The Exeter Advocate, 1915-10-21, Page 2The Green Seal
By CHARLES BDNeONDS. WALK
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Author of "The Silver Blade," "The Paternoster Ruby,"
"The Time Lock," etc.
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CHAPTER VIII,—(Cont'd). i carefully set the instrument upright
There is nothing more dreary or ' upon the floor' a
forsaken than the inside of a modern In a moment he was throu„h He
business building on a Sunday morn- fished up from a vest pocket a partic-
ularly The elevators were not running, ularly ill-favored and ragged a igar
and we were obliged to climb the whose villainous odor,- once he got it
stairs to the fifth story. Struber re -:going, suggested an intent on his
we arrived at the part to disinfect the room. The derby
rnained silent until,
long marble hallway at whose far- het was cocked at a jaw -4Y angle. He
Cher end my name could be discerned squinted at me along bis crooked nose
in neat gilt letters on the frosted glass and jerked a thumb backward to-
of the outer office door. Here he ward the safe.
paused and sniffed the air like a hound "Y' don't know that guy, I s'poseei'
scenting its quarry. he remarked in a tone that implied
"Janitor work all done Saturday he thought I did. Without waiting for
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„ hasked.a response he continued: "Yah look'
a si t ' i e t at an set we
night, 1 s'pose : he z ' ,
"Yes" said I beginning to tingle siek,h rl Ferris,
d � blaatiello yuh;
with an incomprehensible excitement
you v e already went through." Then
Above is a sketch of the palace of the King of Waurten i ,g at Stutt-
gart, Germany, which was. attacked by aeroplanes oe sue Allies
in retaiiatiou for Zeppelin maids on London and other open towns.
It was built lir 1740 erica is situated u the cart of tate Catyital of
Wurtemberg•
"Then nobody a been in your shop man's chest, 'specisslly after what
since last evening?"
'.It's not at all likely." he irrelevantly fired at me; "Keep a deliberately placed the ring in tbe me that you ought to know; If you'll
We moved along the hall, and pre- rattlesnake in the safe . card border yuh connected it in your meet me at ten o'clock to -morrow
I shook my bead; I did in truth safe under the spur of a prompting morning at the Citrus Exchange
sently Struber stepped aside to en- ' feel sick, "I - was the ring," of that something might happen very . Bank, Ili tell you everything I know
able me to use the key which already el t a ring, I tow
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him, "Don't touch it." f like what actually had; the thought about it. Is !stat satisfactory?"
had sinb a ou on its
ring, a ""'`sot met" laconically "That's was horrifying• illy carelessness with 'You're on, was his curt aetiuies-
F'resh and flefreshing
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leaves.Picked right,blended right and
packed right It brigs the fragrance
o an Eastern garden to your table.
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Hints for the Farmer,
Every farrier should raise bees,
chicken feed and a variety of par-
poses.
I eipened the door with an acute they�� ' ' o 't o ran object so deeds �t�as cul able sae- cenee Dryness it snore essential than I Molting hens need particular care
-e I d doped 1 out. It croaked J y p
quickening of anticipation; but ,no- tht 'ink as if it'd a -been a side- �: 'once measure. R 9 can only say now that there is warmth in the ling -house. and attention. The change of coat is
thing out of the way Hies my view. th h. Y keeper?" "" i '" . one feature of the case that I can't, Ho a bit; drain on the bird's system, and
You anus make u in food.
, _ . , e crop for the fruit farmer.p
winder, pug ou its eeper y Gad the words were tv'rung nay is an especially profitxabae y
Around the walls were arranged then •"It's mine e...yes. It won'ir, hurt you : from me. "I'll get rid of the devilish unsupported assulise -tale rasponsit►il f h vitality.
t k f d
uniform calf bindings of the bulk •f -ity of disclosing; I want to calx in An occasional feed of sraliflower seed
if you handle ft properly,. Just keep thin a once. I'll carr • it out to the
my law library; the half-dozen or so , p y p g t 3 „ Bees. are easier to care for than is good, I a lit '
affray from the seal that's the source end of San Pedro peer an —" little oil meal in the
leather seated chairs were placed at „ „ ,,, chickens, and yield goad returns on.
bthe of danger. blot on your life. Struber vigor -mesh, and give increased ration of
precise distances about longIi h 1! h the investment,
Zr.i1Struberned knowingly. o "P t where cars'
table that field various legal periodic- "" , grin,ally objected, "Put it h. it can't t sigliafied that the proposed arrange- t
meat, green bone, beef ecrap, or
ass; the ty ld �iter desk was closed i m the one great little -keeper away bite every situp that feels e'alled to 1 silent was acceptableo h La a sawn carrots beets, etc, store whatever it may be.
p , from a thing of that kind,"he assur- monkey with it, but you freeze to it it him, and that much better than those ,hen &�e best colon a
Arid unencumbered, save for a smelt , ed me, "But I'd Bice to get it out v' Sometlyme h a nt it otveriul for the time being be ryas ready to , is y pian of ]seeping poultry
vase of Japanese ware in which bliss sight before the coroner comes buttin' bad." y p dismiss at, sewn
et ed ally and are too old when hear- suited far the farmers and
Fox usually had flowers of some sort M in, i' ,know, an inquest's a public1t this moment I could not have .Then he surprised me with a those who have plenty of land at
In short, everything thin was neat and proceeding, an, we're not ready to believed that the time would come ,glimpse into another side of his char -1 Girt out and burn the old raspberry their disposal. It makes it possible
atter, 1 canes as soon as they are through to keep several hundred hens on the
two or three witnesses of my own
choosing,"
y .a short ler.- of ..is head Struber.
shipshape, as the place always was
of a morning before the day's active_ have some things get in the news- when T would be thankful for not "When the coroner comes, 'ctrl fruiting,Cultivateax
ties disarranged it into a homelike un- . papers yet. These foxy reporters is having obeyed a natural impulse to don't mention that entle lad yike the young shoots ordinary farm without the expense o#.
fierce. Go shoo your Jewelry into its destroy a thing so diabalicrilly ssialag- p ring to him, nor Miss fox's liaise If ,and keep out all. the weeds, yarding 'them, and atilt have them
tidiness. corral an'' put up the bars; then let's nant~,buildings. It's
Struber had not paused to dwell talk. As soon as I had steadied a alt I
upon the aspect of the outer room, toe swell a girl. tv tae rrrrxed ice a caress ; making materials, Alsi.ke is also the farmers way.
seeming to divine that my private out never had handled the ring with- studied salt, Struber ane cosasidered, like this we've run 'into," traluab1e, as is sweet clover which From eight to lifteen colonies el'
room must hide whatever it was he thous t of
n of dread, and the Ile upset all ray preconceived no -Notwithstanding the language, his may be grown to advantage in'bees are the right number for the
was expecting to find. The door be- enc rbs 'bl picking it up now was in -tions of detectit es, Inc vague sort tone and manner were unmistakably g tsige most average farmer to have, ten being
p e l y repugnant,. But I recog of fashion I fancied be hould be oprovinces, g eine us
xvonder.
she don't mind my sayin' so, she'
s I Alfalfa ofi'ers one of tbe best honey away from the home
,
tween the two rooms stood ajar, and nixed fully the wisdom of keeping in over m office with a nil if yin respectful, and I stared at slim in r ,; ually preferable to a larger number,
nn exclamation from the detective, p g g y y g It will cost not less than 7a cents to '
who had, halted upon the threshold,
brought had,
speedily to biro.
"For the love o' Mike!" he mar- a<1 to get the deadly object backsinto stle,e 'would resolutely to s for about .l0 cents, as they
vested, y asks you anything, foUtiw my lead.:, eery side line .just as chickens are
its box and the box itself burled be -4 explain, Instead, however, he was ,maturepmuch earlier in life, j
I peered across his shoulder and neath a mass of papers in a desk the most commonplace looking char) Has young and like as not never' eq many*`parts of the country. The
echoed his astonishment. Ip heard o'the ring an'Charley Yen's It pays to prepare vegetables as equipment cast for fire colonies of
First, I noted that my desk had drawer, conceivable, He had been not so death. Hagan was coroner then.,
well as traits neatly for market. bees .is about X54.
been dragged to one side, providing a ilii, Struber, reflectively puffing much startled and surprised by the Harris don't know nothin' about Lois p Clean, attractive Packages do not cost i I i
his malodorous cigar, was now seat- fatality itself, it would seem, as Willcts. We don't want to drag her much more than unattractive ones tis pose bio for careless help to
which clearsspace against n fthe ontw.fali b safe
i f e ed, one leg swinging comfortably gratified that a line of reasoning hall into this at alls There ain't anyin- andleave aa considerable portion of the
it, Then I saw that the safe behind
over the chair arm. 1 leaned against been approved and its result can- quest that's gain'to,laring out nlle'n" •t' bring much bastes places' Try grain crop in the field by neglecting
stood open, my desk and waited, as he produced firmed. Apparently, in a single brief we already know, so act it go as a x to gather up-acattexings, loose bun -
we already
tapers were scattered over a blue Palo in the air by waving his but comprehensive survey, he had, plain, everyday case o' peter -crack-:. «'hen it is necessary to .prune trees, dies, etc., and by hauling grain on
the floor, papers
oneda start, I fere over cigar. taken in everything necessary to be lig—some, important papers,slime- the branches should be cut or sawed open -bottom racks. From a few
y Reckon yuh thought we weren't€known;• aside from removing the body's trying to grab, savvy? Harris off smoothly and a thick coat of paint pounds to a few bushels of grain may
of the small ivor • boxes. It lay' much interested in your troubles this queuetvig and serutinising the vie '11 think so anyhow when he finds out applied tocy
upside-down, its lid projecting at mornin'it.," he began, contemplating tim's face, he bad sought no farther who that stiff is." ondthe cut surface, and asec- be saved every day during stacking,
And ight angles
e aro atie 'on a me through the haze. "Fact o' the for clues. Anel lastly, Ile was more '"That's so," said I, with a sudden coat.applied after the first is by using a tight -bottom rack, or a
y attention became tit- matter is, Mr. Ferris, I knew Thurs- disposed to sit down and thresh out realization that we had forgotten the dry' canvas over the rack that will catch.
e ted upon a figure huddled in the :day •yule ties keeping somethi•ng back. the �,hla matter with me. I was lie victim in eons e a g f h Tho mammoth Russian sunflower is all of the beads. In seasons when
some details suppressed until I was in lens and mystifying me wit sundry" "•,S all right," Ile tried to let raise a Uaby I3rahma chick up to the and still fewer being desirable to
a position to give a sensible, plan- occult comments and mysterious head- my, quickly awakened alarm. "e"
on i paint of laying. Leghorn chicks could start with. For the'fruit farmer
sible account of them . and hasten- shakings, •h' h, intrueorthodoxleave It to nae• When I)oe Harris be tai ed b bees should be regarded as a neces-
semi obscurity behind the safe door.: I ought to a -been put next to. Mebbe;ginning to understand, why' his chef tragedy's larger aspects u seenx-
only had time to make out the fa- yuh don't know that guy at the Re-! reposed confidence in him. ed °rcognize the poor#devil."
miliar blue blouse and loose flowing; public; I ain't sayin' yuh do or yuh I I expressed something of my The shrewd eyes regarded me
breeches of the Chinese coolie's at -a' don't; but as soon as yuh tamped that' thoughts, and he Nodded his under- quizzically.
tire in public, when Struber sprang mind with somethin' that kd happen- ""Recognize him! I guess yes,"
forward. He pushed the f d n- stazid"Who was he?"
"Steve Willets. "
(To be continued.)
TRENCH DAGGERS.
to, the light to fall square- . ed before; somethin' that had been
permittingworryin' yuh, too. Correct?"
ly upon the motionless form over i I contented myself with another
which he stooped. r, nod, and, to myself, the expression of
A long low whistle escaped him.: a definite conviction upon the extent o' chasm' them bugs in a ease like
He reached down and caught the end to which this chap had befooled me, t this here? The stiff; the busted
of the braided queue and gave it a ' I could no longer dispute the fact safe; the little box; the ring them's
jerk. He jerked harder; the thing that. Mr. Struber was clever- that he clues. No use loolcin' for any others.'
came away in his hand.
"Clues.?" he mused inspecting the
expanding end of its nondescript
cigar, which occasionally fizzed like a
damp firecracker. "What's the use
was remarkably shrewd both at ob- Yuh ain't a-goin' to find anything
"This is no Chink," he announced serving and at drawing deductions here that points to what's behind it
in a brittle tone, standing upright and from what he observed. Without all•
looking from the dangling queue in seeming to remark my crestfallen "This much is as plain as day,
his hand to the denuded poll, silence, he pursued: Didn't we both have the same hunch 1 with army officers in trench daggers.
I stared in wonder. A small circa- Says I to myself Thursday: `Now, o somethin or other bein' pulled off These weapons vary in size and
pat -
lar space at the top of the man's there's somethin' Mr. Ferris is afraid in here? Sure, we did. Look at it tern. Sometimes they bave a decided
head, where the queue had been fas- to tell me; it ain't ever occurred to just .a second as I see it: he squar
tened by means of some sort of ad- him before that mebbe some time ed round and indicated the different mediaeval appearance. More deadly
hesive, disclosed an area of close- he'd have to tell it, an' handin' it to objectives with wide sweeps of one weapons for the "in fighting" which
cropped gray hair. The face was him sudden this way's got him to arm: "Somebody's opened the safe is so frequent a feature of modern
hidden in the hollow of one arm; the guessin'; lie wants to weigh the likely door by twistin' the button 'stead o' trench warfare could hardly be de -
knees were drawn up and the body results o' tellin', so I might as well drilling it full o'holes, pourin'in a sired. They are desci;ibed as "straight
arched, as if it had petrified in a blow. `Mable,' says I, `he'll need a spoonful or so o soup an' spoiling a plunge dagger," "stab dagger,"
paroxysm of pain. jolt to makehim tell at all, and I'll lay perfectly good harnessed -box. No ",knuckle-duster dagger," `"trench da
Next instant I saw something that low a while.' . . Well, 1 reckon h common- yegg done that, but one o' a ", gg• ; g-
sickened me with horror. One hand got the jolt all right what?" these foxy experts what reads the ger and Thug •knife. The charac-
was turned palm upward. It was "Several of them," I conceded. combination through the ends o"' their ter of the grip varies, and the handles
puffed and swollen. In the palm was "But I'm less concerned for the jolts fingers by the fall o the tumblers, are weighted according to the amount
a clear imprint of the symbol on the that have been than for those that dust as easy as if they'd had it told of strain put on the fingers by the
death ring. On the floor beside it lay are likely to be. Just between us, I'd to«' , blow. Sometimes an officer has a
the ring itself, like to head them off." Then there's the mark on this fancy of his own as to the most de-
to"My idee exactly. If you're ready rings There she tis!f Times for the Charley arable kind of trench dagger, and
put me wise to what was in the yen gets his we had that Chink sign supplies the specification. A little
package the guy at the Republic
Various Kinds of These Weapons in
Use at the Front
Shops in London showing cutlery
are doing a considerable business.
CHAPTER IK.
Struber turned the body so as to get
a view of the face. I was only hazily
conscious of his quick, deft move=
conscious
having myself no stomach to
see more than I already had and when
I came out of my daze he was utiliz-
ing my desk telephone in a low -voiced
conversation with some person—at
police headquarters, I surmised. Be-
fore moving the desk, it would seem
that the intruders, heedful of mak-
ing as little noise as possible, had
i
sent yuh—all yuh know 'bout him, in looked I d believe but don't el leve we found
fact -why, mebbe we can head 'em. out what it means. Me rememberCharley Yen's case? Believe me
One way to go about it is not to set yes. Us bulls 's paid for not ferget-
any more traps with that stingaree ;,,,
ring; yuh caught fair game this time,
but who knows who the next one
might be?"
He was right. Whether knowingly
spoken or not, his last words gave me
a sudden chill and a swift recurrence
of the sickening feeling.
The truth of the matter was, I had
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excitement has been caused in a Hay-
market shop by the request that an
assorted lot of these knives should be
sent to the. War Office: The order is
more likely to. mean that one or two
"Now when you're ready to put me officers in the building
next to what yuh know, why, I'll give . are:about to
yuh the answer—mebbe.' proceed to the front than that Lord
Kitchener is seriously considering the
Here's hoping, at any rate," I
fervently expressed my feelings. issue of such weapons to the rank and
More and more did I regret` this file. In the French- Army of course
amiable sleuth's apparent shiftiness, trench daggers, as well as helmets,
for I was sensible of a growing con- breastplates and other revivals of an-
fidence in his abilities. How much cient war .;paraphernalia, have been
-would it be safe for me to tell him? in use for some months.
It seemed imperative that, if the mys-
tery was ever to be cleared up, if an
unmistakable criminal activity was to
be ended, he as a representative of
the law should be placed in possession
of all the facts.,.
He Decided.
"Supposing I decided to let you
have the money how do I know that
Yet L;was very reluctant to tell him. I shall get it back at the time you
about the diamond; my right to gov- mention?" said Monikins. "I pro -
ern - its disposition was based solely mise it, my boy, on the word, of a
tale of possess on the incomon,te, andnshould it be ,uncertgentleman," replied ''Sp ffkins. "Ah,
wrested from me under the cloak of in:that case I may think better of it.
authority, the rightful owner might Come round this evening , and bring
lose it for ever. It was a problem him with you.,,,
not to be disposed of lightly.
And, too, there was Lois Fox to be
considered. Did Struber have, an ink-
ling of how closely she might be con-
nected with the affair? Once iden-
tify the vanished guest of the Repiib-
sic with James Strang, and the two
of them with the annonymous sender
of the diamond; -and her involvement
would be complete, if not clear.
I hit upon a plan at last which I
fancied would be fair to Struber, and „
at the same time would protect my thy yet,
position.
""Struber," I said, "I suppose this
He Opened It.
A little girl stood .one day before a
closed gate. A .man passed, andthe
little girl said to him—"Will you
please open this gate for rite?" The
man did so. Then he said, kindly—
"Why, my child, couldn't you open
the :gate for ; yourself ?" "Because,"
said the little -girl, "the paint's not
thing has becomeThree hundred years ago glass, top ;serious for re- windows, which were only to be found
servations, but I m -in a predicament
of doubt. honestly, I haven't the in the houses of the wealthy, were
faintest notion of what it all -means; considered so precious that when peo-
but there are one or two facts within tale left their houses for a time they
my knowledge that seem to bear upon used to take the windows out and put
this tragedy and the assault upon them 'carefully away.
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grown for its seeds. While it is bloom-
ing at the back of n lot it is a sight
worth seeing. The seeds are used for
the grain shatters badly, a surprising.
ly large amount of grain can be saved.
in this way,
THE PATRICIANS OF AUSTRIA.
Unchangeable Point of View of The
Aristocrats.
We read in Chambers's Journal that
many powerful persons in Austrian
society wish that the rigid rules of
court etiquette could be modified; but
the number in favor of reforms is not
sufficiently large to bring about a
change in „the usage of centuries.
The nobility usually marry those of
their own rank, with the result that
nearly all the families of the aristoc-
racy are related. Princess Karl,
whose mother and father, together,
had fifteen brothers and nine sisters,
told the writer that at the last court
ball there were more than a hundred
of her first cousins, and that one win-
ter at Abbazia she had not spoken
during a whole week of balls and par-
ties to anyone who was not connected
either directly or remotely with her
own or Prince Karl's family.
It was thought that the barriers of
caste would be broken down if the
Archduke Franz Ferdinand should
succeed his uncle, the Emperor; for if
his morganatic wife, Countess Chotek
(created Duchess of Hohenberg by
the Emperor), became empress, de-
spite his solemn oath to the contrary,
the present rules as to birth could
hardly be enforced. If they were so
relaxed as to permit a lady not of
royal birth to become Empress of
..Austria, they would be relaxed for all
those who now suffer exclusion from
court for lack of princely blood. Prin-
cess Karl, although she is very broad-
minded, could admit no variation, of
this rule. "In Austria," she said, "it
is what you are born that counts, not
what you become."
When I ventured to point out that
this sentiment belonged. to the Middle
Ages, says the writer, her replyshow-
.ed me the unchangeable point of view
of the Austrian aristocrats. - It is not
mere vulgar glorying in pride of
birth; it is the .acceptance. of a fact
that to them is as necessary and as
natural as the coming of night and
day. "I was born Durchlaucht" (that
is, Serene Highness); "I have married
a Durchlaucht; my children are
Durchlauchts. How can I possibly
recognize' Countess Chotek as em-
press ? Durchlauchts do not make
obeisance to countesses, no matter
whom they_ may marry. Countesses
cannot be made empresses in Aus
tria."
"But they, can be .made queens in
Hungary," I ventured, "and the arch-
duke would be King of Hungary as
well as Emperor of„Austria:"
"It is different in Hungary," the
princess replied quickly. "The wife
of the ming of Hungary is his' queen,
even if shewere a beggar girl."
"Then if the Duchess of Hohen-
berg head been Queen of Hungary,
you would have made obeisance to het
as queen?"
"Certainly," was the immediate an-
swer.
„Then why not as empress?" I ask-
ed her.
"In Hungary the Countess Chotek
would be queen. It is only in Hun-
gary that I would make obeisance to
her. In. Austria she could never be
anything save the Countess Chotek,
because she was born Countess Cho-
tek. One does not make obeisance to
countesses, even if they marry arch-
dukes who become emperors," she re-
peated.
The murder at Sarajevo made it im-
possible to put this question to the
test, but the Princess Karl gave the
point of view of the Austrian nobility
in a nutshell.
A FEW RULES.
Be Conscientious in the Discharge of
Every Duty.
Dishonesty seldom makes one rich,
and when it does richesare a curse.
There is no such thing as dishonest
success. The world is not going to
pay you for nothing. Ninety per cent,
of what men call luck is only talent
for hard work. Do not lean on others
to do your thinking or to conquer
your difficulties. .Be conscientious in
the discharge of every duty. Do your.
work thoroughly. No one can -rise
whoslights work. Do not try to be-
gin at the. top. •.Begin at the bottom,.
and you will have k chance to rise,,•
and will be surer of reaching the top
some time. Be punctual. Keep your
appointments. Be there a minute be-
fore time, if you have to lose your
dinner to do it. Be polite. Every
smile, every gentle bow is money in
your pocket Be generous. Mean-
ness makes enemies and breeds dis-
trust. Spend less than you earn.; Do
not run in debt. Watch the little
leaks, and you canlive on your sal-
ary.