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77ie Professor's
What the Woman Will Wear
By Olivette
Mystery
BY WELLS NAtTIKtS
AM MAN RHKER
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tUutrations hj Hnoi Booth
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Copyright, Ml. by The Bobbs
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You Can Begin This
Great Story To-day
by Reading This
First
I'ror. Crosby, nutting at a euourotui
eiauoi; ror & trolley car to take him Into
Boston, where he has a social engage
ment, encounters Miss Tabor, whom he
has met the previous winter at social
party. They compare notes, and find
tney are bound for the same place, and
waiting for the same car. While waiting
tney, talk to themselves In a causal way,
and Crosby Imagines he has touched on
something closely persona) t6 Miss Tabor.
They stftrt on the trolley Journey, and
the ar Is overturned. When Crosby re.
covers consciousness, he finds himself
whU.rr.bUVUh a. falr' strnns Slrl "n
his arms. The motorman and the con
duetor leave Crosby and Miss Tabor In
SlTOrf? the",t "bout to restore
?..,f?rLt- con"ln8-. When she re.
hleJ5-im seeme'' rather annoyed at
the conditions. Crosby finds his pockets
,hM'. b?!.n "?Ptled. but recovers every,
thing. Miss Tator find all her articles
but a fine gold chain she wore around
her' neck. Crosby finds this, but on it
Jh.nJ8i.a.'IT'aln rln!r- Tne ,rl suiBests
lA'ATS er. tutthey insfst on seeing
her safely to her home. Arrived at the
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 ho
hears, voices In the hall near hi. rL,
IlHr 5u,rr,d!.y "na he locked in
.wtt, ucimc us tuuia learn lh nn-
son, he waa asked by Miss Tabor tSdress
'"I "m,Ldownl,tBlr- ,Thn he was asked
w ..., ,i iiuusc ana not 10 coma back.
Isp explanation is given hlra. He spends
the night at the Inn, and the next day
Mr. Tabor visits him and tells him no
2fttt nLhr..Btnhlif n to know a
girl like Mlrs Tabor. Crosby hotly de
mands to be told what Tabor Is talking
about, but ba gets no satisfaction. Tabor
frJlds. him irJ come ner hie home
and leaves. Crosby follows and again
the stocky Italian who haa run after
the trolley car. this time In animated de
bate 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 Alnsllcs. ' Here he meets
Miss Tabor again, she also having come
for her visit. In the morning they take
awlm 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
better acquainted, and Just on the verge
SfJ4.x.pIana!,2rl' when D" Held, Miss
labors half-brother, appears and carries
her off. Alnslle tries to comfort Crosbv,
who tells the whole story of his adven
ture. When he la done A'nslle assures
him. whatever mystery may be connected
with -the Tabor family. It Is not to the
discredit of Miss Tabor. Crosby returns
to the Tabor's. Just in time to watch a
mysterious proceeding, In which Dr. neld,
Lady Tabor and an elderly man took
part, they havlnc a stranger confined
within the garago. No reply Is sent to
a nbte Crosby has written to Miss Tabor,'
and the next day he overhauled Dr. Held,
who tells htm to keep away from the
ltoust. Crosby refuses to do this, until
told'iy Miss Tabor herself. A rather
strained interview follows, when MIbs
Tabor dismisses Crosby, telling him he
must never see her again.
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Now Read On
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CHAPTER VII.
Sentence of Banishment Confirmed
irlth Costs,
(Continued.)
"You know I can't do that." I said.
""You must do it," she answered very
gravely. "Be kind to me" she paused,
"because it's hard for me to send you
away."
"You must teU me one thing more than
that." said I; "ii there-Is there any one
else?"
Her eyes fell. -That Is it,", she said at
last, "there fs somebody else!"
"That Is all, then," I said quietly. "I
ahsil stay away until you send for me;"
amTl left her.
1 have no remembrance of the walk
back to the Inn; but I closed my door
behind me softly, as If I were shutting
a. door upon my dreams. Now I knew
tha;the dull round of dally life, of little
happenings end usual days, stretched be.
fore me, weary and indefinite, it made
little difference to think that I might
some day be sent for. Evidently it was
to be Europe this summer after all. My
only desire was to make my going a
thing Immediate and complete; to rup
ture to absolute the threads of the woof
that we had woven that I could feel my
self separated from all, enough aloof from
love to think of life. ' I did not stop to
ask myself questions or to wonder pro
cliely what was the nature of the impossibility-
that was driving me away. There
weuld be time enough for that.
X began to pack feverishly, gathering
my belongings from their disposition
about the room. I felt tired, as a man
feels tired who has lost a brttle, so that
after I had packed a little I sank wearily
into the chair before, my bureau. Then
after. what may have been a minute or
an 'hour of dull unconscious thought, I
fell ' again to my task; pulling open the
drawers from where I sat, and searching
their depths for little odds and ends
which, 1 plied upon the Lureau top. The
bottom of the second drawer was covered
with an old newspaper; and I smiled as
I noticed that its fabric was already
turning brittle and yellowish, and read
the. obsolete violence of , the head lines.
Then' a name half-way down the page
taught m with a shock, and I slowly
read and reread the lines of tiny print,
forming the empty Phrases In my mind
with no clear sense of their meaning.
They were like the streams of silly words
that run through one's head In a fever,
or half-way along the road to sleep; and
it was an eternity before they meant
anything
"REIO-TABOR. On May 14, at the
home of the bride's parents, Miriam,
daughter of George and Charlotte Ben
nett Tabor, to Dr. Walter Reld."
CHAPTER VIII.
Ifovf We Made an Unconventional
Journey o Tnrrn.
Very carefully, and wondering the while
la a listless fashion why I should do so
The scalloped, flounces of our grand
mother's day have returned and are most
effectively used In the charming model of
White taffeta marked No. I.
The bodice Is simply and girlishly fash.
toned. It has two wide. unilar rnvm
that fall In a deep bertha from tho V
shaped neck. The kimono sleeves are
finished by a band of scalloped taffeta.
At the elbow they are caught up by a
little bracelet of white taffota with .
small pointed bow.
A plain band of taffeta forms th rir.
die.
at alt, I tore out the notice and put It
carefully away in my pocketbook. I had
the explanation now; I understood It all
the hidden ring at the end of the chain.
and the shadow of which It was the sym
bol, the mystery and disturbance of the
house, tho continual pretexts to get rid
of me, the effort to disguise any strange
nesa of appearance in the life of the
family. And I understood why it was
true that I must go away and uterly for
get. And yet was the explanation so
perfect, after all? Mechanically I pulled
the paper out of the drawer and searched
for the date. It was only three years
back; but even that length of time would
have made Lucy a mero child when she
was married. She could not be very far
beyond 20 now, certainly not more than
23 or 23. And In any case, why should
the marriage be concealed and the hus
band retained as a member of the fam
ily, masquerading as a brother? And
how, after the ordinary announcement In
the press, could tho marriage have be
come a secret at all? Then once more
the whispers and pointings of a score of
abnormal circumstances, uncertain, sug
gestive, Indefinite, crowded in upon my
understanding, like the confusion of
simultaneous voices. It was no use. I
could not Imagine what it all meant, and
for the moment I was too sick and weary
to wonder. The bare fact was more than
enough; she was married and beyond my
reach, and I must go away.
I went through a pantomime of supper,
making the discovery that my appetite
was supplemented by an unquenchable
thirst and an Immeasurable desire for
tobacco. After that I walked, read, made
dull conversation with casual acquaint-ances-anythlng
to kill the Interminable
time, and quiet for the moment that
! weary spirit of Unrest which kept urging
me to useless thought and unprofitable ac
tion, to examine, my troubles as one Ir
ritates a trivial wound, to decide to do
something where nothing was to be de
cided or b done. An Inhabitant of the
nearest comfortless piazza chair con
tributed the only episode worth remem
bering. "Say," he began, "do you remember
that guinea that was here the other day
and started the argument with the old
gent out in front? Well, what did you
make of that teller, anyway?"
"I don'f. know. He was drunk, I sup
pose, and got the wrong man."
"Well, now, you take It from me, there
was more to it than that. Yes, sir,
there's a shady story around there some
where. Tou hear what I say."
"Is the man still around here?" I
asked.
"Well, not now. he ain't. That's what
i I'm telling you. He hung about town for
j two or three days, I guess. Maybe he
'got after the old man some more. He
I was In here for a drink onte. and the
barkeep threw him out. He'a a good
mixer, Harry Is. men or drinks; but he
don't like gulness. Well. I don't go murH
on them foreigners, myself
"Where does your story ooroe in"
Well, now. thats Just It Tou listen
The skirt is of white net drawn up at
the center and crossed by two scalloped
bands of white taffeta that fall In a
tunlo movement. This Is softly veiled by
a point of embroidered net that fajls over
the front of the scalloped flounces.
Model No. " doos not look particularly
startling, ahd yet It shows the far-famed
"Jupe culotte" the aktr.t of the harem
In other words, tha bluomer aklrtt
It is an afternoon frock of violet char,
meuse. The draped skirt puffs beneath
tha hips and opens In a V over the feet.
A bayadere girdle of violet foulard, m
bossed with saffron roses, encircles the
hips. 1
I was coming along the street the other
night, and I passed this guinea standing
under a street lamp, talking to that Beld
feller that Uvea up to Tabors'. Doc Reld,
you know whom I mean? Well, I waa
going past and I heard Reld say: 'Now,
you understand what you got to do,' ho
says, 'keep quiet and keep away. The
minute you show up here or give any
trouble.' he says, 'the money stops. You
understand that?' he says. And you can
call me a, liar It you like, but . swear I
saw him slip tho guinea a roll. Now,
what do you know about that?"
I put him off aa well as 1 could. Here
was another point In the labyrinth, but I
had no energy to think about It. I got
away from the gossip at last only by
taking refuge in my room. And the rest
of the evening wan a dreary nightmare
of unreality which only expanded with
out changing when I. tried to sleep. I
tossed about endlessly, thinking thoughts
that were not thoughts, dreaming evil
dreams even while I watched the swollen
shadows about the room and listened to
the unmeaning voices and footsteps in
the hallways. It seemed so much a part
of this when some one poundtd on my
door and told me that I was wanted on
the telephone, that it was a troublesome
task to make me understand,
I pulled on a sweater and ran down
stairs, wondering who could have called
me up at 1 in the morning. I waa not left
long In doubt.
"Hello! This Mr. Crosby? Hellot Hello
therel Mr. Crosby? Hello'."
"Tesl" I said savagely, "what Is it?"
"Dr. Reld talking. Can you what?
All right hold the line a second." Then
Lady's voice; "Mr, Crosby? Listen: 1
have to go to New York in the machine
now, right away. Can you come up with
me?"
"Can I? Why, of course; but why
doesn't why don't you take some one
else?"
"No one else can go. If you're not
willing" r
Ot c6urse I'm willing," I said, "If I
can be of use."
"I knew' you would. The car will be
there for you in five minutes, or wait:
there's no need of waking up the whol
Inn. "Walk up to the first street corner
this way, and the car will meet you
there."
Five minutes later l was standing on
the corner, shivering with Interrupted
sleep, while tour flaming yellow eyee
swung toward me down the hllL It was
the same big limousine I had noticed the
night before. I climbed In beside the
chauffeur. With a crash and a grinding
lurch the car swung- around and panted
up the hill again, toward the Tabors'.
There was power and to spare, but I
noticed that one cylinder was mlsslnr
npw and again.
''Your Ignition isn't very steady," I said
to the chauffeur. "What is It valves"
He turned and looked at me with super
cilious respect "Poor petrol, sir. I
fancy she'll run well enough, sir"
(To Be Contiuitu Tomorrow)
The bodice, deeply dccolleto In V shape
back and front, la of ellow tulle over a
foundation of the, material. The decol
letege Is edged by a flounce or tulle The
sleeves arc slightly puffed with an encir
cling band of the net at tho elbow, where
a strass buckle holds tho fullness. Below
this falls a double flounce of the tule.
A dress, springlike In appearance and
decidedly novel as to materials. Is illus
trated by No. 3. It Is developed In vivid
green faille, striped In white.
The bodice is kimono, widely opened
over a vest of gathered white net fin
lshed by a flaring collar of white em
broidered net. Two small straps of white
Our Last War
How It Started; How It Was Fought; What It Cost in
Lives and Money and What Wo Gained by It.
:By Ser. TKQKAS
ThU etneitt history will bt completed
in six inittillmtnts, pub'.ithtd consecu
tively. Chapter XXX.
On the Hth day ot April, UU, the
Mexican General Torrejon, with a con.
slderable body ot Infantry and cavalry,
crossed the Rio Grande and on the fol
lowing day came upon a scouting party
of twenty-six American dragoons under
Captain Thornton, who, aftr a short
skirmish, were surrounded nnd captured.
The American casualties were sixteen
killed and wounded.
The first blood of the Mexican War waa
shed, and It was up to the United States
to do the rest.
Our country was in a state of utter
unpreparedness no more ready to begin
war than It was to begin a trip to the
moon. The regular army was hopelessly
Inadequate In numbers, the whole force
on paper being but 8,616, the total num
ber "present for duty" being only 643
commissioned officers and 5,612 non-com-missioned
officers, musicians, artificers
and privates an aggregate of a little over
6,000. The younger officers were mostly
graduates of West Point, and so far as
thtoretlcal training In the art of war
could make them good soldiers they were
excellent, but they had never seen a
civilized enemy. .
There was no plan of campaign. Con
gress voted $10,000,000 and 60,000 men, but
nobody In the cabinet or in the field
seemed to hve the least Idea of how the
money and the men were to be used,
Neither army nor navy had an Intel
llgence department. Nobody knew any
thing of the topogTaphy of Mexico, the
width and depth ot its rivers, Its ell
.matte conditions or the character of Its
roads. In the midst of their embarrass
ment they called on a Rhode Island man
In "draw a rough diagram,' and upon
the strength of that extempore outline
they must begin their operations.
General Taylor, In command of the
"Army of Occupation," with headquar
ters at Point Isabel, did not have much
time to study the "rough diagram." The
Mexicans, flushed by Torrejon'a victory
over the little squad of scouts, pressed
ahead, and on the 6th of May attacked
the American garrison at Fort Brown.
The cannonade ot the fort was almost
Incessant for 1(0 hours, but the Ameri
cans stood by their guns and refused
every summons to surrender, fluddenly,
about noon of the !th. they heard the
sound of cannon In the direction of Point
Isabel. General Taylor waa marching to
their succor He had met the enemy and
the battle of Palo Alto waa In full swlnf.
faille, embroidered In sold, flare up over
the vest at Its lowest 'point. The' three
quarter sleeves have weo cuffs qt tho
white faille finished by puffings 6 the
white net, gathered up In their Inner
seam.
. White faille is draped across the front
of the bodice In girdle wise, with a pair of
long, pointed sash ends falling at the
side.
UeloW this the skirt Is arranged In tiers.
The upper tunic Is caught through Its
center to make two puffings, la slightly
gathered at the waist and naa a short
box plait In front. In this', as In the
blouse, the strives run vertically. The
With Mexico
B. QRIQOKT-
Talo Alto (meaning "Tall Timber")
saw some tall fighting by Taylor and
his little army. General Taylor's force
was 2,100 strong, and against him were
8.D00 of the enemy under General Arista.
From all accounts, Palo Alto presented
an Imposing and brilliant scene, a broad,
almost level, prairie, without a sod
turned or a fence or a wall for shelter,
the opposing armies being face to face
with each other for a fair, square, stand
up fight.
For five hours the hotly contested
struggle went on. Outnumbered to the
tune of four to one, the day many times
looked dark for the Americans; but their
superior fighting qualities and Intelli
gence finally gave them the victory, and
Arista, beaten at every point, retired
from the field.
The losses In the battle of Palo Alto
were; American, nine killed and forty
four wounded; Mexican, 252 killed and
wounded five times that of the Ameri
can casualties. It may be said In pass
ing that the casualty list of Palo Alto,
which will be found to be similar In
character throughout the story ot the
war, while It speaks well for the cour.
age of the Mexicans, is a very poor
compliment to their Intelligence. They
were brave, oftentimes desperately, fool
Ishly brave, but they did not know how
to aim. They lacked the coolness, self
possession and sene of their American
opponents.
At dawn on the morning of Msy 9
Arista fell back some five miles to a
strong position known as Resaca de la
Palma. Taylor's army had been put in
motion as soon aa the retreat of the
Mexicans was observed, and about 4
o'clock In the afternoon he came up with
them, badly disorganized and without the
least Idea that they were to be attacked
that day.
But "Old Rough and Ready's" blood
was up, and he sent his men In at once.
Advancing through the chapparet, they
charged upon the Mexican line and soon
had It broken up Into little groups with
out a semblance of order. The Mexican
right maintained the struggle for a
while, supported by several batteries of
artillery; but the memorable cavalry
charge by Captain May soon put tho ar
tillery out of business and the work was
finished.
May's charge Is worthy of being re
told, In the words of an eye-witness, the
gallant Lieutenant Ridgely:
"Riding up to my guns May shouted,
"Where are they? I'm going to charge.'
I replied. Hold on, Charley, till I draw
their fire." I gave them a volley, nd
second tunlo shows the stripes running
horizontally about the figure. In the last
section., ot the skirt Is a plain, round
model with the stripes rUmllng up und
down In length-giving, longitudinal lines.
Taffeta Is the favorite material of tho
spring. Fads in silk may come anil go,
but taffeta goes on forever, for no ma
terial of Its chic, usefulness and general
serviceability haa been found.
This suit of black taffeta, shown In
No. 4, may be copied In midnight blue or
any dark street shade.
It Is made with one of the new short
coats, cut on kimono lines. There are
th three-quarter sleeves that are so be-
May dashed forward In column of fours,
at the head of his squadron.
"Storming right Up to tho breast-works
In front of tho guns, May lea pod his
horse over them, knocked the gunners
from their pieces, and, riding up to the
commanding officer, who was In the act
or reloading a gun with his own hands,
summoned him to surrender, Le Vega
yielded his sword and was sent Into the
American lines. Captain May's charge Is
still reckoned among the most dsrlng and
brilliant deeds of the war." ,
The American strength nt Resaca de la
Palma (actually engaged) was 1,700; that
ot tho Mexicans exceeded 6,000. The
American toss In the battle was thirty
nine killed and eighty-two wounded, The
Mexicans lost In kilted 262, wounded 2&S,
missing 155, total fs02-between six and
seven times the American loss,
The Mexican retreat soon turned Into
a panic. The infantry threw away their
cloaks, muskets and cartridge boxes to
speed their flight. The horsemen urged
on their Jaded steeds regardless of the
fallen, till they fell themselves, exhausted,
on the road,
Hundreds hid themselves In the dense
woods, hoping to escapo under tho cover
of night. General Taylor's cavalry were
too few to cut off the enemy's retreat,
and, hs,vlng no boats with which to cross
the river, his troops returned to partaka
of the captured viands In the Mexican
camp.
The battles of Palo Alto and Resaca de
la Palma staggered Moxlco, Tho vanity
with which the Mexican leaders had cone
Into the conflict was rudely pricked and
If their Intelligence had been equal to
their self-confidence they would right
then and there have quit the game, since
It had been most plainly demonstrated to
them that, no matter how brave and will
ing their soldiers might be, they could
not successfully stand up against Ameri
cans In battle.
Simultaneously with the march of events
In the territory that had been assigned
to General Taylor, congress, the president
and his cabinet, and everybody else that
could be prevailed upon to help, werj
busy formulating a general "Plan of
Campaign."
Taylor's force, known at first as the
"Army of Observation." and latterly as
the "Army of Occupation," was now to
be assisted by what was called the "Army
of the West." They were to operate far
apart, but were to, work to the one com
mon result. i
In the Army of the West the shining
names are Kearny and Doniphan, the
men who dared attempt what looked like
the Impossible, and succeeded In making
the history which causes the most florM
pages of romance to seem dull and un
interesting as a "twice-told tale vexing
the dull ear of a droay man."
According to the "Plan of Campaign" It
was to be the task of the Army of the
West to conquer New Mexico and Cali
fornia, and in the next chapter It will be
shown how the task was performed.
.coming to tllm figures and that are to
Uiiltablo for spring and summer wear A
puff ot ecru net finishes the sleeve and
Is caught at the wrist by a "band and
bow of taffeta from which falls a double
frill or the net.
From under the side seams pass wide
stitched bands of the taffeta which cross
and lift In front. A ruche .of the ecru
net finishes the neck and ties In front
under a ribbon of the taffeta.
The skirt Is laid in shallow plait at
the front and sides and is puffed over
the hips to. give the new souave shape.
At the foot It gathers slightly Into a
band of the material. Olivette,
Advice to the Lovelorn
Br BEATRICE FAIRFAX
Get the aioney First ,
Dear Miss Fairfax: While away from
home last September I became acquainted
with a young gentleman whom I learned
to love very much. After a short ac
quaintance, I found ho had got Into, a
little trouble, and, In order to help htm
out, I offered him some money. At first
he refused, but finally took same. I have
seen him only a few times slneev.tut sev
eral times 1 have written him r-ardlns
the. loan. About three months ago I re
ceived an answer saying as yet he was
sorry he could not return the same. Now,
what would you advise me to do In order
to win his friendship back again, as I
love him very dearly, and, I believe he
liked me until the trouble arose.
HEARTBROKEN
You are an extremely foolish young
woman to continue to love or even re
spect a man under such conditions. You
seek to get his "friendship" back, re
gardlcsa of the money. My dear, you
will find good use for the money; you
will never find good use for such
friendship, It is sentimental silliness like
this that encourages a certain class of
male parasites.
Planning for the
Stork's Arrival
Among those things which all uromstt
should know of, and many of them do.
is a splendid external application sold
in most drug stores under the name of
"Mother's Friend." It U a penetrating
liquid and many and many a mother tells
how It so wonderfully aided them through
j me period of expectancy. Ita chief pur-
'v icuutr uio lenaons, ligaments
and muscles so pliant that nature's ex
pansion may be accomplished without the
Intense strain so often characteristic of
the period of oxpeot&noy.
"Mother's Friend" may therefore te
considered as Indirectly having a splendid!
Influence upon tha early disposition ot
the future generation.
Whatever Induces to tha ease and eemt
fort of the mother saould leave its lmprera
upon the nerTous systen of the baby,
At any rate ft fa reasonable to believe
that since 'Mother's Friend" has been a
companion to motherhood for more than;
half a century it must be a remedy that
women have learned the great value cf.
Ask at any drug store for "Mother's
Friend." a penetrating, external liquid
of great help and value. And write to
Braddeld Hegulator Co.. 403 Lamar Bide.
Atlanta, da., for their book ot useful
and timely Information,