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BY I AFAEL SABATINI,
The Master Tale -Teller, Author of "Bardelys the Magniticent.•' Another
Stirring Stony of Adveuturo and Love in a New. Setting—
The Peninsular War.
WHO'S WHO. I "You said, I think, that ,you WereRichard But'ier, lieutenant in the standing in the guerd+loom doot•wae
Irish Dragoons during Wellington's when Capt. Tremayne pissed you at
campaign in Portugal, 'commits ani 11:40 on the night of the 28th?"
offence during a drunken revelry, ar- Yes sir.
(mmHg the resentment of Portuguese Wel. now, did you observe which
official's, He disappears from his regi- Way Capt. Tremayne went—whether
rent.• the went along the passage leading.to.
Terence b'Mo brother' -in-law et the garden or' up the stairs" to the of -
Butler, and adjutant -general, is corn- fides ?'t
s Sisxt to promise thet,Dick will be "No, sir. 'Capt. Trenbayne turned
allot When taken. - the corner;,and e'as out of my sight."
Una O'Moy, Sir Terence's young Sir ierence's lips parted with a
wife, "concea,s her brother Dick. snap of dtibpatience. -
Cpt. Ned Tremayne,- O'Moy's sec "Very well," he said curtly. "We
retary, promises to help -get Dick out will pass on. After the body.of Count
of the country. Tremayne is in love S•amoval had been removed from the
with Sylvia Armytage, but Sir Ter- courtyard, did Mullins,' my butler,
endo is jealous ea his friendship with come -to you?"
Lady OMoy, Tremayne is found; .'Yes, Sir Terence.”
stooping ever the body of Count Same- What was the message? Please tell
VIII, who has been killed in a duel by the court'.
Sir. Terere and is . accused of the Ile brought me a letter 'with in- "But I have!
is lain H c cannot clear himself with- structiens that it was to be forwarded Its sharp, almost strident note ratted
out reve .ing the fact that Dick But- first thing in the morning to the coni- like an electric "discharge upon the
ler is in hiding. missary-general's office." court but no member of the assembly
Coiquhoun Grant, Wellington's sec That is all I wish to ask, te
O Moy as more deeply stricken than Capt.
ret agent, arrives on the scene in time intimated, 'Irensayne. In his excitement he
to hear Sir Terence order TremayneCame Private Bats next, and Sir turned, to see Miss Armytage stand -
under arrest for disobeying Welling- '"Terence precoaded to question him. ing there, her whiteface stamped with
ton's enactment a ainet duelling. Yon said in your evidence that purpose.
g Capt. Tremayne arrived at Monsanto "I can tell you why Capt. Tremayne
CHAPTER XXIII. between half -past eleven and twenty is silent," she cried, "I can tell you,
minutes to twelve?"
RELENTLEss'HOSTILITY. "Yea, sirwhom he shields."." .. - "Oh, God" gasped' Lady•O'Moy, won -
"That is quite in agreement with derin through her anguish how 5 l -
Major Swan's address for the prose q g g g Y
eution presented the f acts, properly ethe evidence of your. sergeant: Nowvia could have become possessed of
marshalled so as ate make up a den--1tll the court where you were during her secret. '
enrolls a sin a prisoner. ]the half-hour that foeowed--until you "Mies Armytage--I implore you!
t e s c se against the p ' heard theguard being tarried out bycried Tremayne.
settled,e remain d ore on'int to ba B
Evidence bad the sergeant," And then the heavy voice of'O'Moy
been paced before the court showing � "Pacing in front of quarters, sir." crashed in:
that Tremayne had coins to Monsanto Did you notice the windows of the . "Let her speak. Let us have the
at twenty minutes to twelve, and there' bui.ding at all during that time?" truth-thetruth!"
as abundant evidence' to show that They were in d:irlruese, sir"
'w"And you shall have it," answered
he was found kneeling beside the body, O lYIoy s eyes gleaned. "All of Miss Armytage. "Capt. Tremayne
of the dead Haan at ten minutes' past them • keeps sl eat to shield n woman—his
twelve—the bodybeingquite warm at Ceitanly, air, all of them." mistress. Capt. Tremayne spent that
the time proving thhe had fallen
"That will do." half. -hour at Monsanto in her room,"
but an time.,
before the arrival of Private Bates loaned, and Mullins And then the voice of O'1•ioy on the
Meier's, Mullins could account ti "a "You told
u to of tier bible triumph sounded
Unless Capt. Mullins ou told the dean, 0r\toy ad- again.•
for the manner in which he had spent dressed the witness Mullins, consult- `Ah, but it is the truth at last. Il
ing his notes as he did so, "that on have it now. Her name! this
name!"
half hour, Major Swan did not
perceive what conclusion the -court: the night -on whieh CounSainoval he shouted. "Who was this woman?"
coed reach other, than that Capt. Tre-;
!letter his death, I� sent you to taka a Miss Arniytage'e answer was as a
n'iayne was guilty of the death of ' to the Cipi:tnk"otthe guard, an bludgeon stroke to his ferocious exul-
Count Samovar. I urgent letter which was to be fol- tatiou.
sat -warded to its destination first thing en "Myself. C:ipt. Tremayne 'was with
Upon that conclusion the major
down to mop a brew that was perspir :the it riot ;rig morning: This is correct, rte."
ing free, and Capt, Tremgyne rose (To be continued:)
slowly to address the court in reply -to i "It is, sir. Q
• the prosecution. ' Sir Terence signified that .he had Tao
an
t0-receive the pr
He spoke easily, fluently and calmly, the to caner tall the president invited _. e
a oleo supremely aeself-controlledIIs I gnestion the witness, :tet
reiterated his statement: that he was
prisoner's unvarying re -
reiterated
not guilty of the crime charged fowl,
mural
Anil now O'Moy rose in his place to
against him. He appealed to the
whether they considered it announce that he had himself a fur-
askinglikely that he would choose the garden Ither statement to make to the court.
or an adjutant -general's quarters in • You leave beards from Sergi. Flynn
which to conduct a duel. in direct disc- and my aider, Alul:ins, tlt•at the tetter
lro'dience to Lord Wellington's enact- carried from me by the latter to the
rent. fernier on the night of the 28th was a
"Common sense alone," he decayed letter for the commissary-general.
"5114111'd straightway acquit lore all the` That eenlnrunieation concerned a corn-
"should
I plaint from headquarters on the sub
graurda of the locality alone, and
am astonished that it should be neces ]ect of the tents supplied to the 3d
Ce -
nary fair pie to account for my move Division—Sir Thomas Picton's—at Ce-
ment,s during the half hour in ones_ I lorico. The documents concerned that
tion."
He paused. So far his clear reason-
ing had heal and impressed the court.
This he saw plainly written on the
!'aces of all, with one exception. Sir
Terrence watched hunt nialevo'.ently, lbuilchng altogether."
sardonically, with eur:ing lip. It gave g
him peuse DOW that he stood upon the
CHAPTER XXV.
thresho.d of falsehood. He hesitated
to step from the solid ground of res- HE saseruS A WOMAN.
son on to the uncertain bogland oP Sir Treence sat down amid a rue -
mendacity. tlingstir that ran through the court,
"There was," he resumed slowly, ` a, but wee instantly: sump oned to his
certain matter connected with the eons- feet again by the president.
missary-g n .ral s department which "A moment, Sir Terence. The pris-
was of the greatest urgency. It was ewer will no doubt desire to question
connected with some tents for Gen, you on that statement," And he looked
Picton's division at Celorico. It oc- with serious eyes at Capt. Tremayne.
Burred to me that night that it would "I have no questions for Sir Ter -
be better dealt with at once, so that ence, sir;" was his answer:
the documents relating to it could go Indeed, what question could he have
forward early en 3londay morning to asked? The falsehoods he had uttered
the commissaeyeaceeral. Accordingly,
or ilarLsr,rV
Be -Sure You Get The Genuine
CILLETT'S FLAKE LYE
complaint—that is to say, the docu-
ments upon which we are to presume
Vita the pr•isonuer was at work during
the half-hour in question—were at the —
time in my possession in my own pri-
vate study and in iulother wing of the Net Blowouts.
"1 had two horrid net fires to -clay."
"Why. what were their names?"
Of Course.
Ir
The Chinese learned how to make
paper by watching wasps build their
nests.
I returned to Monsanto, entered the
official quarters, and was engaged
upon that task when a cry from the
garden reached my eery and I ran out
at once to see what might have occa-
siened it I found Count Sanioval
either just dead or just dying, and I
'had scarcely made the discovery when
Mullins, the butler, came out of the.
residential' wing, as he testified. That,
sirs, is all that 1 know of the death of
Count Sainoval," he ended and re-
sunned his seat.
There was a silence for a moment,
broken only by the rustle of the presi-
dent's notes as he briefly looked. them
over es a preliintirary to adressing the
court. Ancl then suddenly, grating
harshly upon that silence, carne the
Voice of O'M03• Do you realize that the statements
`Might I suggest, Sir Henry, that you have made to account for your
before we hear you three of the wit-Iuiovements during the half-hour that
you were at Memento have been dis-
proved. Do you realize what infer-
ence the court ill be compelled to draw
from this?"
"The court must draw 'whatever in-
•
ference it pleases," answered the cap-
tain without heat
"Then, Capt. Tremayne," said the
president, the court will passto the
consideration of its finding. For the
last time, sir,' before I order your re-
moval, let ire add my own to the ex-
hortations already adressed to you,
that you should speak.
For e long moment Capt. Tremayne
stood there in tense, expectantsilence.
Lady O'Moy he know to be in court,.
behind him. She had heard that hie
fate hung perhaps upon whether Rich-
ard Butlers presence were to be be-
trayed or not; let her decide;
And then, because no women's voice
broke the silence to proclaims at once
his innocence, ho spoke at last.
"I thank you, sir; Indeed, I ani
verygrateful to the court for the •.
g tl c on -
sideration it has shown me. I appre-
ciate it deeply, but I have nothing
more to say.'I
• And then, when all seemed lost, e
woman's voice rang out at last:
had woven themselves into a rope
about his neck, and he stood before his
brother officers noW in an agony of
shame, a man discredited, as he be-
lieved,
"Very weal, sir." The president
paused and then added: "The court
will be glad to hear you in answer
to the further evidence adduced to
refute your statement in your own de-
fence,"
"I have nothing further tosay, sir,"
we Tr'emayne's answer.-
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Says Tall Men Are Hungrier.
That a tall thin man requires more
food than a short one, even though
both are the same weight, Is the con-
tention of a Sapen•ese doctor. He dte-
clares that the amount of food needed
depends on the total area, not the
weight of the body.
Bamboo is the latest material used
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bamboos, long regarded as weeds in
India, have become an important coin-
merelal product.
The British Empire
To o
ne and Fail?
AMERICAN VIEWPOINT agree with. ' the Canadian lawyer who
wrote his newspaper of his belief --
IN "WORLD'S WORK.". • "that the empire,bas one
fundamental Constitution, the eesen-
The smallest of the great kingdoms tial prinelple' of which !s the liberty of
of olclha spuaihistory's largest empixe the Subject; that the development of
over the face of the earth, until long tile Dominions to local self --event-
meat, whether under the -denomination
And now Cal. Fletcher leaned for- since, it could boast that the sun never
ward to exhort him, "Cat. Tre- set on its territory. Dieing four eeu- of "nations" or not, is 01111' a natural
e," he said, "let ria bog municipal development all doss riot
ma
yn'; you to furies Britons have roamed the seven ,affect ilte general ennsl,itution; that;
realize the serious position in which seas• and the five continents, looking
you are priced." for trade or trouble, taking under their
"I assure you, sir, that I realize it .nag colonies whke now include nearly
fully." one quarter of the wordd'•s land, and
more than oue charter of its people,
Surface Signs,
messes be leeslled? They are Sergt.
Flynn, Privates Bates and Mullins."
The president looked round in eur-
prise as he became conscious of Sir
Terence's relentless hostility to the ac -
eased, However, the request IRs in
order, and the lvi'oiiident gave way.
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CHAPTER -
C'IAP ER
CI AXI\`,
O'MOY'S STATEMENT,
• Sent. Flynn was the ,first of the
e
witnesses recalled at Sir Terence's re-
quest, and it was Sir Terence who
took tip his re-examination.
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iSSUE No. 8—'27.
But recently there have appeared
signs and portents which lead the
gloomy lo prophecy the decline and
fall of this glorious empire. The
motherland, say they, etaguates, The
coal isiinee which earued its bread
were long idle; its ilbemploy-ed are
still legion; Factories era Idle; aid
unrest steals through. the :land. In the
overseas penscs's!ons, Illaieed to the
motherland by Lb e PDX 8ritanntoa, are
surface signs -which hint at revolt un-
derneath. Canada has finally appointed
her own Minister to Washington. Ire-
land, which alreadyhad'her own minis-
ter to America, campaigned for her
own Council seat an the League of
Natione; and South Africa .has said
that she cancan -time under the ,Crown
only if aseuretl hes' full enol free na-
tionhood. Hence there were many
tvho Enid that the imperial Conference
of October ovoidetl Ru &pen break only
by Skating gracefully round the real
testier•.
Canadian Views.
Yet there are many Colonials wire
even a Parliament or legislature. o7•
court of any component part cannot,
enuferniably wlth'tlbe spirit of the coni-
stdtution, 'lake away nor infringe such
a right . . wool that
the ark of the Constitution is -founded
on the fundamental ecciuired right of
every Brutish subject. to the whole
Empire, and on hie liberty to use it,"
But this point of view is a reminder
of the days when the Dominions were
crown ("Monies. As Premier King of
Canada said during the Feet ele'ctioni.
campaign, "The essential featureof
the Imperial situation ' to -day is the
trausformati,ont of. what ,sons formerly
an empire in the old .senao into a
Faeroe of free anal equal natione."
Empire Sound.
Does ai.l this mese. that the next Int
Aerial Conference 'ttdll really mean re-
volt, that the BPitislt Empire i•s in
truth falling apart;? It does not. Re -
lotions between Downln,g Street and
the Dominion ca'pitale are undoubtedly
,changing; but there: is no more chance
that the ]Dominions wilt abandon their
connection with Groat Britain than
that they will reass to speak English.
I•relan,l has tried thtut to lie sere, but
the King's English is still understood
in D barn.
TI52•
Economy in its rich' drawing' freshness.
Heart Disease in Children.
Distutbanoes of the heart in children
automatically divide themselves into
two groups. Those which were .pte -
sent et the time of birth, and arse due
to defects in development and those
which are acquired after birth,.
Congenita' heart cendltiona, or those
present at birth, are. not uncommon..
Tlrsy are, as a rule, easily reeogniz-
able, •and while they vary -materially
in extent, the majority et them termin-
ate -fatally within a given Period, of
timer
Acquired heart disease 1s rarely .pre-
sent before the second or third year of,
life, and when found, in extremely
young children, is almost always al-
ways due to a rheumatic infection.
Careful examination of school age
children shows' &bout one pee cent. to
be sufferingfrom some . disturbance
of the heart. In many instances the
Presence of this diaeaee was unknown
to the parents or cchilcl. affected. Rheu-
matism in some of its forms, St. Vitus'
Dance, diphtheria or some other infec-
tion was usually found to be the cause.
Many of the existing cases of heart
disease could .have been avoided if
adequate care had been taken at tho
time of the onset of the disreaisee respons-
ible. Rheumatism does not necessarily
have to be present in the form of acute
rheumatic fever in. order to' damage
the heart. Such slight manifestations
of its presence as "growing pains" are
sufflotent warrant for careful super-
vision of the child's activities. Slight
pain or swelling in the joints, of a
transient cheraeter, shouhtl be taken
very seriously by the parents and
physician.
The early recognition of such dis-
eases as diphtheria and eeaa,let feast',,
and the prompt adoption of adequate
treatment, will do much to limit the
possibility of the infection involving
the heart.
Tonsilitis and dieeese of the tonsils
is another common contributing factor
In the cause of heart disturbances in
chef rem not perhaps directly, but as Monsieur Palnleve,'the- Piepnier of
possible lodging plaoee:,Par organisms Prance, 10 a famous mathematician as
wh[clr may gro�c' and spread to
the
c , and ho' -bee one
sail as a statesman,
heart itself. haracterlstic that clearly heloo e t&
Tire:barrel symptmns�associatedwitis 4116 sclenkifUc rather than to ,Itis yoliti•
early. heart disease In children are. not call auto, That is 11'15.absent-minded
as• definite 00 'one would like. These, nesty, some :sntertalning examples of
children tire easily,. may Slave palpi• which are told by thea Paris codes-
tati'on, pain over the region of the gorrd'eatt•af. the London •Sunday Times.
heart, or shortness of breath on exer-s The Preniieir lues recently the 17vin-
tion. Loeif of weight er anaemia. may -cipa1 guest at a political -dinner at the
bb•roa upgrehtentto. lTg1iho doinseaessxem'aia,inaast'i,oan rubley aroouse oafl Thee
ooufterisguefsrtindhad,; baneedn. 1
!
the school .phyateien, or when the eon -1 there for hell an hour, nobody was
MEN %AND `WOMEN
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, ARoyal Privilege.'
WhCe the ex -Kaiser,' who;, 12 a iable'4
to And it publisher for' fide sermons, is
.i mere .layman, our ewii 'hang—though
Very fent/ people may be aware of tho-
act—Bolds a clleatcat oppodntrnent en,-
tltliug him to preach.; Elis Majesty its.
e Prebendary. of St David's, Cathedral,
•e•celves ono pored pee annum in re
;meet of that office, . and is entitled
hereby to Preach in thie .cathedral ----4
bat only once, a year.
An Absent -Minded Statesman..
ditlon has become exaggerated by
some irtterouerent illness.
The avoidance oe unnecessary ex-
posure, the wearing Of anal l siert warm
surprised at the, delay, for the Prey
niter's Idiosyncrasies. are well known.'
I3ti•t astortisltzueatwas ..provoked when, l
a quartee of hour later, a telephone
clothing to extreme weather, careful call to his, elf cial.'residence, revealed
attention to defects of the throat, and I
that Ile batt' „begun. the short Journey .I
snflle.h'ent rest during'convaSesenco an 'Irony before. A lnanssrvant'who•1
from infectious diseases, with regular went. downstairs to investigate, how-
ever, foundi M. Painleve in, the, care
teasers lodge working out a mother
iuttical problem, part of the home
work of the eae'etaker'n sons .
In. remembering he was M. Painlati o
thomathemnatician heelial forgotten
lie was M. Painieve the politician and
political guest. But he regaine eevery-
boely's sympathy by admnitting-that the
problem Ives ilifficult. Another advert -
time of M. Painleve's was to forget the•
name of his Foreign Minister in full
Chamlier. On an intorpellation he
said, Po -morrow may he unsuitable"
for debate,- bocaus•o my friend Mon-
sier:es—" and here he stopped], Pointing
to M. Briand. Then ha tried again,
"The ex -Premier, Monsieniv-" and he
again halted, till, rocking with laugh-
ter. a hundred deputies called out, "M.
complete physical examination of all
children, are measures which w111 do
much to lessen the amount of heart
disease now existing among children,
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FAVORS EARLY START
Study of Languages Should
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possibity Ontario ]las not expected it
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College, to the Board of Governors of
the University or Toronto.
"It has long been the glaring blot
upon oer secondary schools," declares
Professor Hutton, "that they get their:.-
eiitramce pupils two, or three or even
four -`years too late. What can the
average boy or girl be expected to
make of foreign languages, ancient es
modern, if they cannot begin thein at
the natural age for beginning foreign
100guages (as well as native hang -
1 lieges), childhood, from the eg'e of
eight or nine years to tweive? Alt pre,
sent the majority are nearer fourteen,
tied never recover the haindieaeof e
start s.o conspicuously belated.
"Any sbi'fting of the !lest year worlt
(especiallyflint year honor world
back to the pelmets, would reduce," deo
dares Professor Hutton, "tire honor
graaluation atendar'de of lairs colllegle,
any such reduction would remove at
Once the one conspieuoree advantage
which the University of Toro.n•to pos-
eessea• over every otluer university of
11110 conthteni ; •fibs 2iroflciency raa.ch'ed
by its lienor students at the date of
graduation,and the advantage. they
possess ever other gredniates in the
graduate universities of this oontinsnt,
in the competition for scholarships,
fellowships, and, ee•entnaily, professor
sliips,,
"1•t is not by eocideat that Torentio
graduates fill so maany, chairs in the
new ibnivei'•sities of Canada and the
tinslied. Statee; i-1 to .the direct 'moult '
of the high standard of, our honor
tl1itnts at:_g1'uluatlom"
It i5 c.,lin-m ted that --on; jet' of gas
consumes as much air ne four adults,