The evening world. Newspaper, December 2, 1918, Page 15

How a LY. ankee Business Adventurer Met Disaster in London, Then Good Fortune (Copyright, Jno, Tane C09 CHAPTER I. nd Victor Jones of Philadelphia was seate defeated in his first really great batt T was the first of June, the loun, n hote Victor ind a Philadelphia gentleman had competed for a contract to supply the British Government with Harveyized stee) struts, bolts and girders; he had, come over to London to press the business; ne had interviewed men in brass hats, slow moving men, who had turned him over to slower moving men. The Stringer Company, for so he dubbed him sor, who had financed him for the journey, had wasted morning their tender had been rejected. self and Aaron Strin » business, dind this three weeks on t Jones had Jess than £10 in his cket and he owed fioney at the Jt and was served by the assistant ores ee , yoned on BAtkeoper With a glass of sherry, hotel, You sce he had recke Jones, turning, found himself face doing all his business in a week, and ty face with the stranger whom he if it falled—an idea which hescurcely had seen tn the lounge, the stranger 4 whose face he knew but whose name he could not remember in the least. Jones was a direcy person, used to travel and the forming of chance ac entertained—on getting beck class to the States. bie had not reck~ oned on the expenses of London, or the three weeks’ delay quaintancesitips, He did not hang Yesterday bo had sent a cable to SUR eae ere ere eh Stringer for funds, and had got 44 4 ty the lounge n sure I've inet reply: "Am waiting news of contract’ you somewhere or another, but I Stringer was that sort Of tne can't place you Jones ordered a whiskey a _—_—____ from a passing attendant CHAPTER I. think some 1 bout st HMO atranier, taking bie changes glass from the eulver when from the assistant bartendes Well dressed man of his own age ai laughed. build who had entered by the prs “Yes.” oald he, “you have from the American bar nto leading up drew his avcen me before often, I should think, Sen ase wee seemed familiar to DO You mean to say you don't know him, so much so that he started in whe Ss chalk on about to rise and ope,” eald Jones—"I'm clear out greet him, ve trange i Laoag ese med of my reckoning—are you an Ameri for a second under the same obsession, "| a but only for a second; he made a half SP ‘ stat pause and then passed on, becomin No, I'm ish,” replied the lost to sight OHO Cie. Sales eves gear tis 48 very curious, you ut the entrance, Jones leaned back gon't r me, well—well—weil in his chair. —let’s sit down and have a tall ie Cte ciattee hac ety ba sit down and have a talk, “Where on ma recollection will come to you fore?” asked he of himself. earth have [ met him? and he recog- —give it time—it is casier to think nised me—where in the—where in the sitting down than standing up.” where in the”——~ Now as Jon turned to take his He finished his whiskey and soda seat at table indicated by the and rose, and then strolled off, not stranger he noticed that the bar- heeding ‘much in what direction. Keeper and his assustant were looking Then he found bimgelf downstairs in at him as though he had suddenty the American bar, with @ champagne become an object of more than ordi- cocktail before him at Jones was an abstemlous man, as ubtlety of human facial ex- rule, but be had a highly strung pression stands unchallenged, and the nervous system and it had been faces of thi persons conveyed th: worked up. The unaccustomed whis- jmprossion to Jones that the interest key and soda had taken him in its he had suddenly evoked in thelr charge, comforting him and conduct- minds had in it a link with the hu- {ng his steps, and now the bac- morous. keeper, a cheery pervon, combined When he loo again, however, with the champagne cock the having t his seat, they were both cheeriest of drinks, so ral his washing glasses with the solemnity spirits and warmed his optimism: of undertakers, that, having finished his glass, be “1 thourht those guys were lav pushed it across the counter and ing at me,” said Jones; ns lL was 14, “Give me another” wrong. Well, now, let t to the ‘At this moment a gentleman who bottom of this tangle-¢who are you, had just entered the bar came to the counter, placed half a crown upor Pauline Furlong’s Talks. On Health and Beauty | nywuy ? ‘Just a friend the other, ‘The Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Bening World.) 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HOME PAGE Monday, December 2, 1918 However, these ‘lapses were ont momentary, and did not terfere *t holding to the eye and imagina- with the gay spirits of his companion, who having found a ‘friend in the fed Jo cs, wh breathing midst of the loneliness of Lond h closed eyelids while the ap- and his twin image in the person of P with pursed lips, dealt with that friend, was now poyridg out '"! 1 of th window hia heart on every sort ut sublect, conferred ie 1 ee ato ite Geer, ‘oe i conferred in. muted tones with som always returning, wo@ Mith tite-regus Wnseen person, and TeluMned Beating larity of @ pendulum to the mee of ta hands @ porcelain early. moe the likeness, and thé ‘same question M4 ta servi and matement ne placed t 1 the table by Whats ta ur name? Roches: peas the Jn vanished er! Well, ‘pou my. wuul thiw beats PGMs le door me ial ebb eecibcabges: rs Sat up and looked around Presently Jones foohd Himself out- 7M" Je the hotel with chis new frie H thes had disappeared. He walking in. the at Strand way ung t 1a 1 the Bed then at dinner jn a priva vat at the ¢ vis bed and, placed a French restaurant in things on a chair, but Afterward could a ‘feusers or other things were Bo rel with a stranger, about what “ere § ad been spirited could not tell, @ taxicab, in which SWAY. It wax at this moment was seated listening to Roches. | nega pus silk 8 voice giv difections tO the tHe driver, minute directions as to whete at the texture he, Jones, was to be driven. A lamp nen 1 Hash came comftortyand Ht hail, aad stairs up which le was derstanding. He was in’ Rocher being led. Nothing mo a hduse, & ter must Bave Ho awoke irom sleep ur the dark, 8°%! Nin here That ap with Nis mind clea as erystal and Patton was Roch man servant Wa the first recolieotion “7 v4 spirit to an 1, and filled that came to him, and it was @ eecol. With & warm sensation of friendliners lection tinged with evil. He felt ike (OWA the said Rochester he was a@ man who had supped with the 44, 10 the act of pouring out a cup of Led by Kocnester he bad. made a (6% When the words he bad heard fool of himself, he had made a brute SPOKEN In the passage outside came of himseli, would he face the Back to him vwotel people? And what had be done, “Took all his money, and sent him with the jast of his money home in another aps clothes.” Fheow thouguts veld on motion. What did tha . ess ter a few terrific moments He Lnisned po hhen te clapped bis nand t un- a? there ‘ fortunate head, tutned on his side,’ Vt 4 plate, out he disregardeu and day gasins into the darkness, Lt iG Whose nioney bad been taken, and had ail come back to lum clearly, Who had been sent home in another Me Was afraid to get up and search Chap's clothes? in his pockets, he guessed their con. — Did those words apply to him or to “I'll tell you my name presently, only stran leading the w Jones fol- i 5 6 S Jones dition, He occupie, el te tochester ? re heate I want you to think it out for your- lowing, slightly confused in his mind Se Teer est ee RE UAe. ERLE ight ng acpeetnig tee b want \ \ o at Would become Fob fight he, Jones, be held Talk about your and then, but full of warmth his heart, and of hun without money and with accountable mi you'll arrive Who are with a buoyancy of spirit beyond ex riande in thie wiliernese-ef Soawoen, you?" perience, warmth, the sumptu . Than Hoaneelen waver s ondon., A deep uneasiness and a passionate Jones of Philadelphia. I'm the victim Were sufficient for the moment, He RAC NKONGSS,, WAS TIC Peake OP omic Cone aueriee Groumnt Bit Out: ar eae oft a Hritish Government that doesn't sank into an easy chair and lit a bigs 1 NEE deo ih ary poping dy floor. ite came to the ow the difference between tin plate cigarette H.HARme as’ L delusion of ale And what cle nearer Window and looked ou The and Harveyized steel I'ma man on “What I have to say is this,” suid . ana Hoonester Oe He seemed mad window gave upon the Green Park, the rocks ° the stranger, leaning forward in his rhough to hive done ing, pluot a cheerful view beneath the sky of The tlood gates of his wrath were chair. “When | saw you here some JONES LOOKED IN THE MIRROR AND SAW THE STRANGER= ©'t) would he on held ac- a perfect summer's morning, He opened and everything came out, in- time ago 1 recognized you once HIS TWIN IMAGE. Peers ' Epa rity * doeds ne turned from the window, and cross ading the fact of his own desper- as a person I knew, but, as you put Was Hiehting With this question when ing the room opened the dou ate position I could not place you. Hot when "ape of head and color of eyes, the ing him explicit orders as to the a clock began to strike in the dark- wine h dened ponte Fn Bene mark of the stranger wa nee told me. You a to pr je SBCs, wry yy Ate and silvery strokes, that brought a corridor # t he hypoweun Have another nkly, my twin image Dut It Jones's voice and the! voice of the CHAPTER II. x wudden sweat upon the forehead of Apis, searetite: gorbecta nity “Not on your life,’ cried Jones. “L your pardon,” said Jones, tfanger might have been th 18 OCHBSTER, while nking 2One od all curtaind aud beneks I ought to be making tracks for the the word image shattering his com? 8 far as pitch and timbre were con: Mstees Htteease He was not in his room at the Jones judged these lampo te con somewhere to get my pass cency, “Your twin which you cerned, the only difference was in le » managed bY hotel, been no clock jn be of silver be Spheres pes xe back to the States—well—I ? the accent, and that was slight some method to keep up in the hotel bed room, and no clock in dollars He hed ee don't know, No—no more cocktails, “Image, likeness, counterpart—t “Well, Him d—d," suid Jones, gayety and in consequence of “ny hotel ever spoke in toues like gat Ti have a's) ame as you." 1, mean “ne nae—turn round ahd turned to the other and then mind with the other, though every these, On the sound, as if ftom aw arden of ainal sherry eon despatched, glance at that mirror behind you.” back to mirror now he would fall away Y@S84Ke outside, he heard a voice ° ra the stranger 1 a return — Jones nd saw the strane SRtPMONIRESY: SIMIE LE" BALA thE \ u : ¥ “Took ull Ng money, and sent aim FNOn’ RAG Cate eee drink just at th aie the Ber Was Nineslh rnin, ait Fe eee attorney trom the point, as @ snip without & nome in anot chants einen menses: ane disturbing his prac. Come into the Mari balcnged ta ataitiy Comencn ts ee to apres MoO, nether |T ateorsman falls away from the wind. “Then came the sound of ner ul nature, He wauted his clothes said he, “E want te but the likeness went far beyond me. My name ia Rochester.” BEG LAD EO TOUS RIC rHOne tht0 Woot ag orceslow (he oarpes tha BURR aE sure ‘desirector Kio cateastnel ait you here t they were identical. The same © y , \ 5 acute o migh ave deem ain ring 0 ‘ re Blinn hai 2 aug 5 kurments to @ pan. ed up the stairs, tho ee WAR tha je sam must celebrs this.” sald to be the fundamental dejection of HIS virivellat Iota ne na blind up- sion, I a et into hie boots ist Bhs BE iti toe i AALS ig an attendant 1 giv- natur upon a room never b red goed day and face t world and face the — — = —=* |.Jones, 4 Jacobean bed room Garceth; alikzoreuna allver, soft i t © heighten his sensitivenes: » | ay m an who had Pulled the blind his apparet and whole powition, ae showed to the sun a fac a oevrue ke beginning rise, the evenly colore as th shelf anger of a man who has aant a rou » made xu fool of him upor THE COSToF FOOD Gives \ i “ painting of old meee foal 0 " f pon whor E COS Fe VIVE envy, ouRN at cries 0 ; ayed, and whi ds ME INDIGESTION! UNCLE THE SERVANT PROBLEN store—the typical col nd himself in a false position You ARE Lucky, § yh via IS SOME PUZZLE! 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