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o friVolous Affair3 IInts'frflons lv CWa M aw 191 V.L.3RNJN5 OB0$-HILkR1LL ccOWAkIY ! B SYNOPSIS. Jo Codman and her sister Loulle are left orphans. Their property has been swept away by the death of their fa ther and they are compelled to cast about for some means to earn a living. Lou lie answers an advertisement of an Inva lid who wants a companion. She declines the position. Loulie advertises for a po iltion as companion, and Mrs. Hazard replies. She offers Loulle a position as her "secretary of frivolous affairs." Her chief work is to steer Mrs. Hazard's son and daughter in the right matrimonial path. Loulle talks baseball to Hap Haz ard and also gains the confidence of Lau la Hazard. The Duc de Trouville is be leved to be interested in Laura Mrs. Hazard gives a big reception and Loulie meets many people high in the social world. Natalie Agazziz, to whom Hap has been paying attention, loses an em erald bracelet during the reception. She declares there is not another like It In the world. It develops that Natalie has lost several pieces of iewelry under sim lilar circumstances. Hap takes Loulie to the baseball game. He tells her he is not engaged to Natalie and has been cured of his Infatuation. The scene changes to the Hazard country place. where many notables have been invited for the summer. Loulle and Laura visit the farm of Winthrop Abbott, an author. In whom Laura takes considerable Inter est. Due de Trouville arrives at the Haz ard place. Loulle hears Winthrop's mo tor boat out late at night. Next morning the papers announce the robbery of sev eral nearby homes. Natalie accuses Lou le of stealing her ruby pendant. Mrs. Hazard assures Loulle of her confidence in her. Hap declares his love for Loulie. She reciprocates, but will not admit it as ghe fears what Mrs. Hazard will say; iLotle is excused from dinner on account of a headache. She is bombarded with potes from Hap imploring her to see him. Winthrop Is arrested in the presence of Hap and Loulle, charged with robbing General Schuyler's home and shooting the general. A box of jewels is found in Win ropa safe, among them an emerald raclet exactly like the one lost by Na talie. Natalie apologizes to Loulle for ac cusing her of theft. Loulie is awakened at midnight and finds Hap in her room. ý1ext morning Hap explains that he was In pursuit of a mysterious woman he had Men in the corridor and who eluded him by passing through Loulie's room. Na talle Identifies the emerald bracelet found In Winthrop's safe as her own. Loulie's sister. Jo, arrives for a week's stay. John Crowninshbeld pays marked attention to Jo. Loulie watches all night with Natalie. She sees Winthrop cross the lawn In the early morning, shadowed by Thomas. a footman. Loulle hears a noise in the gal lery and goes to investigate. She slips into the card room and stumbles over a bag. She starts to carry it to her room and is surprised by someone In the hall and falls downstairs. She breaks her arm. The bag belongs to John. Loulle again finds herself under\suspicion. Lou lie overhears Hap tell his mother that he Intends to marry Loulie even if she is a thief, which he doesn't believe. Loulle declares that she will not marry him, but Mrs. Hazard says Hap can have her if he wants her. Detective Adams is found bound and gagged. 'Jo is missing. The detective says she was carried off by three men. Search is led by John, who It develops is in love with Jo. Several clues are followed without success. A wounded man is found by the roadside. Jo returns. Jo tells her stdry. She says she heard a noise in the gallery and went to investigate. She surprised Duc d'Auhlgny, a notorious French thief. Henry, a servant, and a third man re moving a picture from a frame. They seized her and made her a prisoner in a cottage in the wood. She shot her guard and escaped. As she finishes her story a shot is heard in the gallery. Duc de Trouville is found on .the floor, with Thomas sitting beside him holding a re volver. Thomas turns out to be a de tective in the employ of an insurance company. He clears up the mystery of the robberies. D'Aubigny, de Trouvillle nd Mrs. Cutler. a guest in the house, are the thieves. CHAPTER XXVII.--Contlnued. "Oh, don't mention it," I gasped ex citedly. "It is of no' consequence at all." Then another thought came to me. "And you didn't suspect me of the thefts?" He smiled and shook his head. "Nor Mr. Abbott," he added. "Our insurance people keep pretty close record of family jewels of every kind, and we knew from the very beginning that Mr. Abbott owned the Jewels the pollce found there." "We were going to prove it, too," John pu in. "That was so simple w dlE't have to worry about it." w why hadn't he told us before? of the heart-burnings and the y suspicions he could have pre "As I say, I knew these things, but Mt wasna't wise to tell them," Thomas eontinued. "In the first place, as long as the real thieves imagined some one else was under suspicion it was aslt to keep watch on them. I fol bowed that line of reasoning through ut. Uvetrything else was compara tively simple after that extraordinary in at dlnner"--gain he smiled here every one told their schemes Wor hidtag their' jewels. If I had had edoubts at all they were dissipated e. The persons who heard those 8tatements were only the guests In house and three servants, Bur the butler, myself and another an. It narrowed things down. t dntaly it made the final haul l for the thieves." "Then." I put in, "if you did not sus SMr. Abbott at any time, why it you-you followed him across erlawn the night I fell down Bvery one looked at me in astonish t. dont tknow that any one un rtood except Thomas. "I was mrakting assurance doubly ," he replied. "I saw Mr. Abbott he landed from his boat, and trally curious as to what he was l to do, I kept my eye on him. Sdid nothing but stand for a long ~ d stare at a window above, "Yes, I understand," I Interrupted. We, all of us, understand." "Thea he went away," Thomas d "The thieves were at work baa the gimway . but I idn't kaow it. If by any chance I had re-entered the house by the back door instead of the front door after Mr. Abbott went away, I would have caught them going out. As it was, I came in the front door, and so it camne about that I flashed the light in your face." That seemed to be all of it. Mrs. Hazard and I sat looking at each oth er with our mouths mutually open, and simultaneously we closed them. John said nothing; Hap sat pounding one clenched fist into the palm of his hand and grlnning--I don't know why. "And now, de Trouville," continued Thomas,-wasn't that an awful way to speak to a duke?-"there remains only to get an order from you for the jewels in the safety deposit. For your information I'll say that d'Aubig ny and two of his accomplices are al. ready under arrest in the city, and Mrs. Cutler is being-detained up stairs. It's all off. Give up. It re mains, too, for Mrs. Hazard here to say what shall be done with you after all the stolen things are recov ered. I'm satisfied to get them. I'll send you to prison for twenty years if she wants me to, or I think I can induce my people to let you go." For the first time the duke spoke. "I am at your mercy, Mrs. Has ard," he said. "I deny nothing." And he didn't have the least bit of an accent! Hap looked at Mrs. Hazard, Mrs. Hazard looked at John, John looked at the duke, and the duke looked at me-appealingly, I thought. Jo and I really were the cause of his down fall! Poor little duke! I was awfully sorry for him! "I think, under all the circum stances," John said slowly at last, for he was holding in on his temper he was awful angry about Jo being abducted--"that if His Grace returns everything that has been stolen-I think we are prepared to let the mat ter drop." I could have kissed him for that. "He has been called to Europe suddenly, and he will decide to remain there for all time!" "And the others?" Thomas queried. "If either is brought to trial the ef fect will be the same." "I mean all of them," said John. And that's how that part of it ended. CHAPTER XXVIII. Mist Before the Sun. After all, our mystery was simple when we had the key, which was knowing who the thieves were. And it was so easy to see how Mrs. Cutler had stolen those first bracelets-at the Abercrombie's and Mrs. Loring's and also the ruby pendant. But there were a great many things we never did know about, that we had to leave to conjecture. For instance, we never did know exactly how those duplicates of the old masterpieces were made. Count Felix von Brunner who, by the way, happened to be Mrs. Henry Dykeman's German count, tried to explain his theories of the substitu tion. There were photographs made, and the measurement of the pictures taken, then. all depended upon the skill of the copyist. But we never did find out how they reproduced the colors so accurately without copying from the picture itself. After all, though, the colors were not very ac curate. When the originals were brought back from a cottage in the wood, where they had been hidden, and placed alongside, the substitutes were so palpably fakes 'that it's a wonder we had not discovered it long before. Count von Brunner, whom we had the pleasure of welcoming to Lone Oak, waved his hand disgusted ly at the lot. "Ach!" he exclaimed. "Dey vould not deceive a little child " But then none of us knew as much about art as he did. Natalie explained her part of the story to us. She had suspected Win throp of taking the jewels, as he had had the opportunity at Mrs. Loring's, the Abercrombies' and the reception. She had refused to answer those ques tions the police put because answers must necessarily have implicated Win throp. How we had misunderstood her! The first suspicion of the real truth came to her the night of Winthrop's arrest, when she and His Grace had been alone on the terrace. His Grace had tried to embrace her. She was wearing only a brooch that evening, but it was a very handsome one. Something in the attitdde of His Grace, she said, aroused her sus picions. She knew she had the brooch when she came upon the terrace: she put up her hand after the embrace, and the brooch was gone. Then she remembered that it had happened be fore-twice before at Lone Oak, and before that in town. Once .her suspicions were aroused she could connect His Grace with ev erything she had missed except the ruby, the bracelet missing at the Abercrombies' and the very first miss Ing bracelet stolen at Mrs. Loring's. She came to me immediately after the incident on the terrace with an apology. If she had only confided in me then, what a lot of trouble would have been averted! That night came Winthrop's arrest, and finally the red-headed reporter, who took her to the police station, where she identified Winthrop's emer ald bracelet as her own. That threw everything into confusion again, No wonder Natalie kept her suspiciops to herself! I had a talk with Jo when John and Detective Thomas went away to town to bring from the safety deposit the duke's loot. I tried to point out to her how perfectly silly it was for us to break out hearts just because two men who loved us had entirely too much money, while we only bad an interest in a mine that might give us just enough to buy two wedding gowns. She sat with her hands clasped loosely before her for a while, then her eyelashes swept her cheeks. "It just had to happen, Loulie," she said softly at last. "He's so per fectly dear!" "'They always are!'" I quoted: I went down on my knees, seized her hand, and made her look atame. "You're going to marry John," I in sisted. "Yes," she answered. Then: "I can't help it, dear. He would not have listened if I had said no, so I didn't. We've both been going to our doom for the last month-and we knew it! Loulie, do you think any woman can be sure of herself in a month?" It seemed so odd, Jo asking ý}y advice, that I stared at her With 'ly mouth open in the way I'll never, never get over. "I think a woman knows her mind in five minutes," I said, grossly exag gerating. And Jo believed it! I don't know who told Mrs. Hazard; I guess she's wise enough to know things without being told. She came in and perched on the side of a chair hardly proportioned to her short lop and held in on that chuckle of hers. "I don't see how I'm ever going to stand three weddings," she said, "but-" "Three weddings!" I echoed, "Then Winthrop-" "Yes, dear, it's settled. When a man moons around under a girl's win dow at three in the-morning it's tize - After all, what business have I to interfere with them? I married the man I loved without the interference of anybody. Winthrop is a dear boy, even if he does grow vegetables." "I'm sorry I failed you," I told hey. "Failed?" she repeated. "Good heavens, what have you failed in?" "Everything," I answered, "except getting Hap on the right track, and even then you never intended that he was to turn around and look at mI,! "I should have intended it," i1 said. "I ought to have had eno foresight to see exactly what was ing to happen. I'm Codman-mad self, and was from the very ning." She chuckled, then she . over and drew Jo's head against motherly bosom. ."My dear, be - to pour the coffee for John ev' morning, and you have my blessl" .o And then-I may just as well admft it-we all cried. When John and DetectJve Thomas came back they brought a suit cee which they insisted upon carrying ip stairs themselves, right under the tI suspecting noses of the newspaper men scattered about the terrace. John opened it and spread the glittering, bewildering contents on Mrs. Haaard's desk. Jewels! Great goodness! The king's ransom we have read aboalt. We ptood and looked at them amazed, and the most awful part of it was that neither John, nor DetectiFe Thomas knew to whom at least, a third of them belonged. They werein a series of little chamois cases. John unfolded them one by one. Laura and Natalie recognized Mrs. Dyke~t's We Stood and Looked at Amazed, necklace of pear-shaped dr and a jeweled aigrette, the woll 0f two continents, which belonged a Loring. "That's a part of the first shore robbery," commented Tho There followed other things recognized. "If that isn't Alice Peabodyr's andrtte collar I'll eat it," Lau suddenly, "and we hadn't h a word about that being stolen," '"I wonder if His Grace em her to get itT" Natalie whis Gradually John came to ..N missing jewels; the atx btaoelj pendant and the rope of e had missed from her Jewel the night Hap had seen a skirt-Mrs. Cutler's-disa d pea the aud rom ua he stairs; the night he kicked up the row' about the card room being locked. The sapphire and diamond bracelet, which she has lost at the Abercrombies', ap peared, and the bracelet missirng at Mrs. Loring's, the very first jewel she had lost. The ruby pendant, which made me positively shiver, came next. and the brooch the duke had secured the 'night he embraced her. Then those other jewels lost on similar oc casions. At last John unfolded-the emerald bracelet! "Not another like it in the world," Natalie had said, "or so many emeralds matched so perfectly." Yet she had identified a family heirloom of Winthrop's as her bracelet! If she had only looked she'd have seen it didn't have the patent clasp! "I think you and Winthrop should look up your ancestors," Laura re marked, "for way back somewhere those bracelets were a pair." Hap had me by my unbroken arm, hurrying me across the strip of lawn in the direction of the beach. We clattered down the steps that led from the rocks above to the sand, and sat down on the lower one. "Now shut your eyes and put out your finger," Hap said. "Which finger?" I shut my eyes and put out all my fingers to be sure of the proper one. It's a blessing I had broken my right arm. "There! Now it's settled." Hap extravagantly kissed the fin gers one by one as I opened my eyes and looked at my ring. "Is it all really true?" I asked after a while, and two tears threatened in my eyes. "Is it?" Hap repeated softly. I fumbled with the ring. 4Iap lifted my hand and kissed it-the ring, I mean. "There's not another like it in the world," he said. "See, the nineteen rubies are you, and the twenty-two diamonds are me-" "What's the big one in the middle?" I asked. "That's us," he grinned. "There's not another like it in the world," I whispered. "'Or so many rubies matched so perfectly,' " Hap quoted. And notwithstanding the seriousness of the situation we both giggled. We were awfully young! Hap put his arm around me. There was no use struggling against a kiss. I was on the injured list anyhow, and he was the best tackle Harvard ever had. THE END. THAT ABODE OF THE PAST John Galsworthy's Charming Picture of an Old Disused Southern Landmark. "Yes, sub-here we are at that old time plar n!" And our dark driver drew up his little victoria gently, .*rltes John Galsworthy in Scribner's. `'Tbrough the open doorway, into e im cavern of ruined house, we passed, 1'he mildew 'and dirt, the dark, de, nuded dankness of that old hostel rotting down with damp and time! And our guide, the tall, thin, gray haired dame, who came forward with such native ease, and moved before us, touching this fungusr,d wall, thai rusting stairway and telling, as it were, no one, in her soft, slow speech, things that any one could see -what a strange and fitting figure. Before the smell of the deserted oozing rooms, before that old creature leading us on and on, negligent of all our questions and talking to the air, as though we were not, we felt such discomfort that we soon made to go out again into such freshness as there was on that day of dismal heat. Then realizing, it seemed, that she was los* ing us, our guide turned; for the first time looking in our faces, she smiled, and said in her sweet, weak voice, like the sound from the strings of a spinnet long unplayed on: "Don' you wahad to see the dome rogm, an' all the other rooms right here, of thi old place?" Again those wordsl We had not the hearts to disappoint her. And as we followed on and on, along the moldering corridors and rooms where the black peeling papers hung like stalactites, the dominance of out senses gradually dropped from us, and with our souls we saw its soul-the soul of this old time place; this mu. tering house of the old south, bereft of all but ghosts, and the gray pigeons niched in the rotting gallery round a narrow courtyard open to the sky. "Thi.s the dome room, euh and lady; right over the slave market II il. Here they did the business of the state-sure; see their face up there in the roof-Washington, Hamilton, Jefferson, Davis, Lee--there they arel All gone-nowl I Yes, sub!" He Was Handiclapped Jtust what constitutes news is a much mooted question to the general public generally. The average news. paper reader considers that anything that pertains to him personally is the most important piece of news that a paper can print A negro porter in one of the popular Kansas City clubs, recently divorced, furnished an exam. pie of one conception of news. Approaching a reporter in the club. rooms a few days ago, the porter re marked: "Say, boss, don't you all know I done got a divorce, and I ain't seen a single line about it in the paper yet, an' it been mos' two weeks." "Well, Rastus, that's stranke." the reporter replied, tryings to look se. rious. "Can't you all put it in the paper nowT" he asked "'Tain't as how I cum to get the divorce that I cares :to let people know about, but don't Iyou know, boss, that I meets a lot of aeullud ladies every day that jes' won't speak to me, 'cause they think Im lmarrd."-Ka1asu Ctr Jramea NWAYS OF SERVING ICE CREAM Always Acceptable Dessert May Be Sent to the Table in a Great Variety of Forms. There are meodes even in the servint of ice cream. At present maca ooi. baskets, wafer boxes and a disguising covering of lady cake are among tht most popular ways of serving this al ways acceptable dessert. To make macaroon baskets, dip the outer edges of five almond macaroons In the syrup obtained from mehe,; granulated srgar. The first macaroon, is used for the bottom of the basket. and the others are stuck together te form a ring about it, exactly like the burr baskets we used to make when we were children. Pill this receptacit with ice cream and sprinkle ground macroons on top. Wafer boxes are put together in ex actly the same way. Square wafers are the most desirable, two being used for the bottom and one at each end standing upright. The ice cream should be cut into blocks and fit in to the frame. Pink and white icj cream, garnished with cherries, make an attractive color combination. A novel way to serve brick ice cream is to cover the sides and end> of the brick with thick slices of lady cake. Cut the cream as usual. Each lice will have a frame of cake, con :rasting prettily with the colors of the cream. IN PLACE OF REFRIGERATOR Try This Substitute Where the Highly Desired Ice Box Is Not for the Moment Procurable. Take a box of the desired size and remove the bottom, replacing it with strips of wood about an inch wide and two inches apart. Now stand the box on end and nail cleats on thIe inside to support the shelves, which should be removable for convenience in clean ing. Next take a piece of burlap, which should be about twenty inches longer than the height of the box and wide enough to reach around the box with a few inches overlap. Beginning at the edge of the box nearest the front, tack the burlap on smoothly, bringing it even with the bottom of the box and allowing the surplus length to project at the top. The bur lap should form the door of the box by slipping the selvage edge of the goods over a row of small nails driven up and down along the side of the bca. Place a two gallon pal t, itkJa ter on top of the box and alltow length of burlap to fall over i pail. The burlap will become satura, and the evaporation will keep the I ternor cool.-Woman's Home Compan Ion. Cauliflower With Dressing. Cauliflower is far more delicate if oooked for a good half hour. It should. be washed and examined carefully to see that there are no insects lurking inside. Tie in a clean white cloth, put it on in cold water, stem up in a gran ,teware or porcelain sauce pan-nevel in tin or iron. When done place II, flowers up, in a hot platter and pour over it the following sauce: Rub to gether a tablespoonful of bulter and one of flour to smooth paste, add grad mally a cup and a half of the water In which the cauliflower was boiled Let this boil for two or three minutes seasoning with pepper and salt, ant just before serving add the well beat en yolk of an egg mixed with a table spoonful of cold water to prevent curd ling. This is also a good sauce for as paragus, using the water in which the vegetable was boiled. Swiss Buttons. Beat two eggs slightly and add one quarter cup milk. Add gradually t< one cup flour mixed, and sifted with one teaspoon salt. Place a colandce over a kettle of boiling water, put Ir one-half the mixture, and force, using a wooden potato masher, into the wa ter. 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