The Syracuse Journal, Volume 4, Number 36, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 4 January 1912 — Page 3

SERIAL STORY C\

ELUSIVE

ISABEL

By , JACQUES FUTRELLE , r ■ Illiutraticna by M. Hull HER

O9pyrjtf.lt. TJK, by The Associated Sunday Mau*”izi4*L r Copyright XA». by The Bobbs-Merriil Company. » SYNOPSIS. Count di Rosinl, the Italian atnbas«ndor, is at dinner With diplomats when messenger summons him to the embiissy, where a beautiful young woman asks' for a ticket to the embassy ball. The ticket is made out in the name of Miss . Isabel Thorne. Chief Campbell of the secret service, and Mr. Grimm, his head detective, are warned that a plot is brewing in Washington, and Grimm goes to the state ball for information. His attention is called to Miss Isabel Thorne, who with her companion, disappears. A shot is heard and Senor Alvarez of the Mexican legation, is found wounded. Grimm is assured Miss Thorne did it; he visits her. demanding knowledge of the affair, and arrests Pietro Petrozinni. Miss Thorne visits an old bomb-maker, and they discuss a wonderful experiment. Fifty thousand dollars is stolen from the office ‘of Senor liodriguez, the minister from Venezuela, and while detectives are in‘vestigating the robbery Miss Thorne appears as a guest of the legation. Grimm accuses her of the theft; the money is restored, but a new mystery occurs in the disappearance of Monsieur Boissegur (he French ambassador. Elusive Miss Thorne reappears,j bearing a letter which states that the ambassador has been kidnaped and demanding ransom. The ambassador returns and mgain strangely disappears. Later he is rescued from an old house in the suburbs. It is discovered that Pietro Petrozinni shot Senor Alvarez and that he is Prince d’Abruzzi. Grimm figures in a mysterious jail delivery. He orders both Miss Thorne and d’Abruzzi to leave the country; they are conveyed to New York and placed on a steamer but return. Grimm’s coffee is drugged and upon regaining consciousness he finds a sympathetic note from Isabel ThoYne. The conspirators against the government are located and their scheming Is overheard. Grimm orders <?AbruZzi to destroy the unsigned compact. Isabel compels him to obey and is termed a traitress by the conspirators. The detective informs high government officers of the scheme. CHAPTER XXV.—(Continued.) “It Is only a request from the secretary of war that I be permitted to meet the inventor of the wireless percussion carb” Mr. Grimm explained carelessly. “The negotiations have reached a point where the War Department must have one or two questions answered directly by the inventor. Simple enough, you see.” “But it has been understood, and I have personally impressed it upon the secretary of war, that such a meeting Is impossib’e,” objected Mr. Howard. “All negotiations have been conducted through me, and I have, as attorney for the inventor, the right to answer any question that may properly be answered. This now is a request for a personal interview with the inventor.” “The necessity for such an interview has risen unexpectedly, because of a pressing need of either closing . the deal or allowing it to drop,” Mr. Grimm stated “I may add that the success of the deal depends entirely on this interview’.” Mr. Howard was leaning forward in his chair with wrinkled f>row intently studying the calm face of the young man. Innocent himself of allo the intrigue and international * chicanery back of the affair, representing only an individual in these secret negotiations, he saw in the statement, as Mr. Grimm intended that he should, the possible climax of a great business contract.-, His greed. was aroused; it might mean hundreds of thousands of dollars to him. “Do you think the deal can be made?” he asked at last. “I have no doubt there Will be some sort of a deal,” replied Mr. Grimm. “As I say, however, it is absolutely dependent on an interview’ between the inventor ans myself at once—this "afternoon.” , Mr. Howard thoughtfully drummed mi his desk for a little while. From the first, save in so far as the patent rights were concerned, he had seen no reasons for the obligations of utter secrecy Which had been enforced upon him. perhaps.*if he laid it before the Inventor in this new light, with the deal practically closed, the interview’ would be possible-! “I have no choice in the matter, Mr. • Grimm,” be said at last. “I shall have to put- it to my client, of course. Can you give’ me, say, half an hour, to communicate with him?” “Certainly,” and Mr. Grimm rose obligingly. “Shall I .wait outside here or call again?” “You may wait, if you don’t mind,” said Mr. Howard. “I’ll be able to let you know in a few minutes, I hope.” Mr. Grimm bowed and passed out. At the end of twenty-five minutes’ the door of Mr. Howard’s private office opened and be appeared. His face was riolent’y red, evidently from anger, and pei-miration stood on his forehead. “I can't do anything with him,” he declared savagely. “He says simply that negotiations must be conducted through me or not at all.” Mr. Grimm .had risen; he bowed courteously. • “Very well," he said placidly. “You understand, of course, as the note Bays, that this refusal of his terminates the negotiations, so—”

“But Just a moment —•" Interposed Mr. Howard quickly. “Good day,” said Mr. Grimm. The door opened and closed; he was gone. Three minutes later he stepped into a telephone booth at a near-by corner and took down the receiver. “Hello, central!” he called, and then: “This is Mr. Grimm of the Secret Service. What number Was Mr. Howard talking to?” “Eleven double-nought six, Alexandria,” was the reply. “Where is the connection? In whose name?” “The connection is five miles out from Alexandria In a farm-house on the old Baltimore Road," came the crisp, business-like answer. “The name Murdock Williams.” “Thank you,” said Mr. Grimm. “Good-by.” A moment la,ter he was standing by the curb waiting for a car, when Howard, still angry, and with an expression of deep chagrin on his face, came bustling up. “If you can give me until to-morrow afternoon, then —” he began. Mr. Grimm glanced around at him, and with a slight motion of his head summoned two men who had been chatting near-by. One of them was Blair, and the other Hastings. “Take this man in charge,” he directed. “Hold him in solitary confinement until you hear from me. Don’t talk to him, don’t let any one else talk to him, and don’t let him talk. If any person speaks to him before he is locked up, take that person in charge also. He is guilty of no crime, but a single word from him now will endanger my life." That was all. It was said and done so quickly that Howard, dazed, confused and utterly unable to account J (U® i a “I Have Been Cast Off by That Government, Stripped of My Rank, and Branded as a Traitor!" for anything, was led away without a protest. Mr. Grimm, musing gently on the stupidity of mankind in general and the ease with which it is possible to lead even a clever individual into a trap, if the bait appeals to greed, * took a car and went up town. , Some three hours later he walked briskiy along a narrow path strewn with pine needles, which led tortuously up to an old colonial farm-house*. Outwardly the place seemed to be deserted. The blinds, battered and stripped of paifit by wind and rain, were all closed and one corner of the small veranda had crumbled away from age and neglect. In the rear of the house, rising from an ,old barn, a thin pole with a cup-like attachment at the apex, thrust its point into the open above the dense, odorous pines. Mr. Grimm noted these things as he came along. He stepped up quietly on the veranda and had just extended one hand to rap on the door when it was opened from within, and Miss Thorne stood before him. He- was not surprised; intuition had told him he would meet her again, perhaps here in hiding. A sudden quick tenderness lighted the listless eyes. For an instant she stood staring, her face palljd against the gloom of the hallway beyond, and she drew a long breath of relief, as she pressed one hand to her breast. The blue-gray eyes were veiled by drooping lids, then she recovered herself and they opened into his. In them he saw anxiety, apprehension, fear even. “Miss Thorne!” he greeted, and he bowed low over the white'Tiand which she impulsively thrust toward him. “I —1 knew some one was coming,” she stammered, in a half whisper. “I didn’t know it was you; I hadn’t known definitely until this instant that you were safe from the explo-

DICKENS' MADE A COLONIST For Forty-five Years His Son Toiled in the Australian Bush. ForFy-five years ago a keen, pleasant faced man in a green velvet waistc<?at might have br.en seen on the platform at Waterloo Station. London At his side was a young fellow of 20, his face flushed with emotion. “Gocd-by, my boy, and God bless you,” spoke the elder man. “Do your duty and keep up your pluck.” The young man thought of all the good times he had bad with his father —of all the wonderful' talks, and games, and journeys they had enjoyed together—he and the best, the kindest father in all the world—the tears sprang tc his eyes. The two gripped hands again and the train steamed away. And that night England— and

sion. I am glad—glad, you under stand; glad that you were not —” She stopped and fought back her emotions, then went on: “But you must upt come In; you must go away at once. Your —your life is in danger here." “How did you know I was coming?" inquired Mr. Grimm; “From the moment Mr. Howard telephoned,” she replied, still hastily, still in the mysterious half whisper. “I knew that it could only be some one from your bureau, and I hoped that it was you. I saw how you forced him to call us up here, and that was all you needed. It was simple, of course, to trace the telephone call.” Both of her hands closed over one of his desperately. “Now, go, please. The Latin compact is at an end: you merely invite death here. Now, go!” Her eyes were searching thq listless face with entreaty in them; the slender fingers were fiercely gripping one of Mr. Grimm’s nerveless hands. For an instant some strange, softening light flickered in the young°man’B eyes, then it passed. “I have no choice. Miss Thorne,” he said gravely at last. . “I am honor bound by my government to do one of two things. If I fail in the first of those—the greater—it can only be because—” He stopped; hope flamed up in her eyes and she leaned forward eagerly studying the impassive face. "Because —?” she repeated. “It can only be because I am’ killed,” he added quietly. Suddenly his whole manner changed. “I should like to see the—the inventor?” ■ “But don’t you see—don’t you see you will be killed if—?” she began tensely. j. “May I see the inventor, please?" Mr. Grimm Interrupted. For a little time she stood, white and rigid, staring at him. Then her lids fluttered down wearily, as if to veil some crushing agony within her, and she stepped aside. Mr. Grimm entered and the door closed noiselessly behind him. After a moment her hand rested lightly on his arm, and he was led into a room to his left This door, too, she closed, immediately turning to face him. “We may talk here a few minutes without interruption,” she said in a low tone. Her voice was quite calm now. “If you will be—?” “PJease understand. Miss Thorne,’* he interposed mercilessly K “that I must see the inventor, whoever he is. What assurance have I that-this is not some ruse to permit him to escape?” “You have my word of honor," she said quite simply. “Please go on.” He sat down “You will see him too soon, I fear," she continued slowly. “If you had not come to him he would have gone to you.” She swayed a little and pressed one hand to her eyes. “I would to God it were in my power to prevent that meeting!" she exclaimed desperately. Then, with an effort: “There are some things I want to explain to you. ’lt may be that you will be willing to go then of your own free will. If I lay bare to you every step I have taken since I have been in Washington; if I make clear to you every obscure point in this hideous if I confess to you that the Latin compact has been given up for all time, w’on’t that be enough? Won’t you go then?” Mr. Grimm's teeth closed with a snap. “I won’t want thdt—from you,” he declared. “But if I should tell it all to you?” she pleaded. “I won’t listen, Miss Thorne. You once paid me the compliment of saying that I was one man you knew in whom you had never been disappointed.” The listless eyes w’ere blazing into her own now. “I have never b’een disappointed in you. I will not permit you to disappoint me now. The secrets of your government are mine if I can get them —but I won’t allow you to tell them to' me.” “My government,” Miss Thorne repeated, and her lips curled sadly. “I —I have no government. I have been cast off by that government, stripped of my rank, and branded as a traitor!” “Traitor!” Mr. Grimm’s lips formed the word silently. “I failed, don’t you see?” she rushed on. “Ignominy is the reward of failure. Prince d’Abruzzi went on to New York that night, cabled a full account of the destruction of the compact to my government, and sailed home on the following day. I was the responsible one, and now it ail comes back on me.” For a moment she was silent. “It’s so singular, Mr. Grimm. The fight from the first was iMkween us—we two; and you won.” (TO BE CONTINUED.)

London —and Rochester and Gad’s *l3ilJ—were shut out for forty-five years while the young man worked -find dreamed and hoped in the Australian .bush. The elder man was Charles Dickens—the younger was his son, Alfred; Tennyson Dickens, god-son of the poet laureate. Forty-five years passed. And then one morning Alfred Tennyson Dickens. no longer y ong. but with white hair, arrived in .his native London. Ahead of Optimist. The man who accepts calamity when it hits him as so much necessary medicine administered for his own good, and makes no 'igly face when swallowing defeat, even if he admits it, is not to be classed as a pessimist. Such a man is far ahead of the optimist who insists he never had anything handed him and fools himself, es h« often does others.

4; Fashion

CARING FOR THE BACK IMPORTANT CONSIDERING PRESENT STYLE OF EVENING DRESS. ■ . ' That Portion of Beautiful Feminine Anatomy Just Now Needs Special Attention—Expert Massage Is Especially Recommended. Since it has become the fashion to wear evening dresses cut very low in the back, that portion of feminine anatomy has been the object of more attention than It has heretofore claimed. Every woman who wears evening dress sees to it that her back makes as good an appearance as her face, I her coiffure or any other part of her person. Unfortunately, many women who wear decollete are not blessed with beautiful backs. How may they aid nature and attain through their own efforts this desirable feature? Several beauty culturlsts have made ' a specialty of treating the back, and [ this is what one of them has to say on the subject: “The back should be rather flat in shape, with just the right curve, for beauty. Although a woman may not be made after these lines, she may help her back to beauty by a few artificial aids. First in importance is the color, next the way it is polished. “Back polishing restores a certain luster to the skin. It makes it shine with the softness and freshness of youth. To have a well polished back means as much tea woman as to | have a face which shines with the natural bloom of youth. It takes i years off her age. “Expose the back to the air for a short time each day. Try to get the skin so that it does not have the shriveled look that comes from having beeu too long covered up. “Give the back the Russian massage dally by having cold .water sprayed upon it. Th#- Russian woman massages her skin, not with oils or with the hand, but with a needle spray. She has it turned upon her back until,the flesh tingles as though It bad been gone over with an electric sponge. “Turkish massage is also necessary | to remove the yellowness of a negi lected back. It calls for a very rough : towel and for strength and courage ■ in operating it. The back is tough and one can seesaw the Turkish towel a long tiine over it without injury. “The velvet pad is about the best back polisher known. It is small in fitting conveniently in the hand. When dipped in oil it is the best kind of food for a rough and tired looking back. Chamois skin is also good. It may be dipped in powder and rubbed on the back somewhat more vigorously than one would dare to powder the face. The nfake-up of the back is not so very dissimilar from the make-up of the face, but it is more strenuous. “For a back bleach never forget peroxide.. Lime juice is a good back bleach. Cream of tartar slightly moistened makes a good back lotion. It is necessary to use an acid as a ! Whitener.”

FOR DINNER OR THE OPERA i J 1 .<■ --®I ’ i zJWO ’ Si ■ fiioi •i Hi i ■ jJZ b! if The new velvets are almost as soft is chiffon in texture and the sheen of them is exquisite. This beautiful dinner and opera gown has a tunic oi brocaded apple green velvet over a

GOOD IN MANY MATERIALS Cloth, Serge, Satin or Other Featurer May Be Employed for This Fashionable Coat. Cloth, serge, satin, or, in fact, man? different materials can be used for the coat we show here. It has a. big sailor collar faced with satin to match, and braided at the edge; the revert and cuffs match this. The coat is very loose fitting and J jsT’ I I ' Bib iH y has the right side of front fastened over below revers with large buttons and cord loops. Materials required: 4% yards 46 inches wide, 4 yards satin for" lining, 1 yard, for facing, about 1% dozen yards braid. New Walking Hat. There is a walking hat with a voluminous crown that reminds one of the old hats of Henry VIII., and again they take on somewhat of the lines of the Directory. The latter are specially pleasing with a Directoire gown or coat; as both of these are in favor, it is rather joyful to find a hat that carries out the epoch.

bodice and petticoat of white satin—the contrasting effect being just now the fashion. On the skirt and small pointed train is the inevitable touch of fur. Beneath these soft slim gowns, only the softest of lace pettii coats are worn and beneath the petticoat is a combination garment of clinging, woven glove silk. These soft garments come now in the same fine, beautiful woven silk fabric thaSt embroidered silk gloves are made of, and nothing could be daintier or better fitting for milady’s wear. Coat Collars in Many Styles. The new models of coat collars do not show the regulatio'n sailor effect, for several of them are made with tbe new shaped sailor, which almost reach es to the waist line, but is considerably narrower than the old style. Largs round collars are also meeting with success. Hoods and hood effects are popular Some of the coats have the collars made so as to have an adjustable hood which can be used to cover the head when desired. When unbuttoned it forms a sailor collar. Double collars, consisting of a deep cape collar coming over the shoulders and a small turndown collar, usually of another material, are seen on some coats. Street Coats. The long, enveloping, luxurious wrap overcoat, be it in fur, velvet, plush, cloth or what not, is dominating everything in the way of outdoor coverings, and it will be something of a question how the actively disposed are to take their walks abroad weighed down by sortie the magnificence which is destined for street wear.

CHINA’SSTRONG MAN Both Factions Offer Leadership to Yuan Shi KaL Crafty Oriental Turned Tide In Boxer Revolt by Shooting Man Protected by “Bullet Proof Oath" —Friend of the People. Shanghai.—Yuan . Shi Kai, called ’ “the strong man of China,” towards whom the eyes of all the world today ' are turned, has been offered the ; premiership by the throne and the | presidency by the Republicans. It i» | pointed put that at the time of the I Eoxer war, Yuan was the one man in. ' China who could command the respect j of foreigners and at the same time | unite the warring Chinese. Yuan accepted the premiership, coni sidering it the best opportunity to bring about peace. A few days after he had assumed these duties he told his friends that he had thought the i situation over carefully and coni eluded that there is no hope of feaviug the Manchu dynasty and that a change of government is inevitable. Yuan is said to be of lowly birth, meager education and superficial knowledge. He has never traveled beyond the borders of. his own country and he speaks no language but bin \own. His countrymen say that the strength of his to them lies in the fact that heris quite generally and firmly throughout the empire, to be patriotic. His deposition from power for i three years, 1908 to 1911, was due to his having repeatedly compelled th® 1 Manchu princes to relinquish certain L revenues which they were using for private purposes, that he might have money to build up the army and to institute reforms in the schools. Yuan always seemed to have in mind some ultimate benefit to t£e people at I large, regardless of the personal wishj es of the ruling dynasty. The incident that brought Yuan to the notice of -the crafty old empress j dowager and the admiration of the foreign diplomats occurred while he • - i finH I I Yuan Shi Kai. * was mayor of a small , town in the Province of Shantung. The Boxer movement was strong and many of the most reputable Chinese were on the verge of joining it, when Yuan decided that he must take an impressive stand against the fanatical ascendency of this secret order. One pf the tenets of the Boxer faith was that participation in the rites of the order rendered a person immune to the effects of bullets. They believed' the “foreign devils” could not , hurt them with their guns. When Yuan was invited to join the ■ Boxers he did not dare refuse, and he did not wish to accept, because he saw defeat ahead for them. “I will join with you,” he said, “upon one condition—that you prove to me you-cannot be harmed by foreign bullets.” The Boxer committee agreed to the lest, and one enthusiastic Boxer stood I against the wall of the mayor’s gar- ! den to be shot at by Yuan himself i with a new model Martini-Henry rifle. ! Yuan smiling explained that this test , would settle for all time in the minds [ of the citizens how unimportant was [ this boasted power of the foreign ' devils. The Boxer leader was reverentially entombed at Yuan’s expense and prayers were said over his grave for 100 days. This is the man of nerve, cunning and diplomacy who is being called upon in China today. * Wolf Kills Eleven Cats. San Auionio, Tex. —An animal, believed to be a lobo wolf, passed along the fourth block of San Peoro avenue one night, and at delight eleven dead cats were found In yards and under 'houses. In practically every instancethe cat came to its a single «tab or tusk wound in the breast.

EVIDENTLY HE HAD ENOUGH Already Burdened Father Led to Make Caustic Comment on Vital Question. Arnold Bennett, the novelist, has a Joke about race suicide in his new play, “The Honeymoon.” His leading indy says, apropos of the birth rate: “What, Is the poor, dear thing still declining?” Mr. Bennett, apropos of his joke, was discussing race suicide the other day in New York. “A woman,” lie said, “looked up from her evening paper and remarked: “ ‘lt is stated here that a babe is born wvery time the chronometer ticks off a “second.” ’ “He. husband, as he wiped the evermoist mouths of the tiny twins, set one or each of his knees, muttered almost dercely; “ ‘Bad luck, then, to the Rooseveltian duffer who invented chronometers!’” BURNING ITCH WAS CURED "I deem it my duty to tel! about a cure that the Cuticura Soap and Ointment have made on myself. My trouble began in splotches breaking out right m the edge of my hair on the forehead, and spread over the front part or the top of my head from ear to ear, and over my ears, which caused a most fearful burning itch, or eczema. “For tfiree years I had this terrible breaking out’ on my forehead and scalp. I tried our family doctor and he failed to cure it. Then I tried the Cuticura Soap and Ointment and used them for two months with the result of a complete cure. Cuticura Soap a id Ointment should have the credit due, and I hai>e advised a lot of people t<f use them.” (Signed) C. D. Tharrington, Creek, N. C., Jan. 26,1911. Itching Scalp—-Hair. Fell Out. "I will say that, I have been suffering with an itching on my scalp for the past few years. My hair fell out in spots all-over my head. My scalp started to trouble me with sores, then the sores healed up, and crusts formed on the top. Then the hair fell out and left me three bald spots the shape of a half dollar. I went to mors than one doctor, but could notget any relief, so I started to use the Cuticura Remedies. I tried one bar of Cuticura Soap and some Cuticura Ointment, and felt relieved right away. Now the bald spots have disappeared, and my hair has grown, thanks to the Cuticura Soap and Ointin'ent. I J.'ghly retommend the Cuticura Remc ’ ?.s to all that are suffering with scalp trouble.” (Signed) Sa€iuel Stern, 23<J Floyd St., Brooklyn, N. Y., Feb. 7, 1911. Although Cuticura Soap and Ointment are sold by druggists and dealers everywhere, a sample of each, with 32-page book, w’ill be mailed tree on application to “Cuticura," Dept. 9 K, A Plea Rejected. “I made a mistake,” said Plodding Pete. * “I told that man up the road I needed a little help 'cajise I was cokin' fur me family from' whom I aad been separated fur years.” “Didn’t that make him come across?” He couldn't see it. He said dat he lidn’t know my family, but he wasfft fein’ to help in bringing any such •.rouble on ’em.” A man may be a member of the Elka and wear ah overcoat with a fur collar and still not be an actor.

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