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IN A LEGATEE'S SHOES.
BEGIN HERE TO -DAY. some time, Unfortunately, this after -
A eveist seeks nocturnal adventure. noon, as she was coming down stairs,
ewalks u Vikin S uare where he she slipped, and she has broken. two
g qribs. The doctor hiss been twice and
will be coming again a little later on,
I think. But he says that at her age
it'spractically hopeless, that he can't
pees an elderlyy. English parlormaid
etanding on the steps of a house.
When the maid sees him she jumps
down the steps and with piteous ap-
peal in her eyes cries: "Oh, Mr. Char- live.
iia, you've come at Jost. The novelist "yes" I .said "I see. But do
allows himself to be led into the house ' „ Ii why
in which he finds costlyfurnishings.
you ' ' '
An elderlyman ievening dress "Well .. " he seemed a little em
comes towarhint and greets him as barrassed, "it's like this. She's very
"Charlie." He gets the impression weak because she's lost a Jot of bleed;
that both the man and the maid know: you see, I forgot to tell you that in
he is not their man. The elderly man falling she also got a deep cut across'
informs him that his aunt is very ill the forehead, just over the eyes. Now I
and is waiting for him. The novelist you see, now you see," he went on ex- a
tells the maid and the pian that he is cite, "that's what makes it os- c
not the man they think he is but offers ci, ,T'
"Oh, dtia"tor,'" said .the man, in
hesitating tone, "I didn't expect yo
so early. Age/ie.".
Iheard vague whispered remarks
gathered that, though the •;chance
were sin U , the doctors had though
well to return calla. At last my hos
carne back to nae and said: "I do hop
you'll forgive me. But you won't b
long, doctor,will you? No? But, loo
here," he went on, addressiaae na
again, "I wonder if you'd mind wait
ing ten minutes, not mare, perhops
only five, in the dining room? Just a
moment, doctor, please?'
I found myself in the dining -room
seated at a table on will«la were de-
canters of brandy and whisky, white
the footsteps of the two men echoed
up the stairs, "Well," I thought, "now
you've done it." When I looked about
tie, the effect of luxury was carried
out on a larger scale, by pictures, one
of which, 'without the slightest doubt,
was a Rembrandt, I .wondered what
actually I had been brought in for, I
did not believe my host. That he should
bring me in to comfort an old lady
at her last hour, that he should pick
any stranger from the street In this
pious attempt would be believable only
if he loved his sister beyond descrip-
tion. But there had been no words of
love, no aigns of agony. He was not
Bitting with her when I arrived. He
was quite willing to leave her, It
wasn't that; it was something else,
something darker, . ,
It was at that moment that I be-
came conscious of a sound in the die-,
tance. A regular sound. As if eome-
body were driving in a nail. I listened
acutely. I could not hear it again.
Next door, perhaps. Absurd! People
didn't drive in nails at three o'clock
in the morning. There it was again,
faint butt persistent. .I tiptoed to the
doorway and listened. It came persist-
ently, a muffled, regular sound. Sud-
denly I had the instinct rather than
the certainty that the person who was
making the sound could have made a
ouder sound, that the person was'
frail, was throwing out a signal. The
onviction rushed into my mind that,
somewhere, somebody was locked up,
and was faintly tapping at the ,door,
to play his part in whatever drama $1'e•
they have for hien. ' "Makes what possible?" I asked in
NOW G0 ONWITH THE STORY. a puzzled tone.
NOW
Of course, I hadn't. told you. I m
"Of course you can," I went on in sorry, but my brain's rather muddled.
a reasonable voice. "Can't you see What is the matter is that she is ask-
that
skthat I ant rather an adventurer? If ing for my boy Charlie: He's always
I weren't, should I have taken the risk been her favorite. You see, she never
of entering alone and unarmed a! married, so he's been like aeon to her.
strange house? When your maid: And she wants awfully badly to say
called me Charlie, shouldn't I have good-bye to hien before she dies."
told her she'd made a mistake and "Oh! I understand. So that's why?"
gone on? Come, tell me what this is "Yes, of course. I do
hope Yo
u'll
about and iIl help you ifI can." excuse this, but I told Pomfret
to stop
Then, after a hesitation, a twinkle any young man she met, a young pian
came into the old man's eyes: "All whose voice would be ... well, the
right, I will. Though it would have kid of voice she'd expect to hear." He
been better if you'd said nothing. It, stopped, panting, his excitement mak-
would have been more adventurous." l ing him speechless.
.,;: rrrzt said nothing," I replied, "I) ".A:11 right," I said. "What you want
should have known less than I'm going; me to do is to see her and impersonate
to know now, and the adventure would Mr. Charlie. I'm willing to make her
have been less worth while. Naw Mr. k happy, poor old lady. But, by the way,
Smith, shall we say, tell me' shied know me."
what you want vie to do." L "No, of course, she won't. Didn't
After a pause, he began, first end I tell you, owing to that cut in the
?barrassed, then fluent: "Look here, I, forehead, her eyes are bandaged.
hope you won't think this very uncon-' Now . ."
ventional, but it simply couldn't be
helped. The situation is this: My sis-
ter, who is supposed to be your aunt,
Is lying upstaies very, very ill indeed.
Sheds older than I am, over seventy, whose black bag and frock coat ex -
and has been in delicate health for posed him as the doctor.
At that moment there was a ring
at the bell. The elderly man swore
under his breath, went to the door and
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"Oh," she murmured, "thank you
for Ietting me dut."
having heard me come, fearfully seek-
ing release. I listened. I could not
locate the sound at rat. Then I real-
ized that it came from the back of the
hall. Still on tiptoe, I wentout into
the hall and opened a door at the end.
This led only into a little washing
place. But the sound cane again. It
was behind vie now. Of course: the
robin behind the dining room. I tried
the handle; the door was. locked! And,
as I touched the handle, the tapping
within became louder, grew more
rapid, more febrile. The key was in
the Jock. Evidently everybody in the
house was in the plot to keep the per-
son within. I turned the key: 'before
me, lit up by strong lights, stood a
woman, aged about forty,' her mouth
quivering, her face stained with tears.
She was so breathless with excitement
that at first she could not speak. Her
appearance surprised me. I saw now
that she was more than forty, but she
had a strange, tragic beauty, and was
clad an an evening frock of which I
could recognize the fashion and the
price. About her neck, too, were sev-
eral rows of pearls. There existed
cruel contrast between the luxury o.
her appearance and+the expression of.
her features. She was faded and
wrinkled, and her • cheeks were wet
with tears, but I could see by the
straightness and delicacy of the nose,
the shape of the lips, and the Iength of
the eyelashes, that this woman had
once been beautiful. Perhaps a long.
life of suffering had ruined her love-
liness.
"Oh," she murmured,. "thank you
for •lett:Leg me out." I was minded
to ;asic hes• why they had locked her
in, but.knew that she would tell me
more easily if I kept silence. "I heard
,:
everything, she -elft on in a _rapid
p
murmur, "I heard them bring you in."
"Yes, of course," I went on,•adding
provocatively: "I'm Charlie."
She had actually jumped back, and
spread her, hands before her, as'if
fearing a blow: "Don't!".she whisper-
ed. •"P,'.ease don't say you're the
same as they, that you're in the plot.".
"No, of course not," I replied. "I
shouldn't have let you out if I had
been. Pre only a stranger brilught in
to see an old'lady upstairs who's dy-
ing,: just• to give her pleasure for a
moment."
The fear had gone out of her eyes..
She hell smiled: "Oh, surely you ,don't
believe that," she said.
"Then what am I to be;ieve?"
She looked me up and down,;,as+ if
estimating ine, as if trying a gue"is et
my loyalty. 'Theft, with a shrug of this
shoulders, as if she were desperate,
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and must confide in a stranger, . she
said:
"I'd better tell ,you everything. It
can't do any harm, and perhaps you
can help. The lady you're going to see
is my mother."
"He told me that she hadn't inar-
ried; and
"hies, all lies. Are you surprised?"
"Well ...° not exact'_y. Go on."
"The man you've seen," the woman
went on, "is not my mother's brother
at all, Ile s her third cousin, and he's
bad, bad. There's only one `urian worse,'
and that's Charlie, his son. Oh, it
makes me weep to think how my mo-
ther had always loved Charlie." In a
tearful tone, she said: "Charlie's. a
criminal. I don't know how it is. He
wasn't poor. He had every chance,
but he's always' been like that. He was
expelled from school,' sent down from
college for stealing. He's been in
gaol twice. And what's more .
after all, he's my cousin."
She was quite close to;nae, so I took
her hand and held it fast, suggesting
sympathy.. It must be painful for her
to tell. a stranger such a story, even
of a distant relative. "Go on," I said.
"You'd better tell me everything."
"I will Do, you know why they
want him to -night'! It isn't just to
please mother. They'di
kllherif
they
dared. If they weren't frightened of
the doctor. No!''Mother's always been
fond of Charlie, and when she made
her will she left him something -for
himself. She makes him call her
Auntie. But:during the last few years -
she has hated ine." -
(To be continued.)
The Taste Would Tell.
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"Did some friend give you that bot-
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"That remains to be seen—and
tasted."
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The Dark Days.
The best story of the' dark' days in
Europe•• comes down to us from the
Monk of Padua, who, in 1250, wrote as
follows;_. .
Religious fears exerted upon- the
people so strong an influence that men
of noble and of ignoble birth, old and
young, • traversed the streets of all
Italy naked, yet without' shame.' Each ;
carried a scourge with which he drew,
blood from his tortured body, amidst
sighs ' and tears, singing at 'the same
time penitential psalms and entreating
the compassion of the piety,• ,Both hy'
1 day and by by night and even: in the cold- �
lest winters, by hundreds and by thoussl
(ands, they wandered through the
streets and villages and churches' and
I cities with burning wax - candles, i
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Music was there silent and the songs of
I love echoed no more, nothing was
heard but atoning lamentations. The'
most unfeeling could not refrain from l
tears." • 1"
This self -torture was begun, ire the
first century, • when both clergy and
laity, men; women and 'children, con-
stantly chastened themselves: with
chains and rods, and it was not until!
1418 that the practice began to stop, •
In the country, districts: of Spain and
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Nothing to Boast Of.
He had conic down to Barham for
the week -mad, and, having adjourned
to the local ui i, he soon found a man
to take him round the historic old spot
and show him -the sights.
After spending a most pleasant and
remunerative morning, the guide and
the visitor were returning to the let-
ter's. hotel when they came across a
very old man --in fact, he was the eld-
est inhabitant of the village.
`.One hundred and two!" exclaimed
the visitor on hearing of the old man's
age. "One hundred and two! . I sup-
pose the townspeople are mighty proud
of him."
"I dunno," responded the native.
"His 'record ain't so much. He ain't.
done within' in:this town 'sept grow
old, an' it took hien a darn long time
to do that."
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Over nay head four new -cut stars are
glinting,
And the inevitable•: night draws one
I am alone, the old terror takes me,
Evenings will come like this when I
are gone. -,
Evenings and evenings years on years
forever— ,
Be taut, my senses, close upon and
keep
The scent, the growing chill, the g114.
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A poem learned before I fail asieep. t
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SEA MYSTE I
Zones of Sllence Must be Added
to the Long List of Marine
Perils.
Storms, fogs, rocks, collisions with
derelicts : ox' leeborgs---these ;ar,e the
ordinary dangers of the face., with
which every skipper is prePSred to
grapple. when ooeasion arises. There •
,.
are others less obvious ---solve,: indeed,
most mysterious,' and not ytirt-fuily un..
derstooci even by teen of science,
One of the graveyards of the sea is
off the southern end or 'Vancouver Is-:
land, where aliip after, ship has been
piled up on the. 'deadly rocks, The
..Oovernnient has put up a`lighthot45e
with a fog -horn and set out bell bloys,
the uois•e of which ought to be heard
for" a great distance yet oyer and over..,
again 'survivors from wrecks have de-
clared that no sound reached their
eaa's:
When Currents Change Course.'
The only explanation le that'there
exists a "zone of silence" or of "dead
air," which "Novara about this part of
the sea, ohanging with wind and tide,
but always in •exis•tenoe. Once a ship •
is in this zone, even the powerful siren
of the Race Rocks lighthouse 18 in-,
audible. •
That this silent zone is real is
proven by the fact that on a recent
oocasion the crew of a small tug that
grit In among the rooks could actually
see the men do the lighthouse, yet
were unable to hear the Mellowing sig
vale, -which were plainly audible four.
or live miles away in other directions.
Charts used at sea show ocean cur-
rents running like rivers in. different
directions at regular" speeds, and in
cloudy or foggy weather, when a ship's
captain cannot see -the- sun and is 00211 -
gelled to use "dead' reckoning," : he
naturally depends to some extent en
these currents.
But currents may -change their speed
orthelr course. Even the Gulf Stream
may alter. In March, 1913,' it ran for a
line at a speed nearly fifty per cent..
above the usual. Again, in' 1922, the
North Sea? Currents changed `their
ourse and flotsam, usually carried
outhwards, was found on the beaches
f the Shetland Islands.. •
Caught In a "Seaquake."
In September, 1923, a big steamer,
the Manchester Brigade, was in mid,,
tlantic
when h
s e suddenly stopped
and quivered so violently that her :cap-
ain• thought she had struck a dere-
ict. But she moved on. Then, after
a few moments, she Legan to tremble
and. shake from bow to stern, and this
went on for thirty seconds. The cause.
of this strange happening was a sub-
marine' earthquake, but i ckily the
cushions "of water, nearly two miles
thick, prevented serious harni,
• The Steamer Nina bad an even
worse •experience some rears ago. At
midnight, when about fifty .miles from
Marseilles, her ore, heard a surl•den
explosion and saw an histmanse tongue
of flame leap upwards out of the sea.
At the. -same time the ship quivered as
if she had struck ground. At first it
wartupposd that a' vessel near by had
blown up, but no wreckage could be _
found, so the actual cause 'was prob-
ably the explosion of a submarine vol-
cane.
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Had the Nina been over the spot she
would certainly have -'been lost.
A peril of which little is heard is
that of falling meteors. A friend `of
the writer, Captain Anderson, while
commantIing a large tramp steamer
carrying phosphate from Florida to
Hamburg, saw a great mass of molten
stuff ,fall from •the sky,' which missed.
his steamer by no more thau half a
mile.
llsre is a similar story, very well
authenticated. In 1908 the Dutch
Steamer Ocean was orbssing the At-
lan•tic between Rotterdam and Pbila-
delphia, when .a, gigantic meteor fell
so close to it that the tremndous:
waves flungup flooded the vessel's
decks.. Clouds of gas shot up from the
spot, and'the men on deck were forced
to hurry below to -escape being suffo-
cated. When they again ventured on
deck everything was 'covered with a
thick, brownish dust, while the evater`
on every side was phosphorescent as
far as theeye could see.
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An Engine's :"Breathing."
The puffing of a raiiway'engine is a
common enough sound, butfew-people
know by what it is regulated. Actually
the number of puffs made by a loco-
motive in thecourse of a journey de-
pends on the circumference of its
driving wheels.
No matter what th 3 speed of the
train
ma
be,
the engine will give four
puffs for every complete turn of the
driving wheels. The wheels may vary
in circumference, hut the average is
20ft:
With average driving v'heels and a
speed of iRty miles an hour, a locomo-
tive will -give 880 puffs a minute, or
52,800 puffs an. hour,: the driving
wheels performing 13,200 complete re
volutions in the sixty minutes.
The Subtle Sex.
A lady went into her btttcher'I with,
a neat brown parcel, and in a sweet
tone said:—
"I wonder if you wonid •be se ]crop,
as, to weigh h
this part•:csi for me on yens ,..
scales?"
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"Delighted," replied the proprietor,
JJo trouble nl all, 1` Lt4,5111'e you.".
"'1'lsatllt you very much." replied the.
lady, "that parcel Is the bones Pott
dont vie in my last week's joint,"