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The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, December 17, 1921, Final Extra, FICTION SECTION, Image 16

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THE EVENING WORLD'S FICTION SECTION, SATUKDAV, PECEMDEIt 17, 1921.
enough not to conflict, rtoy Duncan,
Allen Lansing, Phln Larabcc, and ono
r two. others accepted with wild cn
tliusiasm. They were not forewarned
that Idalcno was to be a guest. They
did not recognize hor In the upstand
ing, lithe, smart triumph of fashion
that greeted them by name, though
they protended hastily that they re
ifirmbcrod perfectly.
Hoy Duncan repeated to Phln Lara
lire his motto: "I'm a rotten namo re
memberer." Who is that pippin any
way ?"
Phln stared -and stared, and then
lii gasped: "Lord help us, It's Idalcno!"
Tho dramlln beau, Allen Lansing,
dancing with her at the time and
milling her perfection. He was sigh
ing Into tho car beneath her royal coif
furo: "You dance llko n dream of de
light, Miss-Miss"
Idalcno murmured up under his chin:
"This dance cams you the bull pup."
Lansing stopped short and accepted
tlx- jolts of passing dancers as he floun
dered: "I don't understand."
Idojene explained with almost volup
tuous malice: "Roy Duncan promised
ou his bull p,up if you would dance
with mo ngaln. This Is again."
Lansing mado a magnificent recov
ery: "No, I was to daqco with you
three times more. And I'll hold you
in tho bargain."
Walt Brcen noted darkly that Allen
I.arislng took throe dances with Ida
lone. He was jealous now without
mibtlety or compassion, no had a
frenzy for monopoly. When tho lost
houso guest had gone up to bed and
the last extramural guest was far
along the road, Walt checked Idalcno
as alio checked a yawn of replete con
tentment He dragged her hack to tho
terrace for a glimpse of tho moon, and
ho growled: "You were wonderful to
night." "Me wonderful?" she sighed. "I'm
inly learning my A B C's. I can't play
the piano or tho ukulele, or paint even
vatcr colors, or talk books or politics
or anything much."
"What an Ideal wife!" he said, nnd
then blurted out his hope: "Will you
bo my wife and go West with mo?"
Ho rnuld sco her eyes widen like
two tiny moons. When he slipped
lila nnns about her she gulped a deep
breath of lapturc, and leaned Into his
bosom for a moment, nut as ho
tightened his clasp she broke loose
bharply and falily barked at him with
n minutnuin of her new dcllcae!y: "I
hould say NOT!"
Then sho ran Into the houso and
up tho stairs. Sho had rcmemhercd
just in time that Walt belonged to
Pamela by right of discovery, pre
emption, and devotion.
feLld-jEEK-END TBICKMUZZLE
" f ait Out; Pai'te on Cardboard or Heavy Paper and Save With Others or Binding in a B
The Joker Detective.
H
r ERE Is a trick that you can do
tho first time you try It It has,
however, all of tho effectiveness
of a skilfully performed feat of real
sleight-of-hand.
Ask a spectator to shuffle a pack of
cards. When ho returns tho pack
place It face down on your outstretched
left hand. Ask the spectator to push
tho blado of a penknife into the pack,
anywhero ho likes. Lift those cards
which Ho abovo the knife blado and '
ask him to look at the card which lies
below; replace It and remember its
Identity. Ho is urged to take euro that
you do not seo tho card. Tho upper
part of the pack is now dropped on the
lower part and the spectator Is in
vited to cut tho pack two or threo
times, each time placing tho lower cut
on the upper. Now you extract the
Joker from tho pack. Solemnly ask tho
joker to namo tho selected card. Hold
tho joker to your ear and attfir a mo
incut's hesitation announce tho name
of the selected card.
Hero's tho secret
When you lift the part of tho pack
whlch lies above the knife blade steal
a look at the toco of the bottom card
of this part of the pack. When the
ppoctator replaces his card and the
upper portion is dropped on it the
tard you know will lie on the card
tho spectator knows. When you look
through tho pack for tho Joker look
rst for tho card yU notnd. Pieced
ig.it will bo the setKtcd ard.
Pamela was waiting for her; stared
At her; exclaimed: "What on earth
has happened to you? You aro posi
tively beautiful. What la that strange
light In your eyes?"
"I don't know," said Idalcne. And
she did not know, coud not know
that it was tho benediction of self
sacrifice. It was only when she was alono
that Idalcno realized how alono sho
was: how much It meant to give up
tho man whom her humble worship
had mado great and whose Jovo was
tho uttermost honor sho could even
dream.
Sho took off her borrowed finery
and was herself again, a poor, lone
somo thing, lovcrless, husbandlcss,
NEXT SATURDAY'S
GOOD WILL TO DOGS
A CHRISTMAS STORY
By ELEANOR HALLOWELL ABBOTT
Full of the Perfume of Balsam and Pine, and
Charming, With an' Unfolding Love Story
ORDER YOUR EVENING
childless for the rest of her days.
A frenzy seized her and she re
solved to wait no longer. She found
her suit case In a closet, stuffed into
it all tho things sho had brought, and
dressed herself in the shabby gown
that hod walked with her Into this
foreign Eden.
Sho wrote a little letter:
Dearest Miss Pamela:
You have been a heaven-sent angel
to mo. But -I don't belong in heaven.
You love Dr. Breen. You couldn't help
it. So I will take myself out of your
life and his. Falrwel forever.
Your loving, grateful,
IDALENE.
Ida lone set this document on a
bureau in an envelope addressed to
Pamela, and slipped out of tho house
by the servants' stairs and trudged,
unnoticed, along tho roads to the
fur-away station. It was not yet
daylight when she opened the old front
gate in Calverly. She tiptoed up the
walk and the front steps and found
tho front door locked.
When her brother came 'barefooted,
shirtless and lousled to the door for
The Crowded Jail.
Tllia is a trick which puzzles many
. people who-ought to know bet
ter. Perhaps It will bo Just as
well If you nre told how to do It, giv
ing you an opportunity to figure out
the "why'iof it for yourself.
Draw a diagram on a slate or black
board like this:
Vnd say to your friends:
"nils represents a jail and each
square a cell ten cells in all. The
Sheriff delivers to tho Warden eleven
prisoners, each of whom must be kept
in solitary confinement. Eleven pi'.j
oners. Ono prisoner to a cell. T-
cells. What docs ho do?
"Ho puts two prisoners In the ti.
cell just temporarily."
Mnke two marks In the first cell ,i
in this diagram:
II
Then he puts the third prisoner In
tho second cell, tho fourth tn the third
cell (make a mark tn each cell as each
prisoner is placed), tho fifth prisoner
in tho fourth cell, the sixth prisoner In
the flfth cell,"
Make a mark in each cell as each
prisoner Is accounted for. Continue
- until' the Sheriff puts the tenth prls-
on" ' e nln,n "
II
tho morning paper, whose thumping
arrival bad not wakened Idolene, his
eyes rivalled tho- yawn ot his mouth as
he made her out In tho hammock. Ho
went and told his mother, who was
clattering away 'In tho kitchen: "Ida
lene's home."
His mother had to go see with her
own eyes. The girl was so newly
pretty and so winsome that Mrs. Nob
bin sighed:
"Let the poor thing have her sleep
out."
PAMELA also slept gracefully
and woke with a smile. But
on this morning she was still so
drugged with sleep "when Nl
nclto ran In to wake her with the news
COMPLETE STORY
WORLD IN ADVANCE
and tho letter of Idalcno's departure
that she could not understand Its ref
erence to her love of Dr. Brcen.
Later she understood it, for on her
way to breakfast sho saw Walt's bag
gage going down the hall In the grip
of two ot tho men servants. And Walt
followed, dressed for travel.
"What on earth!" sho cried.
1 "I'm goliur West," he explained
"I've got to. Had a telegram. No,
that's a lie, but I've got to go back.
I came East to ask you to go with
me, but well, tho fact Is, Pam,
you'ro too flno for me. You're a glor
ious, brilliant, darling creature and I
haven't got tho heart to drag you out
to that plain, rough country."
Her heart leaped to say: "I'm tired
of all this. I long for all that. Take
me with you."
But sho could not force herself upon
hlra. So sho gave him up with a
smile. Then sho sighed:
"Idalene'fl already gone, poor little
soul."
Walt was still sore enough and
tactless enough to snarl:
"Poor little nothing! I asked her to
That leaves the tenth cell vacant.
Rub out one of the marks In the first
cell and mako a mark In the tenth cell,
saying:
"Then the Warden took the extra
man, the eleventh, out of the first cell
and put him in the tenth and so solved
his problem."
1
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The Predicted Number.
W
RITE a sentence on a card and,
without showing what you
have written to any one, seal
Mivclope. Qlvo the envelopo
w tti
keep until tho con
clusion of tho ex-
. tiothcr
.f paper
ana a.-iK another
spectator to write
any number from
1 to 10 upon it.
Ask another spec
tator to write a
number under it.
And a third and a fourth and a flfth
and a sixth and a seventh to do tho
same. Then ask somo ono to add tho
numbers. After the sum has been an
nounced ask the spectator to open tho
envelope and read the message on it.
The message is:
"Tho total of tho numbers will be 51."
This Is correct.
How is It done?
A confederate' is needed a confed
erate who plays so- inconspicuous a
part that he will not be suspected. You
have told blm that tho number In the
message Is to be 61.
As each number is written, add them.
When the numbers total '41 or more,
hand the paper to your confederate.
Whno he to, seemingly, hesitating con
cerning which number to write ho is
adding the numbers. Then he writes a
wrthrr that will bring tn total to EL
Shuttle, Isn't It?
T 9
be my wife last night and she nearly
snapped my head off."
Pamela thought of this ail through
breakfast. Then the truth of it camo
to her. She saw that Idalcno had
broken her heart to keep from break
ing Pamela's. She said to Walt:
"Before you go West, you're going
to motor ovei to Calverly with me to
tell Idaleno good-by. It's a long ride,
but you can pick up your train there."
Walt was stubborn, but she was
stubborner. On the way over sho ex
plained the situation to him in her own
way with a miserly economy of truth.
She said, nothing about her own Inter
est In the affair, butlald all the blame
on Idalenc'n notorious meekness:
"Sho adores you, and she doesn't
think herself worthy of your godlike
wealth of fascinations and dollars. So
she ran away. You take one good
look at her In the daylight, and if
you can't read it in her eyes, then
I'm a liar and you can go on about
your bustness without being bothered
by either of us."
When they reached the Nobbln
home they found Mrs. Nobbln out
In the side yard casting bread upon
her chickens. Pamela hung back and
pushed Walt forward. Beforo he
could ask where Idalcne was, he
heard her voice. Sho was singing. Ho
caught a glimpse of her nt th kitchen
window.
She was in an apron, and her arms
were white with flour, but she was
more graceful in her gingham than
sho had onco been in the satin con
fection of "Ye L'Art Shoppe." Her
song was sad but eerily sweet.
When she caught sight of him, she
thrust her head out of the window and
hailed him with a "Hello" that was
ambrosial with welcome.
All he could say was "Hello!"
She leaned her elbows on the sill
and said: "Well, the wallflower has
come back to tho wall."
"Not for long," ho groaned, then
he reached up and plucked her. He
caught her two hands and dragged
her squealing right through the win
dow, and caught her in his arms, and
hugged her so bard that neither of
them heard her mother indulging in
amazed profanity: "Land's Bakes to
goodness!" .
Neither of them heeded tho racket
of tho panic-stricken poultry. Neither
of them saw that Pamela's eyes were
now enriched with the divine light of
fflf-sacrlflce. The rich simply g"t
i verything away from tho poor.
TIH3 END.
i
Copjrljrht. All rights rwenctl.
IMntrtl by amnernifnt with
Mrtrvpolitan Ntnpapcr Serricf. ew York.
Book
Try It Yourself."
NOW for a little catch a combina
tion of a trick and a puzzle. In
this all of the spectators see (or
think they see) Just how you do- tho
trick. For somo strange reason they
will find that It is not quite so easy
to do.
Three matches, buttons or coins aro
needed. Place the three objects in a
row on the table.
Pick them up, ono at a time, counting
"one, two, three," Replace them, one
at a time, counting "four, five, six."
Pick them up one at a time, counting
"seven, eight, nine."
Hero is where the trick comes in.
As you count "nine" lift the ninth
match and immediately replace it.
Replace tho other two matches, count
ing, "Ten, and one more makes eleven."
By this miscounting you have made
four times three seem to bo eleven. A
spectator will Immediately declare that
there isn't any trick about that Hand
him th matches and let him try. It Is
almost certain that he will fail.
The secret la that the trick must be
gin with the matches on the table. The
natura thing for the spectator to do
when you hand him the matches Is to
count them out of his hand.
Try It both ways before you do the
trick in pirbllc.

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