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10 THE BUFFALO ENQUIRES, APRIL 22, 1922. WHEN YOU ARE READY FIRE- BY LINK "The Slayer of Souls" KKOuJ UiHPCC AM ANt Bli-U Hoo BET. Al-WAVS Ep," WELU SAM- "Bjuu. to LOAM HIM TEN AMt HB TrlAfiS MArl SHOO Lt SAY SO; I KNOtAJ YOU -Cha-tta Ecy1 UJEMt ME A thrilling story of black magic, into vnich is HAS A UOT OP say. not.

woyen tne love-tale of an American girl and. man. THAT By Robert W. Chambers ZZT ENQUIRER'S DAILY FICTION; AND FEATURE PAGE from Yesterday) BUDDIE AND HIS yRobt; Dickey IfeNeW York COME TfcV INTERVIEW ON -you LIVE DOG XpE Day by Day With MADELINE PATRIS Title and Idea originated and protected by the Sloan Fiction Service, N. T.

He heard her say under her breath: "This) is going to be a sleep -less night.) a dangerous one." And, turning to start, at her, saw no fear in her face, only excitement. 'He still I held clutched in his left hand the sheet and the knrfe. Now he thrust these toward her. "What's this damned foolery, anyway?" he- demanded harshly. She took the knife With a slight shudder.

"There is something engraved on the silver hiltj" she said. He bent over her shoulder. she added calmly, Arabic. The Mongoia had no written characters of their own." She bent closer, studying the inscription. After a moment, still studying the Eighur characters, she rested her left hand on his shoulder an impulsive, unstudied movement that might have meant either confidence TA- WHERE.

DO YOU GET REPORTER COME THAT STQRVj "Are you going to marry me she If -youm let "Tes--I will. i. it's eo generous and considerate of you. I I don't ask it; I really don't "But I And 'I; never dreamed of such a thing." ub ioreea a. smile.

or 1. rainer crazy thing: to" do. But I know of no-' toner alternative. So we had better get, our license tomorrow. Arid that settles It." He turned to go; and, on her threshold, his feet caught in something on the floor and he stumbled, trying to free his feet'frOm a roll of soft white cloth Ivinir there on the caroet.

i .7 na wneo ne picicea it up, it unrpnea, and knife fell out of the folds of cloth and struck his foot. Still perplexed, not comprehending, he stooped to recover the knife. Then, straightening up, toe found himself looking into the colourless face of Tressa Nome. "What's all this?" he asked "this sheet and knife here on the floor outside your door?" She answered "with difficulty: "They have sent you your shroud, I think." "Are not those "things yours? "Were they not already here he demanded Incredulously. Then, realizing that' 5 had not been there on the door-sill when he her room a few moments since, a rough chill passed over him the ley caress of "Where did the thing come from?" said hoarsely.

"How could it. get here when my door is locked and bolted? Unless there's somebody hidden here!" Hot anger euddenly flooded him; he drew his pistol and sprang into the passageway, "What the devil Is all this!" he repeated furfously, flinging open his bedroom door and switching on the light. He his room In rage, went on and searched the dining-room, emoking-room, and kitchen, and every clothjes -press and closet, always aware of Tressa's presence close behind him. And when there remained not tiniest nook or cranny- in the place unsearched, he stood in the 'nf tha rarnet clarinsr at hft locked and bolted door. ONE TRICK HOW OLD ARE YOU If you want'to, amuse yourself, make your friends believe you are extraordinarily gifted, and do a little practising in mental arithmetic, get familiar with the manner of doing the following, and you will never fail to discovr the age of a person and the month in which he was born.

First, you ask' him to go to the other end Of the' rOom, to prevent your -whathe going to write. Then you ask him to- put down the number of. the month In which he was born and multiply It by two; then add 5 to the sum and'multiply the latter by 50, add his age to the quotient, then or "I be up I'm as to of V. i A PAWN OF CHANCE, protection. XjOox, she said, it is not addressed to you after all, but to.

symbol a series of numbers, 53-8-26. "That is my designation in the Federal Service, he said, sharply. she nodded slowly. "Then that is what is written in the Mongol-Yezidee dialect, traced out in Kighur Charcters: To 53-6-26! By one of the Eight Assassins the Slayer of Souls sends this shroud and this knife from Mount Alamout. Such a blade shall divide your heart.

This sheet is for your corpse," After, a grim silence he flung the soft white cloth on the floor. "There's no Jise my pretending I'm not surprised and worried," -he said; den't know how that cloth got here. Do'you?" "It was sent." "There are ways. You could not understand n. This is going to a sleepless night for us." "You can, go to bed, Tressai I'll sit and read and keep an eye on that door." v- I "I can't let you remain alone heret afraid to do that." He gave a laugh, not quite pleasant, he suddenly comprehended that the girl now considered thfir roles be reversed.

s. "AVe you planning to sit up in order to protect me?" he asked, grimly amused. "Do you mind?" .1 "Why, you blessed little thing, I can take care of myself. How funny you, when I am trying to plan how r.tr tVm- vmi 7 But her face remained pale ana Concerned, and she rested her left band more firmly on his shoulder Continued Monday) A NIGHT deduct and 114 to the. difference.

Suppose he is, 49 years of was born in-- February, the computation might stand thus: 2x2 equalr4 plus 5 equals 9x50, equals 450' plus: 49 equals 499 minus 36a equals 134 plus 134 plus 115 equals 249. The Jast two figures Indicate the Tage, yic, 49 and the first figure, 2, February; the second month of the year. You simply ask the per-. son' to state the result of the calculation and then declare that he was born in February and is' 49 years of Monday- -To Discover, the Name of. a Stranger.

Insect had flown away, the two End- rKUM itih Mt OF A WOMAN ay Lucy Jeanne Price New York, April 22. Three well Known downtown DroKers are- going to rind a permanent, place in the records of Wall Street, if tiheir fel low workers can find a place to hang a picture of them where they can't tear It down. Now, if there! is anv thing in the that a broker la supposed to know', accordinjg to. all tradition, it is a "sucker," ind that has some bearing on this story. The three went fishing in: Connecticut last week and came awayi with a fine string of what they supposed were brook trout.

A photographer iook their pictures without disillusioning them, and it'. was rut untij they got back horn eand, started boasting that they got the oath of piscatorial experts to the fact that the strin gheld suckers, and nothing else. Ethel Barrymore in "As You Like It!" That is one of the promises for next season which brings a glow to the heart. While on the road in "Declassee," Miss Barrymore is preparing for the ever-appealing role of Rosalind. Sidney Blackmer as Romeo is another, Shakespearian rumor for next year.

Among the new things in novelty jewelry in the shops are bracleta of b'aek silk from which hang bunches of grapes in jade, lapis or coral. John Oodino not. a novel sentence in a Brooklyn police court the, other day. He is to stay at home evenings and teach English to his father. John who is 18, had refused to stop smoking in the rear of a Coney Island train.

A special officer of the Rapid Transit company had him arrested. When he was arraigned in court, his father stepped forward and tried to intercede for him but coul.d not make himself understood because he knew no English. When John told the magistrate that his father had been in this country for 18 years, the judge decided it was time the son gave him a little of his time and attention, and the sentence was pronounced. There: are many reports of death "from natural causes," but a policeman turned in a report the other Ml uay ui a ure irom natural causes." It was in a men's furnishing shop at No. 503 East 161st it was caused by the sun's rays shining through a magnifying in the window and setting fire to a display of The old Gracie mansion, 'one of New.

York's beautiful and best known homes of its early days, will be pre server and turned in4o a museum. A group of women have succeeded in having the legislature pass a bill putting the custody of the house into the hands of the Patriotic New Yorkers, of which Mrs. John King Van Rensselaer is preeiueiii. 'ine Oracie home was built in 1799, and was the only country home of Archibald Graeie, who was host there to be exiled King Louis of France, Lafayette, and scores of famous men from all over the world. It overlooks Hell Gate at the highest point of Carl Schurz park in what is now a completely built up part of the a Dreams of Fear of Death by Others.

If you have read -yesterday's chapter" you will remember that I spoke to you of dreams which fill your soul with the fear of death. Today I shall tell you of learning that others are filled with that dread. Exactly the. same meaning which applies to the sleeper should she have such a dream, holds good for others who are engulfed in this frightful emotion while they are aslumber. But the marvelous part of the dream is that 4t is within the, sleeper's power to rescue the man or woman who seems to be- obsessed with the fear of death, and that in act the duty is laid upon- her.

by a guiding spirit to act as wise counsellor and to snatch the, person concerned from the very brink of the abyss. you should be unable to recognize the person who is seized with the fear, of, death, think; most carefully over every detail of the dream because it may give you a hint to the identity of the one in Do not think for one moment that you may with impunity ignore this message or say to yourself that after all other people's safety is none of your businesa. If you do this you will live to regret your You'yburself will be drawn into the trap which is about to enmesh the other 'person, and instead of one being made the victim John awn ii i i mi' i BIT BERTRAM LEBEf AR, FRIENDS 1VE VOU A THAT the traffic had almost come stop; and stepped out coolly to a to the aireei. Janet glanced in horror athe huddled figure on the floor; then impulsively followed his example. The streets were filled with people but nobody seemed to pay any attention to them.

The screeching of flat-wheeled street rounding the curve of Union Square, the din Of the other traffic and the staccato notes of a steam riveter in operation on a building in -course of construction on tha corner formed a combination which had served to deaden the, sound, of shot. sAnd the spectacle of a man and a Woman hurriedly alighting from a taxicab Was not suffieientiv rn attract, the interest of the average Down stairs on the platform of ho subway station Velvet Raymond drew near to the terrified vnnnc nrnmor, to the terrified vouner woman Brace up!" he whispered in her "Everything's all right. Go home now and keep your mouth shut and nobody, will know that you shot him. shan't, give you away and ydu've nobody else to fear." She looked at him oddly, "What do you mean You shot him yourself and r-" How absurd!" The man grinned. "Didn't, he search! we started I can easily 'prove that.

I didn't have a gun on me. Besides, he's shot in the left side the side on whieh you were sitting. Better follow my advice girlie, if you don't want to to the electric Go on' home and don't anybody-j-no even your husband where you haves been this afternoon." Janet did follow his advice. The manner in which Inspector Holden had been' shot was a mystery to her, but she realized that the weight of circumstantial, evidence was- crush-ly against her. And when she read in the papers next "morning that the wounded man had positively accused his woman prisoner of shooting him she became more than ever impressed with the necessity of keeping her presence in taxicab a secret.

As for confiding in her husband. that was an ordeal from which she shrank almost -as much as from the appalling prospect of having to stand trial for attempted murder. Even if 'here had been no shooting she would been afraid to tell him of her experience at the Cafe D'Artagnan drawing by George Mc- 'M A CUB ACROSS WTH a I I a a of in of a in She made no answer, and he lifted her head with his hand. It fell back upon her shoulder. She had fainted.

He sat down beside her and rested the small head with' its cloud of fair hair against his shoulder. Steps sounded in the street, and he placed her gently against the railing and left her. She looked like a child asleep. At her feet lay the crumpled ball of Sanford's letter. When she awoke next morning in her bed, she felt bruised and battered mentally.

A great lassitude was upon her. Dimly she remembered the terrible conflict in the park when the unpractised will had stood up against Harris. She closed the hand that had held the letter. It was no longer -there, and arising to look for it, she saw a white edge of paper under the door. She arose and pulled through a note scrawled in pencil, upon a piece of rough paper: Stayed around til I saw you go in.

This is sketching day. A great longing came upon her to sink in the quietness of the green gallery and to feel the thrill of long curves striking across -blank canvas. She; entered the silence as weary spirit might enter heaven, inhaling great drafts of peace, unbuckling, her portfolio and drawing off her gloves with in finite deliberation. With the first stroke a thrill ran up her arm; twp more and the hideous con- flict of the night before had faded into a twilight past. Nothing re-.

mained but the beauty in the hushed, flower-scented room. There was in the gallery a pair of carved doors, displayed as doors should be set in the wall, and indeed they opened into a small room. The wood of them twisted in a maze of carving which was so deep that here and there the wood was quite pierced. As Madeleine passed, there was a slight movement behind the door, and after she was gone the leaves swung open, and Sanford appeared. He walked to the easel -where she had been working and stood looking down at it.

He departed shaking, his and murmuring: I'TV "Jn love with some crook of whom I am not For a week, she worked, un-unmoletsted by Sanford. She saw Harris every day; he drifted up to her from: the most unexpected places never from the same place more than twice. His manner was glpomy and savage, and when she heard the slow walk with just the hint of the shuffle in it, or heard the low, clear voice, her heart turned cold within her. Harris Compels Madeleine To -HARRIS COMPELS MADELINE SEE MONDAY'S AND SENSE CRAWFORD Syndicate. Reproduction Prohiltd.

Of course if everybody in the world should save money, this way, there would be so much, money to loan that Interest rates would immediately: drop. In other words, amassing a fortune depends a great deal on the fact that the other fellow doesn't know about these thing? or else fails to carry them out. So there are always of borrowers In the world, ready to pay interest to the lenders. In fact," there are Just about two things that enable certain Individuals to amass large sums of money. One is the compouud interest route and the other is the conversion of one type of securities Into another type to correspond with the alternate booms and depressions.

This Is the way capitalists are made, and It is comparatively easy, once a good start made, The trouble is, "most people don't think about these things, or else dont apply them. Monday Anuities. mirers wish he would exercise restraint In the use of hair polish. G. S- Masten street Many times answered the questions about Alice Terry, or rather the two Alice Terrys.

You see there was -an Alice Terry on the screen quite some years before the Alice Terry of "Four Horsemen" fame appeared and naturally some confusion has been the result. BRINGING VP BXB rty tabynetmrnmmirriero tmki thedesoest hoi a In thaaround tM about fijOOO foot, and now ltd wants to know tlOW much farther down Uteyll have to did to fhvl pio ba4 roan- fccmsa JXLIt -I I I. Twelfth Day. "YJADELEINE swnng Harris to a position so that a beam of light struck through upon her. She stood with her eyes closed and a faint, tremulous motion about the childish mouth.

Within her burned the new flame of her will flickering now and then under "the blasts of opposition, but burning clearly. In the street a policeman passed. "There's a cop." he said; "suppose I tell him that you took a certain scarf from Fleetwood's. That's what I'll do if you don't be have no proof, she said faintly. "Oh, haven't He took, apparently from her pocket a yellow pawn-ticket.

"That is the ticket for the scarf, and if any one goes into this plaqe and asks the nice man who runSt, who brought the scarfs in, he will say that a little girl with a baby stare brought it in, and here it is, and if you bring her in we can identify her. She did not look like a- shoplifter. She looked like a cross between a baby and a saint. Do you know where you would go. To a place full of hard women, give you hard labor.

Oh." she moaned, "you would not do that." The tears crept from under her eyelids and rolled slowly down her face. She swayed, and Harris caught her in his arms. "Madeleine!" he cried, "you drive me crazy mad. I don't want to hurt you, but you must' be reasonable. I won't give you up to the police." He shook her gently, for her head was drooping.

"Tell me!" "No." An hour later they walked toward" her house. His, ak-m was within hers and she 1 talked sturorblingly, with drooping head andf closed eyes. As they passed under the lights he.lokedv.at keenly. Under, her eyes there were blue shadows, and on her face the trace of tears. At the bottom- of the steps he took her by the shoulders and stooped down to her.

He spoke as one would to in unreasonable child. i "Madeline! You went into the big house with him. Say you did!" Her lips framed "No," but no sound came from the. said Harris in a thick voice. "God! I could kill you for -thisihe stood shaking, while his face" turned, white as death, and "an insane light glittered in his eyes.

happened." she said faintly, and slipping through his grasp, crumpled up at the foot of the steps. he said, in a voice divided between intense anger and neW-born tenderness. "Madeleine! Girl!" DOLLARS By It. P. All Rights Reserved by United Feature THE WONDER CITY.

Have you stopped to think what would happen if everybody in your town or county would begin to adopt one of these savings plans and carry it out? Suppose it were made a con dition on living in a particular town or county that every family must deposit $3.40 a week (Plan 3) in a fund to be loaned out at 6 per cent interest to people in other cities and towns. Suppose it Is fifty years hence and 5,000 families have completed this plan. Kach one of these 5.000 families would be entiled to $50,000. When the eventful pay-day rolled around, a quarter of a million dollars would be distributed. There would also be thousands of families who would be well on the way toward securing their 150,000.

If the people In, one of our large cities should all -decide to do this, that city would become the wonder city of the. world. From the far corners of the earth, other people would be' paying tribute and interest. N2WS Of MOVE ELAND Ever know what Art Acord's middle name was? All here's the whole story Art emus Ward Acord, named after the famous American humorist. Out at Universal City "a new story has been selected for- Erich von Stroheim'a next screen -production, but great secrecy Is being maintained as to the title, Babby, Delaware avenue You are quite with the majority, I am sure.

when you express your disapproval i fo the Polished appearance of Mr. Val Pentino's hair. He is a very popular actor, but even his most ardent ad- mist, on the other hand; is inclined to look for the worst in things. He is Instinctively afraid there is a "catch" in the proposition somewhere. Don't try to counteract this by being over- enthusiastic on tne Dasis inai ne win discount what you say anyhow.

Rather, be extremely carefuL Talk a tiffin about disadvantages and ob stacles, but show him that in spite of i these disadvantages and obstacles your proposition really seems to work out as a good one. Monday Imitative (Copyright, 1922. by Public Ledger Company.) is I 'About Things That Are Good Eat and Things That-Afe fTER the Lady-Bird of-tiie-arth Brownies, Snookums and Lorykins remained where they lay hidden in the tall field-grasses tor a long while. They were hoping -to learn some more interesting things; so there-they waited. After a few moments a large hairy Caterpillar appeared on a nearby clover stem and at the same time a smooth glisteny one crept slowly up a wild carrot plant, so-close tcr-Snookums that with a little shudder airaia mat ne anignt put a wrong construction on her brief, association with Mr.

Percy Hal dane, alias- Velvet Raymond. Besides, Allan Fremont was an outspoken type of man who believed Jn telling the truth and shaming the If she told him her story she knew -that, no matter how much he sympathized with her and depreciated her painful predicament, she had begun to convince the music, and fightto -establish her 1 '--v- -So for nearly year shr had kept 'her -own counsel about Hhe matter, as month after month went lyy without any unpleasant developments, she had begun 'to convince herself that the truth might never come out that the identity of the unknown woman in the taxicab shooting case might forever remain But now here was the victim of the shooting the man who boasted that: he carried her likeness in his brain coming to live in the apartment across the hall! At this very moment he was on his way up town to Inspect it. Driven her panic to precipitate fhiid auuuu jansi nurneoiy aressea ner the street. whan ah' from his office that evening he Jound deserted apartment filled with the acrid mumes of a cherry pie burnt to Hemmed In. "Permanent flight was in Janet Fremont's fear-crazed mind when she left home.

In her desperation, that seemed to be the only possible solution of her problem. But she had no plan no coherent idea of where she was going; what her future course of action was to be. And she had run out the house without her pocket book. She did not even have a nickel or car fare, or the price of a glass of milk for- little Buddy, who. had been awakened from his afternoon nap and hustled out without his usual nourishment, and -who presently began to whimper that he was hungry.

These dificulties gradually prevailed over, the unhappy little woman's panic. After remaining' out long enough to avoid the dread possibility of an encounter with Inspector Holden when he came to the house -response to his wife's telephone summons, she decided to return home, (Continued Monday) Read Your Character By DIGBY PHTT.T.TPS SEEING THE UP HILL WRITER. To many it may seem like a fairy ale that the correspondent for a business firm should be able to read the character of a customer from' his hand -written letter, regardless of the subject-matter, of that letter. But it can be done. As a matter of fact graphology, one the most important branches of the science of characterology, can be made most valuable, for instance, to mail order house.

Consider a moment. Suppose the correspondent for such a business has before him two communications from customers. They have written in inquiring details of a certain piece of merchandise or a sales offer which has been advertised. Both are cases which are important enough to warrant personal letters in reply, not mere forms. of these Inquiries shows writing, in which the lines are slant upward to the right.

The writing the other droops as the pen reaches the right-hand side of the page. These letters should be answered in very different tones, for the first in quirer is an optimist. The other is a pessimist. To the former you are quite sale ana wise in entnusing a bit over the proposition. The optimist looks for the best in everything.

He is prepares to tfcs fcst. Tt9 peasl- (Continued "from Yesterday.) Turning quickly she found that the taxicab was filled with acrid fumes; the policeman his eyes closed was slumping to the floor of the vehicle, and Velvet Raymond stood facing her, a queer grin on his livid countenance. ---v." "Better beat it, kid," he said hoarsely." "The car's slowed down. Now' our chance to Head straight for thatT subway entrance over there, and duck down, the. stairs.

If you keep ybur nerve you make tt all rights He opened the door of the cab, congestion in which on i account of a Dreams of life-long misery, there will be two and you will be the other, In the Next Chapter I Will Tell You of Dreams of Howling Dogs." John-A-Dreams' will be glad" to interpret dreami experiences sent to the Editor of The ENQUIRER by its readers. No replies will, however, be given privately, and no fee will- at any time be asked or accepted! It is distinctly understood that here will be no guarantee when such questions will be answered, though very, effort. will be made to satisfy. JOHN-A-DREAMS ANSWERS. Betty -U- Dream No.

A pleasant and ong expected -r' event that has raised your hopes before this, soon to come to pass. A slight disappointment Will follow but nothing to be disturbed about. Dream No! 2. An important matter to be one' that Will cause you a good deal of puzzlement. The of problem that can be only by quick decision A Courier Reader This is an Indi cation that there are false friends among your acquaintances but that in the meantime you are unaware ol their insincerity.

And others in the accompanying a I go in he edged away. -It was a bright green Caterpillar with black streaks and yellow dots, and would some day turn into a "Swallow-tail' Butterfly. Jfcst then a bird swooped down and darting straight at it, made short, work of it. Loxykins looked at Snookumi and Snookums looked at Lorykins. The Whole performance was so quickly over that they rubbed their eyes and tared at the remaining Caterpillar, the fuzzy one.

"I should think that bird would have gobbled you up." Lorykins said in astonishment, "for you are about twice as large as the green Caterpillar and nice and fat, too." J' The hairy Caterpillar burst out laughing. "You have lot to learn," it answered. "I don't know whether you know what Is good for you to eat or not (children often don't), but this much I can tell birds abd animals always do. Any fool of a bird except a Cuckoo knows that a fuzzy Caterpillar, such as I am. will make him sick just as tfr'ey know that very brightly colored insects aren't good for his 'innersi' Cuckoos are the only birds that will eat hairy Caterpillars.

I "That's funny," Snookums exclaimed. "Only a Bhort while ago a Lady-Bird Bug told us the same thing. I had said to her that I should think her brilliant red back with black dots would attract birds and sort of beg them to gobble her up, and she said that her red dress was the greatest kind of protection, and that it warned birds not to her. I guess there must be something in this color protection scheme'. "There certainly is," the Caterpillar.

contentedly "And it's the same way with my long hairs. I'm awfully glad I'm so fuzzy. If were not 1 should be dead now and inside that hungry After this be sure to notice and you always find that the moths, insects and such things that "play the camouflage game, such as mimicking the bark or leaves of trees so thaCthe look so much like their surroundings that they are lost in them, are the ones that are constantly hunted and eaten. It Is a true rule that works out every time. Well, good-bye," and away he crawled.

The -two Brownies lay there thinking of what he had said, when suddenly they saw a Shrike fly overhead. It was following a smaller bird which it quickly caught in its strong claws. This cruel Batcher Bird then flew to a thorny bush nearby and deliberately stuck its victim, still alive and struggling on a. snaip thorn. Shrikes do this to small birds that -they have overpowered and leave them to die, then they return and eat the poor little dead bodies.

"Ugh," said Snookums in disgust. -ft seems as though everything in the world spends its life killing and devouring weaker creatures. makes me sick." And he sprang up so "suddenly that his cap (the new one with the red tassel) fell off. "Let's go home." They both hurried back to the Knd-of-the-Earth and their dear Wishing Fairy. Copyrtsht, 192.

3 OUR OLD FRIENDS BACK JN FLESH The trials and difficulties attending the severe task of BRINGING UP FATHER in addition-to ex elusive portrayal through ENQUIRER cartoons are shown from the stage here in Buffalo during the week of April 24. You'll recog- nize Jiggs, his wife, "the boss." Manns..