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The Brussels Post, 1915-9-23, Page 6... f 1 the• -way places. • 1 have spent One va- Ication at San Dego and one in San , Francisco, besides having made sev- eral trips to nearbytowns' otherwise i my whole horizon s bounded by Los Angeles Any woman placed as I The Green Seal By CHARLESEDMONDS WALK Author of "The Silver Blade," "The Paternoster Ruby," "The Time Lock," etc. CHAPTER IV,-(Cont'd). catch all the gradations of light and "Enough of this. We are getting dark and all the nuances of'shading Morbid and it's all beside the point that blended these different hues into m t a one It was, I know, the most beauti- anyway. What information did your Aunt Lois give you?" t 1 hon in the world. "None, Since that day I have beg- ged and implored her to, but the very ,u As I remarked before, I observed that she had laid aside her notebook thought of it seems so terrible.to her and pencils. She was now carrying that I grew afraid to insist. What- several letters, and I recognized a ever horrors may remain unrevealed yellow Western Union envelope. She to me, it is perhaps best that I know moved quickly and gracefully to her nothing of them:" former place, and laid the envelopes "Much trouble that ,night have been in a certain order upon the desk in averted," I commented, "has been front of her. caused by a misguided policy of tell, is Mr. I strange she beganhwith an. As te to o theie writer ns nature ofgthe advantage no silence. Nothing your aunt might tell apologetic smile. "If you have no Th d GERMANY. TO BLAME, Learned Bavarian Places Responsi' bility for War. am would have answered that letter, Dr. Gruber, one of Barvaria's most Mr, Ferris, and been on needles and learned professors, has been lecturing pins till she got another." on "War, .Peace and Biology," and "You team to have gotten several" comes tc some remarkable con. —for sho was holding cut another en- elusion, velope, "Did anything come of it "This war, he declares, was inovi- all?„ no," "That's table and unavoidable, It mi ht baro Well, she said. slowly. That s g another queer thing about it; the epi- sode has not ended yet;, or, rather, it sooner or later, It is idle to .debate came to an abrupt end without getting who is most to blame for the out - anywhere. But read the rest of break of hostilities, As a matter of these astonishing letters and you will fact, Germany was to blame, says the know all that I know," srofessor• not blame -worthy' in any The second letter was postmarked moral sense. Germany is to blame be- at London, and had followed' Miss Fox's reply to the writer's first coni. cause she had stretched and used her munication. It •was no more definite power to its utmost, because in 4 in imparting information than the years it had increased in populatipn other had been, except that it rester- from 40 to •OS millions. The war was, ated the former assurances that' if' therefore, a biological necessity: Miss "Fox were the right person, some The war says the professor, has be great advantage would accrue to sty come a battle of ideas, caused by varying conceptions of human devel opulent and of human freedom. You could be worse than this cruel, unrelieved half -knowledge." "But what's the use, Mr. Ferris? A fact like this can't be relieved. Aunt Lois proposed that we go away some- "Of course I'm interested," I said where where we were unknown; but I shortly. "I'm as curious as the refused, I couldn't agree to such a dickens." faint-hearted course. After looking "Very well. I hope what I have to relate ° will supply you with some clue —but, no, it's absurd to expect any- thing of the kind." She selected the first one of the envelopes and continued: "Here is a mighty queer letter for out thoughts. By and by I said: any girl to get; it came to me the sec - "How did Hardwick learn about and day of last December—more than our father?" four months ago. It speaks for it - She shook her head. "I can't im- self except Ixever hadtit is the first that any suchintima- pe son agine. It's something Aunt Lois and existed, You see," she sadly added, I supposed was secret between us, and "how little I know about my past. our habits of life have grown out of And what little I do know is hardly of a nature to encourage me to try to learn more." She handed me the envelope across hat was gsven. a reason a - vanced for reticence was a plausible In conclusion, Professor Gruber one, namely: after a fuller investiga- mentioned certain '"biological .de - tion Miss Fax might prove not to be mends for the future. Ona of these the person whom the writer was seek -I must be a strengthening of the na- ing, in which event he did not want tion by a large increase of the popu- to excite. hopes and then be obliged to f lotion, and to such an extent that Ger- The them. many will be rendered invulnerable. missive then questions,esgorisally laid If the population of the Empire grows down a nth one importantoaallp of at the•rate of the first five years of which, with one exception, related to her infancy, a period of I this century' it will have reached 250, which she possessed only the haziest 000,000 in the year 2,000, and mast inconclusive sort of knowl- edge. Whether effected intentionally or otherwise, a peculiarity of these in- terrogations was to be found in the circumstance that they betrayed no- thing which our own limited conver- sance with the facts enabled us to consider as being of especial sig- nificance—excepting, as already point- ed out, they were confined to a period when she was scarcely more than a baby. The point of this conclusion was: If Miss Fax was the girl James Strang suspected her to be, she had dropped out of his life some time during her infancy, and he had heard of her again, in a manner not stated, only last November. There was one other thought which the character and tone of these let- ters prompted in my mind, but which I did not voice to Miss Fox. If the writer believed her to be Steve Wil- lets's daughter—so • the reflection shaped itself—was his reluctance to be more communicative prompted by an inherent sense of delicacy in an otherwise rough nature, an instinctive desire not to wound or offend, or had other interest in listening, I believe its strangeness alone will pay you for the few minutes you are kind enough to give me." at the matter from every conceivable angle I determined to fight it out right here. You can't alter the truth by trying to run away from it" "And you did exactly right," I sincerely assured her. A silent pause fell. We were busy with an elaborate process of trying to for- get " The detail somehow clung to me, demanding consideration; but it the desk, bidding mo read its con - prompted no definite, comprehensible tents. conclusion. I noted first of all,that it bore an "It's strange," I said at last, "that outlandish foreign samp, for which he should have known it all. Besides, whatdifference could it have made forthe postmark, after I had made it out, :' accounted. The letter had been mail - him? It's not a notorious fact, and ed at Colombo, Ceylon, and was ad- dressed to Miss Fox, in a ricketty hand that was suggestive of unfamil- iarity with the pen. I took out the enclosure and with some difficulty de - you are guiltless. Another silent pause ensued, dur- ing which she seemed to be revolving something in her mind. She looked at me presently. ciphered the letter. It was not, to "I've speculated about it a good describe it charitably, an epistolary deal, of course," she said, "but to no model; its grammar and orthography purpose." After another moment of alike left much to be desired, and it consideration she pursued with a de- will be unnecessary to transcribe it liberate air: here, "Within the last few weeks some- After apologizing in an awkward thing has happened that may or may manner for addressing a young lady not throw some light on the subject, who was a stranger to the writer, he at some time in the past been an. though I must confess that I can't the latter then said he was on a associate of Willets's—a "pal" in see how. I hate to trouble you with steamship en route from Singopore the fugitive bandit's earlier criminal escapades —and was his secretiveness to be attributed only to selfish motives of shielding himself?, There was no apparent way of determining. Among the questions the exception referred to in a previous paragraph seemed to me to be one which should determine the question of identity de- finitely. "Why, bless you!" I exclaimed when it fell under my eye. "This ought to settle it. Listen." And I read aloud from the second letter, disregarding the spelling: " `Have you anywhere on your tat- tooed?"looked sharply design o d?'' I at her, with kindling excitement. "Have you?" I asked. My bluntness, I realized too late, was embarassing to her, altogether too personal; but for the moment de- vouring curiosity blunted my gentle- manly instincts—to my discredit, be it confessed, when compared with the unpolished Mr. Strang's natural for- bearance and restraint. I was unpar- donably rude. When I noted a wave of color mounting to Miss Fox's cheeks, I found myself exceeding un- comfortable. I began an awkward apology, add- ing: "You need not answer, of course. I can only plead that this muddle makes me forget myself. You are not moved from your balance, though; I don't see how you take it so calmly." She smiled forgiveness—indeed, showed a disposition to ignore my awkwardness and to discuss the mat- ter frankly. Laying a hand upon her private affairs, but I have been just wild to ask—" "Huh!" I grunted inelegantly. "This is no time for nice observances of propriety and decorum. If I thought you'd withhold anything now I'd raise Old Ned, and he's been dead an age of blue moons. So you'd bet- ter be candid with me." She flashed a bright smile at me to Gibraltar, a long journey which afforded him his first opportunity in many years to write at length. It would seem that in his case the art of letter -writing was an operation re- quiring time, patience, and -persever- ance. He hoped to have the letter finished by the time the ship touched at Colombo. of upfrom her chair. Then the writer's purpose was re- andg vealed in a declaration that if Lois "I'll take you at your word," said Fox was the young lady he had nu - she. "The queerest thing that ever merous reasons for suspecting her to happened to a girl has happened to be, it would be to her great advent - me only recently. I'll tell you about age to communicate with him at once. it when I get some letters and a tele- It had been only during the preceding gram from my desk. It will take month (November), that he Bad heard but a minute." of her existence together with suf- I returned to my chair and waited ficient of her history to promet him while she went to fetch them, to write at all, and if she proved to be the right person the matter was of CHAPTER V. enough importance for him to make Miss Fox was absent only a few the long journey to Los Angeles ex - seconds, and when she reappeared I pressly to see her. observed that she laid aside her note- He gave an address in London book and all the pencils except one where a letter to him would be held that was thrust through the heavy pending his arrival there. bronze coil of her hair. After an attempt to allay whatever That pencil must have been a doubts and misgivings his strange let - badge of her profession; I never knew ter may have excited, he assured her her to use that particular one, and I she need have no hesitation about re - can not remember ever to have seen plying, as he was a man of sixty -odd, her without it After the first day and though unmarried it was because she began to affect a plainer cos- he had always been too considerate tune than the one I had first seen her of womankind ever to ask one to in: a plain, dark tailor-made skirt and share his rough mode of life and ad white shirt waists with high collars, venturesome career. "But," he added, and no jewelry at all, not even• a "don't get the idee theres enny ring; but no amount of bullying or brokin hartes laying round, because coaxing could persuade her hair to refrain from coquetting. It was constantly falling into curls and ring- lets and waves, each blessed one pos- sessing its own peculiar allurement; and at soma angle or other the sharp- sned pencil invariably was thrust through it. I have said that her hair was brown, and that it was bronze; the truth of the matter is that it was of many shades. Here there was a shining lock, as golden as ripe wheat, trying tolose itself in another that was darker than a hazel -nut. And there were other locks that were like bur- nished copper, or were frankly red, and as she moved her head one might Ide run from a Woman quickeren i would from a Gattlin Gun which last bosom, she replied to my question: i no somethin about. I cant say the "I have such a mark—right here. But it is not a tattoo -mark; it is too irregular and purposeless in design to be that. Besides, Aunt Lois has as- sured me that -it is a birthmark." "Well," I commented at length, "it is at least a curious coincidence that such a thing exists. It sounds like the identifying mole on the stolen heiress of good old orthodox melo- drama. How did you reply to that question?" I described it to Mr. Strang much as'I have to you." There were only two more letters: a second written from London, de- ploring the fact that Miss Fox could same of wimmin," The name signed to this curious epistle was "James Strang." Despite its illiterate composition, there was a certain unmistakable ring of sincerity about it, a rough sort of courtesy, that prompted me to say: "You answered it, of course?" "Certainly," Miss Fox returned, "Aside from its promise of benefit to roe, it excited my curiosity. 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The best way to buy' it is in the original refinery sealed packages 2 or 5 lbs, cartons, 10, 20, 25, and 100 lbs. bags. Identifying Dead Soldiers. Each of the armies in this great war, says the Christian Herald, has a system that enables it to identify the dead. The Russian soldier wears a numbered badge; the French soldier has .an identification - stitched' into his tunic; the German soldier has a little metal disk that bears his name; the British soldier has an alu- minum disk, with identification marks and church affiliations; the Japanese soldier has three disks, all alike, one round his neck, another in his belt, and another in his boot; and the Aus- trian soldier has a gun-metal badge, with hs name on a tiny parchment leaf within. The Turk is the only sol- dier so lightly valued that he carries no badge. Identification is evidently regarded as unnecessary in his case. give no more definite information, about herself, but adding the encour- aging statement that the little given almost satisfied Strang that she was the person he suspected her to be. It concluded by saying that the writer would sail for New York as soon as certain business was disposed of, and that she•wopld without fail again hear from him when he arrived in that city. The last letter was written at New York, and merely mentioned his safe arrival and the train he was to take for the West. The telegram, which had been sent from Denver, read: "Arrive Los An- geles Saturday afternoon. It bore the date of April 17th, "Why," observed I, "that was only last Thursday! Did he show up Sat- urday?" s not No, He has showed up at all a w and I don't know what to think. There has been nothing since the telegram." (To he continued.) Up to the Wrong Ears. Knacker—Is Sones up to his ears in debt? 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The skunk's eagerness for the worm is such that he will dig them out from the ground in great numbers in the late summer and destroy them.. The white grub is also dug for by the skunk and consumed by him, and the strawberry growers generally re- gard this animal with favor, even though In its eager search for the grubs it may uproot the plant or eat a few berries. The skunk also eats many mature May beetles and June bugs which hatch from the white grubs. Skunks also destroy the hop grub, grasshoppers, cut -worms, crickets, sphinx moths, sweet potato beetles, Colorado potato bbeetles, field mice. and rats. The animal is especially useful in destroying the rats and mice that commonly infest farm buildings. If a skunk takes . up Ms residence. near premises where these rats are abundant, it will remain there if not disturbed until practically all of the rodents are destroyed. So useful an animal 'should bo fully protected. 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Success has attended experiments in England with spinning a textile fibre from a form of sea weed that grows plentifully in Australia. a. .4 Trench engineer has invented a sand box for Iocoinotives in which a stream of water carries the sand to the rails with a minimum waste. The then are on earth chiefly to at, tract the women, but they don't know it. 'The women are on earth chiefly to attract the men, and they lcnow it though 801110 pretend otherwise.