Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1915-06-21
"THE GODDESS
BY Charles Goddard and Gouverneur
McFriS.
Noyelized from the photoplay Of the
same name produced by the VITA
GRAPH COMPANY.

| copyrighted, 1915. by The star co.
! NOTE THE GODDESS" win be
/ published rs a serial story in THE
EVENING CAPITAL The pictures
! VIII be shown at THE PALACE THE
4 ATRE every Fridoy
The picture shown viii he for the
/ mstallment published the preceeding
week and ending Thursday. the night
/ before
Continued from Saturdays cspiull
A shadow fell upon Tommy. and ne
found himself locking into the I'M
mense thiok-rimmed glasses of Pro
fessor Stnliter. IumGively tie boy
and the man disljked each other Pro.
| fessor Stilliter would nave rather
asked almost any other small boy If
| that was the AmeaoUry house. Tommy
would have preferred to ten almost
any other man that it was. Professor
S0ldteT his qress on answered. moved
encrgeticaly upon the house and from
the maid who answered the ben iu.
CURED for the latest bulletin of Mrs.
Amesbury He stepped forward as II
10 enter the house. and the servant
made the least show in the world Of
shutting the door in his face. Pro.
fessor Stlliter turned reluctantly
away and heard the closing Of the
door
AT that moment a buggy driven
furiously, stopped at tho front gate.
and thanks 70 his glasses, which gave
his helpless eyes an almost hawkliko
vision, Professor Sulliter recognized
Doctor Wainwright, an old acquaint.
ance, If not a friend.
Glad TO see you said Professor
stilliter. Are you in charge here?"
Yes said Doctor Wainwright.
Then you can help me, and nobody
else can. / never knew Amesburv.
don't know his wife, but as a eueenist
J was immensely interested in their
marriage, and have a deep scientific
interest in seeing tho daughter. Now
at such time as this l could not very
well force myself upon the household,
but If you could slip me In with you
as a consulting physician I win be i'm
mensely obliged to you, and there will
be no talk OF splitting fees"
Doctor Wainwright smiled and nod.
ded
The object Of Professor stilliter's
interest was not hard to find She
was seated, forlorn and disconBolate,
upon the bottom step OF the front
stair. Doctor Wainwright picked her
up in his arms and kissed her. He
made her shake hands with Professor
StiIliter.
Professor StilIiter could not conceal
the fact that the child's appearance de (
lighted him, and that his appearance
did not furnish her with the same do
light affected him no more than a
ducks back is affected by water. She
had been too well brought up, and car
ried her three or four years with too
much dignity TO run from him and
hide, as her instincts prompted her.
She did not resist when he lifted her
from the floor, asked her age and said,
MY, how heavy she was!" She WINGED
little and iinched a little when he /
prodded her arms and chest and felt !
with evident admiration the firm and /
chubby calves Of her legs, and when I
he made her open her mouth and
looked in and murmured, Colossal" /
But when he asked wouldn't she show
him the pretty house IN which she
lived, she did so gladly, for it seemed
to put an end to being handled.
For his immediate purpose Profes. (
sor Stiiliter did not need TO penetrate
beyond the cheerful living room, for
here his eyes at once singled out from
many three photographs, in which
justice had pretty nearly been done,
not only to his small companion, but
to her famous father and her mother
What is that funny thing on the
piano?" asked Professor Stilliter. The
little girl looked in the direction IN
dicated, and told him that It was a
Chinese "ephelent."
During the moment Ia which he had
succeeded in diYerting her attention
the young man had slipped the three
photographs IN their folded leather
frame into one Of his capacious pock-
cts. His mission in the house fin.
ished, he asked her If she would give
him a kiss. This was a thing which,
It seemed to her, she could neither &C.
cord nor refuse. She simply burst into
tears. The professor shrugged his
great shoulders, grunted like a pig and
abruptly took his departure
Still weeping, the little girl found
her way to piazza that opened of
the living room and few moments
later Tommy Steele, still lingering
about the premises, traced the infantile
walls RI thair snurce The sight Of his