The Signal, 1916-1-27, Page 6Tlsoseaalf JAauaek 27,
TMS SIGNAL GODERICH ONTARIO
The House of the
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Pines
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Won't Shrink
Woollens
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life of woollen and flan-
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all loosely woven fbbries
from shrinking or
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.'ream -like lather which can-
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f.t'X—pure essence of soap
in flakes- is the favourite preparation rr paration in
homes of red"-,. -.
Sold at
10 cents
Made IN
t 'anode by
Lei to
BrofAers
Limited,
Toronto.
pWI01N USED SAGE
1F1 TO DARKEN MR
£ha made up a mixture of Sage Tea
and Sulphur to bring back color,
gloss, thickness.
Ct',nmron garden bags brewed into a
be.ry tea with sulphur and aleohnl
w.IMI. will turn gray, streaker! and faded
hart letautifwii}'-0•rk-Raj lu�uriaat, re•
sworesworeevery bit of dandruff, stop` sealp
Itching end falling hair. Just a few
applications will prove a revelation ifou
yr hair is fading. gray or dry. scrag-
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Ipleur nripe at bone. though, is
tvouldesne. An easier way is to get the
ready-to-weready-to-e tonic, tinting about 50 cents
a loge bottle at drug moms, known as
"Wy;•th',. Sage and Sulphur Com -
leered.” Thu. atoiduy; • lot of
• While wispy. gray, laded hair is not
w ne
id, we all dewire to retain our youth•n
fel nppeaace and nttraetivenewa. By
darkening your hair with Wyetk's Sage
said Iulphur, no one can tell, bemuse it
die• it so naturally. e.. evenly. You just
'dampen a sponge or loft bosh with it
and draw this through your hair, takingne
o email strand at a time: toy morning
all gray hairs have disappeared, and,
atter another application or two. ym:r
hair beenmes beautifully dark, glo-.v,
soft and luxuriant •
"I hay, old chap. I'm in shocking
luck. 1 want money badly and
haven't the least idea where 1 can get
it." "Well, I'm glad to bear that. I
thought perhaps you had an idea you
Obeid barrow it from me!"
The novelist's small boy had just
been t-rought to judgment for telling
a alb. His sobs having died away be
sat fur a while in silent thought.
"Pa," said he. -how long will it to
before 1 stop getting licked for tellin
Icer
an begin to get paid for 'em, like
rn.-
7. do
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Women from coast to coast have
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m
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e
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'if yoga have not yet tried Zeta -
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0
Ceorrtgtu, use.
By Mee lat►srM. Robles
NMI UMW 11110 it 61 MOW
tblsees slag 4 the tett bad wren
Wesel the feather beam* •M
limufh le to where those atilt I1Md
weighleg the chasms IY which .y
ate naiad beer were Involved and
thaw al esr ether of wham I land
het think.
la was dart to the ballroom. sad It
was tidy a Ilttle left m fa the cor-
date.
ardate. X11 the tight was 1t that room
Bat 1 sU11 did aloes the wall like a
Met with eyes set and ears agape
tor any chasm word whkk might
t.eck ma ttllddeaty I beard oma 11
was (61.. attend
with a decision
which had the
strange effect of
lifting my head
and making •
man of me again:
"That settles It.
He will fled It
hard to escape
after this."
Het I bad been
dreading to bear
a elle, Iet why?
Who save my-
self could know
that Carmel had
been within these
"x 117D nes .Trete woofed walls to -
nae DLO.' night? Relieved
by the discovery.
I drew myself up and stepped quickly
torward tato the room where the two
omctate stood. My bands were clean
of this murder. and. allowing the sure-
ty of this fact to take a foremast
place In my mind, I faced these men,
and with real feeling. but as little din -
play of It as potelble I observed:
'You bare come to my add In ■ crit
kal momeet This L my betrothed
wife—tbe woman I was to marry—
and I nod ber lying Dere deed En this
(Meed WO_ 1v --ice ,`,mouse. ;That deet
It mean 7 1 know no mon than you do."
The two men eyed me quietly; then
Policeman Belford. whom 1 knew,
pointed to my shoeless feet and sternly
retorted:
"Permit ale to doubt your last as
sertfoe. Ins seem to be In better po-
sdtloa than ourselves to explain the
eleeamstmees which puzzle you."
They were right it was for me to
talkt not for them. But here emotion
seised me, end I almost broke down.
I was In a position much more dread-
ful than any they could imagine or
should be allowed to.
Theft silence led m• to examine
their faces. Herford's month had
t attled Into a stiff. straight 11m, and
the, other man's wore a cynical smile
I did not Ilk•. At thee presage of tb•
difficulties awaiting me I" telt one
. trend of the rope •natatntng m•
hove this yawning gulf of shame and
goominy crack and give way. lint
he courage which had served m• In
em.er extremities did not fall me oow.
nd. kneeling down before my dead
,etrolhed. 1 klated her cold white
and wph sincere compunction before
,tempting the garbled and probably
CHAPTER iL
"ore's
IHAVE mentioned poison as
Orsi thought. It was a nature
one, the result undoubtedly o
baring noticed two small cordla
glasses standing on a little table ove
against the fireplace. When I wa
conscious agaln of my own tears
tressed to the table 'and peered Int
time glaaees. Tbey were not clu
glanceglaee and they both were empty
However. they had nut been so long
In each 1 found tra,'es of enisett
cordlat and. though no bottle st
- bear. 1 w:r+ very roafldent that 1
could readl'y be found somewhere In
the roost. What bad preceded and
followed the drinking of tide rordl,l7
Alas, tb' e-' was but little more to
see: A p:t:r of curling irons lay on
the hearth. but 1 had no sooner lifted
them than I dropped them with a
shudder of unspeakable loathing. only
Milting
start at the noise they made in
Milting the e.1.44 e-' of -- Lee—
s• lfsam* tots* 1 h.i !testa whoa
ltso' ".g rn,m below. These toads,
et
sup &Wast the side of the Ore-
place. had been jarred down by the
forcible shutting of the large treat
door, and no man other than myself
wee in the house or had been fa the
house—only the two women. A stick
or two still smoldered on the hearth -
Moue. In the ashes lay some scat-
tered fragments of paper which
crumbled at my touch. On the door
In front I espied only a stray halrptn.
E verything else was in place through-
out the room except the cushions and
that horror on the lounge, welting the
second look I had so far retrained
from eying It.
That look I could no longer with.
bold. I must know the depth of the
gulf over width 1 hung. I most not
wrong with a thought one who bad
smiled upon me like an angel of Hibb—
s young girl. too, with the dew of tee
nuance on her beauty to every eye but
mine and only not to mins within-
shall I say ten ■wtol minutes? I
would look again and perhaps discoverye
that my own es had been at fawn;;
that then were no marks on Adelaide's
throats or, If marks, not just the ease
my fancy had painted there.
Turning, I let my glance fall first OR
the feet. I bad not noted them before.
and I was startled to see that the are.
tics In whkh they were clad were filled
all around with snow. 86e had walked
then as the other was walking now
--she who detested every effort endr
was of such delicate make that exer-
tion of unusual kind could not readily
be associated with her. Had she tome
alone or In Carmel's company, and, 1t
In C.rmel's company, on what odes-
sibl• errand If not that of death? Her
dress, which was of dark wool, owed
that she bad changed her garments Ude s trip I had seen her at dinner,
and this was not the gown she had
worn then—the gown In which she
had confronted me during those tow
intolerable minutes when I could not
meet her eyes. Nothing spoke of the
dinner party or of ber baying been !
dragged here unaware, but all of pre-
vious Intent end premeditation. Surely
hope trimtrimgetting uppermost If I had
dreamed the marks—
But not There they were, unmistak-
able and damning, just where the
breath struggles up. I put my own
thumbs on these two dark spots to see
If, when— What was It—a llghtnlai
stroke or a call of fate which one
must answer while sense remakes/ I
felt my head pulled around by some
unseen force from behind and met
staring Into mine through the glass of
the window a pair of burnlug eyes.
was po
Or wIt fantaayl For 1n another mo-
ment they were gone. But thessl-
Lefty of a person having seen me la
this position before the dead wast,
enough to startle me to my feet, an
though- In ■nother Instant I became
convinced thnt i had been the victim
of hallucination, 1 nevertheless made
Mate to cross to the window and take
• look through its dismal panes A
gale of blinding snow was sweeping
past making all things indistinguish-
able, but the nbeence of balcony out-
side was reassuring. and I stepped bee.
tin back. asking myself for the end
time whet I •bonld de •al where Im
shall now gp to Insure myself fro
being called as • witness to tbe ewffl
on
eengance which bad just takes place
1s this hoses RometkIng 1 mast M to
my 'myself the aag.MC and Carmel
the danger of my ta.ttrteony to OM
matter Shoo must never know, the
maid inset never know, that I bed
wen her boors Matti could set be the atti of two ima-
m The le.s of one weighed heavily Mom nm my conscience 7 WOO//
f7 the place -1 would leave UM
ghastly find to ten its own story. The
Mein was stormy, the boor late, the
spot a remote one mei the read to it
bot little need 1 could many *maga
and when the morrow es me— Slut 1
was Ms present I most think out slew
eel
—. hour tb1• moment. flow came 1
to •toy es teem? in feverish baste I be.
gen to throw the pillows back over the
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(inlet Ilwtw, the accusing -lice. lutist
derlugly I hid those eyes 0 on
their strange protuberance neve) e
recklessly bent on eight, was halfway
across the door whoa my feet were
stor yed—I wonder my reason was not
unsemted—by a sudden and tremasdoue
&track, on the great door below, min-
gled with loud cries to open which ran
thundering through the Muse, cal1iad
up iuuumerable echoes from its dead
sod hidden corners.
It was the police. The wed night.
the biting storm, had been of no grad.
An alarm had reached headquarters,
ted all hope of escape ou my part
was at an end. Yet, because at such
crises instinct ruses superior to roa-
sot,'I blew out the candle and softly
made my way luso the ball. I badm
reembered the window opening over
abed at the bead of the kitchen
staircase. I could reach It from thin
rear hall by just a turn or two. and
tram oo that shed a abort leap would
red In on ten .s.
..,.,e If!!!e whlch I
conTdMaJ traerto t
cost my dlgbt across the open golf
Rinks. It was worth trying, at least
Anything was better than being found
In the hoose with my murdered be-
trothed.
I had no reason to think that I was
being sought or that my presence to
this building was men suspected, 0
might well be that the police were
seen ignorant off the tragedy 'awaiting
them across the threshold of the door
they seemed Intent on battering down.
The gleam of • candle burning 1a this
dosed op house or even the tale told
by the rising smoke may hare drawn
them from the road to investigate.
With a spring I reached the window
by which I hoped to escape and quick-
ly raised IL A torrent of snow swept
in. corering my face and breast to
a moment. It did something more—
It cleared my brain, and I remembered a
my poor hone standing 1n this blind-
Ing gale ander cover of the snow t
packed pines. Every one knew my 1
horse. I meld commit no greater ,
folly than to fee by the rear fields I
while such a witness to my presence
remised to tall view In front. With t
the monition of a trapped animal I t
r'saloaed the window and cast •bout e
be- a safe corner where I could Ile •
eeso.aled untlt I learned what had
brought Uwe men here n nd bow
mach I really had to fear from their a
presence.
I bast but little time in which to
choose_ The door below had just glv- •
so way, and a party of at least three 1
m•o were already stamping their feet
free from snow In the hall 1 did not
11ke the tone of their voices; It was co
too low aad steady to snit me. I bad
rather bare beard drunken cries or a la
burst of wild hilarity than thew stern
aad pnrpoesful whispers. Men of r..- —
Nmties could hare but one errand here.
My doom was closing round me. I
could only put off the fatal moment t
But It was better to do tbls than to o
plunge headlong into the unknown tate
awaiting me. y
meI knew of a possible place of coaceal-
at It was In the ballroom not far
trout where I stood. I remembered [n
the spot wail It was at the top of 0
Ot
P
*tally Incoherent story with which I
ndeayored to airplane the lnezplale-
bee situation.ee
They Ustsd—I will do them that
mach justice—but It was wttb such
o air of incredulity that my words
fell with lees and leas continuity mod
finally lost themselves to a confused
termertaer as I reached the point where • Um m cushions from the couch
aad made my ghastly discovery.
"You see --nee for yourselves—what
n fronted ma. My betrothed — a
dainty, delicate woman—dead, alone,ry
thls •ollta, faraway spot, the
victim of what? I asked myself thenr
stI ask myself now. I cannot under -
Mend It—or/Wee glasses yonder—or—
or those marts;" They were black by
his time—uemlatakable—not to be tg-
ored by them or by me
underaatand those marks, and
ou ought te," came from the second
man, theone I did not know.
My bead tail forward. My Hpe re -
sed to speak the words. The vialoa
t the one woman bending over the
ber was a.'maddening one. I shook
yselt free from it by starting to my
eel "It's -Wt's"— 1 gasped.
"She bas been strangled," quotes
Retford doggedly.
"A dog's death." mumbled the
other.
"You had better sit down." Ret-
ford mudded) suggested, pushing •
chair my ray. "Clarke, look op the
telephone a ad ask for three more men.
I am going into this matter thorough-
ly. Perhaps you will tell as where
the telephone Joy' be asked. turning
my way.
The second man left the room to go
to the telephone As he did so Rex-
ford lit the candle. Idly watching,
for nothing sow could make me look
at the lounge again. I noticed the can-
dlestick. It was of brass sod rare In
style and wSrttmawblp--a candlestick
to he remembered, one of a pair, per-
ha
erba pe. I felt my hair stir as i took In the
detail.; of Its shape and ornamenta-
tlon. 1f Its mete were in her bouse—
No, no, no! L would not hare it en,
1 eould not control sty emotion 1f 1
tet my lmagtestlon stray too far. The
eaodlestick must he the property of
the cluei bad only forgotten. It
was bought when? WYbre thinking.
planning, i was eonsrinns of Her
ford's erre Sled Moodily upon me.
"Vold yen we foto the kltrhen In
roar wanderlsgs below!' be •eked
"No" 1 hegas. but ween& that 1
had made • mistake. I bunched sed
added weekly, "Yee: after arrbes"
".end did 7.11 got them!'
..Yea,.
"in the dame t'on mu., have had
a little staircase leading to the must --
ciao" gallery. A balustrade retarded
Me gallery, supported by a boarding
wide enough to hide a man lying bo-
lded
e-tied It at hie fall tomtit. It world
offer me the double advantage of con-
cealment and an unobstructed view of
what went on in the ball through the
main doorway opening dlrecUy oppo-
site. I could reach this ballroom and
Its terminal gallery without going
around to this door. A smaller one
communicated directly with the corri-
dor to which I was then lurking. and
toward this I now made my way with
all the precaution suggested by my
desperate situation. No man ever mov-
ed more lightly. The shop which 1
bad taken of 1n the lower hall were
yet to my band. 1 bad caught them
op after replacing the cushions on
Adelaide's body. Even to my own
straining ears i made no perceptible
sound. I reached the balcony 'and had
stretched myself out at full length bo-
lded
e-hind the boarding before the men be-
low bad left the lower door.
More quickly than I expected the
total darkness to which i lay brighten -
d ender •n advancing lantern, and 1
heard the steps of two men coming
down the hall. It was a steady 11 not
rapid spptoscb, and 1 was quite pre-
pared for their pre.ence wben they
Sully reached the doorway opposite
•d stopped to look In at what mart
baya appeared to them a vast ail
empty maim When I Ilttd my bead
again It was to catch a glimpse of their
Nle faces .a they tuned to look else-
where
vewhere for what they were plainly la
search of. An meth, muffled but stere,,
wkkb was the first wad above .
whisper that 1 heti beard ieem from
their 11p•, told me tbat tbey bad reach-
ed the recut and bed room epos the
bearer which lay thea
MaMsed by may own Int lambda pe-
stttsa, draww by • power I tett It ba-
pesetble to resist. L crept to my het
sad took my @tasg.etes way fs7n t6
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trouble In finding, them!" -
"Not at all. Only safety matches
ere allowed here, and they are pot 1s
a receptacle at the side of each door.
I bad but to open the kitchen door,
feel along the jamb, and the Neste
tact* and pall the box out. I'm wed
used to all parts of the house."
"Where did you light your first
match?"
"Upstairs."
"Not in the kitchen!'
"No, sir."
'That's a pity. I thought you might
be able to tell me how so many wine
and whisky bottles came to be stand-
ing on the kitchen table."
I stared at 61m, dazed. Then I re-
membered the two small glasses on
the llttle table across the room and
Instinctively glanced at them. But no
whisky had been drank out of them.
The odor of anisette is unmistakable.
"You carry the key to the wine cel-
lar?" be asked.
I considered a moment I did not
know what to make of bottles on the
kitchen table. These women and bot-
tles! They abhorred wine: they bad
reason to I remembered the dinner
and all that bad signalized It and felt
my confusion grow.
'The keys were given up by the
janitor yesterday' I managed to stam-
mer at last "But I did not bring them
here tonight Tbey are in 'my rooms
at home."
I finished with a gasp. I had sud-
denly remembered that these keys
were not In my rooms. 1 bad bad
them with me at Mess Cwobertand's,
and, being given to fooling with some.
thing when embamased, i bad fooled
with them and dropped them while
talking with Adelaide and watching
Carmel I had meant to pick them up.
but I forgot and—
'You need say nothing more about
It." remarked Rexford "I have no
right to viewdata you at all. Lot us see
what then is 1n here'" stepping into
the adjoining small room. Into which
I bad simply peered to my own in-
vestigation of the place.
As he did so a keen blast blew in;
a window 12 the adjoining room was
open. He cast an. a hurried glance
and, with ilea door 1n has band, made
the following remark:
"Tour ladylove, the vlctlm mere,
could not have come through the meow
with no mon clothing on her than we
me now. the must have wore • bat
and cost or fun or something ss.[ that
nature. Let is look for (ban."
ea I followed him Into the closet be
pushed the door wide, pulling out an
electric torch •s he did ee. By iia
light we saw almost at first glance the
coat and bat be professed to seek, Iy-
ing in • corner of the door, beside so
overturned chair.
"Ooodr left my companion's Ilpa
"Tb.t. •11 straight You recognize
them garments?" 1 nodded, speech•
lees.
CRAFTER 1f1.
A SCRAP Or PAPm&
SI1oTTLY alter this • fresh re-
lay of pole• •Mrd, ■ed 1
could hear the whole bones be
ing remarked. I bed found
my shoes and was sitting In my ewe
private room beton • Ore which had
been lighted for me on the hearth. 1
was 1n a erste of stupor now
The storm. which bed boos •a. nod
bitty Salta while It 601s1, bed wise
d down to • steady tall et mew.
Had its mfsslos bass to servo as •
blanket to this crime b wiping est
from the old saew all telltale tree
steps and seek ether records as sew
p117 caw of tide ted for the diger
tires it could set Days happened taut
apropos to WIN • net. WWI 161s died
me well roast in ose way, ft sl
to my tar. 1. another, fear fie Marta
which mast' •cobmpaib se teach le es
short • thee was • bitter ase he a
?warn gel to most. ad lethal Nam
have stet tt at Hs worst 1s bus Isms
lime omega bearneweriL
The door Wild tar epees& and i
AMP or. raw. kb, a tie♦
hetes pby11id1at *tet mar fatbeeelati-
teate > * d, new a musty althea' of
no oraaary latdUgesco and, what was
better, of no ordinary teeth.
nu attachment to tey father bad
sot d•sresded 10 sae, *ad for the sae
meet be treated m• 116. a stranger.
"I am the corooer of this district,"
said 6s. "I bare lett my bed to hey
a few words with you end learn If
year detention here Is warrented
They bare told me what you had to
my In explanation of your presence
here where • crime of some nature
has taken place. But I should like to
beer the story from your own Ilps.
You have been Intending to marry
Miss Cumberland?"
'Tea' I looked the man directly In
the rtya "Our wedding day was eel"
"Did you love her? Pardon me. If
I ■m to be of any benefit to you at
this crisis I must strike at the root of
things. If you di not wish to answer
sal so, lir. Ranelagh."
"1 do wish." This was • He, but
what was I to do. knon-ing bow dan-
gerous It would be for Carmel to bare
It publicly known where my affections
were really centered? "I am In no
position to conceal anything from you.
I did lore Miss Cumberlaurl Webers
been eed fora year."
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ndsbereturnedyour brei""8ly."Was theroomIlghtenougreyeblmygnlltydash?Shebad lme only too well, too Jeal
may. too absorbingly for ber happi-
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bee
se
Du
cow
tea"And the sister""
It and
gently but gravely put, and
nstantty I knew that our secret was
out, however safe we had Considered
L. This man was cognizant of it, and
f he, why not others? Why not the
whole town? I made my reply in (bete
Words:
"Her sister Is ber sister. I hardly
kink that either of as would be apt
o forget that Hare you beard other
Tse, air?"
He was prepared for equivocation,
possibly for denial, but not for attack.
Is manner changed led •bowed dls-
and I saw that I bad lost rather
ban made by this venturous move.
"1s this your writing?" he suddenly
ked, showing me • morsel of paper
leech he bad drawn from his vest
pocket
I looked and felt that I oow under
tood what the pines had been trying
tell me for the last few bourn. That
compromlatng scrap of writing had not
been destroyed. It existed for ber and
y undoing. But Carmel was oo fool
ven if she had wild and demoniacal
momenta. This could not be my riots
her—that fatal note which would
make all dealai of our mutual puska
navalling.
"Is It your writing;" my watchful
qulsitor repeated.
1 looked *gals. The scrap was small•
tban my note had been when It
left my hands. If R were the same
hen some of the words were gone.
ere they the first ones or the last/
would make a d ftertnc. in the read -
g or. rather. In .the conclusions to
drawn from what remained if only
mist would clear from before my
eyes or he would bold the aUp of paper
surer. The room eras very dark. The
tbe—
"Is it your wrlttngr Coroner Perry
eked for Ib• third time.
Then was no denying iL My writ -
was peculiar and quite unnitstek-
a I should gain nothing by saying
"It looks !Ike It," I admitted reins.
ntiy, "but I cannot be sore 1n this
t May I ask what this bit of pa-
is and where you found it?
"Its contents I think you know. Aa
✓ the last question. I think you em
wer that also 1f you will." Say-
whicb he quietly replaced the scrap
paper 1n his pocketbook.
followed the action with my eye
ngbt a fresh glimpse of a darkened
and realised the cause of the faint
which I bad hitherto experienced
tbout being conscious of It The
p had been plucked out of the
mney. Sbe bad tried to burn it I
remembered the dee and the smolder-
bits
molderbits of paper which crumbled at
touch. And this cos—tills, the most
rtant, the only Important one of
all—bad down, half seorcbeu, ad
chimney and clang then wtthia
reach.
e whole tneldent was plain to ma
1 could even az upon the'momsst
a Buford or Harte discovered
invaluable bit of evidence. 0 was
t before I burst to upon them from
ballroom, and It was the wndoobt-
occasion of the remark 1 then over-
rd:
verrd:
"This settles It He consist escape
D om." -
ring the momentary silence which
ensued 1 tried to remember the
et words which bad composed this
este:
"Tonight -1030 trete—we wfl be
married at r. Cam., coma. my der.
Ilag, my Ilia the will forgive when
all M does Hesitation will only setas
a Tonight at 1010. De sot fall M
I sun never marry any one bet tea"
Was tbat *UT 1 had •o loalatlnt't
tmmembraac• of baring added sale
wile and Incoherent wards of Dashes'
ate afsr'ttes.alizd to her name Her
Meal Ilwt It may be fiat to the Ise.
tT •d furry orf the mascot these
terms of sede•rmst Amply passed
angst my mad end found so se -
melon on papist I mold net be care
any more thea I cook. be paddy,
him the ball glimpse I get of these
ave whirls particle bad bees bnrnd
s — s torp, le whist the word "Wain"
mama/. s the Iasi words, emptiest&
4 • time of mediae and my detered.
per -
mos adlteemed. The Stet gine. tar tae
tar megbt tabs on wig slattern mew
Mg. The Mew SAh elle See MOO
Pm* a stageard M'mbueties
11110mSt that ea mead Mg tarn
Stop
Backaches
0a.'t tootplitla about palma h year hmeb
when the remedy Ira right leaew& Gin ells
Map har'k+ete". •ad they do It is a easy
natural way by goi.g,righl to the root of the
trouble
KIDNCY$
Gi■ rills act m the kidneya and the
bladder. They soothe sad heal the inflamed
organ.. which are musing the suffering
K that r k nod swollen bands sad
fret. wefals ss./ an te., err Ilkely 11 follow
A dome of Gin Pill. .0 time saves • world of
psi u.
Yon will resli.re their value when you rest
wh:,t ret-.. 1. 1'. T wedge, of summersde.
1'.1. I. " ne.
'.:.n t'fll. a-. the ovate .t of .ill Ikf-
oey rrme.hes .114 a medicin; whr.h is at
I.i vent doing me a world of cn.-1. They
are worth their weight iu 1041 to say
buff ter.
Get GIN eiCes today at your dealer a.
IS' a hoe, or 1 fro... for V.40. Trial treat-
ment PkEK.1 you write la
National Drug & Chemical Co.
of Canada, Limited, Toronto
me into town.
It would be bard to find an alibi for
Carib.' if suspicion once turned her
way. 86e bad not met me at the
train. The unknown but doubtlese
-
eutly to be found man who had basdt
ed me ber note could swear to that
fact
Then the note Itself! 1 bed destroyed
It, It Is true, but its phrases were prat -
ant to my mind. They were these --in-
nocent. It she were innocent, but how
suggestive In the light of her probable
guilt:
"I canna Walt till tomorrow. Then
you will see the depth of my love for
you—what 1 owe you, what I owe
Adelaide."
I was conscious that not a loot or
movement of mine bad escaped the
considerate but watchful eye of the
man before me.
"You do not relish my questlons,'v
be dryly observed. "Perhaps yoft
would rather tell your story without
interruption. 1f so I beg you to be
as ezpllclt as possible. The cinema.
cM
are serious for mg
rZcandor on your part
I took a qul-k resolve I would ap-
pear to throw discretion to the
to monde to him what men t
hold sacred, to risk my reputation u
• gentleman. rather than Incur a sue'
pklon which might involve others
more tban it did myself.
To Bt Coot nued Neat Reek
Health Wrecked
Through La Grippe
It Generally Leaves the
Patient Debilitated and
an Easy Victim to
Other Diseases.
One of the foremost medical writers
says : "It is astonishing the number
of people who have been crippled in
health for years after an attack of la
writ pa or iafluenr.." The real danger
from this disease, which "weeps over
Canoe's every winter, is during con-
valescence, when the characteristic
ymptoma, the Lever, the ?atanb. Who
headache and the depression of imbibe,
paw away. Grip leaves' behind it
weakened vital powers, :bin blood, .
impaired diges.ion and over-een,iti,e
nerves—a condition that makes the
system an easy prey to pneumonia,
til or chit is, •heumat.i.w, nervous pros-
tration and even consumption. It is a
condition that calls we et emphatically
for a tonic for the blood. Dr. Williams'
P.i.k Pills are a tonic rapecially ad-
pir d to mo et 1bis nerd, as they purify
. 14 enrich the hind. They tone up
the noires and give vigor, strength
and health to the debilitated system.
Mr.. Howard D. Obafey, Indlen 1e -
land, N. B., says: "For several win -
ler. in tmccewion 1 was attacked by la
. t'ppe, which .ate me weak and belly
run town. In each cane 1 used Dr
William.' Pink Pills with the most
beneficial :multi,. Lost winter when
the trouble was twain provolone 1 tock
Ibe pecautineadtart trying tu •%stem
with Dr. i Willvia.' Piot Ills aad
Leaped the trouble, while my
m
of e telphbnra wale down ws�tb
:1. in fee: 1 enjoyed the beet of
l.ealth all spring and feel owe this
n ed cine will so fnrt.fy the system sato
prevent the trouhh ."
These Pille are sold by ail medicine
dealers or may be bad mail at 50
cents a box or six bones for $160 trout
The Dr. W IUlame' llwdiebe Co., Brock-
ville, Ont.
"Doesn't It requiregreat metal
effort b be • photographer 7" "Yea,
Indeed," rotted Mr. $naeum "You
have to sit or nights learning funny
stories to test customers in order to
make 'em smile and look naturist."
Attend the 1.t, It Pays!
TOMO VP 01(7. not elms 1s. Was tea re,
esp"riertlawn s alaratese. OeawDeare
Wars sat tsea. fletwee dem•ae tier tar rr.n n