Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 41, Number 154, 16 May 1916 — Page 10

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, TUESDAY, MAY; 16, 1916

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Bv Wm. J .Burns and Isabel Ostrander

A Real Detective Story by the World's Greatest Detective. A Fascinating Love Story Interwoven with the Tangled Threads of Mystery,

"As you know, be had confided in me absolutely, since I hare been old enough to be a real companion to him. I thought that I knew all . his business affairs those of the last two or three years at least but latterly his manner has puzzled and distressed me. Then, while you were in the dining-room, the telephone rang: twice." . "Yes; the calls were for your father. When he was summoned to the wire he immediately bad the connection given to him. on his private line, here in the library. After be returned to the dining-room he did seem slightly absent-minded, now that I think of it; but it did not occur to me that there could hare been any serious trouble. You know, dearest, ever since the evening when he promised to give you to me, he has consulted me,' also, to a great extent about his financial interests, and I think if any difficulty had arisen he would have mentioned it." - , v. 0'...--"Still, I am convinced that something , was on his mind. 1 tried to approach him concerning it, but he was evasive,, and put me off, laughingly. You know that father was -not the sort of man whose confidence could be forced even by those dearest to bim. I had been so worried about him, though, that I had a nervous headache, and after you left, Ramon, t retired at once. An hour or two ater, father had a visitor that fact is you know, the coroner elicited from 'he. servants, but it had, of course, no bearing on his death, since the caller as Mr, Rockamore. I heard his "oice when I opened the door of my .oom, after ringing for my maid to get some lavender salts. I could not leep, my headache grew. worse; and while I was struggling against it, I heard Mr. Rockamore depart, and my father's voice in the hall, after slamming of the front door, telling Wilkes o retire, that he would need bim no more that night. I heard the butler's ,'ootsteps pass down the hall, and then 1 rose and opened my door again. 1 don't know why, but I felt that I wanted to speak to father when he came up on his way to bed." Anita paused, and Ramon, in spite of himself, felt a thrill of puzzled wonder at her expression, upon which a dawning look, almost of horror, spread and grew.

"But he did not come, and after a.

while I stole to the head of the stairs and looked down. Jhere was a low light In the hall and a brighter one from the library, the. door of which was ajar. I supposed that father was working late over some papers, and I knew that I must not disturb him. I crept back to bed at last, with a sigh, but left my own door slightly open, so that if I should happen to be awake when he passed, I might call out to him. "Presently, however, I dozed off. I don't know how long I slept, but I awakened to hear voices angry voices, my father's and another, which I did not recognize. 1 got up and by the night-light I saw that the hands of the little clock on my dresser pointed to nearly three o'clock. I could not Imagine who would call on father so very late at night, and I feared at first it might be a burglar, but my common sense assured me that father would not stop to parley with a burglar. TVhlle I stood wondering, father raised his voice slightly, and I caught one word which he uttered. Ramon, that word sounded to me like 'blackmail!' Why, what is it? Why do you look at me so strangely?" she added hastily, at his uncontrollable start. "i? I am not looking at you strangely, dear; it is not possible that you could have heard aright. It must have simply been a fancy of yours, born of the state of your nerves. You could not really have understood." But Ramon Hamilton looked away

from her as he spoke, with a peculiarly significant gleam in bis candid eyes. - After a slight pause be went on: . "No one in the world could have attempted to blackmail . your father. He was the soul of honor and integrity, as no one knows better than you. Why, bis opinion was sought on every public question. You remember of hearing of the political honors he repeatedly refused, but he could,' bad he wished, have held the highest office at the disposal of the people. You must have"' been mistaken, Anita. ; There has never been a reason for the word, 'blackmail' to cross your father's lips." "I know I was not mistaken, for I heard more enough to convince me that I had been right in my surmise. Father was keeping something from me." - " - ' "Dear little girl, suppose he had been? Nothing of course, that could possibly reflect on bis integrity -don't you understand me but you are only

twenty, you know. It is - not to be expected; that you could quite comprehend the details of all the varied business interests of a man who had virtually led the finances of his coun

try for more than" twenty years.. Per

haps it was purely a business matter.! "I tell you Ramon, that that - man, whoever s he was, actually dared to threaten my father. When I heard

that word, 'blackmail-in the angriest

tones - which I had ever heard my father use, I did something mean, despicable, which only my culminating anxiety could have induced me to do. I slipped on my robe and slippers, stole halfway down the stairs and listened deliberately." . "Anita, you should not have done that. It was not like you to do so. If your father had wished you to know of this interview, don't you think he would have told you?"i (More Tomo rrow.)

T Y LES

FOR THE

Woman's Eye

Copyright. 1916, by the McCiure Bennie Dog had always wanted an umbrella very much, because he did not like to get his ears wet, but no one had ever given him one, and he had given up wishing when one morning he was going along the road and saw an umbrella lying on the ground. Bennie Dog opened the umbrella, and as the sun was hot he found it

was as nice a thing to own in pleasant weather as when it stormed. "I'll Just take a walk up past Tommie Cat's house with this umbrella," said Bennie Dog. "He always thinks he has all the stylish things first around this neighborhood, but he never carried an umbrella, I know." "Oh! look at Bennie Dog with an old man's umbrella," said Tommie Cat, running out of his house when he saw Bennie Dog. "Oh! but you look funny with that over your head when the sun is shining," said Tommie. "Where did you get it?" "I found it," said Bennie Dog. "I think it must belong to Mr. Man. and I am going to carry it to him.""Well, we can take it to Mr. Man after we 'have a little fun to pay for finding it," said Tommie aCt. "Come along down to the pond and I'll show you some fun." "If you think it will not spoil the umbrella. I'll go," said Bennie Dog. "Oh! it won't hurt an umbrella to get it wet. Don't you know that umbrellas always get wet when it rains?" said Tommie Cat. Bennie Dog knew that was true, so he trotted off after Tommie Cat down to the pond.

Helen and Warren ; Their Married Life

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

THINGS TO DO. Stop paper ice milk. Put away silver. Look up trunk strap. Speak to superintendent about Anna. Have him Ix faucet in pantry. Phone Mrs. Stevens, riean white slippers. Warren's suits pressed. Rubber heels on tan shoes.

Helen checked off the first and third items. She had seen the ice man that morning, put a note in the milk bottle, told elevator boy about the paper and had found the trunk strap.

The silver Anna was cleaning andi

the tailor had just called for Warren's suits. "The superintendent's here now, ma'am." announced Anna. Helen dropped her list and hurried out to the kitchep. "It'3 this hot-water faucet, Mr. Tnompson. "You can't turn it quite off, and I don't want to leave it dripping while we're gone." "The plumber's in the house now I'll send him right up." "And I 'want to speak about the maid. We're going tonight at 8:10, and I'm , leaving her to close up the apartment tomorrow. She's to give vcu the key, and I , wish you'd come up just to see that everything's all rifcht." "Certainly, Mrs. Curtis, I'll be glad to do that. You'll be gone about a month?" "Yes, we're going up through Canada Mr. Curtis has some business in Toronto. We havn't been away this summer so we thought we'd make a trip of It" - The superintendent gone. Helen tn,t Anna auround to the little ahora-

maker for the tan shoes she had left there yesterday. "Step in at the tailor's and tell him to send Mr. Curtis' suits as soon as they're pressed I'm waiting to pack them." By noon Helen had all the things crossed off her list and Warren's trunk ready. His clothes were always easy to pack a man had so few accessories. Over her own trunk she labored all the afternoon. The problem of what to take and what not to take was always a difficult one. Warren always fumed at her for taking too much. "Now, remember, we're not going to the Fiji islands," had been his last warning that morning. "We can always buy what we need, so for heaven's sake don't try to take the whole apartment! ..Pack light." Perhaps, after all, she had better not put in that electric iron. Her blue chiffon would be all that would need pressing, and the chambermaid would do that for a quarter. By five both steamer trunks, suit case and handbag were ready: By half past she was dressed for the train. It was almost six before she heard Warren's key in the door. "Thought I'd never get away." Tired and warm, he threw: down a bundle of papers. "A dozen things came up the last minute. All packed?" "Yes, dear, everything's-ready." . (More Tomorrow.)

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Newspaper Syndicate, New York. "Ah, here is the very thing," said Tommie Cat, "an old box. We. can sit in this and hold up the umbrella for a sail, and you'll see how we can glide over this pond. . Everybody will wish they were with us." So they both got into the box and Tommie Cat said he would hold the sail. So he opened the umbrella and away they went Into the middle of the pond. The wind was blowing pretty hard and when they were away from the shelter of the hill it blew right against the box. and the next thing Tommie Cat and Bennie Dog knew the box had upset and they were in the pond. Tommie Cat clung to the umbrella for a second, but he had to let it go, and Bennie Dog swam for the shore. When he turned around to look for Tommie Cat what should he see but Mr. Tommie sitting right on top of the umbrella sailing away across the pond. The umbrella had turned over and Tommie Cat had scrambled on top of it and there he sat. Then Bennie Dog saw something that made him shake with fear, not for himself, but for Tommie Cat; for not far from the umbrella Bennie Dog 6aw Mr. Fox ducking behind a floating log and he felt sure that if Mr. Fox could not get a duck he would grab Tommie Cat. "Tommie Cat! Look out for Mr. Fox behind the log!" shouted Bennie Dog as loud as he could shout. Tommie Cat had his eyes on the log, thinking he could jump on it when he came near enough and he was all ready to spring just as Bennie Dog warned him. Mr. Fox poked his head up just as Tommie jumped, and Tommie landed right "on his head, scratching and clawing as he held on to Mr. Fox's fur. Tommie Cat knew now that he would have to fight for his life, and he began by getting a firm hold on the fur on Mr. Fox's head, and then scratching at his eyes. Mr. Fox ducked his head into the water, but he could not shake off Tommie Cat, and he made for the shore as fast as he could, thinking the world was full of claws and sharp teeth. The minute they reached land Tommie Cat jumped and ran, and he did not stop until he was safe on the hilltop. Mr. Fox ran for home. His head and face were smarting from scratches and he had no appetite for dueks that day. "Look at Mr. Man's umbrella," said Bennie Dog a few minutes after Tommie Cat joined, him. "How will we get it? It is sailing out in the middle of the pond again." "Never mind about that," said Tommie Cat. "Mr. Man will be willing to lose his umbrella; we have saved his ducks from Mr. Fox. It is a good

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- CENTERVILLE, IndV. May : 16. The Epworth League will give a social Friday 'evening in the basement of the church. The admission . will be 9 ' cents and an old - hat." There will be a bat parade- and a prize iveo for the most elaborately , trimmed hat. j A program , consisting , of unusual features, soch as recitations, said backward; a quartet, sung on the roof, etc, will be rendered by. the most prominent people of the town. There, will be a coon hunt, fifty coons to be captured in fifteen minutes, and a debate on "Resolved,; That woman's work is harder than , man's"; also a take-what-you-get supper. The proceeds will be used for a missionary pledge and hospital fund. - The Woman's Home Missionary so-

Today's Aid To Beauty.

clety was entertained Thursday afternoon by Mrs. ,Warren Meadows and Mrs. E. Wright at the home of the latter. Devotions were led by Mrs. William Kempton. The subject of discussion, "Home Missions an Interrogative Force," wis opened "by Mrs. H. Peelle, followed by a short reading on "The Gathering of the Nations." The next meeting will be held with Mrs. William Kempton the first Thursday in June. . ' -

NEW CASTLE, Ind., May 16.F. A Wilcox, who thought he was touched' for three, dollars in bills last Christmas found them . chewed to bits ' In a rat's nest ."

Whooping Cough. "When my daughter had whooping cough she coughed so hard at one time , that she had hemorrhage of the Rings. I was terribly alarmed about her condition. Seeing Chamberlain's Cough Remedy so highly recommended, I got bar a bottle and It relieved the cough at -ice. Before she had finished two bottles of this remedy she was entirely well,"' writes Mrs. ; S.V F. Grimes, Crooksville, Ohio. . Obtainable everywhere. Adv. .-ri .-:" . -

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In the new- sport sweaters and the j general details are more attractive j than ever. A ' vivid green silk is j shown with trimming of white, this

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COLISEUM. The many admirers of House Peters, the brilliant dramatic actor, whose work in "The Hand of Peril" created such a furore, will be interested in the announcement that he will be starred in the feature to be shown at the Coliseum theatre on Tuesday and Wednesday.

LYRIC. "The Marriage of Arthur" at the Lyric tonight. "Arthur and his friends are having a big time at the party when his wife comes in and takes a table nearby. He does not know her in the becoming clothes she is wearing, but when the other men notice her, he recognizes her as his wife. . . While Arthur did not care for his wife at. home, he becomes very jealous when he sees her surrounded by other men. He goes to her table and in his rage starts to choke her, ' but she shows him the slipper and he realizes that he has been found out. The two then become reconciled and Arthur promises that their home will be a happy one in the future.

thing you found that umbrella, Bennie Dog; we have been of great service to Mr. Man." "Perhaps we have," said Bennie Dog, looking with longing eyes at the umbrella floating in the pond. "Look!" said Tommie Cat. "there is Mr. Man out in a boat; he is going to get the umbrella after all, so you need not worry, Bennie Dog." "I am glad he has it, but I did want to carry an umbrella in the rain," said Bennie Dog. "It must be nice to have the rain all around you and not have it get on your ears." Tomorrow's Story "Why Mosquitoes Buzz." .

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