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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1928-09-20, Page 6kabQ4 kS $n' 00,4 l7CA senegainc,. . CHAPTER I, r It was because of de.truty, little Per triciia Drake, who was seated appoints him in his private offlee, that At- torney Jelin Wells had telephoned to Police Iieadquerters and eununoned a tall, dark-leaia'e'dr young mast with the respectful but bored manner' of a presumable son of the elect. Sergeant Miles. You gent for mo?" John Wells gave Mat a swift glance of appraisal and with a gesture indi- cated not only hits youthful, feminine client, but a vacant chair facing the Gold light of early 'spring, "Mies Drake, thio is Sergeant Miles, T should advise you to bo es frank With hint as you have with me. Be • seated here, Sea -grant, if you please!' The detective took the chair indi- cated, and the young girl drew a quick, convulsive breath. "IIow'--how do you do? I would have consulted an alienist rather than my father's attorney had it not been for the fact that I feel I, at least, am still sane, Sergeant Miles. Do—do you know anything about psychology " "Psychology" from a big -eyed eighteen -year-old kid! Owen Miles, undveraty graduate, pauperized by hill father's mining operations and member of the Police Department through an innate passion for crimin- ology, pricked up his ears, repressed a smile and replied gravely: "A little, Miss Drake. Enough, I think, for practical purposes." It .vas John Wells' turn to conceal surprise at the cultivated, veiledly amused accents of this most extra- ordinary emissary from Headquar- ters, but the girl merely hesitated a moment and' then spoke in a quick little rush. "Then, perhaps you can understand Why, with no insanity in the family, three dignified, middle-aged gentle- men, brothers, should suddenly be- come victims of the wildest hallucina- tions, like—like three Mad Hatters, acid do such queer, ridiculous things that they are the talk of the town?" There was a hint of tears in her voice. "1 suppose this will seem d'isresepect- ee1 when I tell you that it is of my father and my two uncles I am speaking, but it Is the truth!" "What sort of hallucinations have they, Miss Drake?" "Perhaps," the attcrney inteagtosed in his urbane, well-rounded tones, "it will be well for me to tell you a little of Miss Drake's family. She is the daughteti of Hobart Drakta of the New York Stock Exchange. His wife died when Miss Patricia, here, was born. and she was brought up by his maiden sister, Mies Jerusha Drake, a lady of the soundest practical com- mon sense. They have always Hved In the cid family residence out en Long Island, at Breoldea." Owen Miles nodded quickly with- out speaking, and the attorney went on: "Five years ago Roger Drake, the oldest of the family and a scientist of worldwide reputation, returned from Europe to the old home at Brooldea and a few months since the other brother, Andrew, came buck from Australia—where he had amaseed a fortune in thieep•ranching. You can see that the three brotheaa are widely ddseimilar in character and tempera- ment, yet a Teey great affection has always existed between them. I have known them all since they were mere boys and I can speak fsbni personal observation. —Pat." Wells turned to the young girl, "did all three exhibit the symptoms at the same time?" "No. Poor father was the first to e -to break out." Her Iips quivered. "People put the most—most scandal - .l. A treat in the Peppermint-davored fitrgar.coated jacket and another in tike Peppermiatfiayored gum !nage— ' value in longs acting delight Melia No; 37—'22 ons eons:truction on it, connected with the wine cellar, and I know that it wasn't true! "Per the poet month of two I have fancied that father was worried about something. I don't think very serii- ouely about it until that dreadful time a fortMgllit ago when in the mid- dle of the night we were aid awaken- ed by a lend knocking on the front door and finally Carter, the butler, went, down and opened it. cia responded. "3Ip and Uncle hear leave been great friends ever since he bought The Rem. Tree, next 'to lbs 1%mp eataitc---" She paused end a deeper tivah tef- eueod box face. Serpent Miles glanced at the attorney, who smiled and nodded almost imperceptibly, "What was ye r uncle's explana- tion?" t'IIe made nne" She eta -egged. "He looked' dreadfully wean and ill but he was ars dignified as ever and Merely said that he regretted his die Worse had not met with the approval of his hearers. On Saturday when the paper Game out there wars a pealed furore; the editor intimated that the 'cetera was the work of a d eordened mind and recalled father•'e oration be- fore the soldiers' menet-net, ineineat- ingg that they had both fallen victims to soave strange aberration, In the vercy face of it Aunt Jnruehn made "'I was lensain over the ttalustratto mss go to church with her yesteedaay g , and I never thought I could go through. and what do you think I saw? Our ',wee an agony of mortification! local policeman, Sam Clark, was bringing in a stout figure, dressed all in 'flowing white .like a ghost, that reeled as it walked, 'I've brought 114r. Hobart home, Carter; Sam said. 'I'd get him to bed real quiet, but in the morning you tell hurt that If it happene again we'l'l have to malls - tate what he's got left in his cellar.' "'He was down in front of the soi- diers' monument,' Sem explained, 'rigged out in these here bedsheets, and spouting like a Fourth of Sully orator that he was Julius Oaesar, Lucky it was so late or he'd have had the whole town round him. Saone; I touched him he seemed to sort of collapee and he come along home with- out any trouble. He'll likely be all right in the morning'." Patricia had given an unconsciously graphic imitation of the country cone stable, but as she paused and covered her face with her hands there was nothing of amusement in the express- ions of either of het hearers. "Did you get a closer view of your father, Miss Drake?" the latter asked after a moment. "Yes, I heard a sort of gasp behind me and turned to find Uncle 'Roger there, staring down at father with "What sort of hallueinations have they, Miss Drake?" such a shocked, horrified expression that I thought he was going to have a stroke or something. We stood watching them bring father upstairs." "And where was your other uncle, Mr. Andrew Drake, during this time?" "Uncle Andrew slept through it all," Patricia paused. "He is awfully jolly and the next morning he tried to make light of it, but when he learned how really ill father was he was terribly worried." Your father was seriously ill, then?" "Yes. Tt was a week before he went to his office in Wall Street and he hasn't gone to the village once.— I don't blame him!" Her small gloved hands clenched on the anus of her chair. "The things that were said and the horrid jokes that have been Madel I was ashamed before—but it is even worse now!" "You mean that your uncles have exhibatee eimil a signs of—er--eccem- erreiic the detective asked. Patricia nodded. "Not exactly windier, but they have done things that it seems to me only people whose mends were deranged would dol—And Aunt Jerusha's tett/e- tude is the most inexplicable of rill" "My dear Pati" John Welds ex- claimed. "You cannot mean that she also -1" "Oh, no. Aunt Jerusha hasn't gang crazy, too, but she insists that there is nothing wrong. When I suggested an alienist this morning she was angrier than I have ever ween her. "Nothing more happened for the first week after father's strange at- tack except that Uncle Roger seemed to grow more deeply troubled. He had promised to give a lecture on archae- ology at the high school last Wed- nesday. If I had only known!" "Was the lecture not given?" "It wast" Bitterness sharpened her soft girlie 'poet "And the next tial✓ £Tre 'vll1'laige as talking worse t fyatvher'e Behavior * 1 Of -- , ?e'S, trip.$ 1 TO '�'.&5 roe h{doous tratiessZec i legi7iasa�l}�1g1 lied tit been eheer &Wel 1 *ouldairt IMO been to bad, but it wee a clever Attire ridiculing the archaeological diseeverite of recent years, The audience dildnfrt know whether to laugh of to feel affmrrted at his in- dult to their ibtelldtgence." "The next day no one told me any thing nihil Mr. Grayle came over. Tt Was awful l" "Wh+a is lett, Grayle?" queried the e "A netghber, a niaturaJliet ' Petri., {NinarSl'e t-inimnt for Every Ppin, "I made up my mind I would come to see you todiay, and then when Thole Andrew wee found thee moan- in'g l" ' She broke off once more as though too overcome to continue, The detec- tive and attorney glanced at each other before the latter remarked: "Go on;, my child, Tell the- Ser- geant exactly what you told me." "Early this mornieg, Edward the houseman founel Uncle Andrew sitting on the drawing room floor In hid pa- jamas playing like a child with some ornaments which be had taken from the cabinet and mantel, and whim he saw Edward he ran toward him on all fours, growling as though he were pretending to be some kind of an ani - mall Edwards hes never gotten over being shell-shocked. This morning was the last straw and he gave imme- diate notice, so Aunt Jerusha sent me into town to engage another houseman and a gardener. That gave me my opportunity to come and consult Mr. Wells." She hesitated once more. "I don't know, though; what site will say when she sees you, Sergeant." "She need see in me only what she sent for—the new houseman!" Ser- geant Miles announced. Patricia's blue eyes opened very wide. "Oh, could you?" site breathed, "I want an assistant outside as well," interrupted the detective, "You say that a gardener is needed, too?" "Yon—you don't know any detective who is a gardener, too, do you?" "I know the very man!" Sergeant Miles exclaimed with enthusiasm. Petriei,a glanced from one serious face to the other. "Then you don't think it is just that they're losing their minds, my father and—and my uncles? You don't think nay aunt will be the next to go and then—perhaps-1" She fele:teed once more but 1?ee meaning was unmistakable, and' al- though the attorney was discreetly silent he laid one slim, blue -veined hand upon her arm reassuringly. (To be continued.) The Cow Through the deep hayfield Where tall grasses bow, In and out And round about Roamed the happy Cow. Nibbling the sorrel leaves, PIucking at the clover, Happiest of happy beeves All the world over! "Marion! Marion! Teatime, Marion!" Oh what a bother! Is sbe calling me? Mummy dear, not now! Can't you see that I'm a Cow? And a Cow never comes in to teal —Jocelyn O. 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' Toronto, Ontario 1hOOI Lune, Wise and Unwise 13y 13I0T'PY BATtCLAY How many remember the school lunchof twenty or tliirly years ago? Let's call for a showing of hands among the fathom and mothers who have read this first eontenee• Broad and butter; cake; pie; milk, or cold tea; an apple, white bread eandwlehes with., bili pieces of cold, roast beef between the slices of breedt That about covers It doesn't it Oh, yes, there were doughnuts, cookies,; cake and pie -not all at once, but hero and there ae the larder at home could supply them. And how did we eat those lunches?' Wali, at recess we got rid of the "las- ties.` At noon ern were so hungry that. we' bolted the rest—and then we clad-. ed down thelane to All up on apples, barrios or whatever else grew wild or could be found beneath th trees of som friendly, orchard owner, Little didwe care about balanced • luncheons. Little did we think about such things as indigeetion, under=nourishment and all those things that school teachers now write notes: about. We ate what our lunoh•boxee held, suffered when the apples were too green, and saw to it that as mom as we got home we could nibble on, something else that grew in the gar- den, in the orchard, or in our favorite• berry pateli or nut wood: Had we only realized it, those bet' ries, fruits, vegetables and nuts were largely ,responsible for our health. Heavy school lunches Slowly sapped the strength from our healthy young bodies without the balancing effect of` those alkaline fruits, vegetables and. berries that wo plucked here, there and wherever we could find' them. Without knowing it, we were securing' what might aleriost be called medicine as we plucked fruit from a tree or wiped a golden carrot off with its own green leaves and started along the road munching. it. • Now that the school bells are call- ing°our own children to school, what are we putting in the lunch box? Very few of the children of this generation find it convenient' to locate the fruite. berries, vegetables and nuts that were• so abundant in their parents' youth. Most of them depend largely upon the• contents of the school lunch box it- self, to obtain a balanced meal. Meats, fish, bread, doughnuts, cook- ies and cake• of most kinds are ade— pt-educing in their effect. This does not mean that we mast not eat such foods, for they are healthful and necessary. It does mean, however, that we must see that are sufficiently balanced with alkaline foods such ae green vegetables, fresh fruits, berries. 'and 'raisins. Oranges and lemons are strongly? alkaline in their effect. This may seem strange to some who still think of them as bring acid, but neverthe- less it is true. Although known as acid fruits trey have an alkaline re- action when taken. luto the body. The orange in the lunch bok, therefore, is. balancer number one. Tt may be placed entire with the other foods .packed, or it may form part of a salad, or fruit cup that is furnished the child. Occasionally it may be used in cake or pudding form. The lemon lends itself to many tasty- desserts, astydesserts, while a glass of lemonade is far better, for the school' lunch than. many of the beverages often carried or purchased by the kiddies at a near- by store. The wise mother will not pack a luncheon consisting almost entirelyor meat sandwiches, bread, biscuits, cakes and pie. This would be an un- wise luncheon. The child might stand; it if the evening meal were as alka- line es this lunch is acid, but it fa doubtful if the mother who packed such a lunch would have the ability to serve a counteracting evening meal.. Include a sandwich or two of course. Some times they may contain meat or fish—but If both contain these foods, see to it that there are plenty of,vege- tables and fruits to counteract them. Usually one meat or Ash sandwich is sufficient. The other sandwich: could contain marmalade, jelly, or a. tasty 'chopped fruit mixture. Minced olivae and baked beans; lettuce and tomato; chopped dates and nuts; minced -raisin and nuts—any of these linings Ls desirable, Again, merely wrap the sandwich slices In waxed paper, and include a little dish of salad made from fruits and vegetables. When Lunch time comes the child may either eat the salad with the bread or may make a. sandwich from It on the spot. Celery, apple and ore,nge—there is: a good combination, Peel oranges and remove all white skin. Gut into one- fourth inch slices and out each slide into halves. Dice colery and apple and mix with mayonnaise. For eerye leg at home you would arrange a O1'V ole of half •slices cf oranges on a let- tuce-covered ettuce-covered salad plate, 1111 center with apple and celery mixture and gar- nish with Celery tips. For the sr,1iooi lunch, nttx and paek as attractively as possible in a little dish, the bottom of which bas been covered with a crisp leaf of celery, pate and orange; prune and orange, Babbage and orangO end even cniou and Grange eonibfnatlons will bo found equally pleastug, They will appeal to the children aq something unusual and, something tasty, and bettor than this, they will be excellent balancers for those other foods that are almost in- variably IniIudod in the school lunch box, The story about the big fish teat didn't get away because 11 was struck by lightning ,appears to be o naw me.