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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1927-09-29, Page 6BEGIN HERE TODAY. Sir Charles Abingdonasks Paul Harley criminal investigator, to find out why Sir Cahrles is kept in con- stant surveillance by personsunknown to him. Harley dines at the A-bing- don home. Sir Charles falls from his chair in a dying condition. Abingdon's lest words are "Nicol Brinn" and "Fire- Tongue." Dr. Mc1Vlurdoch pro- nounces death due to heart failure. Lesley insists that Sir. Charles was Pate goes to call on Nicol Brinn, pull n> vire club man. Brinn receives les c t..., r cordially but refuses to tell ltur; th,' meaning of Fire -Tongue. limnn laughs when Harley warns him that h • stands in peril of his life and xr b r. <..— Paul that he welcomes the di t. 't n, \ ,ti GON ON WITH TIIE STORY Yee are out after one of the big hones or the erook world," he said. "Ils levees it and he's trailing you. lily Lica s turned. How can I help?" 1. , to' stood up, facing Mr. Brinn. e•= it, as you say," he replied, "and I h,3,1 my life in my hands. But frori t c % r answer to the question wh!st1 have cone here tem& ht to n•tk c,.i. I shall conclude whether or rot yt,tir clanger at the moi tact le est t rt' an mine." .ci -fid Nicol Brinn. =iy qa. tion is simple but s`rang. " ::rid Paul Harley. "Tt is i':' ''a1 do you know of 'Fire - Teague' . Fire -Tc iue'r CHAPTER V. TRI; uATrns OL• BELL. rr Paul Harley hail counted upon "lire lr:rr•-n" to have a dramatic ell et even Nicol Brinn, he was not <llsa,q•o!pteh. Fire -Tut true!" he said, tensely, following a short silence. "For God's sale. when slid you hear that word?" "I heard o.' replied Harley, slowly, "to tteht." fie fixed his gaze intently upon the wall: w face of the American. "It, was sitoken by Sir Charles Abing- dot . ' it Charlvs Abingdon," echoed I'ri "and in what way is it con- ee tt 1 1: °th gem case?" rr, this %vat." asnwered Harley. "11. 'was ssetete i.v Sir Charles a few Moe toe . l,•. r , lot died." ° c 1?+it , 'ro•oping This flicker - el t t "l i "', re he died! Then Sir t h !:r r ;dolt is dead! When air! 1 r-- <•.. Hi' • d•cd •tc.rt'cirt and the last tvc } 1 1 uttered were 'Fire - T n rt,c - l`.. T'szu ed, never for a n+•.rax n, . ',se, i,ts; that fixed gaze fere, ties allege ''Ree, 'Co e r." ,,..rtu i :lir. Brinn. i 1'ri :d still as a careen wee. In!• • by an added rig, idilya id:: r t <1 he reward Paul 1; ` •rutiny. A silence citei 1 v: ,h drama was finally br, ' , tiv., American. "Mr.. 'Me- lee," he sr i' , n r old me that you were un aceeest the big preposition of 'oar rarer••. You are right." \h'ite thea he «rat siowr, in an arm• chat • end ri 1 n, ],i>: chin in hi:; h:'nd, ga ! fixedly Fie the empty grate. (ivc' me the whole story said Mr. Drina, right from the be;•in- t o Ci £ x1 A, SPEARMINT has a tang i n_ d 12 st try bri;ihten your ws pie day; s ., it keeps teeth. wsastet • soothes tine throe;•, an aids digestion. 1 ning. He looked up. "Doyou know what you havedone to -night, Mr. Harley?" I Paul Harley shook his head. Swift- ly," like the touch of an icy finger, that waning note of danger had ' reached him again, • "I'll tell you," continued Brinn. "You ]rave opened the gates of hell!" I Not another word did he speak , while Paul Barley, pacing slowly up land down before the hearth, gave him 'a plain aecoent of the case, emitting all reference to his personal •suspi- cions and to the measures which he ;had taken to confirm them. "You think he was murdered?" said Brinn in his high, toneless voice. have formed no definite opinion. 1i"I .Vhat.S your � o1 n. it," "I may not look replied Brinn Sp , "but. at this present moment I am the most h^i l ,ssly puzzled and badly fnehter.:el mall in London." I He half turned in the big chair to face his -visitor, who now was stand- ing Mere the fireplace staring down at hint. I "One day last month," he resumed, "I got cut er my car in a big hurry I at the top of the Haymarket. A fool I.00 a nt.a n ,colo passed between the tear and the -sidewalk just as I stepped 1 down, and I knew nothing further until I woke up in a drug store close , by, feeling very dazed and with my ' coat in tatters end my left arm numb- ed from the elbow. A ratan was stand- ing watching me, and presently when I had pulled round he gave me his card. -He was i'ir Charles Abiingdan, V Ihinr opened Players' Club. who had igen passing at the time of the accident. That was how S met him, and as there was nothing seri- ously wrong with me I saw him no more professionally. But ho (lined with me a week ek later and I had lunch at his club about a fortnight age." Ile looked up at Harley. "On my solemn word of honor," he said, !h t all I know about Sir Charles Ahmgd,;,i." Then I ran only suppose," resum- ed Harley, delihcrataly, "that the cause of yr ur fear lies in the term, Iire-Tota: is Brine again rested his chin in bis hand, staring fixedly into the grate. "Mr. Ilarley," ho began, abruptly, "you have bean perfectly frank with MO and in return I wish to be as frank with you es I can be. I am face to face with g thing that has haunted nig for seven years, and every step I take from now onward bas to be considered carefully, for any step might be my last. And that's not the worst of the rmlatter. I will risk one of those steps here and now. You ask' me io explain the significance of Fire - tongue" (there was a perceptible pause before he pronounced the word, which Harley duly noticed). "I am going f o tell you that Sir Charles Aizingdo , when 1 leeched with Iron et hie uh,, asked ink precisely the same 1ngg " "yYh ft''fHe aelcod yarn that so long as two wee Ks ago?" pr e di4 ' wi;at reason did he give foe.. his ins i• Y,r' ' 1'l1egl. ,Besse,li'iie an to 'tap the 3!n1z del' again with his foot. "Ile 'referred to an experience which had befallen him in India," came Nicol Brinn's belated reply, "In indict? May I ask you to re- count that experiencere, "Mr. •Harley,!' replied Brinn, sud deny standing up, I can't." II n„i "You• can't?" . Quick relief .from pain. "T have said so. But I'd give el LrevUdtwtneaspresrnure. lot more than you might believe to know that Abingdon had told you theSChQl}8 story which he told me."Phe one e„—the "You are not helping,Mr, Brum," ' ` " se' Damn u Bono said Harley, sternly. "I believe and I think that yen share say belief that Sir Charles Abingdon did not die ‘afilson Publishing company, from natural causes. You are re- pressing pressing valuable evidence, Allow e to remind you that it anything should g carne to light necessitating a post- CIA •19 �r mart= examination of the body, yeu4ic'c , will be forced to divulge in a court of justicethefacts which you refuse to divulge to me." "I know it," -said Brian, shortly, IIe shot out - one long arm and grasper Harley's . shoulder as in a vice. ""I'm counted a wealthy man," he continued, "but I'd give every cent I possess to see 'paid' put to the bill of a certain person. Listen. You don't, think I, was in any way con- cerned in the death of Sir Charles Abingdon? It isn't thinkable. But you do think I'm in possession of facts. which would help you find out who is. You're right" "Good heavens!" cried Harley, "Yet you remain silent!" "Not so loud -not so loud!" im- plored Brinn, repeating that odd, al- most furtive l-most,'furtive glance around. "Mr: Harley—you know me. You've heard of mo and now you've met me, You know my place in the world. Doyou believe me when I say that from this. moment onward I don't trust my own servants? Not my own friends?" He removed his grip from Harley's shoul- der. "Inanimate things look like enemies. That mummy over yonder may have ears!" "I'm afraid I don't altogether un- derstand you." "See here!" Nicol Brinn crossed to a bureau, unlocked it, and while Harley watch- ed him curiously, sought among a number of press cuttings., Presently he found the cutting for which he was e DARING OESTS INTO ..TIE . t KNOWN Ever -restless for New Thrills and New Knowledge, Ex- plorers of 50 Expeditions' are Preparing to Blaze their Restless Trail into the Vast' Unknown. NOW DEEPS CALL- A nevi era of marvellous possibil- ities in the realm of explorations is openinb. Just at a time when the average man in the street is saying: "There .is no more aventure--there is nothing left an the planet to explore" the fascinating secrets of sea, air and. land aro provoking' and alluring . an ever-increasing number of men to the task of discovery. It is an interesting fact that Bri- tai, France, America, Canada, Japan, Italy, enmark, Norway and even Red Eussia, are erponsoring scientific ex- peditions to be carried out officially, under their respective flags; that this year exploration is being financed. more extensively- than was the case in any .preceding decade and that fifty serious exploratory expeditions -apart from minor adventurous pro- jests—are being planned and equip- ped at this very hour. This is all the more remarkable when one casts back and surveys what man has: accomplished in the last two decades of the scientific age. What are the hi gh Iights from the period 'beginning when. Peary stood on the frozen spot of ground' which narks the North .Pole, and ending say when Lindbergh flew from New York to A SMART NEW FROCK. Paris? snow -gapped pales have been This chic frock is suitable for all visited try men who travelled thither daytime wear and is a verybecoming g ' m ship, s sleds, and snow shoes • and style. Theskirt has an inverted Y Amundsen has flown oven•. the Pole, plait at the front and is joined to blazing the trail for the great aim looking: "This was said," he explain- the bodice having a vestee and collar route of the future, ed, handing the slip to Harley, "at cut in one. The Tong dart -fitted Mount Everest and most other of the Players Club in New York, after sleeves are finished with shaped cuffs, the world's loftiest mountain peaks a big dinner in pre -dry days. It was and there is a shaped band at the have been conquered by intrepid said in confidence. But some disguised hips. No. 1638 is in sizes 34, 36, 38, climbers, Great tracts of desert and reporter had got in and it came out in print next morning. Read it." Paul Harley accepted the cutting and read the following; NICOL BRINN'S SECRET AMBITIONS. Millionaire Sportsman Who Wants To Shoot Niagara! 40 and 42inches bust. View A, size waste spaces of the earth have •been 36, reguires 3% yards 30 -inch, or 2r surveyed and reclaimed. An airway yards 54 -inch material, and rye yard has been established aver the mighty 30 -inch contrasting; View B requires Sahara, the grave of so many human 8%z yards 39 -inch material, and % hopes and endeavors. Lost tribes and yard contrasting. Price 20 cents the civilizations have been found in pattern. Africa and on the South American Every woman's desire is to achieve continents, and great excavation Mr. Nicol Brinn of Cincinnati, who that smart different appearance which works completed or put under way to is at pesent in New York, opened hls� n draws favorable comment from. the disclose the mysteries of the past 1 observing public. The designs illus- Radio has brought cemuitities last heart to members Our ofthe Players' prominent s't fen 1 trated in our new Fashion Book are thousands of Miles apart within originated in the heart of the style' speaking distance of each other. A. responding to a toast, "The Distin- guished Visitor," said: "I'd like to live through months of midnight frozen in among the polar ice; I'd like to cross Africa from east to west and get lost in the middle. I'd Iike to have a Montana sheriff's posse on my heels for horse -stealing, patterns as you want. Enclose 20e in and I've prayed to be wrecked on a stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap desert island like Robinson Cruses to it carefully) for each number and see if I am ratan enough to live it out. address your order to Pattern Dept, I want to stand my trial for murder Wilson Publishing Co., 73 West Ade - and defend my own case, and I want laide St., Toronto. Patterns sent by to be found by the eunuchs in the return mail. harem of the Shah. I want to dive for pearls and scale the Matterhorn. I want to known where the tunnel leads to—the tunnel down under the Groat Pyramid of Gizeh—and I'd love to shoot Niagara Falls in a barrel." "It sounds characteristic," murmur- ed ITarley, laying the slip on the coffee table. "It's true!" declared Brinn. "I said it and I meant it. I'm a glutton for clanger, Mr. Harley, and I'm going to tell you why. Something happened to me seven years ago—" "In India?" "In India. Correct. Something haponed to me, sir, which just took the sunshine ant of life. At the time I didn't know all it meant. I've learn - centres and will help yo uto acquire that much desired air of individuality, Price of the beak 10 cents the copy. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. Write your name and 'address plain- ly, giving number and size of such How About Now? "I was in Chicago a year ago and met a lot of live people out there." "Yes, but that was a year ago." An Excusable Mistake. "Ah," said the guest as they ap- proached the house, "I see your dear ed since. For seven years I have been eon and slaughter awaiting us in the flirting with death and 'hoping to porch." fall!" "No," said the host, "tire girl in tho Harley stared at hint ttncompre- short frock is my mother, and the hendingly. "More than ever 1 fail to young fellow in riding breeches is my understand." 'Wire." Nice' Brinn dropped his chin into • his hand and resumed that unseeing Early manageability leads later to stare into the open grate. Paul Har- manage -ability. ley watched hint intently. (To b.e consinued,) ;Used by physicians-Mlnerd's Liniment Times Do Change EXCLUSIVE SHOWING, 1897 MODEL Or ancient vintage, this car was the oldest entered In the Tabor Day depth no one knows. The certainty parade at Atlantic City. Its driver, I3arold M. Brion, claims a speed of of death by crushing has reserved'the 'zine miles en hour for his entry, • •• - ' )greater depths inviolate. The encu - man has gone forth in search of the petrified eggs of the almost legendary dinosaur, braving the laughter of the, scientists—and found then and brought them beck. What, then, remains? The great- est conquests of all remain, Inviting the intrepid adventurers of this gen- eration as the gold of unknown Mexico invited Cartes and the dream of land across the western seas earlier invited Colun.hus, No less than 6,000,000 square utiles of the Arctic regions and 6,000,000 square miles or the Antarctic wastes `remain untr'odden by tho foot of man anal unseen by his eye. In these im- mense areas, who knows what treas- ures of mineral wealth may lurk? The land about the poles cannot, we know now, be dismissed easily as 'merely a happy hunting ground for the men who want to be 'first at the Pole." It has a high strategic im- portance in view of the conquest et the air, and most valuable possibilities in vieov of the relative scarcity of manganese, radium, platinum, gold, diamonds. And hero let: me say at once that in this the new era which is opening differs from all the great eras of dis- covery and adventures of the past. Just as advances in shipbuilding enabled Columbus to reach America. and the invention of fire -arms allowed. the Spanish conquerors to sweep through Mexico and Peru with but a handful of white men, and the pro- gress of aviation allowed intrepid navigators of the air to fly immense distances at incredible speed, so the adventurers of the new era must de- pend upon the diecovories of science and the technical improvements wrought by engineers. This applies with especial force to that vast region, comprising seven eighths of the planet, .which so far has successfell eluded human curios- ity, and has never even been gazed upon by the eye of rasa, I refer to the fantastic lands which Ile, with their mountain ranges nighties than the Rockies, or the Himalayas, their dread gorges and mysterious forests at the bottom of the seas. The sea depths have always defied man. Men have gone down a Inun- 'dred,'two hundred feet in diming bolls and protected suite. They have even penetrated to so great a depth as G'00 feet in the new steel armored cases equipped with mechanically -operated claw hands, tele $ones and electric beam lights. Such men as Dr. Beebe, the famous naturalist, have walked about the floor of tropical seas and photographed ocean 3it'e;' anus scientrsts Bite the late Prince Louis of Monaco have extended man's knowledge of the sea deeps ) y oceanographic explorations under- taken with a ship specially equipped and fitted with a glass panel for underseas observation. Brit' what lies beyond the ltal.f-mile Al' Survey Halted By Noisy Oysters Saves Seep Saves Work cot•Y Everywomans M,1I•of-ull•work a Th,e incessant clicking of oysters as they open and ,shut their valves has set up such a disturbing noise at one point in the Atlantic Ocean as to cause the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey to abandon its plans of employing nndez'-water radio in sur- veying the North Carolina coast, "We have been listening to the clicks of oysters instead of the sound of the 1 bomb signal in the radio -acoustic equipment," states ,Commander . W. LI, I Parker, chief of the Division of Hy moue • pressures of the waters have drography and Topography. Writes hitherto, baffled all man's attempts 10 S. A. Winters in describing these sur investigate the secrets of the sea. - I prising doings: in the New York Tele - Although lands beneath the sea can gram;., neve be used to solve, the problem of 1 "The humble oyster now is placed the earth's overlarge :population, or, in the despised role of a disturbing__ utilized,—as the a!r is—for transltor-; factor lit radio reception. The lowly "E ILMI they efts.a treasure trove to bivalve has introduced a form of radio the explorer who can succeed in con- interference that may defy classifica- quering them: for there is .no skcien-! tion:" This chorus of clicks may be - title reason why the mineral wealth interpreted as oyster -made static,' of dry land should not be ,repeated, inI "Seriously, the interfering noises the lands covered new by the oceans. attributed to oysters intheAtlantic And there ave, besides, incolculeble Ocean are responsible for the aband. treasures lying ant the sea bed; the onmentsof, the project to suevey with treasure ships of the centuries which great precision the waters south of have gone down' with their precious , Cape Lookout, North Carolina, by cargoes of gold and jewels, although means of a combination of radio and fairly accurately charted, have never sound,_.. been recovered. "Instead of: using this new method: Dr. Beebe is investigating the pps-,'of making hydrographic surveys, the sibility •now of getting down a mile ancient and long -discarded astronomi- in a huge armored case, from the 11-I cal method will bo employed, to luminated elindows of which he can 1 " 'We had considerable trouble last observe the life and structure of the year on tbo coast of the Pacific sea bed as he moves closely along it; Ocean,' relates Commander Parker, and in half -a -dozen countries marine on account of noises similar to those' engineers are studying ways and now interfering an the coast of the means of stnstructingn cylinder-forlAtlantic Ocean. The hydrophoncs. a diving suit is out of the question— were lifted to the surface and exam - which will whhatand the terrific press; inedseveral times and.: found to be is sures an denable men to explore the Perfect condition, \epacn sea bed at great depths. I the sea they operatedWhen aarUsflartorediliy The upper atmospheric strata have for a short time, and then began fail - in to bel g record the bombs because of been widelyexplored means of db 1 Y loons and air machinee--,.in recent the noises, years, but 20,000 feet above the earth; "One of the lzydrophones was moved is a realm of which very little isoutabout 1,000 fathom;, where it known. operated satisfactorily, but the new Of what use to man is the explora— tion of the upper air? The entire surveying point of view. secreted the weather is hidden sire-! "The captain of the Coact. and Geo - where ib• these dizzy altitudes. Sound-' erotic chili was at his wits and mad he ing balloons carrying recording in- ;beard a fisherman remark that rho struments as high as 54,000 feet have former position, where thy interfer- hinted as much to meteorologists; but ence was encountered, was the beet the solution of the weather riddles de— mands human observation. 1Pacific Ocean. When this region is thoroughly eat- "The theory that the oyster is a. glared man will be able to predict ac- 'disturbing factor in radio reception, eurately weather conditions fax "even when the belief is advanced af- ahead. IIs may even discover enough facially by a government bureau de - la enable him to get an the track of, voted to scientific research scents so the great problem of how to control fantastic as to tax credulity. the weather, ; 'This is somewhat dissipated when • Can such great altitudes he reach- we recall that the hydrophnne is a ed" Sir Alae Cobham thinlm so. and very sensitive device and tee slightest noise 11 picked u and amplified. In t r fu-- p p 1 •icemachine in the tea ro qhs . a lure which will be able to ascend to a measure it is a sensitive microphone 110,000 feet. t planted under the water, and broad- Meantime, nisei -there are still many casting stations have' repeatedly de- 7c pioneering flights to be made similar monsbated the sensittyity of a micro• to those of Lindbergh and Chamber- phone—capable of plok1og up heart- lain, and the England -to Australia beats, the musical• notes of n canary flights of Cobham and the late Ross bird, and the subtle sonde of a beetle Smith, being In a tree, or an insect' eating Although so many blank spaces in grain deep in tlio recesses of a grain' the Wrap of the world have bean filled ary in by the bold explorers of the last Air, The radio•acoustic method of rang - quarter of a century, there ale still ing' I. Winters goes on Lo relate, lunitnown areas along the was devised jointly by the Bureau of arge mighty Amazon, in Africa, Tibet and Standards and the Coast and Geodetic, ee Abyssinia, and in South Australia.. Surveys Tn operation, first, hydro - One may ask; why discover more terri- Phones aro submerged along the tory when only one -eighteenth part of coast to a depth of fifty foot. These the planet is under the control of underwater telephones are connected civilized ratan? by cable with radio stations on shore. The answer is that the populationilia Proceeds: of the globe is fast increasing, and the When the captain of a ship- do' spectre of hunger and sopulatfon!located twenty miles from shore—des sires to determine his exact position pressure looms ahead. Italy and Jaro alreadheal�:he explodes a bomb under water, This apan y bomb contains about one pound of ily overpopulated. The population of the United :States hes increased 131 TNT, The instant of explosion is re - the in the last seven years despite! corded automatically on the survey- ofinunigration restrictions. Britain is Ing vessel by moansa in - iron overpopulated, and Germany soon will;installoct on the ship,,lvhich ch is nun be. Discoveries of new areas of the'neated electrically with au automatic time recording device—n (throne - earth capable of sustaining human life save recognized by Governments gt' Th ever>,vhere to bo one of the burniftgl The salmi travels to the shore hydrolthones, which also intercept the problems of the near future. !echo of the explosion. This proditoes Finally, there is a quater in which 'a fluctuation in the current that tra- the boldest adventurer will not sce'vels along the cable that actuates the ,4 limits, however for he penetrates the rseeo•acoustie mechanism, causing a realm of scientific discovery, of the rttglu signal to be transmitted in sate - probing of thee'oecrets of Nature and -cession from each of the groin) of the forces of 1if4..t 'shore stations, The, radio signal is Thousands of young, ardent scien 'intercepted by rho,yedie receiver on Lists, equipped with such instruments I Ole survey ship and recorded on we and knowledge as their great redeees- tsutotmatic time device, sors never had, are setting forth, in ,,From this timing device hytlrogra- quiet laboratories, on daring quests phio engineers can determine within into the unknown; and what they &pay 1-100 of a second the time rartuirad { find there may well change the aspect for the sound recorded to reach ono of the earth and the very life of man 'of the recording stations. The inter. kind. 1va1e multiplied by the known velocity The magic of radium and tho ether, of sound in sea water gives the dir.- tho mysteries of electricity, light, a tenets from the surveying vessel to thousand chemical riddles bearing on!each of the hydrophone elutions. the food supply, mart's .health, fact, Mathematical calculations afford ftp - power, the final secret of life itself; urea giving the distatzce from each. -, these are being investigated, Arid,'2he iutorsoctiort of these, of course, these are the greatest explorations of is the position of the ship. "Until the Bureau of Standards and . the Coast and Geodetic :Survey in-` vented the radio si;uading device, when a ship was beyond the range of visibility of shore objects approxi- mately twelve miles on the Atlantic Ocean---•tberc was nee:leans of 0.0 curately determining its 100atio21, II i Coast and Geodetic, Survey ships --rho Pioneer and the Guide --equipped with radio'acoustic equipment and noun• operating on the coast of the Pacing' Ocean, have been able to locate thei-e; Very Seldom positions accurately when moro titan{ • "Yes, 1 knew that Scotsman sire thh'ty miles Emla shore. married—tight-Nsiecl chap. Bow's he "tire steamer L•yclonla, the iargt treating his wife?" survey ship, has beensimilarly octub5 "Very seldom, 0 hear," peel ancl was-c»erating in the A,lanttiz 0cea11. but the oyster llas proved to:. be the fly in the ointment --.withal, the Drives away pain--••Mlnard's Liniment static of Ocean suilicY1 .;:"