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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1926-04-01, Page 2Qji) MAYN 0 Ir. ..,or, ,,,,....... _ el."'„e- EDEN PKILPOYTS Rt. USTRAT CD (E, ay n.w; SATrE Relates BEGIN HERE -TO -DAY. Mark Brendon, criminal inve:sti- gater,'is.engaged by Jenny Iendean to solve the murder of her husband, Michael. Jenny's uncle, 'Robert Red- mayne, disappears and is suspected of killing Michael. Jenny geee to live with her uncle, Bendier Redmayne. Robert appears in the neighborhood and sends word to Bendigo to come to his hiding place. Giuseppe Doria, who works for Ben- digo, takes his master to Robert and leaves the brothers together. When Berta calls to bring Bendigo home he finds an empty y eavein which is evi= Bence of a terrible struggle. Jenny marries Dories and they go to live in Italy, where Jenny's uncle, Al- bert Redmayne, lives. When Robert is seen in Italy, Brendon and: the fa- mous American detective, Peter Ganns renew investigations. NOW GO ON VITA THE STORY. They had reached the shrine --a lit- tle alcove in .a rotting, mass of brick and plaster. Beneath it extended •a stone seat wheron the wayfarer might kneel or sit. They sat down and Doria began to smoke his usual Tuscan cigar. His depression increased and with it Breit- don's astonishment. The man appear- ed to be taking exactly that attitude to his wife she had already suggested toward him. "11 volts • soiolto ed i penaiei stretti," declared Giuseppe with gloom. "That is to say 'her counten- ance may be clear, but her thoughts are dark'—too dark to tell me—her husband." "Perhaps she fears you a little. A woman is always helpless before a man who keeps his own secrets hid- den." "Helpless? Far from it. She is a self-controlled, efficient, hard-headed woman. Her loveliness is a curtain. You have not yet got behind that. You 'loved her, but she did not love you. She loved me and married me. And it is I who know her character, not you. She is very clever and pre- tends a great deal more than she feels. If sho makes you think she is unhappy and helpless, she does it on purpose. She may be _unhappy, be- tause to keep secrets is often to court unhappiness; but she is not helpless et all. Her eyes, look helpless; her mouth never. There is power and will between her teeth," "Why do you speak of secrets?" "Because you did. I have no sec- rets. It is Jenny, my wife, who has secrets, I tell you this. She knows ail about the red man! She is, as deep as hell," Brendon could hardly believe his ears, but the Italian appeared very much in earnest. He chattered on for some time. Then he looked at his watch and declared that he must des- cend. "The steamer Is coming soon," he said. "Now I leave you and I hope that I have done good. Think how to help me and yourself. What she now feels to you I cannot tell. Your turn may come. I trust so. I am not at all jealous, But be warned. This red man—he Is no friend to you or ace. You seek him again to -day. So be it. And if you find him, he care- ful of your skin. Not that a man can protect his skin against fate. We meet at supper." He swung away, singing a canzonet, and quickly vanished, while Brendon, overwhelmed by this extraordinary conversation, sat for an hour motion- less and deep in thought. He considered now his own course of notion and presently proceeded to the region in which Robert Redmayne had been most frequently reported. Brendan climbed steadily upward and presently sat down to rest upon a little, lofty plateau where, in the mountain scrub, grow lilies of the val- ley and white sun -rose. Suddenly Mark became aware that he was being watched end found him- self face to face with the object of his search, Robert Redmayne stood sep- N. a'•-` It makes them smile -- it's sure worth while. ISSUE No. 14-'20. e o ' arated from him by a distance of thirty yards behind the boughs of a breast -high tiguli. Put it appeared that the watcher desired ne closer contact,' He turned and ran, heading upward for a wild tract of stone and scrub that spread beneath the last precipices of the mountain. Mark strove to run the other down as speedily as possible, that he might close, with strength still sufficient lo win the inevitable, battle that, must follow, and effect a capture. He was disappointed, however, for while still twenty yards behind and forced to make only a moderate pro- gress over the rocky way he saw Rob- ert Redmayne suddenly stop, turn and lift a revolver. As the red man tired, the other flung up his arms, plunged convul- sive u forward on his face, gave one env1- sive tremor through all his limbs, and moved no more. The big man, pant- ing from his exertions, approached only to see that his fallen victim show- ed no sign -of life, the other, with his face amid thealpine flowers, his arms outstretched, his hands clenched, his body stili, blood running. from his mouth. The conqueror took careful note of the spot in which he stood and bring- ing a knife from his pocket blazed the- steen of .a young tree that rose not very far from his victim. Then he disappeared and peace reigned above the fallen. Many hours passed and then, after night had flooded the hollow, there sounded from close at hand strange noises and the intermittent thud of some metal weapon striking the earth. The din ascended from a rock which As the red man fired; the other plunged forward on his face. lifted its gray head above a thicket of juniper; and here, while the flat sum- mit of the boulder began to shine whitely under the rising moon, a las: tern flickered and showed two shadows busy above the ecavation of an oblong hole.They mumbled together and dug in turn. Then one darkfigure came out into the open, took his bear- ings, earings, flung lantern light on the blazed tree trunk, and advanced to a brown, motionless hump lying hard by. The dark, approaching figure saw the object of his search and came for- ward. His purpose was to bury the victim, whom he had lured hither be- fore destroying, and then remove any trace•that might linger upon the spot where the body Iay. ilo bent down, put his hands to the jacket of the motionless man, and then, as he exert- ed his strength, a strange, hideous thing happened. The body under his touch dropped to pieces, Its -head rolled away; its trunk became dis- membered and he fell backward heav- ing an amorphous torso into the air,. for, exerting the needful pressure to move a heavy weight, he found none and tumbled' to the ground, holding up a coat stuffed with grass. The man was on his feet in an in- stant, fearing an ambush; but aston- ishment opened his mouth. "Corpo di Bacao!" he cried, -and the exclamation rang in a note of some- thing like terror against the cliffs and upon the ear of his companion. Nei- ther rascal delayed a moment. Their' Mingled steps instantly rang out; then the clatter faded swiftly upon the `Melt and silence returned. For ten minutes nothing happened. Next, out of a lair not fifteen yards from the distorted dummy, rose a figure that shone white as' snow under the moon. Mark Brendon approached the snare that he himself had set, shook the grass out of his coat, lifted his hat from the ball of leaves it cov- ered, and presently drew on his'knick- erbockers, having emptied them of their stuffing. He was cold and calve. IIe had learned more than he expected to learn; for that startled exclamation left no doubt at all concerning one of the grave -diggers. It was Giuseppe Doria who had come to move the body, and there seemed little doubt that Brendan's would-be murderer was the ether, The operations of the detective from the moment that he fell headlong, ap- parently to rise no more, may bo briefly chronicled. With a loaded revolver still in his opponent's hand, he could take no risk and fell accordingly. Brendon he'd simulated death for a while, but when ands are an index of charac ter lee • yours beautifui se LUX or-- � d shwashin�� 9' Lever Brothers Limited Toronto satisfied of his assailant's departure, presently rose, with no .worse hurts than a bruised face, a badly bitten tongue, and a wounded shin. Mark •guessed that until darkness returned he.ppsight expect to be undies tinted. He walked back; therefore, to his starting-plage, and found the packet of food which he had brought with him and a flask of red wine left beside it. After a meal and a pipe he made his plan and presently stood again on the rough ground beneath.. the cliffs, where he had pretended so realistical- Iy to perish. He expected Redmayne to return and guessed that another would return with him, His hope was to recognize the accomplice. With infinite satisfaction he heard Giuseppe's voice, and even an element of grim amusement attended the Italian's shock and his subsequent snipe -like antics as he leaped to safety before an anticipated revolver bar- rage. CHAPTER XV. A GHOST. The next morning, while he rubbed his bruises in a hot bath, Brendon. de- termined upon a course of'action. He proposed to tell Jenny and her hus- band exactly what had happened to him, merely concealing the -end of the story. Ile breakfasted, lighted his pipe, and limped over to Villa Pianezzo. He was not in reality very lame, but accentu- ated the stiffness. Only Assunta hp - peered, though Beendolt's eyes had narked Doria and Jenny together in the neighborhood of the silkworm house as he entered the garden. '•He asked for' Giuseppe, and, having left Brendon in the sitting -room of the villa, Assunta deeartede Almost im- mediately afterward Jenny greeted hint with evident pleasure but reprov- ed him. "We waited an hour foie.supper," she said, "then Giuseppe would wait no longer. I was beginning to get frightened acid 1 Have been frightened all night. I am thankful to see you, for I feared something serious might have happened." "Something serious did happen. I've got a strange story to telt Is your husband within reach? I•Ie must hear it, too, I think. IIe may be in some danger as well as others." She expressed impatience and shook her head. "Can't you believe me? But of course you can't. Why Should you? Doria in danger! However, .if you want him, you don't want me, Mark." It was the first time that she had thus addressed him and his heart throbbed; but the temptation to con- fide in her lasted not a moment. (To be continued.) - Truthful. - "Did your last employer give you a reference?" "Yes, but it doesn't seem to be any good," "What slid he say'?" "I3e s -aid I was one of the best leen his firm had ever turned. out," Minerd's Liniment used by physicians. The Tourisrt—"I have been, nisi en- joying the w ndet'fnl 'mountain moon - thine with your (laughter." The Meuntairesr•---"That gul's too doggon•ed careless! Some of these days she's a-gola' ter give a drink o' that stuff tg a revenue officer," • Exact. Your wife looks etttnning to -night. Her gown is a poem." "What do you mean, poem?" re• piled the struggling author, "That gown Is two poems and a abort story." 124d' THE NEW COSTUME BLOUSE. . Fashioned of. a lovely printed and bordered, material, Is this overblouse of, Russian influence that is almost 'a dress, so long in length is it. Fine tucks define the hips, and create just enough fulness to give the new blouse effect at the sides. Note the smart arrangement of the tie collar at Aeck and front opening back: to form a V. A sleeve extension is joined to the kimono shoulders ,and gathered into bands at . the wrists. No. 1246 is in sizes 84, 36, 38 40.,and 42 inches bust. Size 36 bust requires 2% yards 40 - inch all plain material, or 2% yards 54 -inch bordered material as illustrat- ed. Price 20 cents, The secret of distinctive dress lies in good taste rather than a lavish.ex- penditure of money. Every woman should want to make her own clothes, and the home dressmaker w1:1 find the designs illustrated in our new Fashieu Book to be practical' and simple, yet maintaining the spirit of the mode'of the moment. Price ofthe book 10c the copy. HOW TO ORDER PATTIcRNS. Write your name and address plain- ly, giving number and size of such patterns as you want, Enclose 20c in stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap it carefully) for each number, and address your order to Pattern Dept, Wilson Publishing Co., e3 West Ade- laide St., Toronto. Patterns sent by. return mail. MInard's Liniment for colds. • • Not Fond of Mush, Reggie --"What's the natter, Miss Cutting? You look as if you would like to eat me alive." Miss Cutting -•--"You're tnisdaken, Mr. Sapp, I dislike mush.' • Mother. Mother -- How sweet the childish tongue Lisps me it tipeaks,the name! Mother, the theme by poets sung For loveas well as fame; Mother, with quiet carnradery tone The eager 60.o°1 boys say;_ Mother, the feeble quavering moan From ebbing life away. Sad the young,lile whose Mother -Mee 1•'anislies aiLtoo soon; No richer gift comes from Above, Tis Heaveu's greatest boon. Happy th•o years of childhood fleet. Of youth and manhood bola, Yett know a Motlle.t"s love complete, Greater than wealth untold. shining anal soft her loving eyes Jugs, as in days of' yore, An added glean of Paradise Sent from deal blies•fuI shore. Tender nand lc]nd fire gentle. tare, 'i'he 1]ngering cubic so fair Anti Heaven's no etrango 'and far-off Since Mother entered, there, —Laura• G Burroughs 610 Not discard That Good- Coat and Vest Because the Pants Are Worn, Gail sr too vest, sr pante, nr o i,.rnSlo.. Wo colleen cambia end price et' now pants tomate:, for your approval, THE PANT SHOP 22 Parkfield Ave. Toronto. Quaiity- • --Always �' Mefai' x H718 The choice teas used exclusive. ly in Salada yield richly of their Ideelicious goodness. Say Salada. NEED YOU HAVE SAID IT? Love Killed by Frankness. If there le one 'crusade more than things, but they •assume :it to he their dui o do -so.., Let middle-aged Jano yt whose heart to as young as a girl's, buy'herself a'gay spring hat and ,go around' rejoicing,ln lite` beauty. She doesn'tgn far before she encounters the family truth -teller, "I .felt it my dutyy to tell her that she was making a lively for home consumption, and the fool of herself,dressing like a flapper Idea prevails that, ,like certalu meds- when she's forty if saes a day," 'Says eines, the more disagreeable: it ley the more efficacious it le, and the more confidence we have in its working, This article is not intended to advo- cate, the telling of lies in the home 'circle, thoughthere, have time& in ail our experienoee when we could have wished that those nearest and dearest to us. had been .Ananiases and Sappleras, rather than the truthful Jasesee-and Janes that they were. This is only, a plea- for .the suppression of those unnecessary truths that. wound like barbed wire arrows and ,against which we are so defenceless children's noise, but we are silent because the arober knows only too about the ninety-nine times when well the -weak meat at which to elm, •everything was comfortable and pleas - Too Candid Comment, ant, There is nothing 00 brutal 'as the Not iouga.go a woman was• toting off cruel candor of a near 'relation. We her little son, who accidently upset a take the liberty of telling our own plate of soap on the cloth at dinner. flesh told blood the truth, which is too He was sharply reprimanded for his often only another way of saying that carelessness and sent from the table. we are grosely insulting and Impolite At the doorway he paused and with to those who can neither resent our quivering lips turned to his mother impertinence nor get away from it. end mired: ' "Why didn't you say It Husbands and ,wives comment on didn't make any difference, like you each other's defects and shortcomings do to visitors? I didn't make any big- with savage frankness•. Brother`s end ger spot than Mr. Smith did when he slatere say unforgivable things to each upset his wine." other. And those who are guilty of Could any better reproof to the moth - these crimes against our self -Love ex- er, who told the unpleasant truth to cure their cruelty by saying that what her child and the pleasant narrative to they have said is only the truth. As a guest, have been made? • In spite of all that is field to the con- trary, most of us are only too well aware of our weaknesses and failures, and to- be continually reminded of them at home svgs the last bit of cour- age and tak,.g'thelast bit of fight out smother that needs to be started it . is one agpinst the•habit we all indulge In of speaking the truth, the'plain..truth, and nothing butthe truth to those' of Our own household, For, strangely . enough, truth le a luxury 'that we reserve almost exclu- this, martyr of self -elected unpleasant - Or else she ooneldera shemust open Mary's eyes to the fact that the hus' band slhe adores lsn'•t all that he should be, and she aide, self-rlghteoiusly, "Of, coutse,nobody else will tell you -it is only those of your own family who will tell you the truth. Somehow we don't seem to be un- der the same obligation to tell pleas- ant truths to our family. We •are quick enough to comment on the ,un- tidy dress, the poorly -served meal, the if that didn't make it all the worse! It is to escape hearing the truth about themselves that many young people leave Monte: at the earliest possible moment and go among strangers. , Worse still, relations not only feet It their privilege to tell its unpleasant of us. A Thirty -Cont Bride, The groom had a local reputation. for being very nose, not to -say stingy, and the bride was anything but good-: looking. The ceremony had just been com- pleted and .after laying aside his prayer book, the officiating' minister looked expectantly at the new lura band, "How much Is it?" whispered the , groom dolefully. — "Oh, just whatever you think it is e'ois1h," wus the reply, The groom took one hurried glance at the bride and offered the minister a fifty -cent piece. 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He has our_kuthority to give you a special low price on a pair of these fine pails; MANITOBA '.BUILDING STONE Ceneteseabie attention has been paid lately 1 y eleatreallene in two new - additions to t1se city's rapidly growing 1 ,at of Ane structures, tures, First,, the rapid construction of the annex to Eaton's store, which WOO built in extraordin- arily quick time, and' the Chateau • Apartment' building, which architect - wally, is one of thefinest elatces lis ti143 'Dominion. It is not generally known that do- nestle etone from Manitoba was useod. .in the Coneleuotioa of these buildings, ant in this connectionMr. G. G,Ont- 'nanny, in charge of -he Develops' ant Branch of the Department of Coloni- zation and Development of the Cara- dian Paclflc Itailevay, draws attention to the greater use of Canaddan'atone in prefeatence to foreign lmpbrtatione during 4ho estfew y ea rr s. "We have been prone to overlook our own raw'mateetals'," said Mr: Omr manney, "but the results." attained to the use of Western stone in the recent construction -of largo apartments, of - floe, public and, commercial builddnge, both from an architectural and 'con- struction vlewituent, have forcibly brought home to Canadian architeote and builders that in Canada -we -have a variety of building stone and in suf- ficient quantities to supply the needs of the Dominion for many years to • come. TILLS is evidenced by the fact that In the construction of the above . mentioned buiiditige, as' ' well as the Parliament buildings at Regina and' WLinntpog, the ,law courts at Winnipeg, other structures in Winnipeg, For Wil'I1am, Sault Ste, Marie, Toronto and ,Quebec, Manitoba stone has been uti•1 Ized with most satbsfactony results:" Quarries Close to Winnipeg. The quarries from which this stone Is .being s'hi'pped are situated about thirty melees north-east of Winnipeg near the stations of Gannon and Tyr:- doll yradell on the Lac du Bonnet Branch of the Canadian Pacific Railway. At the chief entre, hear Garson, three' large quarries are in opeivation, and a num- ber of smeller ones or undeveloped prospects occur in tete immediate neighborhood. This. is one ofthe most Important sources of building' stone in the Western Provineesc To the trade bite stone la known as Garcon or Tyndall atone and at more distant points it i5 sometimes called Winnipeg • stone. It • is a soft lime.ston.e .with a charaotdi`1ttlo mottling in darker col' CM - Two types ora reoognized—a buff variety and a blue variety. Beth can be quarried do largo blocks and are capable. of being tires:ea caeved with ease, and eau be used for external and internal work. Production Facilities to be Extended. Tbere is still a geed deal of room for extending the use of Canadian building atone,, in Canadian construe - tion, and it is -of interest to note that the Iittdoon's Bay Company, one of the pioneer trading orgenlzoltions of Can- ada, recently ainotnlced that they would use the Manitoba stone in the construction of their new Store in Winnipeg instead of material which they bad .:.,enticed previously from out- side sources' in the past for the build- ing of their other stores, 'Phis greater reeognitic,s of -the valhte of alto Western stone has brought inose to the quarry operators llie necessity of beta& in a position to handto with expediency tele increased business,' and they have . anneuneed that 'their reepecJtive cotnpandes will he re -organized and their production faellitles enlarged in order to meet' any demands which they may be called upon to meet in the supplying of stone for Canadian buildings. Reforestation in Italy. A serious effort to enforce forestal legislation in Italy Is now being at- tempted, although it doubtful wheth- er much good can now be done,•.sdnee the work of devastation has bean left undisturbed until a cantpraratively re- cent time. Few ccuntrles,onjoy such a variety of trees as Italy, for together With. the birch and pines of northern - Europe, with find the alive,' fig, manna - ash and palls of mord southern leaf- - tu:dee. Luigi Luzzattl, the farther Pre- mier, hue now written a deealogue for the ; lover of trees, which has • been given a Wide publicity. • it reads in. part: Thou shalt love, and preserve against d, all damage, the tree and the 1ored Thou slna•lerecail that deforestation, a I' r sign of Ignorance injures the' home. P A 1 -L -S land and lowers it in foreign esteem. A r7 Thou shalt teach to the mountaineer that love for hie native home does slot permit the destruction .o•f .trees. TAYLOR..., FORBES Tree63aiMuEEo Pruners For every purpose In -the oicbord, cutting limbs up to 11 inches. Handles- 4,6,8,10end 12.feet. Tear aardnare aaaler kaawe tits walks/ Oar dwcaptive circular scot to any addfcan on. request TAYLOR-FORBES COMPANY. LIMITED GUELPH, ON'F, !Thou shalt :labor in such way that every year it will he possible to •plant- in the ground s. certain number of sap iutgs, in celebration of Arbor Day: Thou abaft fsnpros'o, lint not to the detriment of.'the forests, the marshes and -pastures el the mounztalt>s. Thou shalt a,iotgnize ,that Pastures, though useful, are harmful to the mountains 1f ill used. Thou shalt co-operate with forestry experts In preaching tho creed of the tree, and thou ehalt instruct those who should observe the Iowa of the home- land, which le the gaardiee of the for" est and of the mountain: Somebody Else. elotoring Customer -- "1"m almost osttain f most have rim aarosa your - 'nee some time or other," Molnar Waltor—'No, sir; it's al- .t,'t; been like this."