The Milwaukee Leader

(Novelized from the Broadway Success Now Running.)

The nights gleamed faintly blue in the hotel. Everywhere the atmosphere of the Orient prevailed in the corridor of Mukden's best hotel. In the red and gold embroidered hangings, in the teakwood stands set with squat Chinese vases, and in the mumble of Pidgin English and Chinese gutturals employed by the two Chinese servants who crouched on the floor and gambled for the next tip.

"Someone--he comes," muttered one of the men, and they scrambled respectfully to their feet and stood in postures of meekness and service as the cockney porter escorted a strange figure down the corridor.

The man who followed the porter was unshaven and shabby. His clothes bore signs of hard wear, his linen was soiled and frayed, his bulging, shapeless shoes were caked with mud. His lean, clear-cut face was strained as if from suffering and hunger, his emaciated body sagged hopelessly as he stalked gauntly down the corridor of sinister blue lights.

And yet one of the Chinamen smiled and edged toward him with the ingratiating eagerness one reserves for a personage. And, indeed, in all the air and manner of the shabby stranger was an indefinable distinction marked and underlined by tortures of suffering, both mental and physical.

There was cameo clearness to the man's features, and above the parchment drawing of his tired face the hair--copper that had melted away into silvery grayness--lay smooth and groomed.

"You can 'ave room five, sir, or room three, sir," spoke the porter.

The man started and the muscles about his drooping mouth twitched.

"Did you say--five?"

"Yes, sir."

"Five! Well, I'll take that."

"Hi think per'aps three would be a bit more comfortable, sir."

"Just the same I'll take--five."

"No tip for us," grieved the pig-tailed Chinaman to the shaven one as the door shut after the gaunt visitor.

Tan-Lo of the shaven poll smiled. There will be--I know him. He Mister Nemzetti--great friend Mister McCormick, where I work before I turn Christian."

"He not know you," jeered Sin Tschu.

"He will. Play."

And as the orientals squatted again to the absorbing occupation of throwing for "the next tip," the gaunt figure appeared in the doorway of "five."

"What are you playing for?" he asked in a voice that was smooth and finished with the polish a man of the world carries in his very intonation, a polish that his unkempt garments belied unless one looked below their shabby surface for the weave of fine cloth.

"For next tip," said Sin Tschu. "He win everything I got, so we play for that we not got yet."

"Good! I like your spirit."

Tan Lo scrambled to his feet. "How do, Mr. Nemzetti," he cooed ingratiatingly.

Patterns

115-A Pretty Dress for Mother & Girl.

What little miss will not be pleased with an easy to wear, comfortable dress like this? If made of blue linene, with a bit of embroidery on the yoke, facing in red or white, and big buttons to match, it will be very effective. The slashes, too, may be button trimmed, and the belt embroidered. The tucker, which is nice for cool days, is desirable in lawn, crepe, soft silk or batiste. The dress is a one piece model, and may be finished to close at the shoulder or in the back. The style is good for galatea, gingham, percale, kindergarten or Devonshire cloth, cashmere, serge, velvet, silk or cashmere. The pattern is cut in four sizes: Four, 6, 8 and 10 years. It requires three yards of 36-inch material for an 8 year size, with seven-eighth yard for the tucker. Brown Devonshire cloth with pipings of white linene, would make a good school dress, or blue serge or red cashmere, either with a trimming of black braid.

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