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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1925-12-10, Page 2DMAYM ES Ay `DEM PKILPOIT5 11r1USTRAT60 nY BEGIN HERE TO -DAY. Mark Brendon, famous criminal in- vestigator, is taking a holiday on Dartmoor. While on his way to Fog- gintor Quarry, to visit a trout stream, his path is crossed by a girl so beauti- ful that she holds his attention until she passes out of his sight. Mark con- tinues onhis way and sets about his Sport. A big man clad in Norfolk jacket, knickerbockers and a red waistcoat with brass buttons comes into the quarry and stops to that with Mark. The stranger's hair and his large pair of mustaches show fiery red in color, Upon returning home Mark hears the . news of a murder and receives a letter from Jenny Pendean asking him to investigate the mystery of her miss- ing husband. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY. Brendan read the letter again, studied its neat caligraphy, and ob- served that a tear had blotted the middle of the sheet. Once more he said "damn" to himself, dropped his fishing basket mad rod, turned up the collar of his mackintosh, and walked to the police station, where he heard a little of the matter in hand from a constable and then asked for per- mission to use the telephone. In live minutes he was speaking to his own chief at Scotland Yard, and the fa- miliar cockney voice of Inspector liar- r180n came over the two hundred odd miles that separated the metropolis of convicts from the metropolis of the world. 'Man apparently murdered here, inspector. Chap who is thought to have done it disappeared. Willow wants me to take up case. I'm unwill- ing to do so; but it looks like duty." So spoke Brendon. "Right. If it looks like duty, do it. Let me hear again to -night, Half -yard, chief at Princetown, is an old friend of mine. Very good man. Good-bye." Brandon knocked at No. 8 and was admitted by a thin, gray-haired wo- man who had evidently been shed- ding tears. He found himself in alit- tle hall decorated with ninny trophies of fox hunting. "Do I speak to Mrs. Pendean?" asked Brendon; but the old woman shook her head, "No, sir. I'm Mrs. Edward Gerry, widow of the famous Ned Gerry, for twenty years Huntsman of the Drat - moor Foxhounds. Mr. and Mrs. Pen-! dean were—are—I mean she is my' lodger," "Is She ready to see me?" "She's cruel hard bit, poor lady. What name, sir?" "Mr, Mark Brendon." Mrs. Gerry opened a door upon the right hand of the entrance. "The great Mr. Brendon be here, Mrs. Pendean," she said; then )3ren- don walked in and the widow ahllt the door behind him, Jenny Pendean rose from her chair by the table where she was writing letters and Brendon saw the auburn girl of the sunset. CHAPTER II. TIIE PROBLEM STATED. As Mark entered the girl rose and saw in his face an astonishment which seemed not much to surprise her, for she was used to admiration, and knew that her beauty startled men. Brendon, though he felt his heart beat quicker at his discovery, soon had himself in hand. He spoke with tact and sympathy, feeling himself already committed to serve her with all his wits and strength. "Mrs. Pendean," he said, "I am very glad that you learned I was in Princetown and it will be a privilege to serve you if I can." "Perhaps it was selfish to ask you in your holidays," she said. "But, Mark then learned that Inspector somehow, I felt--" Halfyard was already at Foggintor. "Think nothing whatever of that. "Fre en this," said Mark to the I hope that what lies before us may constable. "I'll come in again. Tell not take very long. You will do well the inspector to expect me at noon to let, me know everything bearing for all details. I'm going to see Mrs. upon •it that went before this sad Pendean now." affair." The policeman saluted. He knew "I can throw no light at all," she Brendon very well by sight. said. "It has come like a thunder - The detective nodded. Then he bolt and I still find my mind refusing sought No. 3, Station Cottages. to accept the story that they have The little row of attached houses brought to me." ran off at right angles to the high "Sit down and give me some al - street of Princetown. count of yourself and Mr. Pendean. You cannot havo been married very long." "Four years." Ile showed astonishment, "I am twenty-five," she explained, "though I'm told I do not look so much as that." "Indeed not; I should have guessed eighteen. Collect your thoughts now and just give me what of your history and your husband's you think most likely to be of use," ''I'll begin at the beginning," she answered, "The story of my family is thio: John Redmayne lived his life on the Murray River in Victoria, South Aus- tralia, and there he made a consider - ,able fortune out of sheep. He mar- even and had a large family. Out of seven sons and five daughters worn rn 1 t them during a period of twenty years, Jenny and John Redmayne only saw five of their children grow into • adult health and strength. Four boys 'lived, the rest died young; though two i were drowned in a boating accident and my Aunt Mary, their eldest daughter, lived a year after her mar- riage. 1 "There remained four sons: Henry, the eldest, Albert Bendigo, and Rob- e ert, the youngest of the family, now a 1111 ;man of thirty-five. It Is he you are seeking in this awful thing that is thought to have happened. "Henry Redmayne was his father's ;representative in England and a wool `broker on his own account. He mar- 1ried and had one daughter: myself. II remember my parents very well, for I was fifteen and at school when they died. They were on their way to Aus- Itralia, so that my father might see his father and mother again after the lapse of many years. But their ship, The Wattle Blossom, was lost with all hands and I became an orphan. "John Redmayne, my grandfather, 19 r. s though a rich man, was a great be - !Hever in work, and all his sons had c ,;� c ® to find occupation and justify their �����Cx3 ; lives in his eyes. Uncle Albert, 1 was only a year younger than my !father, cared for studious subjects land literature. He was apprenticed in youth to a bookseller at Sydney and after a time came to England, joined la large and important firm of book- ! sellers, and became an expert. They took him into partnership and he travelled for them and spent some years in New York. But his special subject was Italian Renaissance liter- ature and his joy was Italy, where he now lives. He found himself in a position to retire about ten years ago, being a bachelor with modest require-: ments. - He knew, moreover, that his I father must soon pass away and, as his mother was already dead, he stood in a position to count upon a share of the large fortune to be divided ineszemeanomummatexemaseamm presently between himself and his two lrematning brothers. "Of these my. Uncle Bendigo Red - IN ECTO ed INECTO RAPID The world's best • hair tint. Will re- store gray hair to its natural color in l5 minutes. Small size, $3.30 by mall Double size, $6.50 by mail The W. T. !'ember Stores Limited 129 Yonge St. Toronto Wt: the 2r , em y board a Santa re oo, your way a Fred ey dining se ice another effusive' Santa F?" feature, Enjoy out•ottdo ales tins wh teretal yew load' ;'se 'lea a : {'TtifOrnia h l rates are reasonable May I send you our picture folders? G. 0, Robertson, Trait. Page, Agent F. T. Hendry, General Agent Sante Fe HY. 404 Traneportatlon Bldg. 505 Detroit, Mich., Phone Main 6847 ISSUE No 50—'26, Tho Toronto Nncblt,t for ,e,tr'+h1ea. in grinlatIn with Notional mad 861r1 Rosetta/1. New York City, ottrr1 n three ren Cog," at Tralulnu t3 mono "3m,,,, having th, required oduoattan, and dedreut• of brooudni ' sprees. This 800,01tu hal adapted the 011138 - hour tystam, Tho Dupla. 1,gnlve uniform,of the Sohpol. a monthly allawa000 and Iravolluq. t'hpnaer to and from Now York. For further Information apply le the Suporinla'ddnt. Mayne was a sailor in the merchant marine. After reaching the position of a captain in the Royal Mail Steam- ship Company he retired on my grand- father's death, four years ago. But the sea is his devotion, and when he was able to do so. he built himself a Little house on the Devon cliffs, where he now resides within sound of the waves. "My third uncle, Robert Redmayne, is at this moment apparently suspect- ed of having killed my husband; but the more I think of such a hideous situation, the- less possible does it appear. "Robert Redmayne in youth was his father's favorite and if he spoiled any of his sons he spoiled the youngest: Uncle Robert came .to England, and being fond of cattle breeding and; agriculture,oined a farmer, the bro-1 tiler of an Australian friend of John Redmayne's. He was supposed to be getting on well, but he same and'went, for my grandfather did not lite a year' to pass without a sight of him. "After the death of my own father I saw a little of Uncle Robert from time to time, for he was kind to me and liked ale to be with him in my holidays. "It was summertime and I was stopping with my Uncle Robert at Penzance when two great things— indeed three great things—happened. The war broke out, my grandfather died in Australia and, lastly, I became engaged to Michael Pendean, "I had loved Michael devotedly for a year before he asked Ire to marry him. But when I told my Uncle Rob- ert what had happened he chose to disapprove and considered that I had made a serious mistake. My future husband's parents were dead. His father had been the head of a firm called' Pendean & Trecarrow, whose business was the importation of pil- I Jenny Pendean rose and Brendon saw the auburn girl of the sunset. chards to Italy. But Michael, though he had now succeeded his father in the business, took no interest in it. It gave him an income, but his own interests were in a mechanical direc- tion. "On the death of my grandfather it was found that he had written a peculiar will; and we also learned that his fortune would prove consider- ably smaller than his sons expected. However, he left rather more than one hundred and fifty thousand. "The terms of the will put all his fortune into the power of my Uncle AIbert, my grandfather's eldest living son. He told Uncle Albert to divide the total proceeds of the estate be- tween himself and his two brothers as his judgment should dictate, for he knew that Albert was a man of scupu- lous honor and would do justly by all. With regard to me, he directed my uncle to set aside twenty thousand pounds, to be given me on my mar- riage, or failing that, on my twenty- fifth birthday. In the meantime I was to be taken care of by my uncles; and he added that my future husband, if he appeared, must be approved of by Uncle Albert. "Though jarred to find he would receive far less than he had hoped, Uncle Robert was soon in a good temper, for their elder brother inform- ed Uncle Bob and Uncle Bendigo that he should divide the fortune into three equal parts. .(To be continued,) Are You Bald? 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Patterns sent by return mail. King Fulfills Promise By Reading Bible Daily. A shone time ago the newspapers printed a cable despatch fr6111'London to the effect that George V. reads one chapter of the Bible dally. This is keeping a promise which he made to his plotter, Queen Alexandra, in 1881 ]f he has taken the encs rued version in sequence, commencing witwith- the ONTARIO AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE first chapter of Genesis and reading one chapter each day, 1t would mean that he has read the Bible through thirteen times and has a good start on '+ the fourteenth reading. It would take l him a little more than two years and six months to read the Old Testament and three years and sixty-four days to read both Testaments. Probably, like all other readers of 1 the Bible, King George has his favor- 1 Ile passages, Undoubtedly he has I read the Bible through from cover to cover at least once, not missing a single word. Having done this he would be at liberty to select his fa- vorite passages and read them again and "again. It was 'an excellent habit which Queen Alexandra instilled in her son.' 1f a king can find time to read a chap- ter of the Bible daily surely any other person can. It le an excellent example 1 to the millions of persons who owe their allegiance to hint. There is no more majestic prose ea majestic poetry. than that found in tbs Bible. In these clays the Bible ought to be good read Ins for kings and for commoners as I well. Tor an English king the Engl'sdl version is especially good reeding. Your Grocer Sells 11 GREEN TEA Have you tried it? The tiny rich. flavored ' leaves and tip are sealed air -tight. Timer than any Japan or Gunpowder. insist upon SALADAS Catching Snakes for a Living. A writer In "Tho Wide World Maga- zine" gives an Interesting account of a strange tribe of snake -hunters whom he met in the eouas,e of a trip thorough the Sunderbunde, a network of islands and creeks at the head of the Bay of Bengal. He writes:— "They exist solely by means of catching snakes, which they sell to private collectors and the Zoological Gardens in Calcutta. By snakes I do not mean •harmless grace snakes, and the like; on the contrary, their choice Is in the direction of the venomous ansi deadly cobra, the dread llama - dryad, and the great python, "I have seen these amazing people approach a deadly 'speotacled' cobra and catch it with bare hands with the ease and dexterity of a man picking up a piece of rope! . They usually car- ry with thema long polished bamboo of fine balance and weight, having at its enol a blunt, two-pronged fork, and also another bamboo with a sharp spearhead, but not once during the couple of days I watched them did the hunters have occasion to use these implements. "Tho poison is apparently not ex- tracted from the fangs of the snakes by these strange people—at least, so they told me. In view of that state- ment you can imagine my horror to see one of the women teasing a. great eight -foot cobra, freshly caught, and not even wincing when the hideous thing struck at and bit. her on the oh•eek-bone! Indeed, she laughed and continued her teasing, what time my mind was reeling with horror, for I expected at any moment to see the poor woman fall •baolc,and expire. "A man, however, seeing the (Glad- es u my face, explained that the members of -this tribe were immune to the effects of the snake bites," He Understood. Dad (•aagrlly)—"You'a'e the devil's son, ohik!! 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Gives complete expert information on housing, feeding, breeding, dressing, conquering disease, etc. NOW is the right season for starting your flock for next year's market. Lose no time in sending for this bulletin, together with the list giving the names of five hundred other free govermnent publications on farm problems. Idill'i s and mail this advertisement post free to The Publications Branch, Dept. of Agriculture, Ottawa, Ont. Name R,R, No STORIES OF WPM- KNOWN P :t rKNOWN PEOPLE Well Matched. The well) -known "]tumorous write!, Mr, Jerome K, Jerome, relates the to lowing story ,about his friend, Sir' Tames Barrie, whom) shyness, he tells us, is proverbial, Onco, says hlr. Jerome, a beautiful but nervous young lady was taken by him into dinner. With the fish coua'sa Barrie broke the stance. "Have you ever, been to Egypt?" The young lady w'ats too Startled- to answer imme'diate'ly. It vas 08085- sury for her to called herself before replying. Whfle waiting for the entree, she turned to bis. "N�o," she answered . in nervous tones!. •'. Barrrle made 110 comment, He went on with his dinner. At the end of the Course, ciosity overcoming her awe, she turned to him again. "Have you?" A far -away expression came Into Bowie's gurreat, deep eyes. - "No," he replied. After that they both lapsed Into silence. Needlessly Alarmed. The well-lcuown author, Mr. H. G. Weide, will neverwillingly submit himself to an interview. One day recently, while be was Walking in a country lane near his home, he espied a keen -visaged, alert. loolring man coming quickly towards him. Tho stranger looked every inch a journalist, and firmly convinoed that he was about to be' interviewed, Itgr. Wells dodged aside down a convenient bridle -path. But. the stranger would not bo shaken off, an•j doggedly followed his quarry down the path, through' a broken hedge, and across a meadow, at Inet running him to earth behind a haystack. • Resigning himself to his fate, the author turned and faced his tormentor. "Glad you've come to anchor at last, old man," 'said the latter chedf- fully. "Please tell me where I can thud a pub. I'm dying for a glass of beer." A Monotonous Diet. . Mr. Joseph Keating the playwright and novelist, was born and brought up in a Welsh .eollery village, where he toiled hard at manual labor all his ear • - ly days. He wee a member of what was known locally as the "Irish Colony," end he tells an amusing story illus• trative of the primitive style of living they had perforce to put up with. The humble bloater (he says) was a staple dish in pots. tines. A good-natured Irish lodger asked his landlady to read out his bill to him, when he was paying her for his weak's board. She put on her spectacles, held up the piece of paper, and began: 1 "Monday morning, breakfast, one bloater. "Monday, dinner, two bloaters, "Monde.Y, supper, one bloater. "Tuesday morning, breakfast, one bloater. "Tuesday, dinner, two hloatcrs. "Tuesday, supper, one bloater. "Wednesday, morning, breakfast, one bloater. Wednesday, dinner, two bloaters. "Wednesday supper, one---" "Ma'am," he interrupted, "blot out tho bloaters, and put down a whale!" A Viceroy's Lament. It is to be hoped that Mr. Edward Wood will find the etiquette of vice- regal life less irksome than the first Earl of Lytton, who complained in one of his letters from India that "the worst part of being a Viceroy is that I cannot be for one second alone, "I sit In the privatest corner of my private room, and If I look through the window there are two sentinels standing guard over me. 1f I open the door there are two jemadatm crouching at the threshold, ' "If I go up ordownstairs an A.D.O. and three unpronouncable beings in white and red nightgowns, with dark faces, rush after me. If I steal out of my house by the back door I look round and and myself stealthily fol- lowed by a tail of fifteen persons." • • Post Office , .Province S.i7 Bad Marksmanship: A young foolish bloke was to love 'Neath mistletoe he stood with his I dove, He tried fora kiss, But her mouth he did miss" And it landed just one Ines above. Never Saw the Sun. There le no record that enyiane ever ',au, the sun shine on Agattu island in :'ze western Aleutians. - AI'