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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, Begin It Today! "THK UNCH ASTENED WOMAN" A" Story of Modern Life1 THE A: Sparkling New Serial Story Novelized from the Broadway Success

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Novelized from the play by Louis K. Anapacher now running at the Thirty-ninth 8treet Theatre, under the direction of Oliver Morose o. Copyright, 1915, by the International New Service.

By ANN LISLE. Hubert Knolys was a complete fallure as a husband. He was reflecting ; upon the fact as he strode up the ave- , nue one crisp morning in early October. " 'A woman, a dog and a walnut tree the more you beat 'em, the bet- , ter they be! " he murmured to himself grimly. And that led directly to the i contemplation of several "might have ' beens:" if Caroline, his wife, had been married to a man who would have whipped her into submission, who would have forced her to submit to : his leadership, what manner of woman ' would she have become? If instead of thoroughbred gentleness, she had met with thorough tyj ranny, would she ever have submit- ; ted to life? If there had been children ' would that bond have robbed her of Jer conscious determination to have ! the fullest individual freedom? If but why all the "ifs"? In his ; pocket lay the "wireless" message j telling'him that his wife was on the Vulcania, which would dock that mornI lng. Ahead lay his home and the neci essity of opening it with the aid of ! whatever helpers the "Co-operative Servant Agency" had sent in answer tft his phone call, i No one can concern himself much j with the Impotent past when the im- ! mediate future claims his attention. ! So Knolys strode ahead to the annual j adjustment of his house and his ' house of life. "Is your name Agnes Murtha?" he j demanded of the figure that waited ' him at the basement en-trance. "No, that's me daughter," replied a i comfortable1 old voice with a marked ; brogue. "Agnes was comin', but she had a fall yesterday" . . . and dii viding her attention between admiring ! glances for the well-groomed man of i fifty who led her into its heavy eleI gance and the vastness of the shrouded house, Mrs. Murtha followed her new master, murmuring her delight the while. "It's a foine gentlemen, ye are! And j do yez own the whole house entoire?" Knolys Is Amused ; At the Situation. Knolys nodded quizzically. He had , for all people a vast and amused tolerance. Partly he tolerated the rest of the world because he felt his own , life so complete a failure and partly he knew his life had failed because he I so completely tolerated the rest of ' the world. "Ah glory be fer that!" cried Mrs. I Murtha fervently; and set off about uer first task that of summoning the iceman! I Still smiling at the old Irish worni an's ingenuousness, Knolys turned to face a large well-dressed woman of the modern Indeterminate period, between thirty-five and forty. Everything about her had an air of smooth sauvity that could be stirred to exasperation but not I to feeling. Susan Amble had the soul of a chaperon and the manner of a theatrical censor. Her clothes and her ideas were the latest development of "what everyone is wearing, my dear. "Why, Miss Ambie where's Caroline?" said the latter lady's husband

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BY EDMUND B. D'AUVERGNE. "He had a fight with Erdsley after you left, apparently. From the marks on his throat it is presumed that Erdsley tried to strangle him, that he threw him off, and that Erdsley fell, striking his head with fatal effect ; against the edge of the table. Sir ! Ralph seems to have died a few min- ; utes later from heart failure. My ; poor father!" Her tears fell freely. After all, some one did remain to mourn for the dis-, reputable old swindler and roue. "I'm sorry," said Victor, after a pause. "He wasn't such a bad sort. He died no doubt in an endeavor to defend your interests. It's a good thing Erdsley has gone." Then his eyes became troubled. "But now, what is your position and the boy's? . If this marriage of ours is discovered, may there be other heirs?" ' Leslie Smiles Even Through Her Tears. Leslie smiled proudly through her tears. She drew herself up and stood i looking round the room. "Heirs!" she repeated scornfully. "I am the owner of this place and river, and all that , Oswald ever owned. Listen, Victor. This morning by the merest accident ; I discovered the last will of my uncle, James Morven, my mother's broth1 er. He died six months before his wife i from whom Oswald took the estate. "She either knew nothing of this ; will let us think that or, well, she suppressed it. My uncle had only just heard of my existence when he made that will, a few hours before his death. , Before and after his marriage he had acquired by mortgage, by settlement, I and by purchase every rod of land that constitutes the Varney property. "He left it all to me by name, exerting an annuity a generous one to his wife. Oswald, of course, never knew this. The property was never rightfully his or his aunt's. It should have been mine long before I married him. It's mine" there was a triumphant ring in her voice "to do as I will with." Victor drew a sigh of relief. "I'm glad of that. You have had a rough time. . . I'm glad the little chap will come into his own jolly glad." Then he met her eyes. A cry broke from him. He advanced towards her, then stopped, for she had made a warning gesture. "Tell me," she asked him in a tense voice. "You say you were never married to that woman. Tell me the whole truth, Victor. What was she to you?" "To me?" he said wondering, then, "Oh, I see what you mean. Jenny when I first knew her was a barmaid l'n Cairo. I liked her, but she liked ' lie a great deal better han I liked

with far less warmth than Mrs. Murtha's unconscious impudence had called out. "Get your hat and come right down to the dock with me." The words fluttered jerkily from Susan Amble's lips as she gazed with disapproval at Knolys. Everything about bim irritated her beginning with his smoothly brushed gray hair and continuing across his tolerant and strong featured face to his very clothes of faultless cut and fit. Miss Ambie was sure that it was not in keeping with things for Caroline Knolys's husband to be so perfectly and unassailably groomed.

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"Ah! trouble in the customs?" said Mr. Knolys with a dawning understanding of Miss Amble's sudden need of him. "They have dared to suspect us your wife and me!" cried Sifsan indignantly. "You mean they've found you out," corrected the man gravely. "I'm not speaking for myself," returned Miss Ambie coldly. Repartee was not in her conversational code; she dealt in facts as she saw them. "All your wife's trunks are held. When I saw they were going to be disagreeable, I declared everything. But suddenly I realized that a vulgar inspector woman had been watching Caroline. I saw her take Carrie off," concluded Susan in a climax of horror at the thought of such as the "inspector woman" laying hands on the sacred person of Caroline Knolys. The husband of that lady was grimly relieved. "Good!" he exclaimed with expressive simplicity. In another walk of life, he would have wrung his hands with gleeful satisfaction. Miss Ambie recoiled. "Carrie's told me many things; but I never believed ! you could be so heartless." I've been prepared for this for her. I was able to render her small services" he blushed "you see sometimes these Levantines would presume on her position, and all that. . . . She. was unduly grateful . for the help J rendered her once or twice. She liked me' to take her about. I feel a bit of a cad for telling you, and it may sound absurd to say it, but, well, the fact is she fell in love with me. You see I was younger then, and of course she didn't know many Englishmen. Anyway, it seems she did. "Yes, I don't doubt that," said Leslie, smiling at his confusion, "but were you ever In love with her?" She waited his answer, conscious of the throbbing of her heart. 'Oh, Lord, no! Never! That's a fact." "Are you in love with anybody now?" She was smiling, but he looked up sternly. "Yes, I am. With the woman I have loved ever since I met her at Hastings. T love you!" She turned her face to the wall that he might not see the sunlight that had broken through the mist of her tears and flooded her whole being. "I answer your question," he said quietly, "but I do, nox venture to hope after all that has passed" She turned on him, threw h,er arms about his neck, and drew down his face and kissed him. "If you would care to marry me again some time this year," she whispered, "I I should be rather pleased. But not at a registry office this time.'' THE END.

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many years. If she will do things in her own high-handed way, shell have to stand the consequences. I refuse to be made a catspaw that is, when I can help it. What is there for me to do now? Ton must nave made false declarations."

"We didn't know they'd be so strict with us. . . . We're not tradespeople or importers or" "No, you're worse. Two women, without even the wretched excuse of poverty, trying to defraud the Government!" said Knolys to his listener, and experience." then added for his own satisfaction: "She'll come back chastened in spirit, I hope, after having profited by this But that did not satisfy his hearer. "I really believe you're glad she's in trouble!" cried Susan Ambie. "Not that. But I shall be glad if this population of one hundred million citizens in their corporate capacity are able for once in her life to demonstrate to my good wife that she can't do everything she likes with everybody. I've tried her friends have tried society has tried perhaps the Government will succeed." Miss Ambie retorted in bravado that was somewhat tempered by an accusing tearfulness: "Then I'll go back alone. Carrie's my dearest friend. And I can't help it if I'm not strong enough to stand by quietly and see her die of mortification. Oh, Carrie!" concluded the orator, with an adoring relief, mingled with fear lest she had said the wrong thing. The doorway framed the svelte. lithe figure of a woman of forty. She nad tb-e undulating grace of some jungle creature, but none of the fire. Her soft hair just missed being tawny. Her red mouth was not quite scarlet. Her blue eyes were shrewd rather than provoking. In the conscious grace and insolence of her trailing blue gown there lay an artificiality that made it a weapon most dangerous to herself. Most women approach life as a small boy faces the temptation of an apple tree! Some stand timorously in the distance waiting for a kindly farmer to come and offer them his fruit. Some grub under the branches or at the roots -for what they- may gather there and try not to see when theirj portion is worm-eaten or rotten. Others shake the branches boldly, nor care if the descending storm of richness strike their uncovered heads. And there are those who persuade a companion to climb the branches, face the danger and hand down to the skulker in ambush the choicest fruit. Of such was Caroline Knolys. She knew how to make other people take her risks. : The fruit of life had never been the desire of her heart it had been always the calculated whim of her mind. But no woman can escape her heritage; it is to want something one day and want it fiercely enough Richmond People Praise Simple Mixture Many in Richmond praise the simple mixture of buckthorn bark, glycerine etc., known as Adler-i-ka. This remedy is the most THOROUGH bowel cleanser ever sold, being even used successfully In appendicitis. ONE SPOONFUL relieves almost ?;sANY' CASE of constipation, sour or gassy stomach. ONE MINUTE after you take it the gasses rumble and pass out. Adler-i-ka cannot gripe and tha INSTANT action is surprising. Clem Thistlethwaite, Druggist. Adv. DRUG CO. 105 Richmond Ave.

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to pay the price. Whether Caroline Knolys would ever be willing to pay was a question. The mistress of the house let its doorway frame her for a moment. Then she spoke with the easy assurance of one who comes home from a tiresome day's shopping: "Oh, there you are, Susan. I didn't know what had become of you. How are you Hubert?" and she offered her hand with an air of complete understanding. "I came right here I thought" began Susan eagerly. Mrs. Knolys fixed her with a glance that had some of the amusement but none of the tolerance that characterized her husband's expression. "You didn't think. You went right off your head." "Well?" asked that gentleman expectantly. His wife smiled graciously. "You seem to thrive during my absence." "I return the doubtful compliment. The same to you and many of them." "Thank you. You got through quickly, didn't you. Susan?" "When I saw they were going to be disagreeable I declared everything" said Miss Ambie in the tone of a noncombatant. "What else could I do?" "I told you exactly what to do," said Caroline, shrugging her shoulders in dismissal of the whole matter. "But when that woman searched me I" "You lost your nerve." "Oh, Carrie, I'm not thinking of myself. What did they do to you?" To which Knolys added an expectant, "Yes?" "To me? Why what's the matter?" asked Caroline, looking from one to another of the individuals with an amused wonder as to what they could be expecting and an impish certainty that they would not get it! Her Husband Explains His Worst Fears. "This was bound to come some time. I've always said so. I've alwavs nine, t ve always saia so. 1 ve always feared it," said the husband with as ,,,i, ,T , . . , .. . .. . . much I told you so satisfaction as his ! breeding would permit "Feared what?" asked Caroline, with succint and pertinent calmness. "Miss Ambie's told me everything!" Caroline looked at Susan with a cold sharpness and then her expression changed to one that would have given ideas to Mona Lisa. "Oh, in deed! say." Then there's nothing for me to I Knolys found himself becoming dis-1

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ft 1 3QC tinctly nettled. If there is one thing that annoys a man more than hopeless feminine competence it is serene competence that scorns his aid. A man has weapons to meet every form of feminine whim or emotion. But before utter indifference he is utterly disarmed. "How about the difficulty with your trunks?" he asked. "Why did you send for me?" "Sorry there's been no difficulty I didn't send for you," smiled Caroline, displaying a masterly masculine ability to answer questions and give no uncalled for information. "My dear, did that woman search ycu?" asked Susan. "Me? Oh. no! I very soon put her in her place. And then besides I was j very careful to have nothing on my ! person." ! "Caroline, there's been quite en- J ougn oi ims Danienng. uia you raase a declaration?" asked her husband. "Sufficient for all practical purposes," smiled the lady, with the compia cency of one who enjoys baiting a victim as long as no blood is spilled. She settled into an easy chair and nonchalantly picked up a paper. Miss Ambie, taking the hint, offered to busy herself arranging for servants by phone. She vanished through a side door. "How do you stand her?" gasped Knolys. "Women who might be dubbed 'bachelor maids' or "spinsters' have a certain claim on masculine chivalry and attention, but the predestined 'old maid,' be she ever so warmly human to look upon, does not fit in with the masculine scheme oi things." "She pays her way and is very useful," replied Caroline without taking her eyes from the paper before her. "I dare say, but to me she's simply an interfering nuisance." Still reading, Caroline tossed back her reply. "No. She's a constitutional Chief Cause of Pimples, Blotches, Sallow Skin (Messenger of Health.) tTnslghtly eruptions, pimples, bolls, tilotchea, nallow or muddy ala, usually are due to a sluggish liver, a constipated bowel and a polluted blood stream aa a consequence. How foolish In such cases to resort to outward applications, which can never have natural, permanent re re natural, permanent repeople only knew it, there le remedy, to be found in , which la aa effective as It I quick acting. It Is aa old sults, if more ia a vuv aimrl any drug store, which la aa effective as It la harmless and quick acting. It Is aa old formula, loess recognised ny tne meaicai P-.7ilc)L h"n!SJ'i tb.!ii form, ana at such email coat no one neea now J deprived of lta wonderful leu stow Js deprived nt. "flentanol tablet" that tke name are entirely vegetable and there's M tablt-formiag ingredient. Toa need only g;c about a dime's worth, and swallow one at bedtimo to realise there's nothing else quite so good for the p'jrtwMie. Tha action In the mornlns: Is so easy, so soo:!tlnr effect, von feel truly refreshed and inviaana insteaa oi a aKning ar:eri orated. Sentnnel tablets are not only tn finest remedy known tor constipation and torpid Mver. but offer the sanest. -UmcuMea of the 'inrjd Timiiipd. tnost sensiDie treatment ior compieiioa

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If 3$ altruist. That is, she has the soul of a servant." Then suddenly she did look up. "The Homestead stock at 64?" she inquired. "It closed at 70 yesterday. Why the Stock Took a Slump. "What made the slump?" asked the woman eyeing her husband as he mixed himself his third Scotch and soda. The Homestead Mills to Caroline were Knolys's chief source of income. She wondered idly if the six point9 drop and the three drinks were related. "A series of muck-raking articles abut factory reform and a lot of talk about child labor did the trick." re i Jl i This JP

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