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Home My WebLink AboutThe Seaforth News, 1928-11-01, Page 2Ole �sndrV (' BEGIN HERE TODAY What horrible and mysterious power was forcing the three Drake brothers, Hobart, the Wall Street broker, Roger, the scientist, and, Andrew, recently re- turnedfrom Australia, to place them- Oleosm ridiculous situations. Some power had forced Hobart to deliver a Meek apeeoitin the public square, Ro- ger to burlesquea scientific address, and Andrew to sit on the floor and ppley with toys. Patricie Drake, daugh- ter of Hobart,. secretly seeur'e Owen Miles, detective sergeant, and his col league, Scottie.MoCready, to investi- gate. Miles is entp.cyed as.a house- man and Scottie as' ,t gardener., . Miss Jerusha Drake, spinster siste. of the brothers, is discovered by Miles in, a wildly excited state late at night be- fore an open grete in which she was burning papers of some kind. Pa- tricia,disappears and Hobart sends for Miles. GO ON WITH THE STORY When Zorn drove up in a station jitney he gave no sign of ever having seen Miles before, but an hour later when he took his leave he slipped a note into the hand of the other. The note was terse and to the point. "Mrs. James Slocum removed fur- nishings from Gotham Storage Ware- house to Edgecombe Road, Brookside, New Jersey, last Friday. Will take care of bill of lading tomorrow," So that chance shot had hit the mark. Miles locked up the house and then made his way to Scottie's room. "Rip and I have been very busy this afternoon," began Scottie as Miles took a seat. "So Rip has been up to something! Is that what you have in mind to tell me, Scottie?" "It is, and I have had an exciting time. I'm a matter cf twenty dollars poorer for it which I shall charge ti the expense account, and Rip is nurs- ing a scratch on the shoulder." Scot- tie closed his right hand and looked at it thoughtfully and his companion observed for the first time that the knuckles were reddened and a trifle swollen. "'Twos a nasty minute and a close shave for him!" "You've been in a scrap!" Miles ex- claimed. "You were not attacked—?" "No. It was me did the attacking. You see, Owen lad, I took a look at that cottage in the woods where our friend Roger had his, laboratory long ago. I caught a glimpse of a clearing just ahead with a blackened chimney sticking up, and heard the sound of a number of voices in dispute. Among them I recognized Rip's and he was plainly frightened. I hurried forward and saw Rip and a fellow who tower- ed balle a head taller than be, shaking something under his nose. "You done pass dis phony money on me yestiddy when I faded you!' he was fair shouting, and he added a curse that no accorded with the Sab- bath. You is gwine take it back and give me de real goods or I'll cyarve your heart out!' "I could se Rip's face and it was as nearly white as it ever will be. "'Your lies don't go with me, Rip Lunt! Dese boys all see you gimme dis bill yestiddy and it was the wili- est twenty dollar one in de game! Ain't dat right, boys?' "The rest of them were getting ex- cited, and threatening and Rip com- menced to. whine and blubber when all of a sudden the big fellow went wild and then things happened quick. He crumpled the bill and threw it in. ip's face and with a yell reached into his pocket, and that was where I took a hand in the game I reached that big buck just as his knife streaked down across Rip's shoulder and Look for it on the dealer's counter p� 9 L.ra More for your money z,. o and itho beet Peppermh1t % Chewing Sweet for any money 0/82 J. U No. 43---'28 eaught hint one on the point of the jaw that put him out for the Conti" Scottie glanced down once more af- fectionately at his clenched fist. "Rip was loud in hise" gratitude but out of the tail 'of my eye I saw Tint hunt for that bill and then turn' to sneak away and I laid -h.o1d of hint by the collar to wait till the lout who had accused him woke up. "He sat up after a bit rubbing his jaw and started to turn ugly but I spoke to him man to pian and said I'd make good for Rip if there'd been a mistake. He told me Rip had lost the money to heti in a crap game Saturday and when he tried to change it he found the bill was counterfeit. I made Rip let nie have a loot: at it and then I laughed in the big buck's face and gaffe him a crisp tew twenty from my wallet in exchange to show him what I though of it. Here's the bit of paper the row started over:" He handed to Miles a limp, worn twenty -dollar bill, one end of which had a fringe of brown and the detec- tive turned it thoughtfully over in his hands. "I wonder how Rip got it?" he re- marked. "What did he tell you?" "Nothing. Not a sensible word could T get out of him," "We'll make him conte clean when we get hold of him. If the bill is all right he needn't be afraid—!" Miles checked himself suddenly. "But is it, Scottie? It's so old I wouldn't take an oath on it—" I would, lad." There was a cer- tain grimness in the other's tone. ' Stop that yowling, Hitty, and stand aside!" "You'll mind I told you I was the poorer by twenty dollars? I learned a trifle from the experts and that bill is as phony as the brightest gold brick that was ever sold!" CHAPTER XIII. It was nearly lunch-time the next day when Miles' glance fell upon the door -plate of n room at the end of the ball; a room which _had remained locked since his arival and which he had once heard Carter refer to casu- ally as `Mr. Roger's store -room.' He had polished that doorplate only Sat- urday morning, but now there seem- ed something odd about its appear- ance and the detective bent closer. The brass about the keyhole was dulled save where a tiny, jagged scratch or two glinted and there were traces upon it of a congealed, greasy substance at sight of which Miles drew a quick, involuntary breath. Wax!Someone within the last two days had taken an impression of that keyhole, someone who was too care- less or in to great haste to remove the evidence of the act. What could Roger have stored there which would be of such interest to anybody but himself? Luncheon was over when the detec- tive hearer the telephone ring again and with a muttered excuse he hasten- ed toward hte library, but the sound of Roger's voice in reply arrested hint before he reached the threshold. "Yes? ...This is Roger Drake speaking , . . What is that?" The receiver fell with a clatter to the desk but it was evident that Roger had retrieved it for in a moment his voice came again, shrill with something vary like terror. "Who are you? . . You must be mad! ... My brother?" There was a long pause and then the one word: "Never!" It ended in a strangling gasp, a chair creaked heavily and then a dry, muffled sob reached the listener's ears. He peered in cautiously between the curtains to behold the scientist sprawl- ed limply in a chair, his arms out - flung across the desk and his white head /Allowed upon them while the thin shoulders shook spasmodically. Carter's querulous summons from the dining room recalled Miles hur- riedly, When next he entered the Iibrary he found it empty. Dusk was settling down and no- thing untoward had occurred to break the brooding stillness of the house when all at once, a woman's shriek rang out. The detective rushed from his room and down the stair, but just as he reached the floor below another door was flung wide in his face and a man dashed out, almost colliding with him. Miles halted fir an intent, taken aback by sheer surprise, for 'the open SAVE MONEY BUY BONDS $100 Denominations $500 $1000 Write for List 1-l.. J. BAIN & CO., I.+TD. 350 Bay Street, Toronto ed door was that of -Roger'b stere room, and the mean who bad emerged was Andrew! Ile was • without coat or waistcoat, his sleeves •rolledback and his shirt and collar grimy with• dust,a smudge of which lay across his cheek, giving a grotesque, twisted expression to his features. "What's Happened?" he roared. "Stop that yowling, Hitty, and stand aside!" • Miles became aware that a thin, reedy wail' had succeeded the shriek and shaking off the spell which had held hint transfixed he hastened down the hall: At the head of the main staircase the maid was kneeling before a re- cumbent form wringing her hands and sobbing hysterically, but Andrew seized her atm and thrust her violent- ly aside, 4 • "Roger, old man!—Here, pull your- self together, Hitty, and call Carter or William—!" So Andrew had not consciously noted that momentary encounter! The detective stepped forward. "What is it, sir? Oh, is Mr. Roger ill? Can T be of any assistance?" "Yes. Help me carry him to his room and then get my'sister. No need to call a doctor; he's had these attacks before and I know how to bring him around." He placed his strong arms about the shoulders of the unconscious man and Miles supported the knees while Hitty ran ahead to open the door. Be- tween them they got Roger Drake into his room and upon the bed, where he lay breathing stertorousiy. Miles slipped out into the garden where he found Scottie at work among the rose bushes. "What is it, lad?". The latter straightened. "Has something come off at last?" "Something that hes all but taken me off nay feet, Scottie! It may be a waiting game for a few days more but there's daylight ahead!—Got a poiteil?" He pilled a notebook, from his pocket and, tearing out a page, he scribbled hastily upon it while his col- league waited in silence. "There! 1 don't caro what excuse you make afterward but get down to the tele- graph office at the station as fast LIS you eat and sendthis wire off to the chief; tell him to send one of the boys down here with the reply the in- stant it comes, no matter at what hour of -,the day or night! We'll be ready then to Stancl out in the open and declare oueselvesl" Scottie read the message slowly and then lifted -amazed eyes to the other's face, "Man, but eye've been blind l" he exclaimed, `,'You say that there's daylight ` ahead? I'rn thinking that for spine in yonder house it may be a red and fearsome dawn!" After dispatching Scottie to the village to transmit his wire, Miles re- entered the house and ascended to the second door, The deor of Roger's store room did not yield when he turned the knob. As he started down the hall Miss Dake appeared, • "We shall not need you, William," she announced, "My brother, is sub- ject tothese "heart attacks and he is quite all right new, but of course ha will nit ebme down to dinner." An hour passed and Hobart Drake returned from the city. Miles could scarcely restrain his impatience as he helped Carter to serve dinner, but the occasional glimpses he stole at the. financier's face told hint nothing. It was inscrutable and when the tele- phone earng he rose with calm de- liberation. "That was Zorn," he announced on his return. "He assured nie that he was malting definite progress. IIis tone had lacked conviction, and Andrew glanced up with a sneer.. "Sounds good but doesn't mean anything!" he. commented, "Isn't that what, the police always. give out to the newspapers when they're stump- ed?" 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Standards vary in the different !re- stitutions, but generally spsaklog,the college girl must have three typos of caresses: sports or tailored clothes for campus wear; dress fi'oolts for inform- al afternoon and evening 'affairs; and. formal evening clothes. Sweater. Suits. The knitted.s'ports shit -that makes. its appearanbe all the year round as inevitably as does the 'felt _hat is, or course, featured for autumn wear. A modification of 'those shown last spring, which had metal thread wavee with the silk and wool, is in evidence•' this autumn, but tho gold and silver metal is used instripes and in bolder designs, defining the neckline with bands, showing insets at the cuffs,. Where the sweater suit has no metal bands, a new note is expressed in the modernistic designs on .the sweater Perhaps one of the reasons sweater suits aro so oontinually liked is be. cause they offer great variety in color and treatment, With several sweat ors and shirts, many changes can vary the wardrobe; the colors aro so vivid that they eau contrast with skirts as' well as match them. Several stores' are displaying .e new color called Tommy -Reil, as dashing as one could' wish to brighten dark winter days, l One sweater in this color has a neck- line. appliqued ock•line.appliquect with silver kid and it touch of siivel' metal about the wrists,. Another sweater has a three -color combination, beige, green and brown,: With it a brown velveteen skirt is worn. 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Since nearly all ensembles for school wear are• either entirely of tweed or combine. - tions of that fabric with another, dresses will be light as well as smart. A manufacturer of moderately priced! frocks offers one model that has a tuck -in, button -on jumper and a slightly flared skirt trimmed with bands of the reverse side of the ma. tenial. Another has an interesting. tweed coat paired with a silk frock.. The coat has envelope pockets, while the frock giv,ea an apron effect in front. Tweed is combined with satin also...in an ensemble having a satin. fagoted blouse. Informal Frocks. Between the sweater dress and the ensemble ;and dividingtheir honors, there have entered one and two-piece dresses, sohtewhat tailored, of Jersey, ombre cloth, and rep covert. These frocks keep their shape, lieving no tendency to sag as do sweater dress- es. In addition to that, they are easy to don and decidedly smart. Ombra cloth in green was used fur an unusual dress of the surplice ,type.:` An odd little pocket was set in at the• waistline and fine pleats fell at the left side of the skirt. The cloth was• so shaded that the right side of the top of the dress to the surplice open- ing was of the darker green, as was the border of the skirt. For informal afternoon affairs, the coilegt girl wso desires to follow the mode has at least one.transparent vel- vet dress, either printed or plain, com- bined with other materials, or with ,- delicate lace.. One afternoon frock is of dot -patterned velvet with a V neck- line of lace, a fagoted, and shirred. treatment in the bodice, and a finely - pleated skirt. Developed in madon- na -blue, a favorite color for clress frocks, or of soft tvoolbrown, on.e of the street colors featured for autumn,. - tlie frock le particularly lovely. Sophistication Popular. 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