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The Exeter Advocate, 1923-9-13, Page 6For One ent you may obtain 3 cups of H403 Ash for a trial peerage today. Delicious ! Leo mical His age and his weight were over- stated, and his clothes were almost a khaki brown. ' Otherwise Mts. Hull had given a very close description of him, considering her state of mind at the moment, when she had seen him. There was one sentence of the story he read over two or three times.'Hull and his wife agreed that it was about 9.20 when he had knocked at their. door, unless it was a printer's error or the reporter had made a mistake.. Kirby knew this was wrong. He had looked at his watch just before he had entered the Paradox Apartment. He had stopped directly under • a street globe, and the time was 9.55. Had the Hulls deliberately shifted the time back thirty-five minutes? If so, why? He remembered how stark terror had stared out of both their faces. Did they know more about the murder than they pretended? When NI he had mentioned his uncle's name the woman had been close to collapse, I though, of course, he could not be sure Tan ._ . d ° i ls 1 —BY WILLIAM' MACLEOD RAINE that had been the reason. To his mind there flashed the memory of the note he had seen on the table. The man had called on Cunningham and left word he might call again. Was it possible the Hulls had just come down from the apartment above when he had knocked on their door? If so, -to how did the presence of Rose fit into the schedule? Lane pounced on the fear and the evasion of the Hulls as an out for Wild Rose. It was only a morsel of hope, but he made the most of it. The newspaper was inclined to bring up -stage the mysterious 'man who had called up the police at 10.25 to tell them that Cunningham had been (Copyright, Thomas Allen.) CHAPTER VIII, IThe cattleman handed him three ori BY MEANS OF THE FIRE ESCAPE. four and started to go. Kirby Lane stood with fascinated! "Just a mo'," thenewspaperman eyes looking down at the glove, mus- said, striking a light."Do you always cies and brain alike paralyzed. The !—uff, puff— "leave your rooms"—' receiver was in his hand, close to his puff, puff, puff—"by the fire escape?" ear.{ Kirby looked at hint in silence, A voice from the other end of the thinking furiously,, He had been . wire drifted to him. "Number, please." , caught, after all. Ther were witness-' Automatically he hung the receiver• es to prove he had gone up to his on the hook. Dazed though he was, uncle's rooms. Here was another to the rough rider knew that the police testify he had left by the fire escape.. were the last people in the world he The best he could says was that he wanted to see just now. i was very unlucky. 1 All his life he had lived the ad -1 "Never mind, friend," the newspa-; venture of the outdoors. For twelve perman went on. "You don't look like months he had served at the front, a second -storey worker to yours part of the time with the forces in truly," He broke into a little amused the Argonne. He had ridden stem- chuckle. "I reckon friend husband, pedes and fought through blizzards. who never comes home till Saturday He had tamed the worst outlaw horses night, happened around unexpectedly the West could produce. But he had and the fire escape looked good to you., never been so shock -shaken as he was Am I right?" now. A fact impossibly hue dread -1 The Wyoming man managed a grin.' fully true confronted him, Wild Rose It was not a mirthful one, but its had been alone with his uncle in these served. ou're a wizard," he said admir- horror l rooms, had listened with breathless' while Kirby climbed the stairs, ingly. I had been trapped by his arrival, and The reporter had met a bootlegger had fought like a wolf to make her earlier in the evening and had two or escape. He remembered the wild cry three drinks. He was mellow. Oh, of her outraged heart, "Nothing's too I'ni wise," he said with a wink. "Chuck bad for a man like that." 1 Ellis isn't anybody's fool. Beat it, Lane was sick with fear. It ran • Lothario, while the beating's good." through him and sapped his supple The last sentence and the gesture that strength like an illness. It was not . accompanied the words were humorous possible that Rose could have done this exaggerations of old-time melodrama. Lane took his advice without delay. in her right mind. But he had heard a doctor say once that under stress of great emotion people sometimes went momentarily insane. His friend had been greatly wrought up from anxiety, pain, fever, and lack of sleep. Sixteenth Street Kirby telephoned the "Where is she now?" asked Kirby In replacing the telephone he had police that James Cunningham had gently. accidentally pushed aside a book. Be- been murdered at his home in the 1 "I don't know, She didn't tell me neath it was a slip of paper on which Paradox Apartments. He stayed to, where she was going. There's— had been penciled a note. He read it, answer no questions, but hung up at there's something queer about her. I CHAPTER IX. THE STORY IN THE NEWS. From a booth in a drug store on murdered in his rooms. Who was this man? Could he be the murderer? If so, why should he telephone the police and start immediately the hunt after him? If not the killer, how did he know that a crime had been committed less than an hour before? As soon as he had eaten breakfast, Kirby walked round to the.boarding- house on Cherokee Street where Wild Rose was staying with her sister. Rose was out, he learned from the land- lady. He asked if he might see her sister. His anxiety was so great he could not leave without a word of her, Presently Esther came down to the parlor where the young man waited for her. Lane introduced himself as a •friend of Rose. He was worried about her, he said. She seemed to him in a highly wrought -up, nervous state. He wondered if it would not be well to get her out of Denver. Esther swallowed a lump in her throate She had never seen Rose so ; jumpy, she agreed. Last night' she had gone out for an hour alone... The s look in her eyes when she had come back had frightened Esther. She had gone at once to her bedroom and lock- ed the door, but her sister had heard her moving about for hours, Then, suddenly, Esther's throat swelled and she began to sob. She knew well enough that she was at the bottom of Wild Rose's worries. the apples is almost a jelly and with the addition of a very small quantity of one of the commercial pectins can be made into a perfect jelly that is delectable served with meats. Jelly roll with cinnamon jelly filling is a new invention that our family thinks is great. Cinnamon rolls with the centre roll removed part' way down and filled with cinnamon jelly are an- other favorite.—J. W. A VIEW FROM AUSTRALIA , Humanity—"See, she is sinking! Are you not going to help?" Uncle Sam—"Don't fuss, sis—the body will drift to the shore." —From the Sydney Bulletin. RED APPLES WITH PORK. To my way of thinking there is no food platter quite so tempting to the healthy or the latent appetite as roast pork done to just the right degree of crispy brownness and encircled by a row of deep -red apples. Because red apples such as these do not grow on trees and because the manner in which they become so delicately tinted is something of a secret, I want to tell you how they are made. First make a thick syrup of two parts of sugar to one of water and add to it little red cinnamon candies till you have colored it a deep red. Then drop in the apples, which have been previously peeled and cored, and cook till done through thoroughly. The combination of the spice, cinnamon, and the color is delightful. The syrup in which you have cooked without any interest. Mr. Hull he come see you. He sorry you not here. He say maybe perhaps make honorable call some other time. S. Horikawa. An electric bell buzzed through the tion Was not at all clear to him in case could move mountains. He was a man. apertKirby as t. The sound ofbeen it startled he should be identified as the man' Besides,everyinstinct in her drove Kirby as though it had been the warn - who cad. had been seen going to and com-.', to keehiddn the secret that some ing of a rattlesnake close to his head. Some one was at the outer door ring- ing from the apartment of the murd-3 day would,tell itself. ing for admission. It would never ered man. He could not explain why 1 Her eyes fell. They rested on the do for him to be caught here he was there without implicating Rose' "News" some boarder had tossed on He had been trained to swift and her sister. He would not betray' the table beside which she stood. Her thought reactions. Quickly but noise- them. That of course. But he had, thoughts were of herself and the lessIy he stepped to the door and re- told his cousins why he was going. plight ie which she had become involy- leased the catch of the Yale lock so Would their story not start a hunt for ed. She looked at the big headlines that it would not open from the out- the woman in the case? of the paper and for the moment did side without a key. He switched off Man is an illogical biped. Before not see them. What she did see was dis- the light and passed through the liv- Kirby had seen the glove on the table 1 grace, the shipwreck of the young life Ing -room into the bedchamber. His whole desire now was to be gone from the building as soon as possible. The bedroom also he darkened before he erer. Now he not only intended to , A hand clutched at her heart. She stepped to the window and crept protect Rose, but his heart was filled' read again hazily— once. From a side door of the ?;tore', —I'm afraid." he stepped out to Welton Street and ' "What are you afraid of?" walked to his ,hotel. - ( "She's so-so kinda fierce," Esther He passed a wretched night. The wailed. distress that flooded his mind was due ; It was impossible to explain, even less to his own danger than to his to this big brown friend of Rose who anxiety for Rose. His course of ac-: looked as though his quiet strength and associated it with the crime, his . she loved so much. feelings had been that the gallows Her pupils dilated. The words of was the proper end of so cruel a murd- ; the headline penetrated to the brain. through it to the platform of the fire with pity for her. He understood her escape. better than he did any other woman, The glove was still in his hand. He her loyalty and love and swift, up- thrust it into his pocket as he began blazing anger. Even if her hand had the descent. The iron ladder • ran down the building to the alley. It end- ed ten feet above the ground. Kirby lowered himself and dropped. He turn- ed to the right down the alley toward fired the shot, he told himself, it was not Wild Rose who had done it—not the little friend he had come to know and like so well, but a tortured woman beside herself with grief for the sister Glanarm Street. to whom she had always been a mother A man was standing at the corner too. of the alley trying to light a cigar. He slept little, and that brokenly. He was a reporter on the "Times," With the dawn he was out on the just returning from the Press Club street to buy a copy of the "News." where he had been playing in a pool The story of the murder had the two tournament. columns on the right-hand side of the He stopped Lane. "Can you lend me front page and broke over to the third. a match, friend?" He hurried back to his room to read it behind a locked door. The story was of a kind in which newspapers revel. Cunningham was a well-known pharacter, several times a millionaire. His death even by illness Evidence Too Strong. would have been worth a column. But the horrible and grewsome way of his "So they convicted your friend of taking off, the mystery surrounding it, selling bad butter? Was there no way the absence of any apparent motive for him to get out of it?" unless it were revenge, all whetted the "No; the evidenc' was to estrong." appetite of the editors. It was a big "story," one that would run for many, Mlnard's Liniment: Heals Cuts. days, and the "News" played it strong.' As Kirby had expected, he was se -To make'grape • gelatine for lunch lected as the probable assassin. Are- dissolve one-half box of porter had interviewed Mr. and Mrs. gelatine in Cass Hull, who occupied pied the apart one cup of cold grape juice, let soften ment just below that of the murdered for five minutes. Put three cups of man. They had told him that a the grape juice in a saucepan and add young man, a stranger to them, power- one cup of sugar, bring to a boil, pour fullybuilt and dressed like a c. os er over the•softeasedgels gelatine. Cool and ous ranchman " had knockedtheir, on serve with whipped cream. Any fruit door about 9.20 to ask the way to the juice niay be used. apartment .of. Cunningham. Hull ex- plained that he remembered the time; On Lake Su error; the largest ex - Particularly because he happened to I. p g be winding the clock at the moment. 'pause of fresh water in the world, A description of Lane was given in which has an area of 31,800 square a two -column "box." He read it with miles, splendidly appointed 'passenger no amusement. ' It was too deadly ac steamers of nearly 4,000 tons ply, curate for comfor.•t where only Indian. canoes sailed '300 PKAi re �r ' Mr. Man— You feel Lifebuoy's healthiness right down into the pores. After Lifebuoy --- you feel cleaner than you have ever felt before. The delight and comfort of using ,Lifebuoy are famous around the world. T/a odour vanishes quickly aPar,:uso. 3 UALTi ,•'�;, 7gEmmonosoganummoomra ISSUE No. 36--'23. JAMES CUNNINGHAM MURDERED —then collapsed fainting into a chair. (To be continued.) The flavor of tea deteriorates rapid- ly if the tea is exposed to the air. You should never, therefore, accept bulk tea when you can buy "SALADA," which is sealed in air -tight aluminum to preserve its delicious freshness. The supposed assassin of James Cunningham is de- scribed by. Mrs. Cass Hull as dressed in a pepper-and-salt suit and a• white, pinched -in cattleman's hat. He is about six feet tali, between 25 and 30 years old, weighing about • 200 or perhaps 210 pounds. His hair is a light brown and his face tanned from the sun. years ago. Corrugated Galvanized teel Rfloflrrg Queer from Manufacturers to Cansumer WRITE FOR PRICES W. E. DILLON CO.,. Limited 189 - 191 George St. Toronto THE SATURDAY BATH. All children love to bathe, if they can do it in their own way, but very few of them love to "take a bath" in the old-fashioned style, which entails assuming a cramped position in a gal- vanized alvanized wash tub placed in the middle of a draughty kitchen floor. You can't really blame them. None of us ever enjoyed it, even though it is a fact that the baths of our child- hood days were mostly taken in that way, long after mother's supervisitn had been indignantly spurned. Saturday night and the cleansing scrub are still pretty closely associat- ed in most homes, but the relationship is neither so arbitrary nor so painful as of old. The youngster who enjoys the comfort of 'a modern bathroom learns to scrub his' skin after every earth -stained adventure, so there is not such a tremendous accretion for Saturday night. Furthermore, he no longer has to be driven since the func- tion gives him the luxurious possibil- ity of stretching full length in a bath that is almost big enough to allow of swimming, and in a tub with such smooth and shiny.., surfaces that the tenderest skin can enjoy their contact. A youngster brought up in this way never loses his appreciation of the bath. Cleanliness becomes with him a habit. It influences all phases of his life. It makes him love :a clean skin, clean clothes, clean houses, Olean peo- ple and clean habits. Get a bathtub in the homeas quick-; ly as possible and while you.sre wait ' ing for the days of sanitary plumbing, try a substitute: Select one room in the house that can, be readily and quickly warmed. Install therein 'a tank of water; or at least a pitcher, a basin and a receptacle for waste. Put up a' towel rack and see that it is al- ways filled with substantial towels. Make this do for a bathroom. Use it every day ifyou can; once a week is not sufficient.you'r ni If have the e . 00 warm, the temperature of the water is not so important; better cool than warm. Sponge the body quickly' and then take a brisk rub with one of the heavy towels. It is the hest tonic in 1 the world. Very young or very o1d1 A COMFORTABLE, PRACTICAL MODEL, 4434. Here is a ` corset" style that. affords ease and comfort to the wear- er. It may be made of jean, muslin, linen, brocaded silk or mercerized ma- terials, satin or drill. Gussets set in at the sides give freedom in movement. These may be of elastic or webbing. The Pattern is cut in 4 Sizes • Small A A universes siis!Ord After that benefits eA:rym EverAids digestion, holy- '' I cleanses the teeth, soothes the throat. a go od thing •'10 remember Sealed in its Purity Package aO 5tNIPS COMO ytPPEB,00 GVH THE FLAVOR LASTS some beauty in the world at large! The gentleman, I assure you, was sar- castic," "He makes me boil! 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"I never told you before, but that was the thing that . almost broke my heart to have you lose. I just .couldn't bear it." "You are a dear, Alma," replied Anne, "and I've been very selfish. Yes, I've found a doctor who `understands my case.' There's no doubt about that! He understood so well that at first I was furious and vowed I'd never go near him again. Then when I got a little bit cooler I realized that to leave him would be acknowledging that he was right, and what I wanted to do was to prove him wrong." "But what did he do?" asked Alma. "What did he tell you that made you soangry?" "He told me that organically I was absolutely sound and that the troubles were entirely nervous and mental. He said that I had a good enough mind, but that I had been too lazy to use it." "He didn't dare!" Alma gasped. "I'd certainly like to tell him what I think of him!" Anne laughed. 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