The evening world. Newspaper, June 9, 1920, Page 25

TOE 0 FP SL RRL AAIS ERMA AO IR IE 9 AP CANIS ARORA AG act Si RAO tA BG Fs kh ue ki yl ry pies WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 19 THE MASKED WOMA By Johnston McCulley A Thrilling Story of Mystery’ and Ad . ret, Fialtng on. Coperient 1920 By W. J. Watt & On e ae ork, is Wortd, a a OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. Athlete, Actor, Graduate, 20, Objects to Hugs,.Kisses and - ' - Even Holding Hands -. ‘It! John H. Esquirol Is Not a “‘Sissy’—Say3 He Wants to Remain Unkissed Until He Finds the Right Girl. By Fay Stevenson. ORE ts a chap—John H. Esquirol and a girl kiss they lose all the real of No. 25. Crooke Avenue, comradeship of youth,” responded Brooklyn—who haa reached the [auirol, “vou see, onoe eo ee at Ing there is no ent They mature age of twenty, completed bis that good companionship, they forget four years at Now York University, to talk abput the chings worth me been manager of the varsity track %ooks, current events, the very things which attracted them at first are for- } team end star ball player, a singer gotten and henceforth there is nothing end amateur actor, BUT he has never but spooning and baby talk afd ‘Do kissed a girl, hover “held hands" you love mes?” Jonger than “How about holding hands? Would @ mere handshake, and |, Qc ossibie for a youth and a maiden never slipped his arm around a girl's ¢, discuss the Chicago Convention. the ‘waist when passing through a shady Peace Treaty or the latest novel if park. they should link hands along a shady . dont lane?" I asked, ee ,, elleve tn kissing, but ““iNo, I don't think {t wise,” aad Be- { Dlease don't put me down as an old quirol, considering the matter serious maid or a sissy,” laughed young ly, “f think og ideal ceeeeanawe tale f, Esqutrol: as I sought him out yester- young man and a woman cage t simply comfades © @ay afternoon just before the ‘clam AFe coeaged) js to be emay tonnone ts * day” exercises at New York Univer- jows. You wouldn't see two fellows rushed for his bath, de- i ? have termined to dre» as quickly | “Ana then there camers | ' an posstble and take up the| Prof. Salwick entered in the trail. But before he could|® Convict. He expressed leave the apartment he bad a catler| "et what mre youn dolng ior & man from Police Headquarters. Brone q Waldron knew the man, a shrewd| “I got mixed up in that igf detective named Macguire, And ne| business’ the Profesor said, know that Macgutre had not visited | gor all o¢ us into thie mene him at that hour of the morning Bod Madam Madcap was merely to pass ‘the time of day,|¢timinal, and they incarcerated qhets Macguire did not leave him long in| The Judge, refused to bellevan am hon I 0 dowbt concerning the object of his ieee cf hen rend chprectons visite ury—tulserable men!—sent f , in handl” rer bas no one would think of calling BJ Seas 9PM dance?” “Read about the Darcan robbery?” | for @ year. But merit is +. him a “sissy” or an “old maid.” “You bet—I mean of course,” cor- he asked. : visa ¢ man who plays football and !s rected Esquirol, “but slipping your “Just @ few minutes ago,” Waldron |the Professor told him ” waa any fmeariy six fect tall is ‘not very apt arm around a young lady to lead her fo acquire such nami about in @ dance is a very different replied, story Riley had told. That inoed ‘What do you know about this| Brone—ae Madam Madcap had fopes 08. « Md her for \ “Although it ls class day I:hardly matter from sitting up with ey it would. Prof. Salwick eo iy r Madam Madcap person? ferdior teed, and afvereare thie “I saw her at the cafo several) the di a ray: : times,” Waldron answered. “I know nan at . J the Prot wv | . that Hamilton Brone and Wallace | [tiley appeared before Brone. 4 ‘ Melkington were crazy about the) “Tf can’t understand thi y woman, I suppose you know that stenet “Am I to have no af Brone has been missing several days. |“!!! vf I thought at first that he was wit I bellevo thatyyou are beli PS that woman, carrying on an affair, | hed’ for insubordination, Now I don’t’ know what to think.” | fequor weld. | ee “You know, of courms, that we bad], (Why cant you help Pdi « on Melkfhgton?” * - You bars +4) actions papers, and have other om f “Well, there have deen some Inter one you hélp me smuggle esting developments,” Macguire an: it +h ‘We might a& well come to the! “What sort of @ letter’ the point A few years ago you started . out to study fingerprints in connec. want to write to my tion with your business, didn't you?’ | Want them to do something, “Yen and now have an important] (0 make them understand a cohee ae insane if T can't do nd early in the wume we. took my wife”. prints of a lot of your frends?” ™ myn é “Yew; but what has that to do with, 4, That le #o—you are ot ® card with Brone’s finger- ints “I belleve T have.” ur missive to your wife?” thelFro- “Please let me see ft.” said Muc-| Foy fessor quire. c a vondering what wae coming, Wal: Wothing--that T arast Lg 3 ror wen 8 fle cases in wi ask her to get a treto, room and returned with the card, bs eg & Win something with the Macguire nepected the prints! "Tens sa through a magnifying glass, Cleared. hie 8 ko “Hum!* he ead, “Waldron, here ‘ is something funny. oun Tr © think 1 wit get the laugh for my hours on q park bench, a trolley car o» ; prints onthe fone of the. meat ¥ me views about kissing girls,” confided in @ axl. the Darcan piace. And they are the ae * Bequirol as we walked along the cam- “What do you think of the type of fingerprints of Hamilton btn A oe peek: Were I you, @ pus ‘and several gay chaps from the chap who takes a girl to @ party or to can tel from this card. pevind ‘Gearety took pan conte #) rear cried, “there goes kissless Esqui- the theatre, escorts her home and then “Why, that's Impossible!" Waldron] ang that you will explain lat # Fol.” either demands or steals a kiss?” I D — cried. you will explain later, ) You FOl'No dowbt I shall be given a prize asked just to see a twinkle in Esqui- . 5 Fingerprints do not lle, Waldron, th thoagh Te menial bane @) for the only kissless man in the olass TI's keen eye. FA and you know it! And Hamilton! quite. Getting such a letter, and recetve all sorts of titles preceded ,“1.Won't say WHAT I think of him, Hrone {8 not known personally .tobhave éom . Bi by “Kissleas’ * continued young Esqui- Mushed the kissless senior, “but I Miss Darcan and hae never been inPmake passion, and pi @ rol, “but all the ‘fellows take. me in Will say I don t think much of the girl her house to her knowledge, #0 hel you ean follow ity ¢ litte Inver, ite ! tyr @ good natured way because they Who allows the Kies, " " ~~, Hever toudhed the safe innocently, | .°fuil tsctioetitn © ure tater i fi know I'm not a mordist or one who |, Personally, I don't intend f Kiss a =i = ee ae = Know what it means? That Brone| break it seay, ao the cov ee W tries to pet rules for ‘others, 1 just Siti tmtil abe bas givert'me her cons is #o infatuated with this Madam wl help pie | Yiveasl t S happen to feel this way myself about Scnt to Wed me. 1 know a number of 3 Madcap that he has turned crook to i © girls, pa - az lease her, Kissing girls. Fortunately T can un- cay ‘my girl, but untll Iam in a rear a] Nonsense!” Waldron cried: but he { Cerstand tne et eel ae Tworia postion 40 propose and make a girl Hy ° ® ’ ! was half afraid it was the truth, t F soinchow of ator 1 feel tat f'would fy'wts toil not omect her co tie || LES, OI, YOU Must Wear Lounge Suits if You e a Gentleman! | “Sse \cctte not Tit morning’ by i bs me. I w a a. al that pute us on th + the REAL girl. my girl friends and I don’t want them , ’ ‘ s Pi ftp Tene tmaneer Unit an Drat. | om detected, I shall no longer: i “J heard—at least a brother of yours {o feel that they have to entertain me ! tory and Pictures trac. pearing man gave it to im, cust? tll put « stamp om or a chum, some one told me you had with kismes.” eres the Victum: By Will B. Johnst on the street, bald in detective,| “F, and see that the mati { © sweetheart?” I sald to Esquirol. Meike Wek & C4 AP Uae 0 : SUT ew Onnatone on the street. gold he was a detective] who ts friéndly toward me, p : “T have,” was the prompt reply waving of straw hats from the college — —_— S = Here'le the no. ‘Waldron: the bag with the rest of the } while two blue eyes and a very honest {jprary steps, where a number of the Waldron ubfolded {t, and rend: @ The Professor slipped into t! face Tooked me squarely In the eyes. studente were waiting to attend the “Tf, In investiguting the Darcan| ¢Mein within the hour, and j fot a blush or a twitch of the eyelash class day exercises. Young Esquirol ‘i , HE ON) ay cy ery, yo gerprints pH. envelope and {disturbed his perfect’ smugness. "Of gave mea hearty handshake (remem-q '9 “THE FASHION PLATES Ciiueee enone aa! ponte uate, andl are unable to. And | And then he stood near the door i fy course I don’t care to make her name per he s no old. maid) and was lost § “TWe."GENTLEMEN” ALWAYS INTEREST duplicates i your files, go to Lionel] 2rétended to listen, while Brome ‘ 3 te) public and I am not engaged to her. jn the throng. LouNce AWAY PROM" TRADE® Waldron, look through his private wrote his note. He sci w For that reason I have never kissed Does it pay to be a kiésless senior? files, and ack particularly to eee the what The Professor had : + ner. We have gone around to shows, Does it pay to have plenty of good (i told his wife that he was by Hton Brone ®: taken long ranibles in the parks, even comrades among the opposite sex but MOTOR LouNGING , and would explain, and, foll t @® been out when the moon was shining never, no matter how tempting or q i ( Professor's advice, he did % ® and other couples were spooning ull tantalizing the occasion, kiss one of iN i it ¢ “Te leat connie iL | that he had been il. * around us but we wouldn't spoil our these comrades? Esquirol, a clean, i ia * at. cube oo penible When @:man He put the note in the en friendship by kissing for worlds’* healthy example of manhood, points ; - i dota Rha hy fo sealed and addressed tt, and i | roes crazy over a woman,” the head- $y" 6 bi “and you think kissing spoils a out that it does. And certainly some 4 f ere kn daplcear to The Professor, who put it in his maid’s and man’s real friendship?" I day when he becoties engaged some % d oe quortere man devlares pocket and slipped quietly from the | asked. girl is going to belleve 80 too when epeemeariresgesd room again, The note was carried } gt “I think that the moment a chap she receives her first and his first kiss, (t Hit CHAPTER XII, iemediately to lam Madcap, » i i t - Y day Hami!ton’ Brone paced at is good,” she said, after ehe © ' i i H p had read it. “seal it again, 4 a ) H yA the floor of the little cell, three} and seo that It ie tall 4 a ital Hi the appearance of Riley, the| You. It isn't safe for you to go out ry By Roy IL. M* Cardell. | guard with food, not that he eared | YOUrself, except at sight, Waldron i saw you in the alley after thewDar- i Ooprrisht, 1920, by The Press Publishing Co, (Tho New York Evening World), ; particularly for the food—though It | Can copbery last are | M66] THINK our Willie Is old enough © jlo, But I'm not for plano play- was excellent but because he wanted | "ie ie wate non Meri pan 4X t's too brutal.” to tal ” 5 | to start taking plano lessons. “fell, I think it would be real ‘The hours of his solttude seemed | 74 romulations, T should aake yes " He should have some sopiety sweet if he played the piano,” insist- ages, He ecarcely heard & noise, Now “YouMhave read the val haven't eM coompll t,” s remarked Mrs. ed Mrs, Jarr. and then there would be a distant | y, Well, when Mec’ mena ial ® Jerr. tenia Til start Willie. What | “So it would,” xeplied Mr. Jurr, murmuring aa of voices, now and then | that note, ‘she ‘will think thet eee wet isk Very sweet. Has Willle shown any a harsher sound that he could not eX-\| story’ in the papers ta tress Chek fee i t Oh, I think he Isn't old enough,” ‘nelination for a musical career?” plain, And during these long hours) husband is with me and has pred ie = waid Mr. Jarr. 1 j i yall ee MTA OuttiER, the oat , by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening Wo for $05 w sult in M4, Knew mental torture: said tittle | Criminal. He says that he ts oom: ‘ y: same of the great masters began !n t ano, e chop ¢¢ : i f i Under orders, e| tent and will explain later—the weak x Si o," said Sticks with little Emma, but sult e An's wardrobe i, Hamilton Brone wbout his aiffairs. : Be be chides Bre BAGe foe ee dvcsn't like to/* WY Be At last he hus been defined in terms of clothes. They are exhibiting a “ger ft twenty-f ateviute sartorial, He tod: Prone tnat fe. was. to es | error ot Seen ene ae Mey Willle’s age—practises four hours , Rg A Br cried Mr, Jarr, “Clothes don't make the man,” has been said, but “cloties do man’s wardrobe,” twenty-five excli- necevsities in clothing only coat $1,675 main in solitude until he could be- [ fail to see where all this teouble 4. @ Oday. Maybe we should have started | NiVt® I yet hone’ shamed to taik Mk? the gentleman,” say the Merchant Tailors’ Soclety of the City of New sive inodele designed under the divee- then. Now the togs cast twice have 4 nity sig Hrone asked t0 | about Brone will pay you.” a Wille At, 8 around tou 1!" said Mrs, Jarr, “Lattice York: They say it in twenty-four sults, overcoats, knickerbockers and @ “On of the Fashion Committee of the much or $130 a suit “and upwar LePage pages op pions om ig v4 14 papal a 4 the Breas st ei then, itm beste Leia ele} ‘ ink created a fi onal pe ¢ t therefore it costs © to be eas clot eae a i. 4 y -line,” she eald. 2 omaald Mr, Jarr firmly, “etter Hinks created a furore at & satin dressing robe finiyhed in taffeta, National Association of Merchant It Conte more to be @ “gen on & day or two yet. |" do not expect you to und never than any, time, it Wisite ts e the other day. He played a pi of Any man is “very welcome” to witness what they believe at an exhibi- Tailors. This “genticmun's wardrobe’ ry $4,260. ie ae A ye hed, be cB ioe I may say thie—that you have not the TIE (ime tee arts let ers Schumann’ and recited 4 French tion to-night in the Banquet Hall of the Waldorf-Astoria, and find out how |" been exhibited In all the la wr » She haere t dime, you won'e try, 10 make Ht eats ee Sen a nen Pele money Is—but there'll be no ? T thought It Was our Willie who U2sentlemanty he is in the eyes of a tallor. BIN O8: Ba Ser ae Danveree vai Wie SRORRHE OF Ee Bae ee that you're insane,” pia Sty i & piano. players in this family, They'T® created the furore at that party,’ said® 18 woing to be an awful shock, especially if you should go in your wg yak futons eereig Mee ast asa QA RU Thee ek te lc eae Ree eat CHAPTER XIII, pe peg Mii rhe ahe ous rege jy 4 A le io UF “gentlemen” are concerne ween $37 anc und that's not the clare¢ cannot remember a thing B® cto Leen pares look at “ “Fle behayed terribly, if that's what tases. me ass 4 ee sullfrin a “gentleman's” wardrobe, A “gentleman” to u tailor 1s a town half of it; th the “hata. anil ‘the. OF We ilae wardts We ak ral T ree Rat evening. 0 iitle Aubrey Pri ghey - yo "sald 4 jie, é bi pie> country loungerlizard. When ¢ und tho spats rhend le the world? hy doesn" i tie wild when they hear him play {OM mean” sald Mrs, Jarr. “He breasted lounge suit for town and lounging, a flannel sult for town and ae Beeetey lWeungeelia : pssst giseoe ea somebody try to do something for| jy 2adesp summoned ¢{ Mrs. Prink’s gold he" {sn't lounging is supposed to @ tailors are reticent about quot- 4 mn ” Joe Marget to her ro uf MW the plano” to wild if my on Cali poured lemonade Into “the country wear," a “single-breayted country lounging, another singie- be engaged in “outing” \n nely ing price 4 mot F Hage richer snenenes. | ‘ 4 pSiriy.. eee ee not retorted Mr. gar Piwno and bit Aubrey in the face and straight front lounge sult for day breasted day lounging sult and two (made of at cloth) al t serie: aiotn: priben vue that tatne sla Gorell aoe aaa eee good “Close the door,” she ordered. Pile would look real cute wity Made him cry. and Mra, Prink had wear," another aultforsingle breasted puite designed for double-brensiad i ahr elbioey ee nevey' Oke 6 teramawen fase: Marget got up and closéd if long hair pounding a plano, wouldn't elena ae the pete ee = rh oe SOUR Ey ORO ME nF phone,” sald one of the “gentle: write a letter or get one. It isn't |oor, and then sat down . A © long halr v4 Rafe pie id he do th a . if or “gun g in stout nen’s" tailors, ,Can it be at ?,,* bag w he? Thats all right for foreigners: grinning, “And yet you want him my sont asked Mr. Jarr. Htiwank ta baa dabectat On taxe area’ Lensitan cla RAOt cours ba Peed out ince etter ee ats felt Ul as onse Of Geet Ser Be “i } & {t's natural for them: but to see ® to play the plano? Don't you think *Naw!" said Willie, " contemptu- teab driver!" blurted out the boy: formal ena ebity : Oo Bre DOgin~ nnd & lot T care about thati” sel@ |to'senee the smperinriaeraaaam i" o, bigy et rong Am Leslee eager he shoul recite poetry, too?" ously. "E want t pisy the bane “Phare now!" cried Mr, darn’ clap. 7008, some forme rm to discuss such vulgar details Riley : woman at the side of et - a piano alway 4 y Well, it would be nice, He's much drum in a band." ping his hands; his um. lunging when est as coats? And the nights were worse. Now #® | think we will omit plano playing gmurter than Aubrey Prink. I a . 6 PF I je : and then Brone slept the sleep of an for Madam Madcap, she was it 1 y Prink. It | “Don’t you want to be a little gen+ bitions are those of the normal Am. around the chateau im a house suit ‘This would ind that it is time 1 bnd knitting tidles from the eduea- wouldn't take him long to learn,” tleman?” asked Mrs. Jarr erican boy of his age. You're all of soft vicuna for the ta > me womathing ee atted Man. © dood Beep Teel his thik Wine Seem RE ee ee ere eara fa tie shall. PP ere: SOEs: A The boy hung down hig head and right, Willie. Here's a dimo for — ysegoro the war it cout Anite na ee eg te reat acl bles ae alk but and shitting eyes, the: teal Oe our son. ; rd tt, a ‘all him in here," said Mr. Jarr. rubbed the toe of his shoe on the you!” ! it cost less to be a besides lo its If they expect the le er x to college when he's old enougt, ster Will nf ‘ s the tailo h heate k tossed on tho bunk and tried to thipk nese in big countenance that go (o-gellege when HEB old encuats ister Willio Jarr can@ after a carpot. aes Miva: Take Aam apna ik Mecsas the tailors will show Chesterfields to pay their billes, ommed on, the bunk and tried to Sia ie . and fe teuel ab the ataferto, HERE delay, “Anewer your mather,” said Mr, wonder that she oduld do nothing You by # table of compurative costs If they don’t-tho “gentlemen” will Utterly w prisoner he was. Rot eface sven, by, sa ‘ lege and you want to play the piame, Jarr, “What do you want to bet’ with the children, o¢ “then and now.” disappear like the buffaloes. ~t times he screamed, und them (Read te-merrew’s exeiting . a —