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"Fresh rom the Gardens"
225
THE
TIJLE .'tARSII MURDER
STORY OP A MISSING ACTRESS AND THE TAX ING OF
WITS TO EXPLAIN HER FATE
BY NANCY .BAIRR MAVITY,
SYNOPSIS •
-
Sheila O'Shay, formerly a popular sot-
ress, and now the wife of the young
multi -millionaire Don Ellsworth, disap-
Dears, leaving no trace behind her, Don
,visits Dr, Cavanaugh, the famous crim-
inologist, and confesses that his married
life has 'been unhappy Dr. Cava-augh
agrees to investigate the ease. Peter'
Piper, reporter of The Herald, Is sent to
Dr. cavanaugh's home, By accident he
meets the doctor's adopted daughter,
Barbara. Peter learns she Is Interested
in the ease for some reason, She 'con-
fesses that she was engaged to Don
Ellsworth before his marriage. •
CHAPTER VII.---(Cont'd.)
For an instant a whimsical smile
flitted across Barbara's eyes, like a
shadow of a cloud drifting acrdss a
meadow. Then her face hardened
again. ,
"It comes to this, doesn't it? You
offer to sell your silence about my per-
sonal affairs for an interview with
my father."
"Not exactly—though I admit you
sound quite devastingly logical,"•Peter
remained invincibly debonaire. "But
it really isn't so bad as that. Ile -
member, there is an actual possibility
—even a probability—that the disap-
pearance of Mrs. Ellsworth involves a
crime. At least we'll have to go on
that assumption until the lady herself
turns up blithely to tell us differently,
If that assumption is Eorrect3 finding
out the facts is a far more important
consideration than your very natural
dislike of having your personal affairs
gutter snipe, They had a reality be
yond the reality of a foundlings' home,
Incorruptible. Incorruptible beauty.'
The I urried voice died away, Peter
crouched forward in his seat, laying
nothing.
'Well, when1 was fourteen years old
Dr. Cavanaugh was called in as con-
sultant for one of the children,.w}(o •tractive face.
had what they call a neurosis. Sen- "That'eevhere women have the edge
sory anaesthesia, it was—it doesn't on us every time!" Peter growled.
happen very often." Barbara's voice "There's something to Abet Turkish
resumed its normal tone. "Ile is like veil idea. If they all wore veils,
that, you know. He will take any they'd get away with considerably
case, no matter how poor the patient, less."
if it interests him. He saw me in the He forcibly clawed his mind away
hall --almost ran over me, in fact, in from the intrusive image of Barbar's
the dim oorrido:t—and when he had yellow-brown Hair, , curved above
set me on my feet, he stopped to talk small, close -set ears. He even shut
to me, casually, 1 stood there with his eyes, thereby narrowly missing
my back against the wall, and before collision with a lumbering tuck.
he had left I had told him what I had "All that aside—' he murmured.
never told any one. I told him about All that aside, a wave of spontar_-
the other side of me—the side that eons admiration lifted him on its
wasn't a gutter snipe. crest.
'That's all, really --except that the "Hoo-oo-oo, hu-hu-hu-heo," he
chance stumble over an awkward little whistled under his breath.
girl in an orphan asylum corridor "That girl is no fool!" he crowed,
changed all of life for ate. I didn't and found an inexplicable delight in
know then, of course, that Dr. Cavan- the admission. Well, he was no fool,
augh was a great man, that I was either, if it came to that. Suppose,
the simplest sort of r-2-3 problem in with those fantastic storybook no -
his hands. I only knew that I wasp"t tions of honor in her head, she had
turned in on myself any more. There felt that Don Ellsworth's defection
r as some one else, now, who knew was an affrout to be avenged. Sup -
about that inside world of mine, I pose she had taken matters into Iter
own hands to oust Sheila O'Shay as
an interloper. Suppose—nothing to
be proved as yet, but a good deal that
was worth watching, Peter Piper was
,seized with a desire to understand
Barbara, to know of a surety what
unifying reality lay behind that wide
brow, and tiptilting• nose, and firm
chin. He wanted to know. He want-
ed to know; net because it might be
news, but because the knowledge had
somehow become important to hint.
(To be continued.)
"It is quite possible," Barbara as-
sented calmly. "I spent the most im-
pressionable years of my life in fend-
ing for myself, single-handed. You.
mustn't forget that I'm essentially a
gutter snipe'' -
CHAPTER VIII.
Peter .Piper drove."Bossy" •back
The Herald office in a state of inner
turmoil much as he had seldom known.
"Well -for the moment—you win!"
he had said, And Barbara had not
refused the hand -which Peter extend-
ed. At that moment of parting she
had looked more than ever like Alice
in Wonderland grown up.
Impossible to connect a girl like
that with a secret --perhaps a sinister
secret. Why, she would not have look-
ed out of place playing house with
acorn dishes under a spreading tree!
Peter ,smiled at the picture -a dreamy
boy's smile, such as ho member of Tho
Herald staff had ever seen on his face.
He brought himself up with a
start. Because a girl was young and.
pretty—childlike eken—was no reason
at all why she might not be capable
of the whole range of human passions'
and acts..T10 cleverest woman forger
o(: her time, interviewed by Peter in
the city jail where she awaited -trial,
had been a neat, motherly person, who
looked as if she spent her afternoons
in baking cookies and her evenings
in tatting. --Mary Saunders, the "tiger
woman,'? who,had killed her rival by
inviting her to call and: then efficient-
ly battering her skull with the fire
tongs, had a sweet, appealing face
and the air of one misunderstood by a
cruel, and captious world.
And there was more ---much more
to Barbara Cavanaugh than an
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become public property. I have gain used to slip arouna the corridors, like
ed the definite information that you a little gray flitter -mouse, on the days
wore formerly engaged to Ellsworth;
and there's nothing to prevent my
making use of the facts gleaned in this
interview' with you. On the other
hand, if I had chance to talk the
case over with your father, he might
see things from an unguessed angle --
turn up something quite different and
more important. I'm more than will-
ing to admit that he's a darn sight
smarter sleuth than I am, I'd eheor.
fully let him knock all my flights of
fancy into a cocked tat."
The slight figure in the driver's seat might even have forgotten his pros -
turned sidewise, facing Peter square- encs•
y, rigidly erect. "And then, as soon as the papers
"You said you were being frank. could be put through, }.e adopted ale
Well, I'm going to be frank, too, MIr, —me, the 'unadoptable' child, who had
no other expectation in life than to
live in that gray limbo of drab paint-
ed webs. He gave me more til
luxury, and education, and normal
amusements. He gave ins life itself.
If there happens to be a heaven, the
thing that will shine out in Dr. Ca-
vanaugh's record isn't the books that
he's written, nor the cases he's solved,
nor the cures he has made. If St.
Peter tried to shut him out, there'd
be the ghost of a little girl in a gray
when he came to visit his patient. I
wouldn't have taken a step towards
him nor spoken to him for the world.
But he always found me, and stopped
to talk—or to let me talk, rather. I'd
save up things in the night to say to
him, hoard them and then pour them
all out, pell-mell. He was the first
human being, remember, to whom 1
had ever really talked."
Barbara paused, her dreaming eyes
fixed on vacancy. There was no
sound from the figure beside her. She
"Piper --James Aloysius Piper, coin-
n.only called Peter."
"Mr. Piper. I'm not a society, bud
---at least, only a grafted one. I'm a
gutter snipe, really, I grew up in a
foundling's home. I was a homely,
scrawny little thing, and lay hair was
straight, so the Ladies looking far blue -
coed, curly-haired darlinie always
passed me by. They'd come and look
US over, you know. And at last they
didn't send for me any more, even to orphan asylum frock, pulling the gate
be looked over. After you're seven cpen with her scrawny, unkopt
years old, there's not much chance. hands." Barbara glanced down at her
They put me down as 'u:adoptable,' slim manicured fingers, "So you see,"
And all the time, as soon as I was old —she leaned back against the side
enough to think anything at all, I window and turned on Peter the clear -
lived fn two worlds. There was no est, most ingenuous of smiles—"l'm
not likely to try to bamboozle Dr. Ca-
vanaugh for anybody, in any circum-
stances whatever."
Peter shook himself. He came, with
an inner crash, out of a daze into the
bumptious world of reality. His eyes
scanned the face, tilted slighly up..
ward, confronting him, There was a
old set of Howard Pyle's Xing Arthur trace of inner triumph in that linger -
books to the orphanage an a Chrism ing smile.
mos box. T read about those knights "Is it': ossible," Peter mused aloud,
—over and over. I lived in those "that you were clever enough to tell
me all that in order to tie my hands
—because you know that I can't pos-
sibly write anything about you now
unless you're willing? I'm a bum 1'e -
porter, I guess," he added disgustedly,
to get you anywhere—if you are a "but I couldn't do it."
hope for me, except to be put out to
service as soon as I was old enough."
Barbara's 'eyes 'were gazing, sight-
less, through the window of the coupe
beyond Peter's shoulder. Her voice
rushed on, low and breathless.
"But I vowed I 'wouldn't be a gutter
snipe—in my soul. Somebody sent an
stories. I didn't think much about
honesty, but I came to care a lot about
honor, Loyalty. The aristocratic
virtues. The kind that are useless and
expens-ve and that are not calculated
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Japan, thirty -rive years ago, like
Greece In the 'forties, was a subject
on which anyone alight try his poetic
wings. •
There was nothing, anywhere, quite
like a Japanese landscape, whether in
.ttiflerry or azalea season, chrysantlle•
mums, lotus or red maples, or in plain
winter garb. The mountains do show
up jagged anti In fantastic shapes,
just'as they do in the Japanese prints
and kakemono; there is a quality in
the atmosphere, particularly in early
morning, which plays alt elle strange
tricks with perspective that seem so
unreal and impossible in Japanese art.
The broken volcanic background is
really safeened by blending of bamboo
and conifers in the same curious way
that is so characteristic of their paint-
ing, and Fuji really looks'Iike that and
is never twice the saline. The peas-
ant, knee -sleep in the blaclt mud of the
rice fields, worked in the same way,
with the same implements as the peas-
ant did thousands of years before him.
In town nettvos and foreigners alike
robe in rickshaws, the light two -
wheeled vehicle hardly bigger in body
than a baby carriage. I0 it was a pri-
vate conveyance it was drawnby two
swift ru'ihers in the livery of the
owner's house, bearing monogram or
crest upon the runners' -8111045 as well
as upon the car itself. If one used a
horse, a liveried betto - or running
groom aped tlrrouglt the streets ahead
of his /taster, warning pedestrians to
give place. During the daytime
throngs of men and women dressed in
soft silks or cottons, and workingmen
with no fires but a loin cloth or over
it the short jacket of the mechanic,
fillets the streets with the murmur of
polite. exchange of conversational
ritual; with the soft padding ot bare
feet or the rhythmical scrape of high
wooden pattens whose two supports of
#Ihin hard wood were tuned to a mud -
cal accord. At night the streets were
empty Ad the silence unbroken ex-
cept in summer by the myriads of in-
sects' whose shrilling is an age-old
theme in Japanese poems.—William
Franklin alit an
1 S cls, in "Undiplomatic
fMemoriet."
Spinster
She lived a little while,
Then laid her life away,—
Between her folded linens
In lavender It lay,
Sometimes she went to touch it
And see that it' was fair,
Sometimes in sunny weather
Site spread It to the air.
And folding it away
"Ali met" ,she used to sigh,.
"Hort sweet it might have been!
But now it's an gone by,"
—Carol R3'rie Brink (from the
Gypsy)
"Tough luck," said the egg in the
Ir,
m0nas y "Out of :the frying pan
into Lye friar,"_
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'•5Phat came .before: •Captain Jimmy'
and his mend Lieut. Jed Stene pian to
rescue Guy Stone from the cruel Chinese
bandits, They bargain with General t'n
for lila ass,tstance, inexchangefor dying
hip? Over to Japan, -.
1
Wo worked: secretly on our plane
for several days, changing it to look
like a fire-eatn6 dragon. The body,
we covered with phosphorus paint,
which -:would glow green in the dark,
while a long dragon tail was attached-
behind. We painted batlike matte
on the wings, and wicked -looking
claws spread out
underneath, liven
in the daytime our
plane looked hor-
rible enough, but
at night, it was
enough to freeze
any ignorant
bandit 'camp with
tear.. -
Of course, that is just what we in-
tended our plane to do. While the
bandits fled in terror, we -would have
a ohanee to rescue Guy Stone, the
brother of Lieutenant Stone, who had
been held captive for many weeks.
Just for safety, we mounted a ma-
chine gun in •f"i'ont of our plane. if
any Chinese proved too bandy to be
afraid of our dragon, he would cer-
tainly understand enough no eto fool
with a. machine gun.
As the sun sank toward the west-
ern sky line, we wheeled our plane
out of the hanger, and soon were
heading full speed toward the cruel
Chinese bandits' camp. We timed
our raid so we would arrive just after
dark, while the bandits were still
astir,
As we passed over the country
aide, the poor Chinese 'families hear-
ing the drone of our motor rushed
to the floors of their hovels. Seeing
our dragon glimmering in the sky,
with its bat -like wings spread out,
and long tail flying behind in the
wind, they fell on their knees and
buried their faces in their hands,
We followed the ral!way tracks,
and soon Ivo mune to the siding
where we hid from the bandits in
the string of freight cars, Due East
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The skirt is cut in gores so as to
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Chiresffon, crepe silk, printed batiste,
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The New Outlook Toronto)—The
most tamous astronomical station in
the world, Greenwich Observatory,
is to be modernized by the addition
of a large new telescope. The in-
strument will bo of the reflecting
pattern, with a mirror thirty-six
inches in diameter and with a epec-
troscope attached. The cost 1s to
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Yapp, a Londoner, widely known in
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that built by Sir George Airy in 1851,
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with this instrument in its eighty
Years of service. The news value
of stories such as the above may
seem trivial to some people, com-
pared with (say) the erection of a
sky -scraper or the building of a
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on with their work,
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Cooling has long boon recognized
as one of the 111081 important factors
in the production of high-grade milk,
but the best method of cooling milk on
the farm is still a subject of discus-
sion among dairy farmers, say , dairy
specialists at the New York State Ag-
ricultural Experiment Station in Gen-
eva in explaining why they are making
a special study of cooling at this time.
Tho work in the station dairy lab-
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comparison of can cooling with cool-
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4110 best size, insulation and type of
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as cooling over at aerator.
"Down South they have found a
shoe polish that is intoxicating,'
"I have heard of a fellow who
when heopens hie mouth puts his
foot in it, but I bave never under-
stood why before."
.A. slip of a girl can make the steadi-
est man fall.
Yvon: that •point, we followed thou
trail into the mountains. The camp.
are of the bandit guards at the
notch in the olIfis .proved a welcome'
beacon, tor the sky grew - darker,
every minute, and thunder rumbled
!n the distance,
Soon tile main camp became visa,
bre. The little tents looked like
Chinese lanterns far below, as we
circled slowly down, and red camp-
fires dotted the ground, Somewhere
down in the pit of darkness was Guy,
Jed Stone's younger brother. As
we circled overhead, there lambed
before my minds eye a Picture of the
days when as boys together, we
played on the old ranch out near
Winnipeg.
Suddenly the bandits caw .ue.
Panic broke loose in the camp. Black
forms rushed about --tripped, fell and
fought each other, frantic with fear.
Li:witchled on the landing lights and
turned on the siren whistle. The
sound wailed and echoed through
the mountain pens. The terror was
complete!
Landing on the ground, we roared
down toward the tents. The entire
force of bandits
seemed' to have,
deserted and
taken to the
forest. Then a
dark form rush-
ed toward the ��
tents with a %/
flaming brand IIf('a
from the fire.
One bandit, braver than the rest, was
attempting' to set the tents ablaze.
we fired a few rounds from the ma•
chine gun, and evidently winged him
in the foot, for he dropped the
brand, and 11015011 into the -darkness.
"Burry," I cried, "we pleat search
the tents before they are burned.
Keep tihe motor idling while I search.
Use the machine gun if the banditti
return."
(To be continued,)
Note: Any of our young readers
writing, to "Captain Jimmy", 2019
Star Building, Toronto, will receive
his steeled photo free.
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A JOY STORE
ORE
Grace Archbold
Not long ago, it fel Ito my lot to
take a little family of nephews and
neices to their parents w13o were set-
tling out west, A friend of mine, the
mother of four children, found time to
see mo off. As she bade me farewell,
she handed me a mysterious looking
bag. In the excitement of departure,
I tucked it away and promptly forgot
all about it,
The novelty of the train soon wore
off with the ellilrlren, who were al-
ready tired out by the wrought -up at-
mosphere of those last few days.
"What can I do, Auntie?" walled a
plaintive voice.
The question wee repeated more
and more inst'stently, Our neighbors
frowned and fidgetted until I began to
feel conspicuous and uncomfortable.
In desperation I dived about in our
numerous packages and finally wino
across the forgotten parcel. It con-
tained all kinds of amusements for the
little ones, Imagine my relief! There
wee a neatly labelled surprise for each
day of the journey, Such re delightful
variety!
That parcel made all the difference
in the world to us. Instead of the trip
being a tedious affair, ive were able
to enjoy it. The"interesting emits on
the way ware a delight bemuse the
children were happy. Some grown
ups were attracted to our group and
were glad to watch the children solve
40013' puzzles and to join in their very
real fun,
As the train moved over the sparse-
ly settled country 5 thought of the dif-
ficulties of maty a another there, try-
ing to bring tip a young family in a
home without neighbors. Flow would
my sister manage after the resources
of a large city?
"I know what I will do," rho re-
marked, -when I was tell'itg her about
our experiences, some days after our
arrival. "Why not work out the same
Idea for •emergencies in daily life?"
That was the beginning of her "Joy
Store".as the children called it. I re-
mained on with her for several weeks
and together we put in the first items.
She had the good fortune to possess
an old family chest with a quaint gilt
padlock attached, In 1t we put ail
sorts of contributions, keeping one di-
vision for girls, the other for boys.
It is astonishing if you bear such a
purpose in mind, show the treasures ac-
cumulate, Icor instance, when we were
sewing, an otherwise useless remnant
was cut into a doll's garment ready to
be worked upon by small fingers. Odd
crayons and peucils were saved, plc -
tures to out out or color were coileet-
ed: Beads were put in a box with
needle anti thread and bright bits of
note-pap0r, on which the children
would like to draw or towrite lettere
in their own particular style to en-
close in Mother's letter to Grandmoth-
er, were put in the chest, A short
story, culled from a magazine or news-
paper, which we knew would have a
special appeal to, Jack or Freddy, was
made more personal by 'printing the
boy's name upon it. This individual
touch was used often, as we knew it
would draw interest at-'oupe. Tile
blessings we put in that box were end-
less,
Of course these treasures were not
intended to interfere with the usual
acted tasks of each child, but to
save awkward situations, to avert
quarrels on wet days, and to relieve
!the tiresome periods of convalescence.
Then, again, they would prove a boon
beto1'0 a Intel unavoidably delayed,
when the appetite is sharp and the
tongue sharper.
My sister, writing me later, spolte ot
being able to add frequently to her
"Joy Store" and acid it was the great.
est help to her. She dict not make too
constant an inroad on It, and she kept
a second box as a depository for games
or articles that could be used continu-
ously.
ontinuousiy,
This certainly is one way of avoid-
ing the eternal "don't, don't," which
everyone agrees, nowadays, spells
ruination to the disposition of a child.
It is a salvation, when the cry, "What
can I do, Mummy?" comes as the last
straw to the 'ears of a driven parent,—
Issued by the National Iiinderga'ten
Association, 8 West 90th Street* -`New
York City. These articles are appear-
ing weekly in our columns.
'The Art of Living
To touch the cup with eager lips and
taste, not drain it;
To woo and tempt and court a blis--
aid not attain it;
To fondle and caress a joy, yet hold it
Iightly;
Lest It become necessity and cling too
tightly;
To watch the pun set in the west with-
out regretting;
To hail its advent in the east the
night forgetting;
To smother, care in happiness and
grief in laughter;
To hold the present close—not clues•
Hoeing hereafter;
'To bave enough to share—to know the
joy Of giving;
To thrill with all the sweets of life--,
is living.
Countryman and Townsman
Quebec Action Catholique
is strange that an ordinary farmer
who will finish the year with a huh
tired dollars, with a bigger establish-
ment than be had the year before, with
improvements made to his farm, after •
having paid alt his debts and filled his
cellar and barn with provisions, will
envy the iot of a commercial traveller
in the town who earns $126 a month.
Ile loses sight of the progress ameom-
plished to compare the number of dole,
lays which the townsman can handle.
Yet what a difference between the lot
of each of them, even 1f the farmer
has not put a penny aside.
Needless pains l'ke headaches
are quickly relieved by Aspirins
tablets as millions of people. know.
And no matter how suddenly a
headache may come upon you,
you can always be prepared, Carry,
the pocket tin of Aspirin tablets
with yoti. Deep the larger size at
home, Read the proven directions
for pain, headaches, neuralgia, etc.
' Made in Canada,
ISSUE No. 28---'31;