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H
"You have so many of the Shrove
kind" he explained, II thought you
might like it, Flora; you're so ro-
mantic!" he laughed.
Like IT." she cried. too touched ~
his thought for her to resent the impu-
tation. q should love 1t! But I didn't
know they had such things.P
Now and then-though it is a rars
chance"
but that will be just the fun Of IT,"
she FASTENED, half afraid lest Harry
should change his mind, ito see If we
can possibly and one that will be DIFF.
ferent from all these others"
She kept this little feeling of ex-
ploration close about her, as they left
the car, a block above the green trees
of the plaza, and entered one Of the
narrow streets that was not even Q
cross-street, but an alley, running to-
a bags end, with balconies, green rail-
ings and narclssi taking the sun.
A slant-eyed baby in a mauve blous1
stared after them, md a white face 81
poisoned in its badness tina ii gawl
Flora a start, peered at them fron
across the street. 1t made her shrini
a little behind Harry's broad shoulde.
and take hold of his arm. The mer(
touch of that arm was security. Hi
big presence, moving agilely beside hef
seemed to fill the street with It..
strength. as if, by merely fiinging out
his arms, S~amson-like, he could burst
the dark walls asunder.
In the middle of the block, sunk a lit
tie back from the fronts of the others,
the goldsmith's shop showed a single,
filmed window, and the pale glow
through 1t proclaimed tina the worker
In metals preferred another light to the
suns. The threshold was worn to q
hollow that surprised the foot, and the
interior into which 1t led them doomed
so suddenly around them after the
broad sunlight, that it was a moment
before they made out the little man be-
hind the counter, sitting hunched up on
a high stool.
"Hullo, Joe,' said Harry, in the same
voice that hailed his friends on the
street corners, but the goldsmith only
nodded like a %'nodding mandarin. as if,
without looking up, he took them in
and sensed their errand. He wore a
iouiiu, Uiue CIi1leSe cap drawn over MS
crown; a pair of strange goggles like a
mask over his eyes, n his little body
seemed to poise as lightly on his high
stool as a wisp, as If there were no
more flesh In it than in his long, dry
fingers that so ~marvelously manipu-
lated the metal. Save for that glitter
of gold on his glass plate, and the grin
of a lighted brazier. all was dark, dis
colored and cluttered.
And the way Harry bloomed upon
this background of dubious antiquity!
He leaned on the little counter, which
creaked under his weight, in his big,
fresh coat, with his clear, fresh face
ent above the shallow tray of trinkets
doubtful jades, dim-eyed rings, dull
clasps and coins-his large, fastidious
finger poked among. He was the one
vital thing in the shop.
ITO Be Continued ON Monday
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Cressy. Her first annoyance was lost
in wonder. What could be the matter?
If this was neglect on Harry's part
well, it would be the first time. But
she did not believe it was neglect. He
had been too eager that morning.
She went into the drawing-room-a
dull-pink. stupendous chamber-knelt
a before the flashing wood fire,
then rose. and, crossing to the window.
looked anxiously out. She had a flight
of fancy toward accidents, but in that
case she would ceratinly have heard.
The French clock on the mantel rang
half-past ten. The sound had hardly
died in the great spaces before she
heard the fine snarl of the electric bell,
She restrained an impulse to dash in
to the hall, and stood impatient in the
middle of the room.
He came in hastily, his lips all ready
with words which hesitated at sight of
her.
why, you're going OUT" he said.
She had forgotten the cloak that still
hung from her shoulders.
mo, I've just come in. and all my
fine apologies for being out are wasted.
T1OW loIB w yOu llluh 1ldid ii lct you
stop at this hour2''
Clara isn't here" he said.
We'll. then your time is all the
shorter" She was nettled that he
should be oblivious of his lapse. Their
relation had never been sentimental,
but he had always been punctilious.
I'm sorry he said, arriving at last
at his apology. Il couldn't help being
late. I've had a day of it." He drew
his hand across his forehead, and she
noticed that he was in his morning
clothes and looked as rumpled and fur
ried as a man just from the office.
She relented, Poor dear! You do
look tired Don't take that chair. It's
more Louis Quinze than comfortable.
Come into the library. And, remem-
ber." she added, when Shima had set
the decanter and glasses beside him.
you are to stay Just twenty minutes "
He took a sip of his drink and looked
at her over the top of his glass. Il
may have to stay longer, if you want
to zeal about IT,"
"Oh, Harry. you really know
thing? All the evening I've heard
nothing but the widest rumors Some
say Major Purdie couldn't speak be-
cause some one way UP knows more
than she should about it. And some
body else said it wasn't the real ring
at all that was taken, only a paste
copy, and that is why they're not doing
more about getting it back"
Not doing more about getting it
back" Harry laughed. rs that the
idea that generally prevails? Why,
Fiora-' He stopped, waited a mo-
ment while she leaned forward ex-
pectant. Flora" he began again.
''are you num-"
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CONTINUED From Yesterday
CHAPTER V.

~ e had to disturb her. his presence
had so obliterated other pres
ences and annihilated time, that
IL took an encounter with Clara to re-
mind her of her arrangement for the
evening. The dance? No. she had
given that up. She had promised
Harry to be at home. Clara wanted to
know rather austerly What she intended
to do about the dinner. This was
dreadful. Flora had forgotten it com
pletely. Nothing to be done but go,
inc leave a message for Harry-apol-
ogy, and assurance that she would be
home early. She wondered IL she were
losing her memory.
She appeared to be changing alto
gether, for the dinner-a merry one
bored her. What she wanted was to
get away from it as soon as possible
for that interesting evening. When she
had made the appointment with Harry
she had beer excited by the thought
that he might tell her whether he had
learned anything from the major that
morning in the matter of the ring. But
now she was more engrossed with the
idea of asking about Kerr-whether
Harry had really met him-if so. where;
and. finally, why did not Harry want
her TO mention that embassy ball?
Primed with these questions, she left
Immediately after coffee, arriving at
her own red stone portal at ten. But
coming in, all %a-futter with the idea of
having kept him waiting when she had
so much to ask, she found her note as
she had left it. She questioned Shima.
There had been no message from Mr..
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Nov. really. you must go home
she urged. trying to rise.
Blu look here" he protested, still on
the arm of her chair, there's another
thing | want to ask you about" And
by the tip of one finger he lifted her
left hand shining with rings. You will
have to have another one of these, you
know. It's been on my mind for a
week. Is there any sort you haven't
already?" II
She held up her hand to the light and
fiuttered its glitter.
ANY one that you gave me would
be different from the others, wouldn't
it?" she asked prettily.
"Oh, that's very nice of you, Flora,
but l want to find you something new.
When shall we hook for it? Tomorrow,
in the morning."
YES, l should love it." she answered,
but with no particular enthusiasm, for
the idea of shopping with Harry, and
shopping at Shrove's, did not present
q Wide field of possibility. But have
a luncheon tomorrow" she added, $50
we must make it as early as TO-"
"0h, you two!"
At Clara's mildly reproving voice SO
close beside them both started like con-
spirators. They had not heard her come
in. yet there she was, just inside the
doorway, still wrapped in her cloak.
But there was none of the impetus of
arrested motion in her attitude. She
stood at repose as if she might have
waited not to interrupt them.
Don't scold Flora" said Harry. ris-
ing. Its my fault. She sent me away
half an hour ago.. But it is so COM
Portable here!"
Flora couldn't tell whether he was
simply natural, or whether he was CIV
ing this domestic COLOR to their inter-
view on purpose. She rather thought
it was the latter.
Tomorrow at 10, then!" he said
cheerfully to Flora. The stiff curtains
rustled behind him and the two women
were left together.
What an important appointment"
said Clara lightly, ito bring a man at
this hour to make it."
"Oh, it is, awfully!" Flora answered
in the same key. "To choose my en-
gagement ring
Clara's delicate brows flew upward,
and though Clara herself made no
comment, the quick facial movement
said, Il don't believe it."
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A LETTER OF THANKS.

One of Uncle Jacks lucky prize-win-
ners has written the following letter OF
thanks to him hat shows how the Eve
ming STARS prizes are appreciated:
Belleville, N. ].
Dear Uncle Jack-I received my prize,
which was 4 Cox of paints. 1 like them
very much. The first thing / painted
was a bunch of violets.
Thanking you for same, and hoping
to find all the little boys and girls well,
] remain, as ever, your friend,
LEREIN KELLY, aged II.
1S1 Washington avenue.
JOHN JACOBsOHN.
One of Uncle Jacks young puzzle
s%olvers, who is s years of age, and lives
at 255 High street, Newark.
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ESTHER AND LUCIA CHAMBERLAIN

She nodded. breathless.
Not a word to Clara?'
oh, of course not
"Well-' He twisted around r
his chair the better to face her. ITO
morrow there will be published a re-
ward of twenty thousand dollars for
the return of the Crew Idol, and nc
questions asked"
OH" she said. And again, "oh,
that all!' She was disappointed. 81
don't see why you and the major
should have been so mysterious about
that"
you don't, Ell? Suppose you had
taken the ring-wouldn't it make d
difference to you if you knew twenty
four hours ahead that a reward OF
twenty thousand dollars would be pub
lished? Wouldn't you expect every
mans hand to be against you at thai
price? If you had a pal. wouldn't you
be afraid he'd sell you up? Wouldn'f
YOU be glad of t~wenty-four hours start
to keep him from turning states evil
dence? Well-it's just so that he shan't
have the start that the authorities are
keeping so almighty dark about the
reward. They want to spring it on
him."
Flora leaned forward with knitted
brows. Yes, I can see that, but still,
just among ourselves. this morning
Harry smiled. You've lost sight OF
the fact that it is just among ourselves
the thing has happened
"Oh. oh. Now you're ridiculous!"
II might be, if the thing had hap
pened anywhere but in this town; but
think a moment. How much do we
know of the people we meet, where
they were, and who they We're, before
they came here? There's A case In
point. It was not quite among our
selves this morning"
Harry. how horrid of YOU" She
was on the point of declaring that she
knew Kerr very well indeed; but she
remembered this might not be the
thing to a to Harry.
My dear girl, I'm not saying any
thing against him, | only remarked
that we did not know him.
Don't you, Harry"
He gave her a quick look. why,
what put that into your head? p
Il don't know. l thought you
looked at him very hard last night in
the picture gallery. And afterward,
at supper, don't YOU remember, you
did not want me to mention you con-
nection with something or other he
was talking about?"
Something or other he was talking
about" Harry inquired with a
frowning smile.
Il think it was about hat Embassy
ball
Il didn't want you to mention the
Embassy ball?" he repeated, and now
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NOTES AND COMMENT.

The prize of 81 offered for a selected
complete list of solutions to New P,,z.
zles No. 1923 was awarded to
10 MULLINS, MIAMI, MO.
M. c. S. has a clever enigma in the
last issue of PRIMROSE'S Mystic
Argosy.
Glad to see r. o. CHESTER and
10 MULLINS becoming active again.
LII n ELLIE still continue to send
In completes with pleasing regularity.
JACK IN THE BOX was a recent
visitor to Newark.
Treasurer WILLIE WILDWAVE re-
ports a balance in the e. p. L. treasury
of over $19. This is excellent consider
ing the heavy publication expenses the
league has bsan under recently.
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aH#
and resinous from the wet Preside
woods, blew at their back down the
short block of pavement, and buffeted
them ~broadside, as they waited on the
corner for the s~low-crawling little cal
In spite of the clustering air, Flora In
sisted on the side sea of the dummy
and, catching her hat with one hand.
pressing down her fiuttering skirts with
the other, she laughed, now sidelong at
Harry, now out at the dancing face OF
the bay.
Each succeeding cross-street gave UP
a flash of blue water. The short blocks
slid by, first stone fronts and fresh
lawns, stucco and tiles; then here and
there corner lots, the great gray, tow
cred, wooden mansions the stock-brok-
ers of the Seventies built, and below
them, like a contingent of shabby-gen-
teen relations, the narrow gray wooden
faces of what was ''smart" in the six
ties 1t was a continuous progress
backward toward the old, the original
town. There was no stately nucleus,
This town was a succession of widen
ing ripples of progress, each newer,
more polished than the last. but not
different in quality from the old centre
that still teemed-a region of frail
wooden rookeries full of foreign con-
tending interests. haunted with the ad-
ventures of it's feverish past. 1t had
built itself on the hopes of a moment,
and what spread from 1t still was the
spell of the new, the changing and the
reckless. 1t drew still from the ends
of the earth. The broad road in over
the mountains, the broad road out over
the ocean, made 1t where it stood
touching all trades, a road house of the
world.
Some dim perception of this touched
Flora as the houses, gliding past, grew
older, grayer, with sleeper gardens,
narrower streets, here and there ever
trees, lone sentinel at the edge of cob
bled cutters. From the crest of the
last hill they had looked a mile down
the long gray throat of the street to
where the ferry building lay stretched
out with it's one tall tower pricked Ut
among the, masts of shipping. Half
way between their momentary perch
n the ferry slips the street suddenly
thickened, darkened. swarmed. flying
a yellow penno high above blackened
roofs. And now, as they slipped down
the long decline into the foreign quar-
ter the pungent Oriental breath OF
Chinatown was blown up to them. She
breathed it in readily. It was pleas
ant because it was strange, outlandish
suggesting a wide web of life beyond
her own knowledge. She wondered
what Harry vas thinking of it, as he
sat with his passive profile turned
from her to the heather street ahead
She guessed, by the curl of his nostril
that 1t was only present to him as ar
unpleasant odor to be got through as
quickly as possible; but she was wrong
He had another thought. This time
oddly enough, a thought for her.
He gave 1t to- her presently, abrupt
matter-of-fact, material. THAT Chi
nese goldsmith down there has good
stuff now and then. How'd you like tc
look in there before we go on to what
you-call-'em's-the regular place."
you mean for a ring?" She was
doubtful only of his being in earnest.
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Gill in the spaces above with the
words defined below:
Words reading across-1. Pharm.) A
drug obtained mainly from the roots of
various South and Central American
and West Indian plants of the moon
seed family. 2. To devote. 8. Same as
vesuvianite. 4. To attract by allure
ments. 3. Sweet (obs.). 6. EGYPT
myth. The Memphite god of the mid
day sun.
Words reading down.. The letter P.
2. %(suff1x) Having, pertaining to, af-
fected by. 8. (Maorf) The edible root
stalk of the tara-fern, growing in New
Zealand. 4. The terminal point of any
material object that has length Jobs. 81.
8. (Gr. CHI. mus.) Signs for the key
note. 6. A parson. Z. (zool) A division
of animals without a well-developed
V system. 8. To bind tightly. 8.
To level with the ground. 10. (Gr. myth
The goddess of malicious mischief. IL.
Morse myth A brother of Odin and
Viii. IL. The initial A. TRYON.
2,919.
ENIGMA.
The crowd went frantic with delight
And loudly cheered the batter;
1t was a very stirring sight
And II was the matter.
You take me miles and miles away
Where I've ne'er been before;
Then set me free, I'll find the way
Back to my home once more.
A shark l am, and found, tits true,
Upon the North Atlantic;
Oft basking IN it's waters blue
My size is quite gigantic.
AFTER ALL.
1920.
SQUARE.
1. Any plant of the order Proteaceae.
2. A post-hamlet of Mercer county,
Mo. Gippincott). 8. To omit (obs.
4. A lamp using tar as a fuel, usually
having an annular burner forced
draft ~. 5. Same as enable (obs.)
6. (chem.) An organic compound OBJ.
tanned from bone-oil by distillation
T.. Made spotted. C. SAW.
1921.
TRANSPORTATION.
In a dominie's FIRST
Some SECOND books were piled,
Also stacks of papers.
All ready to be filed. PARK.
1892.
SQUARE.
/. (chem.) OF. pertaining to, or de-
rived from. lac (yar. D. 2. ut.) Gu
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THE TREE THAT GOES TO SLEEP.

On the lawn of a house Oh the river
front of the historic Potomac staEdt a
very pretty tree, each leaf of which
looks as If composed of many little
ferns, having flowers that make CHE
think Of the silk peeping from the ends
of corn, canary color, shading toward
the centre of the blossoms of blush
pink.
Each evening about shutdown the
leaves close, for all the world like tired
little girls and boys close their bright
eyes at night when the Sand Mar
comes around.
The name of this strange tree is
mimosa.
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ernopsi. of Previous IpstalIments.
Copyright. 1908.
The Bobbs- Merrill Company.

synopsis of Previous Ipstnllments.
Flora Gilsey reads in a newspaper that at a
private view to society Of the effects Of
Elizabeth Hunter Chatworth, who was killed
while mountain climbing, the famous Chat
worth ring. an oriental ornament, had strangely
vanished. Thee doors had been locked imme-
diately after the disappearance had been dis
covered. and all present had been searched, but
without success. The ring had vanished COM
pletely. As she reads. Harry Cressy, her
Hance. comes IN. He had been present at the
private view before the auction, and he tells
Flora and her chaperon. Mrs. Clara Britton. Of
the strange disappearance. They go to a re-
ception. where Flora is introduced to an Eng
lishman nam d Kerr. Flora suspects that Kerr
Is perhaps Farrell Wand, a clever magician,
and supposed society 'Raf1es," She thinks
that perhaps he stole the ring. The situation
becomes tense when one Of the men present
says he has a photograph OF Wand. It is re-
vealed that the ring never belonged to Bessie
Chatworth and that it is known as the Crew
IDOL"
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PRIZE-WINNERS.


Many children were smart enough to
guess the correct answer to the rebus
puzzle, published last Saturday, which
was fairyland. The following sent in
the neatest correct answers and were
awarded prizes:
LIZZIE BURKITT, aged Il, 24s Null
berry street, Newark (book); RUTH
OBRIEN, aged 9, 431 South Ninth
street, Newark (box of paints); ROB-
ERT TROUT. aged IL, 2 West Park
street. Newark (basebalD; RAYMOND
REEVE, aged 10. 1913 South Fourteenth
street, Newark (penknife).
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CHAPTER VI.
Black Magic.
HE memory of Clara's incredu-
Ions glance remained With her

"HE memory of Clara's incredu-
lous glance remained with her
as something curious, and she
was not unprepared to be challenged
when. the ley morning, she hurried
dow the hall, drawing on her gloves.
Clara's door did open, but the lady
herself, yawning lightly on the thresh-
old, had this time no questions for her.
Remember the luncheon" she adj
vised. land, by the way, Ella wants
us to sit in their box tonight. Don't
forget to tell Harry"
Flora threw back a gay "All right"
but she was in danger of forgetting
even the object of their errand, once
she and Harry were out in the bright
glare of the street. The wind, keen
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H SUNFLOWER.

The peculiar notion that the sun
flower turns toward the sun and is in
tluenced by 1t has long been entertained
by most intelligent persons. The bo-
tanical name of this flower, ~helianthus
(helios the sun, anthos, a flower), may
nave had something to do in increasing
this belief. However, we know that the
sunf1ower is SO called from its fancled
resemblance to the sun with its radiat-
ing lines, just as daisy" is a corrup-
ton of days eye"
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CANDLE TRICK.

How could you arrange, with a Don
fun of people, to place a candle in
such a position that all but one would
see It, and that person must not be
blindfolded?
Place the candle upon the head of
the person who is not to see 1t. Should
there be a mirror in the room and
should this person make use of it. he
would not see the candle. but only its
Observation-Disclosures Telegram.
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FORCED TO MOVE.

Bill-Your friend moves very often,
doesn't he?
Jill-Yes.
Does he think IT Is cheaper than
paying rent?'
"oh, no.; he lives in the cyclone belt,
you know!"
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4 The NEWARK PUZZLER \
ohnca Organ 81 the Newark PusEis CsuA
7 EDITED BY ABEL EM-H
official orga. ct the Newark Pussis csss.

pids %. 8. Agreements (obs.). 4.
(Scot.) Necked: in composition. s.
A gauge for testing pressure in a closed
vessel %. 6. A Whole number. Z. An
artificial reservoir for holding water,
beer or other liquids, as in domestic
uses, breweries, etc. j. T. H.
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THE WEEKLY CONTEST.

A PRIZE of 81 will be awarded this
~ week for a selected complete
list of nswer to New Puzzles
331. Standard Dictionary is used for
definitions; compound words are
shown by 90, and words out Of die
tionary order by ~.
Address replies to puzzle Editor,
Evening STAR" and have same
reach this Office within ten days.
Answers will appear In two weeks.
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2,909-BY PARK.
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