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Why- be content with inferior tem®
earned the reputation of being some-
thing more than human, but I em not.
I have everything that life could give
me except you, Now I have got you,
and I am going to keep you."
Weida began to weep silently. The
kw, even voice of Nicol Brinn ceased.
He could feel her quivering in his
grasp; and, as she sobbed, slowly;
slowly the fierce light faded from his
eyes.
"Nelda, my Naida, forgive me," he
whispered.
Sho raised her face, looking up to
him pathetically. "I carne to you, I
came to you," she moaned; "I prom
ised long ago that I would, come.
What use is it, all this? You know,
,yau lcnow! Hill me if you like. How
often. have I asked you to kill me. It
would be sweet to die in your arms.
But what use to talk so? You are in
great danger or you would not have
asked me to come. If you don't know
it, I tell you—you are in great dan-
ger."
Nicol Brian released her, stood up,
andbegan slowly to pace about the
.,k ,room. He deliberately averted his
gaze from the settee. "Something has
happened," ho began, "which has
changed everything. Because you are
hero I know that—someone else is
here."
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CHAPTER XIV.-(Cont''d)
"Yes! I have been wondering
whci vee it could be. In fact, I rang
up he!! office this morning, but learned
thot he was aut. It was a serviette
which he took away, Did you know
that
`l 0:1 know it, Miss Abingdon. I
celhel u• -on the analyst Y under stead
i
"Nelda!" breathed Nicol Brine
huskily. "Naido!"
Iier cloak lying forgotten upon the
carpet, she advanced toward him.
She wore a robe that was distinctly
Oriental without being in the slight-
eet degree barbaric. Her skin was
strangely fair, and jewels sparlded
upon her fingers.
you o out when idly. Harley came. Their lips meet, and for tt moment
May I :urlt who interviewed him?" they clung together, this woman of
"Pe •rw Benson and: Mre. Hewett, the East and man of the West, in
tele 1 .r ':leper," utter transgression of that law which
r I also see them?" England's poet has laid down. It was
1: t e witnesses having been die- a reunion speaking of a love so deep
mfr 4. he turned again to Phil Ab- as to be sacred.
in.,; -, Lifting the woman in his arras
r r r 't step is clear enough," lightly as a baby, he carried her to
he brightly. "I am off to South tic it'.tee, between the two high win -
Road. The woman Jones is 'RAY"; and placed her there anti.. :hien-
tit: ' we are looking for."
tl-.•;n.; a more promising look-
iy+,r, c. lien that in which he had
r,.,r votive Inspector Wessex pro-
t::l cushions, where: she looked like an
Eastern queen. He knelt at her feet
and, holding both her hands, looked
into her face with that wondering ea -
e 236 South 1 unbeth Roaa pression in ii mall there was something
Ile !eel :-nuked several times before incredulous and. something sorrowful;
a look of great and selfless tender,
noes. The face of Nelda was lighted'
up, end her big eyes filled with tears..
Disengaging one of her jeweled hands,
she ruffled Nicol Brinn's hair.
"You knew I would come?''
"Hew was I to know that you would
ser my message?"
She opened her closed left hand and
smoothed cut a scrap of torn paper
the r vn', opened by the woman to
t'Irr t t tr : ii l Jones had caIlcd on the
t‘e-u.een t f Ifarley's visit.
"1 ma a };,lice officer" said the de-
tcr'z r 1 t.vel.oc( "ands I have called
t:; ann named Jones formerly
in
ti,:e cy of Sir Charles Abing-
don.'
"Sri • re—t. away last night to n job
in the i -t y:'
"le c Lt !cave no address to which
lettere j - re to be forwarded?"
"lbleg :-ni d sho would write."
cIiAZ,TER -XV.
NMAA,
dusk v c;' falling that evening.
Gaily l i c.t ears offering glimpses
a_f w,,nen i', elaborate toilets and of
their L :ek.c anted and white-shirted
even', s t'.y ,:aged Piccadilly, bound
for tic r re t • restaurant. The work-
aday nn t . were palled down, and
the tel ,. of London had cam-
meatiel. West End was he pose
session n ' f 1.1 army of pleasure seek-
ers but Nirt:- ilrinn was not among
thein e ..
zn, ^d Nieel Brian.
1loskitw. tb-t tt-at manservant, en-
tered. "A Indy to ere you, eir.n
Nicol Ream t.:'rnecl in a flash.
' She s .Ce
"Ent h?"
`u. , t 1 ;n lady.0
The r.. •: r t.. ,::i,(nnFd again, and
Ire. 1 just inside an-.
ne e es le see you, `re -
1 -,iept•r i and hewed as a
tall, elr,.1 r ..: entered the room.
. She wore ;s lege wrap trinmiecl with
fur, the r.: 1 ..;ed up abnut her
'fae flee forwardd-she took
and stopred Ileekins withdrew and
closed the cit
' At thee, while '.-,.l Brien watched
her with e, yrpl ic,t transfigured fen-•
twee, t':: w Breen ;.flowed the cloak
r Lo slip from her 4e—elders, an, rais-
ing her head lr.i both her hands,
uttering a ..1....d cry of greeting
that was a rc.!,. She was dark.
With the d i c;:: of the East, Int
beautiful with a beauty that was
tragic.
He was answered by a shuddering
sigh, but he did not glance in the di:
rection of the settee.
"In India I respected what you told
me. Because you were strong, I loved
you the more. Here in England I
can 110 longer respect the accomplice
of assassins,"
"Assassins? What, is this some-
thing new?"
"With a man's religion, however
bloodthirsty it may be, I don't quar-
rel so long as he sincerely believes in
it. But for private assassination I
have no time and no sympathy." It
was the old Nicol Brian who was
speaking, coldly and incisively. "That
—something eve both know about—
ever moved away from those Indian
hills was a possibility I had never con-
sidered. When it was suddenly
brought home to ane that you, you,
might be here in Landon, I ahnost
went mad. But the thing that made
me realize it was a horrible thing, a
black, dastardly thing. See hero.
He took both her hands and looked
grimly into her face, "For seven
years I have walked around with a
silent tongue and a broken heart. All
that is finished. I am going to speak."
"Ah, no, no!" She was on her feet,
her face a mask of tragedy. "You
swore to me, you swore to mel"
"No oath holds good in the face of
murder"
"Is that why you bring me here?
Is that what your message means?"
"My message means that because
of—the thing you know about—I am
suspected of the murder:"
"Oh," moaned Naida, "what can 1
do, what can I do?"
"Give me permission to speak and
stay here. Leave the rest to me."
She pressed her little hands against
his shoulders.
"Listen! Oh, listen!"
"I shall listen to nothing."
"But you must—you must! I want
to make you understand something.
This morning I see your note in the
papers. Every day, every day for
seven whole long years, wherever I
have been, I have looked. In the pa-
pers in India. Sometimes In the pa-
pers of France, of England."
"I never even dreamed that you
left India," said Nicol Brian, hoarse-
ly. "It was through the Times of
India that I said I would communicate
with you."
"Once ---we never left India. Now
Her cloak lying,; forgotten, she ad-
vanced toward him.
' wo do—sometimes, But listen. I. pre -
which she held there. It was from the pared to come when—he---"
"Agony" column of that day's Times. Nicol Brinn's clasp of Naida tight -
lel. Ncnember 23, 1913. ened cruelly.
N. B. See Telephone Directory. "Oh, you hurt me!" she moaned.
"I told you long, long ago that I "Please let are speak. He gave mo
would conte if ever You wanted me." your name and told me to bring you!" (With soul awakened, wise and strong'
Ile seated himself beside her on the Nicol Brian dropped his arms and: he stands,
settee, and held her close. "91y Holding his destiny within his hands.
Naida!" he breathed softly.
"Ah, no, no!" she entreated. "Do
you want to break my heart?"
He suddenly released her, clenched
his big hands, and stared down at the
carpet. "You have broken mine."
Impulsively Nelda threw her arms
around his neck, ceiling herself up
lithely and characteristically beside
hila,
"My big sweetheart," she whisper-
ed, crooningly. "Don't say it --don't
say it"
.
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THE GOLF WIDOWER'S
.DIVORCE •H-lEARING
id. Chicago man has sued his wife
for divorce on the ground that sho
neglects him and his children to play
golf.—News item.)
Q.—Is this ]tidy Your wife?
A, -Her face is familiar, but I don't
recall her tan;
Q.—It's been a long time since
You've seen her? - le,—e haven't seen .her to apeak of
Once warm weather set in,
Q. -When were you married?
A, Irl December, 1911,
Q,—Why in December?
A.—Ali the golf 50(118es were
frozen over and elm could spare the
rima.
Q. -Were .you happy?
A.—Until the following spring.
Q.—What happened in the fallow-
ing spring?
A,—The links reopened.
* * *
Q. -Did your' wife ever spend any
time at hone?
A.—Only when it stormed.
Q.—You did everything you could
to make your home attractive to her,
slid you not?
A, --I even put grass on the floor
and had the entire house trapped by
one of the best known golf course de-
signer's in America.
Q.—Diel she make any complaint?
A.—Yes; she said she never could
be happy in it home that had no water
hazards.
* * *
Q.—Was she extravagant?
A,—Extravagant to the extreme.
Q.—What do you mean by that?
A.—She often lost as many as eight
golf balls a day, •
Q. -And you Lad to buy her new
ones?
,A.—Yes,
Q. --This did not keep her content?
A.—No, 1 had to buy some of the
fifty cent balls and she usod to com-
plain constantly that I couldn't af-
ford to keep her supplied with dollar
ones.
* a *
Q. --Have you any children?
A.—Three.
The Wife (inteneipting): FOUR!
Judge: Which is right? Your wife
says four.
A. --She's played golf so steadily
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it carefully) for each number and A.—Mashie, Niblick and Comm
address your order to Pattern Dept., Q.—Was she kind to them?
Wilson Publishing Co., 73 West Ade-A.—Well, she used to let them play
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return mail. Q.—Did this have a good influence
--t'
on them?
The New Negro
A;—No; they grew up to be M-
lle scans the world with calm and veterate tiara.
fearless eyes, * * *
Conscious within of powers long Q.—You have had very little of your
since forgot; wife's company?
At every 'step, now man-made barriers A. --I figure I have only seen her
rise for about eleven weeks out of the last
To bar his progress—but he heeds sixteen years.
them not. Q.—Did you ever chide her about
this?
He standn erect, though tempests A.—Yes.
round him crash, Q,—What was Ler answer?
Though thunder bursts and billows A.—She said that was par for the
surge and roll; mately.
He laughs and forges on, while light- Judge: Decree granted. Custody
ninge flash, of children to husband; custody of
Along the rooky pathway to his golf clubs to wife!
goal.
Impassive as a Sphinx, he stares Monopoly Conditions
ahead— Halifax Herald (Con.): Sir Hen.
Foresees new empires rise and old 17 Thornton suggests that the Mari -
ones fall; time people "have every reason to
'While castle -arae; nations lust for be satisfied" with the treatment they
blood to shed, are receiving from the C.N.R. Lot it
He sees God's huger 'writing on the be stated that the Maritime people
wall. are far from satisfied with this treat-
ment.. . For years Nova Scotia
stood, as a man amazed, watching her.
(To he continued.)
Turning, fiercely he seized her. "I
won't let you go!" he cried, and there There'd Be Nothing In It
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was a strange light in this eyes. "Be-
fore I was helpless, now I ata not.
This time you have come to me, and
•o stay."
you shall Y
"I trusted you, I trusted you!" she
moaned. be anythingin the flask.'
"I couldn't drink anything out of
a bask after that fellow for money."
"Why not? He seems a pretty
clean chap."
"Clean enough; hut there wouldn't
Nicol Brian clenched his teeth
grimly for a moment, and then, hold- . -------4----
e t - ..
ing her averted face very alas o his Something wrong.
own, he began to speak in a low, neon- i Sir. Newlywed—"What on earth
Mellow voice. "For seven years °Tare you trying to do?"
he said, "I have tried to die, because Wire. Newlywed—"I was reading
without you I did not care to live. I about cooking by electricity, so I hong
have gone into the bad lands of rho! the chops ou the electric bell, and I've
world and into the worst spots of I been pusbing the button for half an
1 those watt
have bad lands. Night
me, and Night and day yyour our . hour, but it doesn't seem to work!"
eyes g
wakened from dreams of your lasses
and gone out to court murder. I have; Minard's Lintmetn for Chilblains.
1, E. McCaCI1 in Opportunity.
Thri,;w No St :nes
School With Glass Walls
Will Be Built in Berlin
Berlin.—The Steglitz District of tate
German capital is to have an enor-
mous new public school constructed
practically entirely of glass.
According to the plans, the building
will consist of a frame of steel and
concrete, with outside walls of heavy
Plate glass. The partittions separat-
ing the classrooms will also 'consist
of glass.
The idea Is to bring as much sun•
u
light cheer to the teachers and pupils
as possible. To carry the cheerful.
nese still further, the new school will
be surrounded by a beautiful park,
visible from every section of the
building,1
even the lItelde rooms. If
the experiment is successful all new
schools here will be built along the
same lines.
Too Ladylike.
"Nonsense, Freddy, of course you'll
have your hair cut"
Freddy—"I won't! It's too much
like bein' a girl.
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Through Till Spring
Mrs. Grayson Abandons
Transocean Flight; Return-
ing Here to• Consult
With Sikorsky
Old Orchard, Me.—Mrs. Frances
Grayson announced. the return of her
amphibian plane, The Dawn, to New
York, with the words:
"In my disappointment of to -day, I.
can only strive for a bigger, greater
success to -morrow."
Mrs. Grayson made known her de-
cision 01 a dramatic way at the flying
camp she had maintained here for
almost three weeks, when with only
a few moments' warning she handled
a- typewritten statement to the news-
paper I tenets of that religion, Every ]aura
mon, devotes his whole life -to "going un"—
up and up from one stage of perfec-
tion to "another. Indeed, the lama
heaven is supposed to consist of some
thirty-two storeys or Magee' of ad-
vancement.
Zirinba-ga is very fat, very, very
rich, and a confirmed optimist. Ile
has one of the best jobs in the Far
shippers have had the privilege of
interelrange of traffic as between the
two groat railways at certain "gate-
ways," notably Saint John and Ste.
Rosalie. This privilege the C,N.I1.
would now withhold... It was never
the intention of the Duncan Commis-
sioners that the Maritimes should
lose privileges they enjoyed previous
to the inquiry—and the Maritime poo•
plc have no reason to feel satisfied
with efforts of the C.N.R. to wipe out
those privileges.
Silence is Golden.
Lady—"You said this parrot was
worth its • weight in gold, and he
hasn't said a word!"
Dealer "Well, silence is golden,
isn't it?"
E1r;vats,.rs Lunt.
"Living, Eitaiddh.,'
Panchen Labra ' Will Install
One in His Palace-
Awaits "Foreign Juice"
Peking.—Famous Lhasa, the Forbid-
den City of Tibet, is already being
"spoiled" and modernized by. the °roc -
tion of an electric lighting plant, but;.
now the palace of the Panchen Lama,
one of the "living Buddhas," ie to see
the installation of a modern elevator!
The Panchen Laine himself is noW
in Multden, the capital of Manchuria,
but he intends to return to Lhasa in
the spring. In the meantime he has
sent his Zim-ga-ba, or 'head porter,"
on ahead to make the thousand:and
one necessary ceremonial arrange-
ments.
Zim-ga-ba who made the return bye,
way of Tientsin, Shanghai, and then.
up the Yeasts°, announces that the.
most interesting and important .thing.'
seen on the trip was the "foreign
.style" elevators installed in the Largo.
department stores in Shanghai, The
Lama's palace at Lhasa must have
ono as soon as the "foreign juice," or
electric current, is turned on.,
Coincides With Testa.
That an elevator would appear up -
Proximate to devotees of-lamaism is
only natural, whoa one considers the.
The purpose of the return and the.
consequent postponement of the pro-
posed flight to Copenhagen was to
confer, sho said, with Igor Sirkorsky,
builder of the plane. It appeared
probable that this would eliminate
no Dawn from any transatlantic
flight before Spring.
I wish to ascertain," she said, Least, for he it is who arranges all oP
"ruby the Plano gained altitude, then I the Panchen Lama's interviews. No
lost 400 feet, according to Pilot Wil-
mer Stoltz on our third attempt at the petition reaches the "Living Buddha"
end of Pour hours when the plane eves I without first passing through Zim-ga-
a
approximately 1 000 Quads lighter, Ira's !rands, and the Poncl en Le.ma's
pp y p m all rondo up by this
causing him to turn about and head
I purchases a , „Dose; porter."
westward toward Old Orchard to gain Neeciless'to say, he retains subslan-
altittude, which he failed to gain tial commissions op all of the pnr-
within the one hour before the engine' chases, tilt elle ,loos not realize how
event bad.. Lucrative the interviews can be until
one tries to obtain an interview.
First ,the Panchen Lama is said to
hying personnel, whose experienced be ill; then he is Pasting; then he Is
judgment I have always heeded Af- Praying; then he is meditating, and
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320 Bay St. - Toronto
"I have arrived at this conclusion
after making these attempts and giv-
ing 100 per cent. co-operation to my
ter careful analysis Virtue decided; then ho is 111 again. All of these
that expert opinions and further tests cases are offered moat 'suavely by the
aro advisable before attempting an-, Yale and 'imposing 'Zini-ga-ha—eo im-
other take -off. In malting this de- nPosiot prng offer is liea , in fact, that one dares
tip.
Dollars Work Magic.
But finally, if one remembers that
even member's of Parliament in this
country will sell their votes, and if one
then carelessly shows two or three
silver dollars—the poor Panchen
Lama is quickly interviewed, wheth-
er he lilies it or not.
Great Britain, do not sloe any purpose Gifto enpiteedly intended for the
01 continued huge naval' program- Lama must precede the formal call,
will sooner or later ask the Govern- but the gifts are ahvays corflscatcd
ments of their respective countries by Zhn-ga-ba and hie aides, and since
just what their ideas are in spending they vary from jade and silks and
furs to whole pigs, it can readily be
seen that a head porter's job is not
to be scorned.
This trip to "civilization" has made
Swimming the English Channel • the Panchen Lama's whole entourage
used to be a feat Now it ie sn au rich, for before lie started Zine-ga-ba
tomo sport. It may become simply provider] himself with bales of find
a feminine habit, seeing that tierce Tibetan furs. These gifts he emit to
crossed in one week. people upon whom the Panchen Lama
intended to make calls, and later, as
is the Chinese austere, the reolpiente
had to send gifts even more lavish
before they returned the calls. Of
course furs are very cheap in Tibet
and very expensive, in comparison, in
Shanghai, Tientsin, Peking or isluk•
den, so Zlin-ga-ba profited immenselY
by the exchange.
eision, I believe I ani exercising com-
mon sense and good judgment."
Minard's Liniment for Neuritis.
Big Navy Talk
Victoria Times (Lib.) : 1t is pretty
certain that those elements in the
States which, like similar elements in
such vast sums of money on fighting
equipment most of which so obvious-
ly is unnecessary.
women
Enlist Now!
With the party of Christmas
homegoers leaving Halifax
for the Mother Country.
Make sure of a right royal
Christmas and good time
with your family and friends
on the other side.1
See a steamship agent to -day.
Round Trip from $155 up.
Children ;half fare— every.
thing included,
Christmas Sailings
From HIALIFAX.
Dec. 5—ANTONIA for Plymouth;
Havre and London,
Dec. 11—ATHENIA for Belfast, 3
Liverpool and Glasgow. ;
Dec. 12—ASCANIA for Plymouth,
Havre and London.
From ST. JOHN, a N.B.
Dec. 10—ATISENIA for Belfast;
Liverpool and Glasgow.
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The Christian Science Monitor
Points the Following
Perennial Joke
Edmonton, Alta. — S. Cunningham
of south Cooking Lake received a par-
cel of wheat in 1926 that had been
taken from the tomb of Ting Tut -
ankh -Amen in 1922. Mr. Cunningham y,
planted this wheat on Ole Alberta
farm last year and harvested a small
crop from the Egyptian seed. This
was reseeded in the spring of 1027
and has yielded a heavy crop. The
wheat produced is quite unlike the
wheat grown in this country, as each
;stock has about 12 separate heads
which branch out in a fan-like forma-
tion from tiro tip of the stalk, al,
The yield of this wheat from seed
more then 3000 years old, is very
heavy, an 110'. Cunningham counted
1144 grains on one stalk. This wheat
from the tomb in the Valley of Kings
le a bearded variety and similar in
some respects to Durum. It would be .it
Il for
than formacaroon
ui solo
more s i.
milling ea 1t is a soft wheat, and tate
leaves are much broader than the or-
clinary leaf. Dr. P. Keever, of Ed-
monton, planted seed received from ee
Egypt come eight years ago and from
an acro plot he harvested 87 bushels.
Ho Won.
At the. Spinners Arms one night, an
er'gument arose as to who had been
worsting with the same master the
longest.'
"I've been working under the same
boss for forty years," declared one
old miner.
1 think I con beat that," retorted
Jenkins for is my golden wedding
next week
Have you been for an airplane rifle
yet, i;i' aro you a little bit embarrassed
to admit that yoi? llavfn'le