ROMANCE AND INTRIGUE
"HIS WIFE.”
By Mrs. VICTOR RICKARD.
Author of "The Light above the Gromroads"; "The
A Reckless Puriton, House of Courage;
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"TOO MANY CROOKS.”
EXCELLENT MYSTERY COMEDY AT WORLD.
The amusing and exciting ex-] perience of a young authoress į looking for "colour" for books on arime form the theme of "Too Many Crooks," a new, mystery comedy which will be screened at the World Theatre to-day and to- She had an insatiable curiosity morrow. In order to gain the for her connected with the private affairs necessary atmosphere of Royalties or people with titles, latest crook drama, the young wo the underworld, and the paper was fllustrated with man invades
a number of photographs and anap- where, from a host of criminals shots. It must be wonderful, she she chooses four different types of felt, to bo pursued by cameras in the law, breakers, and installs them Park, and to be of interest to the in her country home
as guests.
WALTER PRIESTLY has married, in very unusual circumstances, ORANGE LAVINGE, who later confessos that she loves another man, by whom she has been illt Mrs. PRIESTLY, Walter's mother,
world where great functions took Trouble arises when the quartette is annoyed at her son's hasty place. Walter, rich man though lieve her to be one of their own marringe, about which she was he was, made no effort and had no kind and a whole series of hilar!- not consulted. His daughter
wish to climb into such spheres.ous incidenta tako place before ADA, is also annoyed. She is, how Her mother disapproved of "fast" the final climax which comes as
ever, in love with
society, and felt that many young a surprise. The picture was CRAKENTHORP, Walter's mana-
ger, who, while obviously an ad-Peers had made marriages of a directed by Feed Newmayer, who
kind to be deeply deplored.
was responsible for many Harold Turning over the pages, Ada Lloyd successes, and the cast" in- mirer of his master's wife, paya
Marlon Davis, Lloyd attentions to his master's sister looked at the photographs of house cludes KATHARINE THORPE, Walter's parties and race meetings. Ifor, Hughes, George Bancroft and
typlat, causes Orange moments of rather, when she married Craken-El Brendal
thorp she could not hope to enter: jealousy.
this charmed circle. Crakenthorp had not, as yet, said anything at sho all definite, and sometimes wondered what he meant. In a Crakenthorp, his cyca on Orange Way, she felt, it might be a good and his attentions directed to Ada,thing if Mrs. Priestly probed the
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CHAPTER XI.
The situation was certainly a strange one.
LETTER GOLF,
From
To-day's round of letter golf became steadily more assiduous, question, and put it to her son's sounds harder than it is. and yet, in spite of this, Ada was manager that io run after a girl HARD to BOIL is a fairly simple patchy of temper and increasingly for ever was not possible, Ade-par five hole. hosille to her elster-in-law. It was claration
of intention must be
as though she discerned a hiddentado, and unless Hubert Craken- flaw and felt injured and angry, thorp showed signs of coming to even though on the surface things the point it might be a good move for Mrs. Priestly to take a hand at were going well with her,
the game.
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Orange, dimly conscious of her
She had found out, by direct powerful effect upon the imagina- tion of her husband's manager, questioning, that there had been a avoided him deliberately and listen tragedy in his family. Some my- had left him ed to Ada's rhapsodies about him sterious illness with a feeling of alarm. Ada was motherless, and his father had not building up a huge towering struc-been satisfactory. He had made ture which had no foundations, and his own way in life, and-she what would happen once it crashdurned another page of the paper- been at a big house to the earth? But In reality her had never
She party, or among the well-dressed thoughts were with Walter. was at fault and admitted it honest-crowd on the Lawn at Ascot. For
1The idea of letter, golf is to ly to herself. It was she who had that part,, neither had Ada, but erected the larrier which held so there was no very real reason why surely, and though she still re-she might not. Her thoughts change one word to another and peatedly said to herself that she did wavered off, and then, as she con- do it in par, a given number of three strokes, COW, net and could not love him, she Linued to study the pictures, her strokes. Thus to change COW to
HOW HEW HEN. could not endure to think that eyes rounded suddenly, and she lien, In
2-You can change only one Katherine Thorpe might take the stared with her. lips parted,
What she saw was a full-page place in his heart which she und
one tophotograph of a girl in evening letter at time. refused. There was no whom she could speak of all this, dress. A very beautiful photo- and nursing her miserable sense of graph indeed, and one which she re- having made a fool of herself, she jeugnised at once. grew pale and heavy-eyed,
3-You must have a complete word, of common usage, for each jump. Slang words and abbrevia-! Lions don't count.
-The order of letters cannot be
It was Orange. Smiling at her from the page, Mra. Priestly, always auave and her sister-in-law took a foremost
the changed. discreetly cheerful, watched pro- place. In the paper. Under ceedings with the fixity of fate. picture she read the words: "The Every now and then she added care beautiful Miss Orange Lavinge, other page, fully prepared fuel to the fire, and daughter of the late Admiral and
One solution is printed on an-
pointed out obliquely that Walter Lady Dermoine Lavinge, whose en-wearing, and danced on her hair. was frequently late coming backgagement to Lord Staveling has She passed out of sight down a path, which. disappeared under a from the Works, and that she hoped just been announced."
For a moment or two Adn did long rose-covered pergola, and a that his typist was not "one of these
was too little later Hubert Crakenthorp not alir. Her surprise silly girls."
*Why does he not employ a man, complete. Orange, daughter of a followed in the same direction..
Mrs. Priestly got up slowly.and Orange?" she said, pointedly. "lady of title and engaged to Lord
window curtains, Walter's have an old-fashioned objection to Staveling, owner of Green Silk, the peered from behind the shelter of was following Walter's: petticoats in an offee. You ought horse which had won the Derby! her
She knew of Staveling, as who did manager to interfere."
Staveling, with wife; there was no doubt as to that Tell him yourself," Orange sug-not? Earl of gested. "I don't feel as you do, Mortimer House, in London, and fact in Mrs. Prieatly's mind. Mrs. Priestly."
Staveling Park, in Lincolnshire; a man who hat figured in the Divorce! Court-Orange had been engaged to him! Did Walter know? She got up and, carrying the paper with her, went immediately to her she other's room.
"I never interfere," Mrs. Priestly replied firmly. "It is not my place. But I now life and the world."
Orange turned on her suddenly, "And you want to imply that
Walter is not to be trusted," said. "That he might do some- thing hateful?"
In reply to her knock, Mrs. Priestly, who was writing letters Mrs. Priestly bent over a rose at her table in the window, turned bush, for she had followed Orange Jand, looking at her daughter, im- into the garden to speak to her mediately realised that Ada was in privately, "Walter is to be trust- a state of intense excitement:
"Mother, I have found out some- ed," she said, without heat, "but whether one can feel so safe, with thing!" she said, shutting the door Miss Thorpe is what I am not at all behind her and coming to the prepared to say. The woman, Ortable. Mrs. Priestly dried her ange, was the temptress in the Gar-pen. "Who Orange is." She hand- den of Eden. She is equally the jed the paper to her mother.
Mrs. Priestly put on her tempiress in an office, sitting be hind a typewriting machine. She spectacles and read the announce. might very easily compromise my ment beneath the photograph,
whilst Ada watched her, son."
"You speak as if Walter was a
"So that is it," Mrs. Priestly
fool," Orange said, angrily. "After said, heaply.
all, though he is your sun he is also
my husband." Mrs. Priestly was
"Does Walter know?"
"It is better te should not, Lord
allent, Luz her heavy eyebrows lift-Staveling is nothing to be proud of,
ed gently. Sl siled to herself, I can assure you, Ada. This dis and went onwards ahead of Orange. play," she tapped the paper, "does As for Welter, he kept to the not impress me; 1 am sorry to eame line. Never once did he neck know that Orange does not come out Orange for a talk together, and from a simpler home.".
When Ada had left, carrying the though his manner to her was per- fectly and consistently con-paper with her, Mrs. Priestly sat siderate, he made no attempt to for a long time, thinking. The encroach. He seemed to have given knowledge that Orungo was the in to her declaion with a kind of only child of Lady Hermoine still finality, and whether he saw Lavinge, and that her father. had her pitiful little efforts to make been, Admiral Lavinge, was cer signals to him across the gulf or tainly better than to discover that not, no ono could tell. In every way she had been on the stage, which he was courteous and kindly to his fat one time Mrs. Priestly had fear- might be the -case. But, Mother and Ada. Ade's interest in jed Crakenthorp must have been' evi-against, that, the broken engage dent to him, though he did not seemment to Staveling filled her with to notien her specially. Craken-misgivings, Lord Staveling's re- thorp was constantly at the house, cord had been a stormy one, and and Walter was glad to see him the had done almost everything he there. Perhaps he was too deeply should not have done. Sho recall- absorbed in his own inwarded photographs she had seen of thoughts to notice anything outside, him. Good-looking, hard and head- but Orange, smarting under the re-strong. He had been divorced by peated and guarded attacks of Mrs. his first wife, who had been n Priestly, and the steady attitude of dancer. Why, then, had Orange, dislike on the part of Ada, withdrew on the eve of her wedding, turned more than ever to the sheltered round with such a complete volle- face and married Walter Pricatly? silence of her own rooms.
"It will end, disastrously," she
One bright July morning, when
a light mist had cleared off, mak-eald to herself, her eyes growing ing way for sky of turquoise blue, heavy with gloom, Ada, who had been turning out an
As she stared through her win-
old cupboard full of papers left dow, the subject of her thoughts, there by the late owners of Cedar- passed across the grass, running wood, came upon a copy of "The with World we Live In."
her doga. The sunlight caught the white dress Orange WAS
(To Be Continued.)
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