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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1924-3-26, Page 6.ttirr'"�r, *ou will realize the difference between "Sa1ade and egjust'ea. 111470 tangled `trails ---BY WILLIAM MACE,NOD RAIN, (Copyright Thomas Allen). Kirby put one question to the wo- man innocently that sent, the color washing out of her cheek&. "Which of you wont back upstairs to untie my uncle after you had 11111 away in a fright?)/ "N -neither of ue," she answered, teeth chattering from sheer funk. "1 understood Mr, Bull to say-+" "He never said that, Y -you must be mistaken," "Illebbe so. You didn't go back; then?" The monosyllable "No" came quav- ering from her yellow throat, "I don't want you to feel that I'm here to take an advantage of you, 1Virs. Hull," Kirby said. "Aood many have been suspected of these murders. Your husband is one of these suspects. I'm another, 1 mean to find out who killed Cunningham ant Horikawa, I think 1 know already. In my judgment your husband didn't do it. If he did, so much the worse for him, No innocent person has any- thing to fear from ma. But this is the point I'm makin' now. If you like I'll leave a statement here signed by me to the effect that neither you nor your husband has confessed killing James Cunningham. It might make your mind a little easier to have it. se She hesitated. "Well, if you like." Ile stepped to a desk and found paper and pen. "I'll dictate it if you'll write it, Mrs. Hull." Not quite easy in her mind, the wo- Irian at down and took the pen he offered. ";This is to certify-" Kirby began, and dictated a few sentences slowly. She wrote the statement, word for word as he gave it, stating her telt hand. The cattleman signed it. He left the paper with her, After the arrangement for the'pri- CHAPTER XXVII.-(Cont'd.) .Tack Cunningham an' Miss Harriman Kirby knew that Hull was conceal- passed s theoway up?" " n something I e ms t m itwas- i g material, but he saw he; "Hold ori." Kirby raised a hand in could not at the a had t moment wring rotest. "I don't want any guesses. it from him, Ile had not, in point of i You know or you don't. Which is it?" fact, the faintest idea of what it was., "I reckon it was between the time Therefore he could not lay hold of any yore cousin James went up an' the lever with which to pryit loose. He others followed." harked back to another point. "Do you know that niy cons&• and nate information, A man's life may "You reckon? I'm askin' for defi- Miss Harriman came to see my uncle hang on this." The cattleman's eyes that night? I mean do you know of were ice-cold, your own eyesight that they ever! Hue swallowed a lump in his fat reached his apartment?" ;throat before he committed himself. "Well, we know they reached the;"Well, it was." Paradox an' went up in the elevator. I "Was between the two trips of the Me an' the wife watched at the win- elevator, you mean?" dow. Yore cousin James wasn't with! "yes." Miss Harriman. The dude one was "Your wife heard this sound, too?" with her." I "Yep. We spoke of it afterward." "Jack!" exclaimed Kirby, Aston-' "Do you know anything else that ished.!could possibly have had any bearing "Yep." on my uncle's death?" "How do you know? How did you "No, sir. Honest I don't." recognize them?" Olson shot a question at the man "Saw 'ma as they passed under the on the grill. "Did you kill the Jap street light about twenty feet from servant, too, as well as hi., boss?" our window. We couldn't 'a' been mis-! "I didn't kill either the one or the took as to the dude fellow. 0' course other, 80 help me," we don't !'now Miss Harriman, but "Do you know anything at all about the woman welkin' beside the young the Jap's death? Did you see any - fellow surely looked like the one that • thing suspicious going on at any fainter) at the inquest when you was' time?" Kirby asked. testifyfn' how' you found yore uncle! "No, sir. Nothin' a -tall." dead in the ehair. I reckee when you! The rough rider signaled the taxi said it she got to seen' a picture of cab, which was circling the lake at ono of the yccirg fellows gunnin' their the foot of the hill, Presently it came uncle,' t up the incline and took on its pas -1 "Une of them. You just said James senger:;. wasn't with her." I "Drive to the Paradox Apart - "Ivo. he come first, Maybe. three-• meats " Kirhv directed, four minutes before the others." 1 He left Hull outside in the cab while "What time did he rea':h the Para- he went in to interview his wife. The in this way: Slice two onions and fry with a zinc or other metal top will find We Teach High -Speed Shod. hand by Mail, In from 1 to 4 months. undtr our guld- aaee, py NAM, you can learn to .write as feat as anyone cap dictate to you. The eaat.ls low and result& eertalu and guaranteed. Only a limited number aece'pted. If Ambitious, ibis is your chance to make 8 start for a successful and pro- fitable career. illustrated Glroulaia and Terms I R1IJB on request. Shorthand Is the stepping -elope to business opportunities. SAWYER SCHOOL OF SHORTHAND' 307 Manning Chamkers Toronto, Ont, • vete detective to watch Hull had been made, Olson and Lane walked to- gether to the hotel of the latter. "Come up to my room a minute and let's talk things over," Kirby sug- gested, : As soon as the door was closed, the man from Twin Buttes turned on the farmer and flung out a swift de- mond at him, ' "Now, Olson, I'll hear the rest of your story." The eyes of the Swede grew hard and narrow, "What's bitin' you? lh'e told you my story." "'Some of it. Not all of it" "Whadja mean?" "You told me what you saw from the fire escape of the Wyndham, but you didn't tell what you sadv from the ra escam Paradox" "Who says I saw anything from there?" "I say so," (To be continued.) t flnard's Liniment Heals Cuts. EGGS IN MANY STYLES, AND ( the leaves turn ye low at the tip, . and OTHER GOOD RECIPES. turn on the., side under a clump of For egg nests, beat the whites of bushes and leave until repotting time eggs to a stiff froth, salt lightly and in the fall. I start them to resting spread roughly in the bottom of a in June and repot in August or Sep - buttered dish. Make nests, some die- tember. They will begin to bloom tante apart, for the yolks of the eggs, very shortly after being repotted. If carefully place the yolks in these you plan to buy a calla do not buy nests, dust with salt and pepper, and a small plant, but get a, dormant bulb bake until the white is a golden or a plant that has been started from brown. one just potted up, for such will bloom For Sienna egos, skies sic hard- far best. The larger the bulb the in boiled eggs, put a layer k eothe grit- better the plant and blooms will be. in a buttered dish, sprinkle with Brat- -A. H p ed cheese. Add: another layer of eggs, then more cheese, and so on until all are covered. Turn enough white FOR HOT KETTLES. sauce over the dish to moisten the The housewife who for one reason crumbs thoroughly, dust with buttered crumbs and bake ten minutes. or another has not yet been able to Eggs "bonne femme" are prepared supply herself with a kitchen cabinet elex ,lean woman with the forbidding coon- a delicate brown in butter or olive oil, a plain short board or a round one,! 'It might 'a' been ten or maybe only teoance opened the door. 'Butter a baking dish, spread the en- such as comes out of the top of a keg, five minutes after we left yore uncle's Metaphorically speaking, Kirby ions over it break over them the re- veryconvenient upon which to set hot room, The wife ars' me was tail,' it landed hie knockout instantly. "I've quired number of eggs, season with p kettles or dishes that would otherwise' over whether I hadn't ought to slip come to see you on serious business, salt and a per and bake in a hot back upetair: and untie yore uncle lits. Pail. Your husband has can - before they got here. Then he Como fessed how he did for my uncle. Un- oven, When done, sprinkle with fried bread crumbs and serve. .porn holes in the table or oilcloth, an'm that settled it. I eouldn't go." less you tell the whole truth he's likely; To fold an omelet properly, first run "Can you give me the exact time to go to the death cell.' •a spatula under the omelet to loosen i he reached the apartment house?" She gasped, her fear -filled eyes it, then make a slight incision with a "Well, I'll say it was a quarter to fastened on him. Her hands moved len1fe through the middle of the ten." r) blindly to the side of the door foie omelet at right angles to the handle 1)o you know or are you guessin ? support. „ , o£ the pan. Grasp the handle of the i know•- r;,lr creek struck the' !pan in the hand, placing the back of quarter to whilst we looked at them' f'IIAPTER XXXVIII. ;the hand underneath with the thumb eomin' llown the street." "At them or at him?" A r't'LL 1coRNIgo. i pointing away from you. With the "At him, I mean." I But only for an instant, A faint _ spatula fold one-half of the omelet he "Can't stick to his own •;tory," OW -'color dribbled hark into her yellow over the platter ther 'theeomeletn tcantbe son grunted. cheeks. He could almost see courage turned out upon the platter. "A slip rf the tongue. T meant flowing again into her veins. I Try baked eggs; the family will en- him"{That' y a lie:' she said flatly, t joy them for a change. Cover the bot - "And. Jack and the Inde .., thc _ ' I dont expect you to take my tom of a low china bakingdish with ': or four minutes behimi , ee • k ir'..y word. Bull is in front of the house a layer of buttered crumbs, Break as reiterated. here under guard. tome an' see if, malty eggs, one by one, as there are "Yes, you doubt it: "Wasyour /lock ona,f t r %,r •".She took hila • people buttered be served, and lay carefully 1 promptly at his sat;- in the crumbs. Sift over "May be flue minutes,: ft Bastion Om look at her husband's them• more crumbs, seasoned and but. gains." i fat, huddled figure and stricken face. tered, and bake until the crumbs are "Yen know they turned in a'. the was cl ,s, 1i :brown. Or cut thin slices•,of bread Paradox?" i "You i•hickon-hearted louse," she trim off the crusts, la in a well - "All three of 'em. Mas. Hull she spat at Min.eeornfully. ' buttered dish and cover with thin opened the door a milt 'a,' saw 'em "Ther had evidence. A man saw slices of bread, trim off the crusts, go up in the elevator. I::naves kinda us," he pleaded.la in a well -buttered dish and cover slow, you know. The hr ' y .•:et young' "What man?" Y minutes lrterpherr•?eti 'ri, Then two -three' "This mar.," lli:; trembling hand e• ggs to coversthe"bead, season ivenougheat h " u went down indicated Olson. ' Ii was standin'salt and pepper . and 'pour over the an the dude art' the youtig Iafiy went on the fire escape acr"st the a11e�y, bread. Bake in a moderate oven until up. } She had nothing to say. 'Tie wind the eggs are set, then serve very hot Kirby put his faro' 'di the cement had died ''at of the sails of her anger, in the same dish. bench and rested hi,. "o=earin on his • Wt r - o' Koro' to arrest Hull yet' ,Spiced raisin relish requires one knee. The cattlemea ',s steady eyes -not tet.} ,sic• c, y, Kirby explained to cupful of sugar, one-half cupful of were level with those of the unhappy her.Ten terra .gio' to hire a pelage tvater, one-half cupful df vinegar, one num making 'he e0 , ,cion two - "Did oil at tit ,v time here the detectivelelt. be with him all the time; teaspoonful of whole cloves, one two - Y li n in .tight from morula -ess raisins. inch lees of stick cinnamon and two sound o? a Pal''"'" till nigh',. 1- eat sots fere-my, Hull?piece of seeded or seedl "Well, I--Iher•rd ^r:,tititt'. At Or r]) p , f ,'ser to be arrested?" Tie cupfulsthe spices in cheedleloth; add the time f thornh n nyee it wail a The • 1 •trh'rd man murmured that water, vinegar and spices to the sugar tiro i1 -the street pInwn out. Inst he would lease it to Lane, and cock very slowly until meet of the come to thinkof it inti r .w•.• fit 1 f ,d' '(lend. Then that's the way it' ll syrup has been absorbed. Pour into it was a shot." be.' Kirby turned to the woman. sterilized glasses and seal. Served "Yo' don't know for •re." Mrc I1ull,.i want to ask you a few "Well, room to time 1 - r don't 'gue ot tr=. It you'll kindly walk into vvCrap me "r,and ;'aisini, teli:ift is reelmit 7 do. :: ,t to :,• ;.r, a rain the him, -.1.;,...-,c made with two cupfals, or one pint of sure."had r ,Sher roti 1a' ,,1,+ him. The shock cranberries, one orange, one lemon, A for lee, ;-- pees f into'of theipr1 ,...till p ieler] her will. two cupful:; of brown sugar, one-half the fru In .. I figure. It wa:• ns In tia n:eir. her tory corroborated cupful of vinegar, two cupfuls of though w •re alert. to cteh that of 11-x;1. ,Shp wan rot fInit" ,tare seeded er seedleee seedr iphms, One tea - and I{1 i,' i na, ;whet. oh‘' h34 heard the •:hl't in its spoonful of cinnamon, one teaspoonful ei w i it, 04 it you thought relation to the trip., f to..; elevator of nutmeg. one' half teaspoon €nl of you heard th=: h,it. up and dem,. The doer w.ss closed at cloves. ('at the cranberries in half "I dun no. the minute." ithe time They had heard it while and wash 1n a colander to remove "Wee it net.,? James t'ur.:ingham , standing at the window. Her impra - seeds. Wash the orange and lemon went up le tt s _,? Was 11 be- .51on was that the. 4mmd had cont and cut into very thin slices, than cut tween the tin e N., rt up an' the after James Cunningham heel toenail, other two v;ei:t ifp? tie was it after! ed to the floor above. into small recce:. Mix the tiigredients and coop very slowly until thick. Pour __ . _- into sterilized glasses and seal, Aleph. sto-up coke is timely. To make u a nue-half cupful of sugar, one-third cupful of butter or seine butter substitute, three-quarters, of ' a cupful of maple syrup, one-half cupful. of milk, a pinch of salt, two and one -fluter ter cupfuls of flour, three teaspoonful= of baking powder, three egg whites. (',ream the sugar and 'butter together. Add the syrup • and stir well. 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Allow two weeks for receipt of pattern. CIIRONICLES OF A F'ARMER'S • 5.30 to 0.00 --Preparing breakfast. 8.00 to 6,80 -Eating breakfast. 6,20 to 0.30 -Clearing table. 6.30 to 7.00 -Putting up ' school lunches for four. 7.00 to 7.30 --Reviewing lessons for the day at school. ' 7,30 to 8.15 --Getting the children ready for school.' ' 8.111 to 8.30 -Getting car out and taking chilth'en one and one-half miles to school. 8.30 to 8.40 --Sorting clothes to wash. 8.40 to 8.50 ---Getting first holler full of. clothes on to boil. 8.60 to 0.10 -Washing breakfast dishes, 0.10 to 0,16 -Sweeping kitchen, 0.16 to O,80 -ratting , dining•raom and living -room in order for the day,, 11,80 -Started to wash, 11.00 tie IL:le --Getting vegctablea on for dinner, 11,16 to 11.46-„-,1Ianging out time clothes, 11.4e to 12.09 -Putting dinner onto table, 12:00 to 12.20 --Eating dinner. 12.80 to 12.80• --Washing dishes, 12.80 to 1.80 --Finishing washing. 1,80 to 2.15 -..-Scrubbing woodshed and porches. 2,16 to 4.00 --Washing windows, 4,00 to 446 -,-Going after children, 4.15 to 5,00 Dampening clothes. 5.00 to 5,15 -:'entertaining caller. 6.16 to 5.60 -Preparing supper: 6.50 to 6.20 -Eating supper. 6,20 to 6.40 -•-'Waal ing dishee; 0.40 to 8,00 --Spent with children. 8.00 to 8.15 -Putting children to bed. 8.15 to 0.00 --Reading. 0,00 -To bed, and ready for it -- Mrs. E. 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A rusty freighter from the Tyne that shows The scars and markings of the seven seas, While here a harbor tug whose trail- ing tows Are far forgotten 111, this lengthening ease. And in this place there is no rank or caste, Check liners with drab lighters lie abreast; While yacht aristocrats ,with gilded past Consort with battered barges, tide caressed. They seem to hint of graceful, slow de- cay, At variance with the bustling seaboard day. -Thomas J. Murray. Fear the Only Devil. Fear is the only devil we have. We. fear everything. We live in the thought of fear. Whenever we cau eliminate fear from consciousness, it Is banished from our World---wo are masters. There are but two qualities of thought which are necessary to ban- ish fear. One dsconsciousness of who you are; the other: is consciousness of your power. Sarcaern. First Student ---"Arc you Writing to the old elan for money?" Second Student --"No; I am writing a love letter to niy fatlior." .'-- Two Very Good Reasons. 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Her- bert Greenfield, Premier, et Athena, The 'Premier of Sasitatchewan, the Iron, Charles Avory punufteg, is it Let. costersbire man; the Hon, John Oliver, Premier of British Coiunrbde, wee born at 11art1ngtbn, Derbyshire;" and the Hon, Senator Hewitt Bostock, Sneaker of the Dominion House of Cotimons, was horn at Epsom, Scissors In the Vestry, "1 no longer wonder why pesters marry either while they are at celiac* or imnledlately after they leave," /laid Miss Mary Collins, Britain's first wo- man pastor, in speaking about her ex- periences, "bfi man would do what T do, ,Fancy the,avetage pastor conduct. Ing a sewing class and cutting out gar- ments!" ar- mento3" Miss Collins must have the etrangest vestry in the world. ft has been created in North Bow Congregational Church by partitioning off a small space with bookoases, a chest of draw- ers, andother household things. With its scissors, needles, and cotton, it has quite a feminine touch. The church 1s so poor that the real vestry has had to be let.. Miss Collin was a journalist before she began to study for the work she is now undertaking. Peer's Daughter In Salvation Army. Aa aristocratic woman who believes in hard work is Lord Kinnaird's eldest daughter, the Hon. Anne Kinnaird, & . Salvation Army officer who is living in a back street in Barking, East London, But if you wish to get on good terms with heir, don't let her know that you are aware of her parentage. "My heart is in my work," she told Inc. "and 1 just want to be regarded as any other Salvation offleer. Why any difference?" Among the poor of Barking she is looked 1400 as "a real bit of sunshine Crain another world," as one old wo- man put It. She has been a captain for some time, and her superior officers have a apleudld opinion -of her. A Royal Monarchist. The scene was the smoking room of a Wiesbaden hotel and a politician was declaiming ta a small audience on the advantages of a republiean Corm of government. Presently he observed a smila on the face, of a white -bearded geutlelnan seated at an adjacent table. "Are you a monarchist, sir?" he asked the stranger, The white -bearded gen- tleman admitted that he was. "Well, sir," said the republican, crushingly, "would you mind giving us your rea- sons for preferring a monarchical form of government?" "Sir," replied the monarchist, "the first and foremost reason is that I am myself a Bing, The white -bearded gentleman was Os- car 11. of Sweden. To Make Spice Cakes. That quaint phraseofour aucestore, applied to so many branches of know- ledge, industrial, domestic or deeora- tivo, "the art and mystery". of this, tliat or the other thing, was not by any means a mere form of words. There MIS "mystery" associated with litany arts and crafts, both simple and com- plicated, lo a day when textbooks were few and rules, when they were given, were likely to be discouragingly vagus on important details. Oldt!mo cookery hooks contained receipts for delicious dishes, some 'of which are popuier to• day. But uor carefully exaat weights and level measurements were virtually unknown; it must have cost an anxi- ous ancestral bride many trials dud failures before she could provide her husband with cake such as lits mother used to make, even when the young wife had his mother's receipt. Even an epxperienced housewite of to -day might feel a good deal of uncertainty about the result if she undertook to follow the ancient rule for spice cakes first published three hundred years ago in (,lountrey Coutentlnents, or the CiiglIslr Houseseite: "To make excellent spice cakes take hallo a peel[ of very fine Wheat flower, take almost one pound of sweet butter and: some mi1k0 and creame mixt to- gether, sat it on the fire and put in yotir butter and a decd deale of• sugar mud let It molt together; tiles; strains :saffron into your milks a good queer. tity;'then take seven or eight sp0one• 1111 of good Ale barnle and eight esgee with tido yelkes, and mix thorn to, getlror; then put your Melte to it when it is somewhat cold, and into your flower put spit, Aniseedes bruised, Cloves and Mace and good •deals of Clna,nun; biers wo'k'e all together" good autl stiffs that you need not works to any flower after; then put in a little /050 water told; then rub ft well In the tiring you knead it in and worite it thoroughly; if it bo not swept enough, scrape In tt little more suger and pull it all in Diems and lturle in a good Quantity of C*u)'rante, and so worlle all together aguine sad bake your cake es you Soo wase in a gentle weenie oven," It was no doubt very nice cake of- ter the gentle oven had ilttlelred its duty, Nevertheless, by the time the dietracted (Molt reeetred the ourra.nts it 1s not ustonlehieg 1f she were vim lenity disposed to "hullo" then!. Daylight will peep through a small hole. 1