CAPE MAY COUNTY TIMES. SPA 1ST E CITY. N.

••KJY! WHAT A BUMPI" “Tov gmtTvta r^rtlfst. tdomhU UttU too! he ffroirlfd. "M'Ay you're th- most droirablr and preriou* brnJU of lovable rbartn ihal rubber man ever trembled to hold in mrrxItgiou* arnt ''' •''hr itarrd at him amazed. “R'Ay don’t you kins the may you talk* ' nhr demanded. A»olker drlithtfo! »torr by C«or«« AgMw Claambarlain. mum wko wrote "Wkita Maw.** What more cad anyone 'ey? It s romancr, comedy and adventnre—with juat enou(h yea 1 heart throb* thrown in te make the ra(ht corah'nation.

PART I. Moral Emblem*. PiAjy don't (kip this tlosrrtptlor of Rohr r I Hcrvey Randolph—«lx fret Mrnlg... bp and down, brood of slioul<Ut and na»Tow of hip. aandy-hnir*!, Wne-eyrd. now allchtly ap-etirt.'-! and wearlnjc » aaddlr of faint fryklr*. clean »hnrrn. well Rrnxmed. rery cor rectiy drrrsrd. and tm-nty-alx year* old I«t It be added that hi* eynt veve placed Juat far enough apart to •tamp him forever bonret; ho had an open and most pr« possessing countenonce. At tue moment of the atari of this rapid yarn, he was standing in the Van Telllers' library, looking tlonn in pained and flusliod mrpriw' at Mias M^ilgr Van T.. who was idtt.ng In a tinge leathern chair lialf foclng the tire In the open grate, one leg very much under her, the other waving a •atlnen Ik comhlnailnn of foot and ankle In distracting accompaniment to r her dlstnrtiing si>eech. “Bobby." said Miss Van T.. “you are darned good-lookl'.g; you're strong, straight, and n gentleman: there are vines when you are wholly adornhlhot. nererthelew.. I'm not going to the show with yon tpnlght, or to the opera lomorrvrv.. or anywhere any more. There, there, dear boy: you don't have to.say anything. Tret hsrr one of thoae faces tlmt la nt.soiutely beyond the aid of a rov’d organ. It wys everything that 1* In your heart of gold before your brain mis time to tlnk'e a brlL" “Look here. Madge.” raid the pained Mr. Randolph: "are you milking fnn of my face or of my brain or of bothr “My dear." said Miss Van T. quite gravely. “I’m not making fun ot yon in any way whatsoever. Tin merely telling you liow lovable you are. so that you will understand how serious It Is when I ray that Tve decided not to love you any more." “Bdmt how can you help ItT* stam'^cred Sir. Rardolph, his tongue for nor,- saying the same thing K his fsc— at the same time. Mlt-s Van T.'» breast fluttered a* though rlshig against Its mistress t.. the defense of this disingenuous young «r*n, and she was obliged to swerve her eye» from Ms and draw a long V*>i<-ath before she apswered. V '.'I cun. because I will." she *ald. her face tiallng “Oh. Bob'.iy. -nn'i you wake up? Look round you and come ic earth: You are horn and bred on Manhattan, yet yoc'-c never seen NeaYork." “l guess you're right." raid Bobby thoughtfully. “Li» here. Madge: why atioeld 1 try to «ee Sen- York, and why should we be talking ash cunwhen I've got you t.. inok at in one of the most In witching and abhrerlnted hits of dress goods that ever revealed a completely adorable prr-on? Tell • me that." “Weil.” said Madge, her face hard enlnc. ”1 aili. It's n Iona story, nid In ^word* but In generations. Tlie Van '•rwibrs have lived in Kasf Ninth afreet aj.u-e the yea- one of the Island. That Is, tin J u»-d to live h.-re; now they hardly exlat. They are merely an ■aaorted lot of animated mrp«e» th.it crrwl out (K their tisub periodically to take a atrrnge alt. leaning on a rotten j wave ended *he xMd Order.' Listen i fhl*. Bobby: The new Sew York is a | fever, end Tre caught I;. I want a j rslnj-day car. a calling-car. and a j louring car: ! wan; dresses that will j aub with envy the boart of every I

fonahly In debt, and you want to marry me on It! It wouldn't he quite ■o out of the question If you knew you were g-dng to have It forever, but you don’t It may be cut off—“ "Any day," raid Bobby promptly. “It Isn't likely, after all these years,

but It may."

"Well, there you *.■*.■“ Miss Van T re|saled herself. “I'm not altogether a pig. Bobby. Ten thousand with you thrown in Is moogh in make any WiRTma think three times, bur the irch hi yon have been killed by too little and too much Idndima. If you imd never gone on as nutter for a disappearing heiress, you might have amounted to something by now. Instead of mating you. .hat money has

buried you."

“You don't knew me altogetnr.Madge." *..!*. Tubby. “Do you think Tve never thought things out? When I (iced to make money. I'll do ft. The grea- thing nouadaya. It meems to me. h no: to have too much." "Not to hive too muchi" exclaimed MU* Van T_ a puzzled frown on her forehead. "Bobby, do you know that you've raid something original? No; I won't put It quite as strong as that, but I will ray that you've given blrih to on exotic idea. •'Bui it doesn't a r things as far as I am concerned." s e continued, almost without e pause, -in fact. It only simplifies matters. You've signed the warrant. I want loads at money; you're afraid of having too much. So we'd better turn our bagki. on each other and march." Mr. Randolph looked at her through

narrowed eye*.

“I suppose," be said, “you have picked out the man with a hundred TtHHimnd a yecr?" "Not finally." said Miss Van T.. “though they are not so scarce In this burly-burly world as your question Implies- After all. it Isn't the cash I'm keen on, but what it will bring.. If ncrousury. Ill earn piy own living." "Kant your own living:" exclaimed Mr. Randolph. "Will you Mease tell me how you could earn anything?" “Well." raid Mis* Van T.. “I've had a couple of offers without even ask-

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Inc. When I tried to Jew Simon f*'n*oti down on this very frock on the grounds that I was hard up. he raid. In the nicest way. Ilmt he would take tue on at sixty a week any day during the next five year*." “And the other?" asked Mr. Randolph. "The other." raid Miss Van T.. dropping her eyes, "was Bencher TremooL He wasn't quite so nice, hut he offered more. He said he was l.s-Ung for a private aeeretary, who could name her "During the next five years—at your own price." rep*sited B»ohy. hla mind dared but neverthrteas going straig* : to the kerne! of each proposition. “Madge, do you know what you're raying? Do yoo. know the horrible things yor infer*" She moved one hand Impatiently. “Hobby, slie raid, "don't get theatrical. I fell you New York la s fever. Tve caught II. and I'm not a bit sorry. The choice Indween being a VVn TelHcr corpse and a fastuh

If they play for high enough i, have h world <*f llirir own that rtt. moving .n. Money Is merely

:ind get away with IL She won’t look over her ahoulder and rend the record «f an endless losing run on the black." Ml's Van T. amiled. “I'm clready beginning on my reward." alie raid. “You've never talked »v sell before In your life.” mnn man talk." said Bob!-; , flushing angrily. "And the ways of access that you hove Imagined: - be continued. "You read happy stories to the public taste of mldmetie* showroom girls, and d'vss-model*. and perhaps you think they mirror the life. Why. Madge, tha taunts that those girls fling Indifferently nt virtue and at rice ate so vile Ihat they couldn't be repeated even among half-decent meti. And the other way. the private done for the private secretary. That's a road of burned bridges. Every man. decent or Indecent, feel* a queer sinking of the bear* when he hears of a •otnan taking It." He looked at her shrewdly. "And yet you may do It." he said, half to himself. “If you are one of the hungry women. Hod help you. for they all walk blindfolded." "They don't walk." raid Madge. fluUilrig. and her eyes gleaming strangely. “That's Jest the point: they rush, whirl, and—" “And crash." fir..-tied Bobby. That's the very word." raid Madge. "If you'll only keep on the way you've started. I'd love to talk to you all

night."

“No chance of that.” aald Bobhy. straight-lipped. "Pm through, and I'm going." He turned toward the door. “Not without kissing me good-by. Bobby!" “Tied Madge He looked over his ahoulder with a polite but impersot-al smile. Tm not much on kissing strange someo." he raid JlgfatlT. "It would take me years to leurn to kiaa you

again.*'

He left the room and the hous?. W! u his top-hat purhed back on fcis heed, the ends of his mitfficr flying I ose. hi* dVercoat half unbuttoned, he swung up the deserted lower reachc* of the Avenue, punctuating his thought" with the solid rap of his stlrk on the pavement. It might be supposed that he wn* thinkinr and Diirintlng over the sudden demine of the M:*s Van Tellier he h*d thought he had known for man; year* but such wa* not the case. Mr. Randolph was not built on mourning line*: a: the moment under review, he war thinking about himself and tl-e strange fat# that had made him a fuater-cblld of fortune. He proreedr.1 to look hack ten year* Jus’ a derade nxo he had had h!s one meeting with the young lady who.*- disappearance had brought him sn unstable affluence. It had taken place on this verv v.vrut' and less than forty short j blocks sway. He had reason to re- | member the ‘ encounter, for It had | brought Into midden conjunction a j lovely Persian cat. a lovely wire-haired j terrier, a lovely child, aod himself. The cat had dashed from a proud i .'ron' door to cross Forty-something i stree' under the nose of B taxi-ewt; ; the dog ‘tad flown In yapping pursttl: i and. In the act. yanked his young m!*- : tn-w off her pin*. He. Mr. Randolph. I had seized one of her flying feel. hauled her and the terrier back to i wifely, anti DO rooneV placed h>-r tii»rlght and smoothed down her nbsurdly short skirts than he. she. and especially It. the dog. became the center and circumference of an animat’d pin-

wheel.

Her unshaken determination to hold to the leash, whatever happened, brought dimeter. The aubl lefi'h wound three time* round her ankles and these of Mr. Randolph, bringing them both down kerplunk and feeing each other. “My. what a bump:" she had cr.ed. In startled t..oe». and then thrown buck her curly bead and laughed. It was so that he remembered her— a child of ten or eleven summer" nn-l no vrinlers, merry as a sunny day. dark-ha !re*1. dark-eyed, pink-cheeked pampered but unspoiled Fbc hid risen and taken his bund, told him her name, thank.'1 him ordered n flurried nurse tw thank hffh. shaken her finger at the terrier, and mid. -V.ood by" and -f>»me on. Maggie." «U while he »a» a'-III rubbing the sea] of hb> Aral long trousers.

BLOOMERS NOW RIVAL PETTICOATS

U ndermuslins change very iittle la atyle from year to year, but new features are Introduce.] and—if they prove* popular—gradually establish themwlvev. The demand has swung away from substantial, weighty fabric* to those tha: an* light and half transparent, from all-white to He'll .-olor t nd pink, from option* toward ellk. and there Is a steadily growing appreciation of handwork In undertblug* New ways of making garments ut»d new kind* of garment* have encroached on familiar style* and are taking their place*. This Is the case with bloomers and pettlboeker- that have now become rivals of the petticoat, and, along with the growth of their popularity come* that if i-amiMdes. Together they take the

place of the rbemlae.

Bloomer* find a renller sale than pettibockers because they are shorter and very practical for wear with atreet clothes. They an* made in the same tnalerinl* as those used for making petticoat-. Including satin, in plain ■nd changeable weave* silk Jersey

(doth, sateen and batiste. In s*'ka the colors chosen for them are oraally dark. They are simply made and easily adjnsted without button* and buttonhole* Shirring* over elastic cord or tape serve to hold them In place st the waist and below th* knee*. In white or pink batiste they *re usually trimraed with a frill of litre at the knee*, and occasionally a bond of sailr In a pale color. Is placed above the frill with heuistltch.’lg Joining the two materials. The )V7 a P-to-dnte young lady shown In the picture above I* an adherent of the fashion for wearing bloomera under street

| clothe*.

Camisoles hove become Impm-two* because of the vogue for sheer luousea and they nre made ot wn*h sntln. rib- . Isms, lares or fipe batiste end embroideries. The thin, pink ratio _imIsolr lead* all the rest, but cannot always serve. A few dark ones are needed to !>e worn under dark-colorad ; but transparent waists with dark

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Spring Millinery in» Gay Mood

’ BRING TIME this year finds ts m- n~ide up of velvet ro*e foliage It: ecr5 tranelng millinery In a cay and oral 'Vely and lively color* It ts a l-ortlve mo**!, with rirlclly feminine almple affair that will give in" -h si-rv- : as expressed In hats that refuse lee. Below It !* a pretty bat with ■ be severely plain—do matter what crown of rose jietalt and brim of black i.rir mUvioti tit. y be. This is a broad : lace, finished with rit'!»on that Is foldi 1 gecere! *.,mn:!ng up of the char- ed Into a narrow snrli about the ut n[ spring lints—to be taken with , crown, which it slip- I a rough at tbe ew iV".'natUm- but it is true that hack to fall In a bow ever Ihe impe of -rytl.U'- 'hat will bear daeorating.: the neck. Finally, u t-mutifnl sailor . d'eeotat .l Then- ts a return to; of One m.lnn refle-t-. the gayety of

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(TO BK « No Return on Invastmant.

e *Uk. tumnd with Btrnw. which rts from the straight and narrow of hands and becomes more derive with small rtrsw orumnent* top it* wandering*, nnd fasten It re t bn l* bnvc followed the lead 1 uit« and on. -piece fr.«k* Ui thetr nitre frvim s- verrly plain styles; |

, t Daddy's ^Evei\i(\£ Faiiy Tale <2/ry&X GRAHAM BOiN/vER THE COURIER TALKS.

! “Now tlia* we're all cm (he bora*** I said the courier to the boy and girt adventurer* T will explain everything. We all know In the House of t'ecrtdK. and all who live In these parts, that you. (be boy. and you. tbe girl, are seeking adventures and that you’re on your way to the House of

There you are going In hum the secret of leadership and auceeas and power. "You're going to know Imiw yon. as a boy. can become. In time. * lender of men. tine In every way. Anti you're going to have your question answered, girl, of h iw to become iieautiful and loved and a leader amonc women. You'll find all that out In me House of Secret* and on your way to the House you are going through with many ndveature* which are all well worth having. I'm sure you'll admit." "We do." raid the boy. "even tf some of them are a bit awful at time*. Last night when we m-t those other boys and girls and we all started to quarrel and fight about who shouTff lead—and then we all got lost aod no one could find each other and tbe girl and I were separated ami tbe night wa* long and dark and fea' *ul— oh. It was dreadful:" “Well." raid the coarier, “I would •ay your sentence, «s well,** the nlgbt. waa pretty long and fearful, even tf It wasn't dark r* The boy nnd girl laughed. “We ran laugh about it now" aald the girl. “What hap|iened to all those other boys and girls whom we met looking for adventure*?" asked tbe boy. They went home." raid tbe courier. They dually d'dnT want adreo-

"I Will Explain.” tore* They dlda't want to put up with anything. They weren't the sort Co rare If they ever reached the House of Secrets or not. "But I must exph.lu bIhhi: the mesrage I have and why I am taking you both along. The girl la a little nur'prised that I didn't leave her behind, for she chose tbe wrong ro-id o second time, and the boy chose Uie right one. "Well, do you remember, some ''me back In your adventures, how you came across the good little child of tlie story book* and the bad little child? They both lived In a vinecovered house and they couldn't get free, they were *o entangled In vine* too. becr.u*<* no one would tell the truth ebout them and because no one would say tout they were really a mlxtu.e of bod and good and would lie quite nice and get to leant a lot of things If only they wen- set free from the vine* of untruth. "You rememtier. 1 see. I am certainly not going to make you suffer In the name way. They wouldn't let a courier from the House of S“creta do such a thing. Besides, you see. It wouldn't be fair. The whole trouble was that all of you warned to b. 'eaders. And (hla Is the message that I bring to you two adventurers from the House of Secret* In the first place I will tell you my t'nine ot .v more; it la tv»operallon. "That's a terribly big name and I suppo*. you don't see what 1 can ever do w th such a big one. It means working and pulling together. “Ami so. be.-ause ol my name, I .-an bring this tue.-vage. Ytu worked tit odd* Ihst night. Yon all fought fof lerdershlp. Each wanted his very own wav. You didn’t know- how to pull together. You didn't know' how to talk thing* out and discus' them and find out which sounded the best end which not. Yuo didn't understand my name and so I've fane to explain It to you." They were still riding slowly down tlie ristd. -You must learn et»-«p.Ta-tlon if you re going to travel t» the House ..f S. cm* You’ve got p. learn to pul: together—that's what It nienn«. and the fog came up and y >u couldn't And anyone ->r anything. You got er

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