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The Evening World Daily Magazine, Monday. Aprii The Day of Rest Butty! ters ; ‘ { as 1 CAN'T RUSH | WE\EE. Ehucre WHEN IAN SHAVING MAKE If you should find a scrap of amber in a snowdrift— And if you should find it was the clue to a terrible secret You would find yourself in the same odd position as the heroine of RTA eign, The Mystery Romance of ICANT Do | | A THING WITH | CATCH THE 10,30, A Sealed Box and a Strange Heritage | TRAIN To RESTVILU : Ay Aal y| RAAAAAL POP ALR AP ADR AAADRAAAAL € NX AIR To DAY/] | T T . ei , FARM Aud HAVE |TMiss THE] ) WE'LL TAKE THE RUSH SO THAT “Gaaiere | H E S E C R E By W. B. M. Ferguson; THE WHOLE DAY SHANPoo | 10.30 THE 110'c TRaw [JIPO'C | | I cur Mysece TRAIN TRAIN KN SBRASING: JOHN 3) Saree: IN THE COUNTRY BB RRR RR GARB RAR RM RRNA RAM AIR AR AUR OMATAIROY > (Coprright, 1914, by Street & Smith) CHAPTER I. Two Sides of the Eternal Triangle. A RNOLD HASTINGS, a roll of blue prints under his arm, hurried IN THE SNOW By MILDRED VAN INWEGEN Next Week’s Complete Novel in The Evening World This is not quite like any other “love-and-mystery” story you have read. It is more than worth your while to read it. into the general office of thedrafting room. It was late, the ele- U vator had stopped running, and janitor and charwomen had ap- Peared in the halls, Hastings had thought himself the sole remaining representative of the Empire Construction Company until, entering the general office, he saw Miss ‘Willoughby at the filing cabinet still busy with the day's correspondence, She ‘was @ quiet girl with a gift for minding her own business and getting through an enormous amount of routine without apparent effort. John Marsland, the company’s president, and a human dynamo himself, had the knack of getting he had learned what a great and pany It looked naturally if, to noble man that father had been. in him, it was but a drop in the bucket. st, Arnold Haatings had been At al events, whether from natural ared in the pringiple that he must reticence, the wrong kind of pride, ive to be just such another mag or sheer thoughtiessness—perbaps a fee most work out of the machine, and ho had not neglected this important - a ea inte ae Ahly Sar a eH ete ahaaua. Gere te eae 0g; important because Nan Willoughby as stenographer and confidential ,, GWE NEA HURRY UP gone, and Dorothy, her father, Hast. invested on his advice comprised halt seoretary earned double her salary, For being only a woman ehe was privi-| | WE LL 1 CAN'T. GETA 1 BRoKe , ings, and Mrs, Prothoroe tad res Ms total inheritance. leged to do a man's work without receiving a man’s pay. NEVER HELP It Move MY NEEDLE AND WE HAVE ONLY turned to the big dining room, the Now for the first time Hastings wie CATCH ) ' ON You SHOE LACES THREAD . ~ TEN MINUTES men to finish their cigars and pars Tealized fully this totally erroneous To the perfunctory and superficial _ . THAT | LOST MY AND LETS 1 RUSTED a TS CATCH take of a “nighteap,.” an article which conception of his financial standing observer there was nothing remotely tion. We can’t afford to have you on i le - \ JOHN BuTTo Marsland could manufacture with ad- held by the Marsiands, and hastened atriking about Iittle Miss Willoughby; te ick, lst" Of late he had begun to 30 /) COLLAR > ed ue u N Preece! THE mirable «kill and versatility, He was to rectify Me not having the slightest * speak of the firm “we, T : Jao master of the chafing dish, suspicion it was anv consequence. Hastings, with another face con- Miss Willoughby smiled brightly TRAN / (BUTTON TW ) | \12 30 “Dorathy was a remarkably pretty. "No." he sald, turning to Mrs. Pre- etantly in his thoughts, would have again. “Good night, Mr. Hastings.” — 12 o'c “! ( TRAIN leirl of twenty with euperb curves (heros, “It won't be anything like that. mid, if asked, that he did not think , But when the door closed she stood S ¢ Jand glorious flesh tints, She owned YOU see, on iny mother's death, I eame 4 for a long moment staring apatheti- a “TRAIN / m ‘ 4 into all there was to inherit—ebout her even pretty, Asa matter of facts caity at nothing in particular, and now ? aa?” Lee REGATTA TuAtCe headed, fits se bUMnted.” Rowever, he had never considered the eyen John Marsland would not have! o 5 Folk CE uanons povtang mouth handed here followed @ sudden alleges matter, never thought of the girl as failed to notice how white and hag- | iy be i Dore ; Which Hastings quite failed to inter- other than a cog in the office ma- &4fd his secrotary looked, | é | anatre, Protheroe was Dorothyeaunt: oret, He had taken rather much to Hastings, in the same bu | " [she was an unwieldy, amiable body ; “a bi there when, stings, oyant hu 3: 4 dmirable digesti pp. “Fink, and was incapable of acute ob- chinery. She had been ther °® mor, eave ‘halt a dollar to the char-| - with an admirable, digestion—rener- Sirvation. “Dorothy Was staring at fresh from college #ix months or so woman he passed in the hall, and, on| ’ ally overtazed—and an arch manner tim @ purple grape halt way to her previously, he had entered the em- reaching the a mechanically | = j bere! ntly triumphant despite her crimson mouth Mrs. Protheroe had ployment of the Empire Company, accepted the evening paper from his 4 J po) years, Hastings wns great Savor, choked on a piece of sttiton, and Mare= And, no doubt, she would still be favorite boy, parted with a quarter,| Af +s eo with ers and alo often aad tf land was examining attentively the there, fading and paling with the and told him to keep the change. | |ehe were twenty yours younger Doros uot nly excollont olaat, passing years and deadly” routine, — ‘The uptown express was villainous. Ss [thy Would Baye te trerce vivane aMRy thousand!” as lends baat When ho was head of the firm and ly crowded as usual, and, as he ; [fival, Bhe had the Protheroe vivage oul iuite. wrotheaoe Beane beael eon h ntry. wedged his way into ‘the ar, ity of manner, tog - He nett a Gtamtings was but twen- he came face % face with anowes | } {pouting mouth, and In her tmmediate from the cheese, “On, T age. But I had fycone and that age seldom errs on straphanger, a ragged young man / Vicinity there was generally a subtie, ne ve thoustt Arnold, dewey beam the side of modesty. Indeed his pros~ Sat pales A ingged oan yellow shai, jhaunting aroma eraey, real oan eortunte én yom Gar eee + and pale-blue eyes. ‘This wae Adolp! ot Amontillado and on, om fe © fro} de pects warranted his ambitious day jl Pie aw Mote ages oF - r r 5 % SX Ibination o hich sho was inordi- . “I did,” said Hastings quite cheer- Ereama and aublime self-confidence. | Neresirom. & flow employee. tte) [We cy Neve) ) LGN TAIND |) HURRY UP THANE FINE I LET'S ) NE Seco ))) Wesvoue || UBinatoa nok was fully and innocently. 't haven't pay: Other than the stereotyper stings Hastings’ senior by at least a dozen | |QET THAT / 7 JOHN, Lost HURRY AND FAULT FAULT to the impartial observer ether fortune—until the — Sterling morning” and Mal ba So age years, looking more youthful t 1 3 CLEAN GLOVES! Jor WE'LL 1 AY CATCH THE “ou ARE “YoU ARE | there was something about the Mara. Mines Company cuts a melon,” turn- > * hardly ates with tine Willoughby, NS, As With all hiv employees 1eo¢ /( MISS THE CANE ) / S which might possibly have hint- 18 with a wholly Ingenuous smtly ay dose: — astings epted-—Mar: \ ta certain grosaness and mater- Marsland. “t hope," he added, 177 gg ular manner, quite une of the look dawning in. th 6 NEXT TRAIN Lens ‘and now it came a® rather a surprise 1 \° 08s © to find himself observing her With @9 fergstrom, using him both in real Almost personal interest; as a hu- deals and in’ superintending man being and fellow worker, He truction work noticed that, nding under the ‘ompany spect green-shaded swinging are light, 8h® buying the land on which it subs Jooked very white and tired, and it quently built, and Be oceurred to him for the first time porn judge of values, that she had extremely pretty hairs land's tutelage he ind got the “TRAIN \ Inbor out of Adolph DRESSING L N Sty IG i, this suegestion even including same Jc INGS Jorathy herself, Heautiful as the scious ) sa | | proverbial picture, slender and syiph- amiable Mrs, Protheroe’s eyos, Doro ike though she waa, she had the thy's set lps, and Marsiand’s sudden (ene ot nev finmediato relatives, and #bstraction, “no ono has been taking 4 t Impartial observer might have ™@ for a millionaire, for I'm sure I teen pardoned in-promixing that in Rever meant to give that impreaston.” due course sho would loom up in- | Another Interesting silence followed SO SLOW ALWAYS a) ; asa oc. Which, again, Hastings quite fatled to : va ite worthy that a = thorough —n prehensive “> evitably into the 200-pound class oc : POAy hes AEUre was Quire Mond that Knowledge ot Noe org ubrenensive / Cited with auch distinction by her !nlerpret, And at this point the maid much abused word svelte, a New York realty entered and announced tho if it was | Hasuuea how er, like every young Quite convenient, Mr. Bergstrom man in love, was far from being an Would like to avo Mr. Marsland for « wartial observer; one cannot have Moment. } paners curves and glorious flesh tints — However, of late Mr. Bergstrom's without good health, and good health & a had been at a discount with . outa a rood appetite and digestion, Dorothy and her amiable aunt, they Dorothy had simply the normal relish Now seemed to welcome this inter- for food owned by every healthy, red- ruption. Even Mr, Marsiand loo! blooded young antmal; Ne had never relleved, 5 noticed that she could absorb twice as | Mra, Protheroe took command of much foodstuffs as himself, nor that, the sltuation, conducting it with ad- in aeneral, her tastes were not his, | mirable” finesse, “John.” she said anil Feothy was talkipg, her ripe ips peremptortly, addressing her brother- Ss Ferry ag teeth busy with a huge in-law, "Mr. Berestrom wouldn't call { purple grape, “Oh, you must tell us at this hour unless on a matter of be attributed toWwM LT ved there for twenty hope you'll have a pleasant evening. dinner engagement, and the other often taken it from the a wll about it!" she was exclalming im- urgent business, Show him in here tb Dorothy’ Marmang aes yearn? Renlenvarinare wean’ passed into his own apartment. ainined its exterior minutely, a prey J ortunately to her fiance. She pouted You men will want to talk business. Indeed,” said Hastings, with an He nodded and smiled—his wintr: Mr. Graves was debonair and dap- to inemory and emotion, Now, after Pty Gout wee why you and wo'll leave you in_ undisputed tings had found Bergstrom , “roused interest { was born in Chi- mechanical smile—as he left the « a man of the average height who eying it a long moment, he returned fiver told me before. possession of the Meld. Come, Doro- and holding open the drawer of — From the first there had bi ittie fhe Ming cabinet looked curiously love lost between Be Teatro aaa small and white, And for the first Hastings, though neither had shown time aly he found himaelé wonder the other anything but the. utmost ing what this girl's other life might courtesy, Bergstrom heing by fur the ber her real life, not that of cog in better dissembler, “Hastings knew he : had supplanted the oth 6 business machin ie other in) Mars- Ln h5 doubt this new perception was land's that Thefore "hes ho i ely to his own mental condi- come he latter and fir dca enti Te de ie ‘and ment with the Empire. Cou rousing satisfaction with life in gen- Rergstrom had been the “white / tirwreh the world; he haired boy” and the president's favo: eral, All was well with the word: o° ite, Indeed he wis still the others right-hand man but the social young man hat lo w was no longer merely in love, but one w was returned, T ever, and he w INQ \and low, to share bis ne |) ‘pineas. “He w with the in a business sen. endily, a gh -tound hap. in the mood to talk and ex- ran, and give his overcoat t first importunate frequent visitor at the Mfg () ago myself, and lived there until T Wore nose glasses, dressed carefully i to the desk, and locked the drawer. "SS i “Mastings paused. Strange thy, my dea t beggar. Joy had made him kin with home, and had won out in the ancy was about six years of age CHAPTER II in the latest fashion, and with the Shortly afterward he was speeding 1. had never thought of mentioning it Ffaatings protested; Mareland tov the world, and he had sympathy and fight’ for Dorothy's favor: a. figlt Bergstrom raised his flaxen brows: . utmost good taste; @ man with an af- uptown ina taxl, the future stretching "PA NEYt protested, evidently undesirous of be understanding for all. » lexs Intense if conducted un. “You don't say? Let me see, Hast- The Ladder of Success. fected lisp, dvawling voice, and tired out before him in one Jong golden ‘uyey Gina, sald) Marsland ing left alone with Hastings, It was Therefore, instead of seizing hat er, Has Shad nothing with ings. Hastings Is your father in STINGS ly v+. blue eyes. Sometimes he looked Viste Like the lights of Broadway, , acdressing his daugt all in vain, however. Smiling a 4 coat, and mumbling the eal reproach himself; Bergstr the packing business? Brown, Hart BASTINGS lived in an apa young as the morning, sometimes old + he thought, no young man was n Who's been engi laughing. Mrs. Protheroe made rtunctory and ab ninded “Good had been no more an accepted # & Hastings? ment house off Broadway, ay the longest midwinter night. Whe ¥ placed as he; the ate en ve or wo can't tell hie ft cacape with Dorothy before either might,” he quite startled little Miss M Nt Py ee ye had consider- No my parents are dead. My fa- and in the upper forties, a fortnight previously the tena p> ee ye a girl ne oro everything.” ian knew quite what had happened Willoughby by rem suddenly? (ft fair field and no favor ther, I belleve, was connected with The building was old and posite Hastings had moved out, pre- } anc proupective son-in- VST ou two wouldn't interrupt Hastings was nonplussed and resent- “You look awfully tir Why don't | since the advent of Hastings, the pnd National Hank, of Chi- ; sumably ina fit of anger against the J hu man as her father, He or Houted Mra. Protheroe, pouring « ful, Why should Mra. Protheroe you take a day off whatever favor Adolph Rergstrom had cago belonged to the Vanderalice procraxtinations of Messrs, Partridge @xPerioneed renewed sympathy for A eiton OL GhaITy, “Lia very Muon Cheoke to think he wowld farmer be She turned and stared at him in ene in Dorothy Marsland's eyes ‘The flaxen brows went up again, esta 1 ancient and one-time flo & Stone, Mr. Graves taken over A¢ pr Hergetrom, Nan Willoughby ‘iierested, Arnold, dear, What is it present at a business discussion—-ho allance a mom oo surprised Stdily diininished and finally his time higher. “You don't say? jsning Knickerbocker family, now run the unexpired lease, becoming “hd ail the other less fortunate mem= Vis Were waving?” typo had nothing to-do with the Km roneak. He found ished, and he was relegat 1 This is certainly # coincidence. WhY, 15 seq chiefly through the profiiga- Hastings's opposite neighbor, it, was bore Of ie BU RenE: human fe ily, Tastings roused himself, “I was pire Company's fnances—than spend- olf reflecting, were remarkably nice, 7 ss position of family friend, almost the first job | got was runner von oe natural they should come to know }nG. Del pale JAA akg Nat be gaying that just before my mother tng his usual hour alone with Doro, pend sneer R shed, he thought what efore Hastings had never any for the Second National. But {don't cles of ita sole remaining repre- tach other, and, from a casual morn. ad ever dono to dexerve such #U- tied whe left something for me, care thy? ey oe crtul improvement color Jen use to dislike the other; the remember any one by the name of sentative. ing or evening greeting, became grad- }reme happiness and good fortune, oe tne bank, which | wasn't to open — "| apologize for the lateness of this to some faces, He had never imag. (lslike was instinctive, and persisted Hastings.” Hastings had ocoupted the same ually better acquainted, ‘The short. 1{* stood high on the ladder of suc- itil T came of age, L was explaining visit, Mr. Marsland,” said Beri ined she could look so pretty. n epite of the sympathy which a suc- “Probably it was before your time, first-floor apartment ever since, a4 i comings of the Gotham, its agents °C to Dorothy that as to-morrow !® my atrom, entering the room, “but TI um "Oh, 1 don't need a holiday, thank Syeeil rival can feel for another, My futher died fifteen years ago.” | lad of six, coming from Chicago WIth ang owners, proved a never-falling <n twenty-first birthday I brought this derstood you would be up late, ant you,” ‘she smiled, “Mond parent utter unreasonablencss Fift years? You don't say? his mother, In tt his mother had died, topig of conversation which led to CHAPTER U1, package from the bank"—— Go ventured to call on a matter of first of the mo is al antipathy ve: him and he Why, lL was with the Second National “nd from it she had been buried. Put- others. What Hi d he “You'll be twenty-one in an hour," considerable importance.” day, but I've been no re and spasmodi rts to then! Fanny L don't remember your tng up with many A havadvasioner however dnnthe hat Happened at the Marse jpyrerrupted hin tlancee, glancing at ffaytinga, commdering himself ds Mr. Marsiand, or any one el es for Hastings’s whole na- father: can't place him at all, Tecan Hastings kept ren: the J ripening aintance had been con-- lands’. the ormulu clock, “Why didn't you trop, was about to leave the roo wey Marsland’s a tremendous sure w agra pettiness “8 preJu- name nearly every member of tho ren a Pg ene te exe UP ducted by Mr. Graves, for Hastings HD ttle, int ea bring it with you and open it here? when Bergstrom interposed ‘ Be r—a wonderful man in DERACH IDE HIdR an ene ABs latatt he pr ¢ down, What fis DI ne aeee coke charactee WAS not one who made friends eus- te, Informal dinner jin just dying to know what's in It ked pate and very determined, a ay,” said Hastings, with an ing underhand de r your ft tions it had for him, | The char Her aGa Heian boen vache taitavar: party at the Marslands' in Are you sure you didn't take just ou had appeared on the proprietary enthu A ae th srefore, had he consulted know,” Hastings, pf the ne LB ee Li ably impressed by the other's affect- honor of Dorothy’a en- penp inal yNOWs own Up” loan Tt ee ate: Ha ne anid Ubat reason he's apt to spare is own pleasure, Hastings would, on shortly, resenting the cross-examinas pers. due A ppl ed lisp) and almost foppishness of wagement was a distinct astings shook his head jon't | “Don't gd. Mr, Hus ; ee no more than himself, He finding himself face to face with tion, and half regretting he had been brought many changes in t dress, It was impossible, however, to f . you understand 1 promised my “My bustiess | cone you, This { mod 1 in contrast to ens, as indeed jt could ¢ ff mine ian't an acciden rean to be @ grinder Hergstrom, have promptly sought an- yo personal. “1 belleve he waa first Cf modern dwellings, in contrast to ya out against Mr. Graves's friend- 4 mother not to? [ wouldn't open it a vistt of nm he atten aid ie Miss Willoughby greeted this quick other car; instead, he stood his which, the “Gotham,” as Hastings'® ines and Hastings soon revised " when every one was in fraction of a second before I was what I have to say in better eatd in defense with an understanding smile, sround, doggedly determined to make hook von, “partinent house was called, appeared ompletely his first superficial eatt- Completo accord, and her father did twenty-one." the presence, o! oh ' ’ peret that this young another effort at finding some LN ata iy) Pia r all the more obsolete and out of place, ©) his neighbor's the honors, For if there . « “Quite right, my boy," said Mars- and Yourself, ( for iL was no ey a « muasalh thin paloeved > no” he sald y t nber “in the way of repairs tt was dim. ™ RlpR BF ry a Nghbor’s character. the honors, For if there was one ihlae land approvingly. “A promise to the _ Maraland looked Mis astoniy ¢ employ Was privileged above ail L ae a * ihe tirst cushter very well; his né ° to z out of the ne first thing thats k him on that rising capitalist did better than lind appre Mees Ste binding WH ngs could do n rere and Be pe EE ld poe Hergatrom s is a1 potite Was Robert Forbes. He'd been With agents, ‘Partridge & Stone, MOre caret Ieee ee te str, another tt was the “honors.” Pitcee tanah lets igi aliabagindat YC Pras ane COMPANY, DeRnite tie Brew e made Pein ne them f are, and left some time who invariably promised much and most disixuring width beiwean a Job; Marsland H “Ot courne Y “ “Mr, Marsland.” continus ; rity in years, the President and &feeting, made room for Hastings be- : 7 ns omoted i Pincus aby) tired blue eyes; also that at Joh; Marsland was lar compla- "Of course, Arnold, dear,” chimed ym,“ » you won't think I'v Renad Recome very intimate, It was side him, and they fell into a desul~ jf se Sale Cine ree perrorees arse Tees aot nee rested, the afer cont and imposing with a simpie, di- In Mrs, Prothoroe. “You ‘are quite strom, “I hope you won't mull ty: known, also, as such things become tory conversation, chiefly “shop” talk, ie", ‘trat caghier yet. ‘There were no sult: however, for they could te and that, apparently, fect munuer, and an honest biue eye, right. You promised your ear ass friend of the family I consider known, that Hastings was wealthy for Herxstrom thought in dollars and oti ini. by the name of Hastings, Yonintatee Me toes arold the bine eyes were in no need of the ‘There was something iu his look rein- mother, and you mustn't open tt a { aoning but my duty to put vou in in bis own right, by no means de- cents, and tt was diMcult for one ty Tsistinis Dy the Huse of iva nderelice, and this gentleman @P- nose glasses and could, on occasion, |uscent of tho fidelity and honesty ot second ‘soon Pomsesuion of. certain information pendent on his salary, Those who discover what other interest he had ! T Te meres with vou. Your Parently considered anything but the joo far from sleepy. ‘Then he be: 4 hound dog, and wien John Mars- Dorothy laughed, and shrugged ber Concerning Mr. Hastings, secing he Were supposed to know said he was !f life, 1 can hardly Saree w aye y SOUP moa presst repairs @ sheer Wast® canis aware that Mr. Graves wan /and said such a thing was thus or so, plump shoulde “You men bAV® has refused to do xo himself. 1 think worth half a million at Jeast And an they talked, Hastings kept Memory can't be #o good as ¥Ou of good mone: lg Possessed of a very keen and profound 4d backed it up with w look from such a funny idea of honor, 1 don't y he right to know t nes oy complaint to make, Me, searching an nd in vain for logi- See to think, for my father w Hastings had come to the end of Mis reticence and a surprising fund of his honest blue eye, nony but # sea what an hour's difference could F anmed name: thn Hastings,” anid tho girl, cal disliking the man; Cashier at the period ment patience, was tired of putting up with Cyd seeing of information gained Pharisees would have thought of poastbly make. I must say, Arnold, nd that hie ‘A drawer in the cabinet stuck and there existed no reasons but purely "OM nar sald, Bergatrom, jiaal InaumMotont heat and bad hall sorvice, presumably for the most part by pers Guestioning hie word, Indeed, during 1 adinire your total lack of inquisl- pepe . 0 help ; their hands physical and irrelevant ones. He ¢ and Ww lea, Miho ASE ee ee sonal experlence NX coinparatively short and suvcess- tiveness; [ don't sea how you could exclaim Bios inadvorts er cillmeainetial pitea herald: dar lier tere intakes, Me, Heeling a ROGSTDAIG BAG AFD REMGOG. JADA © rng east intapeat: Wir ih ful New Nork business career, Mara- joey from opening it for tive long Marsland white Hastinis , ne ars val it was the nd Na> and had at last decided deflnitely to (man began ane ned a reputat 0 o. UBh! ihe are lden 68 al per e SH ar rhc T awitt flusii overspread her fac then eyes: they were snall, clon fometh seck new quarters when his lease ex. aM altogether different way, 4 foneay ane dale aeetinas ane oven en mein AR cheer Teo tine eka : he paled as quickly nd turned and dom looked one fair in’ the ‘ th Hecond National!” re- pired at th Ph iat when it developed that this next F umong those busine Ay who; ee Lins 4 1 igual Or a pe vord I f another fa of did he like a pal ‘ he > rived a « n hoes Sia 4 ny th ines s know Td have opened it the first "f ean prove every word Seeey. HAstinign Toad this as another Moco, Sct did ho like & pale, torted Hastings, raising lis voice and Ttis mother, on her death five years nelehbor played chess, the budding yusily or otherwis: the Mme Anew f0 6 wdded | eres! calmly, his Mime. 06 DOTYOWA OXHSUEION vs the Barestee eee ie eet angered by the other's calin persixt= before, had left him fifty thousand in friendship suddenty flowered Dire company of unethical methods, “Myra Protherce beamed on Hastings fves cold and malicious, He Fou really must take a holiday,” fhe Bergstrom none Nor the blunt cnoy. ‘i'm making no mistake at all! Cents: hilt of this Hastings had played, and not the accusation was alWuys leveled as a. Pe ee ee Meda ee long blunt finger at hia riva MA ureed with the utmost concern, Ungere® somewhat reddish hands ‘| think J should know what position he Sterling Mines without honor, on bis college team, Solomon Muller, the virtual ewner, ** 22 Arnold, roy deat, Pethink father was Robert Forbes, cashie fAad you should have an assistant, (ha spe 4 fa LUT Rat my father occupied, for af I've no mpany, an investment whieh paid and rather prided himself on bis And there were 1 those ow i a wHaterin it cantt won? te. Chie nd Notional. I'm sure you do the work of two about with maddening activity. Child- ie col tecollection of it, I'm 6uTe 10 per cont. and promised $0 more. gama, but the first session with Mr. thought it Bm OAD Uke LOUGeD. RUM YR an tye a, tan: Seare defaulted wit dinary men. I'll speak to Mr, Mars- ish reasons these, and yet Hastings Parone! recollection He rather ded himself on ¢ Graves convinced him that not 0} Marsiand become asso. Wha HH YOUN IAD Com tO seventy-five thous dollars, fled to land about tt to-morrow.” tind it impossible to conquer them, | Heard tain atmos financial coup; of course. wor ved i much to learn about the Clated with Mulles, a Prussian dew on Shae f Turope, and proba t “Please, don't, Mr. Hastings.” She vo hoard of your engagement, vival, and that was fifteen years knew nothing of business, and where game, but much he Who had kraduated from the clothing Wtitance? I he was f mucht, You know ol Igoked distressed. “He'll think I've feetinen’” Wereerom we 7 og." for yeara his mother had been con. to acquire, Almost aren of Hents iy a MH this far better than 1. You know complaining, I'm not over- Tae mot the last te offer cone . Bergstrom amiled, shrugged, and tent with her two thousand a vear ne daraland hag led ov . ' your father way a notorious thlef wee ea Interrupted Hast- gratulations, Charming. girl, Mins deftly SE ee Te rt cae ee em Sounies the taneime pend hed guiiad man with Iden «which, unknown ifficient reasons of your dwn dd be happy. "Mr. Marsiand low in the world,” f tion, and quite Dursuinie atepa overtook hink ing rooms, somet minut rietly for agitated, turned his honest blue eyes oe first. to recognize it;_he Hastings knew that Borgstrom had N SFIAnOL oF REC Uner Srna ee GU DUPED MADR Over Oe ee te Conieee tor modern woman needs, a plan from Rergstrom to Hastings, and too busy to notice, that’s all, Some- no intention of implying that he was ing of Dorothy Marsland and of- He turned and, recognizins: the « progressed thu which was proving 4 pronounced ! ° no. You know, a4 hack again, aparently at loss body should bring such matters to the best follow in the world: rather, toring congratulations, amtied a genuine welcome. “Oh, In what manner Mr Graves success. r sit hem that has, tings glowered at his accuser his attention, and I'm the most logi- perhaps, the opposite, What Dorothy tin wan irritated at deing hello, Mr. Graven. I didn't know you haa tings had Hastings’ regard for Marsland & 7 8 . ther you're drunk or craay he cal one. nu eae,” he finished in a Marsland deserved and what she got 4 into showing a display of tem- were behind me, Why didn't you " 7 ya nae amounted ¢ ve tion, and he |" Bxa na Harsiand q xclaimed, with an attempt at com co, 'm were two different propositions, “4 : rial 4 white out” nor ve. thought that, lac ea hi that ha a very 1UCkY posure, “Perhaps both. It's the most fpaapae burst. of contaeiee om a Jergatrom pointed to the paper he Pcr over vo trivia’ @ matter, while sing ow rule ' fellow H you're the plackguardly drivel Tever heard. It's ry Mr. Marsland’s daugh- — Bergstro! ed to the pape ergetrom, as usual, had remain Wh fouid of Aisturbinn: your meditas cel nesulaely unat hlackguardly dr yer hear we held when the conversation promised gure and unruffied. MoAb varied An rere let nee ining KUCH i hihi en rt that ed with money. so toollsh needn't attempt to answ Nan Willoughby turned away sharp- to die a natural death. | “Have you “siy the way, Mr. Hastings,” said ouliar, pronoynced lisp. “Tl never dis. a fatheretnele 1 You know ot the {y_08, ,Brove Your, statements tha ly, and closed the drawer of the fillng seen this about them finding a lot of pergsirom at length, “if you've neth- turh a mon when he's Minking; | t f hin umiversal § The Ma f idlotio Nes they are eiapet, bonos in tho cellar of a Chicago ing potter to do to-night I'd like to telligent thought and meditation are for had Dorothy's fat extent of Ma ‘ielat= “Tergstrom smiled eollly don't ‘1 wish you every happiness, Mr. house? have a word or two with you in pri- all too rare these d or xeoundrel he was carol ney mats Jowe your temper, Mr. Forbes, thous! Hastings,” she said at length in alow Hastings nodded. He had seen the yate Hastings laughed as they entered it weamed as ff no ed and married the daughte tors, extravag , and lived T suppose ft's only natural you should Voice. “I know you Will be very, very sensational account; but, as a newly “Hastings looked up from his paper. the house. "I'm afraid my thoughts portant function could be considered fur But Dorothy far beyond his be Bon the foot your position. Tf beg to remind happy. engaged young man, his thoughts “1m gorry, I'm dining with the Mars- were neithor intelligent nor profound, a sieceas without tha presenca of poet be the sink W inless remaining principal left of bis in you, however, It's of your own mak oPhank you," he replied, putting on weren't running precisely on skele- jands,' I'm not gifted like you tn that direc. Mr. Graves father 1 was; that Veritance after investing ti Sterling ing. Tf you'd been capable of taking rn his overcoat and rather wondering tons, and he lacked a taste for the Th: white dimple reappeared tion,” Or ernp ae Rte , plo a 1 gic of Mines Company.” Tt is surprisingly the honorable, upright course witi \ what had induced him to speak of his gruesome, as Rerg d. "All right; an “The sum of earthly intelligence entered , . wy to tutre a rey on fc Mars! and had assumed. ay recent engagement. "Good night, Miss — Bergstrom, however, appeared to oiner t doesn't te in games." repited the other 1 Hist b ith, and Hastings fad done 80 name to which you've absoli no me Willoughby. Er—are you coming my find an unwholesome pleasure in the "What f n't you spoak to with a amile y about to-night? aqua > ive eredity. We r Marsl merely knew git, if you'd admitted that way?” article. “Promises to be another me now? I think Tean show von that bishop to 1, tle had brow 1 fo a « , inherited « fortune from + was tho notorious thief “No, thank you, I'l be half an hour mystery like the Doctor Crippen Bergstrom shook his head; he king’a second ta the only winning day from his bar " , ne futhe {wien Hastings ¢ Hastings approached the other, ao yet.” case,” he remarked with evident sat- Jooked as if arriving at a sudden de- counter-attack against. the Muzio , Alain for brief a time y fully, and “without a moment's bh Wrought up that he felt he must either “Well, good night. I'll speak to Mr. Isfaction. “It says the bones are very cision. “No, 1 haven't time. Here's my samblt.” years, and, since eom!n rest, most intimate companion of tat paid $25,000 cash for ins cry of fght 4 Mareland, end you must take a vaca- old, You know Chicago is my home station. Good night, Mr. Tbgatings; Hastings esplained that he nad @ into his personal possession, he had bis childhood. And from his mother \oamuet the § w Mines Com- (To Be Continued), ’ 4 ‘ ‘ \