The evening world. Newspaper, June 1, 1916, Page 14

THE EVENING WHO'S GUILT’ OBHOHOOGOHHHGHHH BBODOODIDDHHHGHDHGIOHHHDEDHDHOHDHOHOODSEDONOSHOOO HOODOO. he returned, life- his broad-brimmed hat on @ peg and slumped into the “And we'll be lucky if we get any more dinners at ail.” “What's the matter?” tled by his weary hope- “I know it isn Jossly, as he thre pearest chair. Story No. 5 SOLD OUT she asked, with @ mirthless laugh, The fifth of a series of separate stories dealing with the commission of crimes inviting judgment upon both actual guilt and real responsibility. We're broke!" can on the ea e gold is there. ) We've got I'd stake my life And with capital may lie only we could get to it one day's work further Into the rock a year's work further My cosh has sk for credit, for by Mrs, Wilken Woodrow, But it's beyond us LA AUSTIN, during her twenty-two sheltered years as a well-to do man’s daughter, had never known an un) and “struggle” were mere T'v@ got none Uiat carted no real That winds up t And I'l have just enough east to meet the pay roll, “And after that row's our last day Perhaps that was why she refused Halsey Brent and accepted Tom Car ter. Brent was rich and was growing richer day by day, fag engineer, boundiessiy rich in energy and hope everything else. Mrs. Austin spent long and profitiess hours in pointing out to Leila the ‘advantages of marrying Brent and the hardships she must face as the wife of @ man ‘who stil! had his way to make. Leila listened patiently—and married Tom Carter, Her father's wedding gift to Leila was a than Tom Carter had'saved in all his hard-working life. over to her husband and, with it Oregon gold mine. ‘This investment was not 4s rash as Loila’s parents and ‘The mine was one which Tom himself had belped to develop and in which he bad boundless faith. he was able to buy in the bulk of its stock at a moment ‘hen the original Promoters were bard Carter was a min- and all but bankrupt in asked Laila, wip nds on her apron turning away from the tub. “After that?" “After that I'll try to borrow cash to get us East and hustle around for a new job at $35 a week" Something in tho overwrought g: brain seemed was the end of the golden dream! stead of returning inulti-millionaires in their own private would stink hey must start neck for $10,000, more money She indorsed it Tom bought the controlling interest in an without « penny had lived as a rich man's grees below zero; tu thaw water over @ smoky stove for cooking 4 tasteless to bend for hours over a Washtub, scrubbing oil-stained rough to sweep and scour and mend, from dawn to durk—this was no Paradise, at least ly reared girl, but # foretaste of its Brent thought. Sudden anger flared up within her. ‘I won't stand it!” she raged won't stand it!" By rare juck nothing — else “You've cheated me! You've robbed And Tom's lack of success began AE ela to get on her high-strung nerves, even as bis glumly discouraged face drew the liveliness and sparkle out of She was very tired, very disillusioned. careless ubout her own appear- nee and that of her home. hands had become red and coarsenod. So matters stood, one spring morn- long-delayed ed the cabin to Letla and wag trom Nellie Collins, the girlhood chum who had been her bridesmaid. “It's a gambie, dear,” he told Leila “But then, so is everything in life. Know the region and ‘There's a lot of pay gray rocks and it's only 4 question of time when some one will strike it I’m going out there and be my own and manager com- “bined. With the money I've laid by from my salary I can keep the pay rou going. Any day we may strike And when we do! Easy street know the mine. re under those superintendent the right vein. littie sweetheart, will look like a slum compared with our’ quarters. christen the mine, too. call it the ‘Leila A.” Lella’s eyes danced. Already she was beginning to bulld air castles as the wife of a multi-millionaire mine The naming of her honor seemed the most delicious complimeat ever paid her. Tom saw the glow in ber pretty face and he went on more soberly: It's only fair to tell you that it'll be hard sledding for a while, dear. Life out there in the wilderness is In I'l buve to work early and late und live in 4 two-rooin cabin, on bacon and beans and sour- If you come out there your life, too. dishes had not been washed and that the morning cleaning was still to be to read the lengthy and rambling letter. As she read, the gossipy scrawl of chum seemed to lift her dull routine and to waft her back to the tluft-brained of earlier days. of Nellie Collins's dally amusements and filrtations, the chat about people the letter's atmos- carclessness ‘ought back vividly to Leila the so far behind I'm going to woman out of The recital the mine in phere of ligh past that lay read slowly and with entire rambling epintle Then, at last, she came to # scribbled trate half-sheet. The postscript ran: “L hear your old sweetheart, Halsey sned up a million in Everything the rough.’ Jough bread turns to gold.” “ 1 with me, that must be ‘We won't be able to keep a servant even if we could get one in such a place. You'll own work, and”— “It will be just like one long pic- she declared. “It will be one ong period of grind- lonely drudgery, “with only our love for cach other to brighten it. you decide, you to stay here into Leila Car visions of what might have been hers, if she had not rejected this richer sweetheart She looked dully around the squalid Unwashed dishes soiled clothes tha filled washtub. Kk within be “Vl love it” lay beside the un TOM AND HIS PARTNERS STRIKE GOLD, she muttered, “Ut isn't fair!” Broodingly sho And you've t there, the letter clutched in her hands, her pretty face dark with angry discontent, aD unpald Serva despondent » easily have Wouldn't it be pinfortably and let ane wend for you when I've made my “The $10,000 my my own monuy. You cajoled mo married a man ould have lavished on her all countless little luxuries that r realized she cared for, til she bad bad to giv wove in a cottag all well enough in poetr in real life, it's tay here and let you go out there she gasped in “Why, Tom Carter, do you suppose I married you to be @ grass widow? Where you go I gv. be wonderful to have little cabin and to keep it bright and homelike for at the door for you every lo feel I'm doing my own share to- ward helping you win your We're going out And it will be honeymoon any girl ever had, it will be to look back Where is my $10,00 ve it back to me! Her busband was staring all alone?” Besides, it will our own dear » and loyal little wife in this tem- her feet and crossed the room to the roughing it, he stood in a corner, y at the unkempt mirror revealed to mere mun ay could not r past few months had nerves und good na- wreeked Let! se and went hurriedly Us outstretched. ying hysteri- hem, thrusting the letter und the . ne, his wite, bis © recoiled from him, ¢ the happiest nt back to her sk of dish washing “Don't touch me! t into your m Carter knew pitifully lt- Had he been ed he would have understood that Leila nee think how jolly Give me back the at when we're millionaires miss it for worlds. fold more irksome than ever Bb How soon can we was @ deli Sy postseript's: words | hear your old sw sey Brent, has cleaned up n another lin tseripts end. to them both. nearing the Promised Land yoo shack, u half mile trom the mine terical, unhappy wl this had changed mountains, rated words wholly unread With a will sh ing her new dutic lashing wa Leila had turned on Your mother tells me she and your father are starting from New York in a day or two to pay you a flyin: my love by “one long picni gave her an oppetite even her own firs cookery, and a Vigor that ¢ Her gingham dress So was her big husbund’s cost boots. Even the damp, black rec of the mine were a fi Yland to he Lid, foreing bhi week by week in_both bride and bridegroom. Tom's fiery enthusiasm was not proof against months of d cauragement at the mine of workers was shortened; and not a sign of the prom- ised gold was fo With dogged tolled on; working twice ax hard as any miner in his employ the bulldog determination of « be: man who will not confess defeat tonger did he feel the joy eker; but rather the spirit rainy atest an outward se bothered to sook wash overnight went on, unneeding was rank drud was bought wit het the type of man who | y Take these cortiticates will be worth their face value. , elenches his teeth and fights on. . Leila, too, was finding that ‘one may in time resemblance The tasks that had at seomed a Joke were now a dreary to Fixe in tho dark on morning whic ape. monic Tom Carter the mud on his boots blotching the none-too. wealth you were to enjoy meantime, if I can save enough « salary to pay planned that we both It'll be yours t isn't time to get dinner ready,” back the $10, ly, as she glanced a winter said Leila, defian ury was 10 de. ’ poo WORLD, THURSDAY, JUNE DOORS PDDDVOHHVODS: f Now Bein Picture PIS WIDOED “Tom!" sho wailed, all her babyish resentment dying down. “Tom! I'm sedly, “it we could get at it #0 sorry, darli Please forgive ine! “But you can't, And in the mean- 1 was just upset and nervous, Won't time you swore to cherish and pro~ you try to forget it, please? And [ tect this little girl of ours. Is it didn't mean what I said. I want you ‘cherishing and protecting’ to let her to keep the certificates, 1"— Kill herseil, slaving away as ene has Vor answer he took up the sheaf of duse in @ hole like thi Let us take papers, crossed to her dresser and her home, Care and the right sur- them Into its top drawe: roundings will work wonders for her. They are yours, Laila,” he eaid unseinsh, man! 7 “You must take them. I've put thera he can go," vouch: Tom, af- in there for you. I'm only sorry you (ef & momen yee eae neen dishonest tu: 1 BO. o lor a Viwite Puen F have Deon dishonest Coward sot ‘that by uhderstoud, As soon as “Dishonest?” she wept, her arm | get on my feet soe is to come back about his neck. “Why, Tom, you are '¢ Ine. ‘ the most honest, most honorable man Yes, indeed!” promised Se in the whole world! Oh, won't you Jghted Leila, “I'll always come bac please forgive me?” to you, Tom. Always. Whenever you He could not resist the caress, nor Send for ine fhe wold is there,” said Tom, dog- the jearsstained, appealing face. uur weeks later Tom Carter strode Clasping her close to dle heart, ho ;..¢.7un weatts later Som Carter stone Kossed the Wembliag litte mouth and cel i 6 the’ table bexged her not to ery, but to heip t, foi ; : tL, © went, as among hin bear pluckily this Ngw stroke Of goin. odds and ends, and eat down to it Tuck Write to Leila hand fuirly shook with joyful excitement as he began hig (ast-scrawled letter. “Swoetheart—my own sweetheart,” vrote, “Great news! Glorious ossed were they in their reconciiation that they did not hear a buckb d rattle up to the gate, Only « draught of outer alr told them po the cabin door had been opened. news! Wonderful news! I haven't They turned e Lelia's father and written before because I vowed I'd muther standing on the thresbhold. watt till I could send good news. Mr. Austin’s wrinkled face was You've had too much of the other alight at the joy of seeing hie only Kind frou me, child again and at witnessing her © “After you lett for New York 1 delight at her parents’ surprise visit. called the men_together and had a Kut Mre, Austin’s gaze had travelled heart-to-heart Dutch-uncle talk with pust her daughter, and she was sur- them. I told them IT hadn't a cent, veying the dingy and ill-kept rooin but that | was enough of a mining with smazed disguet. expert to know there was gold some- With « cry of welcome Leila ran where in the ‘Lella A.’ if only we forward to greet the newcomers, could blast our way through to it. I In the pleamire and excitement of asked thom to take a chance with the reunion she did not notice her me for three months, without pay, mother’s very evident repulsion at promising them double wages for the her surroundings. Not until Tom whole tims, if we should strike gold had carried Mr. Austin off to look ‘They accepted after a lot of por- at the mine did the older woman suasion. And for the past four weeks speak her mind, But then she did Worked a@ we never worked be- so. very clearly and emphatically. tore “Leila,” he began, “if I had To-day--just one hour ago—we dreained this was the way you had to blasted our way into « vein that's live I'd never have had a peaceful fairly bristling with nigh quality ore. night’s rest. From your letters Lim- It's # bonanza, sweetheart! ‘The bis- agined you were in a rose-covered gest strike of the decade vottage, with every comfort you could — “It'll be a matter of millions for us nt ‘There's no longer a shudow of doubt. “L have everything I need,” de- It's the reu thing.” ed her daughter, loyal lle wrote a doze lines more, try- You have a hundred times less ing to put into words his rapture at than any longshoreman’s wife,” posi- the discovery and his loverly eager- we tively denied Mrs, Austin, “This is Ness to see Leila again. not a cottage; it is a hovel—a squalid, Then, folding the letter, he looked miserable hovel, And after all the about for an envelope. He could find loving care we took to shield our none. His search brought him at last little girl from privation! 1 can’t te the dresser, This had been Letla's, bear to think of your living hike this.” 4nd he bad not had the heart to open “If T can bear it," returned Leila, tt since she left him. But now he with forced gayety, “you ought to be began ransacking the several drawers. able to." Ho did not find the envelope he “But can't,” retorted her Sought, but he found something else. mother, *You've lost flesh, There ure In the top drawer, among some cloth- hollows under your eyes. Your hands is, Leila had left behind in her hur- oh, your pretty little white hands-- Tled packing, he annaned upon # they’ are all red und cailoused and Pampled halt sheet of paper—tae splayed out of shape, Your shoulders Silly Postscript of Nelile Collins's let- are gett bent and—and—Leila, tet cthe postscript that told of Hal- the no use arguing, This has got *¢y Brent's good fortune to stop, T won't let you kill yourself Tom's eye was caught by the words: out here in this wilderness. You'ro ,, Your old sweetheart, Halsey coming back home with us, This Bren venicdayllt He read and re-read the whole af sawl, Long he stood there, move- empiaan Kaawad Ks No. T while the gladness and hope died oi can't, Tom needs me so! He is un. Shile the « Rd hope died out of his bronzed, unshaven face to be . @nicnaa wae, | piaced by a scowl of doubt and of Austin, “when he has a sick and help- ? , less wife on his hands. And that's 116 was roused from his gloomy what hell have, too, if you don't get reverie by tho jolting of the rural eee et Be AASther monty tee delivery bugey as it drew up at My he tll You weren't the But yy dvudgery, any more than Lelia ws built to draw a plough only bright spots in ‘Tom's Wor ‘Tom's sake as well as for your Eagorly he seized the one 4, artfu “eome back Miter the postman left for him to- for a visit. Tt will be day. Ax he looked at its superscrip ur health" tlon his expectaney turned to eluagetn the craving to ery out For the letter was not from Leila, bat Iueky and” “He will be untue thriee-a-week letters bad , \otrem her mother yor hat eval ea ees He oponed it and rend The first garment — she My Dear Tom fam writi t t Sor own responsibility and draw forth from the suis 7 wn responsibility and witho eave fo f 1 that horrible life op the origi he wilderness, ut the do Austin ¢ 1out agreos with uw “a t Hever, never go bach to it lownt Put it down, why tam writing yon vi shan't do sueh work! I T anauine thet arene 1 rer, with Mr. Austin, came ir-visit'to the mine. Mr Austin ran to her husband “L want Leila to come back with \ he exclaimed. “Help mo per ade her sether selfish Teila's welfare at t r experi- ence in the West proves how ill-iitted she iy for the brutally rougl fa poor man's wife, An: the mine has failed, you are ly poor and are likely to rem faltered Leila “Are you going to ft i will be in bed with a delicately nurtured daughte: Ro on iMness,” returned her Suaring your poverty and hardships? “if this sort of thing goes on, If you do, she will die; or at the vory Ton, can't you see how worn out and lust, sho will become an invalid laiserable she You'll let her go iro you man enough to give back with us for a visit, won't you? y wife her freedom, so that she At will do her worlds of good,” sometime be able to ma a “If I were consulted, Mr, Carter,” man who can give her the care and put in Leil father, grimly, should the luxuries she craves’ say; ‘Let her come back home with "If you truly love her—if her best 4s for good!’ As long as there was welfare means anything at all to you any hope of your mine paying it was — there can be but one reply to these ) ditferent. But the mine is a failu iM give up that “Your place dangers inother ois here, how, And 1 behind Among them these Leila’s were trying to make her for- get him and to marry her to @ richer man. aloud. than the ‘Leila A’ will make me, Nor on truckle to me find lve But iv for telegraphing. If from divorcing me for itrent, I've got to be on the ground to fight battle tered suitcase, give final aboard an hours later her fr attentions and had sought in a thou- mue quent callers, at ‘her was Halsey Brent. ing on his old-time courts any way oversteppiny the bour pleasantly formal acq contrived to muke his rc votion quite one who saw them togethe: Lella had never ic She did not love h Was not even inclined to flirt with him. But she found it mildly pleasant to be singled out for attentions by this young Napoleon of finance for whom a score of girls were angling Wherefore she allowed him to call whenever he cared very often and candy to her. i Invitations to ride in his big town car and to take tea w ever he wished ful change from mi and squalor. than her daughter, was n called, she contrive words with him in she greeted the coming here rather frequen derstand that my attord to be put } to listen to m: “I mean I want Lei! If she were happily not inter her with effusive heartiness. Ways hoped in the o would marry you. bitter blow to us both, T you bave spoken just now have. And I shall do all I help you.” brought he trying to show her how much better it Is to have al! the comforts and good things of life thun to ake. And, little by little, T think | m succeeding. There more T ¢ to-day to 1 him to set her fre Lle has good impu exclaim grateful footfall vo} side birthday 7 wiready named for 1 eant Street man. Do you could sell my shares in the ‘Lella A’ for $10,000? Th 1, 1916. PODDOOHODAHODS) An Interesting Series of Pathe Photoplays Presented at the Leading Motion heatres in Greater New York. i) DEDDOODUDDHHOHDHODHDOODHHODHHHTOODHEHOOHOHHOMHGHBOQOIOHISHDSOOODE GLE terest and (I think) ber heart dictate. “Think this over, very carefully, and let your better nature guide you.” The letter's contents seemed to burn themselves into poor ‘Tom Carter's brain in words of fire. paper into # score of fraxinents in his first outburst of indignation. Then his eye fell once more upon the post- ecript Noliie Collins had written. He tore the And at once he saw the impulse Mrs. Austin’s cruel letter, smug relatives of “A richer man!” snarled Tom, half “Halsey Brent is no richer third as 1 h, The Austins will st enouch when they truck wealth in the mine! no time for writ or even to save Leila ny own ife flung a few clothes into a bat- ‘an tu the mine to instructions and swung eastbound train. th He had counted so often on this triumphal return to New York! Yet now that the miracle had come to pass, he felt no elation. ing against the people who we to roh him of his adored wife, He felt noth- ve a burningly murderous rage trying Tom Carter's guess as to the state of affairs was amazingly near to the truth, Leila's homecoming had been as the return of a loved one who has narrowly escaped « torturing death some accident. Her parents and lends had showered her with d ways to make up to her for t she had undergone. irs. Austin bought her a bewilder- wey Deautiful quantity of clothes. er spending money beyond all Sho was made father kept her supplied with reason. everywhere and mich of. Smuli wonder that ‘ew to regard herself ae u abused heroine; 1 that the invited inage of Tom Carter sometimes grew dim an d blurred! One of Leil 's first and most fre- home, esum + or in is of nintanee, he ctful de- every With lear to her and And she to—which was She let him send flower: She accepted him when- It was alla deli Mrs. Austin, more worldly minded ve people cause for gossip about So one di when Brent s ha few hefors priva a came into the living Mr. Brent, room, she began abrupt! caller. 4 Man of the worl! you mu daughter cannot « false position in the eyes of our f is. He did not evade nor waste time in diplomatic fencing, but answered Austin, T_have always loved your daughier. You know that. 1 love her now more than ever. misunderstand me. I've spc word of this to her. And I I not i she is logally and morally free “You mean hat you?" — p be my wife aarried T should Bur 1 understa not. Tell me-if she shou 1 she , ter, would I have a chance fs " ,huve my approval und her's," replied Mr ustin We al- days that she Her cholee was a glad “Is there a chanco that she" I have been working and planning that very end ever since we home last month. I am rve for love's {sone thing n do for you—I will write om Carter and plead with for her own sake § And he fe un » right sort him d times!” her hand shly fond of her appeal may succeed w "Thank you, ten thous: 1 Brent, clasping y. Tam He checked hims If, for Leila’s light ded in the hallway out ter a few minutes of gen left the two young people her, Ncaseely hud sive the room when Le! isiy to Brent and said glad you came to-day Be nic a favor of you en thinking it You do men fayer by giv 1 talk hance to do one for you his tau reply ‘What is it Would you like Grant's tomb for a set, orto have a tier you, or" ‘whe interposed, “bul the favor to do with something that is the ‘Letla Aw ‘he asked, his brow street ned mine ding. x. You know, 1 told you the tin my name. It be m says the mine w ne day be worth 4 lot of money he can’t Work it, because he ha capital, So it's useless to us. And he has no money and no ind he is eating his heart out with’ joneliness and tppoint nt off there in the mountains," “Butt “T want to start him in something else. Somet that will bring quicker 1 give him a new ambition in life. You are Wall suppose you 's the favor I wanted I'll give the money to An put it in something Kk you n and he tremely Tom mines whose professional judgment there ¥ Such investments to Brent “PH tr fully, “Let me make inquirtes on the awaited dim. Street and call in a day or so to tell my poor want so mucii to help bim!” When he left the Austin house— after an unusually brief call—Halsey faltered, dumtounded, Brent stopped ut the nearest tele- graph office and despatched a one- of bundred-word telegraiui to an Oregon trol. imine expert with whom he had had Wive it buck! business dealings from time to time. Two do lowing telegram from thy expert: ’ “Made secret inspection of ‘Leila the trouble of a faisehood. A’ ming, pretending to be looking for ine Whuie vile trick, job as blast operator. disco} make no mistake in paying anything at tne tront door bell on the door be- urefully putting the telegram in his inner coat pocket, Brent set out for the Austin house beating faster than ever bec was a financial game ho above all else in lite--the sort Well ueserved ais reputation, that had made him a million. the first momentary snock of Letla’ denunciation his quick brain not only For $10,090 he was about to acquire Tecovered its poise, but saw a way property aire at 30, unce of one adorable gi While he waited for Lei ing r from his inner pocket. brain Were not so steady as usual, PiCys% because of the excitement that pos- bad sessed him. The check book's corner stuck in it ol With so sharp a jerk that three tered unnoticed to the floor beneath a@ tal Sitting at the table check for $10,000 t Leila Austin Carte ting $10,000 for 1 bullied and ¢ old investor into buying i nsactions certificate ign the He left her an hour later, the certj- 4Mimals, mad with blood- ates in his pocket—a thrill ot de- light surging through him at thougnt #7 blows Tom at las of the eusily aw florist’s and sent Leila a great arm 6 American beauty roses. Then, S!ught and to block or dodge tho contrary to bis custom and by way blows that wore showered upon bis celebration club for » his office a The lowers were delivered at the bexed that Austin Lella buried he: Brant them to a ser vase, The servant of flowers into the living room and set the whole fight, on the table there, As he did so one of the topheavy out of place serv: eye fell on a yellow envelope, half jy 2] hidden under one of the big carved “fill, “10Ne Pressed ‘by the victorious feet of He rea daily dustlie oa To account I just picked this up from under ting. He must Lie mpckel 1 ns to be a tele Tom!" the report the mining expert had tele raphed to Brent rafty trick pleyed by the man struck he Helieved was so dev Lifted cl Hohe | iar act, Was hurled by, mous fortune in ou mured dazediy, “He knew it! know) counter farmer! Worse Snatching up the called Halsey Brent's answered that Brent liad not yet re- turn Tell him to “He must give back the stock to had iN A TLL AT a Novelization By Mrs. Wilson W PEODOEOSHEDAM come to pass, he felt no elation. him of his adored wife. rapid Carter thinking. He knew old Tom! was an hiehly priged. If Carter said jong ume before taisey Brent's name there Was @ fortune in the “Leila A” was announced vy the every reason to believe it thougn brent bud Many @ rich k of ming had again the 11 to develop It. incssi appealed strongly dhe anoment lie mounted the of course,” he said, doubt- inw the living he result.” dg the matter? Lou look il. My heart aches at thought of boy’s unhappiness. I do interpused havsniy. ‘ut, Leila, 1” s later he rec ived the fol- ich vein has my stock.” een struck. From samples 1 ed, it promises to be biggest gold atcu oer Wrutncul demands. ry of past ten years. You will preventeg ner v0 for it eft for New York the door, Tanne the check His heart was able to make it beat. relished by any sudden emergency, worth several inillions-— ' promt by the mischance. all through the business ignor- le giri, in the liv. drew the sheag of ¢ om at the top of the front stair. pocket. | “Mut—t pulled out his check book “4.2 ; . 4 "Barn then His hand and plexed, for you. Do that yours for the asking. He drew new lining of the pocket. He pulled tumbled out with {t. Two $ fell on the table and he agtMy Ag nem Up in nervous haste, " b arms, “Just one kis he begged, et me go go!” cried L to free third yellow envelope—fiut- Brent filled in the order of He was blot- ting it as Lella herself came into the Pd tu one kiss!” laughed room. ; ‘ ; Good new " he bailed her. “I've bec uhenten are fe rene abou > your stuck ’ ‘ nd “a jvod! Good!" she exulted. ‘Thanks sped maneee ne joe of a smashing a hundred times, It"—— ne mouth ud tue very deuce of a time get- he continued. “But ‘cued 4 conservative | fet, 1 'The only ‘eked his wife's insulter, proviso he made was that his namé Leila screamed at culin't appear in the deal. He Tage~Possessed ian. ays he can't afford to get a reputa- Could Intervene Carter for ‘chasing wildeats.' So tha Were close-locked in a death grapple. to go In my name. Up and down the room k. If you'll get th Til show you bow to as- Niture, shares to me ins tiny ch reeling and wrestling—two come to him. He stopped at a Brent strove against the husband's he dropped in at his tac and body, Ktail betore returning ao wily brain was at work. ouse within a few minutes. face in their fra- the living room door. petals, then handed out into the hall—if he ant to arrange in a ter’s back to those sta mass carried the vaasefull and send him erashing So, even as he ‘battle against the contrived to back door and thence out roses was jostled nd feil to the floor. The t stooped to pick ft up. His Tom. Once on the his tactics. Wheelin looked in the vred as to brin the room, Then he stairw eis es gram, addressed to gathe Curiosity made him Kathering ‘all froin the envelope. tagonist. A ad it Leila came in. would now ‘ r his action the man edge ot the fict despateh, saying: Leila, Meepite an el the reeling bodies would permit, den peril » table. ied for the envelope--sup- had been ov was ute Bre his failing p single led her t chair w ere Mr. Brent was sit * dropped it out of she shrieked. took the sheet of paper he “Look out! Glin at she saw % Carter heard. 1 vel Leila mine Tn an- nstinctively very edge o its A eft y reading Very edge of the stair top, 4} steppe But fore she could spring force of I ty ain and agit ning to 1 it, bit by und ¢ kw y il to save hin that. he Yas paid me the her veel over the stair edge, 000, He has cheated men as a Het white ittle hands in a f v cheats i feeble-minded '/yegiin her balunoe-—and he has robbed Tom! he steep stairs has made me rob mi helpless white figure slephone, she #s#inst the newel post mine!" she my fi flex of the hallway, “She--she is stunned!" Brent, incoherently. ‘ome here at once! 1x to his office!” she minute he g looked on Y death she told Kneeling best He shall give it back nif tlercely ms} to me ugain, And f cyes softening, ftersall! Darling “No, She is dead!" cone (End of Fitth Story oodrow Tom had counted so often on his triumphal return to New York. Yet, now that it had He felt nothing save a burningly murderous rage against the people who were trying to rob Our dream is coming true authority on —vld golden dream—ins and mine!” it seemed tu Leila an unvenevably started uptowa received her vi Peacming His vluce, niga stirs unu Witu @ (onder sinile hurried room waiere Laika But at sight of the girl's set face and Uasoig eyes dis siule taded inte Mil be ever and ever so much # Jook of pussivd wonder, obliged,” answered the grateful girl. “Woat is it?" pe stauimeored, “What ‘3 splendid of you to be willing to “Here is your $40,000 check. “Take give uc Duck my siock certincates.” “The—tov stock ceruincares?” “SUL ee Vhe stock you sWingied me out * she ured, losing ber seit-con- “rhe stock you stole trom us. Give it back, | say!” ‘Here 18 the telegram you dropped,” e burried op, “lnat will save you And | want back ier voice had risen 4s 6he reiter~ from nearing @ ring s it stands. low ahd the vpening and closing ef she “And give me buck my certincate: Haisey Brent was Known in Wall mere love had Street 48 @ mun Woo never lost bis Here head and Who could not be staggered “Lil glagly give you back the stock, ne said, pleasantly, rincates from hig. you've she echoed, You must promise to muko me gloriously happy by marrying me just as (oon as We get rid of Carter nd the stock is to her as he spoke, fied girl could guess 4 caught ber In bis eal the prom. You brute! ila, struggling ‘Tom Carter, his tanned face dis- torted with fury, hud leaped into the room and witlout a word had at- sight But before and Brent combatants fought, overturning fur sainst mirror; By a series of savagely dealt shor drove quired wealth that hud Before him toward the hullway door. in vain to hold his own terrific But even in his extremity Brent's the st Al Re f stairs steep fight of stair. trom the front hall ended almost at If he could get sould get Car- airs—a sudd rally might force his enemy backward headlong down waged the unequal stronger man Brent directly toward the into the upper ,landing Brent changed & he so manoeu- ‘om's back ti just behind nim. Spee? and charged his an- backward oring Tom's feet over ose to them as and flailing arma saw her husband's sud- : springing The stains are » eluding Brent's rush it Was not so fortunate, side the tull ent's forward flung body au of her feet by the im Brent, elutehing at the b. 1f from falling, saw striking heavily at the b y fice. A clerk Of the Might, and then lying strangot still ina huddled heap on the But Tom Carter knew better, before now, the pitifully { ‘And then l'll never form and gazing down into the li ee . he groaned in dull horror: THE SIXTH EPISODE IN THE SERIAL :: “WHO’S GUILTY; Will Be Published THURSDAY, Ju Ly