Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 41, Number 152, 13 May 1916 — Page 8

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. SATURDAY, May 13, 1916 Mere's stery S Society Girl at Work in Gamp TheTwo Sisters A Real Detective Story by the World's Greatest Detective. A Fascinating Love Story Interwoven with the Tangled Threads of Mystery. vice By Wm. J. Burns and Isabel Ostrander

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Had" New Illington been part of aiij empire instead of one of the most fm-j portant cities in the greatest republic in the word, the cry "The King ; is dead! Long live the King!" might veil - have resounded through : its streets on that bleak November morning when Pennington Xawton. . was found dead, seated quietly in his armchair by the hearth in the library, vhra en manv vast nf natfrtnal

import had been first conceived, and the details arranged which had carried them on and on to brilliant consummation. ' Lawton, the magnate, the supreme power in the financial world of the whole country, had been suddenly cut down in his prime. The news of his passing traveled more quickly than the extras which -rolled damp ,frora the presses could -convey ft through the avenues and alJCfJB Ul IUC tit t uuor; vvcaiiuicob vjlIzen he had been, and through the high ways and byways of tie country, -which his marvelous mentality' and finaacA harl crt tnanifiiotlv ef ronp-f h on. ed in its position as a world power. At the banks and trust companies there were hurriedly-called directors' -meetings, where men sat about long 'mahogany tables, and talked constrainedly about the immediate future Tand the vast changes which the death 'f this great man would necessarily "bring. In the political clubs, his pass ing was discussed with bated breath. At, the hospitals and charitable in stitutions which be bad so generously - helped to maintain, In the art clubs -and museums, in the Cosmopolitan Opera House in the founding of twhich he had been leading spirit and .unfailing thereafter, its most generous contributor he was mourned with a sincerity no less deep because-of its admixture of self-intere6t. In aristocratic drawing-rooms, there were whispers over the tea-cups; the -luck of Ramon Hamilton, the rising -.young lawyer, whose engagement to Anita Lawton. daughter and sole heiress of the dead financier, had just been announced, was remarked upon with the frankness of envy, left momen.ar.lv una-narrieri hv the sudden For three days Pennington Lawton lay in simple, but veritable state. -Telegrams poured in from the highest representatives of States, clergy and finance. Then, while the banks and charitable institutions momentarily closed their doors, and flags throughout the city were lowered in respect .to the man wno had gone, tue runerai procession wound its solemn way from the aristocratic church of St. James. ' tp the graveyard. The last extras were ' issued, detailing the service; the last : obituaries printed, the final paeans of praise were sung, and the world went on-ita'way. : During the two days thereafter, niul- ' tltudinous affairs of more imperative public, import were brought to light; ! a celebrated -murder was committed; : a notorious band of criminals was t rounded up; a political boss toppled : and fell from his self-made pedestal; a ; diplomatic scandal of far-reaching ef-fr-t was unonrthpfl nnrl in the nmss nf ; passing events, the fact that Lawtou : had been eliminated from the scheme of things faded into comparative insignificance, from the point of view of J he general public. "hi the great house on Belleair Avenue, which the man who was gone had called home, a tall, slender young girl sat listlessly conversing with pompous little man, .whose clerical garb proclaimed the reason for his coming. The girl's sable garments pathetically betrayed her youth, and In her soft ;pyes was the pained and wounded look "of a child face to lace with its first comprehended sorrow. The Rev. Dr. Franklin . laid an hspfiuipus hand upon her arm. "Ttte Ixjril gave and the Lord hatb lake away ; blessed be the name of tl:r Lord." t Aniti, t .un tnn vh i L'orm I ftllhtlv anil saised a trembling, protesting hand. "Please," she said, softly, "I know I heard ycu say that at St. James' I wo days ago. I try to believe, to think, that in some inscrutable way, God meant it for the best when he took my father so ruthlessly from me. .with no premonition, no sign of warning. It is hard. Dr. Franklin. I cannot coordinate my thoughts just yet. You must give me a little time." Tfce minister bent his .short body s-, t i 1 1 lower before her. "My dear child, do you remember, also, a later prayer in the same service?" unconsciously he assumed the lull rich, rounded, pulpit tones, which were habitual with him. " 'Lord. Thou hast been our refuge from one generation to another; before the mountains were brought forth or ever the earth and world were made ' " A low knocking upon the ddor in KS THE r IP AD I P PtTtS.i THE WOfclft j - A The cradle manufacturer is naturalV out for the rocks.

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peared; - -. Mr. Rockamore and Mr. Mallowe," Anita Lawton read aloud from the cards he presented. "Oh, I can't see them now.. Tell them, Wilkes, that my minister is with roe, and they must forgive me for denying myself to them." The butler retired, and the Rev. Dr. - EVanbllTt of t Vi k man trT rf fwn Af tho ! most prominent and influential men in the city- since the death of Lawton, turned bulging, inquiring eyes upon the girl. "My dear child, is it wise for you to refuse to see two of your father's best friends? -You will need their help, their kindness a woman alone in the world, no matter how exalted her position, needs friends. 1 Mr. Mallowe is not one of my parishioners, but I understand that as president of the Street Railways,, he was "closely associated with you dear father in many affairs of finance. Mr. Rockamore 1 know to be a man of almost unlimited power in Sketches from Life Sheer

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Helen and Warren; Their Married Life

By MRS. MABEL HERBERT URNER Originator of "Their Married Life," Author of "The Journal of a eglected Wife," "The Woman Alone," Etc.

"Jove. I'm tiled! Warren sank on the window seat to unlace his slices. "We'll not go out there another Sunday too long a trip." "But they've been begging us to come we had to go this once." Helen was turning down the covers. "By George, the mosquitos were fierce on that porch!" meditatively scratching his ankle. "Havn't had one here." " "She said they hadn't been bad1 they were worse tonight than they'd been all summer. "Huh, they always say that. learn to lie when you live in the country. Well, hustle now and get to bed. I've got a hard day tomorrow." "There's a good breeze, dear," when a little later she turned out the lights and drew up the shades. "We'll sleep tonight." "Well, I don't need any rocking." And, turning over with a yawn. Warren was -almost instantly asleep. Dozing off. Helen was aroused by a sharp sting on her arm and the unmistakable buzz of a mosquito. - Mosquitos! They had just boasted of. having had none all summer. WarA man who will build air castle, will buy sold bricks.

the world in which Mr. Lawton moved. Should you not see them ? Remember : that you are "under my protection in every way, of - course, but since our Heavenly Father has Been fit to take unto Himself your dear one,.! feel that it would be advisable for you to place yourself under the temporal" guidance of those whom he trusted, at any rate the time being." " ,;

"Oh, I feel that they were my father's friends, but no mine. ' Since mother and my littlesister and brother were lost at sea, so many . years ago, I have learned to depend wholly upon my father, who was more comrade than parent. Then, as you know, I net Mamon Mr. Hamilton, and of course I trust him as implicitly as I must trust you. But although, on many occasions, I assisted my father to receive his financial confreres on a social basis, I cannot feel at a time like this that 1 care to talk with any except those who are nearest and dearest to me." More Monday. Devill-i reu stirred, rubbed his neck, scratched his left elbow and awoke. "Great Scott, this room's alive with mosquitos!" ' "Yes. I just felt one." admitted Helen drowsily. "One?" scratching vigorously with! both hands. "Turn on that light!" "No no. the light'll only draw more. Wait. I'll get the camphor." "Where's that net we had last summer?" "Dear,,we can't get that out tonight.

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closet. Here coming out of the bathroom with the camphor bottl-: "rub this on your neck and arms." "Hold on, you'll get that blame stuff in my eyes," as she sprinkled it lavishly about the pillows. "Now keep your arms covered," drawing the sheet over him. For a while, the camphor was effective, but the strength of the fumes soon evaporated and the mosquitos jubilantly renewed" their attack. Helen, again dozing off, was conscious of an exultant buzzing and a fresh sting through the lace yoke of her nightgown. "Holy smoke, we can't stand this!" With a vicious slap at his forehead, Warren was out of bed. switching on the lights. "For the love of Mike, look up there," blinking at the ceiling." Distinct against the white kalsomine were half a dozen robust mosquitos. " "Get me a broom or something. I'll put 'em on the blink." "Oh. dear, you can't do that you'll ruin the ceiling." "Get me a broom, I tell you." Helen felt for her slippers and hurried out to the kitchen. She came back with the broom over which she had tied a clean dust cloth. Standing on the window seat, Warren "was brandishing a pillow.. With menacing aim he whacked it against the wall. "Got him that time dead as Rameses II!" examining with satisfaction the smear on the pillow slip. "Those cases were clean today! indignantly Helen snatched the pillow, both' sides of which bore evidence of the slaughter. "There's a big fellow. Watch me swat him!" Grabbing thebroom, Warren leaped on the bed.

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' "A TANGLED WEB." Caryl Marvin paused "uncertainly! after the doorman had ushered herl into the lobby of the . Waldorf -Aetona. Until now she had never been in a i large hotel, and the place surprised her. Although it was only early Sep- j tember there seemed to : the 'unsophisticated girl to be many people stand-! in g about. What must the crowds be i here when the season was in lull j swing! Seeing her hesitation and fm-l barrassment, the man who had opened J the door for her to enter accosted her j politely. ' j "Is there anywhere especial you j wish to go where I can direct you?". I he asked. "Or is there someone you ! wish to see?" ! "Oh, no," she stammered. "I was j to meet a friend here that's all." j "Perhaps in the Turkish room i

there," he suggested, pointing to the shaded room with its colored lights glowing in the dusky corners.. "I'll wait there for her," said Caryl, entering and seating herself. As soon as the man had stepped out ! of sight the girl got up hastily and glided swiftly from the room into the hall beyond it. Here she turned to the left and soOn found herself crossing a corridor in which peaple were seated, doing, apparently, nothing but looking at other people. She paused again and addressed a passing attendant "Where, is the other entrance to the hotel?" she asked tremulously. "Isn't there another entrance besides the one back there?" "Certainly," replied the man with the patronizing air peculiar of his kind. "Go right across and through there and you will get to it." Caryl drew a sigh of relief as she followed directions. Soon she would be out of this big and strange place and on her way home. She was familiar with Thirty-fourth street, having gone through it sundry times in a cross-town car. When she emerged from 'ae hotel she looked about rer, then, getting her bearings, she walked almost ran for the first few steps toward Sixth avenue. It was weir for her peace of mind that she did not look behind her. Had she done so she would have seen her recent escort standing, in the door by which she had just passed out. "Yes," he muttered to himself, as she disappeared from his sight, "fshe is a little liar, no doubt, but an inter esting study, nevertheless. The fact that her wits work quickly makes her xJor

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much more fun than if she were one of the commonplace, timid kind. Vain as a peacock, too but evidently new a.t the man-game. 1 must see .ier again soon." s With which determination he lighted a cigar and decided to look up Kelley Delaine and make his peace with him. Thus it came about that as Julia Marvin looked anxiously from per window 011 the second floor of Mit. Halloran'f lodging house she saw her sister coming wearily homeward. The child had a jaded look, Julia noted, and walked as if she were ill. Then as sho remembered the discarded drefrs that still lay on the floor, and

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observed the light silk gown which Caryl wore, she was more mystified 1 than before. "Where can she have been?" she muttered uneasily. Bythe time Caryl had reached the t room in which her sister anxiously awaited her, Julia had hung up the dress so carelessly dropped by the wearer, ahd taken oft" her own hat. and was trying to look as if she had not been frightened by the younger girl s absence. "Well, little sister," she said, with an effort to speak lightly, "I was just wondering where ybu were." "For pity's sake," Caryl broke in impatiently, "don't begin to ask questions as soon as I get into the room! I'm too tired to want to answer your catechism." Julia flushed. "You must be verytired, my dear, to .speak like that, when I have not asked you anything." "I am tired!" repeated the girl. She v.alked over to the mirror and surveyed her perspiring face with "keen satisfaction. "Don't I look like a fright!" she exclaimed. "You know I do, so don't say I don't! I never can have nice things such a most girls have, and 1 never can go where I please without knowing that I have to give an account of myself. Of course you'll insist on knowing just, what I've been doing every minute of the day. Well, then. I'll tell you. 1 did my work this morning and then" ! came home ahd changed one shabby dress for another that's not 1 CAN'T LOSE HAIR Twent Years From Today a Ealdheade'd Man Will be an Unusual Sight. Unc of the most prominent druggists of America made -a statement a few weeks ago which has caused a great deal of discussion among scientists in the medical pre$s. He iaid: ""If the new hair grower, Mildredina Hair Remedv, increases Ms salps as ii had durinir Ihp naft vrar I i will he used -by nearly every man, woman and child ia America within eight years. "When Mildredina Hair Remedy is used almost universally, dandruff will disappear and with its departure baldness, itching scalp, splitting hair and all scalp diseases will follow and twenty years from now a bald head win be a rarity.- sample sent for ioc i l i)a' postage. Mail orders filled by 1 -Mildred Louise Co.. Boston. Mass. For ale by A. G. Luken fe Co. Adv. OOCGOOO0OOOK? TANDARD UPPLY Co. Cor. 10th and North F. Sts. Cement Blocks Lumber Posts Woodwork Cement Doorsand Plaster Sash v Lime Shingles Sewer Pipe Roll Roof- Drain Tile ing, Flue Lining Slate Shingles For Quality and Service, Call 2459. . ashmaloitOToiiri tfest Locatioii at a Price You Can Afford." 18th and Main.

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much better cheap rags, both of them and then I -went out to luncheon." 1 loiuncneon: repeaiea juiia. mn why change your dress for that?" "Recluse." said the eirl. tossine her neaa, 1 went vvnn a gentleman. "Oh!" gasped Julia. It was but a monosyllable, yet the tone in which it was uttered . conveyed consternation, anxiety and disapproval. . Caryl had spoken of a strange man Mr. Delaine's friend who wanted to know her surely Mr. Delaine would not have allowed this man to take her out to luncheon. More Monday. - Stomach Trouble. "I suffered with stomach trouble for years and tried everything I heard of, but the only relief I got was temporary until last spring I saw Chamberlain's Tablets advertised and procured a bottle of them at our drug store. I got immediate relief from th.t dreadful heaviness after eating and from pain in tLe stomach," writes Mrs. Linda Harrod. Fort Wayne, Ind. Obtainable evcrywherc. Adv. The Place Beautiful" 18th and Main A touch of Vernittl and your furniture is new again In almost every home there is furniture that is becoming worn and dingy with here and there a rocker or other article that does not match the prevailing tone of the room. You can quickly make old furniture like new bring the pieces that do not match into complete harmony with Vernicol Vernicol comes in convenient cans of all sizes and in a large variety of colors such as oak, mahogany, cherry, walnut, or plain colors. Vernicol is fadeless, and is ku exceptionally good finish for old woodwork and old floors. Color card free at our store. Kaner & Fahlsing 42S Main SI. Phone 1336

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