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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1928-11-22, Page 2IFMES!••H IP IRO T 'E GARDE Riff "Tried to catch the spirit kettle when the table tilted and the blazing alcohol rah up my sleeve!" He groaned in spite of himself and, seizing a serviette, he wrapped it about his injured arm. "Don't putter about with that stuff like an ass!" "Very good, sir." When this was accomplished Miles sought Scottie and found the latter chuckling to himself. "What's the joke? Did you see Miss Hawks armed for conquest?" "I did not!" Scottie still smiled • broadly. "I'm thinking of the march1 the young people have stolen on'their families. Dick brought the girl back as he promised but she's not 'Miss Patricia' any more; they bundled old Higgs on the running board and made for the minister's house before they left Freedale and it is young Mrs. Kemp who has come home." "I'm glad of it," Miles said after a pause. "There comes Roger Drake up the drive from the gate," he continued. "He's a sick man, and no mistake!" The scientist was walking more steadily than when he had left the house but slowly, and he paused every few steps to rest. "Excuse me, sir, but may I help you?" Miles asked as he hurried for- ward. "I saw you coming and I tbought that you might perhaps feel a little weak still." Miles became aware of the extreme inward agitation of the man. Roger leaned his weight heavily upon the younger man, who could feel the thin fingers closing about his elbow like bands of steel. The scien- tist summoned his remaining strength to negotiate the steps of the verandah and Hobart Drake himself opened the front door. "What is this?" he exclaimed as hs hastened to support his brother to the other side. "Hobart!" With unexpected vigor the weak man thrust them aside with a sweeping gesture of his long arms and stod erect. "Hobart, I have found out who it is! I know—I know the—the nemesis—!" His voice had thickened oddly and the last word ended in a choking cry as he wavered and then suddenly pitched forward on his face. Miss Drake's startled exclamation from Minard's Liniment for Asthma. sharp command: seeing him, beckoned. --___e'e_. nt _-.testae"""•'--=`"" "Don't try to lift him, William; turn him over—Great heavens! He: has had a stroke!" The body turned rigidly beneath their hands and Roger Drake lay star- ing widely up at the ceiling, the left 'side of his face twisted into a hideous- ly grotesque mask, the arm crooked and leg drawn up in a manner there could be no mistaking. • Miss Drake swept down to kneel be- side him, but Andrew brushed her roughly aside and descended in reck- less leaps. "Is it paralysis, Hobart? Shall I 'phone the doctor? Can he speak?" His ruddy face had paled and his voice was grave, and shaken. "The doctor, by all means, as quick- ly as you can het him here!" Hobart, responded. For an hour all was excitement while the stricken man was carried to his room and placed in bed. Car- ter admitted the physician and the de- tective was able to catch snatches of his phrases, "—in these cases, nothing—Pos- sibly in a day or so, possibly in ten, unless, of course, another stroke— only absolute quiet and—look in again tonight " Hobart had established himself as nurse and although Miss Drake de- murred, she was for once overruled and only permitted to take his place while her brother descended to snatch a hasty bite in the dining mem. Miles hovered about in the hall just outside the sick room, beset with .the question which haunted his mind. While he pondered, Miss Drake ap- the staircase was lost in Hobart's peered suddenly in the doorway and • LJJ.Zt . Sea 13reezes Miss Drake's dear with one side of hie face convincingly swollen by Mails of en impreeised .cetton p1umP er which, he had iiiserted inside • his cheek, "It's my tooth, ma'am,"°he explain- ed, "I just can't stand it any longer anti the milkman will give me a lift to the station if you can spare no to run, to town and the my dentist." Permission was granted and he waa soon rattling townward.,,in the early train. On arrival he went straight to Headquarters and then j'aurneyey up- town to en actors' agency, whose pre- prietor was an old acquaintance. "You ain't givin' me much to go on, Owen," he complained when the visi- tor's errand hail been explained, "A full-egured blonde, you say, and youngish. Calls herself 'Maizie'?, I'll do what I can far you." It, was not a great distance from the theatrical district'to the dignified Archaeological Museum where Miles found Professor Nigel Lorton. Spread before him on his desk, was the spur- ious papyrus taken from the wrap- pings of the Peruvian mummy' and which the detective had entrusted to Zorn to deliver on the previous''day. The old srofessor removed his spec- tacles and taped h>'s knee thought- fully with them. "My dear Sergeant," hebegan at last' while the other waited expectant le. 'This document is, as you assum- ed in your note, an imitation in tex- ture and symbol of the ancient Egyp- tion and whether it be a hoax or not I confess that it is the most remarkable record it has ever been my privilege to examine." "You foni d it easy to translate, sir?" Miles asked. "Fairly so; althoughthe terms used were unfamiliar to me. I have made a literal translation for you also and with your knowledge of the subject of. which it treats you will be able to de- termine if it is the hallucination of a disordered mind or the revelation of a brilliant if abnormal one." It' was well toward noon when the conference ended and Miles left the building with a feeling of exultation not unmixed with awe at the very enormity of the secret so fortuitously disclosed. "William, I must go downstairs for a moment. Will you come in and sit beside Mr. Roger?" Secretly thanking his lucky, stars that he had been at hand, Miles en- tered and heated himself beside the lowered his voice confidentially. still form oustretched upon the bed. have proof that he means to double - The instant Miss Drake's footsteps crass me, too, and that's why I've had died away the detective bent for- Come to join forces with you if we can reach an agreement. Suppose we give, our order and then we can talk hi peace." That detail. attended to, the detee- The theatrical producer had exerted hinisel fto some purpose in the brief period allotted to him in which to locate the motion picture artiste. Miss Maizie Gray, it happened, was playing second lsads with the Lenten.. 1.ompany and would be delighted to meet the press representative, Mr. Owen Miles, at the Admiral for luncheon. Maizie was prompt to keep the ap- pointment but her professional smile changed to one of good-natured de- rision when she recognized her host. "Olio!" she exclaimed with the ut- most sangfroid as she buried her nose in his fragrant offering. "I might 'a' knowed there was ado somewhere. I wasn't on that you were in the gyme. when 'I spoke to you in the road the other clay, but I knew you were fol- lcwing Mr. Enslee Grayle and his nobs, Mr. Andrew Drake, Wot's the lay?" "I can't tell you that, but Drake's going to double-cross you." Miles had tive went on: "There's a lot you'll have to take for granted, but you must use your own judgment about trusting me. If you show up with your little story before the right minute you'll queer the whole thing and we won't any of es get our bit, but it is only right that you should be on the spot to appear when I tip you off, and we two can rake in all the swag for ourselves." "Sounds fair eedugh," Maizie ad- mitted slowly, "You've come out hon- est, and strike me pink if I don't think. you're on the square , $'ith me." The arrival of their lunch put a temporary halt to further, discussion of the subject, but later' over the sweets Miss -Mazie Gray showed her- self to ben person of quick decision. "I've rade ;up my mind to put my money on you, old top!" she announc- ed, "When do you want me to go to Brooklea and where'll I put up? At the King's Arms? Wot price a widow named Mrs.''Iggins who keeps to 'er room until she 'ears from you?" (To he continued.) ward: "Mr. Roger!" He spoke in a low, compelling tone. "I am here to help you, If you realize what I am say- ing close your right eye!" A wave of exultation swept over him. The eye -lid quivered and slowly, flutteringly, it closed! "Good!—Now, sir, I can't take your message to your brother for you, the thing you were about to tell hire when you were overcome, but do you want. to see him? Can he guess the name you were trying to speak?" Miles waited but the eye stared un- blinkingly, although a spreading mois- ture had come into it and the pupil seemed to enlarge and darken with the effort at expression. "Is there something you think I can do?" The eye closed, more quickly this time. "Do you want anything? Is it in this room?" The lid remained open but the eye itself moved toward the right as though striving to see, through, the blank wall beside which the bed had been placed. Beyond the wail was the locked door behind which lay the relics of the past M the impotent guardianship of the woman centuries dead. "You mean your storeroom, don't you, sir?—You know that your belong- ings in here hare been searched?--• Do yeti know also that the lock of your storeroom has been tampered with?" e ' Miles drew a deep breath for at each question the eye had winked Marshmallow, light and creamy; crisp, vanilla - flavored cakewafer; fresh fruit jelly fillings and—a generously, / thick coating of pure Cocoanut Icing! Even more delicious than it sounds,, riCOCOANUT PUFFS In 'tie stogie or on the phone,` always ask for`: ChHi'ie's Biscuits hie Seatzdao4d ce415.3 Minard's. Liniment for Grippe. rapidly and an eager glint had shot across its clulled expanse. "The room 'h ys been ransacked, sir. Did you knew that?" The eyewidened and into ` it, name: a look of such utter despair that Miles obeyed a sudden impulse. "I found a new key in the lock and the door swinging open. The only thing that haen't been touched is that long box that looks like a mummy case. It's safe. still. I can fix that door so it can't be- opened again by anyone. Shall I do it, sir?" The eye winked spasmodically and: rested on his for an instant while a single tear welled' forth and rolled down the waxen cheek. CHAPTER XVI. The next day wits a busy one. At daybreak Miles presented himself at ISSUE No., 46—'28 Outdoors or indoors -= whatever your task. Let WRIGLEY'S refresh you—allay your thirst, aid appetite and digestion. Helps keep teeth dean. After Every Teleml EgkriSV4 Perhaps you didn't realize that Aspirin tablets are made to relieve the deep -down rheumatic aches as well as dispel the occa- sional headache. They do! In cases of neuralgia, neuritis, lum- bago; for those pains that penetrate one's very bones, Aspirin tablets offer real relief. Just be sure you are getting the real. Aspirin, with Bayer o}1 each tablet and on the box --with proven directions inside. All druggists. Physicians prescribe .Aspirin; ' it does NOT affect the heart 'Aspirin 10 the trade Marie (registered in Commie) Indlceteg Sayer Manufacture. While it In well known that Aspirin manna Bayer manufacture, to nseare the public agaWst lmJta- tfona tie'robicta wild 6o stamped with their Bayer Cross" trademark.. What of Future Of Autoruo a1 Car to I3e Is CertairA to Show' Improvements Ort Pre- sent Design What of the future,getamobile? To all those concerned with the pro, geese - and development of the motor ear the subject is ono that offers a•' remarkably interesting field of epeee llrtion'tind, prophecy. This, tee. despite•, the fact that during the past our years there has not been a truly radi- cal departure comparable to four- wheel brakes, for instance. The great wave • of refinement, how- ever, appears about ready to break and in the wake of its receding foam,. the prophet sees—well development. Refinement' has its limits ice motor car making as in any other fabrication• and design process. Then comes some- thing new and different. Within' a relatively short time, say the more spectacular •forecasters, to- day's motorist will look back on }Isis present experience and musingly say: "Remember back there when we - were calling 6,6 to 1 compressions high, thinking those big, bulky engines were smooth andpowerful and had. lots of acceleration, when front -wheel drive was a' dream andsuper-charg- ing a phantom? We certainly have come a long way since then." "And, shimmy," his companion will add. "You remember shimmy,' don't you?" The reason, for the anticipated change that makes the future oar a. subject of intense speculation is plain,. aud, becoming plainer. It is simply that the individual car maker in each. price field is coming to the conclusion that it is something different that will make to -morrow's prospect first sigh and then buy. Cars are selling. Be-. yond a doubt, they are selling. Yet,. the manufacturer reasons, "If I can get this much business by merely' keeping up with the procession, Wbet a lot more I could get by stepping out in front of it." When the car maker begins to net on this impulse, those radical changes will begin to arrive, That will be sooner than many anticipate, if the crystal gazers are right. Of the more radical deeiopinents foreseen in the near future, those which' have, to do with power and its application seem pre-eminent_ Gener- ically, they deal with two subjects about which the rector enthusiast has heard a lot of discussion—frank wheel drive and supercharging, The manner of transmitting power at present m'ay seem satiefaotory to the layman. ! To the engineer, it is "barbaric," to use a term heard in. several quarters of that scientific ephere. Transmission_ of the engine's power through the front wheels holds 18 possible advantages over the pre- sent method, according to a paper read by Herbert Chase, at a recent session of the Society of Automotive Engin- eers. Among these, he enumerates application of the delving force to the wheelsin the direction of their mo- tion; elimination of the long propeller shaft; lower upkeep coasts due to great accessibility and better lubrica- tion; freedom from ,shimmy tenden- cies; endercies; greater comfort; greater avail- able space for the body ofthe car. Supercharging is another develop- ment for which special hope is held.. Employment of a supercharger, the function of which is to supply the com- bustion chambers of the engine with e mixture adequate to the speed of operation—a thing that is not done with finality at present -would make possible the use of smaller engines with greater performance and econ- omy. The future car certainly is going to he an easier automobile to operate. Already there are evidences of the wider..uso of in the con- trols. Much of the easier steering of - the present car is due to the employ- ment of anti -friction bearings. One manufacturer has been successful in making his car's mechanical brakes fax easier to operate by putting this typo of bearing in the rocker arms. "To have Flu is bad grammar " MInard's Liniment for Backache. If we can give �to our office bullet: Inge something of the beauty of, Gothic cathedrals, or model otir banks and railroad gtations after area temples, wa shall, le time, provide a magnificent setting for the require- ments of modern civI11zetion. ^- Andrew W. Mellon.