish to Tt seemed to the distraught girl that, Veiled Woman's coat and handled it { do first. delay, any more than you wish me once away from the city, a change of like you or I would handle a cigar or | Train (o catch?” she repeated eag- to delay, Hut I desire to study t air and of scene would perhaps free a beer stein. He was at home with erly. plans first, that I may’-—~ her from the grip of the strange im- It. He knew Just how to examine It pulse which of late had so mercilessly and how to hold it, No one on eart! governed her, Moreover, in town, the except a ladies tallor—or a woman- problem of disposing of her mult of would be able to do that. IT was a discarded masculine clothing and wig bit leery of bim till I saw him ma- Offered many obstacles At Surfton, nipulate the coat. But the mimute he the things could safely be tossed into begins to fuss over that coat I says tho sea off any pier. to myself, ‘He's a tailor, ail right, all + — Mrs. ‘Travis had worrled, as had right!" Tailors get the knacks of ; “To Surfton-by-the-Sea, There's “That you may fix the detatla in ® big ball at the Surfton hotel to- your mind, hey?” interrupted Drew's night. Our man there Upped me to voice. “And be able to reproduce i You're going to ‘operate’ at the bra he then refuse to buy? No, . thanks, 1" “Bu exclaimed the Count, "is @ now angle ro suing to in anger. “You insuit me! You offer Nerk from on this” he pursued. me a dire insult! In my own dear “There ought to be « pot of cash in oa the light-hearted girl's handling women's clothing just the it. Ever hear of the Red Circle?” “We're not in your ‘own dear coun- ment manner, and she willingly con- same as women do. But no other Ot oourne,” she made answer, etna Drew. “We're gented fo the plan. So the household Kind of man can do it. We aren't Who hasn't?” 8. A. where folks ‘was abuzz with hasty~preparations trained to. . sir, ‘That crook's a Ho led the way through to the hid- tak etmight business without frills, for departure professional tatior, whatever else he den room, Alma following In bewilder- Father said the plans in this box ¥ be on the side,” don't bother with that side of the ma erunk, Mary,” repeated June, as the “Perhaps,” conceded Lamar with Burse began to rummage there. “I've unwilling admiration of the chief's packed it.” acuinen. “But, if he is, he isn't work- “It looks as if you ‘a packed It in ing at his trade, hereabouts Have your sleep!" reprove her love your pretty Uttle portrait rT We'll run over tt, If you, Ike, 10 ln I'd spot that lad’s face anywhere.” have to teil you to lay th ngs fl Mi th ge gy hig gh et =) gmooth Rip ana Andy to Be photographs, known as the Rogues’ ment. Opening the cupboard he took would make an gine that could out a Nitle box of water colors, & wine whole armies off the map. Your camel's hair brush and a phial of nation is fighting with ite back to liquid, u M. It t al tq:eom rete: Seana? Sas the wal wants those plans, How Wonderingly, Al beyed. Motat Yonderingly. ima obey _ co ening the brush and rubbing it on the pujsing ‘an her canta aR And rod-paint cake, Sam proceeded tO crept nearer and nearer to the shack, trace on the back of the woman's whe peeped in, cautiously through hand an irregular Red Circto, one cf the wide cracks in the Boanth “Watch that closely,” he warned. Mar! wae ogre r “7hat's Just the shape of the one Bor- Locked In. wail? Why, these things in here ure Pacary ete Nnineeet a eee tien ek den had. Do you think you could “4. ots nag bean turned upside Hy und stuck in every which Mile 1 mint th ‘our own hand?” ‘ Pay. Aue at the betto dnere’g a One time or anoties besomie: Cenglell Ree Lone ee down to serve as 4 table, and it stood a ws in the law's > at big bundle all full of bumps With the help of ale sore anh uch musriness I never did see, in All Policeman Meeke—the only men tay born days.” who had had a good look at the dumb cle. ‘The paint wuickly v , Tullor--the chief began u hasty search “Thora you are,” sald he, "Go to Hn BA ANE, It aceamod and pasty hy A Queer Find. of the collection. Lamar lighted at : | the ball. Pinch everything you get of fwce, Dissipation had cut un- Despite June's protests, ax she cigarette and sat by, Impatient at the | j , F H half a chance at. Thon snpak into clove to the aperture in the boards, ello dipped the sponge tn the liquid “At the opposite end of this Impro- paaned it over {he vised table, on a couple of bout trea- healthy Ines about the corners of + spoke, Mary hauled forth from the delay, as the quest went on. ‘ ‘ nome quiet corner to paint tiat circl® Ars ycuthtul eyes and mouth. The bottom of the trunk a greut Irregular “Here's old ‘Circle Jim,’ said the 9 . a > \ Lamar'a left templ: blow ge your, bese Ry - age t8. let the gther and older man was of distinetly package, hastily ti her aA hie ance, 08 he glanced over a hand- y ‘ would do it; but it must be quick (aes as of It "Thea soe cee foreign aspect; not only in his Ane ana Di dozen ful yhotoy. ‘ | 0 . sal i ars mers zen MA few minutes later he paused at! //s ; a! x Many. 6 strong Tere'a When tho yell goes up that a lot of SWGShINE musachs and goates but in the cut of his clothes as well. something rattles in this heel, Just boobs have been robbed the Red Cir- “on the crate-table, Just in front of ae if there was a compartment inside, Cl Will be sure to get the blame for Drew, rested an oblong metal de- with something lying loose in 1 it. It'a likely eat’ eons peed spetch box, perhaps ten inches tong, “Save the pious sentiments, Eagan,” He picked up an uwi from the bench May be examined. Yours will have four inches wide and two inches hut o1 arth is th another Itkenesa. Poke eae ae “Hemember this chap?" he asked eee etty nothing at all! fevertsh- Lamar, handing him an oblong of ly protested June, snatching the bun- cardboard, on which were a full face clothes away. “Tt'a and profile likeness of a man and a } * d inserted it between heel-tap and Do sign of the Circle on it. That'll high, ie of ‘men vritten deacription, "Remember him? : ¢ interposed Lamar. “Some thine, on {th , 4 wig breath let you out. See? And the good old sornelt. tv's ‘sore dup and hid here you nabhed him the last time you “4 the ninth day of the week, Til'call “upper. Hagan drow a long Breath i en cry will go chasing of after June drew back from the shack myse! me. b F a and listen to your edifying exper, “Good morning, Sam,” came a clear the myxterious ircle woman, ®D4 @lanced guilttly around, No one a things.’ sent ‘Circle Jim’ Borden to the coop. “Wis. BURaLAR MUNTERS INVROe VUONE'S @ , se ences as a reformed sinner, you’ 5 ' Was in sight, Near by any, a frag- lot me open it, then,” sald Mary, He was Jim's pal for yearer now I'm too busy; Ican set your mind Young voice from the ‘door wi OE Moe gaat M# & Goviment bond: nent of ‘wreckage, @ thick board Pil lay ‘em out smooth for you and if aloud, eepad the words acrawied B2ve banked on Smiling Sam's jolly shoved the pantc-stricken Jake; clos- at rest, too. I'm not trailing any of Kolng out of town for the summer: " _ about five feet long. Moved “ow she pack ‘em the way they ought to be half, alo wn probity. your friends who haven't been go Stopped in on my way to the water “You're a Wonder: conscious volition of her ot packed, Such shiftlessness, as pil! A Kan, cross-lexged on his low Jake and his conductor found them- jucky as to reform. So you won't be @ how you are goettl an A Le OXen't ase ons nek shaeie wena Dee noiselessly to this an that stuff into a paper parcel and bench, sat hammering gaily away, selves ina dim-Nt inner room, unfur~ called on to squeal, I'm here on an- . Picked it up. F ol shave 7 7 rk in hers, after the grasping to the full the simplicity and “gp, bead it to the shack’ on stuffing it into a trunk that's Tom Dunn ducked his unshaven vis- nished save for @ big dog-eared other kind of errand, The informa- r aresp ; a nf o carr! it to the ‘a only aes ba packed close! I never year oe age into the room. calendar that hung on one wall, 04 tion I'm looking for from you is on sunshine, I didn’t see you ciaveraces os on poneres: ‘Yes! Bam, door, braced one end of the board did!" 4 ¢ oie Bright Wa: Height 5 “Jake's comin’,” announced Dunn; a broken packing box below ft. a point in ancient history. I want to A Hard Luck Story. ee oe Aaah ' Aealnst a bowlder in front of the Mary!" interrupted June, tears in shop Bt Deke Brians tt 40 pounds, end returned to the front #teps ones Dunn pushed violently nt slab in talk with you about ‘Circle Jim’ Bor- pho spell was broken, ‘The tension tne ante None ay gt renay fp canon door and then But the other ead voico and eyes. “Thia ts my own + more. the chipped plaster of the adjacent den, was relaxed, Lamar, at sight of June (os a aa neath the Ju croma-pani trunk and I'm going to put phings vento mer itagani’” broke off La- Stolen Jewels. wall: ‘The plaster nave back at hla Faia ‘Cirele Jim!" exclaimed 8am. ‘Travia, let ‘the shoe tuinbie to the he ae are tid te ele bay Dae espn) a ah the way | want them, Plea Ht : yush. A ad perhayy ve “Why, Jim's dead, Too dead to * floor, forgotton, as he aprang up to : 4 je atay package alone! Temean it, mar, I'm not Ukely to forget BM: siniiing Main looked up a Tien’ and’ twenty’ Inches or loam in You know. that, Mr Lamar, ‘tho fo0r, forwotien, sa he sprang YP 1 you extra rates on it. 80 long, Kid!” ating worts on tour the Sane T want you to leave it alone, Prom- We got him when we got Civcle veive fiendly hod, a moment later, as * width, took the Place of the meeming= je ‘spapers said you was there when Mek tr ent of reaction, Ak Lite 2 2 8 dollars to your Government—or to any feo mot” But he was too Cy ie ena Corned cadaverous ian of middle age shain- ly solid plastering. ‘Through this he-— mar strode forward to meet June the ‘There was but one theme of import other warring country—to get these The old woman looked up, amazed him all he denerve eo. Wan bled into the she The neweu: 1, the two I was in at the death,” ad- Cotuler thrust the shoe into the @™mong the summer idlers at Surfton- plans. They're"—- en «; loose about a year ago, wasn't he? pathotically nil4sh iehat waa the first time T ever heard of Miss June Travis—the young lady A erude. litte ; out inte the yard beyond; at tho girl's He handed tt to and thence earnestness over so trivial a mat 1 ar. “But it's about ‘Cir- fieast of his own shirt and substi. Py-the-Sea, June had not been at the — Hy» broke off with a yéll. For as he through the rickety Bat cle Jim’ that T want to talk about tured for it another one from a nearby Cottage an hour before she had heard jooked down at the metal box that had ut the sight of June's tourful ee i ‘ nn : vhe! ; wapnper (athe Miley way with you, just the same, Nothing pijy the floor. the whole story from Mary, who bad jain in front of him on the table it was Bite won tho day We mist in tba park, Bi vi Sam Baan unroll ho newspupe Meantime, left alone in his shop, you can say can do bin any burt Pip ho lumbered to his feet and !t from a nelghbor no longer there. He waa just in time “emere, thers, doarte!” soothed the we were looking for the Veiled Wom, woe sole wan all tne ace Smiling Sach Kagan saw a long shad- now, So you can epeak freely." waddied forward to. pay his respacts Ht semied that Todd Drew, the dis- ‘4 woman's «mall hand drawing zs # as Mary did a pard © prison how s n 1086 #01 ap all b ‘ ‘ do wart the # preshold Saal vely quest, WHO Waa ¢ solute young son of Amos Drew, the puree, all penitence OOM yt nee Smiling Sam when he Rot out, and whose heel was “run” at the left side, Gow pall thwart tn street threshold The Circle Again. to his lovely guest, Who Was chatting a despatch | box cautiously out itate there for an MO Was to be lost h back Into th visibly fascte great inventor, had just arrived at the Surfton h * in the wall boards, 1. Ho had brought Drew made a clutch at the vanish- so sald report, o small flat Max caught sight of the shabby and @nimatediy with the Ry ¢ our how she was fooled by his maudiin Bm ling Sam picked up a cobbler's jo one's going to disturb your Hy : dusty shoo lying on the bench beside nated Lamar, N ay bundle, Fill the trunk With piniaes of reform. He'd learned cob- Knife and proceeded to pry off the the} asked thithe dnt to. ‘There, there! bling during his term. And she spent pattored #hon's still moro buttered ghoe-heel; and) with two deft blows biin=the shoe at whose heel the cob- "How are things kolng that was mote deadly than ‘ME, en4 And relmed Ik Pe he wrist Beck AC FOU WANE CO. ENOTe od money to set him up in a shos- Jako manding in nervous ox- of the hens Hes tome bler had been tinkering when his vis- cheerily, turning hax a9 paving Pala rtbnad ides vq t¥® wot her, area crys’ know hor parcel of mas- maker shop of His own anat tuncy behind him and looking place on ita shoe. itor entered. Lamar picked up, tho the. cobbler tend ieee and do'peo. _ For this camo contained the plane for onan ace pee Sar can tale eee quline ‘attiro was safe, for the time, Ys Commented’ tha chine Mine Beall ctsefe dt t enovrom = fi® Was driving the second nal, jolt of the tip of Ite laces, began to ple pay their billa any more prompt. & war-eng! ir Oy: bette des Ha thee from prying eyes 5 » the heel came mM when Max Lamar sauntered into the 4 maaty tc " a an any hitherto de- — ‘Pne count leaped for the door, At Lad f ee heard a lot about her prison work. it was hollow, and it was awing tt carelessly to fro, as if It i retty bad, ised. It was a veritable monster of ¢h, ‘ i But she swallows the Mes all those wadded with tlasue paper, Sam care. OP: had been an uncouth pendulum, Bam am tH pretty bad eettaction® thin caaing” monster of the mame inetant June's other ‘hand Max Lamar had heen freed failbirds tell her, and abe gives fuily undid the tissue fois, Out of , Max glanced down approvingly at ched hin in furtiv 1 tee eae dose Whole armiea could be destroyed ta a. Ser etec true tne edicining cress, Ben ea tists ee w develop: them money that they blow on boo. them dropped a round brooch, set the busy old feilow tacktni a worn nt 2 etite ona e ne i: ce fy ven; alngle minute. Ae caaehre Ermaped © long Bie she gna want Meo ne “Red Circle" mystery It ought to be stopped, Bh with altemate pearls and diamonds Der! on to 4 worthless moe tt waa ° LHe EA csnie ont tie RON ae tL kive mo any more tre Amos Drew bad Invented the thing. Into Todd's detaining fist she drove “tneide and out; studying tt vainly , ymiling Sam Or fair size, | holain’ Ked up inquiringly and Jim Borden's hand, You remember ment, he says, tll | pay the twenty- Having done so he had been #0 ap- the pin, right mercilessly—again and from every imaginable a , ee, one ‘Lif ed Ante te i wae nore An’ onen for the first time behel Visitor, it, of course?” five dollacs Lowe him on lis lust bill, palled by its possibilities for annihila- again--with the lightnlog speed of a fold on!” sald Lamar, “Ive an a carriage dour for a dame, outside 311, joy old face broke into wn Ox- ‘Bure I remembor tt, sir So T quoss Tit have to grin and bear it tin that he had never put {t upon hornet's stings. The Dumb Boy. {dea, Suppose I drop around ¢o see the op'ra house last night," explained pansive and warmly cordial staile, wouldn't?” answered Sam, awhile longer.” the market, but had stowed the plane With @ how! of pain Drew relaxed Wirst of all, they had ascortained~ Smiling Sam, He and Borden wore Jake i & ena, Bayt ty holding Os#ine aside the #hce on which he “Let ma take that bum ‘old aho "You poor old thing," aatd June jn #way among bis private papers. his grip on her wrist, Her hands van- what they hud alroady beon sure of pretty thick, He may Know some. | Not bad. asec 5 ® had been working he rose clumaily to you're playing with, Mr. Lamar, It'll quick sympathy. "Indeed you shail But now Amos Drew was dead, and !shed—the despatch box und the hat- —that no tailor in city eee ene ee ee ee Tl Onda Wan ite cleclat OF rerun” “erect bis visitor wet you all dirty." hot ‘grin And bear 1 another day, hts only heir, Toad Drew, waa ‘busy PI along with them--just ax tho bamed Attinan! and that neither Site to maake him tall, Anyhow, it's more oolor und another's flawed and ono of well, Mr, Lamar!” he eried, | “That Red Cirle, now-—yon ramem- [fere,” taking three bills from ber wesiig the Paternal fortune, He had Count seedy ase r nor State ¢ ontained any master tailor to ma band is alk, rit Ai NS aay nearis looks sick. But!=== holding out an enormous ber what Jim Borden used to say handbag, “pay that cranky bear of a already made sad inroads upon the ome got thin miserable door who was a mu Also, a vigilant prc Stable SeEe thu conAiGn Of fal tite tiie de ded Jake This js an honor I wasn't «bout It." doctor this very morning and have parental wealth and was casting aren! is jamme Sesrol of every tailor aliop, by a dos grubbing over thet coljectidn of cell How musi?” demanded Jae ooking for. Bit down, Youll find — "That tt cropped out once in every him give you treatment. ‘Toll him about him for some meane to got | June waited to hear no more, She en detectives, had Meee a i tailor that fant either @ “Twente,” ‘snorted. the iAdignant (®t bench clean, 1 think, I try to generation of family?" supple- to send his next bill to me. I must go Mora money tore open the end of the bundle, @ny emplo: or employe with the dummy tat ba ie Bt oar ORY poh te iate Twenty nothin’: Keep things ay tidy ag lean, ‘This mented Eagan, “and that the pers now. My mother and Mary are wait Thus it was, seaside gossip ran, that thrust the metal box tn ‘0 it, closed it dumb youth of the preceding night, taller nor Sum. til bare es Lait ‘straits Ghinta ite shat Dh ae lee ke old times, selng you ugain.” who had (t was always a criminal? ing for me in the car, outside there, he had brought up to Surftoa the AKain And, hing it up, raged “That's the queer part of it to me,” 1 think. | Aurea Tha GHIRE, Giteet Paremant?. Wher hhenca ant hanks,” said Lamar, seating Funny idea, wasn’t it? But Jim be- Good-by, Sam; good-by, Mr. Lamar.” terrible war-engine plans; and be eee fer, telots Nor did she pause the chiet was saying, ANG YOU cing once throug @ handful Unis worth more ‘a thu, you mecsly Piuself on the whiny bench and take Heved it was gospel truth. That shoe'll Rut Max would not be dismissed in Was to mast here one Count Freel, until sho bad hurled the bulky par- Reedn't guy mo for making such a looking once more be a A gar calle Bendlghad Fi ws Y ing out hie clxarette cage, “It's good get your hands all dirt, Mr."-—~ this fashion. Ho insisted on going to the agent for a foreign Governinant, cel far out into We seu and watohed close hunt of the tailor joints, That of photos. ‘Hare, yon tres eee eee snapped Eagan. to mee yon no nicely fixed here, Bam. | "That brings me to the point. You the oar with bor, and, on the way, he t neotlate with him for their sale, It sink ewiftly beneath the surtace. young chap was tailor, I'l bet a bier whop at J Keror twice But “Not ih a milion yours.” declared’ ABA ite wood to neo you aren't know Ted Borden had no Red Cirole managed to angin succansfully for an | With shudder June dismissed the | Meantime, in the shack, pandeme- inonth's pay,on it nica, Lette tes ties, Ha Gotena te dune” Oany. thes nine lared peared at aight oft—— on his hand, And Ted died when hia invitation to call on her at the Surf. story from her mind. To ocoupy her nium had broken loose. Hoth men “8 tullor,” laughed Max, "Non. there's nothing on im ot to make im town butd Bite nee hunired’ ” "That's right, alr chimed in father died. But how about Jim Bor- ton cottage, FRCUARTE, (Aha ‘penoived to tame the Carew: ter bosies frantioally Saaines Benne, Jusi a clevor crook, playlux have declded toy tog Cd mood naine There mitten, Dawn a town Began with a big Inueh of wonuine den's other children? After which he stared at the auto Diidle of masculine clothing at once the unyielding oor. Then Drew tailor, It's sufe to say he he “8 any Bn hones) VANE: Pas fl es Pi we ek th, Pen oat etn Seen is = ie mobile until | bore her out of staht. i the saerass: desertod pier and tone Feng UD fhe cretactable anc. ena thing but a tallor, or he would't have ve ead at that. Go and talk with face, waa Ham's pleasant rejoinder. snen be wandered 08 Gown ihe a waste fully three minutes in pounding Fun the risk of being tralled Py pass: yer oCe you like. Tt oan't do any “That's why you came to ine, ‘That's street, planning Nurlly “not for the The War Plans, Giaees Gully, ares cilnitton In Dounging Fehero's where you're dead wrong,” harm, But I don't belleve it'll do any why you all come to me. And there's THE SIXTH CHAPTER OF but to discover some way of arrang- — Sho took the awkward package . As the door at last fell Todd and fasiated the chief, "Did you aver noe Bocd” | 5 gg gg ever Yer boon one ior you shat could . tng his work ‘so aa to loave him an from the trunk, alipped out of the ¢ fount rumhed fora, panting, dig Hee i aor any other garment Chief Allen was quite right aa to from me. Twenty. 1 aid.” | 66 DD! | Sas AC Hnccn S08 trenins mee sor olLine Def mae rai ane mane er Pe es ed that belongs to a woman? Why, the rottenness of the spumeber rood "'You're—you're a robber!” faltered Sam Fagan and the mysteriously the beach. There, she hurried along, “Our only clue when you and I were looking over wherelt Smiling, Bama pagan had Spar Rita aacwilen oh raul m whoa were quite wiped from tn enaroh ot some place deaolate Hest em 8 eere, ots er « coat este) a we a chosen » gettle do’ to e oO erled Sum, no rf My ‘oom enough for her pur 0. po ie Tame pieek venga AIR alr i was a squalid district, and fended. “Not I'm a respectable, WILL BE PUBLISHED SATURDAY, JAN. 22 . . . . Romo distance heyend, the emooth Citele en the back of her hana’ ould hardly : botto fon a streot that served as one Uf reformed, hard-working man. Ask Sam, meantime, Bla Qrofessionally beach @ we wey to @ rocky point, at (To Be Continued.) ‘