The evening world., 1908-02-21
GIRL Of MYSTERY
WEAVES A PLOT
FOR REX BEACH
Hurried Call to Her Hotel, Cab
Ride and Dinner
In 1t.
THEN SOME ONE TOLD.
While Authors Wh'e Worries
Heroine Is Hailed TO Je-
7 rome's Office.
THEN SOME ONE TOLD.

is involved in palpitatlng mystery
that he should call upon Anna katherine
Green to help him solve. There is
woman in the story, a mysterious young
woman from mysterious Chicago; also
a hanson cab. which is quite in Anna
Katherine Green's line. Some may be
amused at the complications OF tae nan
som cab and the mysterious fair one
who persuaded Mr.. Beach to ride in 1t
and talk realism and soul and pyschol-
ogy and himself
The serious young author Is not
amused by It, and his bride of year.
who was Miss Crater. comely young
actress. has been greatly annoyed.
though she has come TO take It philo-
poph,cally and laugh about 1t and refer
20 her author husband as farmer
lost in the wilds of New York"
However. when the District-Attor-
nsy's Office Is brought into It and that
able young stafr assistant of Mr..
Jerome. Carl Miner. besought to pro
tect Mr.. Beach from the mysterious
young person who persuaded him TO
ride IN a cab with him and then told
Just Wanted to Be a SIeuth.
The woman in the case Is at present
known as Mrs. Katherine Muir Baden
ock Her name is not Badenock, she
admits. and may be Muir. She is fair.
has large. bright eyes and mouth
that is both firm and humorous. 1t
was humorous when she decided to have
a little lark with the author of The
Spoilers" 1t is firm, now that he has
become so peevish and consulted a pub
lic prosecutor. She has engaged law
yers, and the subtleties Of the mystery
are apt to crop out into realistic sem
eations.
From this yorng woman OF mystery
We learn that she started from Chicago
with her husband He dropped of the
train at Buffalo and she continued on
to this city. Now. according to Mrs.
Katherine. she had an inkling that her
husband was wont to use the name OF
Badenock m New York. She had come
across a letter signed Kit" written to
him in that name. Thinking to do
little sleuthing. she registered at the
Hotel Astor as Mrs. Badenock. and 80
she is known In the Beach cab mystery.
To Pass Lonely Hour.
Mr. Badenocks Kit" was too elusive
to interest Mrs Badenock for long, and
she became lonely. Out OF her loneli-
moss was born an idea. She recalled
that while a student in the Northwest
ern Univers!t, ut Evanstown. Ill, she
had engaged in a stunt to lunch with
Rex Beach. Another girl and she We're
being rushed for the Alph! Phi sorority
As an initiation dare they were hidden
to hunt down each an author and lunch
with him. Tn other girl corralled
George AIDE and had lovely Il. .. But
the fair katherine failed in her stunt
TO negotiate a luncheon with Mr.. Beach
When all this came back to her she
thought how delightfully."- amusing 1t
would be to fulfil that stunt right in
New York Remember this is the story
of the woman from Chicago. Mr.. Beach
was married now. So was she. That
made II even more interesting Sac
learned that Beach haunted the Lambs
Club now and then. She called him up
on the phone, and in her sweetest voice
asked him If ne could not step up to the
Astor and meet her.
Il am Mrs. Badenock," she said You
90 not know me-. but | am relative of
tSrtner chief of Police Badenock. of
Chicago. You must know MIN Your
brother Elmer told me you did ] know
your brother very we'll Now. l can't
say ANYTHING NOR" or"" ''' .ohone You
must come UP and see me-"
Ard Then More Mystery
Beach, being a farmer in New York.
according TO his bride, was readily
drawn into the lure. That soft. witch
lng voice and the mystery thrilled him.
He made short journey of il to the
Astor; His wife was in Philadelphia at
and might have been lonely himself
But when he got to the Astor Mrs
Badenock did not materialiZe She sent
down a note. which read: Am busy.
You up"
Here was more mystery Another
thrill. The young woman from Chicago
Knew how to wake the authors inter
nounced, "A lydy in 'ansom. SIR SIR. an
What could the young man do but
60 out to that cab? And when some. me-.
crnkling silks whispered for him 10
step into that cab and sit beside her
and drive a little way with her, could
he have refused? 1t was not in tbe
gallant young realist to be so crude
and rude and ungontlemanly. Certainly
he got into the cab And rode
Enter Mrs. Rex Beach.
Now there is discrepancy of testI-
mony as to how far and where he rode.
His wife declares that he did not ride
quite a block. Mrs. Badenock declares
thai they rode several blocks as far as
the Odcon Hotel. which Is some dis
tance from the Lambs, and there dined
together.
Wherever the cab got to and what
happened Immediately thereafter may
be left to controversy, Ii il urged by
Mr.. Beach that he soon discovered he
was the victim of a hoax and fed from
the enohantment OF the mysterious un-
known.
Mrs. Badenock says that he was very
n.ce for n little while and then lost his
temper He lost his temper over the
soup or the entrec, She Is not sur
which After he lost II the incident WAS
closed, she declares.
But II does not seem to have been
closed. according TO the Reaches Mrs
Reach came howe and had been home
only n little Will" when she was called
up on the telephone. Mrs. 'Ba len ,.li
wantsd 10 tell her something. She
would not listen. II was something not
mica about Mr. Beach. She would not