Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-18

The door ratified; Tommy North
was back.
Mr.. North" said Rosalie. I'm Dor
rowin your office help for the day.
We want you to do somethin for
us. You don't understand now, but
you will Don't you go near my house
until tomorrow-you sleep out tonight
an breakfast out tomorrow. l can
give you a>rebate If you demand II,
she pursued. dimpling on him.
'All right, take it out of that first
weeks board you stung me SO hard
for" laughed Tommy North. Then
his eyes sought Betsy-Barbara's with
troubled look. whats the an
swer?" he asked.
There's no answer" said Rosalie
LIE Grange; mot just at present. Elk
cept you'll be glad you did tan
I'll explain some day myself Go
where you want tonight. Only don't
/ get drunk
''Oh, he won't do that. of course''
put in Betsy-Barbara.
! Which defensive assurance quite re-
stored the spirits of Tommy North,
and the smile came back to his face.
But promise us one thing-you will
never say a word to anybody about
this" put in Resale
II promise said Tommy, as SOL
EMMY as he could, considering that
his heart danced. She had taken up
the cudgels for him!
Out in the hall Rosalie Remarked
you can trust quite lot of peo-
pie with a secret if you pick the
right ones. Now we must be gettin'
on"
But Betsy Barbaras curiosity made
one final struggle.
"Oh, Mrs. lie Grange is Mr.. Wade
to be proved innocent? May 1 tell
constance that"
You can tell her nothing-under-
stand? Just nothing. But probably
he is, just the samei"
When will we know" asked
Betsy-Barbara.
you may know somethin' tomor-
row If you're a good girl an do just
as I've told you"
From the morning papers?"
We'll, l certainly hope notl" said
Resale LIE Grange.
They parted at the corner. No
sooner had Betsy Barbara taken
Fifth avenue stage and started on her
puzzling journey of intrigue than Ro-
sale called a taxicab and set her
course for the east side docks of
lower Manhattan.
Here. we must introduce a new
character in this story, person who
flashes in and out as people are ever
flashing in and out of our lives, bear
ing service in their hands At this
point also appears-though ever SO
lsllghtly-the element of coincidence.
Luck had entered little into these
Operations of Resale LIE Grange, as
| 1t enters, to an extent that a novelist
never dares admit, into all chains of
human affairs. This final stroke of
luck was small, but it fell toward
Rosalie's ends. Doubtless had it
tailed, she, the fertile. would have
found another plan as good.
The new character, then, is Skipper
Matt Baldwin, Of the schooner Maud,
engaged in the coastwise lumber
trade. The Maud is lying at the dock,
preparing to sail for Halifax on the
morrow with return cargo. VA bat
tered and pleasant old man the Skip
per Baldwin, with an eagle profile
which denotes courage and soft eve
which indicates his gullibility. He
tossed life long on the seven seas
before he bought the Maud and set
tied down for the rest of his DAYS to
lcoasting. He was a widower of long
and affectionate memory; because of
that and because of his searchings of
the spirit on lonely voyages he be-
came a believer in spiritualism of
the kind which Resale LIE
Grange used to practise. Rosa
lie was his favorite medium
and his friend. Between vow
ages. whenever he found her in New
York, he used to visit her and re-
ceive a consolation which was false
In detail and yet true in spirit. To
| the general, there are only two WAYS
of looking at professional medium
| as hell-born fraud or a heaven.
sent friend. To him, she was all a
| friend. There was nothing. he .old
her again and again, that he would
not do for for her. She believed
that; and her beliefs in the heights
and depths of humility seldom went
wrong. Toward the schooner Maud
she was now driving her taxicab.
The piece of luck was this; at the
very moment when the taxicab
rounded the corner from Wall street
and the driver began to inquire for
| Pier 1914, Captain Baldwin was as
near to profanity as his convictions
| allowed. AS for the mate, h. had
no convictions which prevented him
from expressing himself to the limits
Of his vocabulary, over that unlucky
accident. that tumble into the
matches, which had sent a newly
signed italian member of the crew
| to Bellevue Hospital nursing a
broken arm. With all the heaven
condemned things they had to do be-
fore the improper old scow could be
cleared in the morning, how the sin
and sulphur (the mate inquired of
the bright air. were they going to dig
up another sailor to satisfy the port
regulations? The skipper, braiding