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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1928-09-20, Page 6Oa responded, ""U+e .444 ling .have tteeri great Wanda ever since he bought The Rose Tree, t1'e4 to , the Kemp estaabe- J' She paused and l Is deeper flush auf-. fused her face, Sergeant Mile glanced at the attorney, who etruiled and nodded almost ihnpe!rcepti'b'1y. "What wee your uncle's exlAanaa- �,,� ,..; �- .. • ' titan?" 4 t5 f i�(rX` ' SRA dervca Itaa, � "He "Tie made name." She shrugged. f� looked dreadfully weir and ill but he was as dignified as ever and otos construction an it, connected with merely said that he regretted hie ids•. the wine cellar, and I know that it course had net met with the approval It was because of dainty, little Pa- ' Tricia Drake, who was seated opposite wasn't true! I of has hearers, On Saturdaywhen the him in his private office, that At- "For the past month of two I havepaper came out there was a perfect Dorney John Wells had telephoned to fancied that father was worried abutfurore; ethe editor intimated' that the ' Something. I don t think rY ! lecture was the work of a disordered Police Headquarters and summoned a tall, dark-haired young Huron with the respectful but bored manner of a preeunuable son of the elect. "Sergeant Miles. You sent foe me?" John Wells gave him a swift glance of appraisal and with a gesture inde. sated not only his youthful, feminine client, but a vacant chair facing the cold light of early spring. "Miss Drake, this is Sergeant Miles. I should advise you to be as frank 111- Hobart home Carter,' Sam said. with hien as you have with me. Be She broke off once more as though seated here Sergeant, if you please!, `I'd get him to bed real quiet, but in too overcome to continue. The detec- ' the morning you tell him that if it tivo and attorney glanced at each Tho detective took the chair indi- happens again we'll have to confis- other before the latter remarked': cored, and the young girl drew a cate what he's got left in his cellar! "Go on, my child. Tell the Ser - "'He was down in front of the 'sole. geant exactly what you told Hie." Biers' monument,' Sam explained, 1 "Early this; morning, Edward the ously about it until tient dreadful ; mind and recalled father's oration be - time a fortnight ago when in the mid-; fore the soldiers' mono meat, imsine at- dle of the night we were aid .awaken,-, leg that they had both fallen victims ed by a loud knocking on the front to some strange aberration. In the door and finally Carter, the butler,' very face of it Aunt Jerusha made went down and opened it. me go to ehureh with her yesterday "I was leaning over the balustrade, end I never thought I could go through and what do you think I saw? Our; such an agony of mortification! local policeman, Sam Clark, was "I made up my mind I would come bringing in a stout figure, dressed all i to see you today, and then when in flowing white like a ghost, that, Uncle Andrew was fouled' this morn - reeled as it walked. 'I've brought ` Ing quick, convulsive breath. "How—how do you do? I would have consulted an alienist rather than , my father's attorney had it not been rigged out in these here bed -sheets, t houseman found Uncle Andrew. sitting for the fact that I feel I, at least, am and spouting like a Fourth of July on the drawing room fluor in his pa - still sane, Sergeant Miles. Do—do orator that he was Julius Caesar. jamas playing like e child with'some you know Sergeant about psychology e Lucky it was so late or he'd have had ; ornaments which he had taken froeai• "Psychology" from a big -eyed the whole town round him. Soon's L! the cabinet and mantel, and when he eighteen -year-old kid! Owen Miles, touched him he sacred to seri of i saw Edward he ran toward him on all univeesity graduate, pauperized by coAapse and he come along home with- fours, growling as thourgh he were Mils father's mining operations and out any trouble. He'll likely be all pretending to be some kind of an ani - member of the Police Department right in the morning'."I mall Edward has never gotten over through an innate passion for crimin- Patricia had given an unconsciously !being hshell-shocked. This morning alogy, pricked up his ears, repressed graphic imitation of the country oon� was the last straw and he gave imme- a smile and replied gravely: stable, but she paused and covered! diate notice, so Aunt Jerusha sent me "A little, Miss Drake. Enough, I think, for practical purposes." It was John Wells' turn to conceal surprise at the cultivated, veiledly amused accents of this most extra- ordinary emissary from Headquar- ters, but the girl merely hesitated a moment and then spoke in a quick little rush. "Then, perhape you can understand why, with no insanity in the family, three dignified, middle-aged gentle- men, brothers, should suddenly be- come victims of the wildest hallucina- tions, like—like three Mad Hatters, and do such queer, ridiculous things that they are the talk of the town?" There was a hint of tears in her voice. "I suppose this will seem disresrpect- ful when I tell you that it is of my father and my two uncles I am speaking, but it is the truth!" "What sort of hallucinations have they, Miss Drake?" "Perhaps," the attorney interposed. in his urbane. well-rounded tomes, "it will be well for me to tell you a little of Mies Drake's family. She is the daught©r of Hobart Drake of the New York. Stock Exchange. His wife died when Miss Patricia, here, was born., and she was brought up by his maiden sister, Miss Jerusha Drake, a lady of the soundest practical com- mon-sense. They have always lived in the old family residence out on Long Island, at Brooklea." Owen Miles nodded quickly with- out speaking, and the attorrmey went on: "Five years ago Roger Drake, the oldest of the family and a scientist of world-wide rel '•ation, returned from Europe to the 3 hone at Brooklea and a few months since the other brother, Andrew, came back from Australia—where he had amassed a fortune in sheep -ranching. You can see that the three brothers are widely dissimilar in character and tempera- ment, yet a very great affection has always existed between them. I have known them all since they were mere boys and I cam speak from personal observation_ —Pat." Weals turned to the young girl, "did all three exhibit the symptoms at the same time?" "No. Poor father was the first to —to break out." Her lips quivered. "People put the most—most scandal- s. A treat in the PeFpernaint•fiavored r;ugar-coated jacket and another in the Peppermint -flavored gums inside. utmost value in long-lasting delight issue, No. 87-»'2.S her face with her hands there was nothing of amusement in the express- ions of either of her hearers. "Did you get a closer view of your father, Miss Drake?" the latter asked after a moment. "Yes. I heard a sort of gasp behind me and turned to find Uncle Roger there, staring down at father with "What sort of hallucinations have they, Miss Drake?" into town to engage another houseman and a gardener. That gave me my opportunity to come and conuult Mr. Wells." She hesrit•ated once more. "I don't know, though, what she will say when she sees you, Sergeant." "She need see in 'me only what she sent for—the new houseman!" Ser- geant Miles announced. Patricia's blue eyes opened very wide. "Oh, could you?" she breathed. "I want an assistant outside as well," interrupted the detective. "You say that a gardener is needed, too?" "You—you don't know any detective who is a gardener, too, do you?" "I know the very man!" Sergeant Miles exclaimed with enthusiasm. Patricia glanced fronsone serious face to the other. "Then you don't think it is just that they're losing their mind's, my father and --and niy uncles? You don't think my aunt will be the next to go and then—perhape—!" She faltered. once more but her meaning was unmistakable, and al- though the attorney was discreetly silent he laid one slim, blue -veined hand upon her arm reassuringly. (To be continued.) The Cow Through the deep hayfield Where tall grasses bow, In and out And round about Roamed the bappy Cow. Nibbling the sorrel leaves, Plucking at the clover, Happiest of happy beeves All the world over! such a shocked, horrified expression that I thought he was going to have a stroke or something. We stood watching them bring father upstairs." "And where was your other uncle, Mr. Andrew Drake, during this tune?" "Uncle Andrew slept through it all," Patricia paused. "He is awfully jolly and the next morning he tried to make light of it, but when he learned how really ill father was he was terribly worried." "Your father was seriously i11, then?" "Yea. Tt was a week before he went to his office in Wall Street and he hasn't gone to the village once.— I don't blame him!" Her small gloved hands clenched on the arms of her chair. "The things that were said and the horrid jokes that have been made! I was ashamed before—but it is even worse. now!" "You mean that your uncles have exhibited similar sdrgns of--er-• eceen- trieity " the detective asked. Patricia nodded. "Not exactly similar, but they have done things that it seems to me only people whose minds were deranged would db!—And Aunt Jerusha's attic tude is the most inexplicable of all!" "My dear Pat!" John Wells ex- claimed. "You cannot mean that she also—I" "Oh, no. Aunt Jerusha hasn't gone crazy, too, but she insists that there is nothing wrong. When I suggested an zllienilst this morning she was angrier than I have ever seen her, "Nothing more happened for the first week after father's strange at- tack except that Uncle Roger seemed to grow mare deeply troubled. He had promised to give a lecture on archae- ology at the high school last Wed- nesday. If I had only known!" "Was theeleeeture not given?" "It was "ltteriTakE ;lhiar peiied her Soft, girlish tones. "And the next day the 'village was talking worse than it had over father's behavior! Sergeant Miles, that lecture Was the most hideous travesty imaginable! Had it been sheer drivel it wouldn't havo been so bad', but it was a 'clever satire, ridiieuling the archaeological discoveries of recent years. The. audience didn't know whether to laugh or to feel affronted at his in- sult to their intelligence." "The next day no one told me any- thing until Mr. Gra•yle came over. , 1•t was awful!" "Who ie Mr. Grayle? queried the detective. riA, neighbor, a natur'aliot," Patri- "Marion! Marion! Teatime, Marion!" Oh what a bother! Is she Mummy dear, not now! Can't you see that I'm a Cow? And a Cow never comes in to teal —Jocelyn C. Lea in the London Spectator. calling me? REASON ENOUGH "How did your congregation come to ask for your minister's resigna- tion" "Why, one of our members played golf with him." • Br itish..Iustice George W. Alger iu the Atlan.tio Monthly (Boston,: England trusts her magistrates. She selects then carefully, gives them wide powers, and expects there to perform their duties in' the maintenance of the dignity of English justice.. They have met these expectations..] , Fane in Am- erica power in criminal law is mainly vested in the amateur`rather than the expert. We trust our juries, but we do not trust our courts. . , . 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