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... By MARKSMAN A Tale of a Night's Adventure Ending in Love at First Sight. Ted Gerringham pulled up the collar of his overcoat and strode away from the precincts of Fleet Street swiftly. He felt that he did not want to see the street of journalism again-- at least that night, for it had failed him. Moreover it had failed him in an hour when he particularly needed the gold that flowed from its ...

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... The Post-cubists. By George Somes Layard. /have met a Cubist, and have convinced myself that he is an inhabitant of this planet. Mr. Valentine Williams on The Cubist Mania in the Daily Mail. To-day Art has advanced beyond the multi-colour impossi bilities of les fauves.' The violence done to human nature and the human jorm by the Post-Impressionists is sur passed l\- the elliptical ...

... THE AWKWARD SITUATION. A SHORT STORY. 1 M W. Pe&& Ridlge i Jane arrived from Sussex with a brown-paper parcel tied with about thirty pieces of string, and in less than a year she had in her room at the top of the house a brown trunk as good as anything I pos sessed. She was saving too in regard to domestic details; a leg of mutton always finished as an Irish stew, a mince was the last word of ...

... By Robert W. Chambers This Story was begun in the issue of September 22 PART XVI. About four o'clock on the following afternoon Mrs Mortimer's maid, who had almost finished drying and dressing her mistress's hair, was called to the door by a persistent knocking which at first she had been bidden to disregard. It was Mortimer's man, desiring to 'know whether Mrs. Mortimer could receive Mr. ...

... MALOCCHIO I The Power of the Evil Eye. By EDWARD HUTTON, who has Just Returned from Italy So you do not believe in the Evil Eye? I did not answer, if for no other reason but that I was out of breath. Two minutes before we had been sitting at a little table in the Piazza drinking vermouth and seltzer, like a couple of hundred other people on that hot autumn evening, and then suddenly every ...

... 1 Old Mr. Rennie had put a broad crape band round the right sleeve of his snuff-coloured suit; be wore, however, a tie of vivid Stuart tartan-- the black band about his arm advertised his mourning, the brilliant colours of the tie his tastes. He carried a Gladstone bag with a travelling rug, of the same tartan as his tie, strapped on to it, and he stepped out briskly along the field path that ...

... A NIGHT'S ENCHANTMENT Tib Adlventuiire of tilhie ILadl^ Sim ftlbe Closdl Carriageo In. Two Parts. By Harold MacGrath i. So much depended upon everyone's utter lack of nervousness and embarrassment that Shaw, the stage manager, decided that my presence at the final rehearsal would only add to the tension and was therefore unnecessary. The star complained that her efforts to interpret my lines ...