The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-20
TUESDAY.

going to be unhappy. Her one thought
was to delay the wedding twenty-four
hours at least, feeling that Josephine
would unburden her heart to her in
that time. AS pants burglaries had
been numerous, and every effort to
catch the thief was unsuccessful she
planned to make use of his methods
and hide your trousers until it was too
late to go on with the wedding. She
did not count on old Shep taking a
hand in the game. In the morning
when she went to call you and found
you gone and your gun outside
Josephine's door. she was afraid the
police would think you had killed her
and she hid your gun to protect you
until you should return to clear your
self. She was greatly agitated over
the Unexpected turn of affairs and
begged to have her part kept secret"
How strangely fate deal with US"
said Jack Hazelton thoughtfully, 'for
discovered too late that it was Olive
loved instead of Josephine. 1t seems
ROW that Josephine had ceased to
really care for me and neither of US
had the courage to tell the other.
Who Killed Her?
"But gentlemen" said Idazelton,
while it seems that I have been able
to prove my alibi, who was it that
killed Josephine %
Tylock Homes drew a long puff on
his pipe and said: II think 1 can tell
you about that by this time tomorrow
evening"
AS he was speaking a messenger
boy brought him Z a rush message,
which I could not help seeing as he
opened it,
It read: "Azzzan found dead in
| his rooms this morning at o'clock" "
81 thought so.' said Homes; this
connects the chain. 1t will be neces-
for m n p0 fn Kansas Civ to-
morrow TO substantiate a few details.
and when 1 return I will have sur
prising and interesting story to tell
you"
In an outlying district of Cairo,
Egypt, lived Prince Mohammed Az
zan, a mystic philosopher and poet,
whose rapidly diminishing resources
were replenished only from the reve-
| nue. he derived from American trav-
elers. Believing that the American
women would be especially suscepti-
| BILE to his mystic charms and noting
with oriental qualification their ex-
travagant nature, he decided that
! America was the place for him to re-
build his fortune, SO bidding goodby
| to the Shrines of his ancestors he
came to New York and finally drifted
| to Kansas City, where he rented an
| apartment in an exclusive locality and
set up a truly oriental establishment
| He then spread his net into which he
gradually drew women of wealth and
| position, who flocked to his classes to
study the wonderfully mysterious and
| fascinating religion. There behind the
magnificent oriental curtains of gold
and browns and crimson that shut out
| the crude world. they feasted on his
mystical words and worshipped at his
shrine They delighted to inhale the
| oriental incense that crept subtly into
! their nostrils as they dreamily reposed
on the rich divans of his apartment
Then they would leave the sacred pre-
| cincts dreamy and hynotized.
In Dreamy Spell.
/ Into these meetings one day drifted
| Josephine Wilkinson. who first came
with one of her friends. simply out oil
curiosity. Within a short time she fel
! under his spell and became one of his
most ardent devotees, but the wonder
| full part to her was that the mystic
singled her out for private seanees
| until she was completely under the
spell of his magic and the hypnotic
power which he exerted over her. He
4 was ardently in love with her because
of her extreme fairness and beauty
and when she was with him pressed
/ his suit with all the ardor of an ori-
/ entail. When she was away from hin
she tried to throw off the spell and
/ carry on her life as originally planned
/ In his presence she seemed powerles:
and utterly devoid of her reason
Family pride and her social prestige
made it impossible for her to MARI,
him. The small fragment of goo6
judgment that persisted in remaining
with her counter-balanced his viii,
persuasions. She simply could no
marry him. Finally she told him sh'
was to be married to Jack Hazeltol
the following week. 1t was then III
redoubled his efforts to win. her. craft
I 51x- fnnxrinPfT7r- n Of Tzerfarf IInIf-
of their souls and subtly sugsestini
: the unhappiness that might await he
! IL she disregarded Mohammed's bid
ding-finally appealing to her tha
: she Join him shortly'in the next world
3 He at last succeeded in persuading he
} to enter into a suicide pact in whicl
: they were both to end their lives O.