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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1928-10-11, Page 6Teas of > ir-r quality are unchanged In price. An avaalanche"of the cheaper grades has made possible a slight reduction In that class of tea., A Tea of Finer Quality Hoa �a,-cbc l Ostrander— Giese NEA sentice, Inc. BEGIN HERE TODAY Mystery surror:nds the sudden ec- centricity of three wealthy and se- date brothers. one ; f them the father' of tiuuthful Patricia Drake. Alarmed because of the evident terror which has gripped the trio, Patricia asks the advice of her guardian, Attorney John Wells, and tells him that two weeks ; ago her father, Hobart Drake, a Wall! Street broker, clothed himself hi a sheet and went to the town square l where he delivered a mock oration. A few days later her uncle, Roger Drake, an eminent scientist, made a burlesque of a scientific address. That morning., the third brother, her uncle, Andrew, was found seated on the floor playing with tows. The three are sane, sober and respected Hien. Wells asks Owen Miles, detective sergeant, to investigate, and Miles becomes butler in the household. GO ON WITH THE STORY "General history of the family and the way the neighbors regard them," Scottie grunted. "I've come especially to warn you of a rumor of some strange actions of Hobart Drake's in Wall Street to -day. He's hone, the night?" "Yes, and calm and more self-con- tained!" Miles exclaimed in surprise. "That's because his mind is made up," returned Scottie. "Unless the rumor is unfounded—our friend Ho-! hart is planning to retire or make'his ' getaway. He has started to wind up' his business affairs. Overheard any- thing?" "Nothing." Briefly Miles told his colleague of the events which had occurred since his installation as the pseudo house servant. "Andrew is the only one who seems to be unaffected, but there is a forced and unnatural note in his boisterous cheerfulness. I don't know whether we're dealing with a bunch of lunatics or that they are the victims of some obscure form of villainy that is unprecedented in the annals of the de- partment, .and I am on the point of developing nerves over the problem myself! Pll ba glad when you tackle your job here." Miles watched until the bulky form had vanished. Then he entered the kitchen door and fastened it behind him. He had started for the servants' staircase when a flickering glow from the front of the house made hien pause with every sense alert. Noiselessly he crept toward it and saw that it emanated from the draw- ing -room. As he advanced the sput- ter of flames and hissing thud of a falling log came to his ears and then the dull clank of metal. Carefully he drew aside a fold of the heavy curtains which draped the doorway and peered in. There was no light save that from the tiny blaze burning itself out in the fireplace, but against its glow he saw outlined a huddled, shapeless figure in a loose robe kneeling before the hearth and while he gazed a narrow tongue .of flame leaped up, glistening on a heavy coil of silvery hair which hung to the floor. It was Miss Jerusha Drake! Holding his breath and moving sil- ently inch by inch, Miles slipped Outdoors or indoors -- whatever your task. Let WRIGLEY'S refresh you — allay your thirst, aid appetite and digestion. Helps keep teeth clean. After Every Meal 10 No, 40—'28 through the curtains and into the sha- dow behind a tall cabinet, from around the farther side of which he could gain a more direct view of the crouching form. It was swaying back and forth and now a low, indistinguishable mut- tet not unlike some weird incantation issued from her lips. The flame died and Miss Jerusha drew a deep breath. "Gone!" The nutter resolved itself into dull, monotonously intoned speech at last. "Ashes, every one! If only the first had never been conceived this horror would not have descended upon us. They are destroyed, but their very furies breathe poison!" Her hands clutched at her throat as though she were indeed choking and for a moment the woman seemed on the verge of collapse. Then catch- ing up a small object which had laid onthe rug by her side she rose and turned. A tiny pin -point of light shot out before her and Miles saw that the object she carried was an electric torch, its eery gleam distorting her face with the wisps of gray hair fall- ing about it. into the semblance of the veriest witch. He shrank back fearful lest shedis- cover his presence, but Miss Jerusha stared straight before her with the wild blank gaze of one who looks upon the hideous visions of a mind dis- traught and slowly, gropingly she passed from the room, CHAPTER VII. A soft rain was falling when Miles awakened the next morning and in the clear, gray light the scene which he had witnessed in the drawing -room seemed vague and unreal. That crea- ture with dishevelled hair and crazed eyes could not have been the dignified, "Ashes, every one!" self-conained Miss Drake, nor could that cryptic speech have issued from her lips! Hastening nut into the hall he open- ed the door of the closet under the stairs. The mail bag was hanging in its accustomed place and the handy man's first task of the morning was to take it to the postoffice. There was no sign of life about the house and Miles soon had a kettle boiling and expertly steamed open two envelopes. The first felt so bulky that he was not surprised lyo take from it a folded inner envelope inscribed: "Mr. Rich- ard Kemp." It was unaddressed but the accompanying letter was explan- atory: "Millie. dearest: d "1 lam going to ask a most tremen- dous favor. I am not allowed to see nr even write to Dickie any more—it isn't that he has done anything, he is the darlingest boy alive, but both' our families have decided to break up our happiness and Aunt Jerusha watched me like a lynx! Will you put the en- closed letter in. one of your own en- velopes and address it to Dickie for me? For heaven's sake don't fail me for T am simply heartbroken! "Hastily but with fondest love, "Pat." Miles smiled to hiiii:self as he re- sealed the letter with its enclosure, but his gravity returned when he opened the final envelope: "My dr. Brother," he read, "I take my pen in band to let you. know that I am well and hope you and all are the same but I can't say as much for the folks: The house has. ,not been the same since Andrew came 1 back from foreign parts more noisy and fresh like than when he was a boy only different but up to his old. tricks. He played a joke en the house- man Monday and scairt him sq he left. Hobart has took to liquor and made a holy show of himself in the town. Roger has got himself in a mess too over a speech he made in the school- house last week. 1 an commencing to think they are all getting queer again like they was years ago when they first come into the money. Do you rel collect what I told you about ttheir actions? ,Seerire like it was yesterday, Miss Jerusha has not been herself lately and no wonder with the gossip and all and she has put a stop to Pat going out with that nice young man I wrote you about but I guess it will come out all right. "Y'r afT't sister "Hitty." Slowly Miles replaced the letter and: gummed the flap o fthe envelope to- gether once more. He had heretofore regarded the lugubrious Mehitabel *as negligible, but he realized now that. she might be well worth cultivating. She thought "they were all getting queer again" like they were when their inheritance carne. That was the out- standing' phrase in her letter which struck him with the greatest force. Miss Jerusha was her calmly re- served self at breakfast, and . Miles could perceive no trace ,of the emotion which had possessed her at midnight. 'I wonder if you will go on an er- rand for me, William?" asked Roger, "I know it is raining, but I have an important letter which must go in the next mail." "I'll go at once, sir." Absorbed in his thoughts the detec- tive had plodded mechanically along the path and it was with a start of surprise that he saw the raincoat and lledrggled broad -brimmed hat of An- ' drew Drake just ahead. He was walk- ing rapidly beside a taller, snore dis- tinguished figure. Miles recognized him as the visitor on the night of his arrival, the next door neighbor, Enslee Grayle. What could these two, so widely dis- similar in character and proclivities, have in common? Miles hastened his footsteps and was almost at their heels when they turned abruptly off at the head of a lane between two tall hedges. He was about to continue to the vil- lage when he turned to find a woman beside him. She was dressed in a tail- ored suit of brown which displayed the buxom lines of her figure with rather startling frankness; a face ;that was undeniably pretty although l of a coarse type, and bold hazel eyes gazed into his from beneath a fringe of all -too -yellow hair. "1 sye, 'oo is that man?" she de- manded with an imperative nod to- ward the pair who had struck off down the lane. Friends o' yours?" "The man in the raincoat is Mr. An- drew Drake and the older one is his neighbor, the owner of the house from which you say they carie. His name is Mr. Enslee Grayle." "'Ow, is it?" Her eyes shifted from. his to rest contemplatively upon the two figures already misty in the slant- ing rain. "Strike Hie pink if I didn't fancy one o' 'em was an old pal o' mine!—I sye, 'ow far is it to the sta- tion? My car broke down a mile back and I've got to be at the studio in New York at twelve." "The station is half a mile further on, but here conies a jitney and it ap- pears to be empty." Miles gestured , toward a ramshackle taxi which was rattling down the road. "Wot luck!" She waved to the driver of the approaching' vehicle and then once more her eyes sought the lane. "Andrew Drake," you said, and the w'ite-headed old toff is Enslee Grayle? My mistykelr We11, cheerio! If you've a cinema in this giddy metropolis watch for little Maizie—To the sta- tion, my man, and look sharp!" CHAPTER VIII.' Miles hastened to the village, mail- ed Roger's letter and lost no time in returning to the house. The dreary day drew to a -close and the evening passed uneventfully. The family were finishing breakfast the next morning when the rumble of a well-known voice sounded from the kitchen. "Ze new gardenaire, he ees arrive," announced Pierre. "Hello, Jack!" Miles grinned as he advanced, for the absence of the grit- , zled, sandy beard had wrought a vast change. "Pal take you to Miss Drake—" Miles led the way to the hall. "Study her, Scottie, for she's in on this, too! Whatever it may be •that is affecting the men of the family, she is -sharing iti:I (To be continued.) Disarmament and Industry London Sunday Times (Cons.): While the victorious nations of the war have been expending huge sums on the upkeep and development of military, naval and air forces, Ger- many, deprived by the terms of peace of the right or necessity to do se, has been free to divert the whole of the money and enterprise that would have gone on armaments to: the de- velopment of her' industry andcom- merce. The result is that elle is to- day Len years after the war. ended— a thriving nation, able at least to hold her own with any other In 1.11U - rope. I•Iere is a lesson that .must not be lost. 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