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Tfte Professor's
Mystery
BY WELLS HASTINGS
AH BRIAN HOOKER
Illustrations by Hanson Booth
Copyright, 1811, by The Bobbs
Merrill Company. .
You Can Begin This
Great Story To-day
by Reading This
First
Prof. Crosby, waiting at a suburban
station for a trwllav rxr in tw httn m
the" Alnslles. where he had a social en-
b'soitjbihi encounierea naa Tenor, wnom
ho had met at a Christmas party the
winter before. She, too, Is Invited by the
Alnslles. "When the belated trolley comes,
they; start off together, to meet with a
wreck. Miss Tabor Is stunned and Crosby,
assisted by a strange woman passenger,
restores her, rinding all hex things save
a slender golden chain. Crosby searches
IDF miH ajin linn It lmlflfl a Wiwlrilntr
ina. ivtcuici vnvy iu me i&uors,
where father and mother welcome the
daughter, calling her "Lady." and give
Crosby a rather strained greeting. Cir
cumstances suggest he stay ovor night,
Vnd he awakens to find himself Incited In
ftle.-ropm,. -Before, he can determine tho
vausb no is cmicu anu requifeu 10 leave
the. 'house.- Miss Tabor-letting him out
ana leinng mm sne cannot see him again.
At-the Inn. where, he puts up he notices
Tabor in 'an argument with a strange
naiian satsor. Crosby protects the sailor
from tb crowd, at the Inn and goes on
to the Alnslles, where-he again encoun
ters M il Tionr. wno nas told tier nnatu
nothing- of; her former meeting with the
professor. The-two are getting along very
wfcll, wjienspc' "Walter Reld, Miss Tabor's
haif-brolheri.appedfa ahd bears her away.
Crosby returns to the Inn and demands
to see Miss -Tabor, Reld refuses, but
Crosby declines -to go until she tells him
herself. Miss Tabor greets him In a
atraffjW way and tells him It Is her wish
he- leave apd never try to see her again.
H says mttivtu 'not unless she send for
hm. That 'night she calls him to- Join
In a hub-led trip, py auto to New York.
Tho chauffeur does not Appear to relish
the Journey, but Crosby fixes the ma
chine and they are.drlven Into a crowded
tenement district -of. the city.
T
: Nov Read On
CHAPTER VIII.
Jlovr We Made as- UncoitTentlonnl
Journey to Town.
(Continued.)
5ye stopped before, a narrow doorway
pinched "sldewlse between two shop win
dows UUe a fish's raoutn. J.tdyr: leaned
across me to ecan the bleak windows
above.
"There should be a light on the top
floor,' , she said, '"yes, there it Is. Ask'
Thomas .ft make .'sure of'the number.jj
He was back. In'' a -moment to say that
the number Vas right: "AnT all asleep,
miss, by 'the look of It. Shall X, knock
somebody upT There's no bell." '
"Np. not yet. What tmo la It. -Mr.
Crosby?"
"Twenty minutes of 3," I told her.
"Sho must havtf got the. message .be
fore now," ,iihe ' said," half to herself.
Then, after' little thought, "Stay her
with the car;- Thqmas. Mr. Crosby and I
are going In-."' .
"You're, not ' Bolns Into such a place at
thin hour!" X prote'rt'j d. 'Tell .rne what
It Is and .let. nie'go.y.
'No, Tin eomjng, ' too. Don't stop to
talk about fti, please.1'
The cjeor yieiaetrand let Us into a.
stained. atd. 'choking hallway faintly
lighted by tt-iijud flicker of gas at the
far end. The, stairs were worn Into
creaking hollows,1 and tho noise of "our
passing, though Instinctively we crept
upward like thieves, awaHened a multi
tude of squeak and scuffllngs behind the
plaster. The banisters "Wore everywhere
lodge and shaky, and In places they were
entirely broken away, so that we went
close alont1 -tho 'filthy wall rather than
trust to t.nen.v. fUc hallway waa like
the one bcl.ctw; narrow, dusty and air
less, with Its'bhio'sDtift of ean aivlnir us
Just light efiiuRhi ta find our way with
out groping.' At last we peached the top,
and Lady knocked softly' on' the door at
the end of tho full, . .
There was no answer. She Knocked
again. 1 .turned up. the gas, .-and as I
did so a. fat beetle ran. front under my
feet. 1 slepjped on it, and wished that I
hail not -dphp. sot
"Are you sure this Is the place," I 'whis
pered. ' 'Y
"Tea: 1'vef ben here before. But I
don't understand. Sheila, knew that' we
were coming." ' ' 1 . '
"I-ook," said I, "the door Is unlatched.
Shall I go lnT" '
For an Instant the. oppression of the
Place waa .too much' for her. "ferid she
clung to m73rm whlsperlnfe, ,MI'm afraid
I'm afralcljC "Then before I could speak,
me had c&UKht up -her- courage.
"YeaV sheea!d.i Open It If you can."
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The door swung a few inches, then
related. Something soft and heavy, like
a mttress. seemed to be. braced agalns
the bottom of It. 'I felt for the revolver
in my pocket, then put my weight against
the panel. The thing Inside moved a
little, then rolled over .with a thud, and
the door swung open. What had lain
against it, and now lay across the open
ing c"learh,. visible In tha light from be
hind us was the body qf a woman with
blood soafclnt' Into her hair.
CHAPTER IX.
How Wfe Escaped from Vhat Wef
' Fon&d Tef.
We stoda (ooWng down upon her with
out speech. Sho waa a tall, rather thin
woman. of about M,-f Irish by the look of
her, and' still with aonie share of earlier
good looks. The hair that fell away
loosely from her broad forehead was
black and straight, - showing only hore
and there a thread of stiver. The large
hands lay limply open, and the face was
deathly white. Sho had fallen away from
the door .with her knees pressed closely
against It, as though she "had been trying
to open It when the blow came.
"Ifo you think she 1s dead?" 'Lady
breathed at last.
"Of course not,'' I answered, but I was
very much afrajd. I knelt down beside
ner ana nsienea 10 ner near, i waa noi
sure, but it seemed to me that it bora
faintly; no faintly that It might Have
been only the drumming of my own
pulses In my ears.
"Can you find a tnlrrorf" I asked from
the floor.
Lady glanced vaguely about the room,
then came back to me with uncompre
hending; eyes. "No. , I can't see any.
What for?" she said dully.
I sprang quickly to my feet. A chair
lay overturned on tho bare white boards
of theiloor. Mid i ploked it up,, setting
It near the window,
"Sit there," I aald, "while I rummage,"
and I drew her to it, half forcing her
down Into It. Sho sat very , etljl, me
chanically obedient, while I looked
around me.
It was a strange little room to find in
this decaying tenement. On the sill of a
single window that gave upon the street
blossomed an uneven row of geraniums.
One pot had fallen to the floor and lay
shattered, the fresh gren of Its broken
Plant piteous in a eprawl of scattered
earth. The. whol place bore evidence
of an insistent struggle -for the cheerful
ness of a home, White, starchy curtains
were a( the wndpwJ the walls were
fairly covered with pictures, colored
prints for the most part, and supplements
of Sunday papers.- A bird cage had, hung
: In one corner, and now lay, cage and
bottom fallen apart, upon a muddle or
seed and water; ana a. frightened canary
perched 'Upon the lec of a fallen table,
blinking in ,the uustc-ady flare of the
gas. The floor was spotlesuly clean. Its
worn boards white with scrubbing, save
where the' flower pot and bird cage had
been overturned, and the dark stain
spread -from beneath the woman's hair.
The whole - scene was- unnaturally and
strangely vivid, all Its little details leap
jn to the, eye wth the sturk brilliance
of a flashlight.
To the right of the door by which the
woman lay waa another door, and I
crossed over to It. It opened with a
squeak, and for a moment 1 stood looking
n. This was evidently the sleeping room
It held only ft washKtsnd, a chest and
an Iron bedstead", nnd here, totf, art Un
extinguished fc-ua Jet flared I stepped in
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and closed thu door behind me, for upon
the bed lay another huddled figure. U
was iv man lying face downward, breath
ing heavily and evidently very drunk;
for the wholo place reeked sourly of alco
hol. I pulled at hl shoulder, turning
him half over. For half a minute I held
him so, then let him fall back as I had
found him. I glanced behind me to ba
sure that the door was shut. The man
on the bed muttered thickly, shifting his
position; and something thudded upon
the floor, and rolled to my feet. It was
a short bit of 'iron, rather more thick at
one end than at the other; and as I
turned It over In my hands, it left a
stain. Somewhere I had seen such nn
Instrument before, but I could not at tho
moment recall where; and I dropped tho
thing Into my pocket not without somo
feeling of disgust. A emltll mirror hung
over the wash stand. This I hurriedly
.took down, and as hurriedly left the
room, cjoslnjr tho door behjnd me. . Lady
Was still sitting where I had left her, but
as I camo across the ropm she got up.
"What are you going to do?" she
asked. "I'm aure I can help In some
wuy. You were gone a long time, but t
waited."
"I'U show you in a moment," I said.
We talked In whispers as It the In tha
presence of death; and yet I waa almost
sura .that the woman was alive. Never
theless, It was with a rat deal of relief
that I saw the mirror softly cloud before
'her Hps.
"It's all rlKht," I cried. "She'e alive."
"Are you sure?"
"Absolutely."
"O, thank God!" Lady breathed.
"Amen," said I. "What are we to do
now?"
"What 40 you think we had better do?
Is there any water In there?"
"There's nothing Ip there that's of any
use." I said nulckly. "I ahould say the
first thing would be to send for an am
bulance, and the next for the police."
"No, no!" Lady cried. "Whatever Is
to be done we must do ourselves, 1 came
here to take her away. Can't we tako
her as she la?"
"She could be carried downstairs easily
enough," said I, surprised, "but some
body ought to be arrested for this thing-.
Have you any notlwn who did It?"
"Her husband, I suppose," answered
Lady bitterly. "He Is like that when he
has been drinking. Sheila was afraid
something would happen when he came
back."
"Sheila?"
Lady glanced at tho figure before us.
"That Is Sheila," she said. "She used o
be my nuroo."
I picked the. woman .up In my arms.
She was heavier than I had thought;
not beyond my strength, but more than I
rould walk with safely down those crazy
stairs.
"I'll cal the chauffeur," I said. "He
can help carry her down."
"Ye.: but I'd rather he didn't see this."
"He'd see her anyhow, when we brought
her down; and we can't du anything for
her tyre. Whrre shjvll I put her?"
"Waem't there a bed In thut room?" she
asked.
"Hlp off your coat, she will be h!
right on the floor for a minute,"
Lady took off the long coat and spread
It upon the hoards, taking flhella's hand
In her lap as- I laid her down upon It.
I raised - the little window, and looked
down Into the atreel. The car stood
there. Its lights glaring monstrously down
tho empty strett
(To Ho Contmled Tomorrow )
Copyright, 1911, lntcrn'1
TTTHEN Spring comes laughing by vale and hil),
YV windflower dancing nnd dnffodil,
Sing stars 01 morning
And gay birds gossip the orchard
Our Last War
How It-Started; Hotf It Was Fought; What It Cost in
Lives and Honey and What Wo Gained by It.
By sv. tiiomas
TMt c(rncitt hUtoru will .It completed
in tiz inKiidmmU, nuD.Uhed contecu-.
tivtly
' CXAVTBX V,
Ueneral Scott arrived off Vera Cms
with tho larger part of the forces as
signed to him on March 9, 1S47, Just two
weeks after Taylor's brilliant vlotory at
Bueria Vista. He had about 12.000 troops,
Including the divisions of Generals Worth,
Twiggs, Quitman and Pillow.
The city of Vera Cms at the time con
tained 1,000 houses and 7,000 Inhabitants.
The houses were built of stone, two
stories high, with flat roofs and para
pets. It was situated on a dry plain,
behind which rose sand hills, cut up with
many ravines and covered with clusters
of thick chaparral.
The city was entirely surrounded by
a massive stone' wall wo an1 R ha,f
miles In circumference, on this wan
there were nine bifsttonar mounting 100
guns. Another 100 guns and mortars wero
In the city and In the defenses, outside
of the wall.
Within the walls were 5,Q00 troops, be
sides the cltltens, most of .whom were
well armed. On an island about a mile
In front of the city was the f amous stone
castle of San. Juan d'UJloa, built by the
Spaniards In lttS, and the foundations of
whose -walls, laid deep In the sea, had
enabled It to withstand the waves and
storms of three centuries.
The American lino of Investment was
completed by the 12th, and each division
and regiment was given ite place. - Im
mediately the battle opened' from both
sides. The cannonading was practically
Incessant, the Americana steadily getting
the better of It, and on the 26th, as Scott
waa about, to order the final assault,
General Morales Informed him that ho
was ready to surrender.
On the next day the articles of capitu
lation were drawn up and. sighed, and
General Scott sent on to Washington his
historic dispatch: "The flag of the United
States of Ameripa now floats triumph
antly over the walls of this city and the
Castle of San. Juan d'Utloa."
"On to Mexico City!" then became the
cry of tha Americans, and while tho
Americans were ishoutlng that slogan,
Santa Anna, who had worked up a revo
lution in tho capital and got himself
elected president, was making the wqlulu
ring with the cry, "On to Vera Crut, to
drive out the Gringos!"
Tha mutually advancing fprces-thu
Americans on their way to Mexico City
and the Mexicans on the march to Vera
Crux met at Cerro Gordo, a strong posi
tion some sixty miles Inland. April IS,
After a stubborn flsht of halt a day s
duration, the Mexicans were routed, re
tiring In great disorder toward the cap
ital,
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sing morning skies,
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long."
With Mexico
b, asaoaY
The- forces were; American, 8,000; Mex
ican, 14,00); loeses, Amorlcan, 439; Mex
ican, I,m In addition, the Moxlcans loit
forty-flvp pieces p( artillery, a vasi
amount of ammunition and pris
oners, including five generals.
following the victory at Ccrro Gordo,
Qeneral Scott offered the Moxlcans peace.
but their .answer was, 'War without pity,
unto death."
rte-sumlng their advance, the Americana
on May It, reuchod I'ucbla, a city of
ttf.tXXl Inhabitants, where they remained
until August 7, awaltlnsr reinforcement.
Leaving I'uebla on August 7, they gained
the summit of the Cordilleras on August
ll, and down below thorn, In all Its en
chanting beauty, lay the City of Mexico
toward which they begun an Immediate
descent.
The City of Mexico, while not a wallei
town, was defended by several formidable
works, which required rapture If the place
was to be entered. Chief among these for
tifications were the Hill of Contreras, the
convent and bridge of Churubusco, and
tho Immensely strong fortress of Chapul
tcpec. Two of thoseContreras anil Chur
ubusco were diaposed of on August
Tho Hill pf Contreras, with its
powerful entrenchments, waa dofended
by 7,00j of the best troops In Mexico, It
was attacked by 4.C00 men under General
Smith, with tho usuul respite. The enemy
was defeated, with a loss of 700 In killed
and wounded, WO prisoners, and thou
sands of small arms, incredible as It
may seem, the American loss waa only
about fifty.
The difficulty presented by Churubusco
was negotiated in the same- successful
manner. Arid Churubusco waa a formid
able difficulty. The fortification was
the thick, high wall of a hacjrndav form
ing a square with a stone building higher
than the wall, and a big stupe church
with lofty tower, tho whole combination
pierced with loopholes for musketry.
Outside the walls were two field works
mounting several batteries of artillery;
while the surrounding fields wore well
filled with sharpshooters, Assailed by
Twlgg's men, Churubusco was hand
somely takrn, though at a heavy loss to
the American troops.
The City of Mexico was now almost
within the grasp of our army, hut still
another obstacle noided to be removed.
That obstacle waa Chapultepec.
Chapultepec Is an Isolated rocky lill,
crowned by a masMve stone building,
once the bishop's palace, but later on
converted Into a strong fortress, heavily
armed and garrisoned. A little way from
Chapultepec, less than half a mile, was
Casa de Mata, the citadel circled with In
trenchinents and rterp, wide ditches, so
arranged that Its garrison occupied two
'"nes of defence
By Nell
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The Heavens in May
Dy WILLIAM V. IUGUE.
This Is a quiet month In the heavens.
There la notecllpsc, nor an unusual dis
play of any kind, The planet Venus.
however, has come to grace our evening,
twilight. It Is continually getting far'
tber away froni tho sun. On the lsth
It seta at 0:20, and on tho 31st at O-.U,
about five hours after the aun.
Saturn Is also lp the' evening eky, and
seU on the Uth at 9:24. five minutes be
fore Venus. Mara sets on that night at
12:43 a. m. It, la setting to the east of
the Tlvlns, Castor and Pollux.
Jupiter Is the only morning star, rising
At the very- foot of Chapultepco was
Mollno dol Iley, a number of stone build
ings that had been used as a foundry.
It guarded the only approach to Chapul
tepec, and had been made as' strong as
possible to protect that fortress.'
On the morning df the th of Septem
ber, at break of day, the Americans at
tacked the Mata and Mollno del Iley as
preliminary to the main assault upon
Chapultepec, the Brand objective of. their
efforts. Ueforo the Inpetuous charges of
the Infantry, assisted by the fine work
of the artillery, the positions were car
ried, though at a terrible sacrifice.
It was the bloodies day for the In
vaders of the whole war. Seven hundred
and seventy-eight Americans were killed
and wounded, fifty-eight of 11) cm being
officers.
The Mexican loss Ip killed, wounded
and prisoners waa over 3.000,
At dawn on the 12th the American bat
terles began pounding Chapultepco and
kept at It all day. The next day two
assaulting columns, each of 2S0 picked
men, selected from the divisions of Worth
and Twiggs, bore down, from opposite
directions, upon the grim old fortress.
Tho garrison, realising the supreme Im
portance of tho position, poured forth a
hall of shot and shell upon tho advancing
columns, but It did not deter them. Pll
low'a men rolled up the rocky ascent,
while from the opposite Quitman's col
umn kept steadily on, and by the help
of ecallnt; ladders the Americans were
soon Inside the walls. Those of the gar
rison that atood their ground were soon
overpowered, and tho American colors
were soon flying from tho ramparts.
Chapultepen had fallen and the way
Into the Mexican capital was at last
open,-
On tho 13th the Mexican forces bcajan
the evacuation of tho city, and by
o'clock on the morning of the following
day all that was left of Santa Anna's
army was In bivouac at Guodaloupe Hi
dalgo. About S o'clock on the morning of the
14th of September, General Soott and
staff rode Into the ancient capital of
the Montexumas. Alpng the "Avenldu de
San KrancUco" he rode to the "Flaxa
de U Constltuclou." entered the palace,
ordered the flag raised from Its towers,
and the war waa over.
Chapter VI; the concluding one In the
series, will deal with the results of the
war, what t brought us. the number of
thu opposing armies, tha battle losses,
and what it cost us in dollars and cents.
Brinkley
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on tho Uth at 1.22 a. m. It Is still rather
far south.
Tho sun rises on tho 1st, 15th, 31st at
5:28, 6:06, 4:W, nnd acts at 7:17, TtSl, 7;16(
making the day's length 13 hours, U
minutes, 14 hburB, i minutes, 14 hours.
60 minutes, an Increase of 6S minutes
during the month. Tho sun Is 2 minutes
64 seconds, 3 minutes 49 seconds, 2 min
utes M p;conijo, fast pn sundial time on
these dates, but 20 minutes 30 seconds,
19 minutes 55 sceppds, minutes 4(1
seconds alow of .standard time. On the
21st the sun enters Gemlna.
The moon la In first quarter on the 3d,
at 12.29 a. m full on the 9th at 3.31
p. m., In last quarter on the 16th at 4:12
p. m-t and hew on the 2tth at 8:33 p. m.
It Is In conjunction with Mars on the
d, with Jupiter, on the 1Mb, with Saturn
on tho 26th, with Venus 011 tne 27th, and
with Mara again on the. 30th. This laat
conjunction of the moon with Mars on,
the 90th narrowly misses being- tor us an
occulatlot), that Is, an eclipse of the
plonet. On the 10th, at 9:03 a. m.", Venus'
pastes north of Saturn at a distance of
somewhat over four lunar diameters.-
Crelghton University Observatory. Omaha,
Neb.
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