REAL ADVENTURE

CHArnt* xxil

taw days Utar. after a

with Rod-

eolamn of irocalp with the foDowiof

pa:hvar of the ■JUT paiad* of the msh haurt.ty baaotS'r. 0 ! SrtjSSMtroS^o m^u*fora^l^ th. coatumoa. For aararal jaan put the ravuaa at tha thaatar (the Columbian)

dlnaer! But yon wont be allowed to eat. Ton'll have to begin at the beginning and tell ns all about her." Jimmy, his effect produced, his longmeditated vengeance completed by tha flare of color he'd seen come np In Violet's cheeks, settled down seriously u> the telling of his tale, stopping occasionally to bolt a little- food )nst before his plate was snatched away from him. bat otherwise without Intermission. He'd suspected nothing about the on that opening night of la" until a realisation of

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■Jimmy expected to produce an effect with 1L Hal what he did prod we exceeded bis wildest antlci|«llocs. The tft.bg came oot In the three o'clock ed.!ion. and before he left the ©flee U«t aft .moon he had received over •h.- irlrtihone rtx invitations- to dicber; three' at them for that night. He declined the first two on "he ground of an mormons prew of work locidiiot to hU fresh return treat a fortbight In New Tort. But when Violet IViUintnson called up and said, with a reference to a previous engagement that was shamefully Qctltous: “Jimmy, you haven't fuigotten you're dining with ns ■ -‘bight, have yon? It's jost ns, so yon bcedn'i drees," he answered: t»h. no. I've got It down on my cal•*dar all right. Seven-thirty V Viuiet snickered and said: "Tor • sit —Or rstW. 0oa\ wait. Make It Jioiiny was glad to be let off that • its half hour of waiting. He was “bpatiaM for the encounter with VloM—* state of mind most rare with “itt. He meant to wring al’ the pleasure out of It he could by way of re‘ciige for Violet's attitude toward u, “~- after bar presence In the Globe eburue had become known—for that ■‘•Ubg contempt which was the typical attitude of her r -sa.

Vlulst aaio. t

neared la the drawing room doorway ‘ John made me swear not to let yon ■ell tar a word until he came la. He's 'imply borblicg. But there's one ■king he wont mind your telling me. ' b<l that's her addrves. I'm simply perUhlng t“ write her a note and teU her

how glad we were."

Jimmy made s little gesture of reHe'd have spoken too, but she

diOnt give him time.

Tou don'; tman," she cried, “that .von didn’t find out whet* she lived while yon were right there In New

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John came la Jus*, then, and Violet, turning to him tragically, repeated. “He i^eant even know where she lives!" ~^h. I'm h booh, 1 know." suld Jlm“U “But. re 1 tnld the other 0»e . . ." ' lolrt frowned as she echoed. “The oth.r tire—whstr . Jimmy turned to John WlUiatnaoo “1th a perfectly electric grin. "The other five of Bose Aldrich's • tid*—and youra," he said, “who ■ uti me up this afternoon and Invited to dinner, andsasked for her adso that they canid write her '-s^and tell her how glad they J ho said "Wbooah !•*—all but npeet

I begin 7"

• CSV her t

Shs sms franljy Jubilant a

* In "Come On In,"

Jimmy explained there hadn't been nd she Inclosed with bes letter a oom•nychance to talk much. “The cos- Mete set of newspaper review* of the

tomes began coming np on the stage piece.

Jnai Uien (on chorus girls, of course). * was op over the runway'It: a

minute, talking them over with Galbraith. Whet*, she'd finished, she came down to me again for a minute, but It was hardly longer *>»«» that really. She said she wished she might see me assln, but that she couldn't ask me to come to the studio, became It a perfect bedlam, and that there was □o use asking me to came to her apartment. because she was never there herself these days, except tar shoe: seven hours a night of the hardest kind of sleep. If I could stay around Oil her rush was over . . But

of course, she knew I couldn't"

“And you never thought of asking her." Violet wailed, “where the apartment was, so that the re* of us. If we were In New York, could look her

up, or write to her from heter

"No." Jimmy said. "I never thought of asking for her address. But It's the uasle* thing to the world to get Call

IV Rodney. He knows"

"What makes you think he fcnowsr

Violet demanded.

“Writ tor one thing." said Jimmy, “when Bose was asking for news of all of yon, she said: *1 hear from Rodney regularly. Only he doesn't tall

me much gossip.'

"Hears from him!" gasped Violet “Begnlarly P She was staring at Jimmy In a daxed sort of way. "Well, does she write to him? Has she made It up with him? Is she coming back?" "I suppose you can Just hear me asking her all those questions? Casually, In the aisle of a theater, while she was getting ready for a running

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The color came up Into Violet's face again. There was s maddening sort of Jubilant Jocularity about these men. the looks and almost winks they exchanged. the distinctly saucy quality of the things they said to her. “Of course." she said coolly, “if Rose had told me that she beard from Rodney regularly, although he didn't send her much of the rossip, I shouldn't have bad to ask her those questions I'd have known from the way she looked and the way he*- voice sounded.

"Costumes by Dane" had lighted up In his mind a vdld surmise of the truth, though he admitted It had so moat too good to be true. Because the costumes were really wonderful. He cart about he said, for some way of finding out who Dane really was And. having learned that Galbraith was putting on the show at the Casino * s looked him up. / Galbraith proved a mine of information—no, he was more like one of those oil wells technically known as a r. He simply spouted facts about and couldn’t be stopped. She was his own discovery. He'd seen her possibilities when she designed and executed those twelve costumes for the sextette In “The Girl Upstairs." He'd brought her down to ‘New York to act as his assistant. She woriced for Galbraith the greater part of last season. Jimmy had never known of anybody having Just that sort of Job before. Galbraith, imsy with two or three productions at once, had put over a lot of-the work of conducting rehearsals on her sbonldere. He’d get a number started, having figured out the vers the cho-ms were to go through, the Reps they'd use, and sc on. and Rose v. aid actually take his [dace; wouid be In complete charge of the reheat sal as the director's rei-naec!

tire.

The costuming last season bad been a aide Issue, at th? beginning at least, but she'd done part of the costumes for one of his product'ons, and they were so strikingly successful that Abe Shuman had snatched her away from

him.

“Th. funny thing is the way she does them.” Jimmy said. "EveryUxly else who designs costumes Just draws them: dinky little water colored plates, and the plates tre cant out to a company like the Star Costume company and they execute theta. But Rose can't draw a bit. She got a mannequin—cot au ordinary dressmaker's form, but a regular painter's mannequin—with legs and made her costumes on t>» thing: or at least cut out a sort of pattern of

somehow or other,

the designing of them and the execution are more mixejl up together by Rose’s method than by the orthodox one. She wanted to get some women in to sew for her, and see the whole Job through herself: deliver the cos-

tranea complete, and get paid for them. t0 hlm or no:; whether she

It was a week later that she wrote: "I met James Randolph coming up Broadway yesterday afternoon, about five o'clock. He's changed, somehow, Unce I aaw him last; as brilUai ever, but rather—lurid. Do you suppose things are going badly between him and Beanor? He told me be hadn't *een you forever. ‘Why don't yon drop In on him?" It was quite tree that Rcdoer had seen .ery little of the Randolphs since Bose went away. When It < to confronting his friends, in knowledge that they knew that Boae had left him for the Globe chorus found that James Randolph was he didn't care to fare. He knew too much. He'd he.too Infernally curie us, too full of snnnlsea, eager for ex;

menta

But Boas’s letter pot a different tare on the matter. The fact that she'd pot him, partly at least. In possession of what she had observed and what ' gave him a sort of shield

about nine o'clock he slipped out and walked around to the new boose which Bertie WUUs had built for Eleanor. Rodney reflected, as he stood at the door nfter ringing the bell, that his own bouse was quite meek and conventional alongside this. Bertie had gone

his limit.

The grin which his reflection afforded him was sail on Rodney's Ups when, a servant having opened the door, be found himself face to fare with the architect. Bertie, top-coated and hat in hand, waa waiting for Eleanor, who was coming down the stairs followed by a maid with her carriage-coat. He returned Rodney's nod pretty stiffly, aa was nature’ enough, since Rodney's grin had distinctly brightened up at

sight of him.

Eleanor said, rather negligently: Hello, Rod. We're Just dashing off to the Palace to nee a perfectly exquisite little dancer Bertie's discovered down there. She comes on at half past nine, so weve got to fly. Want to comer ‘■No." Rodney said. "I came over to see Jim. Is he at homer The maid was holding out the coat for Eleanor’s anna But Eleanor, at Rodney's question, Jn« stood for a second quite stlU. She wasn't looking at anybody, but the expression In her eyes was raUen. Tea, he’s at home."

she said at last.

“Busy. I euppoee." said Rodney. Her inflection had dictated thli reply. Tea he's busy," she repeated absently and In a tone stlU more coldly hostile, though Rodney perceived that the hostility was not meant for him.

She looked around at Bertie.

“Wait two minutes." she said. "If you don't mind." Then, to Rodney,

nets around tba walla "Rubber floor." Randolph pointed oat. "felt celling; aix •olutriy sound-proof. Here's where my Kenojpxpher sits all day. readylike a fireman. And this." be concluded, leajllng the way to the other room. "Is the hoty of hollea” It had a rubber floor, too, and. Rodney supposed, a felt celling. But Its Only furniture was aae chrtr sad a

t sounding boards or something in al! the walU. I press this button, start a dictaphone, and talk In any dlrectlou. anywhere. It's afl taken down. Here's where fm supposed to think, make discoveries and things. I tried It for s while." They went hack into the study. "Clever beasts, though —poodles," ha marked, as he nodded Rodney to his Mir and poured himself another drink. "Learn their tricks very nicely. But good heavens. Aldrich, think of him as a man! Think what our American married women are up against when they want somebody to play off against their husbands and have to fall tired little beasts like that. anything. She's make me Jealous. That's her cperlmenL But It's downright pitiful, I say." Bodney got up out of his chair. It asn't a poe^.I* conversation. Til be running along, I think." he said. “I've a lot of proof to correct tonight and you've got work of your own, I

expect"

“Sit down again." said Randolph sharply. Tm Just getting drunk. But that can wait. Tm going to talk. Pro got to talk. And If you go, I sweat Til call up Eleanor's butler and talk tP him. TouTl beep It to yourself, anyway." He added, as Rodney hesitated. *T want to teU you about Rose. I saw her In New York, you know."

POULTRY •MTS

CANDLING EGGS IN NEW WAY Recent Device Confines Dark Area Just Around Egg—Impossible for Light to Get- In. As fv as the consumer Is conceraedthere are only two kinds of eggs— good ones usd bad ones; and usually •be cannot distinguish one from the' other until he breaks the shell. But to the dealer there are several grades between the best and the usable eggs For years these grades have been deiennlned by candling—a process re-

Lstert Candling Device,

qulring n dark room and a point of light against which the egg U held to get a kind of X-ray viow of Ita In-

tPrior. The process Is alow and the

Rodney sat down agaln.~~Tes" he conditions under which the men must aald. "so she wrote. Tell me bow she ,vork nre “ ore or unsanitary, looked. She's been working tremen- A newer method employs the cautiously hard, and Tm a little afraid <uln S device shown In the Illustration, she's overdoing 1L" This device confines the dark area “She looks," Randolph said very de- | where it belongs—just around the egg. liberately, “a thousand years old." He The proJecUon on top of the device

laughed at the sharp contraction of Rodney's brows “Oh. not like that! She's as beautiful as ever. Her akin's stlU got that bloom on't. and she still flushes up when she smiles. She's lost five pounds, perhaps, but that's Just condition. And vitality! But a thousand years old. Just the same." Td like to know what you mean by

Rodney. Mother Hen Should Be Dusted With Why. look here." Randolph aald. j S-me Good Insect Powder—Make

has a slight slant so that It Is Impossible for any light to get to the egg from above. With this device one room may be used for candling, grading and packin';.—Popular Science

Monthly.

CHICKS INFESTED WITH UCE

Too know what a kid she was when you married her. Schoolgirl I I used to tell her things and she'd listen, all eyes—holding her breath I Until I felt almost as tri~> aa she thought I was. was always game, even then. If she started a thing, she.saw It through. If she said. Tdl It to :ne straight.' why. she took it. whatever it might be, standing up. She wasn't afraid of

“Come nkuir “ And ah. lad »u»uuiUK up- one wane ; airaiU OI .pT, ^

Stair.

He followed her. But. arrived at the drawing room floor, he stopped. "Ix>ok here." he said. “If Jim's busy

But It seems that the Shumans, on the side, owned the Star company raked off a big profit on the cost that way. I don't know all the details. I don't know mat Galbraith did. But anyhow, the first thing anybody knew. Ross had financed herself. She got one of those rich young bachelor women In New York to go Into the thing with her. and organised a company, and mode Abe Shuman an offer on all

On In.’ Gal-

braith thinks that Abe Shuman thought she was sure to lose a lot of go broke, and that then be could put her to work at a salary, so he gave bar the Job. But she didn't lose. She evidently made a chunk out of it. and her reputation

the same time."

Violet was Immensely thrilled by this recital. “Won't she be perfectly

ready to make It up h he that. Any woman who knew her -t all would. Only a man. [rrfeetly infatuated. grinning . . . See If you can't teU what she looked like ar-1 Bow she ■aid U.’ Jimmy, meek again, attempted the

task.

“Well." he said, “she didn't look me

In the eye and register deep

lugs or anything like that. I don't know where she looked. As far as tha Inflection of her vUcv went, it ««s jus; as casual as If she'd been trill og

me what sbe'd bad for lunch. But

quality of her voice Just rtebened up

as If the words tasted good to And she smiled, just barely, as

If she knew I'd be staggered and didn't care. There you tre! Now Interpret

me this dream, oh. Joseph."

Violet s eyes were shining. “Why.

wonderful." she exclaimed, "for the 1 ; t - 8 u nlaln." she said. “Gant you M*e

Junior league show',

back!’

Jimmy found au lion in saying: "Ob. she'll be too ex{•easive for you. She's u regular robber. she says." “She says!" cried Violet. “Do you mean you've tal&ed with her?” “Do you think I'd have come back from New York without?' said Jimmy "Galbraith told me to drop in at the c'asino that same afternoon. Some of the eostuen-s w ere to be tried on. and 'Miss Dane' would be thnre.

“Wal

1 a

t fell

t tin

v in be dark, because ■Utorium wasn't lightidmlt she rather took glancing up a' me. e to make out who 1

1 Kood a right to

that she's Just waiting for him; that shell come like a sho; the minute he aaya tha word? And there he Is eating his heart out for her. and In hta rage charging po-w John perfectly terrific price* for his legal service*, all he's got to (No Is to say 'please, in

order to be happy." CHAPTER XXI It

Rodney Geo a Clear View of Himself. It was Rose herself who began .bis correspondence with Rodney, within c month of her arrival In New- Yurt If Bodney had done an unthinkable thing; it he had kept copies of bis letBose. along with her answer*, in a chronological file, be would hare made the discovery that th« stiffness of those letters had gradually wifiw away and that they were now- a good deal more than mere pro forma bulletins. There had crept Into them, so subtly and so gently that between cue

**Ot don't be too dense, Rodney!" she said. “A man has to be ‘busy* when he's known to be In the house and wont entertain hit wife* guests. Go up. sing out who you are. and go right In.” She gave him a nod an\J a hard little smile, and went downstairs again to Bertie. Bodney found the door Eleanor had Indio ted, knocked smartly on it. and sang oat at the same time. This is Rodury Aldrich. May I come In?" “Come in. of course." Randolph called. “I'm glad to see you." he added. coming to meet his guest, “but do you mind telling me how yon got In here? Some poor wretch will lose his Job. you know, if Eleanor finds out about this. When I'm in tids room, sacred to reflection and •earch. It's a first-class crime to roc disturbed." It didn't need his -wrdonlc grin to point the satire of his words. Rodney said curtly: "Beanor sent me up hereelf. I didn't much want to come, to tell the truth, when I heard you were busy." "Eleanor I" her bosbaud repealed. T thought she'd gone out—with her poo-

dle."

Rodney said, with unconcealed distaste: “They were on the point of going oat when I came In. That's how Eleanor happened to see me." With a visible effort Randolph recovered a more normal manner. "I'm glad It happened that way," he aald. ‘Get yourself a drink. You’ll find anything you want over there. I guess, and something to smoke; tb?n we'll alt down and have rn old-lashiuued talk." The source of drinks he Indicated waa a well-ei..cked cellarette at the <tbor aide of the room. But Rodney's eye fell fire* on a decanter aud siphon <m the table, within reach of the chair Randolph had been sitting In. “I don't believe I want anything more to drink Just now." Rodney said. 'And. :is he follow ed Rodney s glance. Randolph allowed himself another sardonic

grin.

The preliminaries wee gone through rattier elaborately; chairs drawn up and adjusted, ash-trays put within

Examination Often.

Where chicks are raised with hern, they are likely to become infested with lice. If ihe lice get very numerous. they greatly retard the chicks* growth and may even cause their death. The hen should be powdered thoroughly with some good Insect powder before she Is put In the coop with the chicks, and at Inter.iUs of several days or a week thereafter. The baby chicks should be examined for lice, particularly on the head, under the wings and about the vent. If any ere found, a little grease, such as lard, should be rubbed on In those places. Apply grease moderately, as too much will Injure the chicks. The chicks should be examined frequently and the treatment repeated If Uce are

MAKING MONEY WITH CAPONS Fowls Should Resrh Full Size Before Fattening—Bring Better Prices

Than Turkeys.

cause she didn't know. Well, she's courageous now. because she knows. She understands—I tell you—every-

thing.

"Why. look here! We all but ran into each other on the corner, there, of Broadway and Forty-second street ; shook hands, said howdy-do. If I had n spare half-hour, would 1 come and have tea with her here at the Knickerbocker? She'd nodded at two or three passing people while we stood there. And then somebody aald. 'Hello. Dane.' and stopped. A mUernbb. shabby.shivering little painted thin,-. Rose said ‘Hello' and asked bow she was getting along. Was she working now? She said no; did Rose know of any-

th! eg? Rose aald. ‘Give me your ad- _ . . dress, end If I can find anything I'll ^P 00 * ^ *1“ »>*- let you know.' The horrible tittle beast ^ f»ttenlng. and this should be told her where she lived and went wh< ' T1 J^ey ar - from to twelve away. Rose didn't say anything to me. ““ths old. except that she was somebody who'd Fatten them from two to throe been out In a road company with her. ** torv marketing—two If they But there was a look in her eye* ... ! ,rr * hnt U P darlc «x>ps. Feed Oh. she knew—cvemhlng. Knew ,h( 'm all they will stuff of commeal what the kid was headed for. Knew ttnd middlings, wet but not too wot. there was nothing to be done about It. ^ttb milk. She bed no flnttere about it. didn't Cracked bits of glass are used aa pull a long face, didn't, as 1 told you. “ ,ld t0 dl * cstloc - *>« good grit U say a word. But there waa a look In “*««* wbw * ^ (troond stuff Is usod. her eyes, somehow, that understood Grit 01 *° me klnd they must have, and faced—everything, knd then we The f “ rlaer w ‘'° d ow not keep over went In and had our tea. * 'ot of male birds aa capons will loan -I hid • curiosities slotii \ b ‘« ‘'™“ , oolswl*■.««*«*is uot _>r. I d bar, round out unnlnox I « "f “ lu* »< copons p« could. But it tins sho trho did the flud- '' oun “- lug out Beyond Inquiring about you. __ how lately I d. seen you. and so on, she VENTILATION OF HENHOUSES hardly asked a question: but pretty soon I saw that she understood me. Reason Many Fowls Seek Roosting She knew what was the matter with Places In Trees Is Because Bulld- ; knew what Td made of myself. Inga Are Too Warm. And she didn't even despise ta*! — “I come back here to kick th'« Henhouses need to be ventilated la thlcg to piecvai give myself a fresh summer time as much as In tha start. And when 1 got here. I hadn't dme. The reason many hens the sand. I got drunk Instead." He 10 tho ,r< ' e * to roo * , >• because the Injured himself another long drink and bouse Is too warm for them. At least sipped slowly len inches of perch space should bo • Krvrrbudr knows.— h, uuld ut lout. I’Curid—l lor !io fowl,, so ihuf tbur -thut dowtrood-outa ulruott iururUblr t * v >' "> rruwd: uud th. ut.ru ink. to drui, or drink. But I know ”P.u th. hou» is dutltv thr .uuttnoh why they do." months the more contented the fowls

Thut remurk ktnoi Rodo.r «,! ol hi.

low ullruc. Duriuk th, whole o! Bus- °! !” do,id.', mctiul ut hi. ..counter wtu, fT " S'. .’i"

Rose he'd never nee lifted his eyes j from the gray ash of his cigar. He

didn't want t

Just wanted to re-

J br

i frica

IT?*! T P> ‘““ ocmiw, crerr word ho wdd. uo thut h. llu- th. tulk Uw, wore uujVMUd to could err. .h.picm.e.wuElnt.ct. prepare the way for. didn't at once be- (T o BE CONTINXED) sin. Randolph took another etlfflsh drink >'ay Her to Walk and settled back into a dull, sullen ab- Shoe Salesman—But. my dear . ruction. Finally, for the sake of sty- Madam, you had better purchase a ; log something. Rodney remarkedi>alr while they are only twelve t! 1'Thls la a wonderful room, isn't ItX' ^iar*. The price will soon go to twenty-

RandolpVi roused himself. “Never j five detiara.

been In here before?" be aaked. “Well Complacent Customer—OI ;hen I thee, bore's two more rooms you must 1 wont take any Just now. !f they go ■ee." ‘ that high R! Just wait for my seo Tbe first one. opening Irom the study. • nd childhood and then I can go bare-

xp'alued it-- purpose at r glance, with [ foot-

doors should be left wide open. TAKE GOOD CARE OF BROODER Vermin and Disease Developed More Rapidly In Warm Weather Than In Cool—Disinfect Often. Re sure that the brooder Is cleaned and disinfected frequently and regularly. Vermin and germs of discos* should not be allowed to get lore * brooder but If they should invade, do not forget that they develop more rapIdly In warm weather than in oool.