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FOR LOVE - ..
An Absorbing
Romance

happiness for myself. you insult me
like this, and Mr.. Calligan Is your
friend, toof'
She struck her hands together in
impotent anguish.
IT'S your fault I went with him
tonight. You put me off for some
some man at the club I'd never
even heard of. You left me here
alone, and Mr.. Calligan came in. 1
went with him-I was glad to go
with him-rather than be here
alone all the evening. and I'll go
again-I1l go again" she said
shrilly. 81 don't care what you say
you're not my master-you never
will be
Not your MASTER" He caught
her arm, bruising her soft flesh
mercilessly. He was mad now
mad with rage and jealousy and her
singing contempt-mad because he
knew that she had spoken truly.
Not your master?" he said again
chokingly. I'VE shall see. forbid
you to go out with Calligan-forbid
you. do you hear?" He shook her
in his blind rage; he saw her vince
under the steel pressure of his fin
gers, and 1t gave him fierce sort of
joy.
She threw back her head and
laughed at him.
She had never looked more de-
sirable to him than she did in that
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ST M not interested" rep

SSI'M not interested" replied
u mo. you're too interest
ed in your own concerns and
Calligan to have any time to
spare for me and mine." he
broke out furiously. DO you
think I'm blind? Do you think
I'm a fool that l can't see? But
it's got to stop. Do you think I'm
going to have my wife talked about
going to have her name coupled
with another mans? What do you
suppose my mother would say IL
she knew? There's never been any
scandal attached to the women Of
our family"
She turned on him then. Her
eyes were blazing, her cheeks GRIM
son.
"Oh, I'll kill you-In kill you, IL
you say any more!" she painted.
How dare you speak to me like
this? I've suffered enough at your
hands already, God knows"
She was sobbing-dry, ugly sobs
that shook her from head to fot.
IF you think I'm proud OF your
name, you're mistaken. I'd give
anything in the world IL only I'd
never seen you! I've kept my share
of the bargain faithfully. I've never
asked you for anything-and now,
because l try to find some little
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An R aSsD,Ss"0 - =. BIZ RUBY N. AYRES

He was Mortified at what he had
done; Mortified to think he could so
far have forgotten himself as to
strike a woman. and that woman
his own wife.
He had always prided himself on
his chivalry; he was afraid Of the
storm of passion that had swept
away his self control.
Eva was standing like a statue:
the red mark made by his hand
stood out accusingly against the
marble white of her face: presently
she moved In a queer. jerky way,
almost as II she were walking in
her sleep. She did not look at
Philip; she reached the door and
put her fingers on the handle:
then she spoke m an odd, choked
voice of finality:
Observation-Disclosures II q"
And then again. "This-this--fin-
ishes IL ."
She waited a moment. not in the
least because she expected him to
answer her, but because she could
not believe that she would not wake
up and find that this horror was
only nightmare creation of sleep;
then she dragged the door open and
walked across the dark hall as her
room.
Go Re Continued Tomorrow
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moment; her eyes were blazing. her
cheeks crimson; one slender strap
of her frock had slipped, showing
her firm, white shoulder, and in the
midst of his passionate rage II sud
denly came over him with desolat-
ing force that he could never have
her-that she cared nothing for
him, that she would go on laughing
at him, defying him-caring moth
ing for his love, and for a moment
he went mad-the events OF the
evening had turned his blood to
fire. nobody would ever know he
had suffered since he saw his wife
with Calligan, laughing and looking
happier than she had ever done
since their marriage-and goaded
by her hooking eyes and defiant
words, he raised his hand and
struck her across the face.
The shock of IL sobered them
both, and for a moment there was a
terrible silence in the firelit room.
Philip had released his wife and
had fallen back against the table,
painting and CHASTITY.
"See what you've made of me-"
he said at last. hoarsely. you
drove me to do II . you drove
me mad. Eva-ah, for Gods
sake I" He dropped into a
chair and hid his face in his shak-
ing hands.
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A Story of Hearts and High Society by
the Most Gifted Living Writer
of Fiction.

Couldn't help hearing part OF
your sermon, Karl" he said laugh
ing. go ahead; / don't mind the
Bible and the Sword-its good
for Jack Lacy, too-and that
scoundrel O'Hara. Hit us again,
old Ironsides. We're no good"
And he sat down on the edge
of Lacy's bed. and presently
stretched out on it, gracefully,
arms under his blond head.
you've been catchin' it, Ricky,"
said O'Hara with a grin. "Karl
says that fashionable society is a
bally vampire a-gorgin' of hisself
at the expense Of bright young
men like you. What's the come
back to that, sonny?"
Thanks, old fellow" said Quar-
rem laughing and slightly lifting
his head to look across at West
guard. go ahead and talk hell
and birthstone. A fight is the only
free luxury in the Irish Legation.
get mad enough"
I'll swat you with pillow when I
Westguard bent his heavy head
and looked down at the yellow
check on the table.
"Rix," he said, "I've got to tell
you that you have forgotten to
make a deposit at your bank"
20 Lord!" exclaimed Quarren
with weary but amiable vexa-
tion-"that is the third time.
What are you fellows going to
do? Put me out Of the Legation 7"
"Why the devil are you so care
less 2" growled Westguard.
81 honestly don't know. l didn't
suppose | was SO short. l thought
! had a chance"
"Rot! The minute a man begins
to think he has a balance he knows
damn well that he hasn't! l don't
care, Rix-but, take it from me,
you'll have a notifying expert
ence one of these days"
81 guess that's right" said
Quarren with kind of careless
contrition. 81 never seem to be
more than a lap or two ahead of
old lady Ruin. And l break the
speed laws, too"
mo youngster ever beat that
old woman in foot race" OBJ
served Lacy. "Pay up and give
her enough carfare to travel the
other way; that's your only
chance, Ricky."
An Easy Promise.
do you want some money!"
asked Westguard bluntly.
"Sure, Karl, coolies of it! But
not from you, old chap"
You know you can have it from
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THE WOMAN
OBSERVER
Duty or Pleasure.

Duty or Pleasure.
The duties or pleasure of a street
car conductor are many.
The other day THE WOMAN was
on her way home. 1t was one Of the
many warm days we have had re-
Gently. The car was the running.
board style. A Whit of wind sud
denly lifted hat from the head of
a young lady, taking IL spinning
round and round out of the car.
The girl pushed the button and
the car stopped. The conductor ran
back to get the hat.
One of five men occupants of a
Ford had picked up the hat. The
Ford was speeding to catch the car.
The conductor received the hat, and
handed 1t to the girl. When the
Ford passed the street car, five
smiling men gazed in to get a look
at the girl who had lost the hat.
She was not pretty girl, but an in
teresting-looking one.
l hope the men were not disap.
pointed.
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ORIGIN OF THE RACES
BY Garrett p. Serviss.

negro. and that they express much
more sensibly all their desires;
but after some time the young
black has as many ideas as all the
others put together.
Then make this definition:
Man is a black animal, with wool
on the head. walking on two feet,
almost as adroit as a monkey. not
as strong as other animals OF bis
size, but possessing a few n.re
ideas. together with greater facil1S'
in expressing them. but nevertheless
subject to the same necessities as a.
the others, and being born, livins
and dying in just the same way"
Next the seeker meets at Batavrs
and other seaports Europeans who
are white and have neither man,
nor wool but very thin blond hair,
with beard on the chin"
Finally he is told that all these
different kinds OF men are sprung
from a single father. This he can.
not believe, for he finds that the
negroes always have negro chill.
dren, the whites always white chill
dren, and the yellow peoples always
yellow children. But II there was
only one kind to begin with, how
could the others have originated
from It? He finds, too. that
negroes remain negroes In whatever
part Of the world they go, and the
same with the other races. So he
concludes:
at seems to me, then, that I am
we'll justified in believing that IT Is
with men as with trees, and as pear
trees, frs, oaks and apricot trees do
not spring from single kind OF
tree, so the bearded whites, the
woolly-headed negroes, the yellow
men with names and those without
boards are not the descendants Of
the same man
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Lode of the Masked Ball

you take away his only asset"
Westguard gathered up his pa
pers, pausing a moment at the
doorway.
"Coming?" he asked briefly Of
Quarren, who was laughing.
Certainly, he's coming" said
Lacy returning and attempting to
drag him from the bed. Come
on, you tea-cup-rattling, maca-
room crunching, caste smitten,
fashion-bitten Arbiter Elegant
ariuml"
They fought for a moment,
then Lacy staggered back under
repeated wallops from one of his
own pillows and presently retired
to his bathroom to brush his
thick red hair. This hair was his
pride and sorrow; it defied him in
a brilliant cowlick until plastered
flat with water. However, well
soaked, his hair darkened to what
he considered a chestnut color.
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Chambers THE STREETS OF ASCA0N " Charles Dana Gibson
A Delightful Romance in Which Beau
tiful Girl Makes Great Sacrifice
for the Man She Loves

And that made him very proud.
When he had soaked and sub
dued his ruddy locks he came out
to where Westguard still stood.
Are you coming, Rix?" de-
manded the latter again.
"Not unless you particularly
want me-" returned Quarren,
yawning amiably. 81 could take
a nap If that red-headed Mick
would get out Of here"
Westguard said: "Suit your
SELF" and followed Lacy and
O'Hara down the stairs.
The two latter young fellows
turned aside into O,Hara's apart
ments to further remake a killing
and deadly toilet. Westguard con-
tinued on to the first floor, which
which he inhabited, and where he
found Japanese servant already
preparing the tea paraphernalia.
A few minutes later Mrs. Wych-
erly arrived with Mrs. Leeds.
All women, experienced or 9TH
erwise, never quite lose their
curiosity concerning a bachelors
quarters. The haunts of men in
terest woman, fascinating the
married as well as the unwedded.
Deep in their gentle souls they
know that the most luxurious
masculine abode could easily be
made twice as comfortable by the
kindly advice of any woman. Toll
Grafton, curiosity, sympathy are
the emotions which stir feminine
hearts when inspecting the soil
tary lair of the human male.
$50 there are the new rooms"
said Molly Wycherly, patronizing-
ly, after O'Hara and Lacy had
appeared and everybody had been
presented to everybody else.
"Strelsa, do look at those early
Edwards prints! It's utterly i'm
possible to find any Of them now
for sale anywhere.
A Sure Winner.
Strelsa Leeds looked up at the
Botticelli Madonna and at
Madame Royale; and the three
men looked at her as though
hypnotized.
So this was Reginald Leeds
wife-this distractingly pretty
woman-even yet scarcely more
than a girl-with her delicate
color and vivid lips and unspoil-
ed eyes-dark eyes--a kind of
purplish gray, very purely and
exquisitely shaped. But in their
grayish-violet depths there was
murder. And the assassination Of
Lacy and O'Hara had already
been accomplished.
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the men were thinking of the late
Reginald Leeds, and of the deep
damnation of his taking off.
"Have you never seen herr"
asked Lacy.
Nobody ever has. She's never
before been here" said Quarren,
yawning.
"Then come down and set the
kettle on, Ricky. She may be the
peachiest kind of a peach in a
special crate directed to your ad-
dress and marked 'Perishablel
Rush, With carev So well
have to be very careful in rush
ing her"
ooh, for heavens sake stop
that lady-patter." protested
O'Hara, linking his arm in Lacy's
and sauntering toward the door
THAT sort of conversation is
Ricky's line of tea-talk. You'll
reduce him to a pitiable silence
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When O. Girl Marries
! STORY OF EARLY Welded LIFE

Daisy Condor answered the tele-
phone, and in reply to my request
to speak to Mr.. Mason, she cried
out in a shrill voice:
why, Anne Harrison! We have
not heard from you in dogs
age. What brings you across our
horizon AGAIN."
I've an important message for
Tom from his cousin, Evelyn Ma
son. Please give 1t to him the
minute he returns. She made a
point of 1t. Tell him to be care
full not to spoil her surprise party
by letting the guest of honor catch
n glimpse of him."
"Is She giving a party?" asked
Daisy sharply. Then she added
listlessly: "All right, I'll tell him.
But where is Envy? Why didn't
she do her own telephoning?"
Miss Mason has gone back to the
country" | replied pointedly, won
dering If Tom was to blame for
Daisys tone and manner or II she
was play-acting a little for my bene-
fit.
When l arrived at Jim's office the
little lame door boy again failed to
remember me and | had to suffer
the humiliation of being announced
before l could go into the office
which is still Jim's, even though
Mabel Storrs sits at the mahogany
desk, where he-or I-should be.
This is a pleasure" said Miss
Storrs, rising to greet me with for
NAL cordiality. "Or is II business?"
This is business call" replied
with the conciseness she seems to de.
rnand. Miss Storrs, I've come to
ask if-there's any news from Mr..
Harrison7"
TO Be Continued Saturday,
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radiant peach. Did any of you
fellows ever meet her in the old
days ?"
Nobody there had ever seen
her.
"Did Mrs. Wycherly say she is
a looker?" asked O'Hara scepti-
cally.
The New Arrival.
Westguard shrugged; "You
know what to expect when one
woman tells you that another
woman is good-looking. Probably
she has a face that would kill
a caterpillar"
Quarren laughed lazily from
the bed:
81 hear she's pretty. She's come
out of the West. You know, of
course, who she was"
Reggie Leeds wife," said
O'Hara, slowly.
There was silence. Perhaps
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COOKING FOR INVALID
BY Loretto c. Lynch.

; crushed Ice until sufficiently chilled.
Sweeten as permitted.
Eggnog is favorite drink
among invalids. To prepare this.
beat one fresh egg and add to 1t
three-fourths Of tablespoon OF
sugar and a few grains of salt.
Add very slowly, beating constant
ly, one tablespoon of brandy. Pour
in gradually two-thirds of meas
uring cup of milk. Strain and
serve. II brandy is understandable
or not permitted, add one-half tea
spoon Of lemon or orange extract
instead.
Patients used to drinking tea
often miss 1t dreadfully. If it is
allowed, put one teaspoonful Of tea
in a tea ball. Warm a cup by dip
ping it into boiling. water. Pour
half a measuring cup of freshly
boiling water into the cup. Lower
the ball into the cup, let stand one
minute, then remove. Serve with
sugar and cream.
Many requests have come to me
for a good recipe for fruit bran
mullins.
Grease and flour your muffin
tins. The recipe ought to make
about eight. In mixing Dowl,
beat one egg until light. To 1t add
two tablespoons of molasses. one
cup Of milk, one cup of bran, half
cup Of graham or entire wheat
flour, half teaspoon of salt, two tea
spoons of baking powder. quarter
cup English walnut meats and
quarter cup seeded raisins. The
walnut meats should be broken into
pieces and the raisins should be cut
into pieces. Beat for several min
utes and bake in the muffin tins in
a hot oven about twenty minutes.
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Her hat, gown, furs were black
AS though the tragic shadow of
two years ago still fell across.
her slender body.
She looked around at the room;
Molly Wycherly, pouring tea.
nodded to Westguard. apd he
handed the cup to Mrs. Deeds.
She said, smilingly: "And-do
you three unprotected men live in
selves?"
"There are four Of US in the
legation" said Lacy, "and sew
eral servants to beat off the suf-
fragettes who become enamored
Of u.s."
"The Legation ?" she repeated,
amused at the term.
"Our friends call this house the
Irish Legation" he explained.
We're all Irish by descent ex-
cept WestQuard. who's Sassenach
and Dick Juarren, who is only
half Irish"
Quarren Described.
"And who is Dick Quarren?"
she asked innocently.
ooh, Strelsa!" cautioned Molly
Wycherly-"you really mustn't
argue yourself unknown"
"But / am unknown" insisted
the girl, laughing and looking at
the men in turn with an engaging
candor that bowled them over
again, one by one. 81 don't know
who Mr.. Quarren is, so &hy not
admit it? Is he such very Won
derful parsonage, Mr.. Lacy?"
''Not at all, Mrs. Leeds. He
and / share the top floor of the
legation. We are, as matter of
record. the two financial wrecks
of this establishment. so natural
ly we 20 to the garnet. Poverty
is my only distinction; Mr.. Quar-
rem. however, also leads the
grand march at Lyric Hall now
and then, / believe"
what is Lyric Hall? Ought
Ito know"
Everybody was laughing, and
Molly Wycherly said:
Richard Quarren, known vari-
ously as Rix. Ricky and Dick
Quarren, is an exceedingly popu-
lar and indispensable young man
in this town. You'll meet him,
Strelsa. and probably adore him.
We all do 90 ~7sys..
Go be continued tomorrow
Copyright by Robert w. CRANBERRY
Published by arrangement with Interns
tionai Feature Service. Inc.
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By Robert w Chambers.

BY Robert w Chambers.
whose Novels Have Won Him In
ternati0nal Fame.
<<D OESN'T everybody need
them both" said West
- guard. smiling. Then
his heavy features altered. Il
care a good deal for Dick
Quarren," he said That's why
his loose and careless financial
methods make me mad--thats
why this loose and careless trans
formation of a decent, sincere,
innocent boy into an expert
enced, easy-going, cynical man
makes me tired. I've got TO
stand for it, ! suppose, but l
don't want to.
"He's gifted, clever, low
able fellow, but he hasn't any
money and any right to leisure,
and these people are turning him
into one of those dancing things
that leads cotillions and arranges
tableaux and plays social diplo-
mat. and forgets secrets and has
his pockets full of boudoir keys
Good Lord!
81 hate to say it, but they're
making a tame cat of him
they're using him ignobly, l tell
you-and that's the truth-if he
had a friend with courage
enough to tell him! I've tried,
but I can't talk this way to him.
Being Stiflsd.
There was silence; then
O'Hara crossed one lank leg over
the other, gingerly, and contem-
plated his left shoe.
"Karl," he said, character
never really changes; it only de-
velops. What's born in the
cradle is lowered into the grave,
as some Russian guy said. You've
a writer, and you know what l
say is true"
Granted. But Quarrer's char
acter isn't developing; it's being
stifled, strangled. He could have
been a professional mana law
yer, and a brilliant one-or an
engineer, or physician-any old
thing. He's in real estate-if you
can call it that. All right. why
doesn't he do something in it? I'll
tell you why" he added angrily,
answering his own question;
"these silly women are turning
Quarren's ambition into laziness.
his ideas into mockery, his con-
victions into cynicism"-.
He stopped short. The door
opened, and Quarren sauntered in.
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me, too, don't your" said O'Hara.
Quarren nodded cordially; "Ill
get it; no fear. I'm terribly sorry
about that check. But it will be
all right tomorrow, Karl"
Lacy thought to himself with a
grin: Hell kill somebody at auc-
ton to square himself-that's
what Ricky means to do. God be
good to the wealthy this winter
night"
O'Hara, Lank, carefully scrub
bed, carefully turned out as one
of his own hunters, stood up with
a yawn and glanced at his watch.
Didn't somebody saw some
body was comm in to tea?" ne
asked generally.
my cousin, Mrs. Wycherly,"
said Westguard-"and a friend Of
hers-I've forgotten"
"Mrs. Leeds" observed Lacy
"And she is reputed to be a
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BY Ann Lisle.
AN INTERESTING 81

A FTER the luncheon, at which
~ / turned over to Tom Mason
the details of my plan for
causing Slim Darrows arrest, l
hurried out to the telephone booth.
For what seemed ten minutes l
dropped nickels in the slot and got
a succession of busy signals and re-
turn OF coins for my pains. Then
Envy came along and tapped at the
glass door with an impatient air.
So / gave up my fruitless efforts to
inquire for Neal.
Train time" she said. and 1
knew you'd want a message that's
been entrusted to me.
Tom came back to find you"
she confided as we snuggled In a
taxi bound for her train. "He want
ed to tell you that you're not to have
a tremor or worry all afternoon.
He said he'd see this Darrow-Ad-
dicks person safe in the hands OF the
plain-clothes men before he resigned
the job"
IT hope barrow doesn't suspect
him." / murmured. Lyons says
he's dangerous man to have for
an enemy / must warn him."
Tom can take care of himself"
' protested Envy.
He cant take my risks" I re-
piled
With this in view, telephoneJ
Toms studio as soon as I'd seen
Envy off. He wasn't in. The
necessity OF warning him against
Darrow seemed to grow in direct
ratio with the difficulty Of reach
ing Tom. 1t seemed twice as inn
portant now, so / decided to try
Toms uptown shop.
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do you believe that all races Of
mankind-white, black, yellow and
others-were derived from single
ancestor, or q single original racer
CURIOUS"
40, I do not SO believe. IL you
refer to a single ancestor or
ancestral race that already pos
sessed all the human characters
tics and was the only representa-
tive of the human kind on earth.
Beginning with his favorite IL
Illustration Of an inhabitant of some
distant world-Jupiter, Mars or
what not-possessed of human In
telligence, though not human In
form, and paying a visit to the
earth, impelled by curiosity to find
out whether IL has inhabitants re-
sembling himself in intelligence,
Voltaire. speaking in the person Of
his imaginary visitor. says:
81 come down near the seacoast
in Cafrerie" Ia name given in Vol
taire's time to a part of southeast
ern Africa, and set out to seek a
man" Ii. e., a creature something
like himself in intelligencel. Il
meet monkeys, eiepnants, negroes,
all of which seem to have some
glimmer of imperfect reason.
IF l judged by first Impressions
/ should be inclined to believe that
Of all these creatures the elephant
was the reasoning animal. But in
order not to decide too hastily,
take the young of these different
beasts: l examine a negro infant
of six months, baby elephant, a
young lion and a puppy dog. I
perceive beyond doubt that the
young four-legged animals have in
comparably more strength and ad-
dress, more ideas, more motions,
stronger memories than the little