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Show MURDER MASQUERADE By She was kind. We worshiped her INEZ HAYNES IRWIN my wile and I. Doctor Marden came to a full Copyright Inn llaynri Irwin lie put his hand over his stop, Service. WNU eyes and sank back into the past. Presently with a deep sigh he THURSDAY Continued emerged into the present again. When the war came, I enlisted IS I'm afraid, Doctor Marden, as a volunteer in the French mediPatrick said his last word, I shall cal service. I will say here that have to ask you not to leave the we are a medical family, so to Head until I give you permission." speak. Before the war was over, I give you my word I shall not there were a half dozen Mardcns leave it." working in France. When the Unit"Well, Mary," Patrick said in a ed States came in, I was transIt all makes sense. ferred to the American service. weary tone. Here we have a perfect design lie paused and looked inquiringly Torriano first, Margaret next, then at Patrick. Patrick nodded. He Marden. No one of them sceins did not speak. I knew that no to have told anything but the truth. more Ilian 1 would he have interTheyre all dying to toll the truth. rupted the flow of that story. If somebody would only lie, maybe Doctor Marden went on. My I could gel the answer. Of course wife threw herself into war work she said she thought Margaret too. For four years she worked heard something stirring in the daily at the American Ambulance noticed bushes. Marden apparently in Neuilly. now Eleanor perhaps nothing like that. Now there may I had better tell you about Eleahave been another person involved nor. or any number. For that matter, "Eleanor was a natural nurse. Margaret Fairweather may have She never took a course in nursreturned and Oh, I don't know who killed Ace Blaikie. Im no ing, but I taught her everything nearer knowing than I Was Satur- I knew. She volunteered when I did and the French sent her to the day. Whos that?" She hospital at Courcy-sur-Sein- e. Vaguely in the back of my mind stayed there for about a year. I I had heard Doctor Marden drive saw her only at irregular intervals. off. In the back of my mind I I had an occasional permission heard a second motor turn into the drive. It stopped. Presently a light, from the front and then she and my swift step came through the hall wife and I would try to manage a and into the living room a light, reunion at our home in Paris. But swift step strangely stiffened by I did not see much of Eleanor during the first months of the war. I determination. went through what many husbands I've come back to tell you the were through in France then. rest of my story, Mr. OBrien," I sawgoing wife getting more and my told raid Myron Marden. I havent more fatigued nervously exhaustyou all of it yeti" ed. But Eleanor stood up to it marvelously. But every time I saw all we sat three Involuntarily her, it seemed to me that she had down. become more of a woman, more I will, begin it by telling you, and more beautiful. Then Ace Doctor Marden took up the story Blaikie appeared in her life. in the quietest voice I had ever Again Doctor Marden came to a heard from him, something that and now he did not cover his pause .will, I think, come as a great surface with his hands. He presented, prise to you." He paused as though to summon his strength for the Ace Blaikie is the farevelation. ther of my granddaughter Caro ! Prentiss." He paused again as though for a question or comment from us. But neither Partick nor I spoke. We did not stir. His statement had worked too great a paralysis for us either to speak or move. Ill have to go back of course to tell you how it came about. I will begin with my own marriage. My wife was a New York woman. When I met her, about forty years ago, she was a widow. She had been widowed twice and both times under tragic conditions. Her first husband, Theodore Prentiss, also a New Yorker, was thrown from his hearse a month after their marriage. He died instantly. She became the mother of his posthumous child a boy, Theodore Prentiss. Five years later, she married again Addison Dacre. He too was a New Yorker. While they were traveling in Prance, he died in Paris of a case of pneumonia. She was pregnant 'at the time and the shock brought ion the premature birth of a little girl who was to be named Eleanor lacre. I was established as a rsician in Paris and I was called on the case. This was immediately after the funeral I never met lAddison Dacre. Mrs. Dacre was a beautiful woman a very lovely woman. I felt that if the child died, her very reason would go. I threw myself heart and soul into saving that little waif and I did save her. I took care of her for months. Oi course that constant attendance brought Mrs. Dacre and me very close. By the time Eleanor was a ! pre-knatu- year old, we realized that life meant nothing to either of us without the other. Six months later we were married quietly in Paris. My practice was there and we have lived in Paris, except for our holidays, ever since. My wife died two years ago and, after I had a little, recovered from my grief, I decided to return to America. But I am running ahead of my story. I must go back to Eleanor. There could not possibly ever have lived a more lovely child than Eleanor. And when I use the word She 'lovely, I use it advisedly. was lovely in face and figure; lovely in heart and spirit. I adored her. A beautiful child, Eleanor grew to be a beautiful woman. I do not think that tliis is prejudice. Everywhere, her appearance made a sensation. That was not entirely due to her beauty perhaps. It was partly her coloring. It was the most delicate blonde 1 have ever seen ethereal. Often Mrs. Marden and I discussed the proper adjective to apply to Eleanor. She was not angelic nor seraphic nor cherubic. Site was too tall to be fuiry-likHer hair was Site was sprite-likthe palest gold, her features what we used to call mignonne, her eyes deeply violet. The French always stared at Iter and in Spain and Italy she created such a sensation that she did not like to go out on the street alone. She had courage enough, but site hated the little incidents which occurred here and there along the way. I will not say that Eleanor was an angel, although site was a kind of modern angel. She was too vigorous to suggest that sort of thing. But she was absolutely honest. Site was sweet. e. e. . It was several months child. Minds, Few Words Big aft- er th:.s discovery before she saw Ace Blaikie. At their first meeting, she told him that she was going to make their marriage public. She could see, as she told me subsequently, that Ace Blaikie was appalled at this discovery. He tried to get her to withdraw from the hospital and go to America. And if not to America, to Italy or Spain. As it is the mark of great r to say many things in 0 few words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say no'hii... the blouse and of all stitches used; La Rochefoucauld. material requirements. To obtain this pattern send 15 cents in stamps or coins (coins I AM THE FAMOUS preferred) to The Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept., 259 W. O-CEDMOP. THE Fourteenth St., New York. N. Y. WORLD'S MOST number, Write plainly pattern POPULAR your name and address. HOUSEKEEPING HELPER. ! ' Like a gay addition to your all course year round" wardrobe? Of and you would! Then take a tip knit this fetching blouse. Youll love the laciness of a pointed yoke, so prettily set off by plain to Eleanor steadily refused. Finally, stockinette stitch, ofand are sure ribbing 'cross she told him if he gave her no adore the snug fit help, she must apply to me that the marriage must be announced. I WORK THE Thereupon, he told her that she Gold Is Not All all. NEVER at DUST in not married SCATTER was, IT. reality, That, a few years before, he had 50 years one of the most . lto EASY TO WASH. For secretly married in the United popular exhibits in Blackburn muStates- an actress by the name of seum has been a nugget of pure Drina Demoyne Australian gold" weighing 71k Drina Demoyne! 1 interrupted. ounces. I've seen Drina Demoyne. Why, Tempted by the high price of what was it I read about her just the museum committee regold, the other day? She died recently." cently obtained the permission of Yes," Doctor Marden answered. the council to sell it. The gold Her death has a great bearing was sent to a London firm of on this story. That revelation cf assayers, who replied that the Ace Blaikies was really Eleanor's nugget consists merely of bradeath warrant. She never saw him ziers metal and lead, and does not contain a particle of gold. again. But site communicated with Pattern 5655 me once. I got a permission and came back from the front. She the told me the whole story. My wife the hips. Ribbing also bands of Knit it ' sleeves. simple to save and I had but one' idea string or yarn, in one of Eleanors reputation. Now 5655 that my wifes son by her the new shades! In pattern makfirst marriage, Theodore Prentiss, you will find instructions for ing the blouse and skirt in sizes was living during the war in a rean illustration of 8 and mote village in southern France. He volunteered for both the French 4-PIEand American armies. But he had CE and an invalid been always could not be used either as a soldier or in any civilian capacity. for only He was married and his wife was 25 c complete with pregnant. I sent Eleanor to them. s wife died bringing a My dead child- into the world. Theo- it's a Good Start your purchase dore survived her only .six months. his best foot forwho He puts of one can of In the meantime, Eleanor bore a ward stands the best chance of perfectly healthy baby whom she getting there with both feet. B. T. Babbitts named Caroline after my wife. This There is always a right way to was the Caro whom you know.' Bemost of Nationally Known fore he died, Theodore suggested a settle our problems, but caused are troubles our by trying plan. We carried it out. We. regBrand of Lye istered her in the Marie of Lftitry to avoid that way. It js far better to fail in a good as Caroline Blaikie. We registered to & T. Babbitt; Inc- - Dept WN, 86 This lovely pan her under that name as an Ameri- cause than to succeed in a bad one. Fourth Are- - New York City, N. Y. Your fork, soup spoon and teaspoon in can citizen, with the consul of MarEmpire design ia offered solely to Set will reach sou promptly, postage If it were not for folly, it would seilles. I can show you that she gat yon to try the pars birnnda of lye paid. Youll thank us far the Set and (or bears that name on her passport. be hard to define wisdom. with 100 uac abovn at right. Ue lye for Introducing thaaa brands of Lya to you. Work From cleaning clogged and frozen drain pipei, But we told all her friends in Paris Improvement for making liner soap, for sweetening OFFER and have told them ever since that works one the better The more a will, etc. Youll use no other Lye once she was Theodores child. As soon one works and the more one wants youve tried one of these brands. as I could get leave, I took my to work. The more one produces wife and daughter to Spain. Cy the more capable one grows. He paused. For an instant he bit They say people who make his lower lip as though to fang out promises lightly will eventually of it the emotion which made it pay heavily. Hardly. They gentremble. erally break their promises, lightf. ly, too. There my daughter killed AR FAST-HOL-D - soft-color- 16-1- THIS 38-4- 0; hlncle SILVER SET ftlul S step-son- - .. aflver-pUte- d Set-kn- ife, aristo-ent- ie m her-sel- Neither Patrick nor I made comment. He himself made no further comment. When we returned-- ' to Paris, however, there was never any question of Eleanors not being Theodore Prentisss child Caroline Prentiss. And so she rew up. She has no more idea of her relationship to Ace than you had before I told you this story. As she is a minor, I got her passport She has never seen it r O. W.UK ' THEY LOOK TOO 8LAMED HAPPY.' are wfe Goins to stand for it? WHATS THAT? You WANT TO GET MARRIED? WELL SHOULD SA NOT GRACE GO TO 'tbUR ROOM 'AND YOU, VDUN0 MAN GET OUT AND STAY -- e-r--i JL I out Concealing her real name from Caro has been one of the minor troubles of my. life. But Ive accomplished it I brought her up in Paris, as you know. But as she grew older, I wondered about her forbears in America. I knew that people thought of Ace Blaikie as a rich man. I knew that he had property in Satuit, Massachusetts. I began to wonder if, as he grew older, he would not want his only child if only child she were to in. herit that property. At first I put this thought out of my mind. But, it kept recurring. It troubled me. I finally found it was keeping me awake nights. Sleepless nights began to recur a little too often. I made inquiries and found that Ace Blaikie was not only accepted as a bachelor but that nobody knew that he had ever been married. Ultimately I decided to come to the United States, to establish myself - Then He Took Up His Story Again. unscreened, the hard bitter eyes, the tight-shlips; the setness of every line and curve. I know that you, Mrs. Avery, are acquainted with the factors of Ace Blaikie's war experience because I've heard you discuss them ut so often. And besides, I reminded him, "my husband was in France." Well then, I will merely say that it was while he was in the Foreign Legion that he met Eleanor. It seemed to have been a case of love at first sight. Certainly with Eleanor. And as she afterward told me. Doctor Blaikie said it was so with him. But when it comes to Doctor Blaikie and love The expression on Doctor Mar-den- 's face deepened so horribly that it was as though the blood behind the flesh had turned to ink. For a moment the term my husband used to use in regard to boxing and boxers came into my mind fighting face. he did not know really what love was. On that side he was not man but beast. At any rate they met as often as his permissions and hers allowed. What happened of course was that Ace Blaikie discovered that in order to possess my daughter, he must offer her marDoctor Mar-den- 's riage. Understand voice shot to us a perempUnderstand that this tory order. was not a subject that Eleanor would discuss with any man. lie had to learn that to sense it. And he was apparently extremely acute in sensing the reactions of the oilier sex. At any rate they were married secretly. That was before the United Slates came in. It was in the summer of 1915. I will not go into all the ins and outs of this. I will say only that marriage in France is a very complicated matter. Ace Blaikie had made friends with a French olliccr who had a long pull. He fixed it so that Ace and Eleanor were married secretly. Presently Eleanor found herself pregnant. She told me afterward that there was nothing in the world she wanted so much as to bear a at Satuit. It made things easy for me because I had never met Ace Blaikie. In the war somebody start- - j ed calling Eleanor Sister Dora after an old novel, the heroine .of which was a nurse. I confess I have never read it. Ace Blaikie never called her anything but Sister Dora. .Although Eleanor's name was Dacre, the name of Marden might of course linger in Ace Blaikies mind. Still, as I said before, there had been at least half a dozen physicians named Marden working in Paris during the war. Last spring, as you both know, I came here to Satuit. I met Ace Blaikie socially, of course, although I made no effort to meet him. Caro's name was neither his nor mine. If the coincidence of a physician from Paris by the name of Marden gave him pajse, he did not let me know it. He may have thought of me only as one of the Marden connection in Paris. In the meantime I stud'H my man. I found that he was engaged to be married to a beautiful, charming and estimable young girl. That girl became Caros most devoted friend. I confess to you I did not know what to do. If he married. Ace Blaikie was likely to leave children. In the matter of inheritance, his legitimate heirs would of. course take precedence over Caro. And the last thing in the world I wanted for Caro's sake was a scandal. I let the summer drift by in welter of in- decision." lie paused again and seemed reminiscently to survey that long direful period. Then he took up his story again. (TO UK COXTIM'EDI - YXJR MONEY eACK.--- - IF SWITCHING TO POSRM L DCESNT KELP YOU! If you ate one of thou who cannot sat-l- rfrink Postums y test. 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