The Orlando Clipper (Orlando, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, February 17, 1911 Page: 2 of 8
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the Argentine Republic," (perhaps he
said Chill) "and because I don't know
anything at all about you. You see. I
have to believe what you tell me.
It took about 15 minutes to quiet
the policeman. Nobody ever knew
what Mr. Harbison did to him, but
for 24 hours he was quite tractable
having no personal knowledge of any , He changed after that, but that conn s
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THE: MAN IN
SYNOPSIS.
Jamos Wilson or Jimmy n.«
by his friends. Jimmy was
looked Shorter than he n ti
ambition In life was to '
but people steadily refi
he Is rallod
rotund and
■ally was. His
tak»*n seriously,
el to do ho. his
i-pt to
Aunt
doubles
I h< r of
art Is considered a hug«* t >Ue, > \
himself. If he asked p<- pie t> d.-u
eryone expected u fro 1 i<• Jimmy man *
B< lla Knowles: they live together a y■ -Ji
and are divorced. Jlmniv's frl n < < • *
range t<» relebr ito the Mist annlversai \
of his dlvoree. Those who attend t ho
party are Miss Katln :lno M'
every ono calls Kit. Mr. and Mrs H-'N-is
Brown, the Mlss.-s Mer- er Maxwell
and a Mr. TI;..mas Harbison, a Sou
American civil engineer. Ti e party Is in
full swing when Jimmy receives a tele-
gram from his Aunt Sellna, who will ar-
rive in four hours to visit hlin and his
wife Jimmy gets his funds f
flellnn and after he marrie- si
his allowance, lie neglects to t
his divorce, as she is opposed to It.
my takes Kit Into his conflfh iy <•. 1 » ti "S
to devise some way so ti at liis aunt \MU
not learn that he has no lougc 1 a wire.
He suggests that Kit pl.iv the lioMoss for
one night, be Mrs. Wilson pro tern. Kit
refuse's, but Is finely pi t \ all« d upon to
net the part. Aunt Sellna arrives and the
deception works out as planned, as sne
hid never Men Jim's wife, Jims Jap
servant Is taken 111. his face is covered
with spots. Bella. Jimmy's divorced wife,
enters the house and asks Kit who Is be-
ing taken away In the ambulance"." B. lla
Insists It Is Jim. Kit tells her Jim Is well
and Is in the house. Bella tells Kit It
wasn't Jim she wanted to see, but Takn-
9)Ira, the Jap servant, as she wished to
Moure his services. Harbison steps out
on the porch and discovers a man tacking
r card on the door. Ho demands an ex-
planation. The man points to the placard
and Harbison sees the word "Smallpox
printed on it. The man tells him he is
an officer of the board of health and
tells him the house Is under quarantine
and that the guests will have to remain
in the house until after the quarantine is
lifted. The guests suddenly realise their
predicament, the women shed tears, the
men consider It a good Joke.
CHAPTER VI.
mmoR - ddwer TEN.ETC.
COPYR/S/1T. /90 9j3r THE BOBBJ-MSRX/IL CVA1/M,ir
"Mrs. Wilson!" It was clear he had
not known nio before. "Why, no;
don't you?"
"I am all confused," 1 muttered, and
beat a retreat into the dining room.
There, in the friendly light, we could
at least see each other, and 1 think
ho was as much impressed by the fact I
that I had not undressed as I was by
the fact that he had. partly. He wore
a hideous dressing gown of Jimmy's,
much too small, and his hair, parted
and plastered down in the early even-
ing, stood up in a sort of brown brush
all over his head. He was trying to
flatten it with his hands.
"It must be three o'clock," he said,
with polite surprise," and the house
la liko a barn. You ought not to be
running around with your arms un-
covered, Mrs. Wilson. Surely you
could have called some of us."
"I didn't wish to disturb any one,"
1 said, with distinct truth.
"1 suppose you are like me," he
said. "The novelty of the situation—
and everything. 1 got to thinking
tilings over, and then I realized the
studio was getting cold, so I thought I
would come down and take a look at
the furnace. I didn't suppose any one
else would think of it But I lost my-
self In that pantry, stumbled against
a half-open drawer, and nearly went
down the dumb-waiter." And, as if
in Judgment on me, at that instant
came two rather terrific thumps from
somewhere below, and inarticulate
words, shouted rather than spoken. It
was uncanny, of course, coming as it
did through the register at our feet.
Mr. Harbison looked startled.
"Oh, by the way," I said as careless-
ly as I could. "In the excitement, I
forgot to mention it. There is a police-
A Mighty Poor Joke.
Of course, one knows that there are
people who in a different grade of so- j
riety would bo shoplifters and pick-
pockets. When they are restrained
by obligation or environment they be-
come a little overkeen at bridge, or
take the wrong sables, or stuff a gold- I
backed brush into a muff at a recep-
tion. You remember the Ivory dress-
ing set that Theodora Bucknell had,
fastened with fine gold chains? And
the sensation it caused at the Buck
nell cotillion when Mrs. Van Zlre went
sweeping to her carriage with two
feet of gold chain hanging from the
front of her wrap?
But Anne's pearl collar was differ-
ent. In the first place, instead of
three or four hundred people, the sus-
picion had to he divided among ten.
And of those ten, at least eight of us
were friends, and the other two had
been vouched for by the Browns and
Jimmy. It was a horrible mix-up. For
the necklace was gone there couldn't
be any doubt of that—and although,
as Dallas said, it couldn't get out of
the house, still, there were plenty of
places to hide the thing.
The worst of our trouble really
originated with Max Reed, affer all.
For it was Max who made the silly
wager over the telephone, with Dick
Bagley. He bet five hundred even
that one of us, at least, would break
quarantine within the next 24 hours,
and. or course, that settled It. Dick
told It around the club as a Joke, and
a man who owns a newspaper In ard
him and called up the paper. Then
the paper called up the health office,
after setting up a flaming scare head,
"Will Money Free Them? Board of
Health vereus Millionaire."
It was almost three when the house
fettled down—nobody nad any night-
clothes. although finally, through Dal
las, who gave them to Anne, who gave
them to the rest, wo got some thinL--i
of Jimmy's—and I was still dre? ed.
The house was perfectly quiet, and
after listening carefully, I went alow-
ly down the stali> There was r. 1 gilt
in the hall, and another back In the
dining room, and 1 got along without
any trouble. But the pantry, where
of you to go on. Now tell me—whom
have you hidden in the cellar, besides
the policeman?"
There was no use trying to deceive
him: He was looking straight into my
eyes. So I decided to make the best
of a bad thing. Anyhow, it was going
to require strength to get Bella
through the coal hole with one arm
and restrain the policeman with the
other.
"Come." 1 said, making a sudden
resolution, and led the way down the
stairs.
He said nothing when he saw Bella,
for which I was grateful. She was sit-
ting at the table, with her arms in
front of her, and her head buried in
them. And then I saw she was asleep.
Her hat and veil laid beside her, and
she had taken off her coat and draped
it around her. She had rummaged
out a cold pheasant and some salad,
and had evidently had a little supper.
Supper and a nap. while I worried my-
self gray-lieaded about her!
"She—she came in unexpectedly—
something about the butler," I explain-
ed under my breath. "And—she
doesn't want to stay. She is on bad
terms with—with some of the people
upstairs. You can see how impossible
the situation is "
"I doubt if we can get her out," he
said, as if the situation were quite
ordinary. "However, we can try. She
seems very comfortable. It's a pity to
rouse her."
Here the prisoner In the furnace
room broke out afresh. It sounded
as though he had taken a lump of coal
and was attacking the lock. Mr. Har-
bison followed the noise, and 1 could
hear him arguing, not gently.
"Another sound," he finished, "and
you won't get out of here at all, un
less you crawl up the furnace pipe!"
When he came back, Bella was rous-
ing. She lifted her head with her
eyes shut nud then opened them one
at a time, blinked, and sat up. She
didn't see him at first.
"You wretch!" she said ungrateful
ly, after she had yawned. "Do you
know what time it is? And that—"
COLDS
I
later In the story. Anyhow, the Har
bison man went upstairs and came
down with a Bagdad curtain and a
cushion to match, and took them into
he furnace room, and came out and
locked the door behind him, and then
we were ready for Bella's escape.
But there were four special officers
and three reporters watching the
house as a result of Max Heed s Idiocy
Once, after trying all the other win-
dows and finding them guarded, we
discovered a little bit of a hole in an
out-of-the-way corner that looked like
a ventilator and was covered with a
heavy wire scrcen. No prisoners ever
<lug their way out of a dungeon with
more energy than that with which we
attacked that screen, hacking at It
with kitchen knives, whispering like
conspirators, being scratched with the
agged edges of the wire, frozen with
the cold air one minute and boiling
with excitement the next. And when
the wire was cut, and Bella had rolled
her coat up and ti.rust it through, and
was standing on a chair ready to fol-
low, something outside that had looked
like a barrel moved and said, "Oh, I
wouldn't do that if 1 were you. it
would be certain to be undignified,
and probably it would be unpleasant
later."
We coaxed and pleaded and tried
to bribe, and that happened, as It
turned out, to be one of the worst
things that we had to endure. For the
whole conversation came out the next
afternoon in the paper, with the most
awful drawings, and the reporter said
it was the flashing of the Jewels we
wore that first attracted his attention.
And that brings me back to the rob-
bery.
For when we had crept back to the
kitchen, and Bella was fumbling for
her handkerchief to cry into and the
Harbison man was trying to apolo-
gize for the language he had used to
the reporter, and I was on the verge
of a nervous chill—well, it was then
that Bella forgot all about crying and
Jumped and held out her arm.
"My diamond bracelet!'' she screech-
ed. "Look, I've lost it."
Well, we went over every Inch of
that basement, until 1 knew every
crack in the flooring, every spot on the
cement. And Bella was nasty, and said
that bhe had never seen that part or
the house in such condition, and that
if I had acted like a sane person and
put her out, when she had no busi-
ness there at all, she would have had
her freedom and her bracelet, and
that if we were playing a Joke on her
(as if we felt like Joking!) we would
please give her the bracelet and let
her go and die in a corner; she felt
very queer.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Munyon's Cold Ilemedy Relievos the
head throat and lungs almost Immediate-
ly. 'Check* l evers, stops liisetiarges of
I he nose, takes away all aches and paint
caused bv colds. It cures Grip and ob
eHnnte Couillis and prevents Pneumonia.
\Vrtte Prof. Muuyon, .V'.nl and Jefferson
Pis Phlla., l'a., for medical advice aU.
Boiutely free.
Alien sI'lecri!!•• >alveruresl hroinel l< «-rs. I .one
i lrers.SrrofuloiiH rleers.Varieoso I'leers.In-
dolertt t Irers.Mereurial I leern.W lute Swell-
i If Milk l.eir.l e \ er Sores, allotd «nre». INrthWHy n*
tuiiur<. it) muilioc. J,I>,iiLLliN|bt!pt.A3,St.l>iiul,Miiifl.
TAKE A DOSE OF
s
"the best medicine
"for COUGHS & COLDS J
Too often sermons have too much
length and too little depth.—Judge.
Drink Garfield Tea nt Tiinlit! It injures
normal action of liver, kidneys and bowels.
Happiness grows at our own fire-
side and is not to be picked in stran-
gers' gardens.—Douglas Jerrold.
Many people have receding gums. Rub
Hamlins Wizard Oil on gums and stop the
decay; chase the disease germs with a
mouth wash of a few drops to a sxiootuul
af water.
Simplicity of Expression.
A story was told on Martin Lomas
ney at the Cape Cod commercial trav-
elers' dinner by Representative Pope
of Leominster: "Last season Lomas-
ney was seen talking to someone in
one of the corridors, and as I passed
I heard these words: 'Shall I write
him?' 'No,' said Lomasney; 'never
write a thing when you can talk, and
never talk when you can nod your
head."—Boston Record.
DOWN ON HIM.
WANTS MAN SHE PAID FOR
New Jersey Woman Asks a Commis-
sioner to Hold Immigrant So That
She Can Marry Him.
Commissioner Williams expects an
Interesting session at Ellis Island
JUai^S
The Cynic (with incipient mustache)
Poof! Lady footballers, indeed! Why,
when the inspectors pick out a husky I don't suppose half of you know what
I shoemaker of Trieste and hold him i "toilch down" means.
At That Instant Came
man asleep in the furnace room. I—I
suppose we Mill have to keep him
now," I finished as airily as possible.
"Oh, a policcman—In the cellar,' he
repeated, staring at me, and he moved
toward the pantry door.
"You needn't go down," 1 said fever-
ishly, with visions of Bella Knowles
the stairs led down, was dark, and the | sitting on the kitchen table, surround-
wretched swinging door would not (,j by soiled dishes and all the cheer-
stay open less aftermath of a dinner party.
I caught my skirt In the door as I "Please don't go down.I—it's one of
door as I
went through, anil I had to stop to
loosen It. And In that awful minute
I heard tome one breathing Just bed-
side me I bad stooped to my gtnvn,
end 1 turned my head without
straightening—1 couldn't have raised
m.cself to an erect posture, for my
knees wore giving way under mo—
and Just at my feet lay the still glow-
ing end of a match!
I had to swallow twice before 1
could speak. Then I sal ! sharply:
"Who's there?"
The man was so close It is a
wonder I had not walked into him; his
voice was right nt my . ar
"I am sorry I startled you," he said
quietly. "I was afraid to speak sud-
denly, or move, for f ar I would do
^hat I have done."
It was Mr Harbison.
"I—1 thought you were—It Is very
lata," 1 managed to say, with dry
llpes. "Do you know where the elec-
tric switch la?"
Two Rather Terrific Thumps.
Then she saw Mr. Harbison and sat
staring at him.
"This is Mr. Harbison," I said to
her hastily "He—he came with Anne
and Dal and —he is shut In. too."
By that time Bella had seen how
handsome he was, and she took a
hair-pin out of her mouth, and arched
her eyebrows, whicn was always
Bella'B best pose
"I am Miss Knowles," she said
sweetly (of course, the court had
given her back her name), "and I
stopped in tonight, thinking the house
was empty, to see about a—a butler.
Unfortunately, the house was quaran-
tined Just at that time, and—here I
am. Surely there cannot be any harm
in helping me to get out?" (Pleading
tone.) "1 have not been exposed to
any contagion, and In the exhausted
state of my health the confinement
my rules—never to let a stranger go
down to the kitchen. I—I'm peculiar
—that way- and besides, It's It's
rnussy."
Bang! Crash! through the register
pipe, and some language quite -articu-
late. Then silence.
"Look here, Mrs. Wilson," he said
resolutely. "What do I enre about
the kitchen? I'm going down and
arrest that policeman for disturbing ] would be positively dangerous."
the peace. lle will have the pipes
down."
"You must not go," I said, with des-
perate firmness. "He—he Is probably
in a very dangerous state Just now.
We—I—locked him in."
lhe Harbison man grinned and then
became serious.
"Why don't you tell me the whole
thing?" ho demanded. "You've been
in trouble all evening, and—you can
trust me, you know, because 1 am a
stranger! because the minute this
crazy Quarantine Is raised I am off to
She rolled her eyes at him, and I
' could see she was making an impres-
sion. Of course she was free. She
had a perfect right to marry again,
but I will say this: Bella Is a lot bet-
ter looking by electric light than she
is the next morning.
The upshot of It waB that the gen-
tleman who built bridges and looked
down on society from a lofty, lonely
pinnacle agreed to help one of the
most gleaming members of the afore-
said society to outwit the law.
for the arrival of his fiancee.
The commissioner received a letter
from a young woman of Jersey City,
who described herself as an orphan,
twenty-eight years old, who had "to
work all my lifetime for my exist-
ence." She wrote that she received
a letter several months ago from a
young man in her native city saying
that if she would send him the price
of a ticket he would cross the seas
and marry her.
She explained that the man was "a
shoemaker and healthy." She sent a
second-cabin ticket for passage on the
Red Star line Vaderland, which ar-
Young Lady—Your best girl does 11
ever kissad her.
HEREDITY
Can Be Overcome In Cases.
The influence of heredity cannot, of
course, be successfully disputed, but
it can be minimized or entirely over-
come in some cases by correct food
and drink. A Conn, lady says:
"For years while I was a coffee
drinker I suffered from bilious at-
tacks of great severity, from which I
used to emerge as white as a ghost
and very weak. Our family physi-
rlved the other night from Antwerp. cjan gave me various prescriptions for
Also ehe forwarded the healthy Improving the digestion and stimulat-
mender of had soles *28.16 in cash. I ing lho liveri whtch I tried faithfully
She learned recently, she said, that -without perceptible result.
bis relatives In this countty had ,,jje waa a<(.qUajnted with my fam-
planned to steal him as soon as he ar- h, fQr gevera] goneration3
rived and prevent the marriage. She an(J once whfin T v)sUed hjm he
wants the shoemaker herself and * ,,f have inlR,riu.d 0M ot
asked the commissioner to hold him ,
„„ „„„„ those torpid llver3 you may always
and unite them In marriage as soon _ , , ... .
. , ,i i i„„,i suffer more or less from its inaction,
as she art Ives at the lslnnd. " " " . . ..
We can t dodge our inheritance, you
A Real One.
"Is this a problem play?" asked ths
one night stand critic of the manager.
"It is," replied that worthy.
"And what," asked the critic, "is the
special problem presented?"
"How to get money enough into the
know.'
"I was not so strong a believer In
heredity as he was, however, and, he-
ginning to think fair myself, I conclud-
ed to stop drinking coffee, and see
what effect that would have. I feared
It would be a severe trial to give it
box office for railroad fares to our next i "P> but w'len ' took I'ostum and had
date," said the manager, with pointed ^ell mnde, it completely filled my
brevity need for a hot beverage and I grew
; very fond of It.
England's Penny Banks.
A number of the penny banks, scat-
tered throughout Great Britain, In-
vest their funds in the post office sav-
ings bank, and a number of schools
make use of the stamp-deposit sys-
tem. More than 5,000 schools in this
way encourage habits of thrift in
their pupils.
A Falling Market.
Teacher—What was It that Isaac
Newton discovered when' ha saw the
apple fall?
Tommie—That apples were coming
down, ma'am.—Yonkers Statesmaa
"I have used Postum for three years,
using no medicine. During all that
time 1 have had absolutely none of
the bilious attacks that I used to suf-
fer from, and I have been entirely
free from the pain and debilitating ef-
fects that used to result from them.
"The change is surely very great,
and I am compelled to give Postum
the exclusive credit for it." Name
given by Postum Co., Battle Creek,
Mich.
Head "The Road to Wel'vllle," in
pkgs. "There's a Reason."
Ever rend the above Irlterf A now
one nppenm from time to time. They
lire grnulne, true, and full of humus
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