The evening world. Newspaper, September 22, 1919, Page 15

eSATA IEE GOEL TELE LEED LIE NS ODA CUCM HOME PAGE MONDAY; SEPTEMBER 22, 1919 Two American Women Are Robbed of Rare lewels in a Mysterious Manner—A man Who Baherited an English Title and Some Price- Sapphires Is Suspected of the Crime, Though One Woman Falls in Love With Him | Copyright, 1995, &y The BobbsMerri Co. | CHAPTER L, (@ London fog, sot, substantial, yellow as an old dog’s tooth or @ Jaunticed cye. You could not look through it, nor yet gaze up and down ft, nor over it; and you only thought you saw it. The aye-Oecame impotent, untrustworthy; all senses lay fallow except that of touch; the skin alone conveyed to you with promptness and no incertitude thas this thing had substance. You could feel it; you could open and shut your hands and sense it on your palms, and it penetrated your clothes and beaded your spectacles and rings and bracelets and shoe-buckles. It was nightmare, bereft of its pillows, grown somnambulistic; and London be- came the antechamber to Hades, lackeyed by idle dreams and peopled by mistakes. ‘There 11 something about this species of fog unlike any other in the wort, [t sticks. You will find certain English cousins of yours, as far away from London as Hongkong, who are still wrapt up snugly fn it. ‘The night was May thirteenth; never mind the year; the date should suffice: and a Walpursis night, if you please, without any Mendelssohn to interpret it. That hap’ of Satan and his pee line of Milton’s—“! fell upon London like Elijah’s mantle. Confusion andemonium, the high capital and his cohort of synonyms (why not?) raged up and down thoroughfare and side-street and alley, east and west, danced before palace and tenement alike: all to the vast amusement of the gods, to the mild annoyance of the half-gods (in Mayfair), and to the complete rout of all mortals a-foot or a-cab, Imagine: militant suffragettes trying to set fire to the Prime Min- ister’s mansion, Siegfried being sung at the opera, and a yellow London fog! Simple matter to shift about little dlocks of wood with the tip of one’s finger; but cabs and carriages and antomobiles, cach driver anxious to get out ahead of his neighbor!—not to mention the shouting and the din and discord of horns and whistles and sirens and rumbling engines! “It's hard luck,” said Crawford, sympathetically. ‘Tt will be half an hour before they get this tangle straightened out.” “[ shouldn't mind, Jim, if it weren't for Kitty,” replied his wife. “I am worried about her.” “Well, I simply could not drag her into this coupe and get into h self, She's a h want to know, As it is, he'll get to the hotel quicker than wo shi Her cab is five up. If you wish, I'll take a look in and sce if she's all right.” “Please do;” and sho smiled at him, lovely, enchanting. “You're the most beautiful woman tn all this world!” “Am 1?” Click! ‘The light went out. There was a smothered laugh; and when the light flared up again, the aigrette in her copper-beech hair was all askew. “It anybody saw us ecretly Advice on enough troubie. ‘I shall stay right Pleased and delighted, as any woman would have been who possessed @ husband who was her lover all his waking hours. “What! in this fog? And a lot T'a-care if they did. Now, don't stir tii! I come back; and above all, keep the light on.” “And hurry right back; I'm getting Jonesome already.” Ho stepped out of the coupe. Harlequin, and Colambine, and Humpty-Dumpty; shapes which came out of ished into nothing, for all the world ke the absurd pantomimes of his boyhood days. He counted five ve- hicles, and stopped, ‘The door-win- |. dow was down, where and instantly van- “Miss Killigrew?” ho said. anything wrong?" ‘No. Just wanted to see if you were all right. Better let me take and you ride with Mrs. of you; but you've had “Where's your light?” *” “The globe is broken, I'd rather be in the dark, It's fun to look about. I never saw anything to equal it.” Courtship And Marriage By Betty % possible for a young lady to marry a young man she nicrely Tespects, but does not love, and be happy? This ts a question a young woman reader would like answered. “Two years ago I met a young man,” she writes, “and he fell in love with me, and has tried to win my love. I don't love him, and I cannot love him. I do not know the reason I feel this way; I have tried to love him, but it seams to me that it can’t be done, He ts a good man, a perfect gentle- man,.and he has been very nice to me from the day we met. I know I don’t Geserve a good man like him, and yet I cannot learn to love him. “I cannot give him up because it will Oreak his heart, and I hate to marry him without loving him be- cause it will make us both unhappy. Can you tell me please how I can learm to love him? He has asked me to give him a definite answer because he wants to make an end of it. I can- not maké up my mind what to do, Answer me in your column as soon ANSWERS TO SATURDAY'S QUESTIONS, L A cathedral is a dioc n chureh edifice, usually used in connection with the Roman Catholic or Episco- pallan denomination, 2. Propaganda means the organ- {ged and inspired dissemination of news, literature, &e. 8. Mrs, Carrie Chapman Catt is an American women famous for efforts in behalf of woman's rights, 4. Westminster > te dhe ence famous cat aeleras 1K Ate vaults are buried the nation's most distinguished public men, 6 “The double ring ceremor means the exchange of rings between bride and bridegroom at a wedding ceremony. 6 Circe was the men to ruin by virt charms. 1A “blind ¢ he vernacular for a place whe lique sold, 8. T Bouth America 9. A ‘“jobbe n chant; one who buys goods from manafacture and gells to retailers. 10, George W journalist, now deces jddess who lured 16 of her physical ere are fourteen countries in middleman mer- Vincent as possible. I am twenty years of age andrhe is twenty-five.” From what you have said I hardly think you can ever love this man, If you shoukd marry him not loving him it would hardly be fair to either of the facts now, unpleasant as they may be. Better tell him the truth and wait until you find the man you love before you wed. Mary K, and Jobn RF. are engaged and want to know whether a long en- gagement is preferable to a short one. “We met during the summer at a summer resort,” says their letter, “and it was a case of ‘love at first sight’ with both of us. But now the question arises whether we should marry this fall or wait until we have ‘wintered and summered cach other.’ Do you believe in long or short en- gagements? We are just twenty.” Sometimes too long an engagement takes all the romance out of love, and then again we have very unhappy marriages from a three or four-week engagement,” Of course some people are better fitted to judge character than others, and it might be safe for such couples to wed after a brief en- gagement, I have always been in fa~ vor of short engagements rather than long, strung-out affairs, But in your case, where both are only twenty, I hould advise you to wait for another Summer romances are all the y sweeter when ecarricd over until an- other summer Majorie T, would I is necessary for an eng e to know if it ged gir] to put the other man” entirely out of her 1 nd deeply in with my flin says Marjori¢ but 1 have a number of gentlemen friends whom I knew in my school 1ys. Two of them have autos and eer around to take me out quite frequently. My fiance has no car, L am engy arning money for my trousseau, and those little jaunts in the open air d worlds of good, But the question ts, t fair to my flance to go out with these men? has been very nice about it and left everything to my own discretion, but L often see a worried look in his eyes when 1 tell him about my trips. Do you think I better put the other men out of my life, even though they are nothing but good school chums of mine whorn I have known ever since L was in knee dresses?” “Not very cheerful. up at half an hour, not afraid?” should not matter. But the truth is, She suffragette meeting I understand they have tried up the Prime Minister's hous go to that She'll get back to the hotel, if sho isn’t there already.” “I wish she had not Crawford smiled, he could conjure up the pictu / PRESSING HERSELF TIGHTLY INTO HER CORNER, KITTY MANAGED TO GASP: “MY NAME I8 NOT ENID, SIR. YOU HAVE MIS- TAKEN YOUR CARRIAGE.” We'll be held Mr, Killigrew, short, thick-set, éher- le, raging ‘back and forth im the ering to buy taxicabs out- ghed. “Why right, the hotel, and finally.the city typically money- ‘m mad American that he was, Craw. in the world You are obby, 0} wait will of London 1d ford wa of luc frony. Saks 3 face wan even voice, lost? “Thanks, A wager's a wager. I way a bally fool to play cards 1 was a bally fool to play cards, i i ' Jost. Nov. 18. cans say. Kitty wasn't sure that the speak- er was English; if he was, lost the insular significance Still, it was, tn its way, as pleasant a voice as the other's. There was no doubt about the younger man; he was English to the core, English in his love of chanee, English his loyalty to his word; stupidly Eng- vowels, broadened into but it’s @ fad of hers, wear it on state occasions, often wondered if it Nana Sahib's ruby, as her uncle Driver, the Savoy, and re- member, it carefully; the Savoy.” Alone again, Kitty Killigrew leaned back, thinking of the man who had Just ‘left her and bis beautiful wife. If only she might some day have a Presently she peered out of the off-window, A brood of Siegfried dragons prowled about, She likes to not want to marry mother. she did not want to marry at is really the she could be made happy only by marrying a title, not as happy now as she waa ever destined tobe! Voices. wo men were sp r the curb-door. 1 involuntarily fn this direction, re were no lights in the frontage before which stood her cab, which ine torvened between the Brocken haze in As if she was dusty corners, nted to laugh, and “Poor dad! p burn should I marry a ttle?” “Why, indeed!" don't you “Mrs, Crawford .was ‘beautifal to a sensible night. There wi opera to compare are frumps, aren’t they? And that gone.” ruby! I don't see how she dares wear Readily enough it! terrupted. romance like a beauty at the ith her, Royalties now pausing; and threatening growls, Kitty: did not want to marry a inst the fom, with nd left angles of aureola, am not particularly fond of it; could distinguish no shapes. you, It would be much better to face} and I am still working downtown} Tf you have not faith in you, so why worry him any Jonger? When you are married you will not be able to take those auto jaunts, pleasant as they may be, 60 you might as well give them up at nee, If you need the air at night +, an American ead, best known as publisher of the Philadelphia Pub- take a walk with your flance or trolley out into the country, It is ways better for the engaged girl to put the other man entirely out of her No Ledger, Uf, 1 aaadane ia eens a. ” an nee's eyes I @ them up Your fiance hus been exceptionally | considerate and shown his absolute The Day of Rest! JOHN Go WN THE BASEMENT AND DIG QuT OUR QLD TRUNK 7 THIS 15 / THE EASIEST | JOB | EVER HAD ~| ON My aha Rest a : y Maurice Ketten (The New York Brening World.) m a bally ase.” Oddly enough, Kitty 08, “Didn't, you?” ‘The voice was young and pleasant; and Kitty wae sure that the owner's as pleagant as his What had he wagered and the agreement. + but I'll stick.” what ho lish, “Exact terms, Six months from date I'll be cooling my heels in your anteroom,” “Cavenaugh, if it's anything elso ‘apt a joke, torches, Her comitationa were peculiarly in- The door opened, man plumped down beside her, “Enid, it looks as if we’ never get out of this hole, Have you got your collar up? LITTLE MISS of schoolage doesn't have many thoughts about her clothes, but if she did she would like best of all the plain frocks that she doesn't feel “dressed ap” in, All children’s clothes should be eimple, though an atmosphere of refined elegance may be manifest in the fabric and work- manship; Dut some mothers trim up their Litue girls’ clothes in the most dowdy fash- ion, and so not only make the children vain, but oftentimes miserably unhappy in trying to keep their fussy frocks “just so." The most appropriate elaboration for chil- dren's frocks is hand embroidery, though sometimes there are modish trimmings such as ribbon bind- ings, bands or looped fringes that are youth- fulenough, Hand em- broidery, however, 1s slways safe, It isem- ployed on the design I am offering hert,which is @ particularly ap propriate model for @ “sunday dress,” ‘The embroidery lends it # drossiness that distinguishes it from school frocks, yet this dressiness is mot im- A quid to farthing, you've Jeft it In the box, and I'll have to gO back for it, providing they'll let me And it's midnight, if a minute.” Pressing herself tightly cornery Kitty managed to gasp: name ts not Enid, 0, no; only a ripping good sport, game ail the way through.” She wondered if tho speaker’ comparion did. “Well, a wagers a wager.” “And ‘you're the last chap to welch a square bet. What's the odds? My word, [didn't urge you to changewthe elu is Instatitiy ® mateh aparkled and fi sereened behind palm. outward (a perfectly natural ac- calculated), beheld @ pretty charming face, large Irish blue eyes (a bit startled at this moment) and a head of Nair as shiny-black blackwood. ‘The tnatch, still barning, curved like a falling star through the wi Quite evident that Tam I bee your pardon again, and hopo I have not annoyed you." He was gour before she could form any retort. Where had she heard that With a little shudder the thought of those cold feeling about © hands went loud in dismay. They had vanished! CHAPTER It, NNIEL KILLIGREW of Killieg grew and Company (i coffee and spices), was in a towering rage; at least, hey towered one inch above his normal height, which was five feet six. an animal recently taken in captivity? he ‘trotted back and forth through thewcorridors, in and out of the office ta and from the several entraneesya Viowing the while like a grampus, Alley he could get out of these infernally stupid beings was “Really, sir!” couldn't get a oa, he couldn't get @ motor, he couldn't me ager, head clerk, porter, doorman page, he told them, oné and all, what 4 dotty old spoof of @ country they that they were all dead alive persons, fit to be neither u: nor above earth; stupid of me, 1 Six months; 12 o'clock, midnight, It's the date, old b dooed you, as the Ameri- voice before? Her “ ‘Oh, rot! It was your suggestion. T tell you, it's a lark, nothing more, A gentleman's word.” “Tl start for my diggings.” “Hide home with me; my cab's here somewhere.” “No, thanks, I've got a little think- ing to do and prefer to be alone, Good night.” There was no reply; and Kitty de- cided that the younger man had gone . Silence; or rather she ng longer heard the speakers, ohuckle came to her and this chuckle ironic laughter; she knew that Mephisto was abroad, What had been the wager? Still the din of horns and whistles and sirens, still the shouting, they never move on? She was hungry. She wanted to get back to the hotel, to learn what had happened Militant suffragettes, indeed! A pack of mad witches, who left their brooms behind kitchen doors they ought to be wielding them about Woman never anything by using brickbats and Then ‘a that they wouldn’ be one-two in a race with January Quarter to one, and neither wife nor daughter; outside there, somewh the fog; aud he could not ga to them, Tt was maddent Molly might be arrested and Kitty lost. he should have put his foot The idea of Molly being al- Towed to go with those fe. Suffragettes! Ploded with @ loud reprot. ho would show voted in the KilHgrew family. Ho was made of that unhappy® mental timber which agrees thought=a> lessly to @ proposition for the sakeds of peace and then regrets name of war, Numb and terrified, Kitty felt the twisted man's hands fumbling about her neck. “Where's your sable stole? women beat the very devil for thought- Pains, ~ Poko fn thy Tia wite and duster’? { him round ther little finger@& = then hunted cover when hew found out what they had done, (To Boe Continued.) ee > oe a“ a meh ae dn ay nh ns, forming a dotted line about the waist and sleeve capa, New and Original Desig For the Smart Woman By Mildred Lodewick Copyrieht, 1919, by Tho Press Publishing Co, (The New York ving World), A Sunday Dress of Delightful Charm. A NAIVE DRESSINESS, THE APPEAL OF THIS FROCK. A basting stitch in the floss marks pressive, Any light welght woollen material could be used, cashmere or albatross, or chal | being reasonable welghta on which the « silk floss embroidery would show up | well, the two-inch wide tucks down each st elaboreting dress of an olds < for my daughter , welght 109 pounds, elght 6 feet 81-2 inches, side of the skirt. The tiny collar and) peg lower sleeve portions may be of soft| aged twenty-t color or lighter cusar silk. It this simple frock were desired | for school wear, for the embroidery design may be-substituted « straight! model effectiy N Mt A braiding design in darker with matching tassel will Make ‘abe ee an a"