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WINCaHA.M ADVANCE -TIMES
We found ,Jifferdene FtwFtitin „ us is the axxt}.r;loser."
when we got to Seotiand Yard," IX ""There did it happen?", enquired
took us to a. little waiting -room and Spiller.
"closed the door on the three of us, "I,Fp Paddiegton`.way," replied Jif -
',And by that time, having debated on ferdene, "If you know 1\Iaida Vale,
it with myself in the intervals of my you'll know that there's a stretch of
conversation • with Spitler in conning, the, Regent's.'Canal runs between Ecl-
along, I had made up my mind not to gets are Road and'VVarwiele Crescent,
The. roadway' on one side is called
Blomfield Road on the other Maida
Ixiientioned Nealnore, I should have to Hill West, He was found lying by
the Canal. Wall in Blomfield Road,
about twenty ,yards from the bridge
that connects -Warwick Avenue' with
Harrow Road, That wase at 3 •o'clock',
this morning --a: policeman found hint.
He'd been -dead half -an -hoar of so, ac-
cording to„the police surgeon. Knifed!
-and the man whi knifed him knew
where to strike, too! But the object!
That's a puzzle! Every pocket in: his
clothing had been turned out; some of
his effects;" watch, money, and so on
were found aside on the path as of no
consequence; his coat and waistcoat
q
had been ripped up here and there—
it's very eyident the murderer had
been looking, for something, Btit
whether he got it or not,—who
knows?"
"No clue, of course'?" suggested
Spiller.
"None! Not a scrap' of a clue," said.
her afterwards—if it's necessar I nxent went. on, I n
I " tolook round y' H Jifferdelie. , "Of course, the police are
about,and suddenly, at: the fat I went orf to find Lady Renai ds < y g „ leaking extensive enquiries round
and mere in thegarden. " Much to my resdidn't see me—and' heft -the place. g
of: the roomat a table set in a about, to see if they can hear of his
end
• e light, I saw"lief she gave: me leave immediately "Well," said-Jifferdele, "I want you having been seen . round that quarter
corner, and. full in th g ,n uestions what- (to identify him anyway, Mr. Cranage, nx 'an
Neamore, with hint—Holliment! without asking any q Y late: last ,night, and in whose company
y.
�e heree, en offered me the servic- 1'es—I know there are plenty of'oth-
There was- no mistake on my part ever --she even ,zbelt up to now, I've heard nothing,"
es of Walker and a fast car. I ex -let• people who could do- that, '' but "Wheie' is he?" asked Spiller:
about it—there they were, dining td -1 i alar reasons wH ou
plainest, that the man who had come ;there are particular Y Y "Paddington Mortuary. We'll go
not so
to fetch me had a car at - he door, 'should do it, and why you should. be there and. get Mr. Cranage to _identi-
ill r and I 'here to help Me at this point. You're ' „
and in a few minutes Spiller p fy him, replied Jifferdene. I forgot
were off, the only. person I 1 -now of who saw to say there were no papers of any
"Pretty business this, Mr.'Cran- the :.Chinaman—who—in my opinion,. on him.- noPerhaps the murderer
Z xctty hot busort
age," observed the detective when we
"away. "So far it's beyond -..,°..,,, .aee�a�.e,<,oa�„�
were fairly
me! : What do you make of it?" ' r
"I!" 1 exclaimed.:. "Good Teavens,
Heavens,
i "Good
d
I_ I exclaimed,
what -1 told you! I should think._ you
—and thatYard
—what do
-_you're . t
duties, however gruesome they might
to
cl no difference
t n He : i ,all.
made nada as on
Ca >rocc
' ers c Y,
1WI111 b
Juice May I+iow l e Obtain- xliy, companions' appetites, They ate
The new product,:Miller's = their example, putting away from my
Canadian. Herb Juice although 1 thoughts all anticipations of the un-
1mention Neamore in connection with
'1 went'out to Walker and 'lie car, you, Yet—why? There are others Holliment-yet, at any rate. Eor if 1
immensely 'relieved somehow, to have must be—who can identify Holliment
got rich of that mysterious little par as well as I can. Portsmouth people !mention Lady Renardsmere, and ` 1
Walker and I` arranged matters. —lots," Idichi't.want to. And after all, lea
cel. Wa
r tnd to Lady "Come one . on the terrace," 1 said, more night have nothing to do with
Tie was to take the. car of
Renardsmere's town house .in Park leading hire to the door, out of eat -,this business— Hollirnent, doubtless,
ie shot of the already curious servants, kne. .lent of men in London.
Latae,;�'et..ltls tea there, and meet i w -P,
A
at a certain spot near Piccadilly Cir-` "Look here!" I went on, "What' ex-' "I don't think there's any doubt that
case shall I make to Lady Renards- • — •: m the des-
cus at precisely half past -eight. Hethis man is Holliment fie.
went off—and .I strolled.idly,ativay, to mere? I don't want to tell her liar cription I had of him in Portsmouth,"
rspellofliberty. 1 dawdled mixed up in; a murder business—at'
'remarked if£erdexie when he'd shut
endo} a Y J r
tip the Strand, took a look round the an}r'rate not until I know more about Ithe`door. "I should say there's no
Haymarket arket and Coventry Street, andit," � doubt
Y t -
t about. it."
'turn- Spiller nodded, and consider ed Ina
just after six o'clock,. i z la t , night,"-
and
i ht -
•
ed atMl. Cranage saw him s g ,
a
teas, I "
e
d into the Trocadeto,- bent 'on,a good e nod
observed Spiller with a at sire;
and leisurely dinner. "1.e11 her a friend -or acquaintance
—of ours „has met with a very seri- f "Oh?" said Jifferdene. "Where was
Early as it was the place was sires- Y that?" •
us accident in !:endo x and your pre
full, and during the next o { ``At the T`ocadero—getting his din -
big
dy pretty sense' is needed," he said. Ask her
hour -it became fuller—by seven the le of days' leave - ou May per,"' said -'I, "That was about seven
room in whi.oh I was , dining *as for a coup y Y I , „
kinghave; to stay the night. That'll do, o clock.
not far froxu'being packed. 'Ivey "Did you speak ;to lain?n? he asked;
ride had made nae hungry, however, surely? Those fellows in there don't
_ "1 didn't—I didn't wantto..After
1 Ipaid. little attention to. the peo- know. tne—nobody. knows me here- and aboirts, You can explain things, to my recent adventures with .1 -1011i -
her near nae. But as my appetite be-" I "I didn't want to
came satisfied, began haveanything to do with hand e
Faculty of Dentistry nor the distance so great,
wh
office Over H. E. Isard's Store.` not see them clearly. They had a big
ha bottle of champagne ' between them,
R. II MBLY and they were eating and drinking
W. voraciously. 'But also they 'were in.
B.S., M.D., C.M. ciose and earnest conversation, so
sk spectat rtentlsn paid to diseases of close that they gave no attention to
taken
init
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reanybody.t
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eai0logy and Scientific^ Medicine.
be-
' nee
so:,Iffice in the Kerr Residence,
foleen the Queen's Hotel and the Bap -
t --Church.
°nk.11 business given careful attention.
txi,,one,. 54. P. O. Box 113.
tie
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aQr• Rob. C. Redmond
0M.R.C.S. (Eng.) L.R.C.P. (Lond.)
e, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Dr. Chisholm's old stand.
R. R. L. STEWART
"k Graduate of University of Toronto,
-sat,culty of Medicine; Licentiate of the
atario College of Physicians and
•d etrgeons.
Office in Chisholm Block•
eTsephine Street. Phone 29.
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selves.'- •Holliment!—with i\ealxnore,
to whom Lady•Renardsrere had Said
before!
ten thousand pounds the day
For what?
For the' half of a second I thought
og'going up to Holliment and accost-
ing him. But the impulse passed as
quickly as it had arisen. No!—I had
accidentally discovered enough for>
that' time. Holliment was in London,
and he knew Neamore. I should
hear more of both, yet. And lest he
should see me, or Neamore should, as
soon as I had finished my dinner I
paid my bill, left the place by the.
nearest door, and went elsewhere for
coffee and a cigar. It seemed to me
that at that juncture it was best that
eyes
neither of these suers should. sety
:h Dr.: Margaret C. Calder
General Practitioner
Graduate University of Toronto
in <�aculty of Medicine
e-- ose hire St., two, doors s6uth,.
dffic J P.
of 13Yunswick. Hotel.
elephones: Office 281, Residence 151.
F. A. PARKER
tl
OSTEOPATH
All Diseases Treated
Office adjoining residence next to
t ;nglican Church on Centre Street.
Sundays by appointment.
Hours -9 a. m. to 8 p. m.
Osteopathy Electricity
Teleiphone 272.
on me.
met Walker and the car half way
down Lower Regent Street at half
past -eight,` and we shook off London
and went home. Lady Renardsmere
was still tip when we arrived, and
though she said little I could see that
she was relieved and pleased when I
gave her the solicitor's note..: But she
said nothing about the nature of my
errand, nor did 1 tell her what I had
still
,
seen. at the Trocadero. I was
thinking about that matter next morn
ing, when, about eleven o'clock, I was
fetched out into the hall to see some-
body, who, said the'footman, declar-
ed,.he must have speech with me im-
mediately.
The somebody was Detective Spill-
er, from Portsmouth. He` came close
up, whispering.
"Mr. Cranage, you'll have to come
with pie!" he said. "Up to town at
once! -I've got a car outside. You
haven't heard anything, of course.
!—
Well, that .man Holliment. you
know? He was found in the West
End early this morning, dead?—Mur-
dered!"
CHAPTER VIII
The First Murder
curt
I was so taken aback. by this
announcement that for the moment I
could do nothing but stand and stare
at its maker, conscious that the foot-
man who had fetched tine out, and the
butler, who had just come into the
hall, were, in their turn, staring at
me. But' suddenly I found my .ton-
gue.
"Holliment?!„
N[tirdered, I exclaim-
ed. "`Impossible!' Why, ,I saw hint,
myself, only last night!" •
about it,` Mr.
No impossibility
Cranage, returned Spiller, coolly.
"Plenty of time in which' to get mur-
dered between last night and this
morning, But look'here!"
He pulled out a telegram and open-
ing it handed it to me, I confess that
try hand shook as I took it from
iiiim—already my imagination was at
work, and I saw Holliment being
slowly and surely tracked clown......
"That's from Jiiferclene--the : pian
who was with pie sed the Chinese
gentleman .the, other day," said S'pill-
er. "Read. it!
T read:
"Man confidently believed to be
Holtitnent found murdered in West
End early this morning get Cranage
end bring Up here quickly as possible
urgent,'"
"Yes,"
�,
�`es, I said,; hitt: he only says» --
confidently believed. It might be.
I-iowevcre-I suppose I,' moat go with
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1ppointments. • Special appointments
tigde for those coming any distance.
i' Out of town ana
night
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601.
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appointment.
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carried them off -if he had any.
•"' Might have had ' a pocketbook, ' of
course. • However, we'll go. But
you've had a longish ride, and it's
you say to
a bit
t do
e. tiUha Y
at.on Y
P s
o .lunch first?"
B . Iuiportant
f,
ha x from Scotland restaurant in
c toarc.
1 round
e went
W
ne.
x—ifede 'l
• 1 lint i speedily -
We
cal � s e
you J I and. I was
. ntemei Pallianient Street, a P Y
the anon to know things a n O.0 1made aware that: their professional
w
I).. 11. McINNES
CHIROPRACTOR
MASSEUR
ijustfor diseases of
intitits given
:.
kinds, specialize . in dealing with
ren. Lady attendant. Night Calls
ed td,
i Ont,
i 0f7i SCRitt St, WitAg'I R{ra, ,
e hoose of the late' Jas. Walker..
Telephone 150.
about it!"
"Aye, well," he remarked with a
dry laugh. "); can assure you we
know next to.nothing. That Chinese
gentleman who came with us to see
you—if anybody knows,anything, he
does. But those Easterns 1—Lord, you
might as well try to get butter out. of
a dog's inouth as news out of them,
if they don't want to give`it!".
"How did .he' come to be with you,
anyway?" I enquired. "I've wonder-
ed a good Ileal about that."
"I'll- tell you," he answered. " ,He
turned up, with Jifferdene, at our_ he -1 constipation and bil_liousness,
adquarters at. Portsrnotith, a''few days !'
t s are voluntarily expressing their t -
before we saw yeti on those Downs. gratitude by ,giving statements
3
rb
ed From All Druggists land drank heartily—so I followed
on the market, only a few mon-
ths, has created a".decided sensa-
tion in every city in which it
has been introduced. Scores of
sufferers - who .' have secured s•
prompt and permanent relief
from stomach diseases, imper-
fect digestion, liver : troubles,
He ,wanted to get news of. some• ' for publication._
who,•he said,
a Chinaman,1manufactured
Chinaman,....Herb Juice is
inPort' -
been S
have }
was believed to � from a formula decided upon by °
mouth of late and. whom the Chinese minient h sicians after years
anxious to lay'' oro p y
Legation were very. of study and ;,practice. Herb
on.I was, told off to make "en name implies, is
hands Juice, as the p ,
quiries. Eventually— really within prepared from herbs,°roots and
twenty-four hours, 1. found that a I barks -"laced on earth`�for. the,
i Y respectable � P . a. •v-
huxazuan evidently a 1 healing of mankind. deans h
Chinaman,Iheahg�
e iii. ,•r twice o w
seen oncet heal -
company
been age, k
e,
had1
xilan aripeod
op
edt
,
We went
to' the
with Holliment.thy and enjoyed life 'due,
Holliment's place and found, h lived near nature
to fact that they
doin s there and
there'd been strange g ..and. all of their medicines were
that Holliment had vanished. Then ° from herbs, roots and
prepared .
round about, and.1,d and - tae -
w e made enquiries1 barks. Years of studyp
that potman at the Admiral Hawke L tice have demonstrated the fact
about a strange young gentle -the diseases and
told us g° that many of ..
Man who'd been at Holliment's• place sufferings of , mankind are cau-
Two or three clays lateraccumulation of ois-.
all 'one day.sed'by an ace P
he came to us acrd said he'd found that , onous waste in the body, due to
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NITURE DEALER
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young gentleman—you-and told us
S
where you were. So we came up to
heard
Reiiardsmere•-and 'rem
f yon
about the Chinaman who looked in at
' and s window, a d afterwards
broke in with other fellows. See?"
"And is that all you know?" I ask-
ed. I
"All 1 know np to, now," he replied.
Mi•. Shen n went off with that : much
news, and Jifferdene with him. I've
heard nothing hin • more until I got this
-
wire,"
this," said y s
comes togradually
it scall} the bowels alone L. g Y
"What were after was'liver and'
' you three the stomach
LY?,, tones ,
t but some Chinaman. stimulates ttaese or -
not Holliment, bowels and
What's about ithe anlttwered. A
'.gaps"to morevigordus activity
Chinaman! Z tellyou,--te Chinese in a ild, general, natural way Y
.,;
. r
Legation want' hien—whoever lie is—
' without discomfort- or dxst,,ess
pretty badly, so match so that they
and thonly„a„
fte:;effec
t is gte
r
set Scotlaid Yard to find hintBut nous relief and"betefit.
`s
r and who.lie x druggists,
vvliy they want him, For,:safe by' all drt gg ,.
ent has or had to do -
and what Holliment Price. $I.00.
stomach, diseases, imperfect di-
gestion,: liver and stomach and many constipation Y oth
er troubles... such.. as... unsound
o ._...If .the el -
1 "sleep and bad bio d
aminating organs are working
properly
the' food
converted
•
into. rich blood, if not working
properlyerlY
f
eAnente
d
mass
g
en-
Ycrates poison that is absorb -
1
ed • into, the .blood. Herb „Juice,
the new, herbal remedy acts on
the organs of elimination not on
it,I've no nore notion than an
with >✓
,
'tinhorn babyl”
"Spiller!" I said "I'11 lay you. any-
thinghat if it's [olliznent
'you like t
'
that s murdered itwasthat hat Chinaman
murdered him!"
" that's a certainty," he
I should say S',•
"You'd ' xe salandother real
oudlfarm
reniarlced wvitl. a laugh. �. .mortgages on fa
t
pleasant task before me. And to do
•thein justice they talked no shop over
their lunch—instead we talked of rac-
ing, and Iadvised thein to put their
last sixpence on Rippling Ruby, of
whom, from personal . acquaintance, I'
;ave them a glowing account: We
—
got on very well together—and and at l,ast
we paid our bills went out again into.
the bright Spring afternoon and set
off in a taxi -cab to Paddington—to
get it over.
"Ode -good lool'Il ,do, Mr. Cran-
age," whispered Jifferdene, as we
walked into. the Mortuary.
"No need to hang about! -you'll
know if it's the man- •. or not. Now
then. .
That was Holliment. He was very
awful. ,
-r el
still, andwei} white; and very
"That's' he!" I whispered. "Good
Heavens!—and. last night... ,.."
We .went out again. We walked
across Paddington Green in silence,
"Where it happened," observed Jif-
ferdene, suddenly, "is only about five
niinutes walk from here—up behind
those flats. But`I dont :know that it's
worth while going_ to look—nothing
to see, of course, but the mere spot.
And there's more to do yet, Mr.
Cranage. I• want yott`to go with me:
now, to 'see a Chinese gentleman
who's Staying at the Langham Hotel,
and then to -night I want to take you
down Limehouse way.'
"1 suppose I'm in your hands," 1 as-
sented,
"yell, we'll` get it through as qui-
' con-
cerned,"
as we:can, as far as you'ret
cerned," he said, "As for you, Spill-
er, you'd better get back to Ports-
mouth and go on with those ehtluir-
ies there—find' out -more about Holli-
ment and that Chinaman—there must
get at. Look here,!" he seen, that he's some big 'commercial- Mickleliorough had . just left, stood' as be more to
aside and for a few mini magnate. He's got a suite of rooms venerable. Chinaman, ,clad in -his na-
drew Spitler <s,;
"Getat the Lan han`iand some of oar lead- x iadc' a striking and','::
tines talked earnestly with hin'i. g flue .dress, He a
i lode
d
t aFyou can,". he concluded,
at that,
and, of 'cottrse,•i.ecpenc posted,"
said good dayto me, and
• Spiller'
went, toff to catch' a train home; Jif-
ferdcnc, after we had walked a little'
further, hailed a taxi -cab, and. bade its
wasus••u+o�n. o<�a'a•°" aati+.n,•.ai' drivergo to the Langhatn Hotel, He
turned to nae ;confidentially when we
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at.thes Langham. I've seen him once, tutees he wants to, I only wish If
in company with Mr. Shen, and you •could get at what's behind his oId:
� parchment face!"
and I'll go and. 'see him again now l
what it's all about. But l " theta we pulledup at the Lang
He lrnows � JustP •� r
I'm damned if I. do!" haus, and• presently Jifferdene sent np.
"But if uhis1 old gentleman 'really his card to Mr,. Chen . We were nott,'
" I said,long—within a few
larows what- it's 'all about,kepi vtattitxg very
Eng-,
"can't.the resent ata-' a young Chinaman in Enb •
in few of minutes you,v n rn
p
te of things, get him to tell? Can't dish dress appeared, greeted the de-•
x him tell? g that it's tie politely, and taking`:, us up-
you make Seeing .tee v p y,
got to murder—" y stairs ushered us into' one of a' fine -
"Aye, but these. Easterns don't 'suite of rooms -and begging us to be; ..
importance! remarkedthat Mr. Chengwon
seem to attach so much 'seated - at
to human life as we do, Mr. • Craii- 'Id see us personally before long. Then,
age!""Andret andwe waited—five
he answered. as to ,a he disappeared t ,-
stiading hien to 'speak, or making him 'ten minutes. 'A door opened, a. dis
speak—well, you wait till you sec tinguished-looking , man came out,.
him! I haven't seen her myself, but crossed the room and'left it: by. the'
it's my belief. that the Sphinx would. door at which we had entered: Differ
.
-the last music -'.x
look as likelyto sin tie sdene bent. towards ale.
g
g ?",.
' int • asthis old atom is to tell -"Know that';nian Mr.'Cranage?" he
hall dittyY I .,
he doesn't want tot'
Company—
anything if l e.v asked.
"You'
,
"And who is he? I .asked. _ -You I? : No! I replied: Who is he?
saysome bigpot' in his own country. "Lord- M•icklbborough—chairman of
What's he doing here? Aral does he the Oriental Develo pment Company—
1 1
speak English?" • one of the• biggest'fihancial pots- itT
"He speaks English quite well—as the City" he answered: "His,firm-"'
wellandthat's is limself.
Shen lee it a 1
thatMr. S e t cinterrupted tied
as si" deli! r
He std y 1 ,•• ,
good enough -been at one.lof our un- twisting shadily in his ,chair and then:,.
ider-slight,'
iversities has `. Mr. Shen, ,I t rising quickly to his feet at a s g ,,
stand," he replied, "As to what the
old gentleman's doing here, I don't
cu but I fanc from what bit I've
1 ow, Y,
almost . hnperceptible sound' behind:
'us, I'tulned` and rose too—theree.
framed in the doorway which Lord -
"This is one oft the queerest cases
..:
—Broker— ..
Lucltixbw, ' Ontario. "I've -ever been engaged in, Mr. Can-
Phone
73. , age," lie said. "It's all • the quce!rer'
x first and. second Mone to lend of
ybecause, of these Orientals "being mix-
ed echup�,iia it: Spiller Tells the he's
you all he knisws; well, its a. fact that
I know very little mare!' :But I've
got an idea: Spitler told ybu, ,di`dn't
he, that it was the Chinese 1..egation
who set sane on to the track of this
— ble'rate of
n• one! tit reasone
million to b e o ie ries.' at a
fo in layili�, a tate p1 1 r
interest, also on it
and 'on personal notes.
ges on stock a d
hand' for sale or to
?;fewfarmsorr t
rent on. easy terms.
tat object?" ' I 1 first Chattel mortga
w] J
"All
'• know,"I aziswered. A
I don't
know is that I never 'saw a nxan in su-
ch absolute tliorougli fear as Holli -
silent t was "in when I told 'lima I'd seen
i
and slant•. ,ey yes
that chaps yellow face
at the windowl He was in ' deadly.
fear of his
life, ' SP 'rile
r -his life!"
Well, the chap's got of -him!" he said
"i oti'll fetid it'll be Holliment. But
r 'b the tinte Bo'4c 267 'Witigham, Ont. tleman---sonie big pot in Itis own.
Jxffertlette will. Itnow pro e Y
or o e 1 1 1 vlio"a now staying lac nditxitted "But—be wofi't speak
s
Chinaman who; was certainly known
UR
JAS. OILMO
to HolliMent in. Portsmouth? They
A ent.Zior— did—but there's somebody', behind the
G'lf
LROSS 'TTRE INSURAXV'CE Chinese L egation, and that somebody,
nsur0 in a Good Sound Company in Any opinion, is an old Chinese gen-
I
ing financiers. go there to see him,;
precise' rank, state,and so.
Wliht his pie is
w_ .no
on may be, 1 dont ' know—I know
him, and they know him ,at the Lang-
inx as :Sills Cheng."
ia <. 6
" "Nits, Cheng—I'll semember ' said I.
i far isMr. Cheng, ac-
quainted
1 ow fax
c uainted with the details of • this
case?"
'iHolliment knew '' a
As far as that w
int Portsmouth e-
;;ertain Chinaman r
..centl and that you,when in charge
Yr g
of Hollilnent's shop saw a Cliittainan
tool: in at the window,;that Holli-
'silent
olii-
nxentwas frightened to death ori hear-
ing of that, aitd that later a'Chinamati'
followed by a` gang of rotiglis, broke
in, whereupon Idollintctit fled. That,"
said Jifferdene, "is what Mr. Cheng
knows up to now.' ..And ncw,I'i go-
ing to
o-ing'to tell him that Hollirnent hae.
been. murdered," '
To see if it will nutlet hint. speak,
ei?" 1 suggested.
1
suggested.
, i "
"S%1Te11, perliaps that's In rYYy mind,
we get tip."
Pian /76 r cottnti y t tin c—n
picturesque figure, but. it was neither,
,; ,.
the colour ntt�r• the uitusualiiess .of it,
that struck tate so much as the < p1
ent great age of ..the slightly bowed''.
form and;the_' parclnnent-fitted, deeply
seamed face -about` it, He looked to
1
be at least a hundred years olds and ,
found myself bowing to hint as if in
reverence. ,He bowed back, smiling a
little, and I saw then, that. his eyes
were as aleft and as bright as those.
'w g
of a young mad,
"Please. to -walk iii,"
I. le=se• -
1
e
litiiiued` next week)
(Co )
Train No. 13 ort an Illinois railroad''
was s i'ecked with considerable loss of
life on March e3th.' This will stnnu'
late the thittcen superstition,. ---Buf-
falo 1xpress,
0---
Y
�ttiaa. lit %s putting
Now that rite. ,over c $ g'.
out a dollar 'in last :lenges, the next'
stc is to rnalte it •o -a, little farther.--•:
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Chicago ''ost,
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