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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1931-10-08, Page 6Aniceaccommastosmari ' • • , • e4.4444.4i.wien r+. • iirreSh-front* e -gardens* Zed , • • `41111.11111011191111111iSIMIU1=121,9111111111111111111 • ' • ' • • .c.F STORY BY 8 a.itiasi 011414 . , :0171',TOPBie • A sert iaf • hannt of Loki, it mild A man known as Ccitit-Etoin is frdi ' seem.' . with an arrow throukh the heart. Then • a young chap named Sprigg is shot 'It:Was just that, returned 'Vance +.44* ••••. • 94.44•40 444 4.4 t • , 4 intently .W44, .His feet were drawn ai:klackl4111Y4 nr,°:tilaS et..44414;•14. 4!: rkVa illgtuesCIltali n der What theoutcoing of this :tarrihle conference would be, The end came entiftly• . ence fo1kwedte professor's remark. Then Argesathr spoke. •a'YottaaY yore4novt who the •Bishop is, MaaYance. That being the, case, why all this palaver?" . • "There,was. no great baste," Venee was almost 'casual. "And there was the hope of tying up a few looseleads -hung juries are so unsatisfactery; don't y'.:IctioW;•. Then again, this pert is. excellent." .•• "The- Pirff .! Yea."'Aes- son glaneedat Our glasses And turned' an ieja-red-Teo it on • *.the aiaefeesdr, "Sinee when have T been.a teetotaler, , .Tbe other gave a start, .h-esltated, ati."1-;1:x ;"• :rcy(nen t? ne er drink in the fora.: iinark.”•'i•IP went to the sidehoard. • nd, another glass, placedit, aeta-li an.-unetadafty• head, efore AM:tessera Then he refilled the other. glasses, • SO sooner had he. restineedhis at thhaVance• uttered art exclamation -of surptreii—ITE-hiallrirsen' and was , . leaning foawerd, his Ilan -detesting on the edge, ot the table, his eyes- fixed • •throuais the •top of Atte head. The mur-, gmely, "-a-the, den of an evil spirit.", with netvaishment on the mantel at • paper signed The Bishop. District At :Or else the laboraiory'Of a mod...! the end of .the retina• derer writes mocking notes tothe :levy nMy,:ake0,.., I neyer noticed thnt 3.• cyanide, do you tliinic?" ": • : torney; Markham asks :the 'ate. h Doctor Faustus. •• • But why . , , 0 f IP •- friend, Philo Vance: . " • Delete -dr'. Xtr, on= The following people are*iafso-Clatell• `Ole the Bishop, ----------- p of /36.0 -41i* -15.01' cr---"tartn,okilifeted 'and atartling and so. tense was the fecautioe, I'd say. In case of • With the case: 'Prof. DiIlard;,'h•iS;neice • ' Belle, his Protege, Sigurd •.1.,itess' • •ro ' Jtroliti Pardee, a nefghbor; Mrs. nr-trig.mr • and her son',Adolph. the Picture painlessly. 'Eyerything i atmosphere, ;that involuntariiy we Vance suspects Drultker, but Drukker, 1.vung about and'looked. in the diree- , • icierbk-founamurdered; Vie -shock kilis. 'reikddiessdon't y' knoiv_.;" , Mra Drukker. Pardee apparently corn- Arnesson odder! 'than of hie laseinated-gaze: • n • • mits suicide, and Markham believetthat : "uite' a. correct :attitude on, ,as • • Pardee WEIS the. murderr., Vane, .yer, awaits a new moire. Prof. Dillard pert. Really decent 'of him, lin fact. suspects Arnesson., Then a littlis girl SO use -Putting people to unnecessa_y - no found half,suffocated the prukker - r Thome gaflcectusst1�as -A-rnesson. -4.)other-.4- -you-re -Ferner,ed.- ax-esaavery- , ---answers mockingly: • earreet"- • Professor • Dillard had sat during ' CHA.PTER XXXIX.,--LOont'(l.) ' this, sinter dialogue with one land "That.ie the flimsiest of eolith - pressed to his eyes, as though 'n pain. tory. evidence," Arnesson cthintered: .NoW Inaturned serreWfuliy t theneati "It would not help much toward a he had fathered for so many years. ' • cenviction." ,•"Many great men, Sigurd, have 4,. • , "We might be able to' show why the justified suiticle.--" he ;began; but ' ‘ • antirderer--Chope- thea---sebriqueta-,o_Li Arneseetraut-hianashart-With-aa-cynical "Ah! That thiquestionably waoli_l_d_ "Faughl Suicide nee& no justifi- . .. a . at . . help" A cloud settled on Aenesson's ' • t•nn ,•IT t •h 1 .d th th hnn • Professor Dillard trowneo a,m ,4augh. • "A•• Cellini plaque!" he exclaimed. "The 'Nyniph of ,Fontainebleau!'Ber- enson told me. it was destroyed ire the a_eyetteet4h aceatary. • I've seen . its mpanion piece inathe.Loavreaaa:.'2.___a A red flush of angry indignation mounted to Markham's eheeksa-and for myself I muA say that; fareiliar as I was with Vance's idiosyncrasies :and intellectual passion for rare. au - _titans, I had never Were knoavn him to exhibit such indefensible bad taste. el P. • • • • „e.•••••• • hat New York Is Wearing PO,A4i,;M;;OrEltrPqari..gagir#444.41,411A-.1,41' ,:4.V4.4*(4.11.41.,9* 1. .14; • • 0.4 vv. 4141 Jr: I '44 a•-• 4 BY. ANN/BELLE WORTBINgTON ,IliOstrated pressntalcing Lesson .4*urnislol 2.)gh .E2!ery Pattern a. 3317' ' • Who Wouldn't lov,e to have the •ap'portrinity to wear this sniart lit- tle woolen frock for elasSrOoni? • md skirt and skirt, cut pia modish. , feeturee she flat" neckline 'in-' ittractively shaped banded..elecf that Offers such interesting theme • • ADvakrui itC,Aiti my Cot. 120g scarl'a What Baffle' ifeforefAfter many ':.civsn. Uwe* Captain .Jimmy lands in his 'pia Its L4 tilt Island' of ,Formosa. • .fe goes land' to see the.caraphor camps and ffie Country of the head-hunting !ayages, 4t last '..vve reached a settle,ment . of little huts /with •a big one for the thanager. The camp boss was •a .young lapanese, who, spoke English • aierfeetir. Ile. had; a long white. scar across his lade, which he „told us •wes 'a 446i:we-Or froill fight :with A, -head-' :hunter, , groifp•-oe. Bev - ••age • hed.. .raided his '09111? ..cleeda'"elta,'.0glit,, eager-, to, • .tarleg- 'hieek•heada t'o• their ti .aley Be objeeted to his head :Out off and , ');.1 ;•tren''' pot, heel:iced. •:off ,the skull. ' 'the leader., Seine one threiv a knife at, him, Just graiing. his • face, and then the 'eel- ' - -diersaegine:'-eleathe ran and the °ad- ' hueteThiiyanigaidirinte aiTaa7darknessa- ---Afterathe tainp faiemanLhad told nia the story -of his • fight with the. head-hunters,' he. invited' us to. visit' the camphor. .c.amp. • ••• "This is, the: hut where - 1. slept' ,,on the night, of the attack”,• he .sald with' a grin that she:wed., his white teeth, "and athis",,- • he '.cOntinued, peinting te.. a largeairori kettle that. stciod on a crude shelf, th'e ' -berineed aeffatne,elitershead., One .neVer' knows •'when it might: •,, 'come in bandy again." . • • What- a life! Sleeping and 'WOrk- ing hi the shadow of continual. g ertainl • Ire camphor -camp; ar • 1 'fb • - We -Walked 'down a Aran through • a low forehead. • His eyes were . • trees with ',big, thick 'green leayes , •• • • • • e no p aae r a -nerve s person. • Be then showed.,,es how. a bemboo pipe •caught the steam froth the ba,r- rels and carried into slay , chambers , where it was coole,d and tureed: haela. tett) water, :la thea way! that steam from a kettle,awitl turn to water on a cold window Pane, - • Some of the cameher • erystalize. on the sides of the clay chamber and , some -,*d.tepe ..tte ' the bottom aii..,o11.• •• Atter. that: they take the. crash) eAth- I ' Ozer' and heat it again •until turns tee: %raper .and stream ,a.rtd :condense • it.,untit is . • 7 • • . In another, part' of the .e..eatariathe • • • 'Pressed! itilnto and tre'leafTbeaee,' :reedy to'send •to . J67tata4ne.i, .;!ounadmeotooltd. ;‘• . • .• from 4foitatiaf„•;:y • . ,• , ', Abofrt ixtraner:0 a Mile fiom the !!,..vrattithp.;•aW.6141:ekiiiime41,740:ea,rfW;6•10,1„.1i4)efiatItt•ar rqad side Of. it. .1%1S -tepee was. charg• - ed with electric current to keep out • ibe':hea, "d.liuntefairbliv.the hale. Near' • the tepee,: someone - • (1=1 4. -11t• -i-474-.--4-, .• , 10414,,, th, hunters tunnel- ed' under for a. , surprise attack when a patrol • fresh- earth. , • "This", -saida..ea our guide, "hap- • pened last• , night. The head- • • taught- Sight 'them. We -nabbed onp, who was not .quicii enough to get back. VVieveZsent him down th the jail for a'.while." ,Later on we had a.geed look at • , , el ima-rie was a, polatilvabuiltafel- low,with a squafirroTriTt-ta•ce-aird!".--------• ehifty,..•crafty, like those of ‘a fox. . and finally arrived at •a small cleat - He was a hard. lOoking•customer and . . ing, where .a neinoer of ares .were „ . eet the sort of perton•ydu 'would care • It is rayon pin dotted wool Voile berning. Over each fire was a large to have prowling around, en :e dark . ,in darlehrovve so emartly appropri- • pin , of water and a barrel. Our aa • were . filladaa th-----eldiusaaafroni- -the '---- t - --_- a, - ca mplior-ifeeraxda-Wherrasteantafram, the libiling water passed through these chies. It took the camphor with • for contrasting trim • -- - It -Semen. imb iev bl -that _he Woad.• ate for early fall.. ,-1The-apPliedcola, . guide a exPI Med . that the barrels. • • . IT° be ,•ethitirated) . . • . . hay letiikap„sita". Jiie,slistsacted by. an • chjet-d'drt in such .a tragic hour. face,,ead his eyes becarde reminiscent, with constyrr.'gr "I'd thought Of that, Uri': • eti r-aTiit'Ve choler a stiangetiniFteir-- . "OhThad-youirrow-?"--V-Mme-we h . i Paoudly Wh,en it is no longer possible - hi d m closely. "Aeies another t e , ._ erice I l ! -even% mentioned 'takes place in the •most. contemptible was his scathinz comment. piece ofevid • cirenmstances; the death that 'is not - Vance . appeared .ahaahed and eha- i erineale aark back in. his seat, avoiding our eyes, 'and began taming. We haye net' the power to . prevent the stem of his alass: .be•tereea ' his .to lite Variedly: The-d-liFth whier-t°7i'aulg&-Y°14-eirtshusi"nt-4°T-att-1"- Little-Mias--Maffet aelltabea_ehle 'to • .. • • -Identify' the. Man, who led. her to ••the.• Drukker tense and forced' her iiitta eeT-the7deatt-whick accarS--, wroxig time, is the •aleath coward. tb cloSet.'"• ourselves from ;being born; but this lingers. •• So! Theqatient .has 'recovered?" error -for sometimes - it is anerror-•")(eu., are. qnite right.,:eira" inur- can be -rectified if we choose: rae mule . owe yci.. an apology. man wlio does away will himself, "The -plaque, irmidentalry," the-pre- perferins thesmost estimable of deeds;Ifessor• added, by wa of mitigating he almost deServesi to live for having the severity of his rebuke, "is merely dene so.' Memorized that passage a copy of the Louvre piaae.e froin`otzen-Danamerung' et my Vance, as if to hide his ,confusion, Q youth. Never. forgot it. A souOC- raised his wine to his 1. S. 'It Wes' a trine."nd d highly • unpleasant me ent: ever , , • ,eNietzsche had many famous pre- .one's nerves were .on edge; and, in decessort Who also upheld .suicide," automatic imitation of his action, ave ing voluntary death. And Tacitus, -tile table and, rising, went Watire- lifted our -glasses -too-• supplemented Vance. "Zeno the' Stoic left-us-apassionate_dithyramb defenck Vance gave a swift' glance across Epittetus, Marcus. Aurelius, Cato, 'irell"*Indow, where he stood, his Kant, Fitche, 'Diderot, Voltaire • and back to the room. Sb u.naccountafe was his hasty departure that I turned Rousseau, all wrote apologias for sui- cide. • Schopenhaugr protested bitter- and, watched him ivonderingly. Al- • ly Against the fact that suicide was most at the same moment the edge of the table was. thrust violently against regarded as a crime in England. • : my side, and simultaneously •there And yet I wonder if the subject can be formulated. Somehow I feel that carne u, crash of • glasswate. a it's too-Pirsonal a matter -for academic • I leped to My feet and gazed down with horror at the inert body sprawled discussion." forward in the chai' opposite, one arni and shoulder' flung across the table. - A short silence of dismay and be- wildempentatollowed. Each of us seemed momentarily paralyzed. Mark- ham stood .like a graven image, hia eyes eastened en the table; and Heath, staring and speechlesst clung to the back of his chair, • "Good gad It was Arnesson's'astonished ejacu- lation that Snapped the tension. • Markham 'Went quickly round the table and bent over Professor Dil- lard's body'. "Call It doctor, A.rnesson," he ordered. Vance turned wearily from the win- dow And smile into a chair. • "Nothirig can be done for him," he • said, with a deep sigh of fatigue. ''He • _"Oh, quite. .Ding nicely, in . fact. •• We foundahera d'ye see, twenty-four hours before the •Bishop intended .us • , • Arnesson was silent. He, was star- •ing down at his hands .which, though fOldeilawere working nerieusly. Fin- ally he spoke. • . "And if, in spite of everything, you were wrong. . • . • - l'i•asiure-you, Mr Ariiesson," said- • Vance qpietly, "that I know who is &kr• • "Yon positively frighten me!" •The man had got a grip en himself, aid • he retorted with biting irony. "If, by any chance,' I myself were *the Bishop, I'd be inclined. to admit -de- feat. . . . • Still, it's /trite , obvious • that it was the Bishop who took the ' chessman to Mrs. Drukker at mid.: • • night; and I didn't return home with Belle until half past twelve that „• • • . . ‘144, .00 4. ' - The profesoragreed-sadly. "So you informed her. As I recall; • "No one can, know what goes on in you looked at your :watch and told the •human heart in :that lazt dark ' her what time it -was. Come; -now: hour" ' • • what time was it?" .; .........._ • CHAPTXL. . "That's correct ----half past twelve." ' EB Vallee sighed and tapped -the ash from his •cigarette. During this discussion IVIarkhani had • "I say; Mr Arnesson; how good a been' growing impatient and uneas, chemist are you?" • ' ;• and Heath, though at -first rigid and • "One Of the best," the marl grin- ned "Majored in it. What thee?" • "When I was searching •the attic , , this morning I discovered a little wall • closet in which Some: one had been distilling hydrocyanic acid from lioa tassiurn ferrcyartide. • There was a chemist's gas -mak en hand, and all -the paraphernalia. Bitter almond oder - • still Inrking in the -vicinty.° %Quite a h•easure-trove) our attic: that- despite his outer calm, he -Was watchful„ had begun to 'unbend. I could not see .that Yance had trade the slightest progress; and I was driven. to the conclusion that he had ..;ailed signally in accomplishing his purpose of ensnaring Arnesson. How- ever, he did not appear in the least perturbed. I even got.the impression that he was satisfied with • the Why .things were going. ' )3nt I did natiee ,• o 1 , Mr arid -cuff TeariTS are vit-id-fe-ct.7 wocil Style No. 3317-1s designed for --the sophistjcated miss of ,6, 8,16 =e12--_-anci The -years.; lee 8arequiresalasayarda R9-Gcle with % yard 27-ineh Contrasting: Weal jersey, printed sheer wont- ed, linen and, tweed -like cottons are --tremendalisly smart in -this • HOW Tp ORDER PATTERNS • Write your - name and address • plainly, giving ,number aridsize of such .patterns as you want- Enclose .20e in stamps or coin (coin prefer- red; wrap it caaefully). for each • number, and address your order to Wilsn Patterh Seavice, '73 West , Adelaide St., Toronte. --"Notea,-----Anya.of-aen r_eauag_axe.Aflp re, writing to Captain • Jimmy", , e010• ' Star Bldg.,, Torontoa Will. receive his; signed, pleeta free. : • • • Life • Me, iii' the nalcletaof dateless ceettriers; By love concealed, . •-• • tithes, Hath Time revealed. A breathing eiaace, a silence, and be- hold What I have been, Unswathed, the circling centuries un- fold, • Again unseen. With Days and Nights brief fellow- • - -hip was mine, But unto thee I come, a child inseparably thine,' Eternity, -T. B. Tabb, A Blessing ' BlesSed is the calamity that makes us humble; though sec repnugnant therete Is our nature, in our present state, that after a while, it is to be feared, second and sharper calamity: would be wanted to cure Ira of our pride in halting become so humble.l'a-Coleridge. preared for a swift ,and painless death when he distilled his cyanide. The Bishop case is over„" (To becontirtued.) • • L: S Cleans SINKS DRAINS and the TOILET BOW.L. 1 _AV Lye • P./76r. e V<4 VON. F Fell streneth for Sink Drairte isO stretigth lor the tenet bowl . • solution for all general cleaning GILLACT', Lye 66Eitits 1011199 4.• • • *Lye should never be, dissolved in hot wter. SE full strength Gillett's Lye to !<ep all yo -ur drains dean and free -running. 4:small quantity popred down your sinks and totiet bowl, each week, will' lid them of all dirt acuthutationsand- save you costly repdir bilis.!!, For all household clanirr, one table- spoonful of Gillett's Lye dissolved in a •gallon of -cold* water provides a safe solution •for washing flors, tiling, refrigeratrs, etc: , 411 . 0 • The ilew FPE8 Giftett's Lye boklet. • . escribes-tienybthr ways' this handy '- • product Can help you with all your cleaning: Send For it. • • The health-giiing, delicious'drink' for children and grown- ups. - Pound and Half Pound tins at your. grocers. • E•arth Eating 'ing Which Here.von•Beriss said: ' ' , The operation took. three. reinutevillera, ractice • • "You may, use ordinary panchre. • matic rdlI film, 'film packs, or plates: • , 1 I. am using ordinary films...". , • Earth. eating, generally considered ... He -event on te. say. that the picture Lo be a custom of ancient peoples; is could be taken either by snapshot. or by time .exposure, but that the three negatives must •be 6xPosed. simUltare .. • eously.aHe then took the negatives td • ' a dark room and developed -1515i, transferring each ;to speciallyprePaaed •. • gelatin& sheets, which; be said, could be had for. 5 tents apiece. • Next, he placed the gelatine sheet -s • on top. Of .each: other, ovee a chemical: • , ly prepared paper' and 'said: "It is this paper which is my secret, 'group. There areindividuals who eat and on which Ihavevorked.for seven • earth and others of the sane group years. With it you., are able to do who even disapproye of It, •away with, washing and fixing- apd can : Man will generally taste' and- test`prirttayour-aalored--phetegraphs In or- . anything that nature °frets atid con- 'dinary light:in three minutes" saming' earth, mud or clay, need not I Ile • then Showed how toning and be considered more surprising than other artistic effects Couldbe pro - eating beeper, salt or bark, or chew:saluted on his paper by placing the col- • ing gum, betel or tobacco. Primitive ored prates at abgles or in dike people explain the • -habit on the 'rerent sequence. ITe added that any grounds Ortt• they believe earth or ;number of colored prints toned bO, clay is. geed- for them, theta it benefits imaile from the colored negatives en thestometh and aids digestion-. Others hid•Paper, which, he said, cost only a say it has a pleasant bdor and taste, cent a rhf,ct, . that It Cala the palaCe 'and aratifies ' , ' - the stomach: • Several theories ilreigiven as to the origin of the habit. The' first attrii RetreVence butes It to the •need of stipplying the , There. is ono thing no one brings deficiency ot, min iral ! substances with him.lato the world, and it Is a which brings on the nen of salt. The thing 'on which, everything else de. second holds that. ie 18 dee to the Prk bends; that thing by means of Which' warily mechanical effect it may:have. every mail brat is born irito••the world in comforting 'gastric- or intestinal becomes truly manly: This thing is ritation. Another sugleste that it IS reverence. -Goethe. • to silence the hungry stomach for:„ a 'Reverence it fear tempered by loVe. short time with an indigestible mor- an the Old- Testament, the fear pre- . dem tualad,..in_the iv,._Tes tameat„_the _still peecticed toralaa. Itanccurfe_spea radically almost anywhere and ,has- -nothingate-do-maithaelirnete,arace, e re ed - or culture. • • It Is found -among, the most civilized nations -as in India and Persia -as well . as among krimitive tribes, according to Dr. Walter Hough, head curator of ‘anthroPolegy at: the National Museum. • The habit of geophagy is not geni eral in any particular tribe or social • •,Not all kind S of etteth are eaten. The most imporeart is the so2Called diatomaceous 014 r ; h, or Kieselblihr, popularly known as "nreintain meal" or "fossil Meal." It is very .light and. poronis and reseinhe chalk Or cley, ' consisting of the sill remeins of Minut,. aquatic !organisms. Earths eaten at .rnedicines or, ler enjoyment are usually fine, fat aid often ferru- ginens (irenitkegn, !ad) clayre 4 Photography In Color - Is- DeYeloped Cheaply Vienna phpers are ''(xpleiting with flinstrations the invention ,of a local epert, Kfred Von IlarisS,, who seas he has -perfected a critnera and a pro- ess. which Makes eSler photegraphy eimple and cheari. • The camera he .manienlatd recent- ly before .a 'gathering of repertors is . described as n ord inn ry preas eatn- etaaaei tar -a- good, but ardina fly the aid of mirrors the light coming throw:el the tens is Monied evenly en (brd plates inide.Ahe box -a yelloWl plat•c at flip tor, a rtul glate ftt the• ba-ek and-stateneaplteaatathe -bottom', -I love; bat the sentiment of reveretree pervades all religion' on earth and in heaven 'Whether as sacred dread,44 loving fat, it' tibideth alaYs.-W. 13, • rope, MOURNING WARDROBE 'A death occurred hreer fade!), and had to go in mourning, I could hard- ly afford to buy all black 'elothes, ep decided to dye whet had. I consult= ed our druggist and he advised Using •Diamond 11yes.. Everything .catne out beautifully; coats, wool dressee, stok- ings and alb• have since leerned to appreeiate the excellence of the black . •Diamond Dyes, I tried another' black dye and the results were imposible. I .hadto get Diamond Dyes anal id' work over, Recently I have tinted MY curtains a beautiful raspberry Shade • and dyed a rug a, lovely garnet 1.0th Eairrati-d-Dyisr- Tily are feerfilrfea avers -the finest dyes money can buy trely' believ." M117i. 0.NL., Montreal. ISSUE -Ner-410='3- • • 14