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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1928-12-06, Page 2v `abst astransier, "Mortes, take Gray into the draw- on them for money and increase your e room," Miles ordered. "Farrell, demands until yon trod blest them 11 eip the right sleeve of the man white ," ho calls himself Andrew Drake and y ,lie oil' the bandage." CHAPTER X11;. A gasping cry came from Jerushe et Miss Hawks moaned; "That was what deceived me 'so was petting on ruhl p g xc a g y when he is coat out in the garden the first ay I called!" �+ odd in my first talk with Wells and The psuedo Andrew set his te_.h little thee Patricia that Italian snit ut he Made no shoe of rosistanco i Roger should both have made pnbdfc exhibitions of themselves, but An- 'drew's fit of supposed insanity took place safe at home, for the benefit of one of the servants alone, "When I had made up inymind' tbat insanity played no part in the strange events the only alternative to consider was blackmail, and it must "What was the first thing put yell on the right track, Owen lad?" Scot- tie puffed contentedly on his pipe• "I think it was Andrew himself," Miles responded. "It struck Hie as ,hen the bandage was removed and n thestill inflamed surface of his rm appeared the blurred, inter - wined letters "II" and "0". "You thought they wereyour own filtials, did you not, Miss hawks? Niles asked gently. "Forgive me for. e -opening an old wound, but that ouch of. sentiment for a time blinded have been for some mtheeeetion o? ,ou to certain Inconsistencies which even crime committed in the far past. he Drake fancily themselves failei Right then the solution was in my e note?" She nodded dumbly in an obvious Meet to control her emotion and the leteetive went on: "In reality the initials are his own, as far as the police records of Aus- tralia show • His name- is Hugh Os - grasp, for you had learned that in their youth Roger had been interested in chemistry, dyeing and in photo- graphy, that Hebart was a pen -and - ink artist and Andrew had worked for a time in a pulp manufacturing plant. The old chest of metal junk borne and, he, too, is badly wantedwhich we carted away from under but not foethe same crime as Idstthe floor of the sunnier -house and de - present accomplice. Will you tell strayed the moaning after we wound Wells and your old friends bora up the ease, Scottie, did not contain Mr.h when the. first doubt of Inc identity. the remains of a printing' press as you entered your mind?" I "I called here yesterday, but as I surmised, but the relic of a machine for making a replica of the -silk grew reminiscent and he betrayed an threaded paper the government uses utter ignorance of She incidents I for genuine greenbacks and had, been mentioned a wild suspicion came into Ian original invention of the real An - my nand. n-my'naind. I spoke of my initials on drew, This arm and though he swore that he "It didn't come to me even then had liad them Catooed there in rein- that the truth was staring me in the enibrenee of me I was still "neon- face until. you brought me that winced. I felt that I must be going twenty -dollar bill Rip got knifed over niad and yet I had to make sure. I and I found it was counterfeit. It was laid' a deliberate trap for him and he scorched at one end, and knowing that fell into it!" Rip must have found it somewhere I Miss Hawks rose. "Now may I concluded that it had been on the go? I carne as I promised, but I I dust -heap where Miss Drake mucit can endure no more, Jerusha, forgive it the ashes me, but surely it is better that you know the truth!" "Tbe truth is always best, Ora." Miss Drake rose and a stern, Spartan gravity had robbed her set features of all other emotion. "Tonight shall see the end of more than one living lie!" John Wells escorted the trembling woman to her waiting car and scarce- ly had the attorney reappeared when the: imposter broke out with an oath. "You're right it will, Miss Jerusha Drake! Lord, what, a six months I've put in, in this pious, hypocritical household!—Why, you're all worse crooks than rue, every one of you, and I've got the goods on you! We could helve fixed this little matter up f1.lend- Saving Bits of Soap pieces of toilet soap mar 'lee Aid.' vageil and utilized if the following plan is carried out. Keep a jar in the bathroom' closet for collecting the broken bits that wined go down the i drains to be wasted otherwise. It is i surprising how fast these small pieces accumulate, especially in a. barna ' wh9re there are several small eli11- � dren, `When a oupful or more has been collected, put the pieces into A stew,' I ran with sufficient water to allow 1 'the mass to dissolve, Place it over a 1 slow fire stirring and breaking up !the bits until all may be molded to- g'ether. It is not necessary that all 'the pieces be dissolved if there is suf- l 1 Perfume 'nay be added, and if a bit of coloring is put in the children will be pleased with individual cakes and the washing of shall grimy hands be more speed- ily and satisfactorily accomplished. If the solution seems 'too thin, stir in enough oatmeal to thicken it and re move it from the fire. Pour it into small molds or fashion it into cakes with the aid of dry oatmeal, and set' it away to harden. The oatmeal has a softening effect . when the soap is used. When the cakes are rolled In cornmeal it tends to cut the dirt from M, Georges Sean Knight, near Minis- ter Plenipotentiary of France to Can- ada, photographed at the Windsor Street Station, Montreal, en route by 'from the Canadian Pacific Railway Er New York to Ottawa. ficient soap jelly to hold the pieces o is cake. together r r n a s g resh and his only thought was to get home and warn his brothers, but he was stricken with the word unuttered upon his lips." Miles rose. "That papyrus was curious, wasn't it?" . "It was an example of remarkably poor judgment on Rogers part, pic- ture writing or no, if it was as you said, e. complete record of the way they made their counterfeit money," remarked Scottie. "It was more than that; an ex- ample of the Drake conscience work- ing overtime," replied Miles, "Roger have thrown among had designed - it in the nature of a which she cleaned out of the drawl ! confession and meant to leave it on 1y all 'round if you'd been sensible, but, e.s it is, I've nay own story to tell, and by —, 171 tell it!" Miles did not look at Scottie, but seated himself with a laugh. "Going to try to stick to that far- fetched blackmailing scheme you and that previous partner of yours hatch- ed when you found that Andrew Drake had left relatives here with money and social position to lose?" he asked easily. "Farrell, you can join Marks and his pian till I call you. conceived this horror would not have Mr. Wells, listen to this for the wild- descended upon us" She had known est cock-and-bull yarn that two cheap I from the start what her brothers were which has been in progress since Oc- darts below elbows with turn -hack crooks ever conceived! hire Hugh Os- doing, None of her brothers knew tober 7, is at last beginning to sub- cuffs. It is smartly fashioned of pat - borne, here, is wanted in Victoria for until just before the explosion came side. Reports from the inland fast- •teined wool jersey in coppery red blackmail and forgery now. He won't that she had been wise all the time; Hess of Abyssinia, state that the ca. tones with plain jersey in harmoniz- be extradited until he has been tried they thought she believed that myth- cal city of Addis Abbeba far more ing shade used for collar, and cuffs And served his terms here for fraud, 'cal tale of an inheritance and I could than month has been giving the "The with black silk crepe tie. Tweed, plaid attempted blackmail, attempted ab- kick myself for accepting it without nn. tris death to his intimate friend, Pro - room fireplace after I had seen her burning something there at midnight. "I recalled her words: 'Ashes, every one. If only the first had never been A gasping cry came frons Jerusha. The subtle !delicacy in' everything Japanese ap- pears to b g flavour of her lnconn- ears also in the ca tivatin� parable first -crop as. Only first -crop leaves are used in this new Japan green tea. Armada Treasure Sought by Women London, ----Another treascre hunt, in whioh two women'have an interest, is about to begin. With new and im- proved epplianeee a fresh attack is to• be inade on the Spanish treasure gal loan, the Almiranto de Florencia,. which lies in sixty feet of water in ` tato Tebermoxy Bay, Scotland, One of the women is Lady Edith, Fox•hitt, daughter of the eighth Mar, guess of 4�ueeneberry, and the other is Mrs, .:Leask of Dyniol:urelr, Kent, who before her marriage was a diver ---"-" and has actually wanted an the deck of this sunken treasure ship. These - - two women are co-operating flnaueial- +resh gheosgi&; l;'@4` !�i0R4 .�s, has not only the soft and lasting lye with a private syndicate to heeded eced his �� $ �°iA+ sheen, but also e d k h been !Arlie endeavor to recover from tha drop, ri �o1 the lustre width anti- Colonel K. M. Foss net @� el ��fi.D�i � ing for. years to obtain." some, i , °t g_ The producers state teat by -pro- million •dollars' worth of 1 eves, plate ,g°;l�k§,��� ducts of the new plant include parch•, unci ducats With it are said to bulge.. meet, building materials will The Almiranto de Floieucia, sup - 1 t tl Dngtish soil mi ant de s Substitute Plant Discovered In t apo pounds of tibio an posed to pay p Subs a corona Seen as to acre. pro- clay at the bottom of r Recapture of Trade "The Observer" .states that clic pi y recap cotton substitute leave,since 1088. The story goes thatclur- ficial silk pro nee s have ten to fifteen of the 1 0 ' al t f i�aC egt�l. di L r als and certain tins Spanish vessel drugs and that the hi of the ill- produce 800 0 fated Spanish Armada, has lain in the � cbermory Ray, t ioers.• of the London;—A substitute cotton et adequate fnaucial backing and that ing the iliutht Of the Gng11s1Aflcet•. twelve cents a pound; compared present to, no monetarY interest therein is avail- oda from Drake } the general public. the galleon put into the bay for pro- pietwenty cents, which is ,the present able to visions. The cam Key mander, however,. price for the genuine article, will ber them but supplied to the cotton mills of the Bri- not only refused to pay fa Anglo-French Friendship actually conk captive a Highlander us• small hands that have perhaps made. mud pies, Since it is not well to nub, laundry soap with the bits of toilet soap, a wive shaker may be kept by thekit- chen sink for the collection ofbits that may be used in dish washing. fessor Masterson, though when Os- borne ransacked the storeroom he hoped to find something more tan- gible." "There is one thing that still ie dark to me." Scottie pulled at his pipe, and finding it dead laid it on the mantel, "Hove did Osborne and his confederate know that the paper- making machine was buried under the sernmer horse?" - "They only knew it was hidden somewhere, for the real Andrew must have tallied a bit more in his dying ravings than Osborne told and I fancy they hoped to find the whole para- phernalia so that they could make some more of the queer and shove it themselves." (The End.) A Real Gorge Ethiopia Feasts Forty Days . As "King of Kings" Is Crowned London—Feasting and rejoicing in Ethiopia in honor' of the coronation of Ras Tatari as "fling of Icings," 7..ezahs 0A. Airke Yogi( lists Midlands next summer, according a Hostage This highlander is slad I an article which the conservative London Referee (cons.); The eY- i t steel parties to drive ato have ha and unseusational "Observer" recent- forts of interested ly published: wedge into Anglo-French friendship the vessel as it sailed away. The newspaper, declaring that Lan -have Mee rendered nugatory by Lord This stogy is based apparently on, p P , raehi,•a snit Yorkshire will be placed Cushendun's unequivocal announce• the report that divers as longagoas in a position next summer to meet all meld that the Detente Cordiale has in reaching thewreck othe deck blown. c,..,.i...eeee and to recapture the Far never been dissolved, We never for a 1661' found parth, however,15 more Eastern market, asserts that between moment. believed otherwise, for an al- away, three told four million pounds of this Banco cemented 'by the blood of two likely to be that the Alirtrent0 de artificial cotton Is now being grown million' men shed in a common cause Floren iseared ofethe same ate. e as s in Essex and Sussex and that the crop oannot be lightly oral=en i the Moreover, tai and many other attempt to escape by going round. d his revenge by blowing up• of Great Br n will be available in July, 1929. the fortunes fel el by present fines the coast of Scotland and down Secret Taken From Birds. France, as d According to D. A. Walters, director, ncial, economic and political condi- through the Irish Sea, the Armada. Ao g tions, run parallel and meet, under was attacked by a succession of vie - of the company which is marketing- pertain contingencies, converge and lent gales and the shores of Scotland the new product, this cotton substi- tute unite. and Ireland were strewn with wrecks. tnte ivas discovered eight years ago •---se.------- of r,.-- Of the 129 large vessels that left in British Guiana, "At that time,"Mr. Spain only 64 reached home again. Walters is quoted as saying; "we dis- The Ali 64 rea de Florencia has building their nests ar +" been the objective of adventurous covered birds. g' leda material kept seew resemb-h�- A, . treasure hunters for centuries;; but led cotton: We kept close watch and fI .f the results have not proved valuable found the birds picking' a certain A i tri enough to pay them for their efforts. plant and stripping and treating it. of The hunters of 1661 thought them- "We brouglltlre seeds and roots of selves. near success. The vessel was this plant to this country and have 4 not so deeply embedded in the clay as grown it on soil that is little fit for "•; w , p l it is dee and they reached the poop anything else to a been of five to " 'wl under which the treasure was sup- , t seven feet. It has been brought to \ � � posed to lie. Unfortunately for them, such state re perfection here that E their operations_ did not meet with: the the FOR CLASSROOM. 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Then the curtain was -cab- guns ture, but do not create by Political Mem- drawn and a salute of twenty-one means associations of people whose guns was fired. legal function is to be virtuous above g, their fellows, and to show this by Senate Ban to Be Appealed running' about until they can dis- cover obscene passeges in books and London—The Judicial Committee give publicity to them.. . We grow of the Privy Council has granted five nobly like what we love, and ignobly' duction of bliss Patricia and several! verification, but Wells had taken it other little items growing out of this for granted and so did I!" case if Mr. Hobart Drake wishes to "It's no worse than me!" Scottie prefer the charges. How the private remarked consolingly, "Why didn't papers and letters of the real Andrew Drake came into the possestian of Hugh Osborne is a question which the • next official cable will answer." "Oh you needn't wait for that!'' I see that tattoo mark on Andrew's arm when he took o his coat there in the garden just before Miss Hawks appeared? To be sure, my back was "Andy 10 and everybody. How did you Osborne remarked sullenly.guessthat the Hawks woman knew and I were friends. He was taken tndrew for an impostor?" "I happened to be in the hall when she ran out of the hoose like a mad- woman after a tete-a-tete with An- drew and the next minute he upset down with the fever and I nursed him till the end, but before he died he left me everything. It was all fixed up legal and proper by his own wish and I can prove it, thovgh there was little the table and scalded his arm. It enough to leave, for the sheep ranch wasn't a bad burn and it occurred to teas a wretched faaure, and he'd been me that it was just an excuse for a too proud to write the truth home. bandage!" Before he died, too, when the delirium Miles' face sobered. "Gray was the was on him, he told me how he and real brains of the scheme. It was he • his- brothers hacl flooded the country who wrote that devilishly satirical here with counterfeit bills long ago, lecture and forced poor Roger by butt never meant to make use of that allone-mous threats. to deliver it; he then. When I fell in with Gray in 'who wrote the other anonymous let - Melbourne about a year and a half ters, one of which he slipped into the ago, I remembered how much I looked house by means of a French window tke Andy, and Gray and I—well, we which Andrew had left open for him SEM there was a good thing in it." and left on the hall table the night of "So Gray came on here ahead and my arrival, to be mixed with the mail for a year paved the way by getting next morning, when I concluded It it with Mr. Roger Drake and then was seme member of tee household. you appeared as Andrew and a few He disguised his voice for the tele- • weeks ago you began to work secretly phone threats which so agitated the with your accomplice to terrorize the family, but he cannot figure out how taniily while yourself pretending to Roger Drake penetrated his habitual be a victim as well!" Miles declared. "ton knew you couidn't get away With that accusation of counterfeit- ing if it came to a showdown, for the ravings of a man in delirium wouldn't be taken seriously, but you and Grey knew, too, that if you forced the men i1f the'family by anonymous threats of notoriety to commit ridiculous pub - lie acts you could tool put the screws II'C,IJ1 „NO. 48—'28 disguise." woolen, wool repps, homespun, kasha, wool crepe, velveteen, silk crepe, rayon crepe, printed sateen, printed pique and linen also appropriate for this at- tractive one-piece dress for the little a sae yield is greater than that of the approval of the local, clan and they original weed." were away. Termed Adaptable In Fabric. were Sincedriven then divers have Drought to The "Observer" says that this art'- the cefthea number of objects, in- cluding ficial cotton can be used by the exist- the sur a piece of silver and gold ing cotton machinery without surra- plate, a Venetian bowl, some Spanish lik coins, daggers and swordbelts, and tion; that it can be blended, lilts real stone cannon balls, cotton, with artificial silk„ silk and 1 In this latest attempt divers are wool; that l will take all dyes ap- using a three -to a diving bell fitted plied to ordinary cotton and that it Hampering and retarding the Pro- usingwith windows and power - have only one third as much dye ;grecs of every proieet in the world's ful.el plate -glass ,lights. Laity Edith Fox - as coal cotton. history, the doubters in the ranks Pitt isa very hopeful that with this "Already weaving Muses in the hate been more dangerous than the and other modern appliances to be Norah and the Midlands have tested foe: George Y. Hammond, employed the expedition will meet with Fox - this new product," the "Observer" — further says, "and are satisfied that it. Check Colds with Minard's' Liniment. ester. She even thinks it possible• that the shale galleon FOR THE SAME REASON, NO DOUBT She: Why do so many men like to get into a fight? Ile: Why do so many women e to get into a- bargain sae? elr . St. a maybe raised. "How wonderful that would be!" she said in an interview, "Imagine gazing at a ship of the Great Arma- do, brought up from.the bottom of the- ses! Imagine handling the Armada treasures! "Legend says that the galleon holds a crown and sceptre blessed by the Pope, which she carried from Spain for the coronation of a Spanish I{ii.g in England" She added that the work was in expert hands, the 'read diver being a man who has been at work at Scapa. Flow helping to raisethe sunken Ger- man battleships. Mrs, Leask had a narrow escape. form death when, as a diver, she des- cended to the wreck. She found a leak in bei diving suit, and when, in response to her signals, she' was brought to the surface, her suit was. nearly full" of water. Helping the Poor Friendly Encouragement and Employment Better Than Giving Money Kind-bearte'd people who have a. natural desire to help the poor should be careful not to weaken or destroy that splendid seirit that still prevails in many humble cremes—the heroism tbat would endure hunger rather than sink t9 beggary. This, save J. 1, Kelso, is the great danger in all social welfare. Friendly coulisel and practical help in securing employ- meet mploymeat is, he considers, the proper Y to assist the poor in maintaining their independence and self-respect. If re- lief is easily granted and coal, etc., supplied on request, immediately the' thrift and enterprise, not. only of the recipients but of tiie neighbors, is. Placed in jeopardy. To preserve a Proper relationship relief should be given in the form of work and not as a gift. But above all, he concludes, friendliness, with its uplifting stim ulna', is the greatest boon that can be conferred on poets who are in need., Success I1 .you wish euccoes in life, matte• perseverance your bosom friend, ex- perienee your wise counsellor, eau - tion your elder brother, and hope your Verdian genius, ceremonies was a seven-day feast, There was a continuous stream of cattle, sheep and countless loads of grain and native beverages from the rural parts to the city for the garga- ntuan affair. The entire Abyssinian army—and almost every able-bodied "Roger did, thee,?" asked the other, representative women et Canada leave to appeal to the 'Privy Council from the judgment of the Supreme Court of Canada, which ruled that women were not "persons" under the mean - leg of the British North America Act and therefore were not eligible for the Canadian Senate. l reason •:for it came over. hien With a �tM1inard's Liniment for Asthma. "Oh, yes, it wag the shock of that which caused his stroke, "Gray had a sort of half -labora- tory back of his eottage and he was puttering about in it when Roger called, Just as he approached, Gray, removed his wig—and Roger saw that the elderly naturalist was really yours man i in disguise The logical like what we,bate, Tbe soul has laws Just as unalterable as the laws of re,- tune. "Jaolt says that when we're married: he's never going' to allow me out of his sight, "1 shouldn't worry about that, dear. 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