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... - * ^ i %t S* ,->V'"" <*w% • The Exploits of Elaine A Detective Novel and a Motion Picture Drama f.7 I By ARTHUR B. REEVE The Well-Known Novelist and tkm Creator of the "Craig Kennedy" Stories Presented hi Collaboration With the Pathe Players and the Eclectic FQm Company Copyright, 1814. by the Star Company All Foreign Blghta RoecrreA H** ̂ •< V Sf* ft l . - § ~ v'-ff • •• •' 'S^ • <" f' £k,; , nl Mjf lb. 8YN0PSI8. TIM Weir Tork police ar« toys titled by a •erles of murders and other crimes. The principal clue to the criminal is the warn­ ing letter which is sent the victims, signed with a "clutching hand." The latest vic­ tim of the mysterious assassin is Taylor jSodge, the insurance president. His daughter, Elaine, employs Craig Kennedy, the famous scientific detective, to try to unravel the mystery. 'What Kennedy ac­ complishes is told by his friend Jameson, a newspaper man. After many fruitless attempts to put Elaine and Craig Ken­ nedy out of the way the Clutching Hand is at last found to be none other than Perry Bennett, Elaine's lawyer and the man" she is engaged to marry. Bennett flees to the den of one of his Chinese criminals. The Chinaman forces from Bennett the secret of the thereabouts of P7.M0.OCft. Then he giws the lawyer a potion which will suspend animation for months. Kennedy reaches Bennett's sid« Just after he has lost consciousness. EIGHTEENTH EPISODE THE VENGEANCE OF WU FANS. Elaine was still In the power of Wu Fang. Kennedy had thwarted the Chinese master criminal in his search for the millions amassed by the Clutching Hand. But any joy that he might have derived from this success was completely obscured by the fear that Wu might wreak some diabolical vengeance on Elaine. Nor were Kennedy's fears unfounded. Wu and Long Sin had scarcely reach­ ed the secret apartment when the subtle Chinaman began to contem­ plate revenge. Long Sin was smoking a Chinese pipe, resting after their hurried flight, while Wu, the tireless, was seated at a table at the other end of the room. At last Wn Fang took up a long Chi­ nese dirk from the table before him, looked at it, turned it over, felt its edge. He rose and deliberately walked across to'a dbor leading tnto a back room. On a Conch lay "Elaine, and with her, as a guardian, was Weepy Mary. As Wu, the Serpent, entered and advanced slowly toward Elaine, she crouched back from him in deadly fear. Slowly he drew from under his robe the Chinese dirk. He felt the edge of it again and gazed significantly at Elaine. It was a critical moment Just then Long Sin entered. "One of the five' millions waits outside," he reported simply, with a bow. Wu understood. It had been a pleas­ ant fiction of his that although he did not, of course, absolutely control such a stupendous organization, he qsuld, by his subtle power, force almost un­ limited allegiance from the simple coolies in that district of China from which he came. Out in the front room. Just a mo­ ment before, a knock at the door had disturbed Long Sin, and a Chinese servant had announced a visitor. Long Sin had waved to the servant to usher him in, and a poorly clad coolie had entered. He bowed as Long Sin faced him. "Where is the master?" he had asked. Long Sin. had not deigned to speak. With a mere wave of his hand he in­ dicated that he would be the bearer of the message, and had followed Wu through the door of the back room. So, almost by chance, Wu was inter­ rupted in the brutal vengeance which had first come to his mind. He sheathed the knife and, still without a word, went back into the main room, giving a nod to Weepy Mary to guard Elaine closely. Wu eyed the coolie until the new­ comer could alihost feel the master's penetrating gaze, although his head was bowed in awe. Quickly the coolie thrust his hand under his blouse and drew forth a package. With another bow he advanced. "For your enemies, O master," he said, handing the package over to Wu. The coolie started to open the pack­ age, removed the paper wrapper, and then a silk wrapping inside. Finally he came to a box, from which he drew a leather pouch, each operation con­ ducted with greater care as it became evident that the contents were espe­ cially precious in some way. Then he took from the pouch a small vial. "What is it?" demanded Wu Fang, as the coolie displayed it. The coolie draw forth now a magni­ fying glass and a glass slide. Opening the vial with great care he shook something out on the slide, then placed it under the lens. "Look!" he said simply. Wu bent over and looked. Under the lens what had formerly seemed to be merely a black speck of dirt be­ came now one of the most weird and uncanny little creatures to be found in all the realm of nature. It seemed to be all legs and feelers moving at Qnce. A normal person would have looked at the creature only with the greatest repugnance. Wu regarded it With sort of unholy fascination. "And it is?" he queried. "What the white man calls the Afri- 6m tick which carriefe"the recurrent fever," answered the coolie deferen­ tially. < A flash of intense exultation seemed darken Wu Fang's sinister face ,'M- ' *Wait," he said to the coolie, as he moved slowly again into the back room. Long Sin had remained there. With Weepy Mary he was guarding Elaine, when Wu Fang re-entered. Elaine was thoroughly aroused by this time. "Suffering is a state of mind," Wu said in a low tone, "and I have de­ cided that it would be poor revenge for me to harm you. You are free." Nothing could have come as a great­ er surprise to Elaine. "Do you--do you really mean it?" she asked, scarcely able to believe what her ears heard. "Wu merely nodded, and with a wave of his hand to Long Sin indicatedthat Elaine was to be released. She nerved herself to take several steps toward the door. She bad scarcely crossed half the room. "Walt!" ordered Wu sharply. Was he merely torturing her, as a cat might torture a mouse? She stopped^obediently, afraid to look at him. "This will be the vengeance of Wu Fang," he went on impressively. "Slowly, one by one, yonr friends will weaken and die, then your family, un­ til finally only you are left. Then will come your turn." He stopped again and raised his long, lean forefinger. "Go," he hissed. "I wish you much joy." * • * * • • • I don't think that in all our friend­ ship I have ever seen Kennedy so ut­ terly depressed as he was when we returned after the discovery of the vast fortune which Bennett had clev­ erly secreted. There seemed to be absolutely noth­ ing to do until some new clue turned up. I placed my hand on his shoulder, but the words that would encourage him died on my lips. Several times 1 started to speak, but each time I checked myself. There did not seem to be anything that would be appro­ priate for such an occasion. A sharp ring at the telephone made both of us fairly jump, so nervous had we become. Kennedy reached over instantly for the Instrument in the vague hope that at last there was some news. . As I watched his face It changed first from despair to wonder, and final­ ly it seemed to light up with the most remarkable look of relief and happi­ ness that one could imagine. I shall be right over," he cried, jamming the receiver down on the hook, and in the same motion reach­ ing for his hat and coat. "Walter," he cried, "it is Elaine! They have let her go!" I seized my own hat and coat in time to follow him, and we dashed out of the laboratory. • The suspense under which Aunt Josephine had been living had told on He Felt the Edge of the Dagger and Gazed Significantly at Elaine, her. Her niece, Elaine's cousin, Mary Brown, who lived at Rockledge, had come into the city to comfort Aunt Josephine, and they had been sitting that morning in the library. Suddenly a startled cry from Jen nings out in the hall caused .both la­ dies to jump to their feet. They could 1 scarcely believe what they heard as the faithful old butler cried out the name. "Why, Miss Elaine!" he gasped. An instant later Elaine herself burst into the room and fiung herself into Aunt Josephine's arms. All talking and half crying from joy at.once, they crowded about her. In the excitement Aunt Josephine had seized the telephone and called our number. She did not even wait to break the good news, but handed tho telephone to Elaine herself. We left the laboratory on the run, too fast to notice that just around the building line at the corner stood a lim­ ousine with shades drawn. Even If we had paused to glance back we could not have seen Wu Bang and Long Sin Inside gasing out through the conier of the curtains. They were in European dress now, and had evi­ dently come prepared for just what they knew was likely to happen. We were admitted by the faithful Jetaninsrs and almost ran1 into the li­ brary. "Oh, Craig!" cried Elaine, as Ken­ nedy, almost speechless, seized her by both hands. For a few seconds none of us could speak. Then followed a veritable flood' of eager conversation. "Won't you come and stay with me a few days up in the country, dear?" urged Mary at last. Elaine thought a moment, then turned to Aunt Josephine. "Yes," considered her aunt, **I think it would do you good." Still she hesitated, then shyly looked at Kennedy and laughed. "You, too, Craig, must be fagged out," she said, frankly. "Come up there with ua and take a rest." Kennedy smiled. "I JBhall be de­ lighted," he accepted promptly. We chatted, then left a few mo­ ments later so that Kennedy could pack. # a Around the corner from the laborer tory, as we dashed out, had been, as I have said, Wu Fang and Long Sin looking out from the limousine. No Sooner had we disappeared across the campus than their driver started up the car and $hey sped around to our apartment. Cautiously they alighted and walked down the street. Then, making sure they were not observed, they entered and mounted the stairs to our door­ way. Long Sin was stationed down the hall on guard, while Wu Fang drew from his pocket a blank key, a file and a candle. He lighted the candle and held the key In its flame until it was covered with soot. Then he inserted the key into the keyhole, turned it and took the key out. He filed the key, trying it again and again. Finally he finished and opened the door. Beckoning Long Sin, he entered our room. As they stood' there Wu Fang gazed about our living room keenly. He was evidently considering where to place something. Finally his eye rested oil the tele­ phone. It seemed to suggest an idea to him and he crossed over to it. Care­ fully holding down the receiver on the book, he unscrewed the case which holds the diaphragm, while with his clever fingers he held the rest of the instrument intact. Then he removed from his pocket the vial which the coolie had given him and placed Its contents on the diaphragm itself. Quickly now he replaced the receiver and, having finished their work, Long Sin and Wu Fang stealthily crept out. A second time, as we approached our apartment after the visit to Elaine, we were too excited to notice the limousine in which were Wu and Long Sin. But no sooner bad we entered than Long Sin left the car with a final word of instruction from his master. Upstairs, in the apartment, Kennedy began hurriedly to pack, and I helped him as well as I could. We were in the midst of it when the telephone rang and I answered It; "Hello!" I called. There was no response. "Hello, hello!" I repeated, raising my voice. Still there was no answer. I worked the hook up and down, but /could get no reply, and finally, disgusted, hung UP- * A moment later, I recall now, it seemed to me as though some one had stuck a pin into the lobe of my ear. We had scarcely got back to work when the telephone bell jangled again, and a second time I answered it. "Is Mr. Kennedy there?" came back a strange voice. * I handed the Instrument to Craig. "Hello!" he calledt "Who Is this?" No response. ' "Hello, hello!" he shouted, working the hook as I had done and, in my case, there was still no answer. Neither of us thought anything of it at the time, but now I recall that I did see Kennedy once or twice press the lobe of his ear as though some­ thing had hurt it. We did not know until later that In a pay station down the street our arch enemy, Long Sin, had been call­ ing us up and then, with a wicked smile, refusing to speak to us. • • • • • • * It was about a week later that I came home late one night from the Star, feeling pretty done up. What­ ever it was, a violent fever seemed to have come on me suddenly. The next morning when I woke up I felt a lassitude that made it quite hard enough even to lounge about in my bathrobe. Finally, feeling no better, I decided to see a doctor. I put on my clothes with a decided effort and went out. The nearest doctor was about half a block away and we scarcely knew him, for neither Kennedy nor I are exactly sickly. He sounded me and pounded me, talked a little while on generalities, diet and exercise, then walked over to ^ cabinet, and emptied out a few pills into a little paper box. "Take one every hour," he said. "Cut your cigarettes to three a day, and don't drink coffee. Four dollars, please.' I paid him and went b^ck to the apartment, my head soon in a whirl from a new onset of the fever. I managed to get back Into my bath­ robe, and threw myself down on the divan, propped up with pillows. I had taken the pills, but they had no more effect than sugar or milk. By this time I was much more delirious and was orying out I saw faces about me, but I did not see the faces which were actually out by our hall door. Wu Fang and Long Sin had waited patiently for their re­ venge. Now fljat they thought suffi­ cient time had elapsed, they had sto­ len silently to the apartment door. While Ling Sin watched, Wu listened. "The white devil has it," whispered Wu Fang, as he rejoined his fellow conspirator. How long I should have remained In this state, and in fact how long I did remain, I don't know. Vaguely, I recall that our acquaintance, Johnson, who had the apartment across the hall, at last heard Ay cries and came in. Somehow or other I knew (he state I was in. I knew it was, Johnson, yet it all seemed unreal to me. With a great effort I gathered all my scat­ tered wits and managed to shout out, "Telegraph Kennedy--Rockledge." . • • < • < • ' * « * At about the same time, up at Rock­ ledge, Kennedy and Elaine, wlffi her cousin, Mary Brown, were starting out for a horseback ride through the hills. They were chatting gayly, but Ken­ nedy was forcing himself to do so. In fact, they had scarcely gone half a mile when Kennedy, who was rid­ ing between the two and fighting off by sheer nerve the illness he felt, sud­ denly fell over in half a faint on the looked inside. Then he looked closer. There . v«0 something peculiar about it and he picked up a blank sheet of white paper, dusting off the diphragm on it. There, on the paper, were in­ numerable little black specks. • Just then, outside, Doctor Godow- ski's car drew up and he jumped out, swinging his black bag. Not being ac­ quainted with what we were going through, Godowski did not notice the almond-eyed Chinaman Who. was watching down the stfeet. „ ,. "How do you do. doctor?' greeted Craig faintly, at the door. " "What seems to be the difficulty?" inquired the doctor eagerly. "I don't know," returned Craig, "but I have my suspicions. I'm too ill to verify them myself, so I've called on you. Look at Jameson first," he added. While Godowskv was examining me, Craig managed to get out his micro­ scope and was looking through it at the strange black specks on the pa­ per. There, under the lens, he could see the most remarkable, almost mi­ croscopic creature, all legs and feel­ ers. a most vicious object. Weak though he was, ne could not help an exclamation of exultation at his discovery, just as Godowski had finished with me. "Look!" be cried, calling the doctor. "I know what the trouble is, Godow- Bki." He had started to tell, bat the ex- "LookI" Said Kennedy, Turning to His Microscope. horse's neck. Elaine and Mary reined up their horses. "Why, Craig," cried Elaine, startled, "what's the matter?" The sound of her voice seemed to arouse him. He braced up. "Oh, noth­ ing, I guess," he said with a forced smile. "I'm all right." It was no use, however. They had to cut short the ride, and Kennedy re­ turned to the house glad to drop down in an easy chair on the porch, while Elaine hovered about him BolicitouBly. Thly summoned the country doctor, but it took him some time to get out' to the house. Suddenly a messenger boy rode up on his bicycle and mount­ ed the porch steps. "Telegram for Mr. Kennedy," he announced, looking about and picking out Craig naturally as the person he wanted. Kennedy nodded and took the yel-< low envelope while Elaine signed for it. Listlessly he tore it open> It read: Craig Kennedy, Care Wellington Brown, Rockledge, N. Y. Jameson very III. Wants you. Better come. Johnson. The message seemed to rouse Ken­ nedy In spite of his fever. His face showed keen alarm, which he epdeav- orded to conceal from Elaine. But her quick eye had caught the look. "I must see Walter," he exclaimed, rising rather weakly and going into the house. How he ever did it-is still, I think, a mystery to him, but he managed to pack up and, in spite of the alternating fever and chills, make the journey back to the city. When at last Craig arrived at our apartment, it must have seemed to him that he found me almost at death's door. Ill himself, Kennedy threw himself down for a moment, exhausted. "When did this thing come on, Walter?" ho asked of Johnson. "Yesterday, I think, as nearly as I can find out," replied our friend. Craig was decidedly worried. "There's only one person in New York to call on," he murmured, pulling him­ self out of bed and getting into the living room as best he could. "Is that you, Godowski?' he asked over the telephone. "Well, doctor, this is Kennedy. Come over to my apartment, quick. I've a case--two cases, for you." Godowski was a world-famous scien­ tist in his line and had specialized in bacteriology, mainly in tropical dis­ eases. As Kennedy hung up the receiver he made his way back again to the bedroom, scratching his ear. He no­ ticed that I was doing the same in my delirium. "Has Walter been scratching Ills ear?" he asked of Johnson. Johneson nodded. "That's strange." considered Craig, thoughtfully. "I've been doings the same." He turned back into the living room and for a moment looked about. FT. nally his eye happened to fall on the telephone and an idea seemed to oc­ cur to him. He went over to the instrument and unscrewed the receiver. Carefully he MfKt of Postmaster-General Gives • Recipe for Food Which 8he *&•" Declares Delicious. PRAISES THE "CORN DODGER" I and the consequent rise in the price j she declares to be more healthful than of flour, the American housewife may ftwhite bread. "Measure and scald the soon have to look for a substitute for • high-priced wheat bread. We have the advantage of Europe In possess­ ing another great maple--corn, and the high price of wheat will doubt­ less mean the spread of the popular­ ity _ of corn bread, from its native southland, throughout the country, Mrs. Burleson, wife of the poBtmaster- geueral, sees nothing to be dreaded in runt of wheat the united mates thia, and gives the recipe for the "corn exported to the warring nations, dodger," one of her favorites* which " Ita the interests of economy and con- serving the food supply, the German housewife has been told to mix rye and potato flour , with wheat in mak­ ing bread, remarks Frances Frear in Leslie's. In view of the excessive aunt of wheat the United Slates exported to the warring nations, meal," says Mrs. Burleson. "Pour just enough boiling water over the meal to moisten it. Add salt accord­ ing to the quantity of cornmeal used, then a tablespoonful or two of cot­ tonseed oil--I always use the oil-- and mix the batter with enough cold water to spread a little or mold it in small dodgers in the hands. This should be baked in the oven on a well* greased griddle, or flattened tnto cakes and cooked on top of the stove until a rich brown. With butter there is nothing better." Southern wom­ en contend that sugar, eggs and other expensive Ingredients are not neces­ sary to make good corn bread. They ought to know, as they have made corn bread to perfection In the, South for soapy generations. J " $ Geologists Needed lr» Armtef. Since war has left the realm of fiery romance and become a matter of dig­ ging the enemy out, of lead trenches, approach tranches, sapping, under* M citement of the Journey and the exer­ tion were so great that he could hard­ ly mumble. "Here--look--on this paper," he cried. "From the telephone--" He had risen and was handing the paper to the scientist when his weak­ ness overcame hhn. He fell flat on his face on the floor nnd dropped the pa­ per, spilling the contents. Godowski, now thoroughly alarmed, bent over Craig. But the delirium had overcome Kennedy, too. Unable to make any sense out of Craig's broken wanderings, Godowski lost no time in t'iking samples of our blood. Then he hurried away to his labora­ tory in his car. As he did so, however. Long Sin leaped tnto a taxicab which was waiting, and followed. • * • m • • • In Godowski'B laboratory, where he was studying tropical diseases, the bacteriologist set to work at once to confirm his own growing suspicions. From a monkey which he had there for experlmenal purposes, he drew off some blood samples. Then, with the |£d of his assistant, he took the blood samples he h^d obtained from us. The monkey's blood, upder the microscope, seemed full of rather elongated, wriggling germs, of, a pe­ culiar species. In and out they made their way among the blood corpuscles, each like a dart aimed at life itself. Then he took the samples of our blood. In them were the same germs --carried by that gruesome tick! "The spirillum!" he muttered. "They are infected with African recurrent fever. The only remedy is atoxyl, ad­ ministered intravenously, after the manner of Professor Ehrlich's famous '606.'" Godowski had rung the call boa has­ tily for a messenger, when Long Sin, who had managed stealthily to creep up to tha doctor's laboratory wincfow, scowled through at fhe action--then moved away. While his assistant gathered" the ap­ paratus, the doctor wrote: Miss Anne Septix, 801 W. th St.: Please go at once to the apartment of Craig Kennedy, ---- Claremont Ave. Surgical case. GODOW8KI, M. D. The boy arrived finally and the doc­ tor gave him a generous tip, to hurry with the note. He had turned the corner, however, when Long S>in appeared. Subtly he played on the boy's cupidity to get him to deliver a note of his own-- even offered to deliver the boy's note for him. The flash of a five dollar bill made the rest easy. As the boy disappeared on a fake errand, Long Sin, with the real note, hurried downtown, smiling wickedly. "They have discovered the fever, master," he reported in the den. Wu was beside himself with rage. Before he could speak, however. Long Sin spread out Godowski's message. "But I have this," he added. It took merely a glance to suggest to Wu a new plan of action. He rose and moved quickly into the back room. "Come," he ordered Weepy Mary. "You must dress up as a nurse--im- ground barracks and other evolutions of the spade and pickax, new problems face the general .staff. It is becoming gradually evident that to the various branches of knowledge that go to' make up the science of strategy there must he added another--namely, ge­ ology. It is not enough to be able to pick out a hillside or bit of meadow land that will best lend Itself to the tactics planned. The commanding offi­ cer, lighting now a war of intrench- ments, must choose a position that will also be diggabl* If beneath a de- 1'. ;l * mediately." Quickly jfe* donned one of the numerous disguises, while Wu planned his campaign. "Here," he directed when sie was ready, handing her a little vial: "You must infect every instrument the doc­ tor uses on Kennedy and Jameson-- see?" ?i"" She nodded* and a moment later was on her way uptown. • • • • Meanwliile Godowski himself had arrived at bur apartment, much to the relief of our friend Johnson, and was unpacking his instruments. Quickly he improvised two operat­ ing tables and placed one of us on each. Then, with his assistant, he put on his 'white robe, mask, gloves and other precautions for asepsis, setting out the apparatus for the intravenous administration of the drug that would kill the spirillum. They had finished their preparations and were waiting for Miss Septix. "She ought to be here now," muttered Godowski Impatiently, looking at hi* watch; Just then a cab drove up outside. "Perhaps that is she!"he exclaimed. "It must be." A few moments later the door of tho apartment opened. His face showed his disappointment. It was a stranger. '"Miss Septix is ill," she introduced, "and sent me to take her place." The doctor looked about. "Very well, then," he said briskly, seeing his preparations. "Are you ready to go ahead?" She nodded and threw off the coat that covered her immaculate white uniform. . Thq specialist plunged whole-heart­ edly into his work of saving us now. "Hand me that needle, please," he directed the false nurse. She moved over to the table near by and took it up, pausing only long enough to dip It secretly into a vial she carried with her. "Please hurry," repeated the doctor. She turned from the table and hand­ ed it to him. He adjusted it and al­ ready held it poised for the thrust which was not to Cure but to poison us further. "Weepy Mary!" erted .a frightened •olee at our door. • * • • -,e •; . ;•. .* Elaine had been deeply alarmed by the sudden illness of Kennedy and the message from Jameson. No sooner had Kennedy gone than it flashed over her that Wu Fang had predicted some­ thing like this. "The threat!" she exclaimed, seek­ ing her cousin. "Mary, I must go to the city--right away." On the next train, then, she l}ad been speeding back to New York. One glance at the improvised hos­ pital was enough to alarm her. But the sight that had transfixed her was of a woman whose face she remem­ bered well, though Kennedy and I had never seen her. "Please, Miss," began Godowskl'a assistant, trying to quiet Elaine, while Godowski turned in vexation to his work. "No, no!" repeated Elaine. "This woman is no nurse. She is a crim* inal!" Godowski paused. It was true he did not know the woman. He gazed from Elaine to Weepy Mary in doubt. The game was up. Weepy Mary dropped a piece of gauze which she had soaked in the solution from the vial which Wu had given her and bolt, ed for the, door. So sudden was her flight that no one was quick enough to stop her. The excitement, more than ever, alarmed Elaine now. "Tell me," she ap^ pealed to Doctor Godowski, "what is the matter?" "In some way," he replied quickly, "they have become infected with the bite of an African tick which carries spirillum fever." Godowski raised his hands in de­ spair. "I was just about to start," he cried. "Everything is ready. I can't send for another nurse. Every min­ ute counts." Elaine had thrown off her coat and hat. Her sleeves were up in a mo­ ment, and before the doctor knew what she waB about she was scrubbing her hands in the antiseptic wash. "Only--show me--what to do," she cried. "I will be the nurse!" Several days later, when he had re­ covered sufficiently from the diaboli­ cal attack that had been made upon us, Kennedy was again at work in the laboratory, while I was writing. Our speaking tube sounded, and I knew that it was Elaine and Aunt Jo­ sephine. "Hpw do you feel?" Inquired Elaine anxiously, as Bhe almost ran across the laboratory to Craig. "Fine!" he exaggerated, brightly. "Really?" she repeated anxiously. "Look!" he said, turning to his mi­ croscope. He turned some blood from a test tube in our electric incubator and placed a drop on a slide. It was some of the blood infected by the germs car­ ried by the tick. "That is how our blood looked--be­ fore the new nurse arrived," he smiled, while Elaine looked at it in horror. Then he pricked his arm and let a drop smear on another slide. "Now look at that--perfectly nor­ mal," he added. "Oh, I'm so glad," she exclaimed ra­ diantly. "Normal-*-thanks to you. You saved us. 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A Cook's Tour. r| "TT saw your touring car speeding toward the station this morning* Who was the young lady in it?" "That was our cook." "What! And you sent her to UM; station in your big machine?" ... _j" "Surest thing you know. We rtldnt want to take any chances on her misir ing the eight o'clock train to town. 8t| i long, old man. I've got to go $«£ ae* a doctor about my indigestion.'? | Eternal Curiosity. w; "So you think all public entertain­ ments should be censored." "Tes. And I'd ilk# |p ensi «f the censors."-. *.•. "What forr •' " v ' :•# V ,. "So as to be sum el anything. Says Young Men Only Talk. •••_: f> . Prof. J. L. Henderson of Harvard.. £ university recently declared that the v college should free young men fro* the tyranny of styles in clothing, th^ ; >•# all should beware of modern Actio® and "stufT called literature" nowadays. ; and that "the trouble with our Amerfc ,, ^ can young is that they cannot co^ ̂ J verse; they can only talk." ------- «. The Ages of Man. Smuggs--Say. Juggs, who are tho^* ' three gentlemen standing at the co|j» servatory entrance? _• Juggs--Why. they represent tbi generations. The ruddy old man wit the line head of hair, Buggs--the thia- llaired one next to him is his son, awl the dissipated fellow with the baH^ head is the grandson. -- National Monthly. 7 T7 • The.. Day. ;•*' "(Stilts Friday, mammif "No, darling. This is Thursday." : "Oh, dear! I can hardly wait far Saturday. Uncle George promised t» take me to the drug store then buy me a sundae. An Essential Particular. ^ is; • *9SjRes can tell the date of the it tW war." . ,. ; Ty : - -Which «.#»- . .^V