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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (April 24, 1914)
7 rr'- - sss "Good-By, Winter. Hello, Spring!" The Professor's Mystery Y WELLS HASTINGS AH I IRIAN HOOKER fflwtratioiu bjr Haaton Booth By Nell Brinkley Copyright 1014, International News Service. V. Copyright, 19U. by The Bobbs Merrill Company. rUK BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1914. " 1 ". " 1 , 1 y You Can Begin This Great Story To-day by Reading This First Prof. Crosby, waiting at a suburban station for a trolley car to take him Into Bolton, where he has a social engage ment, encounters Mies Tabor, whom ho has met the previous winter at a social party. They compare notes, and find they are bound for the same place, and waiting .for the same car. While waiting they talk to themselves In a causal way. and' Crosby Imagines he has touched on something closely personal to Miss Tabor. They start on the trolley Journey, and the car Is overturned. When Crosby re cover consciousness, he finds himself unhurt, but with & fair, strange girl In his arms. The motorman and the con ductor leave Crosby and Miss Tabor In charge, and they set about to restore the girl to' conscleness. When Bhe re covers she seemed rather annoyed at the conditions. Crosby finds hla pockets have been emptied, but recovers every thing. Miss Tabor finds all her articles but a fine gold chain she wore around her neck. Crosby finds this, but on It hangs a wedding ring. The girl suggests they leave her, but they Insist on seeing her safely to her home. Arrived at the Tabor home, Crosby Is given a fulsome welcome by Mrs. Tabor, and a somewhat mixed reception by Mr. Tabor. They Insist on his remaining over night, and he retires. Before he falls to sleep he hears voices In the hall near his door, and rising hurriedly finds he is locked in the room. Before he could learn the rea son, he was asked by Miss Tabor to dreis and come downstairs. Then he was asked to leave the house and not to come back. No explanation Is given him. He spends the night at the Inn, and the next day Mr. Tabor visits him and tells him no man of his past has any right to know a girl like Miss Tabor. Crosby hotly de mands to be told what Tabor Is talking about, but ho gets no satisfaction. Tabor forbids him ever to come near his home and leaves. Crosby follows and again sees the stocky Itnllan who had run after th trolley car. this tme In animated de rate with Tabor. Crosby talks to the man In Italian and learns he Is a sailor, who fancies Tabor a former employer who had defrauded him. Crosby goes on to meet the Alnslles. Here he meets Miss Tabor strain. hn nlxn Imvlnr nn.nn for her visit. In the morning they take t swim together, their hosts being under the Impression they had met only at the house party on the previous Christmas. Crosby , and Miss Tabor rapidly become uruer acquainted, ana jusi on the verge of explanation, when Dr. Rnld. 'Mlm Tabor's, half-brother, appears and carries nr oi, Ainsne tries to comrort Crosby, who tells tho whole story of his adven ture. When' he Is done Alntllo assures him whatever mystery may be connected with the Tabor family. It Is not to the discredit of Miss Tabnr. CHAPTBIl VI. A Iletnrn to the Original Theme. (Continued.) 1 waited where 1 was for the rest of the week; partly becauso I was resolved not to put myself In the wrong afren' hy following Miss Tabor's movements too Immediately, and partly to give lime for Bob's promised vindication of my charac ter to 'take effect. I could not, however, be'lleve that It would, in itself, make any great difference; for the more 1 consid ered, the more It seemed to me that I had boen right In my suspicion, and that the wholo empty charge had been merely an excuse for driving me from the house and a device for terminating the acquaintance. I discovered during those few days the truth of the saying that to , think Is the hardest thing In the world; for my attempts to reason cut the situa tion persistently resolved themselves Into adventurous dreams and emotional remin iscences until I suspended Judgment In despair and put tuo whole matter from my rplnd. And It was with an eager re lief at last that I bade goodby to .ho Alnslles and retraced my Journey. Boh had received In the meantime no answer to his letter; but by that time I was not to be surprised. I took my old room at the Inn, got my self Into white flannels with leisurely de termination, and set forth to call upon Miss Tabor. It was not hot. and all the air was clear with that sparkling aest common enough in autumn, but rare In P FRECKLES JTow Is the Tims to Oat Sid of These Uglr Spots. There's no longer the slightest need of feeling ashamed of your freckles, as the prescription othlne double strength Is guaranteed to remove these homely spots. Simply got an ounce of othlne double strength from Beaton Drug Co., Sher man & McOonnell Drug Co., or any druggist, and apply a little of it night and. morning and you should soon see that even the worst freckles have begun to disappear, while the lighter ones have vanished entirely. It Is seldom that more than an ounce is needed to completely clear the skin and gain a beautiful clear complexion. Be sure to ask for the double strength othlne as this" la sold under guarantee of money back 'It It falls to remove freckles. WALL PAPER One-Half Price Beaton & Laier Co. 15-17 south ietb at. Now Read On ????? i Winter in her yellow fox furs -and her velvet coatee is wringin' out her handchnafis and holdin' up one cold foot, the heat of midsummer; and as I "hurried j alpng, the beauty of the world flowed over me In a great, Joyous wavef hope and resolution. The little distance be tween the Inn and the Tabors' I covered before I deallzed It, "Is MUs Tabor at home?" I asked the maid at the, door. She took my card and hesitated. "I'll go and see, sir," she said finally, and ushered me' Into the big living room. I was all alone; voices came dimly from other parts of the house, and the room where I sat was cool and pleasant. 1 found my heart beating a little faster, and wondertd at myself. Presently the maid returned. "Miss Tabor is not at home," she said. Somehow, I had not expected It, and for a moment I stood looking at her folishly as she held open the door. "She is in town, is sho not?'' I asked clumsily. "I am not sure, sir; she Is not at home, sir," tne woman repeatedly woodenly. I trudged pack through the glare of the Impossibly brilliant day sick with my dis appointment, and wondcrlnr If she had really been away. Could there be any rea son why my card had not been taken to her? Had some general order gone out against me? Thcn I brought my Imagina tion to a sudden halt. I was getting to be a fool. The probability was that the maid had simply spoken tho truth; nnd (n any case, tho whole matter was easy of determination. At the Inn I wrote a short note tu Miss Tabor, saying that I was in town for a few days, regretting that I had mlsswd her and asking when I should find a convenient hour to call. This dispatched, I found myself In a state of empty hurry with nothing to do; and after supper and a game or so of er ratic pool, 1 set out to walk off an In cipient and unreasong attack of blues. By the time I had tramped through a couple of townships and turned towards home I was fairly cherful again, Land marks had begun to look unfamiliar In the gathering gloom, and I took my turnings a little uncertainly; so that It was with a thrill of surprise that I found myself on a cross-road that ran along side the Tabor place. The great house was largely dark and peaceful. Windows below glowed dimly through the dusk; and above, a single square shone brightly. Two hicn were coming up slowly up the long driveway In front, which paralleled the road on which I stood; and as they approached the house, it siemed to me that they were walking not upon the gravel of the drive, but upon the grass beside it. When they reached the steps they turned aside, and skirting the house with a more evident avoidance of paths, crossed a stretch of lawn to what ap peared to be a stable or garage some distance behind It. There was a furtlve ness about the whole proceeding that I did not like, ana I stood still a moment watching. Presently a match was struck In a room above the- garage, and the gas flared on. Then, after a little, one of the men came out, running 'quietly across tho lawn until he came to a stop beside the house and directly in front of inf. The light from the upper window fell upon him and he stepped aside Into the shade, but not before I had plainly seen his face. It was Lady's half-brother, Dr. Beld. He seemed excited: or perhaps anxious; for his movements were .more Jerky than .ever, and he moved restlessly and con .tlnuaily as he waited In the shadow. 'Once or twice he glanced nervously over his shoulder, and I Instinctively drew back under the bulk of a big maple beside the road. Then he would move out beyond the edge of tho shrubbery where he could see the lighted room above the garage, then return to his watching under the window. Once or twice he whistled softly. There was no answer, and at last I saw" his, hand go back and a tiny pebble tinkled against the glass. Then I htld my breath, my heart hammering in my ears, for Lady Tabor had come to the window. She softly raised if and leaned out, her face very white in the darkness. "Is that you, Walter?" she called under her breath. "res," he answered, "I have him in the garage. AH clear In there? He mustn't be seen, you know, mustn't be seen at all." She laid her finger on her Hps and nodded. Then the window closed silently and she was gone. Beld turned and ran back to the garage. When he came out again the other man was with him, and they crept past me among tho shrubs, talking softly. Tho older man was tall, with, a breadth of shoulder and thickness of chest that would have done credit to a professional strong man.; yet his voice came in an absurd treble squeak, with an odd precision of articulation and phrasing. "It Is very Important that we shall go quietly," he was saying. "Of course, of course," Beld whispered. Then they passed beyond hearing undor the shadow of the house. Presently I saw them again, silhouetted against the gray wall. They were standing close to gether upon the narrow terrace that ran between the driveway and tho side of tho house, and Beld was fumbling at a pair of French windows. They opened with a faint click; and motioning the other man before htm, he stepped In, closing the windows after them. I walked on, full of an Impatient won der at this new mystery, which, like its predecessors, would neither fit Into uny reasonable explanation nor suffer itself to be put aside as unmeaning. In front of the house I passed a big limousine, drawn up by the roadside, its engine purring softly and it lamps boring bright tunnels through the gloom. I knew It for the Tabors' by the monogram on the panels; and' as I went by, I noticed the chauffeur lying sleepily back In his seat puffing at a cigar. Of course It had brought the stranger, and was waiting to take him back; but on what errand a man could be brought to the house like a guest and inoak in at a window like a ,thlef was a question beyond me to fathom. (To Be Continued Tomorrow.) cause niankind is kissin her goodby and turning to the soft, bare arms of Spring Spring in her trouser-skirt and her rib boned ankles her side-light curl, and her Conversation By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. (Copyright, 1911, by Star Company.) Guard yourself from unprofitable con versation; conversation which wastes time, energy, thought and speech, and brings no good result to speaker or listener. One docs not want to talk al ways on serious or profound subjects, To hear serious or profound conversa 1 1 o n continually would make life so ponderous that It would become In supportable to most of us. . Wit, humor, rep artee have their profitable part In life. The msn, or book, or play, or recreation, which makes us laugh in pure glee gives us a tonic for mind and body. There Is no system of calisthenics so beneficial to health as the habit of hearty, rlb-shuklng laughter. The laughing cure has been advocated for all Ills of mind and body. The patient Is told to stand before the mirror and force laughter to ten minutes at a time. It is declared that this process will drive away melancholy, cure deprejalon and put to rout all nervous maladies aris ing from oversensltlveness and lack of self-confidence, and that hope, courage and ambition will seen reorganlxe the disordered realm of tho mind and bring a happy train of helpers In their rear, in cluding health and success. Therefore, any conversation or occupa tion of time whloh causes us to laugh at least once In the day Is to be com mended. It Is even well to be frivolous at times; to think and talk of light and superficial matters, such as dress and fashions, and dancing and sports. Just as nature does not give all her energies to producing nourishment for her creatures, but takes earth space to send forth flowers and plants which have no practical use save their beauty, so rnay our minds be occu pied at times with light themes. But there are few of us who do not waste precious moments and still more Pteclotis mlndlstuff in what we know, If we pause to think of It, is unprofitable eonversatlon or worse than unprofitable Have you not heard a whole family ot intelligent beings use fifteen golden mo ments In a heated discussion regarding the precise date on which some Unim portant ovent occurred? One said It was the tenth; another was certain it must have been the ninth, or the eleventh-eertanly not the tenth; a third was sure It happened an entire week earlier or later; and to on and so forth. And when the matter was settled or not settled, no one was a whit bene fited. It Is only when one Is on the wit ness stand or some vital issue Is at stake that such a use of memory and words Is of the least Importance. Again, so much valuable time Is lost In discussing the weather. The weather Is a topic one naturally finds In the fore ground In lands where the thermometer prides Itself upon rapid climbs and sud den descents. Hut even In the tropics, where the temperature does not vary over 10 degrees In the entire twelve months, people find the weathtr a tlme-kllllng topic. In our ever varying and never dupli cated seasons, I have heard sensible human beings wax almost violent, dis puting whether last year or the year be fore was not warmer or colder than this year; or whether such unseasonable weather had ever before been known; or trying to prove that the first snows fell earlier or later some other year than this. Bursty all this Is unprofitable conver sation. It Is not Instructive, Interesting or amusing. It does not develop the reasoning pow ers or give food to the mind. And it entertains no one, Oosslp Is not only unprofitable, but It Is a malignant substance, dangerous to the mind. If our callers introduce gossip, like a poison needle, we can readily chango the subject nnd refuse the Inoculation. And we can go alone after the. caller departs and use a mental antidote In the way of affirmations of love and good will and peace to all created things; and more light for the gosalper. To read what Is painful, vicious or ter rible, unless we are prepared to go forth and endeavor to relieve tlie conditions ot which we read. Is unprofitable. The same time devoted to music or a language would soon bring an accomplishment. To clt and listen to the stories of ter rible surgical operations, or to relate them, Is a popular method of indulging In unprofitable conversation with many women. And It Is a sure method of Inviting siekness, and maladies which may lead to similar operations. Kvery thought and every word has its effect upon our physical structures. 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