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THE PROFESSORS MYSTERY
WELLS HASTINGS 2B BRIAN HOOKER.
WITH I LLUSTRAT1 ONS by HANSON BOOTH
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You Can Begin This
Great Story To-day
by Reading This
First
Prof, Crosby, waiting at a suourban
station for a trollev car to take hint to
the Alnslles. where lie had a social en
gagement, encountered Miss Tabor, whom
he had met at a Christmas party the i
winter before. She. too. If Invited by the '
Alnillcs. When the belated trolley comes, I
they start off together, to meet with a j
wreck. Miss Tabor Is stunned and Crosby, ;
assisted by a strange woman passenger,
restores her, finding all her things save
a slender golden chain. Crosby searches
for this and finds It holds a wedding
ring. Together they so to the Tabors',
where father and mother welcome the
daughter, calling her "Lady," and give
Crosby a rather strained greeting. Cir
cumstances suggest he stay over night,
and he awakensto find himself locked In
his room. Before he can determine the
cause he Is called and required to leave
the house, Miss Tabor letting him out
and telling htm aha cannot see him again.
At the Inn whero he puts up he notices
Tabor In an argument with a strange
Italian sailor. Crosby protects the sailor
from the crowd at the Inn and goes on
to Jhe Alnslles, where he again encoun
ters Miss Tabor, who has told her hosts
nothing of her former meeting with the
professor. The two are getting along very
well, when Dr. Walter Held. Miss Tabor's
half-brother, appears mid boars her away.
Crosby returns to the Inn and demands
to see Miss Tabor. Held refuses, but
Crosby declines to go until st)e tells htm
herself Miss Tabor greets him In a
strained way and tells him it Is her wish
he leave and never try to see her asnin.
H says he will not unless she send for
.him. That night she calls him to join
In a hurried trip by auto to New York.
The rhauffeur noes not appear to relish
the Journey, but Crosby fixes the ma
chine and they are driven Into a crowded
tenement district of the city. Hero they
ascended several flights of stairs, and
found the door at the, top blocked. Forc
ing It open, they discovered the body of
Shetln. MIm Tabor's nurse, bleeding from
many wounds, but with signs of lit.
Carucrl, tho strange Itallnn, who Is also
Sheila's husband. Is In n drunken stupor
In the next room. The 'hnuffeur
weakens, but Crosby carries the Injured
woman down to the rar, and propares to
drlvo It himself. Crosby succeeds In elud
ing the police, but the timid ohatiffour
escapes. With no further adventure the
party reaches the Tabor home.
Now Read On
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CIIAPTBR X.
And How "Wo Drought Home a
Difficult'.
(Continued.)
It was part of this earn a strangness
that I only felt the. exhilaration of the
present without any thought of trouble
that lay before me and behind. I was a
conquering hero, carrying my prlnceaa
home In triumph out of the castle of the
enchanter, I had overcome desperate ac
cldenta and won my spurs; this page of
tha fairy-tale boro a picture in shining
colors, and I knew of neither the last
page nor the next It was In this mood
that I passed, unheeding, through the
gathering familiarity of nearer land
marks, past the Inn and tip the winding
hill, and drew up at last before the
Tabors' door with some vague fancy that
I should hear a trumpet blown. I sup
pose that I was uneonscleosly very tired
and In part asleep, bo that it camo upon
me with the shock of a, violent awaken
ItlS when the front door swung open and
Mr, Tabor hurried out to meet us, fol
lowed by. Or. Iteld.
The fairy-tale burst like a bubble, and
the actuality of all that those two men
tood for In my last few day and all the
days to come drowned me In a breath.
I .got down mechanically to 'help than. I
suppose we must have spoken a few
words while Lady waa helped down and
half carried Into the house between the
two men. Hut I do not remember. I' re
member only the three figures In the
doorway, the drooping woman, with their
arms about her. Then the door closed,
and Iady stood alone upon the steps
above me. Her eyes were larger for the
shadow under them; but there waa no
bloom upon her, and I wondorod why I
had thought her really beautiful.
"I'll take the car around and leave It,"
7 said, "Oood-bye."
'Tou're a strange man," the muttered;
then with her sudden smile, "Aren't you
coming In to breakfast? You've had an
adventure, and you ought to be hungry."
Her tone jarred. "Never mind that," I
said bitterly. "I was to go this morning,
and I'm going. There's still plenty ot
tlnie tor my train. The sooner it's over
with, the better."
"What do you mean?" ahe asked.
"Mean? 1 mean what you told me
and one thing more, I understand now
what ou meant yesterday, because I
found your marriage notice In an otd
paper."
'What marriage notice? I don't under
stand." "Yours; on the th of May three rears
ago, to Dr. Held. That's all. I beg your
pardon."
The color cam back Into her face; and
under the trouble of her brows I thought
she almost smiled.
"That was my jtster," she said quietly.
"My name's Margaret; I thought you
Itnew."
"At least you may as well come In to
breakfast."
"I should say he might," Mr. Tabor
crcd behind her. "I have Shells safely
stowed nwny, nnil now I must moko sure
of you."
I must have looked nearly ns puzzled
as I felt.
"You sco, Mr. f'rosby, I owe you an
apology. You helped us out of a tight
plncu last night and we nrn deeply In
yuur debt; your coals of fire are upon
all our heads."
"nut " I, sold, nnd heslated.
" 'But; tint that's what I say. I owe
you an npnlogy. Wc fired you out the
other night because we had to. We had
something going on here then which we
did not caro to have a nlranger mixed up
in. Wo lmit every regard for you but,
after all, you were nn outsider, and we
simply could not risk you. 80 we threw
you out. You understand that I am
upeaking to you now In confldcnre, nnd
becauso I lake you to be a gallant gen
tleman. Neither can I explain. Of
cuurse, the explanation I did give you
was a sheer bit of bluff. I knew nothing
against you whatever; but you forced
mo Into saying something, and that was
the most effectlvo thing I could think of
to say to n man of your kind. Relievo
mo. 1 hated to do It. Will you shake
hands?"
By thin tlmo I had got my breath
again. "I will do moro." I said laugh
ingly, "I will congratulate you. You are
one of the ablest and most convincingly
finished a '
"Wars." ho prompted.
"That I ever hud the privilege of meet
ing." 1 concluded unblushlngly.
Mr. Talior olnpped ino on the shoulder.
"Thank you. I am honored. We shall
get along very well, I promlso you.
Lady, lead the way whore breakfast
waits; this low fellow Hnd 1 will follow."
80 the three of us made a, very com
fortablo meal. Mrs. Tabor was not at
thn table, nnd I mippoecd her break
fasting In bed, If Indeed she were awake;
and Dr. Hold. It appeared, was yet busy
With his patient, Wn told Mr. Tabor our
adventure, turn and turn about, and I
found myself listening to Lady's warm
pralso of what she was pleased-to call
mjf rescue, with a tingling at the heart
strings. When we had done, nnd Mr.
Tabor had listened very carefully, he nat
frowning beforo him for n while; nnd I
thought tho he saw more In the recital
than did wc ourselves.
"Well," he said at Inst, "I suppose all's
well that ends well; hut I do hope that
It has alt ended. Are you 4filte sure,''
Mr. Crosby, that nobody got a look at
you or Lady or the car who would be
likely to have mind enough to give the
affair clearly to thn newspapers?"
"I'm pretty sure of It. sir," I an
swered. "The only people who got a
good look at anything were the 'little
group of tho usual slum roughs; and
from their 'general air and the hour of
tha night, tho probability Is that there
Wasn't ono of them that was not nrettv
well befuddled."
"How about the police?"
"I didn't get n good look at the police
myself; hut I think that wn were too fast
for thorn. You seo, Miss Tabor had the
number off, and wo started with con
siderable speed. They may havo a gen
eral idea of the car, but I think that it
about alt"
"I wonder what Caruccl -will do?"
mused Miss Tabor. "He looked rather
unpleasant on tha sidewalk."
"Ho will have to say something." I
said uneasily. "He couldn't have
careened around there very long without
falling Into the hands ot the police; and
they would certainly arrest him. They
usually arrest anybody In sight when
one person has got away and they don't
know quite what the trouble is."
Mr. Tabor nodded. "Yes. they doubt-
loss have htm safe behind the bars by
now; but I don't think that will hurt us
any. Personally, I can lmnglne no place
where I should rather have him. unless
It were far upon or under the deep blue
sea."
"But, father dear, that is terrible. If
they havo him la Jail, he will havo to
talk, and he will be blamed for that poor
wrecked room and everything. He'll
havo to give some explanation to save
himself; and ho must know that we are
the only peoplo that would be likely to
come for Sheila in an automobile."
The Italian, my dear, la not that breed
of man. We may be very glad for once
that he Is an Italian. Thero la only
CHAPTER XI.
EXPRESSIONS OP THE FAMILY AND
IMPKKSSIONS OP THE PRESS.
With that, all the strangeness of the
day, all the feeling of moving In an un
natural world which had hung about me
since the dawn, blew away like the
shadow of smoke. It was a summer
morning of breezes and cold tights, gar
rulous with innumerable birds; and I waa
Btandlns" With mr feet umn n1M Mrih
glad beyond measure tor the knowledge
inai l waa a rsxu. The very Idea of it
bad been absurd- and best ot all. there
wera still things to be done.
"Cod b thanked." said I to Lady,
She smiled down at me very sweetly.
"So much as that? It doesn't sound as
if you appreciated Walter, Mr. Crosby.
Z can easily Imagine a worst husband
rayslt"
"I don't mean that,'' said I hastily.
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f Does Marriage Change the Character?
By DOROTHY DlX.
A man asks this question: "Does mar
riage change the character for tho better?"
That depends on tho Individual man or
woman. When wo
ere young our na-
nbout one thing in tho world that a man tures arc fluid,
of his race and class will not do and They may be com-
inai is, tarn to the police. It Is part of
ins rami not to. He will cither Invent
some all-enfoldlng lie that tells nothing
whatsoever, or else he will not say a
word."
"But ho musthava struck her with
something," said Lady. "Suppose they
should find that, father. He'd have to
tell them to save himself."
I slipped my hand Into my pocket. "I
don't think they will find It," said I. and
showed the thing above the table. Lady
shuddered, and I quickly returned It to
my pocket.
"Just what you would expect." said
Mr. Tabor, "and If you had left' It. I
am afraid Caruccl would havo had some
difficulty In explaining things. A mar
llnesplke, Isn't It? Poor Sheila was
really very fortunate that he didn't stab
her with the sharp end. A stab would
have been more In his Une-the beast
As It Is. I don't believe the police will
ever find out any ot the truth of the
matter."
(Continued Tomorrow.)
pared to tho1 Juice
ot a grape', nnd
carriage may be
likened to the fer
mentation process.
Borne It turns Into
sound wine. Othefa
It turns Into vine
gar. No experience of
lite leaves us Just
where it found us.
We are cither the
better or worse for
It. and this Is par
ticularly true ot
marriage, which Is
the greatest ot all human experience
That la why marrlago makes or mars
a man or woman.
The Idea that matrimony Is some sort
of a miracle la very generally accepted
by the unthinking, and It Is responsible
tor more suffering and more broken
hearts than anything else In the world.
A man will be caught by a pretty face
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Coming Out
4
CONSTANCE CLARKE.
Why do you bother me? I want to sleep;
I am bo tired, and when the shadows creep
Around me darkly, I can slip away
And drift, and drift where only thoughts may stray.
I think1 1 smell the scent ot mignonette
.Prom over on the window sill, and yet
Why am I In this funny, small, whUe bed,
And who are you? Why do you bathe my head?
And who Is crying? Won't somebody tell?
If I've been 111 I'm going to get well,
of a girl whom ho knows to be silly, vain,
selfish and frivolous. He knows that
these qualities In u wife will make any
man miserable, yet ho goes along and
marries her under the delusion that mar
riage will change her character and con
vert her Into a wise. Intelligent, unselfish,
devoted helpmate. Of course, marrlago
'does nothing of the kind. It doesn't put
brains Into an empty head, or' a heart
Into a sawdust-filled doll. He gets what
ho married. 'Not something elce.
In like manner a girl falls In love with
a handsome youth, who Is a drunkard, or
a gambler, nr lazy and shiftless, and she
marries htm believing that marriage will
change his character. She thinks that as
oon as the words of the wedding cere-
,mony are said above him he will never
1 thirst for a highball again, and that he
I will Immediately become thrifty, Indus
trious and domestic, but nine hundred
nnd ninety-nine times out ot a thousand
nothing of tha kind happens, and tho
marriage estate of the man Is worse than
the single.
in reality, marriage only accentuates
character. It Is a crucial experience that
brings out whatevef Is the strongest note
in a man's or woman's nature, whether
this Is good or bad. But It does not alter
this characteristic. It It has any effect
upon It at all' It is to exaggerate It.
For example. It a woman la a narrow,
prejudiced fool, marriage does not make
her broad-minded and wise. On the othor
hand, as the years go by she gets nar
rower, more prejudiced nnd sillier, be
cause the very facts of married life tend
to confine a woman's Interest to her
home, her husband and her children, and
unless she has the broad outlook In 'her
self she Is sure to hava her horlxon
bounded by Just the things ot her every
day Ufa,
But the woman ot wide sympathies, ot
big brain and intelligence finds that mar
riage promotes her spiritual growth, so
that she gets bigger, wiser, tenderer
every day that she lives. Her character
has been no more changed than the lit
tle, narrow woman's has. Both have Just
been quickened by marriage Into being
mom completely what nature cut them
out to be.
Men show precisely the same char-
acterlstlcg undei the ordeal ot matrimony.'
If a man is a drunkard or a
rouo by nature tho inevitable disagree
able features of matrimony, the clash of
different natures .together, the fret arid
crying of a sickly child or an III man
aged houso will drlvo him to the saloon
fbr comfort, or his wife's fading beauty
gives him excuse for attentions to
younger and fairer women. Marriage
with Its attendant Ills Is an Incentive to
wrongdoing to such men rather than a
preventive.
But thero nro other men whose domi
nant character Is loyalty and sense ot
duty, and when these men marry, no
matter how wild a life they may have
led beforehand, they settle down Into
models ot domesticity. The knowledge
of a woman's dependence on them, and
their obligations to the helpless little
children they bring Into the world, brings
out all that Is best, and strongest, and
truest In them.
It Is common observation how often a
woman who has been a pretty and at
tractive looking girl develops Into a
slouchy, shiftless dowd after she Is mar
ried, and how many women, whom no
ono suspects of having a temper con
cealed about thalr persons when they
were girls, turn Into nagging shrews of
wives. Matrimony didn't change these
women's characters. It simply gavo
them liberty to develop what they were.
After she had caught her man the lazy
girl no longer. left It Incumbent upon her
to keep herself neat and tidy. After she
was safely married' the III tempered girl
felt free to be as disagreeable as she
pleased,
In the same way the man who' was
lavish as a suitor and makes a tight
wad of a "husband did not develop sud
denly Into a miser. He was naturally
stingy and matrimony simply accen
tuated his drslro to save, because it costs
money to support a family.
Marriage doe not change people. Hus
bands and wives do not changp us. They
only help us go a tittle faster: up hill or
down. Wo decide the course for our
selves. If we change for the better we
change ourselves. feo far as character
goes we are all self-made. And most of
us hava mighty little room to be proud
of the Job.
Science for Workers
By EDGAR LUCIISN LARKIN.
The Myriad-Minded
Shakespeare
By IU3V. THOtfAS ZS. GREGORY,
Kalura is tiMsceratta. Jl rwre ntp
lutsly nothing for the rules nnd regula
tions of men. It does not give a "tinker's
damn" for our theories or calculations,
but keeps oa about
Its business QulU'
regardless of our
human prognosti
cations. Kor example, ono
John Shakespeare,
tired of clodhop
ping, quits his farm
near Stratford,
moves Into town,
and goes Into the
glove and leather
business, and S.V)
years ago, April 23,
1554, tho word camo
to John that thero had jUst been born
unto him n roan child, and that all was
welt with the mother and babe.
That babo was to becomo Immortal
under tho name of William S.hakcspcarc.
the king ot kings of Intellect, the master
of tho masters of tho htstrlonlo art. In
literary power and majesty the "fore
most man of all this world."
Ask not for the biography of this -unparalleled
man. His work Is hla only
biography. Ho belonged not to Stratford
or to tho sixteenth century, but to
humanity and to tho nges. As well ask,
for the biography of tho sun, or of tho
chemical forces that vitalize the worlds.
When tho Stratford man went down to
London ho found all sorts of stage plays,
of all dates and, degrees of merit, met
of them of unknown authorship. Shakes
peare reached out for these pieces right
and loft, dived Into tho storehouse of tho
past l!l;o another In a fish pond, delved
Into tho stores ot his native England nnd.
selecting what suited him. began his
business as 'dramatist. The greatest
literary thief that ever lived, he took
whatever he thought he could use. In
tho first, second and third parts of Henry
VI:, for example, out of the 6,01? lines,
but 1.S03 wcro tho work of Shakespeare.
And so It goes all throush.
Toklng theso dry bones he put them
togother, clothed them with flesh and
breathed Into them the breath of life.
Into tho commonplace he put Shakespeara
the genius, tha fire, tho Inspiration of
his extraordinary personality and lol
tho modern drama was born, the mirror
was held up to nature, and for ho first
time' since the masters of ancient Qreoce
ceased to live tho world possessed a stase
that was true to humanity and Its actual
universal man. As Emerson observes:
"What point of morals, of manners',
of economy, ot philosophy, of religion, of
taste, of the conduct- ot life, has ho not
settled? What mystery has ho not sig
nified his knowledge of? What office, or
function, or district of man's work has
ho not remembered? What king has ho
not tnught state, as Jalma taught Na
poleon? What maiden has not found him
finer than her delicacy? What lover has
he not out-lovod? What gentleman has
he not Instructed In the rudeness of his
behavior?"
It has often been asked (and Quito
naturally, too), "How happenn If that th
Stratfc-rd man. with no more education
than ho had been able to pick up, before
his eighteenth year, in the grammar
school of his native town, was so wise,
of such encyclopedic knowledge, of such
universal Information?"
Tho answer Is: It was not Shakes
pearo's knowledge It was tho knowledge
of all tho wiso who had gono before him,
appropriated by him and unified and elec
trified by his surpassing genius.
Of tho lramortalt dlscoverc of the law
of gravitation It was written. "Nature
und nature's laws lay hid In night; God
said, 'Ixit Newton be.' and all was light."
What Newton did for the mathematics
of tho heavens, Shakespeare did for tho
hitherto hidden laws of the human heart
ho flashed from tha stago the secrets
of his own personality, and In the flash
human nature stood revealed Just as It
waa and Is, and Is to be with all It
greatness, with all Its glory and all Its
shame, with Its good and Its evil, Its
heavens and Its hell.
Question Please, glvo rule for determin
ing tho horsepower ot an open stream,
a river. Hupposo a board of any given
dimensions Is loaded on one edge so that
the upper edge would bo Just visible and
the board b'e held by ropes parallel to
tho stream, what velocity of water and
size of board for each norsepower pres
sure would be required?
Answer Nothing can be done without
the law, and tho law ot nature In this
problem Is: Tho total pressure on the
board' Is twice that produced by the Im
pact of art equal volume of. water strik
ing It that had fallen from a height suf
ficient to allow grnvlty to Impart to It
the same velocity as that of the stream.
Let us apply- this law to a river run
ning four feet per second. But the height
from which a body must fall to acquire
a speed ot four feet per second must be
found first. Tho space fallen through
by a fallen body equals the square ot the
acquired velocity divided by twice the
force of gravity.
Then four squared equals sixteen, and
this divided by 61.4 equals one-fourth
foot; twice this Is 'one-halt foot Then
the true pressure on' tho board must equal
the weight ot the water on Its area mul
tiplied by the square ot Its speed and di
vided by the constant of gravity. Com
put for one square foot; thus water
wuigha 62.4 pounds per oublc foot. The
, velocity being four .feet per second, whose
square Is sixteen, we have 62.4 multiplied
, tjy one and by sixteen, equals 90.8, which
j divided by 32.2 equals 31, the number of
pounds- pressure on one square foot ot
board!
Ahorsepower" Is the rate of doing
work of S3) foot pounds per second, which
divided by 31 equals 17.7 square feet In
tha board to pull at one horsepower rate
on the ropes.
The board In the stream would hava
an efficiency a's erratic as the vapors in
tha smokestack, for water wheels aro
rated as about 60 per centum of their
theoretical efficiency.
Advice to the Lovelorn
Dy BEATRICE FAIRFAX
Slnee You Love, Yes.
Iear Mlfw Fairfax: I am 23 and deeply
In love with a widower 41 years of ace.
I know he loves me and as I knew hla
life for some years and know him to bo
a good man. Is It proper for us to marry?
Our ways are alike. He enjoys whatever
I do; but of late I have done him a
wrong and h knows It. However, he
feels bad, but treats me with the eamo
respect. ANXIOUS.
There is no reason why you should not
marry. If he is willing to forgive anl
forget the wrong you did him, don't
make yourself unhappy by brooding
over It,
Circumstances Slay Explain'.
Uear Miss Fairfax: I am acquainted
with a young man whom 1 care fbr very
much, but he comes to . see me only
once a week, and never on Sundays, and
he never asks mo to go to moving pic
tures or to the theater. How can I find
put if he loves me? N. B. W,
If ho had to work hard; If you live at
a great distance: if his salary Is small
and Inadequate for more than necessities,
bis conduct Is excusable. Look at his
side of the story before you condemn
him.
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