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her that Belle had left for America early
IN the morning Anna couldn't believe
that she would have gone away without
leaving som" word for her friends. but
the doctor insisted that she had no time
Tor farewell messages II was n-"es-
sary foT her To get tn l.oS Angeles as soon
as she could, he said. IN order Ia SEQ y
sick relative Their" was something said
about legacy which Belle Was to claim
for Dr Cnppen.
Well, YOU can imagine the astonsh.
mCnt ot all our friends when Dr trlp.
pen APPEARED at the dinner dance OF the
Vaudeville ArtIstes. Hru-volaat Fund
three nights later with this IL Nev1
woman Belle herself had bought the
ucket- Tor the doctor and herself Tn"
L. \evs girl vas dressed IN one Of Belle
gowns that all Of IN. girls reco gnilsd
and more than that sne was wearing
Bellies jewels. rings and pins and a nee J.
Lace worth at least a thousand pounds
Everybody there asked the doctor about
belle and he SiId she had gone to America
10y way of Havrc 10 claim an estate
That same night. after he had had a bIt
To drink. he tuld Melinda May. vaude-
vile actress. that he and Belle had quar-
relied and that she had left him to make a
trip On the Continent. Melinda gathered
that the quarrel was about woman
trPp-n wasn't what ! would call "A drink .
ing man but Belle seemed to be afraid
Ia have hun drink. One night AT dinner
pantry and be ggad for a drink of brandy
told him whore he could find the brandy,
hut he asked mr To get II Tor hun. Belle.
saw me CITING ~ and asked me what !
WIS doing When | told her she said
that II | had any ipVe for her | wou.dn {
give hun a drink
If Peter ta~ she called hIml got two
drinks uf brandy | would he afraid - GO
home with hum. she said
Bell" told me about a year ago that she
~ a.
years Fo- the last Twelve years she mad
lived IN kugldnd and ou the Continent
I can't understand how CrlpTen. wh"
Nis =uCl a ltt'" man. could have isiFos'' 4
II Bellies BODY 81" was a fine. big
woman weighing PERHAPS l~i pounds
while he was weak and weighed only
hIt more than 100 pounds
William T. Scott picked up a good many
facts about Iupp IN IN ten years a"-
guatUtduCe with him.
/ mad ocCa-inf to meet hum by appoint
ment m 1917 said Mr scott last night
while he was N Franc" under cover
because Of some transaction. supposed
that 10 was to meet Charles Thomas Mari
with whom Cripp-n was a partner IN
several concerns that advertised "A CIre
for deafness by mail. ] expected 20 DIS
CuSs advertising contracts With Marr ana
| went to Boulogne -sur-Nier IN respons"
10 a cihlegrar.
then. though 10 -"orr n good sIl"d mus
taChc sandy IN color and dropping AZ
tho ends He was using an alIaS. just
what ! have forgotten H" took me 10
"A village a few rnIes from me resort
and Introduced me To thus woman about
whom there has been 30 much talk, Ethel
Ciar,, IL Nsve she was living at an mn
with the Doctor III say for her that she
WAS not only pretty but fascinating She
know how to talk She spoke French
psrfc-tly and she told me she had been
educated 10y the nuns Of convent a.
Dion | learned too that she and the
Doctor had met IN 1875
At that time NiE- le N"Ne was typist
for "A Frpnch company that ran the prouet
Institute a correspondence S"hool clinic
which got INTO trouble Dr iuppsn
was mixed up with the concern ~ som"
way and he met Miss Ia N"Ne th"rp
Sh.. j. about fc,-t I inches tall. ! should
zay with dark. expressive ewes, nm"
complexion and an excellent though
slender fEIIre she wasn't common
looking woman nv anv means, nut
very modest appearing gir' Dr 'ripp"n
apraared TO he head over neels IN low"
with her Certainly their conduct whl!"
| was around Was most loNerlike
4 got to know a good deal about n p
pen during my -'ay IN Franz He seemed
10 10 tender hearted. aTeCt'Unate and
genil. He didn't look Ike he 4 harm
/. hy But n. was A vain fellow Ne told
me he considered himself IN" greatest
connoi s-eur alive IN the arr of waiStcoats
Every day he appeared IN different
waistcoat. a garment of starting pattern
and c-olors His waiStcoai- reminded
me NJ the kind YOU - often 100 on 'n"n 81
a certain class that hang arpund IN"
English rasetraCkz He affected jeWelrN
nj a pronounced type bg sii"kpins ana
rings
lie WASH Z what you d call a handsom"
man hat be- liked to talk ot his Successes
among women He hintsd that b" had
them an running after him IN London
CrIppsn was something Of gambler
He lost a lot ~ money betting on the
English races. bat he was always able To
max. money With this man Mari. h"
was a proprietor "f thr~. or four ~ these
s,-rill.d MEDICAL institutes that manu-
fa.rIr. meiicin. for the cure Of deafness.