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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1926-03-11, Page 2When Exposedto. Air tee loses Its strength and flavor. ' neo for that reason is never sold in hull. Your grocer sells this delicious blend. Try SALA A EWQLCIYMA1E 5" ey EDEN 0LRoTTS tuustRAvea `t 67iAiV;Severe RVtette ee- i BEGIN HERE TO -DAY.. ' Michael Pendean disappears and Robert Redmayne, uncle to Michael's Wife, Jenny, is suspected of the mur- der. Mark Brendan, criminal investi- gator, has charge of the case. Jenny goes to live with her uncle, Bendigo Redmayne, Robert appears near Bendigo's home and sends word to Bendigo to meet him in a nearby cave. Giuseppe Doria, who works for Bendigo, leaves his master at the meeting place. When Doria calls to bring Bendigo home he finds the cave empty and signs of a terrible struggle. Jenny marries 'Doria and they go to live in Italy, where Jenny's uncle, Albert Redmayne, lives, Robert is seen in Italy and Albert sends for Brendon and for Peter Germs, famous Amer- ican detective and dear friend to .A1 - beet. NOW GO UN W ITE THE STORY. "You're a detective inspector of , Scotland Yard," continued Ganns, "and Scotland Yard is still the high - 'Water mark of police organization in' the world. The Central Bureau in New•York is pretty close up, and I've nothing but admiration for the French and Italian Secret Services; but the fact remains; The Yard is first; and you've am, and fairly won your place there. That's a big thing and you didn't get it without some work and some luck, Brendon. But now --this Redmayne racket. in a word, your conduct of the affair don't square with your reputation. Your dope never cut any ice from the start.''.. Brendon did not hide his emotion, but kept silence while Mr. Ganns helped himself to a pinch of snuff. "A great many of your 'cast-iron facts' were no facts at alI." "What were they then?" "Elabora.te and deliberate fictions, Mark." He paused again, applied himself to his gold box, and then proceeded. "Now see how reason bears on the' evidence of Robert Redmayne and his trick acts since first he disappeared. A thing occurs and there aro only cer- tain Ways—very limited in number— ' to explain it. Either Robert Redmayne killed Michael Pendell)), or else ho did not. And if he did, he was sane or insane at the•tinte. That much can't be denied and is granted. If he was sane, he committed the murder with a motive; and pretty careful inquiry proves that no motive existed. Then, assuming him to be sane, he would not have committed such a murder. The alternative is that he was mad at the time and did homicide on Pendean while out of his mind. "But what happens to a madman. after a crime of this sort? Does he get off with it and wander over Eur- ope as a free man for a year? Granted the .resources of maniacal cunning and all the rest of it, was it ever heard that a lunatic went at large as this man (lid, and laughed at Scotland Yard's attempt to run him down and capture him? No, Mark, the man re- • (Tensible for these impossible things isn't mad. And that brings me back to my preliminary alternative, "I said just now, 'Either Robert Redmayne killed Michael Pendean, or else he did not.' And we may a(kl that either Robert Redmayne killed Ben- digo Redmayne or else he did not. But we'll stick to the first proposition for the moment, And the next -question you must asic yourself is this: `Did Robert Redmayne kill Michael Pen - dean?' That's where your 'facts, as you call them, begin to sag bit, my son. There's only one sure and certain' way of knowing that a man is dead; and that is by seeing his body and convincing the law, by the testimony of those who knew the man in life, that the corpse belongs to him and no- body else." They chatted for half nn hour and Mr. Ganns attained his object, which was to ling his companion back to the beginning of the whole problem that had brought them together. "To -night, in the train,' said Peter, "I shall ask you to give nee your ver- sion of the case from the moment that Mrs. Pendean invited you to take it up." CHAPTER XII. • PETER TAItSS THE. HEL3f. As the detectives traveled through night -hidden Kent and presently boarded the packet for Boulogne, Mark Brendon told his story with every de- tail for the benefit of Mr. Ganns. They chatted until the dawn, by which time their train had reached Paris, and an hour or two later they were on their way to Italy. Mr. Ganns had determined to cross the Lakes and arrive unexpectedly at Menaggio. He had. now turned his mind once more to the problem before him and spoke but little. He sat, with hie notebook open and made an occa- sional entry as he pursued his thoughts. Ile looked up presently. "The hard tiring before us is this," he said, "to got into touch with Robert Redmayne, or his ghost. There are two sorts of ghost, Mark; the real thing— in which you don't believe and con corning which I hold a watching brief; and the manufactured article." He broke off and changed the sub- ject. "What I'in doing is to compare your verbal statement with Mr. Re.dmayne's written communication, he said, pat- ting his book. "You'll find the story of Robert Red- mayne front childhood and the story of the girl, his niece, and of her dead father. Mrs. Doria's father was a rough customer—scorpions to Robert's whips apparently --a man a bit out of the common." "1 shall like to read the report" ' "It's valuable to us, because written without prejudice. That's where it beats your very lucid account, Mark. There was something running through your story, like a thread of silk in cotton, that you won't find here. It challenged mo from the jump, my boy, and I'm inclined to think that in that thread of silk I shall just find the rea- son of your failure, before I've wound it up." "I don't understand you, Genua." "You wouldn't—not yet. But we'll change the metaphor. We'll say there was a red herring drawn across the trail, and that you took the bait and, having started right enough, presently forsook the right scent for the wrong." Brendon made no reply, Neither hie conscience nor his wit threw any ight on the point. Then Peter, turn - ng to his notes, touched on a minor ncldent and showed the other that it admitted of a doubt. "D'you remember the night you left Crow's Nest' after your first visit? OIi'the way back to Dartmouth you udclen ly- saw Robert Redmayne stand ng by a gate; and when the moon- ight revealed you to him, he leaped way and disappeared into the -trees. Why?" "He knew tie." "How?" "We had met at Princetown and we had spoken together for sono minutes by the pool in Foggintor Quarry-, where I was fishing." "That's right. But he didn't know who you were then. , Even if he'd re- membered meeting you six months be- fore in the dusk at Foggintor, why should he think you were a man who was hunting him?" Mark reflected. 1 After Every Meal It doesn't take much to keep you in trim. Nature only asks a little help. i Wrigley's, after every meat, benefits teeth, breath, appetite and digestion. A Flavor for Every Taste. "That's true," he said. Peter did not pursue the subject. call Ile shut hie book; yawned, took snuff, •- -_ - and declared himself ready for a meal. ISSUE No: 11—'26. The, long day passed and bath men turned in early and slept till day- break Before noon they had left Baveno. on a 'steamer and were crossing the blue depths of Maggiore. At Luino they left the steamer and proceeded to Tresa. They Wound ever Lugano and camp In evening light to its norlhern shere, Theta once more they took train, climb- ed aloft, and fell at last to Menagglo en Como's brink. "Now," said Peter, "I guess we'll leave our traps here and beat It to Villa Pianezzo right away." Within twenty minutes their one- horse vehicle had reached Mr. Red - maple's modest home and they found three persons just about to take an evening meal. Simultaneously' there appeared Mr. Redmayne, his niece, and Giuseppe Doria; and while Albert, Italian fashion, embraced Mr. Ganns andP lanted a kiss upon his cheek) Jenny greeted Mark Brendon and he looked once roots into her eyes. Doria held back a little while his wife welcomed her uncle's friend; then he came forward, declared his plea -1 at meeting Mark again :and his belief that time wouldsoon reveal the: truth andeset a period to the sinister story of the wanderer. Mr. Redmayne was overjoyed at seeing Ganns and quite forgot the .Mr. Redmayne was overjoyed at seeing Gains. object of his visit in the pleasure of receiving him. "It has been my last and abiding ambition to introduce you to Virgilio Poggi, dear Peter, so that you, he and I may sit together, hear each other's voices and look into each other's eyes." Jenny and Assunta had hastily pre- pared for the visitors and now all sat at slrpper and Brendon learned that rooms were already taken for him and Mr. Ganns at the Hotel Victoria. "That's as may be," he declared to Doria's wife. "You will find, I think, that Mr. Gains is going to stop here, He takes the lead-in this affair." s After a cheerful ureal Peter abso- lutely declined to cross Como and visit Signor Poggi on the instant. t I've had enough of your lakes for a one day, Albert," he announced, "and I want to talk business and get a rough, general idea of what more is known than Mark and I ah•eadyknow. blow what has happened since you wrote Mrs: Doria?" • "Tell -them, Giuseppe,"' directed Mr. Redmayne. - "Your gift ---the gold box—take a pinch,"' said Peter holding out his snuff to the old bookworm; but the master of Villa Pianezzo refused and lighted 'a 'cigar•,, "I will have smoke' rather than dust, my precious ;Peter," he said. "The nlan has been seen twice since you heard from my wife,"..began Doris. ''once I met him face to face on the hill, where I walked alone to reflect on my own affairs; and once— the night before last—he came here. Happily Mr. Redinayne's room over- looks the lake and; the garden walls are high, so he could not reach it; but the bedroom of Mr. Redmayne's man, Ernesto,side diet stands is upon the s a up to the road "Robert Redmayne came at • two o'clock, flung pebbles ` at the window, wakened Ernesto, anddemandedto be let in :to see ,his brother. • But the Italian.had been warned exactly what "to say and do if such a thing hap- pened." (To be' continued.) The Singers. Men say the strings are broken - Of the magic lutes; of old. That heaven sendie no token Of its silver tongues and gold'; They° say that song is weaving No more the heart's repose, They say that song le grieving In the shadows and the snows. • They do. us wrong, for lowly Although our music he, It1 still le something holy And passionate and free; We press about the portal. That open on truth divine, Our theme is still immen tel, Though gone the mighty line. . Then wrong hist not, for lowly Although our music be, Is still is something holy, And passionate and free. —John Drinkw'ater. Misleading. "Self-preservation le the first law of life," runs the oldsayiug. .. ever wire there a more misleading statement•, This Is the waren when ca arelensness� and thin ice fill the papers' with news of drowning accidents. Hardly one account lacks word of some hitherto - inconspicuous hero- who risks and of- ten loses his life in an attempt at res- cue. And what shall we say' of the little nine-year-old girl who, though safe herself, rushes into a burning house and dies in trying to drag her baby brother to, safety? Christ's say- ing, ''Ole that Meath itis life," shows a far more penetrating knowledge than the Old cynical saying about self -pee -1 ervation, I feel the humility of one who knows 0o touch to be sure that he knows. nything.—Sir Hall Caine. plinerd's Lin:mcrt for dandruff. 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Let 'us; quite briefly go back from the familiar to the unfamdlktr, from the known to the unknown. The ac- commodation of a house of the present day comprise% a5 many an advertise- nient-atates, an entrance hall, recap - tion or living -rooms the kitchen r de- partment, bedrooms, and a bathroom. . , .If we go back a hundred yeasty we land there Is no ,bathroom; if two hundred, we notice no further essential ditference; if three hundred, ' that is, to the times of Elizahtth and Janes I., Ilia fourelepartments of hall) living -roosts, kitchen and bedrooms are si.ill there;but the' hall Is much large}' and more important inrelation to the others. •Diu•ing this penetration of the pant the houses are so far all cheer -EA, with plenty of windelve. If we go baok front Illlizebetle to the early years o1: her 'father, we find much the seine; kind of acco'nmada,tiou, but it Is less cheerful inasemeh.h:s•the windows are smaller; from which it May be infer- red that there is a need Tor 'precau- tions against attack. This 'need in- creases tlsa farther we go, and the ac- commodation becomes ever more re- stricted, until at length, in the twelfth century ,there are hardly any wiadowe visible In the outside walls, and those are of the smaller size; the bedrooms and Irving -rooms have Omelet entirely dlssp'pated, and practically nothing re- mains but the hall and the kitchen. The Hall to Live In. The hall and kitchen; the hall to live In, the kitchen In whish to cook the food . . - those appear to have constituted the frreduclble mini- mum necessary to man 'when he had emerged from caves, earthworks; and wigwams. And of the two the hall was the more important; it was, in fact, the kernel of the house, strong enough to prated the bshavtt- antse, large enough to hold then.. It$ overwhostntn5 importance is shown by the feet that the house itself became known as "The Hall," the home of the chief palm), In the patieh, who domin- ated the surrounding district, and to whom much 0f it beioIlged. These castles, then, of which we see the ruins, conalsteti principally of the hall,supplemented by subsidiarry apart- ments; so did the manor'houses. As to the difference between one form of house and the other, allthat need be saki for the present purpose is that al- though both were devised to resist at- tack, the castle was the more elabor- ately protected. The heart of the -Caw - tie was its keep, and It is the ruins of the keep which usually attract the at- tention of the traveller and 41.1T vague ftelInge rf romance in his bs^enst. The keep stood within a strong wall form- ing a oourtyard•, and it was the place where the family lived, POT the sake of compact esa and eeeurlty its rooms were placed one over the other,' the principal room being the hall. 'If there' were any apeoes which could be re- garded"its bedrooms they were merely. Iiitl•e chambers oonbrlved in the very thick walls; but the household at large used the hall for sleeping as web as fee eating.—J, Alfred Gotch, in "Old English Houses." The Travelers. It is the function of th•e,poor To wish the Itch goodby, OArenore to stanch and wave a hand, A tear drop ih the eye, As =tweed bound goes Uncle John Or good, Aunt Mary Ann; With one brave yell, to shout "Fare. web" And, "Write ue when you can:" '.1l;o rich may take their pleasure trips, The peer at home must stay. 'rosy sigh In vain, the ship or train 'fakes none of them away. tut net the gate is good Aunt Irate, Who Journeys South to -night. Ve kiss and cry end say "Good -by" Aud "Don't forget to write," Now Uncle Al Sete Out to -day Around the world to roans. ind here :I stand and wave my hand, Compelled to stay at home" Ile lir feel the Balt breeze on kris face, He'll sail ,bite seven ewe." `Crotid-byl" I'll shout and turn about A brother to the theee, Cabin Liners to EUROPE ft1fOUS "(7" steamers on favorites among thousands of dlses sniniurg. travelers -haute cal eceommodeiloas, ex.ellert, culebee, •pltentivo service. ',regent *nee tittle* inmate Cherbourg and Seethempton "Tl s 05tnPeri Roan" ROYAI Tk.itor.taf,tls.S•rsnK)'nctttrUa tl;Itihammdcon, Ines,tt on .aN;oadnarrtt orL,s1Agno And yet --who knot/e?--the day Mai conte When .travel ehail be mine; I, too, may ride upon ,the tide When I am fifty-nine. And then when 1 am outward hound May those who shout "Good -by" Turu back tin shore and work one* mire 1'i'ithotrt to great a sigh.