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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1926-4-8, Page 6IEDLNittovtiaN d LRo'Ti"S• lar ItR 8A RFiet'b BEGIN HERE TODAY. Mark Brendan, criminal investi- gator, a �," 14 a a engaged t e data d byJenny I n e. to solve the murderof her husband, Michael. Jenny's uncle, Robert Red- xnayne, disappears and is suspected of til • 1 t lzng Michat.I.. Jenny goer to live with her uncle, ,bendigo Redmayne. Robert appears in e n t e ghberltraod and sends word to Bendigo to conte to his hiding place. Giuseppe Darla, who works for Ben- digo, takes his tater to Robert and leaves the brothers together, When Doria earls to bring Bendigo home he finds an empty cave in which is evi- dence of a terrible struggle. Jenny marries ea Do i• and they got rave in Italy, where Jenny' uncle, A beet Redma;yne, lives. When Rober is seen in Italy, Brendon and the fa Mous American a cle•t five Peter a' ec to Gann , renew investigations. NOW GO ON .WITH THE STORY. They had reached the shrine—a lit- tle alcove in a rotting mass of brie and plaster. Beneath it extended stone seat wheron the wayfarer migh kneel or sit. They sat down and Doria began to smoke his usual Tuscan cigar. Hie depression increased and with it Bren- don's astonishment. The man appear- ed to be taking exactly that attitude to his wife she had already suggested toward him. ""Il volto sciolto ed i pansiori stretti," declared Giuseppe with gloom. ""That is to say 'her counten- ance may be clear, but her thoughts are darld--too dark to tell me—her husband." "Perhaps she fears you a little. A woman is always helpless before a man who keeps his own secrets hid- den." "Helpless? Far from it. She is a self-controlled, efficient, hard -beaded woman. Her loveliness is a curtain. You have not yet got behind that. You loved her but she did,. not love you. She loved me and married toe. And it is I who know her character not you. She is very clever and pre- tends a great deal more than she feels. If she makes you think she is unhappy and helpless, she does it on purpose. She may be unhappy, be- cause to keep secrets is often to court unhappiness; but she is not helpless at all. Her eyes look helpless; her mouth never. There is power and will between her teeth." "Why do you speak of secrets?" ""Because you did. I have no sec- ret.: T_t..Le ee tv �m� { . TNh_ .ha arated from him by a .dietattee of thirty ya>'tis ,behind the beeghs of a l:rcast•ltio'h .hrub. • Put it apps tract that the watcher desired no dieser contact, Be turned and ran, heading upward for a wild tract of .tette and scarab that spread beneath the last precipices 'of the Inountfdn.. Mark strove -to run the other down as speedily as possible, that he might close,,with strength still sufficient to win the inevitable battle that must follow, and effect a capture. 7Ie was disappointed, however, for 'Mille stili twenty yards behind and forced to make only a»nzoderate pro- , way gt�.sa over the rocky he saw Rob- l- ert Redmayne suddenly stop, tui, and Roh- r- a revolver, As the red man fired, the other fiune' up his arms, plunged; , forward on his face, gate ane convul— sive tremor through all his limbs, and moved no more, _. The big nian, pant- ing from his exertions, approached, k only to see that his fallen victim shew- a ed no sign of life, the other, with his t face amid the alpine flowers, his arms outstretched, his hands clenched, his body still, blood • running' from his mouth. The conqueror took careful note of the spot in which he stood and bring- ing a knife from his pocket blazed the stem of a young tree that rase not very far from his victim., Then he disappeared and peace reigned above the fallen. Many hours passed and then, after night had flooded the hollow, there sounded from close at hand strange noises and the intermittent thud of some metal weapon striking the earth. The din ascended from a rock which secrets. I tell you this. She knows all about the red man! She is as deep as hell." Brendon could hardly believe his ears, but the Italian appeared very much in earnest. He chattered on for some time. Then he looked at Ms watch and declared that he must des- cend. "The steamer Is coming soon," he said. "Now I leave you and I hope that I have done good. Think how to help me and yourself. What she now feels to you I cannot tell. Your turn may come. I trust so. I am not at all jealous. But be warned. This red pian—he is no friend to you or rte. You seek hire again to -day. Sa be it. And if you find him, be care- ful of your skin. Not that a man can protect his skin against fate. We meet at supper;" He swung away, singing a canzonet, and quickly vanished, while Brendon, overwhelmed by this extraordinary conversation, sat for an hour motion- less and deep in thought. Ile considered now his own course As the red man fired, the other plunged. forward on his face. lifted its gray head above a thicket of juniper; and here,- while the fiat sum- mit of the boulder began to shine whitely under the rising moon, a lan- tern flickered and showed two shadows busy above the ecavation of an oblong hole. They mumbled together and pug in turn. Then one dark figure ame out into the open, took his bear- ings, flung lantern light on the blazed tree trunk, and advanced to a brown, motionless hump lying hard by. The dark, approaching figure saw the object of his search and came for- ward. His purpose was to bury the victim, whom he had lured hither be- fore destroying, and then remove any trace that might linger upon the spot where the body lay. He bent down, put his hands to the jacket of the motionless man, and then, as he exert- ed hisstrength, a strange, hideous of action and presently proceeded to thing happened: The body under his touch dropped to pieces. Its head rolled away; its trunk became dis- membered and he fell backward heav- ing an amorphous torso into the air. for, exerting the needful pressure to move a heavy weight, he found none and tumbled to the ground, holding up a coat stuffed with grass. The man was on his feet in an in- stant, fearing an ambush; but aston- ishment opened his mouth. "Corpo di Bacot" he cried, and the exclamation rang in a note of some- thing like terror against the cliffs and upon the ear of his comps:131*n. Nei- ther rascal delayed a moment. Their 'mangled steps instantly rang out; then the clatter faded ,swiftly upon the night and silence returned. For ten minutes nothing happened. Next, out of a lair not fifteen yards from the distorted dummy, rose a figure that shone white as snow under the moon, Mark Brendon approached the Snare that he himself had set, shook the .grass out of his coat,lifted his hat from the ball of leaves it cov- ered, and presently drew on his kniek- erbockers, having emptied them of their stuffing. He was cold and calm, He had learned more than he expected to learn; for that startled exclamation' left no doubt at all concerning one of the gravediggers. It was Giuseppe Doria who had come to move the body, and there seemed little doubt that Breed'on's would-be murderer was the 'other. The operations of the deteet'ive from the moment that he` fell head:ong, ap- parently p-parenrtl ' to rife aro more, may be briefly ehron.icleci. With tt loaded revolver still in his opponeet's hand, he could takeno risk and fon accordingly. :Stow:Ion had shunt •ted death for ft while,but when. the region in which Robert Redmayne had been most frequently reported. Brendon climbed steadily upward and presently sat down to rest upon a little, lofty plateau where, in the mountain scrub, grew lilies of the val- ley and white sun -rose. Suddenly Mark became aware that he was being watched and found him- self face to face with the object of his search. Robert Redniaynestood sep- ands are an index of character Mei eep yours - bedutiful 'Ilse LUX for 9)i5hwashinq Lever Brothels Limited Toronto satisfied of his assailant's de arture,l p :I presently rose, with no worse hurts than a bruised face, a badly bitten tongue, and a wounded shin. Mark guessed that until darkness returnedhe' might expect to be undis- turbed. He, walked back, therefore, to his starting -place, and found the packet of food which, he had brought with him and a flask of red wine left beside it, After a meal and 'a pipe he made his plan and presently stood again on the rough ground beneath the cliffs, where he had pretended so realistical-- ly to perish. He expected Redmayne to return -and guessed that another would return with liim. His hope was to recognize the accomplice. With -infinite satisfaction he heard Giuseppe's voice, and even an element of grim amusement attended the Italian's shock and his subsequent snipe -like antics as he leaped to safety before .an anticipated revolver bar- rage. CHAPTER XV. A GUOST. The next morning, while he rubbed his bruises in a.hot bath, Brendon de- termined upon a course of action. He proposed to tell Jenny and her hus- band exactly what had happened to' him, merely concealing the end of the' story. He breakfasted, lighted his pipe anc limped over to Villa Pianezzo..He wa not in reality very lame, but accentu ated the stiffness. Only Assunta ap peered, though Brendan's eyes .had marked Doria and Jenny together in the neighborhood of the silkworm house as he entered the garden. He asked for Giuseppe, and, having left Brendon in the sitting -room of the villa, A.ssunta departed. Almost he - mediately afterward Jenny. greeted him with evident pleasure but reprov- ed hint. ""We waited an hour for supper,'she said, ""then Giuseppe would wait no longer. I was beginning to gef frightened andel have been frightened all •night. I -am thankful to see you, for I feared something serious might have happened." "Sozii thing serious did happen: I've got a strange story to tell. Is your husband within reach? He must hear it, too, I think. He may be in some danger as well as others." She expressed impatience and shook her head. • "Can't you believe me? But , of course you can't. Why should you? Doria in danger! However, if you want him, you don't want me,. Mark." It was the first time that she had, thus addressed him and his heart throbbed; but the temptation to con- fide. in her. lasted. not a moment. - (To be continued.) ' 1146 THE NEW COSTUME BLOUSE.' Fashioned ofa lovely printed and bordered material, is this overblouse of Russian influence that is almost a dress, so long in leiig'th is it. Fine tucks define the hips, and create just enough fulness to give the new blouse effect at the sides. Note the smart arrangement- of theetie collar at neck and front opening back to form a V. A sleeve extension is joined to the kimono shoulders and gathered into bands at the wrists. No. 1246 is in sizes 84, 36, 38,40 and 42 inches bust. Size 36 bust requires 2te yards 40 - inch all plain material, or 21/a yards 54 -inch bordered material as illustrat- ed.' Price 20egents. The secret of distinctive dress lies in good taste rather than a ravish ex- penditure of money, Every woman should want to make her own clothes, and the lioine dressmaker veil find the designs illustrated in our new Fashion Book to be practical and simple, yet maintaining the spirit of the mode of the moment. Price of the book 10c the copy. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. Write your name and address plain- ly, giving number aniI size of such eatterns as you want. "Enclose 20c in stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap it carefully) for each number,' and address your order to Pattern Dept., Wilson Publishing Co., 73 West Ade - !aide St, Toronto. Patterns sent by return mail. Mi'nard's Liniment for colds. ' sair The choice teas used exclusive,/ ly in Salada yield richly of their 'delicious goodness. Say Salada. NEED YOUA? D VE SAID IT? 8718 Love Killed by" Frankness. If there z re is one crusade more than another that needs to be started it is one against the habit we all indulge in of speaking the truth, the plain truth, and nothing but the truth to those of our own household. owseliol d. For, strangely enough, . truth is a luxury that we reserve almost exclu- sively for home consumption, and the Idea prevails that, like certain medi- cines, the more disagreeable it le, the more efficacious it is,, and the more confidence we have in its working. This article is not intended to Advo- cote the telling of lies in the home circle, though there have been times in ail our ,experiences, when we could have ,wished that those nearest and dearest to us, had been Ananiases and Sapphires, rather than the truthful Jameses, and Janes that they were. This is only a plea for the suppreesslon of those nnneceseary truths that wound like barbed wire arrowsand. against which we are so defenceless. because the archer knows only too well the weak soot at which to aim. Too Candid Comment. There is nothing ':so brutal as the cruel candor of a near relation. We take the liberty of telling our own flesh and blood the truth, which is too often only another way of saying that we are grossly insulting and impolite to those who .can neither resent our impertinence nor get away from it. Husbands and wives comment on each other's defects and shortcomings with savage frankness. Brothers and sisters say unforgiet blle things to each other. And those who are guilty ef. these crimes against our self-love ex- cuse thein' cruelty by saying that what they have said is only the truth. As•. if \that didn't make it all the worse! It is to escape hearing the truth about themselves that many young people leave home at the earliest possible moment and go among strangers. Worse stil, relations not only feel it things, but they assumeit to be their duty to do. so. Let middle- ,ged Jane, whose , heart is• as young -as a girl's, buy herself a gay spring hat and go around rejoicing in its b eani�ty . She j g doesn't go far before she -encounters the family truth -teller. ' "I felt it my duty to tell her that she was making a fool of herself, dressing like a flapper when she'e forty if she's a day," says this martyr of sslf-olreobed unpd,easarre nese. ,Or else she considers she roust open Mary's eyesto the fact ,:haat the hus- band she adores isn't all that he should be, and she, adds, self-righteously, "Of course, nobody else will tell you..=it is only those of your own fancily, who will tell you the truth." Somehow we don't seem to be un- der the same obligation ta. tell pleas- ant truths to our family. We are quick enough to comment on the un- tidy•dress, ths poorli*servedioneal, the ehildren'.a noise, but we are silent about the ninety-nine times when everything ayas comfortable and.pleas- ant. Not long ago a woman was. teling off her little son, who accidently upset, a plate of soup on the cloth at dinner. He was sharply reprimanded for his carelessness and sent from the -table. At the doorway- he pausedeand with quivering lips turned to his mother and -asked: "Why, didn't you say it didn't make any difference, like you do to visitors.? I didn't make any big- ger spot .than Mr. Smith did when he u:pset his- wine." Could any better reproof to the moth- er, who- told the unpleasant truth to her child and the pleasant narrative to a guest, have been made? In "spite of alT •that 1's sold to the eon - 'eery, most of us are only too well aware of our weaknesses and failures, and to be continually reminded of. them at home saps the last bit of cour- age and talon thelast bit of fight out their privilege to tell us unpleasant of us. A Thirty -Cent Bride. The groom had a local reputation for being very chose, net to say stingy, and the bride was anything but good- looking. The ceremony had just been corn pitted and after laying aside his prayer book, -the officiating minister _..blookand.ed expectantly at the new bus- s •�':"' -�i. "How much. is it?" whispered the groom dolefully. Truthful. "Did your laet employer Alva you a reference?" "Yes, but it doesn't seem to be any good:" "What diel he say?" "He said I was one of the best en his firm had ever turned out," Minard'e Liniment used by physicians. Reprehensible. The rouriMt,--"I have been out en- joying the wonderful mountain moon- shine with your daughter." The Mountaineer --"That gal'is too doggoned careless! Some oC these days she's a-goin' ter give a drink o' that stuff to i, reveriue officer." . Exact. Your wife looks stunning to -night. Her goal, la a poem." "Whet tin you mean, poeni?" re - Idled rhr, .l trugi,i zz g author, "That gown is -..two i'aenia and a short ntory." Not Fond of Mush. Reggie—"What's the matter, Miss Cutting? You look as if you would like to eat me alive:' Miss Cutting—"You're anistaken, Mr. Sapp, I dislike mush," - Mother. . Mother - How --sweet the childish tongue Lisps as it speaks the name! .� Mother, the theme by poets Hung For love as well as fame; - Mother, with quick co.mradery tone The eager school boys say; Mother, tiro feeble quavering moan '.From ebbing life away. Sad the young lite whose mother -love Vanishes all too soon;. No richer gift comes from Above, 'Tis. Heaven's, greatest boon. Happy the years of ciziltlhood.fieet, Of youth and manhood bold, Mat know a Mother's• love complete,. Greater than wealth untold. Shining and soft her loving oyes Just as in days. of yore, An added gleam of Paradise Sent from that blissful shore. Tender end kind the gentie.fare, The lingering elle.% so fair, And Heaven's• no strange anal- faroff place Since Mother entered there, —Laura C. 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Modes-- 4, 6, 8, JO and 12 feet. . DsllNr hews ter amble eeorip44v¢ ctaoWBr cert ddrNaa ea requestO�It F.S LPlEa, ONT.ONT. SUARasrsr:n Maar Hardware bur deicriptive i to any b TAYLOR -F COMP GUE Considerable attention has been ,late iat•ely by Moutreabert in two new adailtiozrs ifo 'thee city's• z td1 r geekwing .. list of floe structures, . Brat, MO TaPid construction of the annex to 'Eaton's store, which wars- built „to extraordin- arily quick time, and tine • Chateau. Arpttrtwent building, whleb arohitecit- uraliy, ie Anne of the finest odilflu,es is the Dominion. It is not ''genes ,fly known that do-, trestle stone from Manitoba w unci,,. itt the eonsltruetiou of th,lab ltatk1inge4 and in this: connection Mr. G. G, Om - mutiny, in. charge • of, lie =Development. Drench of the Department of Calioni- zatlon arnd Development' oi' the Oana- dian Pacific Railway, drawl,. attemtlort to -the greater use of CanBdaian stone preference to foreign importations n; few during the past... a year;. "We• have' been prpmre ,:to overlook our own ea* materials," said. Mr. Orn- manney, . "but the resoles attained in. the use o4 Western stone in the recent eonstruotlon of large apartments, of - flee, public amd, oiozuaiierciaal buildings,. both from 'an architectural t�r1i teetural cud con- struction viewpoint, Lhave forcibly g bleu ht home to Comedian architects: and builder's that in Canada. we have a variety of building stone and In Suf- ficient quantities to suppli the needs • of the Dominion for many years to. cone. This is evidenced by the 'fact ' that in the construction of the above- mentioned buildings, as -well as the Pa.ialiament buildinga at Regina and - Winnipeg, time law courts at.Winnipeg. - other structures, -'in 'Winnipeg, Fort Willison; Sanilt Ste. Marie, Termite and Quebec, lY andtoba stone has been utile, ized with most satisfactory results." Quarries Close to - Winnipeg. The quarries' from which this stoma is being shipped are eituatetl about thirty melees north-east of Winnipeg near the stations of Gamin and Tyne deli on the Lac do Bonnet Blanch of the Canadian Pacific Railway. At the chief entre, near Gernen, three large quarries - are in operation, and a num- ber of smaller ones - or undeveloped prospects oeour in the -immediate neighborhood. -This, is one of the most important sources of building stone in. the Western Provinces. To the trade the stone is known as Gainon or Tyndall stone And at more distant points it is sometimes celled Winnipeg stone. It is a soft ./Limestone - with a - characteristic mottling in darker col - Dose Two types ' are recognized --ea buff variety and a blue variety, ' Both can be qu<arried...in large • Weeks and are earpab'le of being dressed carved with ease, and can be used -for external and internal work. • Production Facilities to be- Extended. There is still• a - good 'deal of room for extending the use ;. of Canadian building atones in Canadian oonsrtruc- tion, and it is of .interest to note that the.Fludson's Bay Ccmlpany, one of the pioneer trading orgaaniza:t:ioils of Can- ada, anada, recently announced that they would use the Manitoba s+tone in the construction- of thole new, store in Winnipeg iu>a•tead of material '-wh:icli- they had zaeeured previously from out- side sources, in the past for the build- ing of their other stores. ' This greater . recognition 'of .the Value of the 't\'ost•ern stone has •- brought home to thequarryoperators the Teeessity of being in a position to handle with expediency this, in buainoss, - and they have announced that 'their respective •companies will bio- re -organized and; their production faceldties enlarged In order - -to meet any demands which thy may be sallied upon to meet In the supplying of stone for Canadian buildings. . Reforestation in Italy.' A serious effort to enforce forestal legislation' in Italy is now being at- tempted, ttempted, although it is doubtful -wheth- er notch good can now bedone since the work of devastation has been left undisturbed lentil, a camparatively., r cent time. Pew counrtriesenjoy sucle a variety of trees as Italy,' for •together' with the birch and pines at northern Europe; with find the .olive, fig, manna- asli and palm of more southern . tart! trades. Luigi Iiuzzaitti, the former Pre. mier, has, now written a dteoalogue for the lover of trees, which has been given a wide publ1oite Lt reads- 1u past: . Thou shalt love, and presort ° againat all damage, the tree and the forest. - • ll ou shalt recall that defot+esta.tion, a sign of ignora,niee injures the home- land and lowers it izi foreign esteem. Thou shalt teach to -the mountaineer that love for Iiia riattve bonne does not permit the destruct lett of trees. 'Pilon :shalt.. labor in suck way• that eeery year it will be nos able to plant in the groand a certain ,climber of sap- ling& in celebration of Arbor Day. .• Thou &loft innprovc but not to the detriment of. the forests, the marshes and .pastures of the mountains. 1 Then ,sbaltrecogniz'e (that vesitures,, though uieful; are inennival to the ' ,mountains if i11 used. - f Than shalt co-operate with forestry experts In preaching the treed of the tree, arnd:t'itoru shale instruot those Ivied sitould observe the laws of the -home- band:, which is the gaiardieaz of the for. ' es•t and of the mountain. I Somebody Eiso•: y Motoring Customer -- eten Altnoet Certain i miitiS halve rut Ae et s Yoour face score time or other." t:rloonry Walter --"No, air; it's al- ways been like this,!' L.