THE RKK: OMAHA. K1JII.V. MAY 1.U1.
7ne Professor's
Mystery
BY WELLS HASTINGS
AID BRIAN ROCKER '
lUastr&tioQS by Hanson Booth
1915 "Wellesley Crew in Record Form
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First
I'rof. Crosby carnally encounters at a
suburlian trolley station Alls Tabor,
whom he had met lit a Christmas rarty,
both being bound tor the Ainslcys. On
the way thes trolley Is wrecked, near the
Tabor homo, and there Crosby goes to
spend the night. After retlilng he la
summoned and turned out, to find ac
commodation at a nearhv Inn. no ex
planation iM-in? given him. lie en
coiintera Mr. Tabor In a heated debate
with a rough lookins Italian the next
day, and learna the Italian Is one Caruccl.
loiter at the Alnaleya he mre.ta Minn
Tabor aitaln. and they are gettlnK on
famoiialy. when Dr. AValter Held. Mls
Tabora (tephrother turn up, and carta
her off home. Crosby Ih warned he mum
not try to nee Mlra Tabor nj?aln. He
perslau, and la invited to accompany her
on a midnight trip to the city, where
they reacu Sheila. Miss Tabora old
nurse, from the effects of an assault
committed on her by Caruccl, who turns
out to be Phella's husband. In escaping
from the city with Bhella, they have a
brush with the police, but avoid being
detained or Identified. Thle frets the
newspapers Into the game, and one of
the reporters, who comes closest to the
trail, turns out to be Maclean, an old
pal of Crosby's, w ho Is persuaded to sup
press the Tabor name, and to assist In
cleaning: up the mystery. In the mean
time Crosby hue gotten Into the good
graces of the Tabor family, has learned
that It Is .Margaret who wedded Pr
Keld. while he is fn love with Miriam,
who answers to the family pet name of
lAoy. He and Maclean locate Caruccl
working with a gang of graders near the
Tabor home, and manage to stir up
Quite a row with him. when flhella Inter
venes. Crosby returns to the Tabors,
where he gets into an Intimate conversa
tion with .Mrs. Ttrbor, onlv to be inter
rupted by Tdy and her father. As a
result of the conversation that followed
I-ady Is left with her mother, who seems
unduly excited, while Crosby and Mr
Tabor go to have a smoke and talk over
the situation.
CHAPTER xx.
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Mental Reservations.
(Continued.)
A soon as w left tin table. Air Tabor
suggested that his wife was very tired,
and that she should be off to bed. She
agreed reluctantly enough only when
l.ady Joined her father In his importunity
aid said that sh! would go up with her.
At last sho rose and bade us all good
night; but when she and l.ady were at
the very door, she turned and looked
back at us. Then, of a sudden she ran
llKhtly across the room and stuoHd to
my ear. "l have a little secret of my
own," she luughd across at her husband.
Then very swiftly, and with u catch In
her voice, she whispered, "They are try
ing to take Aliriam away from rat!"
II APTF.R XVI.
Meager Revelations.
I glanced instinctively across at Mr.
Tahor, to see It he had overheard; but he
gave no sign of having done so. He
tood with one broad hand slowly tlght
ciiins and relaxing over the back of his
chair, h!a eyes following unwaveringly
the slight llgvrc as It paused beyond the
curtains and P.ady let them fall Into place,
then he sat wearily down again, with a
smile that did not smooth the white bris
tle of his brows.
"That shows how tired Airs. Taboi is."
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Tlio spoctly 3 Wollcslpy
brushes with tho otlier olas
he said casually. "1 never knew her to
confuse the name In that way before."
My first shock changed unreasonably
Into the feeling of a suspected conspira
tor. I was sure that he had not heard;
his reference waa oply to his wife's call
ing l.ady "Miriam," not to her whispered
words; but what could those words mean?
Where was Miriam? And If this house
wire In some way divided against itself,
on what side was I? Then I became
suddenly conscious of my silence.
"Surely there Is nothing at all strange
In that," t answered. "For a mother to
call her children by one another's names
lis the commonest thing In the world., es
j peclally when" I stopped, wondering
wnemer i were quite sure mai Miriam
was dead.
"Tea, natural enough, of course." He
spoke absently; then went on as if an
swering my thought; "And then. Mrs.
Tabor was greatly shaken by our first
daughter's death: so much so that she
has never quite recovered herself phys- 1
Ically. Sometimes, even now, she hardly
realizes, 1 think, tliat Miriam Is not
here." He looked down at his hand, then
raised his eyes steadily to mine.
"That waa several years ago?" I said,
to say something.
"Two years. We have to keep Walter
Reld out of her sight, although she Is
very fond of him, because his actual
words and ways make her remember."
Perhaps It was the effort to convince
himself which made him seem needlessly
eager to explain
"She must be growing stronger though,
all the while." I suggested. "And from
now on, we shall have peace from Ca
ruccl and all the other disturbances he
brings In hla train."
Ho d'd not answer, and the discomfort
I of silence settled heavily down. I began
I to hear the clock ticking, and to be half
! conscious of my breathing. Some on-;
I crossed the room above us and went
quietly down the upper hall toward the
rear of the house. Had that been Miriam's
room in which 1 found the Intruder; and
if so, why was It kept uncannily the same
when all the family were striving to guard
the mother from remembrance? Presently
.Mr. Tabor roused hlself with the de-
i clslon of a man putting a thought away.
"I meant to ask you about that," he
said. "Puim-how or other, this black band
! business mu.n stop, I can't have re
j porters and detectives and blackmailing
Italians lurking about to cause gossip
land disturb Mra. Tabor, and I won't have
! It. We've done no more than morely to
hold "off the ples, and that necessity Ip
Itself wan bad enough. Hut when it
i coined to having Caruccl tircak Into the
house and alarm the family" He looked
'sharply at nie- "Have you heard any
thing further from your friend'.'"
I "Nothing more than you know; but I
ran across Caruccl this afternoon, and I
think that incident is closed." I went
over the afternoon's events, adding: "So
! there's no murder mystery now, no news
! paper story, and unless Sheila Is very
much mistaken in herself, we've heard
tho last of Carucol Tbat clears the atmo
'tphere pretty thoroughly, diesn't It?"
1 He did not sc-m to be much relieved,
i "V-e-s If Sheila could or would really
i send him away. I don't doubt her loy
' alty to us. but s'.ic'a loo fond of her brute
of a husband " Then abruptly. Hfter
some pondering, "You answered the tele
phone lor Airs. Tabor, as I understand.
Did you hear the name, or recognise the I
i voice?"
I "No, sir," aid I uncoinlnrtably : for It
I sounded very mrch as If he were iues-"
tloning his wife word.
It couldn't have been cither of your
I Italian detectives, for Instance?"
"I'm Mu te sure that it wasn't -that is.
as si re a one can be of a voice over th
i phone. It whs entirely different, a coo-
ln', syrupy mice that seemed to be a
i woman s.
; "Well." he said finally. "Caruccl Is
the storm center. In any case." ;e rose,
and pressed the button by the door. "Ask
l.Mr.i. Caruccl to step down to my study
I for & moment," lie said to the ma d. Then
i he turned to me. "Come In here, Crosby,
! and we 11 settle this thing."
Sheila appeared bubbling with triumph.
and volubly eager to recount her experl
' ences. Antonio would never dare to show
the face of him to any of us again. In
; deed, he had promised to tal;e the first
' shin he could find and be off to sea. out
of mischief Ills black hand bother was
'all nonsense, any way: lie was nothing
to be afraid of, more than a black-faced
, bogey to frighten children. "An" he II
1 keep his promise, sir, to, me," she wound
up. "for he knows well what III be
: givln" liini If he don't. He's only waltin'
i till his week out, so lie can dra w his
pay; then off lie goes to New York, an"
away on the first steamer that'll take
'him. 'An' good riddance to je, too.' says
i I. 'an' If rer ye bring trouble on my
I people again. I'll make ye w ish ye d died
a bachelor,' 1 says to him."
j "lies going before that." said .Mr.
j Tabor decidedly. "This is Tuesday; the
I Catalonia sails on Thursday, and I'll get
' him a berth OD It. What's more. 1 11 see
Le,
collo;e trow out for a triail spin on Lonpfollow lake, at WolK'sloy, Mass. 'J'liis litat has Ihmmu
crows at Weileslcy. 'L'hc cr'v is made up as follows: Caroline Itlackstono, captain; H. V.
Hunter, Dorothy Kichardson, (Jhulys Merril, (J. Busey and Alice Place.
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The Value of
Miss MurdiM'li in
Ry MAl'U MIl.l.Ki:,
If anyone should a.tlt for a personul
opinion of Alisa Anne .Murdoch, who Is
j playing Florence the irresistible, on "A
Pfcir of Hxce." 1 should tall here a dear
j There is nothing in the world tbat seumed
i to fit In r charming personality so well
as dimpling; and. pushing a cloud of red
guM ,ialr oll of ,,pf wrillklf (,
I her torehend thoughtfully as though mi
an inwaru Hunt lor some or in-r I'tecs on
'beauty.
"Why I k:.ovv Juft wiiut I have to tliunk
for my gay sp:rit:i," fche declared, after
a moment's hesitation, "I base preached
It to loads of my erl friend, and after
they have tried It they all vote it a
huge suet ee. I'crhavu you w ill miiiki
j when I tell you, beeaufe I don't remem
ber ever having beurd of It before, but
1 put all of my faith on a series of
rat naps taken at Intcrva! through tne
day, whenever I haw- a cliaiee to close
my eves and tie hck undisturtted. Of
course, to be well ami o erf low lug with
good npinta all the tone, a girl must live
a tegular life. There inuet lie no gaps
between things, "lie must have time fur
everything and" live exactly uh wlie would
that he takca It. Vuu know wlicu- to find
hlin. HlM-ila, 1 auppisr-? '
Sure I do. air. He'll be right where I
saw him. workin' n the trolley. lut it's
hard on liini. sir. loa n' Ida weeks pay,
and beio' shipped off like a ti.ief lave
lilm to find his own ship like a iiihii "
'"lies not being khipixd off.
I'm 1 1nd-
lng a good berth for mm, which Is more
than ho deserve, and you both ought to
he grateful. Now llrten, I want you to
go lo New York with him tomorrow.
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a Cat Nap
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two charming (totte.
pisy game. 'or that reason I aiwaya
divide my day Into period and I never
allow any ta-o periods to overlap. The
iMngs that 1 do are of course Interest
ing How cvuld I be harpy doing thinga
that were d.Jl and monotonous? Hut I
pcr'umt them rellloua.'y. su that lo a
certain eit-ni my days are lived In
periods vf routine exactness.
"And not for my cat nap. After 1 hare
finUbod. say my period of sluilying. 1
ailow my tnuughLs to wander off aaay
from the doltus if the day, for about
five er ten minutes. In short. I lace
f .rty wlika, nlax:ru," orcry muscle and
kex-rVog tny rea tlttilly cioard su as Bait
to ee rn v surroundings. rTotnclbnes) J raa.
a'.iotjau. drup olf for a ft minuttra. smrir
tlutea 1 sin md a bit ale pr. and Ju:
rM. but I uiways get a gn-ai dejil o'
otirnfurt. for my mind Isn't ruruil otof
to nulinr work, und when It ia arra ca
tling aro'ind In the shtari Uwuu:
scares Dial I allow a. dUrrvjC tioacj
duriLg the day, u la atmrrhleg one wmr,v
mclrrlal in whWh ta U.k mn laterest.
"Of ciuirae. my eat iaa Bavtet kiter
f ru the least bit with my regular fce
at night. My routlnrt work during Hit
day aiwaya makes fur a long restful
night, ltegularlty is the greatvst beauty
api clalibt. liul my rat naps help to kt p
mo happy; tliry keep my eyis bright
and tuev keep mu from getting clots.
They say that topic Willi red hair aro
Take liim lo uui own place, and don t
low higbt of him until he la satu aboard
and away. If be ea sou, notify luc
at mi' i'.' I Intt lid to be certain that be
has left the country, do you understand?"
"An' who's lo be lakin' tare IV lue
poor lamb up.-t.iir all the while?'' Hluila
' deiaanded, hei luoyue broadi ning, ami
per riaiicm MB' i niifronio i) ..iniai
her hiis.
Mr. Tabor glanced quickly at me. "We
can dj that very well, a we have done.
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What "Forty Winks" Will
Do for Health and Beauty
JJ
ortcu very fiery tempi-red and I'm sura
I'm not an exception to the rule, but be
ing cross doesn't pay and It a so hard tu
K-et Into a temper at a regular time each
lay thai Is doesn't seetu to f it In w It h my
rrutlne schedule. And so I'm not cross
very often. Try taking forty winks once
In a while; It an antidote for almost
anything."
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of four; ;,ttir liui'lKind can be sent lo
prison for blackmail. If I cau l otheiwle
lx lid ot him, but for our eakc I should
rallitr haw; lino xinip',)' go away. If
you arc not will ni; lo help. Sheila, you
need only say
I 'or u moment 1 ll.o ik-'lit the was going
to letm-e I. in alter u .ini appeal or
two, lie ii hi- u.iy i at lor viilleuly, and
agreed to leave cirlv in tile molnllis
(To He Continued Tuinol io'.
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sex : :-tH i
I4sVefer
iill
victorious in u majority of
Isolds, Khua Jaffron, II.
Our VastResourccs
in Nature
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Ity i;l.ltKUT IirilUAIll).
The world's supply of coal will be ex
hausted, at the present rale of consump
tion In SO years. The supply of Iron will
be gone In I'M years.
Three - fourths of
the oil wells in
Pennsylvania that
once produced aro
now dry. A hundred
I year ago whale oil
was the one llluml
nant. In 1 6 Colonel
Drake In digging
deep for salt "struck
lie."
Jn ISTi, Kdlson sent
a current of elec
tricity through a
vacuum, and thereby
confoumlud the ao
luna who declared
there could be no
light without com
bustion,
and np
combustion without oxygvn.
fxllmm got hla light without either,
and thereby proved that light was a
form of energy and that energy was
transmutabla Into different forma.
I'ntrolcuni la a deposit. It la stored -up
fish oil, distilled and preserved In na
ture' laboratory. You empty the pocket
and you exhaust the supply.
Hut oloctriclty I elemental and Inde
structible. We use It over and over, and,
like water, it traverses earth, trene,
animals, clouds and comes back again tu
our bidding.
Water la the natural mate of electricity.
They go together. Franklin with hi kite
and key, coaxing from the skloa the secret
or rloclrlclty, could only work In a
thunderstorm.
Kloctrk'lty haa only ono love, and that
fa water. And this love la reciprocated.
The children nf this maUng aro the
arts. Industries, the homes, factories,
parks, the ahipa that sail on tho atea,
ending out their aoarctillghts, and re
ceiving and aeodlng wireless mesuege
u II are born of negative and positive
attraction- wool, If you pleaae, rubbed
on amber.
Aye, man himself In an amphibian
that baa learned to breathe air. The
beginning of every life la an unseen
aiiueoua germ, vitalised by a saline solu
tion carrying an electric current, libcj
ated by contact.
Ho-there you have It. The aupply of
Iron la all In eight, and the building of
the future will have to be of materiaja
that are at hand. The wood la gone, but
rock la plentiful. The rocks of the Jrand
Canon could rebuild the cltlna of the
world, and then the quarry would not
be really opened.
The building material of the future
will be concrete. The Kgyptluna knew
the secret of concrete, and It died with
them. They built their pyramids and
colomd of mixed cement. We are now
re-dlmoverlng thla exhaustible building
material. Take courage.
The mountain, rock-ribbed and lasting
as tb sun. are nolhlnr; but concrete
Ood'a concrete mixed, meltod and smelted
by heat, pressure and time.
Man can aupply the heat and pressure,
and he can eliminate the quest ion of time
and make granlto In a day. linulas. feld
spar, marble, quarts, granite are the ac
cidents of energy.
Mind human mind has now
evolved
so that man. In degree, controls nature.
And the way he rontral nature Ih by
' loving her, working with her, never op
I posing her.
j Man can make pyramids and he can re
j move mountains. He can crumble the
i bills tu duat, transport them to dlatant
iints and there reconstruct them.
! Hut In the making ot concretu water
i I an itbaoluto neceasity. Heat applied to
' water liberates enrgy, and thia was tlio
j secret that faaliJoued the hills and gate
: Tot in to tiie mountains.
The mighty mixing anil explosive power
of heat and water Ia creative. Creation
Iconics from the currents of electricity
(exploded by i ontacts attraction anil re
j vulelon. positive and negative, but al
i ways and forever the genu of the un
seen becomes visible only when bathed
Into llfo by water, und vitalized by a
I shock.
Well do we speak of, "the water of
life." Th re can be no concrete without
water.
And you cannot get elc trlclty without
water
iilc. tricity i , In Its infancy. It la a
coming vleni e. W hile otlier things are
costing nior-1 than formerly, ileititclty
jand eli trie appllanxs are getting cheaper
all the t'me
It ia the limn h of pr"j,rrras.
Madame. Isciclls
Beauty Lesson
I. Klin X VIII PART II.
The Itanda Their PnsalMlttt.
Tne bsnuty of the hand Is much a mat
ter of training and eare. The hand la
fr less sensitive thnn the fare. It should
far outlive. It, but often through cruel
abuse end neglect the hands beeoma
wrinkled and unlovely long before tha
neildlan nf life Is reached. My pupil,
sometimes sny to me: "There Is nothing
I ran do for my hands now beyond hav
ing my nails manicured." They are quit
wrong, 1 have often seen a few months
Intelligent rnre transform discolored,
wrinkled hnnds to smoothness and at.
tractive whiteness. Is It not worth try
ing? Most hands are harmed riy tha teo
froquent and Indiscriminate use of aoap.
Dirt becomes grimed Into the skin anrt
the qulrkest and most thorough way el
getting rid of It Is to use strong soap.
Itoth the dirt and the soap are bad for
the hands. The sort of soap that remove
dirt quickly, the kind you would uso to
clean any soiled fabric, soon drlea tha
natural moisture from the akin and wrin
kles result.
The escape from this dilemma, my flesf
friends. Is to protect your handa; do not
var aXow them to becomo atalned op
very much tolled. 1 am going to Ignore
the fact that many of you do housework,
work In your gardens, or perform other
hand routine taaka. but It la poaslbla to
do nil these thing and U11 ear for th
hands,
Mrs. T. O. write ma retarding: an e
twelve drynas of th oalp. Tho best
remedy for thl I regular maasaga of tha
I scalp, which will axclt ui natural wow
of th oil gland. In th future lesson I
shall give direction ioc minm v-.r
maasag. I also recommend that Mrs.
V. O. rub yellow vaelln Into th calp
every other nig ht, using only a Httl at
tlm and taking car not to get It on the
hNoteLson VIII I divided Into flv
part and hould be read throughout to
obtain full information on tho ubject ,.
(Leaaon VIII to b continued ) ..
Advice to the Lovelorn
lly BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
trlrtlr eeatlnj, o.
Pear Miss Fairfax: Will you Pi-"
me if It is proper for a gentl em an to
Invoke either pip, cigarette or cigar while
h,".rW:Vr-nt. him permlsot,
to mot It Is my understanding It would
b right for him doing o. but Just what
1. proper and strictly In accordance with
etbiuett la the Information
Bmoklng In the presence of ladle 1 ono
of the ungallant thing cutom ha mad
polite. '
1 Permission should alway be asked of
the lady, and no matter what her private
wishr may be she stamps herself a
prude (In the modern application of th
word If she refuses.
Often Knonab.
' Dear Miss Fairfax: How many nights a,
I week should an engaged couple meet? Wo
(see each other three nights . week and
sometimes Hundsv. Is that too orten or
not enough? Why doesn't true love run
smooth? 1-. H- l-
Three nights a week Is often enough,
and one night mid-week and Punday night
would be better. The love lives longest
that Is not kept on a continual strain.
True love sometimes runs smoothly, dis
putes proving nothing for or against. It
often happen that lovers quarrel because
each la trying to prove the master. One
of the two learns after marriage that It
Is wisest to give In, and the courtship la
dlnturhed hy finding which Is to be the
one.
W hy Nwl f
Dear Miss Fairfax: Is It proper for n
married woman who Is an Intimate friend
nf a hrlda to attend a bmlal allow er, and
Is It proei- for a single girl who is an
Intimate friend of a married wontan to
attend H stork tliower.
Such parties are given to one s friend,
and the fact that a woman la married
or single has no bearing on her eligibility
as a guest.
It la Untie l-Pner.
Pear Miss Fairfax: Keen, y i received
a letter from a girl I think a great deal '
of In fact. I love this girl Hlie has a
sreat habit of nuttina? mvaterioua initial
j on the end of the writing pa.per. lo yoii
tnina tins la proper ana would you kindly
let me know what the Initials "It. S. V
V." signifies? T. F. O.
Perth Ainboy, N. J.
K. S. V. I, stand for tho French, "Jtet
pnndex all vuu plain." which mean
"Please answer "
ntECBLE
Wow I th Time to Get Bid of These
Ugly Spot.
Them's no longer the slightest need of
feeling ashumed of your freckles, as the
pirscriptiou oth I no double strength i
guaranteed to remove these homely spot.
Simply get an ounce of othlne dotib'e
iringth-from tlio Sherman & Mcfonm-ll
1 1 1. at Co., or any druggists, and apply
little of it night and morning and )xr
l-.ould soon see that even the worst
freckle have, begun tu disappear, wlulo
the lighter on-s have vanished entirely.
I; Is seldom that more than an ounce 'a
needed to completely clear the rkin and
gain a lieautlful clear complexion.
le sure to ai-k for the double etiengta
othlne as this ia sold under guarantee of
money back if It falls tu rcnwn f recking, .
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