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Home My WebLink AboutThe Brussels Post, 1911-10-12, Page 2,A A\, CLOSE QUARTERS; OR, THE HOUSE IN Tl1Li RUE BAIRBETTI CBAP'I9flt, V. (0ont'd) "There ie no use, sir, in fighting against fames," said the detective, with clogged insistence. "This time you are dead wrong. Mr. Talbot was recognized at Valais by alvl- sign Office uw senger returning from France. Seeinghim with a lady, and knowing that he was not harried, the messenger -Captain 3eultier by ns.e e -did not speak to thin, especially as Mr. Talbot. seem - id rather to avoid recognitiou. Cap- tain Gaultier thought nothing of the matter until this morning, when to visited the Foreign Office on duty tnd beard something of the affair. lIe then naw the Under-Secretary, the same gentleman who sent the Earl of lessirholme to you, and told diol what had happened. The Un - Ser -Secretary oou]d' hardly refuse io.believe such a credible witness, 10 telegrams were despatched to the 3111bassy in Paris and the police it • Dover. From Dover name the (information that exactly such a couple as deiioribed by Captain uaultier had crossed to France on Cnesday morning; and a few hours iater a wire from Paris announced the discovery of the registered hanios at the Grand Hotel. The Paris telegram went on to say that the. gentleman hacl told the man- ager his luggage was following from the Garo du Nord, and that his wife and himself were going out !or half en hour, but would return In time to dress for dinner. When his traps arrived they were to he taken to his room. No luggage ever same, nor was either of the pair seen again ; but we will lay hands on them, never fear." Brett took a hasty stride or two ap and down the room. "So you think," he burst forth at last, "that Mr. Talbot has not only taken part in some vulgar in- trigue with a woman, but that he has also bolted with the Sultan's diamonds, sacrificing his whole ca- reer to a momentary impulse and imperilling' his neck for the sake of a Few gems. which he cannot even :onvete into money?" "Why not? It is not the first time in the history of the world that a man has made a fool of himself aver a woman, or even committed a murder in order to steal dia- monds," "My dear Winter, do be reason- able. Where is the market for dia- nonds such as these are supposed o be ? You know, even better than do, that the slightest attempt to dispose of them at any figure re- motely approaching their value will teed to the immediate detection and trrest of the person rash enough to make the experiment. Don't,.vou see, man, that the Feeeign Office end its messenger, is Tinder-Secre- ;ary, your Commiss over, and the Embassy officials in Paris have been ;ompletely and abjectly fooled - :ooled, too, a a particularly silly !ash_•on ry'the ueedlees registration �f names at the hotel?" "No, I do not see it. One can - sot go against facts, but this time the evidence leeks so strong that 1 shall be mightily mistaken if Mr. lbot does not swing for his share matter, Anyhow, 1 have done syfn letting you know what has happened, so I must be off." "To arrest somebody, of course?" sriec] Brett, with an irritating laugh; but Mr. Winter was already hurrying down the stairs. The more Brett thought out the complexities of the affair, the more excited he became, and the longer and more rapid were his strides up and down the length of bis spacious sitting -room. This was his only out- ward sign of agitation. When think- ing deeply on any all -absorbing topic, he could not remain still. He telt obliged to east away physical as well as mental restriction on the play of his imagination, and he would at tinges pace back and forth during unrecorded hours, in the so- litude of his apartments, finally awakening to a sense of his sur- roundings by reason of sheer ex- tlaustion. He was not destined to reach this ultimate stage on the present ecce- sion. With a preliminary cough -- for thee discreet Smith was well versed in his master's peculiarities -his servant announced the appear- ance of the Earl of Faiiho]me. Brett looked at, his watch, and was caught in the act by his visi, tor. "Yes, 1 know we fixed on sev en o'clock'," cried the impetuous Young peer, "but I was simply dy- ing to hear the result of•your in- quiries thus far, and I ventured to call anhour earlier." The barrister explained that he engirt to learn the time as a met- 'ter of mere curiosity. "Indeed, ho added, "your appearanee at this jucturo is particularly welcome. I want to ask you many th,ings.00n- • oerning Mr. Talbot. e,"l+ire amass," said Faii'liulmr, oiS• but I can answer questions like a prize boy in a Snnday-sehcol," "Well, ie the first instance, have you known him many years?" "We were at school together at Harrow, Then I entered the Army whilst he had a University searcher; My trustees merle me give tee the Service when .I succeeded to the ea- totes, and about the same time Jaek entered the Foreign Office. That is three years ago, We have seen each other constantly since, and, of course, when I became en- gaged :to his sister our friendship became, if anything, stronger." "Nothing could be more admir- ably expressed. Do you know any- thing about his private affairs?" "Finaucially, do you meant" "Well, yes, to begin with." "He got a salary, I suppose, from Government, but he has a pri- vate income of some thousands a year." "Then he is not likely to be em- barrassed for money?" "Most unlikely. He is a parti- cularly steady chap -full of eager- ness to follow a diplomatic career and that sort of thing." "If you were told that he had bolted with a nondescript young woman, what would you say?" "Say!" . vociferated Fairholme, springing up from the seat into which he had subsided, "I would tell the man who said so that he was a liar 1" "Exactly. Of course you would. Yet here are all kinds of people - Foreign' Office officials, policemen, and hangers-on of the British Em- bassy in Paris -ready to swear, perhaps to prove, if necessary, that Talbot and some smartly dressed female went to Paris quite openly by the day service yesterday, and even took Bare to announce osten- tatiously their arrival in the French capital." For a moment the two men faced each other silently, the one amused by the news he was imparting, the other staggerer] by its seeming ab- surdity. Then Fairholme flung him- self back into his chair, "Look here, Mr. Brett," he went on, "if Tack himself stood there and told me that what you have said is true I would hardly believe it."• A note of agony came into bis voice, as he added : "Do you know what this means to his sister? My God, man, it will kill her 1" "It will do nothing of the sort," cried Brett. "Surely you under- stand Miss Talbot better. She will be the first to proclaim to the world what you and I believe, namely, that her brother is innocent, no matter how black, appearances may be. I have no knowledge of him save what I have learned within the last few hours, yet I stake my re- putation on the certainty that he is in no way connected with this terrible occurrence save by com- pulsion." "If gives one renewed courage to hear you speak so confidently," said the earl, his face lighting with enthusiasm as he looked eagerly at the other, whose earnestness had, for an instant, lifted the veil from features usually calm and impas- sive, betraying the strength of character and masterful purpose that lay beneath the outward mask. "Is there anything else I can tell you?" asked Fairholme. "You are quite sure that his was a nature that could not stoop to a. vulgar intrigue?" said Brett. "Remember that in this relation the finest natures are prone to err.l From long experience, I have learnt to place such slips in quite another category than mere lapses of crim- inality." "Of course, any man who knows the world must appreciate vonr rea- sons fully, but from what I know of Jack I am persuaded the thing is quite impossible. Even if it were otherwise, he would never be so mad as to go off when he knew that something very unusual and import- ant was about to occur with refer- ence to a special mission for the successful conclusion of which he had been specially selected by the Foreign Office." "Ali, there you touch on tho strange happenings of coincidence. Circumstantial evidence convicts many offenders, and it has hanged many an innocent man before to- day. I could tell you a very se- markahle case in point. Onee--" Ent Smith appeared to announce dinner, and Brett not only insisted that his new acquaintance should dine heartily, but also contrived to divert him from present ,anxieties by drawing upon the rich store- house of his varied experiences. The meal, therefore, passed pleas- antly enough. Both mon arranged io vielt Sir Hubert'Fitzjames dur- ing the evening and decide on a .de- finite e -finite course of action which would receive the approval of the authori- ties. Armed with a, mandate from the Pereira) Office, • Brett could en- ter , me his task •without fear of d no good at spinning a yard, interference from officialdom. No- thing further cattld be clone thatl.omnibus, for ,this l4o t item of night, es the private inquiry agent news numb be coeveyed to the Xerd could not possibly complete arty with ell speed, Portion of his lrouss-todusese torn- (To be continued -)tiny in the vicinity of the Carlton' until the following morning et the. earliest, They Bumped and abetted quietly until 7.04 p.m., when Inspector Winter again put in an appcarauco, to announce that the coroner's jury had brought in a verdict of "Wilful murder by sain0 two os more per- sons u>aknown." The detective was somewhat' qui- eter in manner how that thesen- sationel tura of events in Paris had assimilated with the other remark- able features of the crime. More- over, the presence of a poor of the realm had subduing influenceup- on him, and he had the good taste not to insist too strenuously that Lord Fairholtne'a prospective bro.'therem-law was not only an aeces- sory to ;a foul wueder,but also a fugitive' thief. One new loot was established by the post-mortem examination . 'of the victims. Considerable violence had been used to overcome the struggles of the servant, Hussein. His neck was almost dislocated, and there was a large bruise on his back which might have been caused by the knee of an assailant endeavor- ing to garrotte him. They were discussing this discov- ery' and its possible significance when Smith entered, bearing a lady's visiting card, which he si- lently handed to his master. Brett read the name inscribed thereon. He merely said, "Show the lady in." Then he turned to the Earl of Fairholme, electrifying the latter by the words : "Miss Edith Talbot is Isere." An instant later Miss Talbot came into the room. The three nien knew that she brought momentous, per- chance direful, intelligence. She was deathly pale. Her eyes were unnaturally brilliant, her mouth set 1n tense resolution. "Mr. Brett," she said, after a single glance at her lover, "we have received a letter from my brother. "A letter from Sack 1" cried Fair- holme. "Well, I never did 1" ejaculated Mr. Winter. But Brett only said - "Have you brought it with you, Miss Talbot?" "Yes; it is here. My uncle, who was too ill to accompany me, thought you ought to see it at once," and she handed a torn en- velope to him. He glanced at the post -mark. "It was posted in Paris last ev- ening," he said, his cool utterance sending a thrill through the listen- ers. "Is the address written by him?" he added. "Oh yes. It is undoubtedly from Jack." Here was a woman moulded on the same inscrutable lines as the man whom she faced. Seldom, in- deed, would either of these betray the feelings which agitated them. Then he took out the folded letter. It contained but three lines, and was undated. "My dear Uncle and Sister," it ran. "I am in a position of some difficulty, but am quite safe per- sonally.- -Ever yours, Jack." Mr. Winter was the first to re- cover his equanimity. He could not control the note of trumpli in his voice. "What do you think of it now, Mr. Brett?" The barrister ignored him, save for a glance which seemed to ex- Drew- philosophical _ doubt as to whether Mr. Winter'shead con- tained brains or sawdust. "You are quite positive that both letter and envelope are in your me, making me tremble so exces- brother's handwriting?" he said. sively that I could not do my work "Absolutely positive." while they lasted; my sleep left me "There can be no doubt about and I passed long nights in restless it," chimed in Fairholme, to whom, discomfort. I was filled with a nervous dread as to the future. "A friend suggested that pos- sibly tea and coffee were to blame, and I decided to give them up, and in casting about for a•hot table bey 0' LETTERS OF A SON IN THE MAKING TO HIS RAp. -By REX MogVOY [Mr, .McEvoy will write for this papera tortes of letters from the west. They will ✓appear from time to time un- der the above heading, and will give a picture of the great Canadian west from the standpoint of a young Ontario man going out there to male his way. These let- ters should,be full of 'inte.est for every Ontario father.] No. 6. Vancouver, Sept. 21st 191.1.. Aft Dear Dad: - There I am attheend of my journey, though not so far west as I intend to go before returningeast.- It is only four and a half helms by, boat from:here to Vlotoria,the capital of the Province, so I shall try and get there for a day or two before starting for home. Uncle Sohn met me at the station when I got la and took me right up to their home -in Fairview for breakfast. Aunty .and the cousins were there, of course, and gave me a great welcome. They certain• ly have been good to me, and they have given me the best bedroom In the house, with an outlook over the arty to the mountains beyond. I didn't see anything of the Fraser Valley coming hero, as we passed through it at night. I am told that it is one of the best parts of the trip, so I shall ar- range to go home by the Toronto Ex. press, which loaves the C. P. It station hero at nine o'clock in the morning and gone through the .valley by daylight. By taking this train I shall have Been all the mountains, as wart I shall miss on this train I shall have seencoming out on the Imperial Limited. I like Vancouver fine, what I have seen of It. The business portion of the town is well - paved and has some flue,- solid buildings. It has more prosperous stores for its size than any place I have been in, and they have the art of making their windows attractive down to the last word. There are one or two hills and steep streets in the downtown sec. tion, but for the most part it is level. Quite a largo portion of the up -town part is cut off from down -town by False Creek, an arm of the sea which reacheo. inland for over two miles. At high tide there, is twelve feet of water in the creek, whioh is crossed by three long bridges. At low tide there is practically no water in the creek at all, and the mud flats are exposed, with only puddles of water here and there. The first time I saw It, it looked quite like a harbor, for there were small boats with rafts of logo ly. hag close to the sawmills, which line the banks of False Creak. The mills all have their piles of lumber charaoteristi° cf this lumber country, and all have great furnaces, as big as houses, where the SOUND SLEEP Can Easily be Secured. "Up to 2 years ago," a woman writes, "I was in the habit of using both tea and coffee regularly. "I found that my health was be- ginning to fail, strange nervous at- tacks would come suddenly upon in response to a gesture, Brett had passed the damning document. "Then this letter simplifies mat- ters considerably," said Brett. Miss Talbot looked at him un- flinchingly as she uttered the next erage, which T felt was an absolute necessity, I was led by good fortune to try Postum. "For more than a year I have used it three times a day and ex- pect, so much good bas it done me, to continue its use during the rest of my life, "Soon after beginning the use of Postum, I found, to my surprise, that, instead of tossing on a sleep- less bed through the long, dreary night, I dropped into a sound, dreamless sleep the moment my head torched the pillow. "Then I suddenly realized that all my nervousness had left me, and my appetite, which had fallen off before, had all at once been re- stored to that I ate my food with it keen relish. . "All the nervous dread has gone._ I walk a mile and a half each way to my work everyday and enjoy it. I find an -interest in everything that goes on about me that makes life a pleasure. All this I owe to leav- ing off tea and coffee and the use of Postum, for I have taker'. no medi- cine:" Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. "There's a reason," and it is ex- plained in the little book, "The Road to Wellville," hi pkgs. w'.ar read the ebots letter/ 4 new ono an•+<v"^ front time to time. 'fheV are lcdnW"r, true, and full of hornet) lntereet. question: "Do you mean that it serves to clear my brother from any euspie- ion ?" "Most certainly." "I thank you for yotr words from the bottom of my heart. Some- how, I knew you would sae that. Will ,you please come and help to explain matters to my uncle? Harry you will come, too, will you not?' The sweet, gentle voice, with its sad mingling of hope and despair, sounded so pathetic that the im- petuous peer had some difficulty in restraining a wild impulse to clasp her to his heart then and there, Even Mr. Winter was moved not. to proclaim his disbelief, "1 will see you in the morning, sir," he muttered. Brett nodded, and the detective went out, sayitrg to himself as he reached the street-- "Nerve! OS course he, has nerve,. It's in the family. Just look at that girl! Still, it did require some grit• to sign his name in the hotel. register and <then calmly sit down to write a ,letter telling his penelle not to. worry about him. I've known a few rum eases in my time, but this one—" • '1'110 remainder of isle, Winter's eoliloguy was lost in the spasmodic excitement of boarding a passing ED. 5 1Soe s 40-11 DONDS Safe investments having broad markets are available for any individual desire ous of placing surplus funds to obtain " a satisfactory return of interest -41 per cent. to 6 per cent, There is every advantage in 'buying standard bonds which are readily mar- ketable and on which income is •regu- laxly received This company offers Bonds of such character. The prospective investor may be thoroughly informed and may personally investigate these securities by having our Statistical Department sub- mit the results of our own investiga- tions. Lists of Bonds for special purposes furnished. DOM/1101i SECURITIES CARPOMTION-LIMITED TA:i2ANTO iziyOtiTREAL'. L'ONDOz1.F.tiG, waste from the mills is burned. Flames are ooastantly leaping outof .the oDeu tops of these furnaces, whioh aro - fed from a sort of spout which projects Dior them. There is a constant stream 'ti splinters and lath -like pieces, of wood, far.. ling from the spout to feed the flames, To the eolith of Vancouver on quite a hill aro the residential districts known as.Grandview, Fairview, and ShaughnesoY Heights. From the latter place You get a magnificent view all over Vancouver,' and beyond Burrard Inlet, the harbor, to North Vancouver. and the mountains. We have heard of the Yellow. Peril In the East, and you realize what is meant by it when' you get to Vancouver, whore there are 11,000 Asiatics out of a total po- pulation of 110,000. Chinamen are here in great numbers. - They are ., employed quite a lot as house servants. Often. when going through a good residential district, I have seen a Chinaman come out of the kitchen door on to the side verandah. busy on some domestic duty. They go about, some of them, as char, women do in the East, and they get $2 a day for such .work. They. are liked better than the Japanese, as they seem to be better workers. The Jap boy knows the minimum work he oda do and the maximum wage he can get, so they say. The Chinese are great market gardeners, too, and all the vegetable peddlers I have seen out here have been Chinese. Some of them are very well off, and own fine horses and waggons, while there aro many who carry their goods in baskets swung ono at each ond' of a bamboo. Dole, just as you see in pictures of Chinese coolies. Of course there arembr. chant Chinese here who are very well off. Uncle John took me to dinner with one of them who goes home to China every Year. He same to Vancouver twenty- eight years ago, and was here when the place was called Qastown, He has taken. advantage of his opportunities, and must be worth a great amount. Another section of the yellow- peril la formed by our fellow subjects the Rim. dope. Thee° You see everywhere, and they are easily distinguishable by their turbans, which are of all colors. some pink, some red, some .white, some yel- low -I don't know. what Dolor I have not seen. There were ten of these chain in the trolley Doming home from New West, minster yesterday. They seemed quite at home and were laughing and jabber. ing away among themselves tho whole way bank to Vancouver. I am told that the different colored turbans indicate 511. feront castes, and that the man work for the moot part in thesaw mills. They aro very swarthy, and for the most part are black -bearded men. Coming home from- New Westminster 1 saw something that would surprise any- one from the East. Passing Hastings townsite, I saw the way they clear the land hero when they are 111 a hurry. They have a powerful donkey engine, and by a system of pulleys they hitch cabloe to. the trees an they stand and drag them holus-bolus to a pile in the centre of the Spot they are clearing, I1. the tree is too largoit is eat into logs, and the logs are hauled on to the pile. I saw some logs two to three feet through,. Some of the piles aro forty to fifty feet high. When the pile is as high as they are going to make it they start another, and so got all the timber into piles. These piled aro then sot on Pro.. There was ono of these. piles on Shaughnessy heights, only a few blooke from Uncle John's house, and thio wasset on fire ono night. The' epootacle was immense. The llamee' in a solid sheet leaped about forty feet into the air,: and the glare illumined the whole district, Good-bye for the present, . P. S: I have opened this to explain that I have carried this letter around' in my pocket for is week. 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Ask your Grocer for .Redpath :Extr Granuated Sugar eyeesiroesereyoreeeeet On thc far POTASH F01.1 WHEAT There is an impression Among farmers generally !lint a fertiliz should be especially rials in po ash, One effuse of this is no doubt from the marked effect that wood ashes has oh, most soils, wipes Mr. A. 3, Legg. A liberal application of wood ashes shows an improvement is crop produotion on almost any. soil. This is usually attributed to the potash contained in the ashes. An analysis of the ashes usually shows from four to five times as much lime as potash in the ashes, since wood ashes usually contain from live to eight par cent, of pot- ash; 35 to 40 per cent, lime and about two per cent. of phospherie acid, Te marked effect that wood ash- es has en almost -all plants of the leguminous family seems to indicate that the lime in the ashes has more influence in making the ashes valu- able ase fertilizer than thepotash does. . Last year our fertilizer dealer put in a bag of fertilizer containing ten per cent.- phosphoric acid and six per cent. of potash at the same price as the goods I was buying, which was 'a fourteen per cent. available phosphoric acid goods one condition that I would use it on, wheat and compare then, side by side. I put the bag of fertilizer which contained the potash in my grain drill, and whenit ran out I con- tinued with the superphosphate con- taining fourteen per oent. available phosphoric acid without changins ., the quantity per acre. There was no perceptible differ- ence in the 'growth of the wheat during the growing season. The wheat ripened by June 25th.. There was no difference in the time el ripening. I could see little or any difference between the wheat with and that without the potash. I showed the wheat to several farmers and all agreed that if there was any difference between the two plats that it was in favor of the wheat where the fourteen per cent. phosphoric acid without potash was applied. I. have not threshedand cannot give exaet,results, but itis a plain case that the e3.00 per ton which I would have had to pay for the potash would have been a clear loss so far as results on the wheat crop were concerned. Both kinds of fertilizer were used so that both plats extended over a dark loamy soil with some sand at one end and a rather stiff yellowish clay soil at the other end. It is usually considered that a loamy soil is not as well supplied with potash as a clay soil, yet tho potash applied did not show any improvement over the other ferti- lizer in the loamy soil. NOTES, OF TNF SHEEP FOLD. Ensilage is. not considered good for sheep and if it is fed at all it should be fed very sparingly and at. intervals of two or three days. 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