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centricity of three wealthy and se 1 City postmark. Then
date brothers, one . f them the father + and returned with the fruit just as the
of y�outful Patricia Drake. Alarneed.elder Miss Drake entered.
Because of the evident terror which i "Goad morning, William." She in-
has gripped the trio, Patricia asks the clined her gray head formally. "I see
advice of her guardian, Attorney John i you have made a good beginning. Me -
Wells, and tells him that two weeks',` hitabel, my maid, tells me that Carter
ago her father, Hobart Drake, a W all ;is ill and you have assumed his du -
Street broker, clothed himself in a !
sheet and ` went to the town square • ties."
where he delivered a mock oration. I The three brothers entered almost
A few days later her uncle, Roger , together and took their places with
Drake, an eminent scientist, made a I perfunctory greeting to their sister.
burlesque of a scientific address, ThatiRoger seemed drooping and shaken
morning, the third brother, her uncle, I and his drawn, young -old face paled
.Andrew, was found seated on the floor as his glance fell on the heap of car-
playing with tows. The three are
sane, sober'and respected mien. respondeice beside his plate. He
Wells asks Owen Miles, detective ; pushed it aside with a gesture of her -
sergeant, to investigate, and Miles rex: and Andrew remarked:
becomes"More scientific criticism, I sup-
"You're talking like an ass and pian, and don't bother your head ing at six, sharp. Here you are!"
Zbout it He produced an envelope and a five-
worse—a coward!" Andrew interrupt- Patricia's t d a break dollar bill, both of which Miles accept-
ed with sudden, subdued fury. "Jerry's ed gravely.
all right but you've forgotten Hobart's .,nd she detective in startled "Thank you, sir. I'll deliver the
girl! Could she live down the fact note myself. Good-bye, sir."
that her uncle was a suicide?" confused recognition,
t'1 cached the He drove speedily lacer to the Drake
estate and around to the garage to
put up the car. As Miles descended
from the car he beheld a battle -scarred
tom cat clawing to reach a plate of
stale meat on a high shelf, and an
inspiration came to him. Taking the
envelope from his pocket containing
the five tablets, he selected one of
them and', dolling it in a small piece
Miles noted idly that it was plain,
Mystery surrot nds the sudden ec- with a typed address and a New York
y y he -hurried
out
Heroes Of St
"Change Pekoe" Is only the name given to a 'size
an
-----• flavoured Is 'ISALADA" Orange 'ekoe•—Sealed In
OPS of leaf—Some good, many poor, Orange Pekoes
d S Pray are sold --The most economical and yet the fencer.
Thrills of the British Pilots. 3e per Ib.
_ metal--fresh--fresh--�• _. •.-
Dangerous rade
Oar sea pilets are a little-lseown
body of men, but their work is vital
to the trade and prosperity of the
country.
More ships enter and leave the ports'
Harbors and river mouth of Great
Britain. than of any other country in
the world; and a greater volume of
merchandise of all kinds arrives at
and leaves our shores than any others.
Many of our harbor entrances are in-
tricate and complicated; the estuary
of the Thames, the greatest port in
the world, is extreuiely difficult to
navigate.
Pilots are picked seamen who make
a life study of local conditions at each
port, and who take complete charge of
BARONESS VON POPPER any ship entering or leaving, great or
t h � foreign
small; British or
The former Marie Jeritza, famous KEY MEN OF THE COAST
opera star, as she was leaving the When the present Prime Minister
steamer or her arrival in the United
was President of the Board of Trade
States from abroad a few days ago. in the Coalition Govermnent, an M.P. second class £600 a year, and the thn
butI'll beat took a deputation of pilots to see thirty onlass e pilotsaavera average Bristol
any immediate ansvti ewer and discuss with hint, in his position
as the Minister primarily responsible, a year each; eighty' -six pilots at Car -
certain difficulties they were exper- diff about £300. The Manchee er pH-
fencing. ots, who take ships all the way up
the
Mr. Baldwin was walking up and canal a to
Oottn the Humber, make about
-where
drown the Terrace of the House of difficut
Commons. The pilots, from half -a- navigation is particularly
dozen different ports, were ready wait- the pilots only average about £360 a
ing when the M.P. approached the year each.
Arturo Prince Minister and said, "I . The pilots in the cutters work in
have a number of pilots to whom I rotation while waitingfor
ships.sThey
would like you to give an.interview." cannot refuse to pilot may come
"What?" said Mr. Baldwin. "Pi a ke all n n.reign fisThere
he eg trav*ler fore
rates? I didn't know any existed." g
"No," said the M.P., "Pilots. Men which the fee earned is only £3the
, or
who pilot ships in and out of our har- she may be
a 20,000-tonhHumber, for
hors." biggesther some
"Oh," said Mr. Baldwin, "pilots. which the fee for taking
Of course I will see them immedi- twenty-seven miles up the river and
ately." berthing in the docks is £23. A ship
These Hien are in key positions. in ballast, although the most difficult
Ships become larger and faster, but to navigate, pays only half -fees. A.
the tides, the ocean currents, the 600 -ton coaster fully loaded pays only
shoals, the rocks, the fogs, the mists, £3 10s. If a .
the storms, and the darkness remain. The pilot is never off duty. the
If the pilots were to go on strike, the licensed pilot is walking along
whole commerce of the country would street and the sea and has forgotten
be held up. But that they have never wants to go e be can stop him in
done, and never will do. to engage a pilot
Their position is so important that the street and the pilot is bound to
it is specially regulated by Act of take the vessel out.
Parliament. Their remuneration is There are two methods of entry into
fixed by local Boards, composed of the Pilot Service. The pilot must pre -
ship owners, pilots themselves, and pare himself for service
ie ist a s a life rtudy
the harbor authorities; and in the to qualify himself r port sand obtain fae nec-
essary local knowledge. He must be
a British subject by birth. He enters
as an apprentice at the age of 15,
after a medical and educational ex-
amination, and serves for six years,
each year having to pass aeamina-
tion in seamanship and pilotage.
they o en SCHOONER TO BATTLESHIP
During the last two years he takes
h lessons in navigation. At the age of
21 he•niust go to sea in a sailing ship printed velveteen and wool crepe are
as an A.B. before the mast for a year.
Owing to the comparatively small ,interesting fabrics. Pattern is ab -
number of sailing ships in these days, stainable in sizes 16 years, 36, 38, 40,
this usually means service in a coast X42, 44, 46 and 48 inches bust measure.
er. Then he must serve for six i size
36 requires 3i/ yards of 40 -inch
months as A.B. before the mast in a material with % yard of 18 -inch con -
"foreign -going" ship, that is, one trad- t trusting. Pattern price 20 cents in
d, After that he can take stamps or coin (coin is preferred).
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fever great. These men earn up to
£2,000 a year.
The earnings of the pilots of British
ports vary greatly. s At Liverpool; the
second port. of Great Britain and one.
of the greatest shipping centres in the
world, there are 136 pilots and thirty-
five apprentices. The first class pil-
ots, who navigate the largest ships,
earn, on an average, £800 a year, the
butler in the household. o e
GO ON WITH THE STORY pose? Throtiv it all in the fire, old —at the place she knows every even -
"You know what chance we have of
averting what is coning!" shelter 'of the pantry to which her
laughed in a strained falsetto which gaze had followed hint, w�ndn hee r sued
made the listening detective shudder a quick nod of warning
ince. A slight flush suffused her
in quickite of mmtelf and there was a face and she turned to her father,
movement within the room. only to exclaim in amazement and
"Pat had better live with the know], alarm:
edge that one or both of her uncles— "Daddy! What is it?"
and her father as well—had died by Only Miss Drake was
!,r
'entrance create
in the tenseness of the atmosphere,
eyedthe ' ,
but his expres-
sion was bland until he x
their own hands than that all three of
them were -1"
"Here! None of that!" Andrew
• cried. He had evidently thrown cau-
tion to the winds for his tones had
risen to a bellow and a door opened
down the hall. Miles retreated hastily
toward his screening corner of tree
wall near the back stairs but not be-
fore the sound of a sharp struggle
came from the room where the broth-
ers were, followed by an oath and the
tinkle and crash of shattered glass.
At the thought Miles sprang down-
stairs and darting out the window he
concealed himself in the shadow of
one of the great pillars. No one was
in sight. Leaping from the porch he
ran around the reap• of the house to
the other side. The pantry was dark
now but the two faint patches of
light from Roger's room still fell
upon the sparse grass of last year's`
lawn. In the glow of the farther one,
something glistened like a handful of
diamonds.
Broken glass. He had anticipated
a pistol or perhaps even a knife of
some sort but not a bottle!
Throwing himself flat upon his face,
the detective writhed inch by inch
along the ground until he was close to
the scattered fragments of the bottle
arc: +hen he saw among them a num-
ber of tiny white tablets. Seizing a
handful of the gravel and tablets to-
gether, Miles stuffed it into a pocket
of his trousers and ran swiftly around
the house again to the library window.
CHAPTER V.
Carter was i11 the following morn-
ing—a touch of sciatica—and the new
houseman was forced to assume the
more complex duties. guidance of
Under the kindly
Pierre, he finished arranging the table
for breakfast and then remembered
the mail. When he had cleaned the
lower hall a short time before it had
not arrived, but now a small heap of
letters and rolled circulars and per-
iodicals lay upon the table and he
sorted them rapidly. There was no-
thing for Andrew Drake nor Miss Pa-
tricia, but a formidable pile of corres-
pondence awaited Roger and several! tie? The detective gave an inward
letters were addressed: to Miss Jer- start.
usha. There was only one envelope to "Yes, ma'am."
place beside Hobart Drake's plate. "That is fortunate, William. Mr.
,Hobart must be taken to the station
at once."
Miles brought the car to the door
Ito find Hobart waiting on the porch
steps, watch in hand.
"Get ire to the station as quick as
you can."
The train was just pulling. in as
he drew up at the station platform.
Miles noted the significant glances and
nudges of the loungers as they recog-
nized Hobart Drake and realized anew
the humiliation which his young
client, Miss Patricia, must have en-
dured
silent but hex
oyes were fixed with burning intensity of meat he dropped it on the floor.
upon the empurpled countenance of With a growl the cat pounced upon it.
ht For .a moment the animal crouched
and then its eyes widened with a look
of almost human surprise. 'It rose,
turned in a wavering half -circle and
then all at once relaxed rather than
fell upon its side with all four feet
outstretched and the lurid eyes filmed.
So Roger had not been bluffing,
after all! As Miles replaced the en-
velope in his pocket, his fingers came
in contact with another, the one which
Hobart Drake had dropped on the
dining room floor. What could it have
contained to drive him into such a
tempest of fury?
The detective was turning it over London district by Trinity House. 4. If
speculatively in his hands when sud- they are dissatisfied they can appeal,
her youngest brother as he broug
hie fist, clenching his solitary letter,
down violently upon the table.
"'Trouble?' " he repeated hoarsely.
"Trouble enough!—It's each man for
"William, do you know how to drive
a car?"
denly he uttered a sharp exclamation.
He needed no magnifying glass to
verify the truth; the canceled stance
had been transferred from another
the postmark was a
Hct
e and
envelope
forgery. The letter had never passed
through the mails!
CHAPTER VI.
It was close to midnight when a
stocky figure enveloped in a heavy
ulster wormed its way through a gap
in the hedge and started a circuitous
course about the Drake house.
A faint glimmer showed on the
third floor and silhouetted against the
dim patch of light appeared the Pro-
file of a man. The watcher below
picked up a handful of loose gravel
which he flung against the window.
Almost instantly the light was, ex-
tinguished, there came the slight,
grating sound of a carefully raised
sash, and the tiny spark of a eigaret
gleamed ust above the sill. A low, pe-
culiar whistle emanated from the lips
of the nocturnal visitor and the cig-
aret, describing a wide arc, fell upon
the lawn almost at his feet as the
window was softly closed once inure.
In a few moments the kitchen door
opened and Owen Miles in the sweater
and sneakers of his nightly vigil slip-
ped around the corner of the house.
"Scottie, old sebut! I knew you'd
try to get in touch with me if you
could and I've been making a motion
picture `still' of myself against that
window shade ever since nine o'clock,"
he whispered "Have you learned
anything?"
(To be continued.)
in the last resort, to the Board of
Trade. Ships, British or foreign, ap-
proaching our shores with cargoes,
rarely know the port at which they
will. unload. This depends on the
markets and other conditions, and
ft have to wait until , they
reach the first signal station on. the
coast to be told where they are to go.
NEVER OFF DUTY.
The captain may be sent to a port
to which he has never been before and
for: which he may not evbn have the
charts. But as he approaches it, fly-
ing the special pilot flag, which shows
he means to enter and needs a pilot,
he presently sees tossing about off the
coast a small steam or sailing cutter.
The' pilot cutter lowers a rowing boat
manned by two or three apprentices
as the ship draws near, and in the
boat is an oilskin -clad figure who
climbs up the lowered sea ladder.
He. is the pilot; and once he has
stepped on deck he is in complete
charge of the ship, and absolutely re-
sponsible for her movements and
safety.
Sometimes the sea is too rot.gh for
the small rowing boat to come along-
side. Then a rope is thrown., the pilot
makes it fast round his waist, jumps
overboard, and is hauled up the side of
the steamer, dripping wet, on to the
deck. Shaking the water from him
like a big dog, he will go on the bridge
at once tied navigate the ship into
dock; for time is money and there
must be no delay.
Ships leaving for sea have to be
piloted out just the sane; end some-
times the weather is so bad that the
pilot cannot be transferred to the cut
ter, or the cutter may even be driven
into shelter. Then the pilot must wait
until the ship touches the first port,
where he is put ashore, and takes his
chance of a passage home.
On the bridge the pilot gives orders
to the'Helmsman, regulates the speed
of the ship, and takes her right up to
the docks and inside to her berth.
The worst task a pilot can have is to
take over a big steamer in ballast;
which means that she is light, and in
a strong wind is blown. about like a
bladder on the water,
If the pilot makes -a mistakes, is in-
volved in a collision or, through an
error of judgment, touches a hidden
rock, he may have his certificate taken
M UST T H E away and be ruined. It is obvious
"Why do they call bootleg whiskey front the foregoing that the pilots
'Moonshine'?" must be men of particular attain -
"It's the way they test it. After
the inerts, great skill, and knowing every
drinking some if you can still see inch of their localities, the tides and
moon shine, it's good; if you can't see the intricacies of our coasts.
it, it's bad," ,
himself when you stand with your
back against the wall, and I'm going
to fight!"
He strode from the room with the
open letter still in his hand and they
heard the library door close behind
him and the key turn in the lock.
The meal ended shortly and Miles
was clearing away the dishes and sil-
ver when he observed that the envel-
ope of the letter which had caused Ho-
bart Drake such agitation was still
lying where he had dropped it, on the
floor beside his chair. He stooped has-
tily and pocketed it and then finished
his work in the dining room.
He had started' for the back stairs
when Miss Drake asked:
"William, do you know how to drive
a car?"
Had the opportunity presented it-
self to send the promised wire to Scot -
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Trim and slender style that wi11 sat-
isfy the most exacting taste. Wide
crushed belt gives new draeed Hipline.
Box -plait at front of ekirt is chive.
Featherweight tweed in grey with
faint red tracings, red evcof crepe
vestee, collar and bone buttons, is so
wearable and smart, for Design No.
885. Two surfaces of black crepe
satin, wool jersey, faille crepe, printed
and plain crepe satin, sheer velvet,
His thoughts returned again to her,
the innocent victim of the i4 ysteriaus
calamity which had overtaken her
people, when after he had safely dis-
patched his wire to Scottie, he was
bowling slowly back to the house. It
did not come wholly as a surprise
when he was hailed by an athletic -
looking young man who stood by a
low, red runabout at the side of the
'road,
( The young roan advanced. and lean-
' ed confidently over the wheel.
handy I "My name's Richard limp, I'll
packs
for
Here is a tfl'.'.at that can't
be heat! 8er.efit and plea.
sure in generous Infos-act
az so
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give ,you five dollars if you'll take a
note to the young lady up there, Miss
Patricia, and see that she gets it
quietly. Do you understand?"
In a quick flash of memory Miles
recalled the deep blush which had
mounted in the young girl's face when
during their first' i►tetviow at John
Wells' office she mentioned the "Kemp
place," and a light broke over him.
"1 think I do, sir. Ile smiled
Islightly,
"You're all right!," Kemp clapped
shim. on the .shoulder. "There *OA to,
4-- —
ing
abroa
an officer's certificate and must go to
sea as a junior officer until a vacancy
occurs in his particular pilotage ser-
vice. This may mean a wait of four
or five years male. he has to patterns as you want. Enclose 20c in
On a vacancy occurring, stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap
pass a stiff medicalhaP local
the age of i it carefully) for each number incl
tion and then, p address xamine-
your order to Wilson Pattern
27 or 30, he becomes a third-class pilot! Service, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto.
quashed to take charge of the smaller' Patterns sent by return snail.
ships. After two years he becomes a I -___
second-class pilot; and after a further, uisd ,Caan3 �o} ;uauilul� s,paew!W
two years, if approved by the Pilotage ._____
Committee, a first class pilot, qualified' "Owing to influenza, the unveiling
to navigate any ship afloat—steam, • of the ..memorial has been post
sail, or motor-driven—from a sailing, pored."—Local paper. It is not
thought that the memorial has got
schooner to a battleship. I
The other method is that of direct the complaint very .badly.
entry as the master of a ship who has �
traded regularly to the particular port
for four years, and then after passing
th amination
Wrap coin carefully.
HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS.
Write your name and address plain-
ly, giving number and size of such
e necessary ex
All pilots are medically examined
every twelve months and their licenses
renewed or refused.
BE
ANSWER
Most any golfer, poor or rich,
Would never count the cost
Could he, but buy a golf l all'which
Would bark 'when It was lost.
---Answers.
I had one such, but 'twos a frost;
Like tin ungrateful hound
The ball that barks when it Is lost
Will mite when It is found.
Cleveland Plain Dealer,
'Hits ,1140o sostivo,io yuyw{ufl e,paeuiw climate is bad, and the dangers from,
Sometimes the pilot has to pick up
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Hungary to Cave Civilians
Gas Masks for War Use
Budapest—Hungary's entire civil-
ian population is to be provided with
gas masks. Fortner Premier Stephen
Friedrich, who addressed Parliament
on the dangers threatening 'Hungary'
as a marching ground for foreign
armies, asked the war appropriations I
committee to set aside $1,b00,000 in I
the -War Office estimates for the pur-
chase of these defensive shields.
Stressing the decisive part which
gas and chemicals will play in future]
wars, former Premier Friedrich, who!
is now a member of Parliament,•said:
"I believe in war, because mankind
has no law which can check it. For
hundreds of years Hungary has been
devastated by wars, and the country's
destiny places it among the warring
nations of Europe itiStone ear r lam
er
we shall be dragged
nd
we must not leave our people unpro-
tected."
the way through the. English Channel,
leaving her again off some West-
country
estcountry port. The Channel pilots are.
a special section of the service and.
are the highest paid of British pilots.
Their 'earnings go up to as high es,
£1,000 to £1,300 a year, but this is
exceptional. The highest paid pilots
in the world ate those on the river
Hoegli, navigating ships up to Cal-
cutta. The Hoogli is a very danger-
ous river, full of shifting shoals, the
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fall is near,
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