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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1927-09-29, Page 611 4 .1 r Teo Its superb flavour satisfies. ass- . • ry.“:„., kt 5 ATT 4,1....rs•rwAr. a Y (0 114 d %ale P. Mt i a 2.1 -- I BEGIN kIRE TODAY. ning." ' He looked up. "Do you know Il Sir Charles Abingdon asks Paul what you have done to -night, Mr. Harley criminal investigator, to find Harley?" out why Sir Cahrles is kept in con- Paul Harley shook his head. Swift- stant surveillance by personsunknown to him. Harley dines at the Abing- like the touch of an icy finger, ly, that warning note of. danger had don home; Sir Charles falls from his chair in a dying condition. Abingdon's' reached him again. last words are "Nicol Brinn" and "I'll tell you," continued Brinn. 1 "Fire -Tongue." Dr. McMurdoch p•ro-"You have opened the gates .of hell!" flounces death due to heart failure.' Not another word did he speak Harley insists that Sir. Charles was while Paul Harley, pacing slowly up poieoned. [and down before the hearth, gave 'him Paul goes to call on Nicol Brinn, a plain account of the case, emitting millionaire club man. Brinn receives all reference to his personal suspi- his caller cordially but refuses to tell cions an I him the meaning of Fire -Tongue. and to the measures which he Brinn laughs when Harley warns him had taken to confirm them. ' that he stands in peril of his life and assures Paul that he welcomes the diveraion. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY. "You are out after one of the big heads of the crook world," he said, T • • • T • • .1' TL•TITT •TTTTTTT ,• • T ATTITT•TTTT MITT T TT TT T....TT "Mr. Harley," ;r IL Winn; sud- denly standing up, 'I anit." "'Yee ean't?" "1 have said eo, I3ut I'd give a 1.1111.11t Quick relief from Oahe Prevent shoe pressure. At ate ares and shoe srorc lot more than you might belie-ve toa know that Abingdon had told you the DerSCIII0118 story which he told slje020 d_. Pu* one on—the et pamr; gon0 "You are not helping, Mr. Brinn," said Harley, sternly. 'I believe and I think that you share my belief that Sir Charles Abingdon did not die from natural causes. You are re- pressing valuable evidence, Allow me to remind you that if anything should come to light necessitating a post- mortem examination of the body, you will be forced to divulge in a court of justice the facts which you refuse to divulge to ma" "I know it," said Brinn, shortly. He 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 1 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 ealeieh 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 glance around. "Mr. Harley—you know me. You've heard of me and now you've met me. You know my place in the world, Do you believe me when I say that from this moment onwardeI don't trust my own tervants? Not my own friends?" He removed his grip from Harley's shoul- der. "Inanimate things look like enemies. That mummy ever yonder may have ears!" "I'm afraid I don't altogether un- derstand you." "See here!" Nicol Brinn reamed to a bureau, unlocked it, and while Harley watch- ed hint curiously, sought among a number of press cuttings. Presently he found the cutting for which he was looking. "This was said," he explain- ed, handing the slip to Harley, "at the Players' Club in New York, after a big dinner in pre -dry days. It was said in confidence. But some disguised 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 AMBITfONS. "You think he was murdered? said, Brinn in his high, toneless voice. "I have formed no definite opinion. What is your own?" "I may not look it," replied Brinn, "but at this present moment I am the most hopelessly puzzled and badly "He knows it and he's trailing you. frightened man in London." My luck's turned. How can I help?" He half turned in the big chair to Harley stood up, facing Mr. Brinn. face his visiter, who now was stand - "He knows it, as you say," he replied, ing before the fireplace staring down "and I hold my life in my hands. But at him. froth your answer t•e the question "One day last month," he resumed, which I have come here to -night to "I got out of my car in a big hurry ask you, 1 shah conclude whether or at the top of the Haymarket. A fool not your danger at the moment Is on a motorcycle passed between the greater than mine." 1 car and the sidewalk jest as I stepped "Goc.d," said Nicol Brinn. I down, and I knew nothing further "My question is simple but' until I woke up in a drug store close strange," said Paul Harley. "It is, by, feeling very dazed and with my this: What do you know of 'Fire- e coat in tatters and my left arm numb- ed from the elbow. A man was stand- ing watching me, and presently when I had pulled round he gave me his card. "He. was Sir Charles All4ingdon, Tongue'?" CHAPTER V. •THE GATES OF HELL. If Paul Harley had counted upon *Tire-Tcngue" to have a dramatic effeet upon Nicol Brinn, he was not disienaoirited. 14'ireaTonguel" he said, tensely, followinea. short' Silence. "For God's sake, when did you hear that word?" fg heard it," replied Harley, slowly, l'W:etight." He fixed his gaze intently upee the sallow face of the American. "It was spoken by Sir Charles •Abing- don." fe9ir . Charles Abingdon," echoed Brinn; "and in what way is it con. - fleeted with yourcase?" this way," asnwered Harley. 141.t.N(1.1:3 spoken by -Sir 'Charles a few me- as Isafease ha ded)? orinn etsopnig lide flicker- ed ' rapidly. "Before he died! Then Si, Charles. Aliingdon is dead! When del Le: die?" • t '4'44e died to -night and the last wii;rds that he uttered were 'Fire- T4nguel.--" He paused, never for a milanent removing, that, fixed gaze frim the other's facers ?.,'"•Go ,n," erompted Mr. Brinn. •*!Aris.1 Brinn'." Brinn stnod still as a carven inn. Indeed,' only by an added rig- idity in his pose did he reward Paul intense scrutiny. A Silence' charged with seroma was .finally br'Olsen by the Americana' "Mr, Har - he said. "You told me that you were up against the big proposition ateeser eureeras •You ere right." -" With that he eat..down in an arms. halt and Tesiltg his chin in his hand, gazed fixedly into the -empty grate. Mite -me theevaliele 'staares;" said hlij Brinn, "right from the begin- SPEARMINT has a, tang •pee., ond 7,est to brighten your 4.11a 441'91. t 1r6.41?eitetth eshitti iistliheethethibilt ealk aide digeetiope, ita Brinn opersed his heart to' the Players' Club. who had leen passing at the time of the accident. That was how I met him, and as there was nothing seri- ously wrong with me I ea* him no more professionally. But he dined with me a week later arid I had lunch at his club about a fortnight ago." He looked up at Harley. "On tny solemn word bf1e6hor," 'Said; "that's all 1. know about Sir Charles Abingdon." When I ,can only suppose," Tenni"' 0(11 lIarleY; deliberately, athat"flit cause of your fear lies n theeterrn, Tire-Teneee."'a1..! '11 Brinnagain -rested dinlai his hand, staring fixedly into the grate. "Mr, Harley," he began,, abruptly, "you have been perfectly, frank with me and ,in return I wish to be as frank with ,you es I cen be, I am face to faces With ,a tIong that ii,as haented mafee seven yre41's; and. OdrY step 1 take frOin,now•orreard'Ilas to • be' considered, carefullY, for Ssey step might be mY laet not the worst of the mater 1 Will risk one of those steps here and now. You ak nte toexplain the aignificanceia.Vire- tongue" (there .was • a , perceptible Wilson Publishing Company Millionaire Sportsman Who Wants To Shoot Niagara! Mr. Nicol Brinn of Cincinnati, who is at pesent in New York, opened his heart to members of the Players' Club last night. Our prominent citizen, responding to a toast, "The Distin- guished Visitor," said: a "Pd 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 like to have a Montana sheriff's posse on my heels for horse -stealing, and I've prayed to be wrecked on a desert island like Robinson Crusoe to see if I am man enough to live it out. I want to stand my trial for murder and defend my own case and I want to be found by the on!mclis in the 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 Great Pyramid of Gizehe-and I'd love to *cot Nlagara Fall § ie. a Panel." "t sounds characteristic,n murmur- ed Ilarley, laying the slip on the eoffee "It's true!" declared Brim "I said , I t it. a glutton: fee DARING QUESTS:H., INTO THE IJNKNOVIN 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 new era .of marvellous p•ossibils ities in the realm of exploratioe is Opening. Just at a time when the average man in the street is saying: "There is 'no more eventure—there is nothing left on the planet to explore" the fascinating secrets of sea, air and, land are provoking mad alluring an ever-increasing number of men to the task of discovery. - It is an interesting fact that Bri- tai, France, America, Canada, Japae, ' • r lair.° For all I waslitti9' • 'and CI 'reel; moue pressures of 'elle waters haveie"' hitherto baffled, all man's attempts to investigate the secrets of the sea. Although laeds•beneath the eea cap. never be used 'to •SelVe the problem Oft'' the earth's overlerge pepulation, or utilized,—as the Air is—for transpor- tation, they offer a treiakire trove t< the explorer who age succeed. in con- quering them: for there is'no scierse title readmit...Why the mineral wealth Italy, eninark, Norway and even Bed . of dry land should not be repeated in Russia, are sponsoring scientific ex- peditions to be carried out officially under their respective flags; that this year exploration is being finaneed more extensively than was tbe case in any preceding decade and that ;fifty serious exploratory expeditions —apart from minor adventurous pro- Ijects—are being planned and equip- ped at this very hour. This is all the snore remarkable when one casts back and surveys what man has accomplished in the last two decades of the scientific age. What are the high lights from the period beginning when Peary stood on the frozen spot of ground which marks the North Pole, and ending say when Lindbergh fiew_from New York to Paris? Both snow-capped poles have been visited by men who travelled thither in ships, sleds, and snow shoes; and Amundsen has flown over the Pole, blazing the trail for the great air route, a the future. A SMART NEW FROCK. This chic frock is suitable for all daytime wear and is a very becoming style. The skirt has an inverted plait at the front and is joined to the bodice having a vestee and collar cut in one. The long dart -fitted sleeves are finished with shaped cuffs, and there is a shaped band at the hips. No. 1638 is in sizes 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42 inches bust. View A, size waste spaces of the earth have been 36, reguires 3% yards 39 -inch, or 2% surveyed and reclaimed,. An airway yards 54 -inch material, and % yard has been established over the mighty 39 -inch contrasting; View B requires Sahara, the grave of so many human the lands covered now by the oceans And there, ere,: besides; incalculable treasures lying on the. sea bed; the • , treasure ships of the Centuries which have. gone clown, with their precioue, cargoes of gold end 'jewels, although fairly accurately charted, have never been recovered. Dr. Beebe lejnvestigating the ppss sibility now of getting down a mile in a huge'annexed ease;•frern the luminated windows of which he can observe the life and' structure of the sea bed as heemoves clowly along it;. and in half -a -dozen countries marine engineers are studying ways arid e: means of stnstructing cylinder—for • • e a diving suit is out of the queztion— which will withstand the terrific pies - sures an denable men to explore the sea bed at great depths. The upper atmospheric strata have' been widely explored by means of bal- loons and ale, mechinee' in recent years, but 2000 feet.bo the 'earth is a realm of which very little 14' Mount Everest and most other of known; e ! : have been conquered by intrepid. Of what u.se, to Map 'is the explore' the world's loftiest mountain peaks climbers. Great tracts of desert and secticiretaaftiltheeuwreaPctrh:ri' ri: hitddheen entire wherein thoee,,dizey altitudm. Soundaas , ing balloons carrying recording in-. . e . strumente. assleighes 50,000 -feet have s• s , ' hinted as much to meteorologists; but the solution of the weather riddles de -es s s. mends hiniaati' observation. When this region is thoroughly ex- ploresinfaif avill'be able to predict ac- curately weather , conditions .. far's) ahead; He rney0171/1 discover enough !; ttththhueer eellNi great r. w4:eablatett:h:pr, r'n 1. o b'ltpe. teg:, 7 -t, f o.,bn,o).:V111..efoi,r:Ogi.::11,till ea? :siiii;Aimii!co' gaxiv thinks so, aid peep. assesea Techine m the near 'fel Cari an'ely•great...altitudei bi'i re'ahch- .''. . , • e ;;• *ill 'be' Vhiesto esce.nal• ,t4,31; t 50,60A feet.,,Vl."; ',.:'" ''':" Se -- , • ,- — se ,...... Ili ps• iL_017:rnit:iagee:,Tia::11,,!2:s"..:At:li6;4ii!arnito sotilsli;i4;301; „;'il to thitse a Lindbergh and Claamber-' Sa lain, si and the ' iEnglated-to;:fieestr•allisr ., a. Rime? of . ce11)?'9111 94:, the late •Ibesmil ;'..4.1though so many blank spaces. in 3% yards 39 -inch material, and % yard contrasting. Price 20 cents the pattern. Every woman's desire is to achieve that smart different appearance which draws favorable comment from the observing public. The designs illus- trated in our new Fashion Book are originated in the heart of the style centres and will help yo uto acquire that much desired air of individuality. Price of the book 10 cents the copy. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. -Write your name and -address plain- ly, giving number and size of such patterns •as you want. Enclose 20c in stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap it carefully) for each number and address your order to Pattern Dept.; Wilson Publishing Co., 73 West Ade- laide St., Toronto. Patterns sent by return mail. it andmean I'm g danger, Mr. Harley, and I'm going to tell you why. Something happened to me seven years ago—" "In India?" "In India. Correct. Something haspened to me, sir, which just took the surshine out M' life. At the 'time patp§e liefoee liepionontieed the Weisal wipe)} flay eotited). 41.1 am How About Now? "1 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. "Alt" said the guest as they ap- I didn't know all it meant. ,I've learn- proathed the house, "I see your dear ed sinee. For seven years I have been on and daughter awaiting us in the flirting with death and hoping to porch " fall!" Harley stared at him uncompre- hendingly. "More than ever I fail to understand." s Nicol Dr* dropped his thin. into his hand and resumed that unseeing stare into the open grate. *Paul gar - 13r watched him intently. (To be continued.), "No," said the host, "the girl in the short frock • is my mother, and the young fellow in riding breeches is my wife." • Early manageability leads later to. manage -ability. Used by pleyslcians-Minard'.s Liniment, hopes and en•delivors. Lost tribes and civilizations have been found in Africa and on.the South American continents, and great excavation works completed or put under way to disclose the mysteries of the past. Radio has brought communities thousands of miles apart within speaking distance ef each other. A man has gone forth In search of the petrified eggs a the almost legendary dinosaur, braving the laughter of the seientists—and . found them and brought them back: • ' What, then, remaine? The great- eit conquests of all reniain, inviting the intrepid adventurers of this gen- eration as the gold a unknown Mexico invited Cortes arid. the dream, 'of land tierces:the western:seats earlier invited doliiMbi*. ; No less than 5,000,000 square miles of the Arctic region e "and 6;000,000 square miles of the Arstaectic wastes 'remain untrodden by the foot of man and Iunseen t by his.eye. In these isn- rneneel areas,who krieWS:;What treasi -ures‘4 inin!hal wealth May luelt?', The land abeet the poles cannot, we know now, be dismissed easily as merely ihunting ground ,fo.rf .the men who want to be "firs1. at the Pole." 4., hasa a htgla Stratelgie portance in view of the conquest of the aire endenestaveluable poesibilities in -view Of the relative' scarcity of ritartganeie;;'±adiiini; 'platinum, *old,. 'diamonds. •.:•" ; And here det me eay at once telt in this the'new era:M.11'6 hafesti,eg differs from all the great eras of dis- cOvery arid adVeetures of the pasta e Just as advances in shipbuilding ehabia ObliiiiibtIa"teeieetICAnteriegaalife are recogri4e4 Govotunen s everywhere to b‘tagne of Ithes urning .Tirnes .Po Change the ihapaofetheesysgelqahaye,laeen filled 41 in by the bold explorere'bi"ItheltiNtreiSee quartervoteaseeeturYs; there, are still large unknown areas alorii'Iliirl:!dde mightiarAnl.,attikaIipAfri9, Tibet, ;Abyssinia, end” irraiSotith eAtittaii,01.S; One may ask: why discover meee,terri- torrthe planet iSditidslee. the centr4 of when only One-eighte,enthapertef dyihed manyea',",a • • see'Se r • ' The answer id that.the:ptifriation of the globe isafastl.iti4r,en,sifigindsthea spectre oll.Thungerasaled:,:liptilation pressure looms ahead. 'tali and: SaParese4ealtiready. heaya ily OVIes'oPuletteilei "Thespopulatiore ofa ea a the 'IlniteciStatlea6 hamu11ion 'i' ts flies leSVSevelisyeaessdespitateage immigratidni I VatrictiOngi, %.:4Kitain is overrpoleulatealeand Germany soon,Wil.th„,,m, be.; „,);),iugy,exte,R,,,ef new areas of ti4"4-1, earth capable agrguaricelitlyfrAii.... andthe invention of fire -arms allowed the Spanielse,,eiceequere5e4 eereep through Meitteo and Peru viith but a Handful of white enen ' and. the. po-t giess of .aViation ;•ali,owecle ietrepid reavigatorst•of ;the air tol fiyeirnmeese. distances At /incredible a apeed, ee etlea adventurers of: theenew era meet. dee Pend upon the irliscoverieS. ofrseieneel and the technical improvements iVrou'glit-tyrtrigitietrs..-•! •••• • ••"?•-•-••-, • This .applies with esrpecial force to 'that vase:;:regidiVreeinpflaing seieniel Lias succession ellded!'lltirnall%',61*ial;' 4.5),-, and has neve/41 everfuliiiien,c,gazed! Upon by the °y:0011'1in: PieferLitti. the fantastic lands vslifoir .lie ith their mountain-lraiii•g&rnfightiewtheill title Rockies, or. &the' islierielaYass f thew.: dread gorges and mysterious forestt- at theikittOiiilif"the' The sea ,dep,th.1,11.ave plways, defied niati2 /0,4 ,„nd pratected suits. 0 .4 tol,p Troti that Sir Charles ..i.:: 11 .• ptg . hi sdah, '104:115tielied tiA ' ..,i4';04..',4114.54,iffiiir iiiAketaelk: the ,,,, saan, 't,l•kip' 'ai, !esvi'e 'se J.'r, ,':r..,..i, „: ,, .,-- ,,, ,,, 46, itio id. long . a4:t 0;ilelt .*g0",,.!,..,)i. ,),..-., ; ISSLIIZ.Nte 39—'2 w at reason did 1a givo for hie inquiry?" • Nitel 'Winn began lo to the fee- der again wit ti his foot. "Ite teferd tki. an ixperience whicl had befallen him in India," came Nicol 13rires belated reply. "In India?' May 1 ask you to re- count that eip9ziexice2" •„ • . prghlenik Frigar fititule.11 ttlq Finsilly, th'ere a/Oster-en which te ithe boldest iiilart eliEellePtsvitil ribr see hoseeve.."'f Penetrgies the rscp$Ory;0,of 41,g,utv, • imii,Toifeetri,A0Yit; 11'4, eVtiiiqpetiaratiedt,o'LLgo g,rear cipptItrobt*X1 iliA014atew,„ 4601,, arM6*dNageijletifiipiYed.W..Wielt inecliiiikillY‘oii(eiiit6d, 'efilande,,.. telephanes and electric beam Itglitdeti '1!%:PEri'Be0g,,-thle f,anl-PBs hayea, eifilked seas:ait the (iPe'r °I 61041 4TR`Piallii 01,;(4:kriO4'edu jean life; and 'scientist's laVethe YlInce:ilsollitsaPflaMT9n40 PILtql4.0 lian'tgo..3cAowit4gelok um, twaAtstpo ,pecenegraphic explorations )ondm fa,ken, ,it ,, fpspe1ia11y eujp 4151*4914.31:, niiderseas serva hingitii”thik,iNgFet,§tAlti .1f1Th, th 4 forces of life. . housands of youned a4datoficien4;pgint? iiietr Oita/4111p ng forth, 'in queats tis s, ;age ,P)hei iwitteleis0 and Ited.Werdli .as;lihai" 1 so s never sheeloa? e. , gtt et leberatmes, o'n' into tile:47,1-44141Am ;0114.1iirh4VItY004*;#1 'firild tir*riff ;my reellotiapge the as, peet )of Ithes,000.iflailsd filifaeby,Plife Orkiiaa i ;•,,,r kind.'0., , I heti'ilittkit of radium ankli;t114redfiiirt th my,steries a electricity7 light, a ith'usancr"elieliaiSI418rgirWeariiffrigtivivo th feed supply, man's health, fuel, ve, ev, the final secret of life itself; th e are ing investig, ed.t. Amiek 1 "th iii• yity, ° k lib Otatipaire'i ,tptqitip iii ?' „ IV ithiii '',IP iglogiii EXCLUtiV4 �WNG, 1897 depth' no one knovvs. The .6•6 inti; greater depths'inviolate. The erior- Drives away pi---ivilaard'a ' MODEL Of ancient vintage, this car was tho Oldest entered In'the Labor Day BO Whitrt- liql?PF011111 parade. at Atlantic City. Its driver, Nereid M. Brion, °Jahns a speed of of death by erualiiree 'has reserved the nine Miles an hour tor his eetry„ • .111, ui 0 .'t i jtli,,,i)„1„ryi#,Iii ii MiAtifi la stogiqU'rit101 ig A Nom merried-etIglitnl-ficit:t1;14;1;;v ra,47:104 ttcating his wife?" volyitt.