3
The World Outside
Bu Harold MacGrath
THE SUNDAV IIEK: OMAHA. AUGUST 27. 1922.
TIU: MT4IMV Till Ittl,
An a.l-lura tr tit --! hla If
lha k.iaf- uttfg mad la rulili.ffa
u... JpraMilaH lunrrufi. a h. haa
wi ir.li.ili.il falkrrt tt ,,
to a BTane-f alio liri hr r .r.
aanla lh lrBl Advaalaia .,'iij.my,
and al.u la t,,aa4 INI Jarrr rm
anaikl dialUni br a i'rilt- atutt.i,
Jiy. aimi.a aniune; Ilia air.i a'd
lha II. I hunk lia la -ml ink, l
flfat a uffa anil Ikan yx,ntlt-ra, ra
rallinc tola faihar'a mi-ima tath
anil hla iin unavantful f I saar... Ma
falla In rrnl lha liiat .V'lli nt -.ika
that Ilia alram-r dart at rum Tha
man al,laina llial ha haa-s"i,l many
aw afi4l advantijraa an! tli't
rr'a la la b-aln at aie. tirailili"! ha
auna ronliacl lo aa Inlu IM ar.al
and uid and maat II. J'irr la
aMiiiiffrUis aaer niainoran.tiim In
kia l-Hi-r a ff la 'Tald kannady
In lull" whan lha ball rlna and
ill of Ilia alnrtil row- ft ftirl, raltl
dranihad and In dlalraaa II appaara
aha la an arlr-aa; her eir haa
arok.B .wnj alia haa aalkrd fla
nillaa Jcrrr aaeorta her on a drlva
la lh n-ar.at railroad aiaiion fr
Na fork, and lalar hlmaalf aura I"
Naw tutu arli It hla ballarad "Id
auiu-aaa. m rti vajr ha diarmlna
la par all a church murliaaa II Iba
rhuii'll will Brmll a itiaftiftrlal
induw la hla faihar, and la lira
I. tire aah la hla Ihraa frlanda,
Mr Horna. lha hrmaakaapar, I'rof.
M liar nt tha arjadainr. and fatd
Mlaa llawltt. lha churrh or-anlat.
Ma la MIlMWad by an nl nf lha
ailar of a.lvanturaa, known aa Tha
Mhaduw. at.anlima lha llrl la mua.
Ina ilwal hlin, alioul Ilia fail lhat
kaiihar knuwa lha aihnr'a addri-aa,
and ahum hrr own prararlou ru
lura. It davatoia aha a a waif,
raarad by an anlffmattr- old man
Liaddr 14.. man.
FOURTH INSTAl-LMKN'T.
The Girl on the Billboard.
"A room with bath, please," said
Bancroft, adding a smile to bis
pleasantly modulated voiie.
One glance wa enough for the
clerk. The intelligent face, brown
and clean, the tJcr gray eyes,
meant nothing, carried no mes
sage. 'In the great hostclries of
New York, clothet a'"'1? make the
man. That derby I
"Sorry-"
"Just a moment," inlerruptcd
Paucroft, still smiling, "My hat
and clothes arc the fortunes of war.
I cannot go roving about the
streets in this attire; Chaplin is
too well known. I want a room
and bath; if you haven't that, a
whole floor,"
There was a simple and digni
fied way out for the clerk. He
could have asked if reservation had
been made, and, on. being informed
to the contrary, announced that
there was no hope. Instead, he
believed he might very well have
a little joke to recount later, to
lighten the tedium.
"There is nothing left but the
ambassador's suite, sir, 1 can give
you that."
"Very well," said Bancroft, who
hadn't the least idea what the am
bassador's suite signified, socially
or financially. He extracted iiis
packet of bills, so respectable In
thickness and so formidable in
numerals that the clerk was ren
dered speechless. "How much wiM
it be?" asked the victim.
The clerk, finding himself hoist
on his own petard, named the ex
tortion. Bancroft counted off the
sum, then signed the register. He
had come through; but he never
realized that the victory had been
due not to his personal magnetism
but to the strength of his wallet.
The change on the clerk's face
from hauteur to astonishment was
carefully noted by the bell-boy,
who darted toward the recent ob
ject of his contempt. When he took
the key, which herccogm'zed, his
eyes popped. He kntuv instantly
'that here was a British duke who
had eithvr gone into the movies or
was the victim of a hold-up.
"This way to the lift, sir!"
The suite appalled Bancroft.
Mirrors and gilt and plush and ma
hogany; Oriental rugs and tapes
tries, paintings and bedroom after
bath, comparing favorably with
some palace he had seen in the
home picture-books. Tom Canty.
Bancroft had always wondered
about that boy's sensations where
the ermine had been thrown across
bis shoulders; he had some glim
mer now.
His ready laughter broke out.
His sense-of humor was well de
veloped, and had, in fact, served
to keep him on the optimistic side
of the fence, despite the period of
depressing unhappines. A good
start: to storm New York in this
fashion, and to srfue ce a laugh
out of it. The Great Adventure
company couldn't have done any
thing belter than this. That bed
there, with its sultanio splendor,
wat almost immoral. Having sat
l.hed his rurioiity, he searched the
walls for the bells and rang for the
valet.
"I want evening clothes, with
ihort roat, a $1$ collar, abort six
and a half, and a brown or gray
fedtya. tite ttven; alto a tljrk gray
buiiir. suit for morning."
"Yes, sir. You'll be wanting a
top-cvt, t.vo, tir," ta'd the valet re
speriiullv, A mat), wearing the
habiliment r.f the ragpicker, would
have hern irrt4 respectfully in
these hatUiited roufinrs
Al (I M h re ei.iered lh l.M
in.) went tvi the deis, w;!t iN- t
trntion of depositing the bulk cif
I. is money. 11k appearance the
line with which h wore hit bor
rowed plumes completed the dr
mor aliMi ion of the clerk.
Having deposited hit money and
received h! receipt, Hanfroft
tallied forth fur hi lint lecture in
the University of Street. il
wanili'rrd went, prcrd into hor
window!, glanrrd curioiuly at the
men and women who patrd him,
dared at the automobile and
philoaohized upon the evolution of
the whrcl; crotted Fifth avenue
and pauned to admire the cotontal
beauty of the public library. Here
would be a great place to hrowte
In, once he became domiciled. He
came presently to the mo.t famoua
intertertion of ttrerU in the weat
ern heminphcre Forty-aecond and
Uroadway where the huge ani
mated electric aigni flashed into
Ilia astoniahrd eyet.
For an hour he meandered about
thia brilliant aection, in and out of
croin-Dtrreti, (topping before the-
" You'vt got as much chance of singin in th' Metropolitan as I have o' pullin
Ethel Barrymore's job away from Iter.
iter entrances and inspecting the
framed photographs, and occasion
ally recognizing a face. And then
the most marvelous thing in the
world happened. Her facet the
unknown girl of the storm I Nancy
Bowman. He approached the box
office window and laid down a
bill.
"Standing room only," said the
quiescent humorist behind the
grille.
"That'll do for tonight."
Bancroft was tremendously ex
cited, but be was in no hurry. He
had, by some extraordinary mira
cle, discovered her; that would be
enough for the present. He knew
where she would be for days and
days to come. Later, be would
find a way to her. He had his pass
port properly viseed: the reclama
tion of old Mrs. Home's shoes and
stockings.
With a ringing in lilt ears and t
sting in his blood, he entered tha
darkened house.
To return to The Shadow, A I
Bancroft disappeared into the ele
vator. The Shadow went up to
the desk and glanced at the regis
ter theet J, Collin gt wood. New
York. lie turned away and
passed out ol the lobby, into the
street, utterly damfouojrd. with
whit he had tern and heard,
"The Ma Very important
"CUi t f jsvJ md come dwn."
Kit tha) srdei; wMctt was ehevtd
ipeiul very little uumey on him
aclf." "He put a ilrnl in hi roll lo
nililit, The amhaaaador' auiir!'
"Vouthful humor. That will be
the moat rianurroui tide ( hint
hit ene ol humor. He underaund
a joke iut aa if he had read
I'unrh all hit life."
"I'limh? Hut what if he reuka
downr
"Kemember. the thinking it my
part. Kancrnft will ,rome to mc
eventually. He'll buy an adventure,
but only to learn what the devil
I'm up to."
"Well, if he actually findt rut."
aaid The Shadow, with a doleful
wag of the head, "he'll have the
edge on George and me."
A mocking light Hathed into the
profcitor'i eycJ. He rote and be
gan to pace the room. After a few
minuica he pauaed before tiia visi
tor. "Vou are two rrookt, but you ve
A The Shadow entered the
apartment, the Profeinor totted
j' , A r)w h 1 ' Pitt rn
his Walter Pater on the reading
table and nodded toward a chair.
"Well, what is the excitement?"
"He came to town tonight."
"I hadn't expected him so soon.
Tied up for the night?"
"Yes, sir. I'm afraid you've
doped him out wrong;" and the
The Shadow- recounted the scene
in the hotel.
"Shadow, as a trailer, you rival
the Sioux; but don't try to think.
That's my business. The boy is
doing exactly as I intended; only
I had given him a month to' de
cide in. For a boy, brought up in
a country village, he's an eccentric.
What I mean is, he is not what
he should be, not what fate no
doubt originally intended. An old
village schoolmaster and an unusu
al library have turned him into the
best read young man I ever met.
Reads Horace in the original, and
doein't agree with Tatcr here that
mountains are ugty rather than
beautiful. But he's young and
curioua. Why did he put up at
this particular hotel? Because
George Bellman it living there. He
it walking straight into the web.
He'll be interviewing Beltman in a
day or two; and ticorge will ham.
booitt him. Then what? Why,
our country cousin will seek ob
scure kxtgmge and investigate the
city, visit the library, the Metro
politan and the Broaa. He will
beta clever enough to keep yoie
mugt and finger-tit nut of the
I I c ; and that it the rraaon you
are wuiking fur me, i he man
who recommimkd you told lue
you alwayt krpt 'vjr mouthi thul,
and 1 have found tl at you two can.
1 am hiring you o erforin crr
tain trrvicet. pcrfictly hoitett. It
it no crime to watch a man, wliltli
ii your part. It it no crime to tell
a fairy -ktory, which it (ieorge'i
part. When the time comet, you
and (irorge will yo your ways with
honett money in your pocket .
1'erliapt the hrt hmieat money you
have ever earned. It will be a nov
elty, that'a all. You'll spend it
without looking over your thoul
dem, Hut if you are wine." the
tpeaker said tomhrrly, "you'll ute
your wagei at a batit for an hon
est life. A ciga-ihop, a pool-room,
would fit you nicely, (irorge ia a
born taleinmi. He would tell hon
est ttockf with the tame addrett
and facility that he unet to tell the
worthlett. My advice it, then, play
it straight."
"And how about you?" cynical
ly. "Shadow, I have been an honest
man all my life," said the pro
fessor, gravely.
"What? How about this country
booh?".
"Well, what about him?"
"You're going to rob him, aren't
you?''
"Am I?"
The Shadow threw up his hands.
"I passl"
"I do not ask you to believe I'm
honest. I simply make the state
ment. But you are dangerously
near to thinking for yourself; so
I'll remind you. I hold you two
in the palm pi this hand." The
long bony hand closed suggestive
ly. "A false move, too much curi
osity, and I'll turn you over with
out the least compunction. You
understand?"
"Yes. sir." said The Shadow,
bark to hit level.
"Well. then, don't watte any
time in the future trying to shadow
me. Understand, I don't lay you
must not; I say, don't watte your
time. Now briskly ."return to
the hotel and tell George it ia my
order that he shall give you bit
lounge for the night. Describe
Bancroft minutely; and don't for
get the brains. George i the most
IiUutible and consistent bar I ever
mew but this time must watch
hit itco. Leave a tall for S in the
morning, and be in the lobby
when Bancroft somet d.n. Ir
the boy is in the luhit of ruin at
cockcrow. Hang on to hit hrt-U
until he trttlet tniilrwhrre definite
ly then report at the olliee. TimIiUc."
The !'rofcur rescind for his bat
tered I'aler, signifying that the in
lirvicw wat at an end.
The Shallow departed, filled with
, I bote apprehensive rtuoiKiitt which
alwayt amailed him In the presence
rf this queer old (luck, will) liH
haud'ome fare and hit iiinlele.a
mouth. That wat it: the professor
never smiled. Hit laughter wa
ready enough, but thrre wat never
any smile. So he had tumbled to
the shadowing? A bad sign. lie
recalled the fust meeting
"What .hall we call you?"
"Call me the l'rofenor."
And yet there wat his name
Daniel Stewart on the door of
the Bolivian I'inerald comfiany,
that had a real mine and sold real
. emerald. Fog.
The Shadow had to wait until
after' midnight, in the hotel lobby,
for the return of hit more dis
tinguished confederate. In the
meantime be witnessed Bancroft'
return in evening clothes. The foir
doubled iu density.
"I might at well be in the mid
dle of the Atlantic." he muted.
' I'll bet he never had a soiip-to-nuts
on before, and pipe him! Why.
he'e a dead ringer for John Barry
more. The J'rofessnr can tIk, but
this boy bat something under his
lid. He didn't have to come in that
hick rig, with that roped tuitca.e.
All right! it's 5.000, clean money.
1 should worry."
Beltman welcomed The Shadow
effusively.
"Come along up to the room.
"That's where I'm going. Th""
Professor wants me to snoore on
your lounge for the night. Bancroft
arrived." , ,
"As soon as this, eh? But wail
until we're in the room." Once
there, Bellman asked for the newt
and received it. "Shadow, old top,
it's the professor's game. lie
knows what he's doing; we doii t
It will pay us in the end to work
in the dark. We don't know what
the scenario's about; all we have
lo do i3 to pose as he directs. Bui
I've got one whale of a thunder
bolt for you."
"Shoot it." .
"Well, I don't like mysteries:
so I've done a little sleuthing. Out
boss spent 14 years up the river."
"For the love o' Mike! For
what?"
"Manslaughter. Killed a police
man in a row. Knocked the bull
over into an areaway and the bull's
conk split. Same name he has to
dayDaniel Stewart. The news
paper files of the time reported the
case, in a few lines. There was
nothing about the trial. Wore a
heard and was deeply tanned, as it
he had been at sea. In this bura
manslaughter isn't nitich-a-niuch
unless you're somebody. Well.
Daniel was apparently nobody; so
they put him on the north-bound
in jig-time. But behind the hour
of the deed blank as your palm.
Nothing as to where he came from,
who his people were, and all that.
This got me digging into old citv
directories and telephone books.
No Daniel Stewart in cither of that
year. What's the answer? Why,
he kept his real name doggo. No
body recognized him on account
of his whiskers."
"Manslaughter! . . . And
always hunting for the fare ol
some woman! But whv all this
energy?"
"Poor child! After we have hi
iron boys in our jeans, we can add
to it from time to time."
"None of that in mine, bo; not
in mine!" said The Shadow, reso
lutely. "Have you ever had this
guy look at you?" (
"How do you meant'
"When you do something he
doesn't like. F.ver have ice slipped
down your back? That's what I
mean. I'm going to take his coin
when the time comes and fade."
"Suit yourself."
"That's me, Georgie! But man
slaughter! How did it happen?"
"Tried to get into a house w here
there was an auction going on.
Seemed to go berserker; pulled
people right and led and knocked
over a woman. The bull jumped
him and hauled him into the
street. A minute later it was all
over; and the profrtsor was on
his way to the Tombs. Then he
became the great grandfather of
all clams, But tit man in the
adjoining cell said he heard the
professor sobbing all through th.i
night. He got his monicker urV
thrre because he wat a walking!
encyclopedia. What do ou thinW
Of it?" 1
"Nice bit of work for you
George; but if yon want nv ad
vice, forget it. Remember, be
ran turn on you and give you to
year on a whistle. Ilt't got
both; that's ju why we were
(fasti aaad aa) re k
