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THE BEE OMAHA, THTRSHAY, MAY 2S, 19U. cr The Professor's The First Breakfast By Nell Brinkley Mystery BY WELLS HASTINGS AND BRIAN HOOKER Illustration! by Hanson Booth Copyright. 1911, by The Bobba Merrill Company. You Can Begin This Great Story To-day by Reading This First Prof. Crosby casualty encounters at a suburban trolley station Mies Tabor, whom ho had met nt a Christmas party, both being bound for the Alnsleys. On the way thes trolley Is wrecked, near the Tabor home, and there Crosby goes to Pnd tho night. After retiring he Is summoned and turned out, to find ac commodations at a nearby Inn, no ex planation being given him. He en counters Mr Tabor In a heated debate with u rough looking Italian the next 1ay, and learns the Italian Is one Caruccl. Later nt the Alnsleys he meets Miss Tabor asaln, and they are getting on famously, when Dr. Walter Held, Miss Tabor'M stepbrother turns up, and carts her off home. Crosby Is warned he must nut try to see Miss Tabor again. Ho persists, and Is Invited to accompany her on a midnight trip to tho city, where they rescue Sheila, Miss Tabor's old nurse, from the effects of an assault committed on her by Caruccl, who turns out to bs Sheila's husband. In escaping .from the city with Sheila, they have a .brUSh With the tlfllli-P. lillT nvnlrl Violnc detained or identified. This gets the newspapers JMO the game, and one of tho reporters, who comes closest to the trail, turns out to bo Maclean, an old pal of Crosby's, who is persuaded to sup- lucre uiu iauur name, anu to assist In cleaning up the mystery. In the mean time Crosby has gotten Into the good graces ofthe Tabor family, has learned l!lai 11 Js Margaret who wedded Dr. Reld, while he Is In love with Miriam, who answers to the family pet name of imu). no ana .Aiaciean locate Caruccl jvorklng with a sang of graders near the "To rtrtf n nv a . .1 . . . ,f"u uianuBe. 10 Stir UP l quite a- row with him, when Sheila inter ! vonea. Crosby returns to the Tabors. wnero ne gets into an intimate conversa- tlOn With Mrs. Tahor rinlir , K. l. 'P',ed Sy,L"dy and her father! As a t ZXl i. i J. conversation that To lowed Lady Is left with her mother, who seems TabnrycneJltd' Whl,e F80 an I Mr ?h. .u?.2.i haV? H smoko and talk over the situation. Tabor explains that his Thi6 lJltaItl has. becn shattered sine the death of a daughter several years r.i?fiTl,5Rid "V!1 con1'n are becoming ?rte?KS.Ie:Carucl '! thB torm-center. a& -,Vheycattfe,tnat ne ,nust Rotten rid of. Sheila Is to help. Crosby com .h i. a " and encounters MacLean." r.-..;.? it " . p aomo. iniormatlon as to cartjccl. MacLean explains the situation, that Is leading up to the solution of the mystery. It Involves a visit to a spiritual, ktlc seance, which Crosby makes under - i. ncveiopes the V ""1, vicieiiuB 10 promice the spirit of rTor ? defid daughter, the wifo of Dr. Held. Leaving the scene of the seance. Crosby sees Caruccl on the street and follows him to a drinking place, where the Italian meet Dr. Held and a giant, and drinks aro served for three. It becomes apparent that Reld lias a scheme on foot, for Crosby notes that Caruccl' drink Is drugged, while neither of the others In drinking. A large roll of bills Is handed Caruccl Just before he Vollapses and Is carried out. The giant comes back with tho money and gives It to Held. Crosby accosts neld, and they quarrel. Held has planned to have t-arucci shanghaied; Crosby meets Sheila and tells her what has happened to her husband. She- tells him of the death of Miriam Tabor and her infant child, and lays the blame on Dr. Reld. with a sug- Bvmiuu wiai .-urs. jaoor nceas a priest more than a doctor. Whl1 Onshv f purzllng over Sheila's story, he Is called on the telephone by Tabor, who tells him Mrs. Tabor has started for town alone, and asks Crosby to keep track of her. I rosby encounters Mrs. Tabor, and goes Mth her while she keeps an appointment with the man Reld had twice taken iferetly to the Tahor home. After the Interview- Crosby takes Mrs. Tabor to the depot where he encounters Sheila, nnd to her he gives his charpe. On call ing the Tabor home by 'phone, ho gets hold of Dr. Reld, who seems put out bv what Crosby learns. Crosby encounters the mysterious stranger about to enter a train to go to tho Tabors, and follows Urn. finding out that he is Dr. Paulus, i noted alienist. Now Read On f f f, i y CHAPTER XXII. I Learn "What I llnf to Do. I did not sleep mudh that night: but it was no longer the frustrate misery of indecision. I was done with all that, with beating myself aimlessly against blind bars and running weary circles In the w:heel, with tossing helplessly In a Planning for the Stork's Arrival V fc Madame, Isdlclbs "Seauiy Lesson- LK!M.N VIII PART V. The llnnd Their Possibilities. Xalls properly kept are filed a little every day and cutting is not necessary, hut n the average case the operation Is com menced by cutting the nails the proper length nnd filing them Into shape. I'se the file swiftly, taking one aid of tlr nail at a time; round them nicely, follow. Ing the shape of the fingers, After the nails are the proper lensth and shape, soak them for from three to five minutes In the bowl of soapy water to soften the. skin about them so It may be easily manipulated. Now wipe the fingers gently and with the blunt end of the orange wood stck push down the. skin at the base of the nails until the. white half moon Is visible, taking car not to break the skin. Rub away any hard callous spot with the emery and trim closely away with the scissors any ragged bits of flesh. With the cuticle knife scrap away any skin adhering to the nails, but do this gently, so as not to Injure or scratch the surface of the nails. ;lf the ends of the nail seem rough, smooth them with the emery-board. After this Is done the finger tips should be nilt back Into the soapy water and cleaned with the nail bruit!. If they r not perfectly clean, put a. bt of cotton wool on the pointed end of the orange wood stick, dip It In the peroxide of hy drogen and rub under and about the nallt. The final step la to cover the nalU with nail paste or powder and polish with tho buffer, taking one nail at a time. Wsih the nalla again to remove traces of pow der or paste; they should now be rosy, polished, perfect In shape and fret from decolorations. If this li done once a, week a few minutes' dally care of the nails Is all that Is necessary. In the dally care of the nail avoid tha selstors. but file them a little every dij. Never clean them with a metal Instru ment; use an orange wood stick and' be careful not to press this too far under tho nallft so an to Increase the looso or white part. To avoid this have' always on your dressing table a bottle 'of strong soap and water; put a bit of cotton on the end of your stick, dip It In this and clean th nails with It. It will not work so quickly as peroxide, but the constant use of per oxide will dry the nails and render them brittle. Note-The subject of "Manlcurlnj" was partly covered In the last article. Lescon VIII Is divided Into five parts and should be read throughout to obtalnfull infor mation on the subject Here Is the end of a dream and a be ginning! Past the awning of the little breakfast "porch the Spring birds sing and sail bluebirds a-mating and a-nst Ing, too and maybe "out for brcabwat, too," (thinks Love, as he licks his sticky fingers. They started, you see, most very decorously the groom In his morn ing jacket, serenely squared at his trim place his hair as smooth as a bird's wing his face pink with the shock of Icy water the little bride, her pUrla knot ted high. In a sweet-smelllng lUtli break fast gown of the heaven-blue of hr tyes queening It across and around tne tall, thin glass with Its qn fs'r, whits Ijrldr rose. Tho table wae threo fee, across, I reckon that's a Ions way, but they found that hands could touch ,cr.i clsup' across It. The bride poured the thick, clear coffee from icr gleaming jot that her best chum gave her. Love folded hit fat lega tinder the table, sitting hetwetn, and eyed the maj-maladj! And ono cf the bride's monogramed nap'tlns muffled his fat neck and stuck nut like ox'.ra wings below his tars. One of the groom's hands crept out and edged the tall, thin vase on ln"i ir tuo aside with a laugh. "Can't yo'i b;o your golden face, sweetheart?" Miitn he- And tha clear, brown coffee cooled and 'cooltd! Love dropped his eye, tight d In Jeep, sweet luxury and "waded Jn!" And the groom's eyes called and tha little orldd's two blue ones answered back and flint thing, what with him a-cooxlnir nnd she a slipping pussy-footed round the cloth on her two little satin shoes first thing the two of 'em were on ona ld of the table! Her chair yawned empty tho toast hardened and the coffee grew cold a ten-water fathoms down. , But Love-he ATE hit breikfttt-wlth hit heart at peace tor "I have earned a. rest," quoth he. "Lon8. tleeplefd. moonlight nlghta love song and valks. poetry and fastng-and strenuous dayt 1'vt had now I can EAT! 1 wasn't hun gry then but now my birds aro under one roof-trec--and Where's Hie marma lade?" -NI5I.T, nillNKLLT. Madams lie'belt't next, lesson will ha entitled "The Present Fashions Aro They Becoming' to tha Average Wonum'' Madame Ite'bell will discuss the present freak fashions, the spineless figure, low necked gown, th tpllt skirt, eto., t'elllnit how they were originated In Pari, and why. i I 1 Amon those things which all women should know of, and many of them do. Is a splendid ex'.emal application told In most drug stores under the name of 'Mother" Friend." It la a penetrating liquid and many and many a mother tellt how It so wonderfully aided them through the period of expectancy. Its chief pur pose la to render the tendons, ligaments and muscles so pliant that nature's ex pansion may bo accomplished without tha Inton.. ilnln an fitter! characteristic Of . ,1 I . . ........ iin penoa oi epi;wiivjr. "Mother' Friend" may therefore be considered aa Indirectly having a splendid Influence upon tho early disposition of the future generation. Whatever Induce to the ease and com fort of the mother should tear It Imprest upon the nervous system of the baBy. At any rate It Is reasonable to believe that tinea "Mower s menu n u a companion to motherhood for more than - ...... (, I.., Via r remedy that women have learned the great value or. Ask at any drug store ror "Moiners Friend." a penetrating, external liquid or great help ana vsjuo. ahu Ursdneld Regulator Co., 402 Lamar Bldg., AtlantaY GaT for their book cf useful end timely information. mesh of irresoluble circumstances. I saw now what I had to do; and the problem was not what the trouble might be, not even what I must accomplish, but only how I should accomplish IU The Caruccl story might be true wholly, or In part, or practically not at all;. It did not mat ter. Assuming all of It, If Lady was Miriam, and Reid had married her when he waa not free to do ao, she waa not his wife even In law. Whether his wife was now living or dead made no differ ence. Lady was not bound to him in theory and certainly not in reality. She waa free to come to me If she choae, and I had only to make her see It. But I did not for a moment believe that the trouble was to directly her con cern. Mrs. Tabor waa tnaane, or wua feared to be, that waa beyond a doubt, and that beyond a doubt waa the root and center of It all; that waa what the family had to elaborately striven to con ceal, either because of the nature of her Illusion, or because of some scandal In the events which had brought It about. That waa reason enough, granting their determination to keep It secret, for all that I had seen, from the midnight alarm, which had driven me out of the house, to Mr. Tabor' terror of the alienist; and her absurd suggestion that he himself waa Insane clenched th matter. What supported It still more was that If this were to, then all these honest people had front point to point spoken the truth; Mr. Tabor had, a he said, trusted me to the edge of caution; Lady had told the truth In fear, and Reld under pres sure; Sheila had told the truth, only In flated and colored by superstition- And as I thought over the substance of what she had told me, I wondered whether by some chance her tale had not been truer than I thought, nearer than even the other knew to the heart of reality. I would not take her ghost too literally; but Mr. Tabor might have tome Illusion of her dead daughter'! presence, and I remembered the voice I called Miriam that had spoken In the circle of tplrit seekers. Waa there not surely some connection here! Vet, however that might be, It all closed round a single need. I cared nothing, after all, what the shadow might be, ex cept a that concerned my taking Lady away from It. It would be tike her loy alty to feel the fam'ly trouble a bond that she must not selfishly tyeak. but like her girlhood to dream her mother' delusion a taint that must forbid her marrying. But he wa wrong In both, and tomorrow I should tell her to and take her away with me. Even If she were right, I should do the ame: I had grown to care for the others, and I was not wholly careless of humanity; but In the face of this greater matter, family and race and right Itself, If need were, might go to the devil. I was fighting for her and for myself, and for that wherein we two were one desire. I fell atleep at last thinking of that, and Imagining what X ahould need to say and do; and the next morning I went out to Stamford in a curious mood of de liberation; feeling, on the threshold of crisis, unnaturally calm and sure; aa If I were somehow going with the stream, a small embodiment of predetermined force, a mouthpiece of the thing which was to be. Aa she had done once before. Sheila opened the door fof me. It waa very plain that the waa glad of my coming. "Sure, If Mr. Crosby!" she exclaimed softly. "Whafa the matter, air? You look whlto and tired like. 'Tit all the world teems upset lately." "I want to see Mist Tabor. Sheila. Will you tell her that I am here?" "That'a the very thing I'm not to tell her, sir. She tald moat particular that ahe waa not to see any one today; but" Sheila' frowned at me forbiddingly, "you alt down an' wait a minute, tlr, an' I'll do me bet. I'm a servant girl no longer ordhera la nothing to me." ' "But, Sheila-" I began nervouly. "But nothln. Mr. Crosby. Tou sit down an' wait," and ahe wa gone before I could y another word. I aat In the great room, a if at the portal of Judg ment day. every fiber of me keenly alive, and yet my mind knowing no particular focus of thought. The future gaped be fore m like eternity, something too vaguely large for definition or compre hension, I remember that I kept whUper Ing dryly to myself that man was master of his fate, and feeling Inflnlteiimally comforted by the sophistry. The curtains of the room parted, and Lady stood looking In my eye. I saw before he spoke that she knew why I had come. "I waa sure that It waa you," the said at last. '"Sheila told me that a young man wa downstair, and that the could not get him to go away " "She told me," I said, "that you did not wlh to see me. Was that truer' Lady tank .wearily Into a chair. "Sheila should not have let you In." the said. "I wtt afraid that you might come here; and you know that It wa wrong of you to come. You know that aa well at I do." She tpoke monotonously, with pausea between the wordt. leaning back along the deep chair. The laet few dayt mutt have been hard onea for her. She waa very pale, the little blue velna In her temple djatlnct and clear lined. It tore me to see her so; and for a' moment t wondered If I had done well to come, and felt a wave of that uncomfortable reac tion which meets one on the threshold of a test; for a moment only, then I knew that even though I tired her th more, It wa a price that we must pay for her sake as well as mine. No good ever comes of halt understanding. "No. I don't know that," I said lowly. "You don't believe that' I'm altogether selfish, or that I would com now, when I know that many thing have distressed you, to give you any further reason tor distress" She leaned forward, one white hand raised. "Please," she said, "I am not sure not really ure why you have come. But I am certain of this, that you have made a mistake In coming. There's noth ing on earth that you can do to help us Just now there's nothing anybody can dp there's nothing anybody can do." "Oh, things aren't to bad aa that." I kniw that I wat only temporltlng, and raged Inwardly at myself. Lady'a eyet dropped, anl one hand played nervously with a loop of the chain that hung about her neck. "I don't believe you can understand Juat how bad they are. The worat of It la that I can't tell you oh, It wasn't fair of you to come today" her voice broke ever so little, and her eyes brimmed with unshed tears-'Tm tired and disheartened, and I want advice and comfort no, don't come near me I can't tell you anythlng there's nothing I can tell to anybody in the world." I wa standing before her. "No, 1 can't comfort you now," I said. "I'm here to ask you things, and perhaps to hurt you very much. But you mutn't think I've come carelessly. I came because I had to because there are things I have to understand to go on living." Her eyes were frightened, but the set tled herself back at If to meet wbatevtr blow my questioning might give. "I don't think that you are very generous today," she tald;. and her voice grew harder than I had ever heard It. "Neither shall I antwer anything that I may not, But but perhapa you are right perhapt there are tome thlngt that you have to tay and have It done." "You told me once," I began gently, "that your name war Margaret. Waa that true?" (To be Continued Tomorrow.) Mistakes Husbands Make (S31, I$y ADA PATTEHSOV. Tti.w m I mini' fit thm. N'nM wlin ha observed them will deny hls. The husband thenuelvei will make no de nial ao long aa the charge la not tpe- olal, but general. Nor will any truthful p e r a o n contradict the tatemtnt that ome of the mis takes are very grave. But It It one of the leaser mistake that called forth ad vice from a bril liant New Yark woman: 'Men have progressed more than women be cause they have alway mingled with their kind, In public meeting places, club and drink rendttvpu, where they could play their games Hnd discuss cur rent eventa," she said, "fntll now women have for the moat part atayed at home and accepted their men folk'a view. There la a valuable euggeetlen in that remark. It mlEht well be embodied In a circular and aent to every married man In America. By discouraging th women of their families from association with other women men are making one of their many mlatakea, Like rooet mistakes they art boomerang that react upon the per sons who make them. Home men like beauty. A few are In different to It. All men become to used to It when It Is under their own roof and they have a dally vision of It that they cease to prize It. But all men like women they classify at "bright," by which they mean entertaining. A "bright" woman, aa men regard her, It one who it mentally responsive without being ar gumentative. They like Uer to aeore thera In repartee, but to do to with a amlte. No creature In trouaera ever liked a sar castic woman, but every one of them likes a "lively" woman. On one point there haa never been a dissenting maaru line voice. No man likes a low spirited woman. Tha female pessimist I a mis take of nature, or, better, of her own, for It la in the power of every pealmlat to become an optimist, Men Ilka women to be quick: wltted, to be fairly well In formed, to know a little Rbout every tub Ject save those too profound. A man want the woman of hi permanent Inter est to be merry, chatty, sparkling, but reaching no tiresome depths. The pro found woman is to him as great a mis take as the female pessimist. The emblem of the woman of hit ad miration, the woman he find compan ionable, the woman he marries If he can. Is the mountain atrtam, not the deep kpd quiet lake. He choose vivacity and hun profundity. A husband's nilstake Is to expect his wife to be "bright" without furnishing her with the means of brightening. Ho subscribes for the dally newspapers? Let me remind him that Bacon has said; "Reading maketh a full man." Books, newspaper, magazlnea, add somewhat to the fund of knowledge, especially If the faculty of selection be employed. Perusal of them will make a woman well In formed, but thy do not make her "bright." The husband who wants his wife to be lllum'natlng may set her at the school girl task of reducing her ex-perlencet-to writing even in diary, and of asking her to write synopses of the chapters of novels she has that day read. I know a college professor who Is "bring ing up" a young w'fe In this way. But again Baron: "Writing maketh an exact man'' nnd woman. Presently I suspect the college professor will find his wife pulling his breakfast table temarka to pieces and picking flaws In h a data lectures. J The man who ha tniri n iit rnAw- and writing do for a man and woWin h given u the bet recipe for making an entertaining conversationally. "Con ference maketh a ready man." AJlow your wife to hold conference with other woman, on, nusuand The danger of her watlng her time at bridge whin? There I that danger, I grant you. The peril of her meeting tllly women at hotels, teat nnd dances and of there learning th vulgar art of flirtation. There I some prll In this direction, I grant you. and if you have married a, feather headed woman, you are Indeed an object of pity for all mankind. But riven an average woman with an average he1 full of common aenie and the will be better Instead of worae for talking life and Itt problemt over with other women, of her own or a tuperlor kind. Wherever two or three women are gathered to gether something eenalble la said and tht something may be a torch in one of tha dark placea of life in which your wife J groping. Even the art of light conversation l one that mutt be learned. A woman never learnt it by sitting frowlngly at home alone. Solitude makes for tulltn nea. If you want a "bright" wife let her sandpaper her wit against those of other women. If you find yqur life part ner aulky and mopy when you come home from work, ht-r mood Is probably not her own fault I It youra. By instating upon her having no women friends you hav turned low the light of her Intelligence. For youra ia not wholly a brightening In. fluence, my lord man. If : ou fancy to you are adding another to the mlttaket husbands make. 36e ANDEKBIL T oi ef 7fwry5urth tStrcet east atdfiark &&enue3&aorJe WALTON HlMAJVKAlXi, Manager, An Weal Hotel with an Ideal Situation, Summer lutes'