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THE NORMAN ENTE R PRISE
HEARTS
AND
MASKS
HAROLD MacGRATH
Author of "The M mon ttl« Boi,' etc.
With Drawing* by Harrison Fisher
(CoPTrlyl.t l . >'* D..bl.i. Merrill
CHAPTER VI.—Continued.
"What is it you think I have done?"
I demanded.
"You have, or have had, several
thousand dollars' worth of gems on
your person to-night."
I shrugged. Tile accusation was so
Impossible that tny confidence re-
turned.
"Mr. Haggerty, you are making a
stupid mistake. You are losing time,
besides. 1 am not the man for whom
you are hunting. My name is lllchard
Cornstalk."
"One name or another, it does not
matter."
"Plenty of gall," murmured one of
the minions of the law, whom I after-
ward learned was the chief of the vil-
lage police.
"The card by which you gained
admittance here," demanded the great
Haggerty truculently.
I surrendered it.. A crowd had by
this time collected curiously about us.
I could see the musicians on the stage
peering over the plants.
"The thief you are looking for ha3
gone," said I "He escaped by the
coal window." Hy this statement ray
feet sank deeper still.
"What did 1 tell you?" cried Hag-
gerty, turning to his men "They had
an accomplice hidden in the cellars.
"I beg to inform you that you are
making a mistake that will presently
cost you dear,"—thinking of the pollt-
ical pull my uncle had in New York.
"I am the nephew of Daniel Wither-
spoon."
"Worse and worse! said the chief
of police.
"1 re'iucst Mr. Hamilton to be called,
llo will prove to you that you are
greatly mistaken " Everything looked
pretty black, I can tell you
"You will see whom you p>ase, hut
only after you are safely lauded in the
lockup. Now, Madame, turning
swiftly upon ti e Blue Domino, "what
Is your part in tlii fine busine s
"It certainly has no part in yours,"
—Icily.
llaggerty smiled "My skin is very
thick. l)o you know this fellow?"
She shook her head He stood un-
decided for a space.
"Let. me see your card."
"1 decline to produce it,"—haughtily,
llaggerty seemed staggered for a
moment. "I am sorry to annoy you,
but you must be identified at once
"And why?"—proudly. "Was it for-
bidden to go Into the club cellars for
such harmless things as apples?"
Apples' I looked at her admiringly.
"Apples?" repeated llaggerty.
"Couldn't you have sent a servant for
them?"
She did not reply.
"You were with this clever gentle-
man In the cellars. You may or may
not be acquainted with him I do not
wish to do anything hasty in regard to
yourself, but your position is rather
equivocal. Produce your i;i"d and be
identified—if you really can."
"I refuse!"
"Then I shall ask you to accompany
its to the room up stairs till the police
patrol arrives."
"I will go,"—quietly.
"Nonsense!" I objected. "On my
word of honor, i do no* know this
lady. Our presence in the cellar was
lierfectly harmless. There is no valid
reason for detaining her. It is an out-
rage!"
"1 am not going to stand here argu-
ing with you," said Hagerty. "Let
the lady produce her card, let her dis-
close tier identity. That is simple
enough."
"I have already given you my deter-
mination on that subject." replied the
girl. "I can very well explain my pres-
ence here, but I absolutely decline to
explain It to the police."
I didn't understand her at all She
had said that she possessed an alibi.
Why didn't she produce if
So the two of us left the gorgeous
ball-room. Kvery one moved aside for j
us. and quickly, too, as if we had had j
the plague. I looked In vain for-llam- j
Jlton. He was a friend in need. We
were taken into the steward's office J
and the door was shut and locked
The band in the ball-room went «al- j
loping through a two-step, and the,
l aiety was in full swing again. The j
thief had been rounded up! How the
deuce was it going to end '
"I can not tell you how sorry 1 am j
to have mixed you up in this," 1 said ;
to the girl.
"You are in no manner to blame. |
Think of what might have happened 1
bad you blown up the post office!"
She certainly was the least embar-
rassed of the two of us. I addressed
my next remark to the great llag-
gerty.
"Did you find a suitable pistol in
Friard's?"
"A man in my business," said Hag-
places. There are various things to
be recovered in pawnshlps. The gen-
tleman of this club sent me the orig-
inal ten of hearts, my presence being
noccssary at such big entertainments.
And when 1 saw that card of yours,
1 was so happy that I nearly put you
on your guard. Lord, how long I ve
bean looking for you! I give you
credit for being a clever rascal. You
have fooled us all nicely. Not a
soul among us knew your name, nor
what you looked like. And but for
that card, you might still be at large.
1'ntll the lady submits to the simple
process of identification, I shall be j
compelled to look upon her an treat j
her as an accomplice. She has re- |
fused the offer I have made her, and |
she can not blame mo If I am suspi- 1
clous, when to be suspicious Is a part. j
of my business." He was reasonable,
! enough in regard to the girl.
He turned to the chief of the vll-
j lage police, who was sitting at the |
| itesk ordinarily used by the club stew-
ard.
"No reporters, mind you."
"Yes, sir We'll see that no re-
porter gets wind of the capture "
The telephone bell rang. One of
the police answered it.
"For you, Mr. Haggerty," he said.
llaggerty sprang to the telephone
and placed the receiver to his ear.
"What?" we heard him exclaim.
"You have got the other fellow? A
horse and carriage at once!"
"Take mine," said the chief ex-
citedly. "What is It."
"My subordinate at the railway sta-
tion has just landed the fellow with
the jewels. Mighty quick work. 1
must hustle in to town at once.
Hamilton looked at the Blue Domi-
no.
"Madame, will you do me the honor
to raise your mask?"
She did ro; and I -tw Hamilton
draw In his breath. Her beauty was
certainly of an exquisite pattern. He
frowned anxiously.
"1 never saw this young women be-
fore," he admitted slowly.
"Ha!" cried the chief, glad to find
some one culpable.
"Did you receive your invitation
through the proper channels?" asked
Hamilton.
"I came here to-night,"—coldly, "on
tho Invitation of Mrs. Hyphen-Bonds,
who sailed for Europe Wednesday."
Here was an alibi that was an
alibi! I was all at sea. Hamilton
bowed; the chief coughed worriedly
behind his hand. The girl had told
me she was an impostor like myself,
that her ten of hearts was as dark-
stained as my own. 1 could not make
head or tail to it. Mrs. Hyphen-
Bonds! She was a law in the land,
especially in Blankshire. the larger
part of which she owned. What did
It all mean? And what was her idea
iu posing as an impostor?
The door opened again.
"The patrol has come," said the of-
ficer who entered.
"Let it wait," growled the chief.
"Haggerty has evidently got us all
balled up. I don't believe his fashion-
able thief has materialized at all; just
a common crook. Well, he's got him,
at any rate, and the gems."
"You have, of course, the general
invitation?" said Hamilton.
"Here is it,"—and she passed the
engraved card to him.
(Re Major's
(ftristmas
%art!mPattie
/M.
"What?" We Heard Him Exclaim.
certy mildlj-, "is often found in such j
There'll be plenty of time to attend to
these persons. Bring them to town
the moment the patrol arrives The
gems are the most important things
just now."
"Yes, sir. Yon can rely upon us.
Mr. Haggerty. Billy, go down with
Mr. Haggerty and show him my rig.
"Good!" said Haggerty. "It's been
a fine night's work, my lads, a fine
night's wprk. I'll see that all get
some credit. Permit no one to ap-
proach the prisoners without proper
authority."
"Your orders shall be obeyed to the
letter," said the chief importantly He
already saw his name figuring in the
New York papers as having assisted
in the capture of a great thief.
Haggerty departed. A silence set-
tled gloomily down on us. Quarter of
an hour passed The grim-visaged po-
lice watched us vigilantly. Half an
hour, three-quarters, an hour. Far
away we heard the whistle of an out-
going train. Would 1 had been on it!
From time to time we heard faint
music. At length there was a noise
outside the door, and a monment later
Hamilton and two others came in.
When he saw me, he stopped, his eyes
bulging and his mouth agape.
"Dicky Cornstalk?" he cried help-
lessly. "What the devil does this
mean ""—turning to the police
"Do you know this fellow, Mr. Ham-
ilton?" asked the chief.
"Know him? Of course I know
htm," answered Teddy; "and I 11 stake
my last dollar on his honesty "
(Thanks, Teddy!) 1 began to
breathe.
Hut—" began the chief, seized
i with sudden misgivings.
I "it is impossible, I tell you,' inter-
I rupted Hamilton. "I know this gentle-
man is incapable of the theft. There
is some frightful mistake. How the
dickens did you get here, Dicky?"
And briefly 1 told him my story, my
ass's ears growing inch by inch as I
went along. Hamilton didn t know
whether to swear or to laugh; finally
he laughed.
"If you wanted to come, why didn't
you write me for an invitation?
"1 shouldn't have come to your old
ball, had I been invited. It was just
the idea of the lark."
We shall have to hold him, never-
theless." said tho chief, "till every-
i itiiiis cleared up. The girl "
"I beg a thousand pardons!" said
Hamilton humbly. "Everything seems
to have gone wrong."
"Will you guarantee this man?"
asked the chief of Hamilton, nodding
toward me.
"I fiave said so. Mr. Cornstalk is
very well known to me. He is a re-
tired army officer, and to my knowl-
edge a man with an income sufficient
to put him far beyound want."
"What is your name?" asked the
chief of the girl, scowling. It was quite
evident he couldn't understand her
actions any better than I.
"Alice Hawthorne," with an oblique
glance at me.
I had been right!
"What is your occupation? I am
obliged to ask these questions. Miss."
"I am a miniature painter,"—briefly.
Hamilton came forward. "Alice
Hawthorne? Pardon me, but are you
I the artist who recently completed the
' miniature of the Emperor of Germany,
the Princess of Hesse, and Mrs Hy-
phen Bonds?"
"I am. I believe there Is no fur-
ther reason for detaining me."
"Emperor of Germany?" echoed the
r.ow bewildered chief "Why didn't
you tell all this to Mr. Haggerty?"
"I had my reasons."
Once again the door opened. A bur-
ly man in a dark business-suit entered.
His face was ruddy and his little grey
eyes sparkled with suppressed ire He
reminded me of Vautrin, the only dif-
ference being that Vautrin was French
| while this man was distinctly Irish.
I His massive shoulders betrayed tre-
mendous strength. He was vastly an-
gry about something. He went to tho
chief's desk and rested his hands upon
it.
"You are a nice specimen for a chief
of police, you are!" he began.
"And who the devil are you?"
bawled the chief, his choler rising
I'll tell you who I am presently "
We all eyed him in wonder. What
was going to happen now?
"Which of you gentlemen Is Mr.
Hamilton?" asked the new-comer
gruffly.
Hamilton signified that he was the
gentleman by that name
"Some ladies at your ball have been
robbed of their diamonds 1 under-
stand?"
"About ten thousands dollars'
worth."
To bo Continued.
HE major felt a vague
sense of personal griev-
ance. It was Christmas
morning. Everything was
most agreeable at the
hotel. As he had distrib-
uted his customary gold
pieces to the "bells," the telephone
girls, the check-room boys, his waiter
and the head waiter, and the cham-
bermaid on his floor; he felt oddly
disturbed.
"Carter, my boy," he told the tall,
gray-haired image in the mirror,
"You're getting sentimental. You're
thoroughly disappointed because there
Isn't a soul In the world who can
call out a 'Merry Christmas' to you,
and mean it from the bottom of his
heart. You're like a boy with nothing
in his stocking I'm ashamed of you,
sir; I am indeed."
Yet that didn't help matters. He
wandered p.round the deserted hotel
corridors in the morning feeling ut-
terly lost. Nearly every one seemed
to be going out to dinner to some
place where he was urgently desired.
Four times he strolled over to the
desk and looked casually up at his
box, but there were no mail and no
presents for Maj. Robert Lee Carter.
The last time he had really de-
cided to give up and ring up some
business associate to take dinner with
him at the hotel. But he saw a let-
ter In his box, and the clerk handed
him a curiously shaped parcel, rather
bulky and oval. He took It up to his
own rooms, and opened It with a
funny' little thrill of anticipation.
By George, he was wrong. There
was somebody, he didn't know who
it was, but there was somebody who
had remembered him. The last wrap-
per fell off, and he stood staring down
at a little homemade willow basket,
filled with mistletoe. A card on top
read, "Love and Merry Christmas
from Pam."
Pam? He remembered no Pam.
He opened the letter for enlighten-
ment, and as he read, his heavy gray
eyebrows drew closer together, and
every now and then he ejaculated,
"God bless my heart and soul!"
"You won't remember me at all, but
I'm Pamela Grayson, and my mother
was your sister's daughter, so I m
your grandniece, see? Mother died
about a year ago, just after we came
north, and I have been here alone
! ever since. I didn't even know you
were alive until cousin Florrie, of
Carter's Landing, down home, wrote
and told me to share this mistletoe
with you, for she had gathered it In
the old oak grove where you used to
go when you were a little boy. Here s
wishing you a merry„ merry Christ-
mas, and I wish I knew you, because
it does certainly get fearfully lone-
some here In New York holiday time
when you haven't any one of your
very own."
The telephone bell rang sharply
Just as the major was about to say
"God bless my heart and soul" once
again. But he lifted the receiver, and
Bmiled at the voice that answered his
hall.
"Delighted, Ralph, delighted, my
boy, but you see, I am going to have
a young lady guest here to dinner
with me, my grandniece, sir, from
Virginia. Now, instead of my Joining
you in your bachelor apartments, sup-
posing you Join us, and try and com-
pensate to her for having a surely old
chap for a dinner partner. Name's
Miss Pamela Grayson. Come right
down."
Then he smiled, and kept on smil-
ing in the oddeBt, happiest way. And
he leaned back in his deep leather
chair, and lit a cigar, and watched the
smoke rings form overhead, and
imiled up at them. He had four sis-
ters. Pam's grandmother had been
f.he youngest. And now somehow,
they were all gone, as he thought,
"the way of the rosss," and he was
■ lone. He had rather lost track of
all the nieces and nephews and grand-
nieces and grandnephews. Sentiment
does not thrive in the New York at-
mosphere, yet as he looked at the
letter, he felt an odd glow of pride,
and he held the little basket of mis-
tletoe out at arm's length, smiling
retrospectively. Many a time he had
gone up to the old oak grove to gather
It for his mother to decorate the great
tall at Christmas. And now this lit-
tle Pam—
The major rose suddenly with quick
Intention. Five minutes later he was
on his way up to the address in the
letter. UpBtalrs two flightB he climbed,
and tapped at the low top door with
Its modest card:
"Pamela Grayson."
She stood at the easel with her
!>ack to him, a big blue apron on, and
he was singing,
"Qh, holy town of Bethlehem,
How still we see thee lie.
Above thy deep and dreamless sleep
The silent stars go by."
The major stood at attention, but
when she turned and caught sight of
htm. -ihe gave little cry of Joy.
"Uncle Bob! How did you come so
•oon to me?"
Eh, but she was bonnle, thought
the major approvingly; very much |
like her grandmother in her girlhood, ,
soft brown bands of hair around her
Bmall head, and wistful, childish gray
eyeB. It took him about ten minutes
to coax her into a "real" dress, as
she said, and down hito the waiting
taxi.
And how fast she talked. There
were years to catch up, she told him,
and as long as there was only the
two of them left in New York to up-
hold the pride of the Carters
"There's one more, child," warned
the major. "But he is very distantly
connected, very. He Is about your
nineteenth cousin, but he is to dine
with us, Ralph Carter."
Pam sat very still, and did not
speak, looking straight ahead of her.
"Ever hear of him?" asked the
major.
"I Just love his shadow," said Pam
solemnly. "If it's the same one. I've
tried and tried to paint pictures that
would sell, .and finally I coaxed an
old dealer on the avenue to let one
of my Virginia gardens stand In his
window awhile. You know Aunt Anna-
belle's rose garden with the sun dial,
and the old white coach house in the
back? Well, it was snapped up by a
Mr. Ralph Carter. And he wanted
to know if I had more Virginia scenes.
So I sent down the oak grove *Bt sun-
down along in November, with a big
orange harvest moon stealing over
the edge of the hill, and he bought
that. And now I'm painting the old
flagged walk under the grape arbor,
with it all sunshiny, and Mammy
Martha Ann coming along from the
outdoor kitchen with a big covered
platter of fried chicken, and he's go-
ing to take that."
The major leaned back his head,
laughing and shaking with pure en-
joyment. Up on the Hudson, at Hast-
ings, stood Ralph Carter's bachelor
home, and he had made it a,most a
replica of the old one In Virginia.
Rheumatism
Just put a few drops of Sloan'a
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it penetrates to tho bone and
brings relief at once. Kills
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Mr. James E. Alexander, of North
Harpswell, Me., tcritee: "Many •trains
in my back and hips brought on rheu-
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bad one night when sitting in my chair,
that I had to Jump on my feet U> get
relief. I at once applied your Liniment
to the affected part and in less then ten
minutes it was perfectly easy. I thing
it is the best of all LinimenU I have
ever used.'!
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LINIMENT
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Send four cent* in (tamps for •
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IF YOU HAVE,
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Headache, "ail run down" or losing flesh, you
will find ■ ■ ■
Tuft's Pills
lust what you need. They tone up the weak
stomach and build up th> Magging energies.
Defends American Boys.
Mrs. Joseph Gazzam of Philadelphia
says that when she was in Berlin and
Dresden she heard much criticism of
the way in which Americans coddle
their boys, and the Germans declared
that if ever the Americans expected to
do any fighting they must change their
methods of training boys. Mrs. Gaz-
zam replied that much as American
boys are "coddled," no one ever heard
of an American girl cleaning her
brother's boots. Our men may be
spoiled, she said, but not at the ex-
pense of the girls.—Woman's National
j Weekly.
Sh« Stood at the Easel With Her
Back to Him.
Successful in every way in New York,
he had clung to the old southern tra-
ditions almost fiercely, this tall, lean,
clear-eyed lawyer.
"And so he's been hanging your
pictures all over his walls, exclaimed
the major. "God bless my heart and
soul, child. This is certainly a merry
Christmas for us all."
Pam was rather grave, though, as
they went through the splendid red
and gold corridors of the great hotel.
The dinner was to be very select and
private up in the major's reception
room and Bhe wondered what this dis-
tant cousin would be like.
He was all she had wanted him to
be. Even Pam could find no fault as
she sat next to him at the round table. J
And oh, after years of lonely striving j
among strangers, how it made her ,
cheeks glow and her heart beat to
hear these two, the splendid old
major and Ralph, vie with each other
In their dellghtfui courtesy and com-
pliments.
"You don't know 'how good It is to
find some one of your very own," she
said, when the major had gone out
after the dinner was over.
"Don't I?" said Ralph, smiling down
at her. "I've put in about fourteen
years up here, and only the major
to give me a cousinly greeting now
and then. I'm mighty glad to find
another one, even if she is a nine-
teenth one. The major tells me he's
going to take a house for you and
himself."
"Why," Pam caught her breath
quickly. "I didn't know that"
"So I will see a great deal of you,
I hope."
He 3topped and looked into her
eyes. Someway they wavered undtr
his gaze. The major's voice halted
them.
"God bless my heart and soul, boy,
can't you see she's under the mistle-
toe. 1 hung It there on purpose."
Ralph stooped, and pressed a kiss
on the warm, half-averted pink cheek,
while the major drank their health.
"And to our next Christmas to-
gether, the little Pam, and you, my
boy, and this old chap who'll never
be lonely again."
"To next Christmas," pledged
Ralph. "Will you kiss me then,
Tam?"
But Pam's eyes only shone with
happiness, and very demurely she an
■wered the toast:
"To next Christmas!"
(Copyright, UcClur. N.wapapsr yti(Uo t.
Getting Rough With Juanita.
Small Mary, who had been taught to
read by the modern "sounding-out"
system, was amusing herself by sing-
ing the school songster from cover to
cover. Presently, as she reached
"Juanita," one heard coming in her
birdlike little voice from the depths
of the big armchair:
"In the dark I slammed her."
A startled parent found that th«
line really read:
"In thy dark eyes' splendor."
Logical.
Nurse—Goodness me, what 'ave you
been doing to your dolls?
Joan—Charley's killed them. He said
they were made in Germany, and how
were we to know they weren't spies?
—Punch.
Many a candidate who Imagines the
eyes of the whole world are upon him
isn't even known outside of his own
precinct.
To Build
Strong
Children
Supply their growing bodies
with right food, so that Brain,
and Muscle, and Bone devel-
opment may evenly balance.
Grape-Nuts
FOOD
was originated to supply, in
proper proportion, the very
elements required by the
human body for growth and
repair.
To supply children a dish
of Grape-Nuts and cream
for breakfast regularly, is to
start them on the road to
sturdy health.
"There'll a Reason"
for
Grape-Nuts
Sold by grocers.
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