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Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, SITM)AM0RXJKG, SEPTE3IBER 14, 1924. "Death Without Phrases" for the Sailor Editor the writing! of.;Joeph Conrad. Unforgettable in the mlnde of hia read-rr- a are the pictures of the paaamg from earth of aome of hia moet notable charactera of Iflrd Jlra. of Noetromo; of .Jamea "Wait In "The Nigger of the Narcieays. ' and Peyrol In "TiO Rovec" wc met death variously: with aerenity. as did their creator: "with proud and unflinching glance." with the cry "Steady!" but aiwayi ringing In tleir heroically, rr.mntli:lly. Aa it wa aitb men, 0 It waa with inehopa ajwaya dear to him-stanced hy the trsie end of the gallant little Tremoline In "The Arrow of Gold" and the murderoue wreck-I- t g of the dahitg Bonito in ("Frtfya In fact, it may of the Sevep t ataid that with bla cieuikins the a rgd of life and usefulneae the unly finality. This man. who has been ranked ifh greatest writers of English. a born of a family of the smaller mobility Ir. the south of Poland on December f. 1857. Orlglnallv he as" Teodor .Jozef Konrad KOrieniowskt. but whn he became a Hrttleh this name was shortened and changed to its English form. When he waa five years old hi father, implicated In the laat PoHch rebellion. aa sent by the Kusslan government Into exile, where his .wife and son soon followed him. Ir 1174 this youth from an Inland ' country, who frora childhood had planned to tucwt a siulor. shipped aboard a French mer-havessel. Feur years later, realising an early embltlan. he entered the British mercantile marine, and for sixteen yttrs. during which ha rose to the rank of master mariner, he sxild the seven Mas undtr.the Red EsSigri of that service Note This U the article on which Mr. t ork the dy Joseph Conrad a before he died and within a couple of hours of being taken fatally 111. Earlier on the sam morning he had been discussing It with a friend and had told him how he hoped that from thin one articlewhich In its pfetent state it about would spring completed Wm of .Intimate memories of tha sailor he had met which would be a kind of pendent volume to- - "The Mirror of the Sea" That book, he explained to hl friend, deait mora .with the tea he had known than with the fatlors he had knowm but this new volume nu to have dealt rather with the sailors than with the seas? " Tn. Conrad wa a alow and meticulous worker. He revised unceasingly n(Jit miiet fee borne in mind that this article bad by no means o far aa It Men hi final revision had gone, although he bad already worked over It carefully. It a just after breakfatt en August i. that Mr (ll Conrad dtroiiMi-with his friend Wa about this article A.fer talking ffr be gave the fut halfpaperan intohour, his friend hand morning and croeeed the room to the table at which he alwaya wrote. the paper hla Looking, up from friend tw that he waa earntlv d in writing something. Mr. l onrad did not tell Mm what he wa When, however, the motf-writing rar.waa announced that wm to teke Kem for the drive during mhleh Mr. Conrad Hired with Mi Utat hie friend, glaaeing at the table. hnv.th laet page of tkia article lying on the blotter. Death was the great adventure In er. three-ejuaite- ! $ ' V ... a al-i- U-- sub-pe- en-F- bt r u ill-r- s. no legend is wholly free, because I record its suspect thst those as tales picked cut en the Hps of men are doipg It in a spirit f love. And that is only right and proper. . a- JOSEPH -- f rom Eit--t CONBAD. by Jo Davidson . (Courtesy Fron 3ilnes. make life sweet, and as pmch removed from the material interests of this world as the most complete spiritual renunciation reuld make It. FIDELITY OF SAILORS. Terhsps nobody would guess from what precedes that .1 have aallors in mind I do not msn to be Irreverent If I Insist thst In a temporsl serir there wan much that was in their 'Ives. Thev did not work miracles, to b sure, but I have seen them repeatedly do all that men cast do for their faith if it waa only faith In their own manhood. And t)S that Is something, surely. Put there was something more in It. somtthingr larger a fMelitv to.. the demands of their calling t hlch I verl-lbelieve w for all of them I knew both sflnat snd ashore, vocation much as in Its way as any quite spiritual cat! a man s nature has ever to. And all that for no perresponded ceptible reward In the praise of man snd the favor of gods I mean the an indigent, pitiless lot. who hsd nothing to offer to servsnts st their shrine but ward in some hospital on shore or a sudden wedding with death In great uprosr. but with no gilding of fine words about La. .Mort it Phrases. DANGER OF LEGENDS. tBut love is uncritical. It is an sut seeing romance In what nay ot be true to tha spirit of its subject, so te speak And thus the false which is often fatuous also creeps Into a worthy or even nobis Or even Into a holy storv. story The Golden Legend itself, tha legend of saints aad their miracles, is an gwful example of that danger, as anv- one who turns over a few peeres of it may see. s.atntiinets Is made absurd ov the presentation of the mlracu-'oii- s facts themselves It lacks y in a surprising way, yes. fatuity lurks In all ler.gends fatally hv the effect of our common edi-fvt- To watch the growth of a. legend Is the facts of history or theshles of i nd occupation It not to much sta!!f.tvs ih!i-- can be Miv'iful. too. because legends deal. with people and Though they tan nnx h msde very Thv spring from noble things finished and done with; that decoiainei s form toil, of memory at they spring, as it were, from amongst which they w all like to lave behind us. the bones of dead men. Flowers (as that lingers shorn the achievement of men who had thir day and the I have seen myself ) will do that; too However, the legend I have In mind vanished forms of things which have hss nothing to do with saints but That's all In the order of nature, and served th needs of their time. with beings at first sight infinitely both" flowers and legends are upon One could welcome thnt fine form different, but whos lives were herd the whole decorativ, which is all to of imasrfnitlve recognition of the 'past ino ssi Int. I tak.' it. ever slept on a M ith orse than hfrf of not if nothing gntie the good. exwtly ascetic, rois) which the of ijme and If rot hermit like. y?t as far reI have nothing against a lgend hritir in its train If passage It were not d moved froifi the commonest amenitwining its tendrils fancifully about hy touches of fatuity of whl-ties snd the simplest sffectlonK which a y sea-god- ast Words Written by Master of Sea Stories,-Pennethe Day Before He Died L It waa at the of thta latter period that beginning he commenced to learn Englieli fend there i tale that his knowledge of fie iire came from reading thalanguage ehip If and the Bible. rifteen year later when he waa yera old he began to wriu. and when. In ISM. Ulnea forced his retirement from the sea, it a Ito. compelled nl'm to' devote" hitreelf to writing to earn a from Preceding Fes.) began. snd beautiful," the reporter AS an B.CCI Wnw row tiw. -- vtp ognltlon not only in this country, hut You may have read In Knsrland papers, something "of her In the dally ' and , "I never read the papers, the" other Interrupted curtly. "Go on "She Is unmarried, and as far as nvon knows she had no Immediate intention of changing her condition." Hatch- resumed, staring curiously at the thin face of the scientist "I premost beausume she had admirer tiful women of the stae have but she lsnne whose life has been perfectly clean, whose record Is an open book. I tell you this because It might have a bearing on your conclusion a to a polb' reason for her disappearance "Now .the- actual circumstances of Miss Wallack thst disappearance. hss been playing in Shakespearean in she wa week Laat repertoire. On Saturday night, Rprlngfield. concluded her engaarement which as Rosalind In there, she appeared The house was 'As Vou Like It.' She played the first two crowded. and tins enthusiasm, amid sets greet suffer-ludeepit the fsct that she was to from headache, Intensely which she waa subject at times. After her to returned the second act she and Just before the dresslng-rcccurtain went up for the third, the called her. She manager stage be out Immedithat she would eems no possible There ately shadow of doubt that it (s her - g all as If she had left the room to answer her cue all In order, even to an open box of chocolate-creacandy on her table " "No sign of a struggle, nor any n('i5r heaid"" "No." trace of Wood?" "Nothing." "Her maid? Did she have one?" I neglected to tell vou "Oil. yes. thst the maid. Gertrude Manning, had gone home Immediately after the first act She grew suddenly ill Hnd was excused." The Thinking Machine turned his squint eyes on the reporter for the first time "HI?" he repealed. "What was the matter?" "That I can't say." replied the reporter. Where Is h now'" "I don't know Everyone forgot all about her in the excitement about Mis? WnJlaek.' "What kind cf candv wss It?" "I'm afraid don't .know that either." "Where was It, bought?" The reporter shr"ugaed his shoulders; that was something elre he did not know. The Thinking Machine shot out the questions agsressivelv, staring meanwhile at Hatch. who steadily squirmed uncomfortably. "Where ts the candy now?" demanded the scientist. Again Hatch shrugfed his shoulders "How much did Miss Wallack weieh?" The reporter vis willing to guess H at this had seen half a dozen times "Between a hundred and thirty ard a hundred and foftv." he ventured. "Does there happen to be a connected with the company"" "I don't know," Hatch The Thinkmr Machine replied waved hi slender han.ls he was It Is perfectly absurd. Mr. anr..vcd Hatch." he , xpistulaterl. "tr come to me with only a few facts and ask advic If .you had .l the facts. I might be able to do something, but The newspnnsr man was nettled In his own profession he was ac credited a man of d scernment and acumen He resented the tone, the manner, even, th seemingly elvtai which the other I quejtions cont-jee.he "that the candy, even if it had been rnln-d- . as I imagine you think possible, or a hypnotist coi,lj have hsd anvthlng to do with Miss Ws!lek's dlsappeir-ance- . Certain!;.- neither po'son nor hvpnotlsm would hsve made her Invisible." "Of course you ir,n t see'" blsited The Thinking Machine. If you did. vou wouldn't have icrce to me. When did this thing happen'" "Saturday hipht. as I said " the re. porter informed hlni. a little more "H dosed the engagement, humbly. in Springfield. Miss Wallack waa fo have appeared here In Boston tonight." "When did she disappear hv the "Nor ' 1 voice. h- -r Rosalind does, not appear In the third act until th curtain hes Wsi-lsok- 's un for six minutts. Vhtn Miss cue came she did not answer hvp-notl- st her It Th Msg mansger rushed to was door and again called her. There no answer. Then, fearing that she Sue mlrht have fainted, he went in was A hurried setrch u , not there. ms'c without result, and the tostate nawuter flnsllv wss compelled to the audience thst the sud den Illness of the star would make it the performto finish Impossible ance.' ana lowered was curtain "lh resumed. Every nook Ihe s' arch was f.iotliahts of the hack snd corner rone over The stsge doorkeeper. William M'egan. had seen no one W and a policeman hid so out been standing at the stage door talkat least twenty minutes It for ing ccrclurive that Miss is therefore leave by that exit. not did Wallack The onlv other way it. was possible doer was over the the tare to leave . couiyp, pu-- Tootiignts. of her his no trace Vet that wayi she ,,fr found Where asked Tht Think-tn- e The windows: ', Machine etaae Is below the street "Th "The win-dlevel." explained Hatch. mom A. of her dressine-room- . It Iron. with barred and Is small goes opens into an a.ir shaft that w hich Is ten feet, un for straight covered with an iron erarlnsr fixed The other windows in the granite. on th stass are not onlv inaccessible, flck. I mnT" but ar also barred with iron She "The stage manager's time slip could not have approached either-oshows that the curtain for th third hy act went these windows without beine seen up at nine fortv-on- e he other members of the company or the spoke to her. say, one minute before. star bands.". Or at nine-fortTh action of th the the "Under stage?" sufgested play before she appears In the third scientist. " act takes six minutes; therefore reporter went on. "Nothing." h "In seven minutes a It is a large cemented basement, woman precisely more one . than hunweighing scst-hedwas It which wwa vacant. dred and thirty pounds, certainly not there was of course a chance dressed for becue the street, disappeared thst Mlee wauacK muni n from her dressing-roounbalanced and completely temporarily ts now It n Monday afthere. There was ternoon wandered dow-I think we may solve this even a sewrch made of the Ties that crime within a few hours " I, th galleries over the stae where ' "Crime?" Hateh repeated eagerly. th men who work the drop curtain Po you imagine there Is a crime r stationed." then?" There ss silence for a long time Professor Van Dusen dldnt heed Th Thinking Machine twiddled his Ihe question. Instead, he rose and fingers and continued to stare up- paced back and forth across th reward. He had not looked at the reroom a doaen time, hla a half ception Th Silence after porter. H brokswas Miss Wallack hands behind tus back and his ys "Hew time. cast down. At last h stopped and dressed st this tlm ef her faced the reporter, who had also risen,' that S; - "In doublet anS riose "Miss wallsck's company, t th newspaper man responded, "eh wears that costume from sums, with the bigrge; is now in the second set ttntll p radically the Boston." he said. "8 vtry male member of th compsny. tslk to them tnd of th pUvr was all her street clothing In her and particularly study thelr eye. room 7 AT9Tmd"etri what Became of th "Ves. sverythlnf. spread across sn box of chocolat candy, and. If was how many pieces r out of it. costumes. of It urjopen trunk bn pr. Then report here to me. Miss vVal-lae- k ning here?" was the scientist's first s safety may depend upon your question. speed and accuracy." "Yes," replied the surgeon. "She Hatch was startled. waa brought, here Saturday night, frankly " "How" he began. suffering from "Don't to talk hurry!" stop I poisoning. yes. "Strychnin commanded The Thinking Machine. know." the other. "I will have a cab wailing when yeu "Picked upInterrupted in the street probably. come back. We must get to Bprlng- - I am physician. If she Is well I should like to ask her The newspaper man rushed away aenough couple of questions." to obey orders. H didn't understand Dr. Carlton agreed, and Professor them at ail. Studying men's ys Van Dusen, still followed faithfully by was not In his line; but h obeyed Hatch, was ushered Into th ward nevertheless. An hour snd a half where Miss Wallack s maid lay. pallater he returned, to be thrust lid and weak. The Thinking Machine Into a waiting cab by picked up Hand, and his slender The The eab finger rested for a minute 911 her Thinking Machine rattled away toward South atation. pulse. He nodded and semed satwhere th two men caught a train. isfied. "Miss Mannln, can you unJust about to move Out for Spring- derstand m?" he asked. field Once settled In their scats, the Th girl nodded weakly. ' How many pieces of the scientist turned to Hatch, who wag candy nearly suffocating with suppressed in- did you eat?" formation. Sh she stared "Two," replied "Well?" he asked into the face above with dull "I found out several things," th ' eyes. reporter burst out. "First, Miss WalMiss Wallack eat any of it "Did lack leading man, Lsngdnn Mason, op to the thetimo left the you who has been in love with for ater?" hr hr hr three years, bought the candv at Schuyler's, in fprtngfleld. barly Saturday evening; befor he went to th theater He told m so himself rather reluctantly; but 1 I made him say It." "Ah"' exclalmd Th Thinking Machine. It waa a, moat unequivocal e tabulation. "How many pieces of candy are out of th box?" "Only three," explained Hatch. "MUs Wallaok's things were packed lnt.T tn open trunk In her dressing-roothe cs.ndy with them. I Induced the manager" Yes. yes. yef " interrupted The Machine. Thinking lmptiently. "What sort of eyes has Mason? What color?" "Blue, frank in expression, nothresaid th ing unusual at all porter. "And the others?" "I dldnt quits know what yeu meant hy studying their ys. o I I thought got a set of photographs perhaps they might help." "Excellent, excellent:'' commented The Thinking Machln. H shuffled the pictures through his fingers, stopnow to and then ping study ons and lead th name ' printed below. "Is the man?" be asked at that leading last, and' handed on to Hitch "No" If been The had Thinking Machine In a hurry previously, he was rasing now. Hateh trailed on dutistair and fully behind, down th I Into th cab, whence Professor Van a Dusen shouted word of , thanks to D. Carlttn. This time their desti was th stage door of the nation theater from which Mis Wsjlack had disappeared. was muddled. He Th reporter didn't know anvthing clearly except that thre pieces of candy were missing frm th box Of these the maid had eaten only two. ihe had been poisoned. Therefore, it seemed reasonable to upcee thst if Miss Wal lack had eaten the third piece ihe also would be poisoned. But poison would not make her Invisible At tht point th reporter shook his hted hopelessly. Willism Meegsn, the star doorkeeper, was easily found Can you inform m. please." beTh gs Thinking Macliine, "if Mr. Mason left a box cf randy with you laat Saturday night for Miss Wal-lack- "Vs." Meegan ood t.stur-edly. replied Hv was musd at the little "Miss Wallack liadn t arrived. Mason brcught a box of candy for Ys her nearly vry night and usually Professor Van Dusen did speak left It her. I put th one Saturday again. The train pulled Into Spring- night on ths shslf hi-.field at Hatch followed "Did Mr. Mason come to the the scientist without a word Into a theater before or after the others cab on Saturday night?" 'Schuyler candy store," quickly "Before." replied Meegan. "He commanded Th Thinking Machine. wa unusually early, I suppose, to Hurry!' off through the pack." Th cab "And tk other membens of the night. Ten minutes later It (topped comoanx coming In to stop here. I before a brilliantly to get lighted the'r mail?" - and Imagine, slot. The Thinking Machine th scientist up st the the way Inside and approached th mail box abov squlntel the shelf. ' girl behind th counter. ajwavs." Sur, tell m If you "Will you pleas 1 Th Machine msn nt ruhd fc?" h remember tbla man's asked as lie produced. Mason's photograph. Oh. yes. I remmbr him." th girl replied. "He's an actor." "Did he buy a smsll boat of ehoco' late of you Saturday vnlng early?" was th next question. "Tea. I recall It he seemed to b in a hurry"; in fact, I bellev he said ht was anxious to get to the theater to pack." "And do you recsil that this man ever bfraght chocolates asked the scientist. He produced another photograph and beaded it to She studied It a moment, while Hatch craned hi neck, vainly, to see did,-"I don't recall that k th girl answered finally. Th Thinking Machln turned abruptly sway and disappeared Int a He rebeth. public telephon mained there for five minutes, then rushed cut to the eab Main, with Hatch following closely. "City hospital!" h commanded. Again tk cab dahd away. Hateh was dumb: ther seeined to. be ne!h. lng te say; Th Thinking Maehin some definite was plainly pursuing lin of Inquiry, yet the rportr didn't knew what Th case was getting This Isnoreealewi ,waa kaleidoscopic. found himself Strengthened when beside JTe Thinking standina; In th house with th suigeoa. Dr. Carlton. "Is there a Miss Gertrude Man I bsu hr?" the-girl- . Ma-th- in Thinking drw long breath. Lp !o thin time ther had been little perplexed wrinkles In his brow. New they disappeared. "Now. p!se." he went em, "wss any paekag or box of anv kind taktn from th stage on Saturday between nine and eleven night ocleck?" "No." said Meegan. positively. "Nothing at all until th company's bsgeage wa removed at midnight." "Ml Wallack hsd trunks In her drssln-rom?- " "Ys. whacking big ones. Te; tee." "How do you Stnow?" "Beaus I helped nut ,m In and helped take 'm uC replied Meegan. sharply. "What's it to you?" Suddenly Th Tslnhtnsj Machln turned aad ran eijt to th cab. with shadow, rloe behind, Hatch, hi drive as fast as you know "prtv. how. ts th nearest long distaae th scientist Instructed "A woman's lif th caby. is at t'o 1 tlphn!" tak:" the s?a. with searching, into "the hearts of simple men who' for ages traversed Its solitudes." Ther'j w also pictured strange, exotic lands and their peoples. At his death a novel, "8uspi?nse." dealing with Italy, Has two-thir- Prefar wr-prna- , SJMjFS. 'VfSV su-- ?k tHrxMCsC iM , Conrad was hailed aa a preme artist by hia fellow craftsmen John Galsworthy declared, following the publication of hla first dozen that their writing "la probably the only writing in th laat twelve ears that will enrich the English language." And later E. V. Lucas praised him as "the greatest English writer of all of us." In May,. 1923. Mr, Conrad paid hla first and only visit to the United Ptates, a visit that waa curtailed by Illness. After returning to his home In England he wrote that he had "left his heart in America " On Sunday, August 3. Mr. Conrtd died suddenly In his home near Canterbury. England. Witji him ware his wife and their son Asthma was announced aa the direct cause of death, but It Is also believed by his friends that hia life was shortened bv Congo fever, the price ' he pa id for .hla memorable "Heart of Darkness.". Mr. Aav Jtf done. e. In all this there is material for a fine legend if not of saintly virtues, then of a consistent display of manhood. And the legend will not be long, for the laat days of sailing ships were short if ons thinks of countless agea since the first sail of leather or nMely woven rushes was displayed to th wind. Stretching the pertnd both ways to the utmost, It lasted efronr 1H0 to 11(1.- Just sixty year. Tw6 The winking of an eve. generations.. Hardly the time to drop a, prophetic tear. DOOM WITHOUT DECADENCE. For the pathos of thst era Uee In the fact that when the sailing ships and the art of sailing thens reached their perfection they were already doomed. It was a swift doom, but it is consoling to know that there wag no decadence. That era has. however, had its historians, such as Mr. Basil Lubbock, for Instance, whose devotion to the glory of the ships and the merits of the men has the character of one of those romantic passions that last a lifetime. He. if not of the brotherhood Initiated with all the awful ceremonies of a Cape Horn passage, he speaks with much knowledge. And there is Miss C. In bs If he was resuming a former cont versation "Of course, if Miss Wallack didn't the of she ieae the theater stage was these." he said. "We will ad-nthit she did not become Invisible. The problem therefore was to find her on the The fact that no violence was stag. used against her was conclusively proved by half a doxen Instances. No one heard her scream; there was no struggle or trace of blood. Ergo, we assume In the beginning that she must have consented to the first steps which led to her reappearance. Remember, her attire was wholly unsuited to the street. "Now let us sriape a hypothesis which will fit. all the circumstances. Miss Wallack had a severe hesdache. Hypnotic influence will cure headaches. Was ther a hvpnotist to whom Miss Wsliack would have submitted herself Assume there was. Then vould that hypnotist take advantage of his control to place her In a cataleptic condition? Assume a motive and he would. Then, how would he dispose of hr? "Prom this pofht questions radiate In all directions. We will confine ourselves to the probable, granting for the moment that Ikls hypothesis, the only one wnieli fits all rcalmil of tio Ut wwU pariprapu of thi maierlal.) I. really bellev the quintessence of th soul of the latter-daseaman has Jound Is Ust resting ptae and a poignant voice before taking its flight forever from the earth. Truth Itself speaks In her verse I can safely say, since I (surprising thought) have one foot, at least. In that irrecovsrable phase of old sea. life for which their piety and their talents have don so much. CREDIBILITY DEMANDED. It Is on that ground that I would remonstrate Mr. Lubbock with against the admission Into one of his books of sea chronicles of a tale which would degrade the character of Th facta of a legend any legend need not b literally true.i But they to b eredible and they must ought be In a sort of fundamental accord with the nature 'of th life It records, that is. with th character of its subject matter. The subject of the Golden Legend is. in fact, celebration of a holiness, and the subject of any sea legend must be the celebration ef the. era of fair ships sailed with consummate sesjnanshlp an era thst seems as distant now as the sge of miracles. whom y miracle-workin- try Joseph Conrad. The history of the Utter days of men may be clipper ship and their said to begin with th Marco-Polher. commanded and the man who His name waa Forbes, and be is not of a flgur to stavnd at th head hisa sea legend. He lacked balance in character. Luck alone made him. and at the first of adversity he de- But without going into tails of his short career. I am sure I am doing good service to nis memof ory by trying to purge his recordever the most fatuous tale that sea. of the cropped up in any legend As adopted, alas! (but the best of us may err) by Mr. Percy (sic) Lubbock it runs that Forbes used to pad o -- i WT (Tie lock ths sheets of th sails, one reviewer of Marco-Pole'- s. tho book nr kindly: "To guard against timid members of W' priceless phrase, whatever It may mean. What is a "timid number" WMl . SHU HOW uu JWJ 1,' Anyhow, I am sure he ts a fitting his part In that padperson to play 1 wonder who was th lock story. man to tell It? He must have been an Ironmonger trying foe a new outlet for hia wares. And to What sort of audience? Personally I would hava s, been afraid to tell it. to "Th that mysterious corps which, is famed for its capacity to swsilone anything In the way of a, yarn. th 1 .Hone-Marine- g th Thinking' Ma"No," replied chln. "8h is out now. dead or alive I am Inclined to believe alive." "And the man?" "I will turn him over to th police In half an hour after we reach Boston." Prom South station th scientist snd Hatch wer driven immediately to polle headquarter. Dttective Mallory. whom Hatch knew wll, received them. "W got your 'phone from Springfield " he began. "Was eh dead?" Interrupted the Scientist. "No," Mallory replied. "She was unconscious when we took her out of the trunk, but no bones are broken. She is badly bruisedTh doctor says she's hypnotised." "Was th piece of candy taken from her mouth?" "Sure, a chocolate cream. It hadn't melted." "I'll com back her In a few minutes and swak her." said Th "Cm with u Thinking Machln. now and get the man." th detect v entered Wonderingly the cab Bnd the three wer driven to a big hotel a dosen blocks away. - permed Before they entered the lobny The Thinking Machine handed a photograph to Mallory, who studied it under an electric light. "That man is upstairs with others," explained the scisntist. "Pick him out ' and get behind him when we enter the room. He may attempt to shoot. Don't touch him until I say so." In a large room on the fifth floor Manager Stanfield of the Irene Wallack company had assembled the men of her support, This waa done at the 'phoned request of The Thinking Machine. There were no preliminaries when Professor Van Dusen entered. H squinted comprehensivent straight to ly about him, then " Langdon Mason. "Were you on the stage In th third act of your play before Miss Wallack was to appear I mean the play laat Saturday night" he ssked. "I was." Mason replied, "for at least three minutes." "Mr. Stanfield, Is that correct?" "Yes," replied the manager. There was a long, tense silence, broken only by the steps of Mallory as he walked toward a distant corner of the room. A faint flush crept sev-er- Into Masnp's fact as ha Teallted that th questions were almost an accusation. He started to speak, but trie steady. Impassive voice of Th Thinking Machine stopped him. "Mr. Mallory, tak your prisoner," it said. was a fierce, Instantly there and thoso present turned frantic-str- uggle, to see the detective with his great arms locked about Stanley Wightman. the melancholy .Taqucs of "As Tou lAk It." Th actor's face waa distorted, madness blazed In the eyes, and he snarled like a baast st bay. a sudden movement Mallory By threw Wlghtman and manacled him, then looked up. to find The Thinking Machine peering over his shoulder at th prostrate man. "Yes, he's a hypnotist," th sciencontist remarked- in clusion. "It always tails in th pupils of th eyes." Miss Wallack was aroused, and told a story almost Identical with that of Th Thinking Machine. Stanley Wightman, whose brooding over a hopeless 'ove for her made a maniao of him. raves and .shrieks the lines of Jaqties In the seclusion Of a padded cell. Why Men With Strong Nerve Force Dominate Others the circumstances. Is correct. y s hypnotist would not hav atto get her out. of the dressing-rtempted oom. What remains? On of the two trunks In her room." "You Hatch gasped. mean you think It possible that she waa hyp. Weak Nerve Force is often the sole cause of Are you falling; backwards or yo noilsed and placed In that second trunk, the one that was strapped and chronic ill health and lack of success in your ahead in life? If others pass locked?" he ssked "It's the only thing that eould hsv undertakings. lack of you, may be duo hsppened." said The Thinking MaBow to tell if you are suffering from exhausted sufficient nerva fores chine emphatically: "therefor 4 that is Just what dkt happen.". Nerve Force and what to do, explained by a in your nerve and "Why, it's horrible!" exclaimed physician for the benefit of readers. Hatch. "A live woman In a trunk brain cell to giv for forty-eighours? Evn if ah A ansa, who keeps bis nsrre and brain roll Sued with plenty of was alive then, she must b dead you physi be oerre his felt th mwaeat faros, make pxeeeno now." to mom. , power Th a Ilttl enters reporter sfiuddsred Counties numbers of meo. who started la lif with youthful strength and gaxed curiously at th inscrue on ths verj-table face of his companion. H saw aod rigor, datanauiwd to wis. tnd themselves today of a physical aad oemus breakdown, simply because they did not men and ro pity, no horror, there: ther merely the reflection of the working keep their seres aod brala osU fllktd with nerve force. In the mad rao for suecaas, tbey base allowed king hours, worry sad overwork of a rain. "It does not necessarily follow to drain front their nere and brain call that wonderful life gtricg that she is dead," explained The fluid called "Kerr Fore." Without steely of serve lore, you lose "If she at that your mtgoetism. f"ro aod oouraga, yon feel your own wralrpa Thinking Machine. third piece of candv before she waa and others know thai you are weak. Ts moment you enter aa win. hypnotised she is probably dead. If office to apply for a position, or try to U goods, or put through, it was placed m her mouth after she a business deal of eoy kind, tba men opposite you instincwas in a cataleptic condition th feels aad knows that you in a weak character, chances are that she Is not dead. tively and you ar therefor doomed to failure, while th strong. The candy would not melt, and her eoureou man. with plenty of nerve forceful, system could not absorb th poison." fore la hi nere and magnetic brain cells, faces and overcome "But she would be suffocated her svery obstacle aad difficulty sad sueetssfuUy goes on to great suooess In life, hones would be broken by th rough while yon may sit. Berrous weaVUng, your fate. bemoaning handling of the trunk ther ar a Medical science and chemistry have proven, that nsrre force is a derful prods hundred possibilities," the reporter distinct substance, auniuu to your blood. It wes waa suggested la the most important .fluid jn your body. later cam. "A person in a cataleptic condition blood with life force to to and seres It your give is singularly Impervious to injury." organic Iron, "There ts sf roar brala. If you cannot think right. If replied the scientist. end other If are valuable) Irritable and course a chanc of suffocation, but your memory falls. yeu ineradlenta anw a great deal of air may enter a easily upett, trifling things anney yeu. look Bam of "Kuxsted Iron." so that Into your-asforce. Whan yeur nerve trunk." true artificial nerve force ready to be trans "And th candy?" Hatch asked. force become weakened, all th vital organs formed into active living nerve fores, the "Tes. th candy. We know that of your body lot their aormaK strength and moment it enters th body, may now easily two pieces of candy neary killed the rigor, and as a result, all kid of alarming b hsd, simply by takls two tablets Yet Mr. Mason admitted havmaid of symptom gisy appear. From the pal as Kuxsted Iron three, time a day, with or. across th back, one person ttusk he ha ing bought It. This sdmisslea. Indiafter your meal. Organic iron, contained cated that this poisoned candy Ik not kidney troubl; another may think his In Nuxated Iron Is like tba iron the candy h bought. Is Mr. Mason la rout pin la Injured because at th lender apots blood. 'It not only quickly enriches tb He hasn't th No. a hypnotist? which may occur thereon. Ths dull heavy m W tells His blood, but It also stimulate tb blood ta that. eyes. picture the head the of lower la the at pain part Bianuf actur a greatly Increased know that Mr. Mason did buy candy back ef the of neck, toads another to think th nerve force, so that Nuxated supply for Miss Wallack on several occaIron not he is going to hsve paresis, and from the W know that sometimes h sions. only feeds artificial certs force directly to or fuloces in the pressure left It with the stage doorkeeper. W disagreeable tbs nerve and brain otils. but it Indirectly to. know thst members of th company front ef m bead, another feekt be It going crease the producllonof Berveforce through, stopped- tbr for ,mall. W lntantly to die from hlf b blood pressure. tlpleesnae rach eats it la weras tkia tb medium of th blood. see that it waa possible for on to and aervous irritability, heart paipitaUoa foolish to waste your tine take away that box and substitute aod indigestion ar very common tymp. MANUFACTURERS ing mere aurBuieusg med- NOTE- -. "a.. poisoned candy. All the boxes ax A 'Z Millions of people are oslng Nuxated Iron. tome. 600M people are bora with a wary icins or narcotic drugs. Your From nerves the must have starving slik. beneficial result which remarkably amount of Bene fere, because thei nerve food or ' Madness and th cunning sf mad- smalt something to supply increased it has produced, the manufacturers feet so nerve hss been sejuandered by the nerve the same as s starving nan must certain of its efficacy that tbey guarantee ness It back of all this. It was a lives ledforce foro, their use ancestors. by Other op have bread to make new flesh and muscle- For satisfactory results to deliberate attempt 01 murder .Mis their nerve force faster than the body can every purchaser, or tbey and due, per. Wallack. long ponder centuries science searched for a nerve force will refund your money. If you are weak, In every ease your nerve food. but make or it, to in. hopeless At last a celebrated French physician nervous ewvxuadoem. m unrequited haps, bnetUnf fat Ufa, and when it fatustion. It began with tht- poisoned force ie yottr, capita) brought to the attention of tb Paris Aca- Iron today, ind if wham two weeks candy, and that falling, went to a is gone, your capital is tone, th same as demy of iledicic a remarkable product not feel that it has Increased your nerveyou d force, point Immediately following th mo- if yeu bad lost or squandered your capital which contained the principal ehemical snd made yeu feel better and stronger in evsrw ment when tb stag manager last tn busine. rVhen you lack serve force, of active nerve force, la a way, rour money will be refunded. Look for spoke to the actress. The hypnotist thre ie only on thing that is going so lorui wibJi moat' living resemble that m the word "Nuatcd"cvt wa prqbabty in her room then. Vou package. S14 more aerv force, Ia toe brala sad nerveclosely won by all druggist. ceils of msn. must remember that it ivrji'd hkv beip yeu, and that is "him for tosasase bsen possible th headache aed at the seme time leave Miss waiiacx fcee-JP'?- 7 trnghtl Obvi-rusl- n hour later Van. Hutchinson Hatch wr n rushing back to Boston. Th Thinking Machln had been In the minutes. telephon pooth for fift When b earn out Hateh bad asked several questions, to which th scientist vourhssjed n answer. Tbey ps thirty, minutes before ths scientist perlence.' Springfield showed any disposition to talk. Then "Is Miss Wsliack still In th be began, without preliminary, much trunk?" asked Hatch after a ailenea. Half and Dun a train 4 living. In the Sitcceedinp thirty years there came from hla pen twenty-fou- r volumes, most of them filed with the glamour and also the cmelty of THE THINKING MAGHINE (Csntlaiiea By JOSEPH CONRAD. d And Fill the Important Positions in Life in; B it to the cal forge ahead the tal strength to think th ig thoughts that tu r at a |