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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1932-06-09, Page 6• A Curia Curia, e• SYNOPSIS Old Mrs, ,Jupiter. Wife of the million re automobile manufacturer; gives an enrageme.4 dinner and dance . for her secretary and protege, Mary .Harkness, who :iia to carry the socially, elite Dirk Ruyther, Mary receives a telephone can from her seapegraee brother. !;ddie, say- ' lug lits is in trouble and must see her. Mary; arranges for toy to ,be adPa •-et! secretly. When she goes upstairs to meet- him she hears, screams and then s . ofs- in Mrs. Jupiter's room. • CHAPTER -II: Fearfully ' as • _ .:..dra -..w,;.�..s.,..._.�1G;�.,� �,yvai.,;by�,;•nlagriet,V • Marry • moved slgwly - forward. ..Out side the closed door of Mrs. Jupiter'.s.' • sitting room she stopped and called' Sharply,experimentally, - "Eddie?' -Then more• . loudly,"."Eddie!" There was: no reply Could :be Eddie in there? What' would he "'be, doing in Mrs. Jupiter's„ 'eon?.. He: had• no :busiiies : L : ,.., .,... s fhere:,un . e ss��t e... h seixvant„q• •#lad ._dsicected_�illm„ ere:. in error, • or had gone in there mistake- • e hadn't said, anything about ging someone, • :with hixn, though,• sone ether person, was in there, -- person he had been,,quarreling .Suddenly she :remembered, and "alization stunned "' her. ' Mrs. was in that room. Hadn't she uno, 'upstairs• -to take her shoes off? �t lied been: Mrs. Jupiter's voice she ear- .,hen -w :ha • - �.._ � .:hoS� nd-� had:�fi`�c'd ,;shots?. 'chaps there hadn't been any. Heir, evingmind was milling ` .about rately: Perhaps an.. automobile backfired` in the 'drive. But that nsense- the noise.` had�'been. e,Yplain., .You' couldn't` hear:: noise m the outside clearly in here, in., this great heavy -walled, house with.. th ''thiekly. shuttered' •windows. he silence began :to tear at.her nerves:' Gasping with .excitement; she reached out suddenly and jerked open the door , The "room was brightly •'ighted; but empty She looked about, ' fl tifounded;, almost ready to `believ bat her senses had 'tricked her. Then she looked down -and there. on the floor lays the crumpled "figure of Mts.'Jupiter, the -white. hair awry where ,the 'diamond -headdress had been ruthlessly snatched from it, the gold. dress twisted about her, knees, e• poor wrinkled., old face hagga strangely . peaceful.:- under the searching glare of.theights,• An old -pair of felt: ho>ise slippers' coveted her feet. Her hands, barren now of rings, still clutched something which. She held clasped tightly between the • palms, still firmly' • grasped together en •her'breast. It was the ruby neck lace But it was the spot in. her forehead, _jam below the bairlin,from _which- a slow ooze' of .blood trickled and tan redly down the temp_'e into the snow- white hair, that drew' Mary's horrj- • fed gaze. , I Her- distended eyes took' in the whole' scene. with photographic' clarity before:: she realized' its enormity. For 'the first first tune it occurred to her'as she ,ptared-at- the .+till; "disheveled figure, that Mrs.' Jupiter was dead. What had happened • seemed quite ' . clear -.Mrs. Jupiter had been robbed; but "she had not given.up the neck- lace. With her last breath ..she. had protected it; •'the coil of. blood=red stones between.'her fingers testified to -her=success. The thief had not been healthful and body-building Vitamine; It is the mest highly tont-omitted source of highest quality protein known. For a lielineecleliet, eludeeKraft cheese with every -packages oz. slited from elm name "Kraft'," as the .ealy RAFT • as ►s f u res s a,r ► a -v ► . able to get it away from her, but his balked fury had cost her her life. ' A scream broke from the girl's lips; and without lgok!ng where she was. going she backed away from the figure. on the floor and sturbied throughthe first door that presented itself, the door into Mrs. -Jupiter's bedroom She. closed thedoor and leaned . against it; shaking,. - her`Amees, nearly ': giving under 'her. She.tried to- collect her thoughts. .;..-:Suppose-:it.-had-. en--• be one m y: then, that Eddie needed-. ° "She ran from room ' to, room, stumbling in her haste;, opening .doors, calling.. There was no,sign 'of'dis-. turbance in tlie- other roo' H ms. Her own 'door was. 'Open If Eddie' :had' been there; he had .,:gone.She stood ta 0dthe hall ,looking: ft-one-One,bbsnk-doer to.,anoth'er, calling softly;"Etiddie, Ed- di'e, 'it's- me, ',Mary r... • , by clear, where are you? The silence _seemed nnatui aI.- --.-She -brokepinto- helpless sobs. "Suddenly it came to her that wh''t she had been thinking : was simply fantastic. Eddie had had nothing to do :with. this:: More than likely the poor. boy had not even come•, yet. Something had happened to deley.-him. She looked at her wrist -watch. Twenty utes . had elapsed since his'. tele- phone call- Sire s et -dowxistair lir t`verish haste.. s ' At the foot of the stairs. she' collided With Spence; who tree jest Coming up,.. She grabbed.him :by the shoulders and. held :on, while she_- tried to Af her voice.tontro!.: ",Oh, Spence! Spence! Go up to Mrs. upitee's room, quickly: Something's append. She's hurt. `,I think. she's •--dead!" :The old servitor held her off :stern ly,.:inspecting'her •reproachful'y. "You're': excited and .overwrought, is's Mary. And nowolder, .wath.aiF . '�at''s. goin' on hereabouts tonight.•A" an can'tphear his own' thoughts," he added tartly„ as, an . extempol'nn ops -dancing contest broke. out behind em -in the -ballroom, "let alone. know - g. what. he'll find when he turns a CO:ner nnexpected." • His thin nostrils quivered with. dis- ain as his upturned gaze.picked out e,,.white-blur.-blur-.a girl . • r rcled by the black -clad arms of her curt, half _hidden in ,a turn of the "I: tell you it's true;" Mary insisted. heard them, and I've seen her. Her ng's ate gone, and the. tiara, and her head--ohr you'll see,• if you'll list on np!" "Well, well, we'll. see," he replied, tily, starting forward with obvious uctance "Indeed, I was jest going. anyhow to answer: Mrs. Jupiter's ruin h tL to the in el es "I ri fore go tes rel up bell." ,, "'Bell?" "Mrs. Jupiter rang for me, Miss Ma'ryy, ndt two minutes ago. And would .she be doing that if she'were 'With a reproachful lift'fiif the e s, he ascended. Mary, . watchin Matter-of-fact back moving u rd ,so serenely, ai'most decided be mistaken. Murders • and set 't happe'h whe_e I• 'am, that' re able back seemed to say. What she wanted now was to fin sie, •and Bessie 'proved -hard Tracked_to-earth::iinethe :butt pan stu macrons glace an ffed olives with •blithe impartiality sie slipped quickly down off tit stool she wets ,perched on an fronted Mary sullenly. ary's white face and burning eyes the quiet, precise manner. of he tion, puzzled her. Scenting re f, she -took quick affront, after th nner of her' kind. And how, would I know who ca She retorted.,. Pertly. . "1 suppos had nothing to do but listen fo with all this racket .g on?" ' hen .you didn't let. anybody in?' hey let themselves in, if they e," the maid snapped, . !'I'd no to be bouncing in and out . of re- 'I just went' and. -unlocked the door when you told me, Miss, and it open. If they came, they got 11 right. was not. Bessie's fault; it was own, if it was anybody's. The door Was standing open, as she red. Nearly half an hour. Any - might have come in, ands gone Could -it be possible=-? A half- d -'boy, and the sight of all those s- If he were desperately in of none'-- But h would have . Shelled never failed to get out of any of his scrapes before. ry closed the door and locked it seemed hours before Spence•earne . He seeme.!- surprised that she still standing iii the same spot re he had.left her, • l•! What , are- ' you standing for?" he barked as if she bed`. one of the servants, "Find the ! Qui:ek! And Barclay!" Ile eed his fingers,. "Get right across s fleet Mid fetch Dr. Jordan and him up to the mistress' room as as you can." old man as he ;craelded oat commands the It was im 'ossib]e not to • animasitls -hiow the wa must don ,pect Bes find pa stu Bes high con M and ques proo ma „ in?" I've the ing "T -"T camm time the side left •in It her side ' body oust. craze jewel need weri"ted hint Ma again It down was whe ! � ei there been plaster snap the, take "fast y p - she Ch s - d t er• d e d e me, 6 or do - • Curls a Ace . definitely in. Thls coiffure is' `thelatest,'called 'tli . -.,-e -- Park lvenu'e�bob which' goes we l with the feminine trend of fashlp}t. . "like a drillsergeant.; Mary moved ,off, Mit stopped.: to . le hon te. P e Eddie.- �:e. shared.•a flat ;with two -Or threes' tier young. n',, and Qtr . men; because' .of them• she. had never visited• him, Som ...cone answers � li • ' ' ' dr . lit it va Eddie. Eddie . ad ere lead not . :been.. ere. =th for three'or". tour days.. Mary. put' up the.' receiver slowly. She wanted• to goers somewhere •;;hand_ think, :but she did not like to leavb;the. telephone.. Eddie might call :again at. any ' urinate, and she wanted to...be there: - '• The -figure of Teddy Doulton lurch ed into the hallway. Teddy always. pretended to', be drunker than he was. It was part of his "-line." He fancied- h mself as acomedian. - 1\Tew: ha �;, �.. he- sled= `her •with shoats of delight. "We thought `You'd' eloped!" :.he chortled gaily. "Where's Dirr?." els puzzled gaze 'searchedthe dark corner in vain. Anything to get rid of hint Mary :thought` desperately "- -- "Listen, Ted,". she said quickly, "will.you do something for me?" He. was.eompliant',' but suspicious. "Then go and'find, your host for me., He mays be out in the.drive talking �,o the chauffeurs. Find him :and'biing him here, quickly!": - „ . Teddy' saluted elaborately. "I hear and obey." He turned Maw - self around and started . off, bat sud- denly stopped. and clapped a'hand to his • head. "By the' Way, *rho is my host?" Then,he' snapped -his fingers. "Ah, I remember.. Now'don't go way, sweetheart=I'll be right back!". He moved off,. making exaggerated, actions of search,.lifting cushions, spanking draperies _anfl,-insp"n woodwork through'a non-existent m gnifying glass: She had not really expected 'any' help from the fool - but his •§illiness 'seemed more than, she could bear. Suddenly she wanted Dirk terribly. He would know 'What•to.-do. The ball- room was deserted as she. crossed it. and a babble of voices from the dining room told that supper was being serv- ed. Dirk and Cornelia Were' not there. She event out. on the terrace. Some dark corner would yield them, she felt sure. As she came out on the walk that led to the lower . garden,' the sound of voices below her arrested her -attention. • • Two. figures were swaying together on the very lip of the lilypool; the woman's white. dress brightly silhou etted.. against the (lark. "I will! I will, too!" she was sob- bing.' "Let go.of me, you brute!" It 'vas Cornelia, and'the man whose bosom she . way • pounding with her fists as he held her hrrnly by the shoulders, was 'Dirk. ' (To be continued.). AIMING HIGH. ' It ie -a law of this universe that the best things shall be seldomest seen in their best. form . . . And therefore, while in. all things thet we see, oz do; we are to desire perfectipn,And strive, for it, we are tevertheless not to the nearer . thing, ia its narrow acconi- Plishment, abov• the nobler thing, in its mighty progress; nett to ,esteetn snaeoth minuteness above _shattered -majeityinotto-prefer-victe-ty-to hon- orable defeat; not to lower the level of our aim, that we may more surelv enjoy the complacency of success. , Mrs. Newlywed -"You said When we were married we'd- live like tivto turtle doves I scan it is. there point he ha dal, f Cabin -Want to live like a niilliortaire's Three days aftei his arrival in • '4."1,* e Speaking off akm$ the Most .af :ur • Life," Messrs, Morgan. and! W bb' quote Chauncey Depew:_,a rea humorist;; -if- you -please. -as, once say ing .grapdfather died of worry, aad' m_ye.father-'died died, -01.. worr.y. I was dy: ma of worry when I decided to taker. Op humor -.to •see the genial, and amusing side of life. It was. humor. that saved my health." : Depew• was a young, man until he 'passed •on at the Age of 94, , • ` One of Mr.. Dlepew's .stories' came 'out .of a visit he paid 'to St. 'Paul's Cathedral. He 'was,, looking .at :the tomb of the .great Duke of Wellington, '°when a: guide. edged up to him and "Many Anrenicans.. come 'here, but the most remarkable of them was Colonel.. Robert --Ingersoll. -ersoll.. .11e -was eras •very inquisitive and' wanted to T:now all about,. Wellington'$' tomb. " "I told him that the :Duke's is dy was first put in a wooden coffin.a this ,and' was,enclosed''.in steel; that this had .made, for 'it a ,position in a ' to sne weighing twenty„ tons, and oder' that wa s another huge stone, weighing,, =forty , tons. - Hey gav€ "me"" a slap -tin the back Vehich • sent me. fljiing °n ,ice. -.a-distance and'exclaimed: '-- "'Old pian,. you ,have got•.him a safe. If he ever esc res cable ,,.t my expense' to Robert G. Ingersoll, Peoria,. Illinois, •U.S.A. " - Then there was the „tory. o young clergyman' who was comman,.' to preach before -Queen Victoria'at Wind- sor, an who .soight eut pis li _ _..... rhe _then Pre m �. e`�3ini iter, for .some pointers. • "If' you' preach thirty minutes," ad- vised Dizzy,•"Her Majesty will be. bored. If yon preach fifteen minutes, Her Majesty_. will' be -:pleased. . If you -preach ten minute.`•; :Her -Majesty will be delighted." • "But," . said the young •• clerorynan, "what • can a preacher possibly say in ten minutes?" "That," . replied'. • Dizzy,;, "wilt' be' a Matter 'Of ' indifferen -e to Hoe •Ma jesty." . . # • t * Mentioning Disraeli "' 'reminds pie that his Wife, the -famous Mary Anne, has aebiograpby all' to herself. And no married man will read "Mary Anne Disraeli," by James Sykes,.without agreeing, perhaps only to' tinged, that she was "the perfect wife." Why, for thirty-three years of their married life Mary Anne cut (and later dyed) Dizzy's hair every twe..or_three.-weoks- --meticulously preserving the'eiirI over, theforehead,-,.,a.."-.characteristic -feature of- his portraits and carica- tures... • Furthermore,, she kept the hair! This Disraeli. discovered when exam,' ihing his dead wife's treasures. She had never reaped the crop without, as he Pit -it, "garnering the harvest." .. To cut the hair (as Mr., SYkes well says) was a Mark of affedtion; to keep it, suiely, an act of adoration. , The new Kipling book of stories and poems, "Limits and Renewals," - his first in Six years --recalls the days of long. ago When he arriVed in Lon- don from India in search of fame and fortune ,and lodged 'in some small tooms-up two' flights -of stairs-:-Iff Villiers •Street, alonoide Charing Cross railway station. *One morning a friend called, and when he found himself in Kirding's sitting roont he wes surprised to see handtome mir- ror which stood ever. the • fireplace smashed to smithereens. "Srakes," said Miffing, noticing thg look of astonishment on his friends face. "I was dozing in my - chair yesterday evening and my fo0t• slipped Out of my shoe, which for com- felt with my foot for the shoe and began slipping it in,' when my toes touched. the leather tongue. Snake! flashed across my, sleepy brain. I gave one desperate. kick and when the shoe struck that miror I realit•ed that I was in -London -end not in India." We hear much about quick and easy divoree tilese days, but one hun- dred years ago,•divotces Were obtain- ed even quicker and easier-Lat all events in Florida, where the Governor the Territory had the right to greet them. At that time, the Governor was IL Eaton, husband of the cele - d Peggy Eaton. Peggy, you may 11, was the storm centre of ,one most dtamatic, political and social dais Washington has ever nown. By the way, Peggy's. own =Mint „ of „that historic drama -in which she played the leading pPrt-it given for the first ,tinte in "The Autobiography of,'Peggy Eaton," just published', and an amazing and intensely human story But that is neither here. nor , except to connect up the ap- n, ae Governer of Florida,- after d retired as a result of the scan - rem President Andrew Jackson 'S •Sparrows, which were not knowrijii halve. now becOrne.stich a pest in partS Sbuth AUstralie that there is new a Drice on 'their heads and eggs In at dissatisfied wife. "I am going to giVe them ee as they ask for them," Peggy quote s hilt as saying., "If they cannot 1:;:o together in peace 1 ann net going to ea, Present Mies a, lowest in 15 years. 265 las .set `"He ware. elf-Out-ofmy li€e;,,�ssrir d-•n1e•�- .., adds P,'ggy. „"He. wouid give .seven divots a day. I remonstrated with 'him? telling ,him that it would' -x pin. tie -.populations; nd" ;"he ayfully threatened to divorcee T me if ., did. not` stop. That'first year' of hisrein m. on.I was,; actually frightful to rnatrimonial. circles. • 'It ;s, .arated ep . „ .,�,ti phi: matrimonial number of coli 1' ' , p,es. ' °�everal ladies -told -ke, that they hardly knew how to be: - belle e bale themselves anymore. They...were afraid • to eat,,; Y. ,,, , , ,gip. � their- husbands` f r; fear .they would find'>henis' v iii • ,_ el; es vtirced� next `morning -. * * . The' -job i fi being wife to a. genius x -le .. not all lavender .as: witness :the re- joinder of a notable 'Victim' to a guzh- ing young .thing who. gurgled: "rt inust he, :'onder,ful to be the wife of a -genius." "Well,"fsaid_ the wife; "he's just :i hard to • get,along .kith_ as any' s .darned, fool!" T y" other' 4.no Gran ,Canyon hi:Africa ':Africa A great vaileyy likethe Grand' Can- yon of • 'Arizona, :: cut' nearly; 'a mile deep adross _ pllatea1s.lauds-'of'-south- ern Abyssinia, but inhabited only by monkeys, 'and, seldom. if. ever seen by white People, has been discovered by the Italian s explorer, the 'Duke of -Rant Big motor -c. saxes in •En' rand costs' t3 'q •apiece. er:eiy year 'for 'insurance: - alone. Of.al1 mai eiages in •-England and,,. Wales. thirty-eight• are childless. T.11e :masiinum ,speed far safety.°o. r escala`tor's is said. t'o be 1.30 feet.a 'mini' lite. ' Out of every .%hies persons: aged twenty-eight iii London ',two: are sup- lied':with aitiflci 1 teeth ,,• `" 'During the' last ten years. :no fewer than 45000 ,people have -been k'ille.d on British roads. ° Gold bangles are. sometimes substi, tilted ler wedding -rings ir. the Scandil-' avian' countries. `Sitr!ecelagious freedom was all"ewed, 'in.Sn.i`al the sale of Bibles has gone up by. so o a year Wedding -111%i `ivei'e formerly worry on the fourth finger of the. right .hand,, uni to n t�lg . h•..._. _. limb :as_a 0 igei'� Emigrants who crossed the Atlantic I40 years ego had to carry their own• food supplies, ' as none- was. proci[ledr or them. Feathers' are , sewn' closely `together. a' form a soft fabric' which is very popular .just now in 'Paris as a trim,. ming for coats and jackets. • .. . Gambling •at :cards., and• dice and matrimonial troubles which lead, to the payment of alimony`-.areamong the pr.•incipaf causes of bvsiness.bankriipt; cies in 'America. . Criminals taken into a police. station_ in Gt' Britain can be identified by. their ager -prints in less than ball an hour y ffieans of tbe 400,.000„ se'ts'of.prints. led at Scotland Yard. A fully furnished fiat,, comprising vino room, kitchen,' bed -room, And ath-room, is provided by the L.C.C. in . ewisham; Londfon, so that •schoolgirls fi learn practical _housework. p='grawing, te-=wh�i•eh 2s,o00 acres England were devoted last year,, in- Tses an outlay of from £120' to 21.50 acre.•' Each acre ofiop-Tand finds ' eady employment' for seventeen rkers. • • Cold tea is recommended by the di.cal superintendent of one big hos-: al as a first-aid treatment for learns. ,arta of the; old ,reasy treatment's i e given, he said, It was very diffi-' t to clean the wound before any- ing .could be -done.- -- Women employees Who work in the• nk of England must new wear only , ck, navy-blue, or very dark grey,' h White collars, and 'must not use ticks or other aids to beauty. PIain.. to blouses will b• permitted in then • summer months. 1 - ypists working :':"mos, Govern- - nt offices . have to trfa.te dally re. - n of workdone, shows ig the sort of k done, and how long each job oc- ied. This takes from ten to twenty rtes of-each'typist's ,ime each day,' there•are.3,000. So the opponents!' he return say there is a loss of at, t 1,333.working_hours Every dy_ .... One _of Italy's. colonies,_ a part of Somaliland, lies, just south of the., ,Thyssinian border, Says D. E.. E. .;Free -.--in-- bis- Week's,,,, Science (New - York). "Through,, this . colony flows the river called , the ..Webi Shebeli, the Abyssinian headwaters' of which the. Italian Government • commissioned Duke. to explore. At 'ono. place along this river, he reports,' the water has 'cut . a deep gorge through almost horizontal rock strata much . as the Colora e o iver ' as cu the Grand Canyon.' ..• • • "The, gerge s,,.reported._to...-_be:'six, to twelve -miles' wide and.. from.. three- quarters• of. a mile to one mile deep. Its sides : are. almost bare. of • vegeta- tion, ar is . true also. 'of the Grand Canyon, so that t.he horizontal rock layers are exposed. • The . coloring and, the unusua :pinnacles and other rock` forms •sculpture` t� by -erosion in the American Grand . Canyon are re- ported 'to be lest- spectacular in, the newly. discovered .African duplicate. "Just as the waters' Of the Colorado River, . after' . emerging from the American Grand Canyon, new are to be used for . power, and irrigation by the new government project at Boul- der Dam, so the river that flaws through the- African 'canyon ultimate- rf will be put to use, the'Dt'ske' be- lieves, as• a'source of power." C!j1dren and 'Adversity, By Ray Lyman Wilbur Fersobally and speaking broadly, I think that unless we descend to a heyend-anything-that-we fir present have known our children are apt to profit rather than suffer from what. is going On. We must set. up the neglect- of prosperity against the care of ad- vereity. With prosperity many par- ents unload the responsibilities for their children onto others. • With ad- versity the home takes its more tor mat place. Thnle is no substitute for intelligent parental care exareis- sed throughout the Any, at JIMA' Wiles, and' iontroiling proper sleeping eonditions at night. More Important still, there is no sub. stitute for the 'parent in• the develein ment of the spiritual, moral and men- tal make-up of th6 Canada's Fur Imports sln 1930 Canada imported raw and dressed furs and furgoods to the value of $9,585,433, and exported furs of Canadian origin, either raw, dressed or manufactured, valued at $15,357,386: Nearly the whole of this sum was The value of raw furs, which had a ekoort value of $15,202,168, of which the British Isles took over M- 525,040 wort'h aiad the United States nearly $0,000,0b0. Furs of ' Canadian origin is of tiotably high inality and consequently is in demand in the best • Confidenceis conqueror of men; vic- torious both over th-ern and in them. The him Will of .one stout. heart than rake a thousand trail" clWarf, dauntleaily resolved; will tarn the tide of battle; end reify te riobler etr,fe the giants that had ied.-Tup- nrititti Make Sows and Arrows . PritiSh far-torie8 are still turning out eriat3;01 bows and arrows to equip a large -sited tribe of Indians. One fad - ,tory atone, manufacturing 3 000 arrows fi b fi li L ca VO St WO pit th bla wit lips tor wor cap min and of t leas BABY'S OWN SOAP tut No "jOst as good'oil says lubrication expert Si In every line of entice vor I here is lowers. The field of titanrchottl rub- rication no exception. Unfor- tunately the general ritblic always appreciate the difference be, tweet the; real thing htl. the "jeq as gnod"-but househt :d experts do. They. kno* an oil ..raentled for general honsehold labirsaatioe should n and prefect ac a(11 as lubri- cate. 3 -in -One doe,: triee three things. because it a trientilc, „, rompound of three hien la ade by itself. cOste titer° Ir. make than Ordinary oil, but lets lt Ose. if you aant the best possible Qervice twin fan and other household devices, in-, sist on the old rebel te 3 -in -One Oil. At good stOres everywhere. For YOUr protection, look. frr the trade Mark "3-in-One"'printet; "in lied every package. 41