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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1928-10-18, Page 2fabel Ostrander- ' Qaas NEA . erviea.Inc. . BEGIN HERE TODAY house while Andrew stood as though What horrible and mysterigus power was forcing the three Drake brothers, Hobart, the Wall Street broker, Roger, the scientist, and Andrew, recently re- turned from Australia, to place them- selves in ridiculous situations. Some power had forced Hobart to deliver ft rooted to the spot gazing after her, When she had disappeared a single comment from the man reached Miles' ears. "Damnation!" "Look!" Scottie seized Miles' arm and his low voice sank to a husky mock speech in the public square, Ro- whisper. "There, over the hedge.-- , ger to burlesque a scientific address, Coming from the direetion of the,yi1-,• lage. Who is it?" Two indistinct shadows vielre mov- ing along the walk and appeared to be engaged in an argument, dor a: plan's rough tonea mingled with .a sla'ill, higher voice like that of an angry boy. They crept step by step until they' were within a few feet o& the two. "You'll lose out if you .. do, • I . tell you!" the heavier masculine tones growled. 'What will you getout of it if you carry out your threat?" " Afairish bit o' satisfaction, old dear!" The mocking voice was that of a woman, not a boy, and the ac- cent was unmistakable. "I mean to get my bit out o' what- ever the gyme is, no fear!" "There's no game, but I promised you a settlement, didn't I, if you would only be a little patient? Let me take you back to your car now like a sen- sible girl and I'll see you in town be- fore the end of next week." "Yon's Andrew Drake, himself!" Scottie breathed, but the woman was speaking once more. "'No gyne?' Garn!" She laughed stridently. "I don't care tuppenny wot and Andrew to sit on the floor and play with toys, Patricia Drake, daugh- ter of Hobart, secretly secur 's Owen Mile's, detective .sergeant, and his col- league, Scottie McCready, to investi- gate, Miles is emplcyed as a house- man and Scottie as a gardener.. Miss Jerusha Drake, spinster siste. of the brothers, is discovered by Miles in a wildly excited state late at night be- fore an open grate in which she was burning papers of some kind.. . GO ON WITH THE STORY "When—?" Scottie began. "Wednesday night, here in the house. No one knows but me and I'll tell you about it later." Miles continued his duties and no opportunity presented itself to speak to Scottie until lunch.. As he served the mid-day meal Miss Drake an- nounced: "Ora Hawks has returned from her trip to California." Far a moment there was silence while Andrew ate unconcernedly on. Roger was almost furtively regarding his brother. Finally he asked, with an embarrassed cough: "You will call, Andrew, no doubt?" "Why should I?" The other looked up coolly and then added with a short laugh, "I had almost forgotten her existence. Has she changed much?" "Not in appearance; a little stouter, perhaps," Miss Drake answered hast- ily with a slight frown. "She is con- ing for tea this afternoon, so you will be able to judge for yourself." It was late afternoon when in an- swer to the summons od the doorbell he admitted the expected visitor. She was a stout, .severely gowned woman of middle age with graying hair slick- ed back tightly beneath, a small, stiff .. hat and a pair of shell -rimmed glasses athwart the bridge of an inquiring nose. "1VIy dear Ora! It is indeed a pleas- ure to welcome your return!" Miss Drake greeted her with a cool kiss on her cheek and turned to Miles: "Wil- liam, call Miss Patricia, please, and Mr. Roger. I think you will find Mr. Andrew in the garden." Scottie and Andrew were standing deep in consultation over by the sum- mer -house and he had started toward them when he saw the visitor descend- ing the steps of the side verandah. Her smile was somewhat grin): as she advanced. 'How do you do, Andrew? Am I the last of your old friends—?" "Ora!" Andrew Drake had wheeled with her first word and held out his band. Then he drew it back'with an apologetic shrug for its begrimed state. He was coatless in the balmy spring sunshine and both shirtsleeves had been rolled ',;.o the elbow, but now he started hastily to pull them down. She noted the action and even from where he stood the detective could see the deep flush which mounted sudden- ly in her fat, round face. "Andrew!" Her nasal tones were oddly broken and confused. "You really recognized me, then? I am not so very much changed?" "How can you ask? I should have known you anywhere in the world!" he returned with suspicious fervor. Then he added hurriedly: "I'll get cleaned up at once and come in for.tea, and we can have a good talk." "I will wait for you." She turned and moved back slowly toward the "Am I the last of your old friends?" F,F,�I:LED BIG CHIMNEY It was'180, feet high, at Lyden Holt, near Dover,, Eng., and was built by a French syndicate for a .colliery that did not pay, owing to the poor quality of coal. licein North eport, Tearing Many Stations Detachment of Canadian Mounties at Bernard Har, bor Hear 300 Broad. casters Offers Only Diversion Also Have Short Wave Set, and Hear Many Amateurs Montreal. --At Bernard Harbor, a small settlement in the district still known as the Northwest Territories, there is an outpost of the Royal Cana. dian Mounted Police who keep watch and • ward in the North Country as emissaries of civilization. Their life is set .among hardships and loneli- ness, and their diversions are few. A paternally inclined government depart- ment, however, realizing this; has fit- ted this and other outposts with radio receiving sets of a very high order. That the entertainment which radio affords to these faithful guardians of the law is appreciated may be gather- ed from the following letter which was voluntarily sent to the Northern Electric Company at Montreal: "When the Bernard Harbor detach- ment was established, in 1926, our sup- plies contained a.radio receiver, which we had the pleasure of installing after we had erected outbuildings. The ma- chine was put into 'operation on Oc- tober 17, 1926; and up to date we have heard over 300 different stations, and also about fifty amateurs; using phones. There are three of us on this detachment, and we can""tell you we sure make full use of our radio and greatly appreciate the facility with which it works, no trouble of any kind being experienced. Even our Eskimo guide here is able to work it without any trouble. "We have listened to most of the principal stations on the west and east coasts of Canada and the United States, from Vancouver to Moncton, leaving heard all the C.N.R. stations in Canada, and from the southern part of the'U.S.A. also, including New Orleans, Miami Beach and Tampa, also stations in Texas. Mexico City was heard reg- ularly last winter, as was also Havana, Cuba, but this winter we have- not heard from either of these ,places so far. "Practically all the British Broad- casting Corporation's stations in Eng- land, Scotland and Ireland have been heard, a number of -stations in. Ger- many, France,, Spain, Norway, Sweden, Russia and Ireland, and last month we heard several Japanese and Chi- nese stationsand also listened to a station in Brisbane, Australia, on two occasions for over an hour, most of -the time on the loud speaker. "We have also a short wave re- ceiver of 'home construction' using an N. E.. Peanut Tube, with the con- nections soldered right to the base of the tube, and have heard quite a number of stations, both commercial and amateur, on it, including WGY: on phones and WNP, VOQ, WIZ on code, and I think this a fine perform- ance for one single tube. "We are. writing this as a private report and not an official police re - part,' and we trust this may be of slight interest to you, as showing what' can be done' with a- good receiver up here in the North Country. "One day last winter we heard fifty- two broadcasting stations and twenty amateurs 'on phones." This letter took 185 days to:. reach its destination and. was brought out of the North by dog team to the rail. head. night—an' I ordehs dem away an' says de rex' time dey come back I'se gwine to shoot." "What did they look like?" But Rip could give no further in- formation and the two detectives with- drew. Miles loked up the house -and re- tired. The family breakfasted late on Sunday and Carter was well enough to serve them but he carne out to the detective who was helping in the pan- try and asked: "William, will you go up to Miss Patricia's door and• tell her the folks are waiting for her?" Miles hurriedly ascended and knock- ed upon Patricia's door but no reply cane to him and after repeating the sumrn,ons again and again he ventured to turn the knob. The door swtmg inward, revealing an empty room, the bed smooth and untouched, and- lying in a heap across a. chairwhere it had been carelessly flung, was the gown which Patricia bad worn the night before. She was gone! s th ec m1ost-d sired, The slight Fine g off $n� p heaper teas cannot antioo the tea -Mover from his discrim naOgng choices', The -.Fines* of •All Fire Teas lob New Zealand Enters Treaty With Japanese First Pack Ever Signed in the Dominion With a Foreign Power - , Auckland, N.Z.—The trade treaty that New Zealand has just signed with Japan is interesting from `more CHAPTER X. Miles proceeded straight to the din- ing room; he must see for himself what reaction: the first shock of the xiews would bring to the family. "Miss Patricia's not there, ma'am" the detective said quietly. "Not—not there?" The woman's lips barely formed the words and a ,mut- tered oath came .frow. Andrew, but Roger only stared while the faint color ebbed from, his thin face, leaving it waxen. - "Patricia! My God, not that! Not that last blow!" Hobart started up as Miss Drake sank back and Andrew cried out furiously: - "You see what you've done? You brought it on yourself—!" `Andrew!" The gentle Roger's tone was suddenly stern. "You need not add your recriminations to the situa- tion. Patricia is Hobart5s daughter, not yours!" "I must know! I must see for my- self !" Miss brake apse, swaying elighttly, and left the room. "It's that young rascal Dick Kemp!" Hobart exclaimed. "I told Jerusha it was•a mistake•to keep too tights rein en the girl at this -time, but she over- ruled nye. I'll get that father of his on the phone—l" . "Wait until Jerusha returns," in- terrupted Roger. "The child may have left a note that will explain her ab- sence. You may go, William." The detective had been ostensibly busying himself at the serving table in the corner but now he was compell- ed to retire, to the'pantry where Carter confronted him. • "I heard!" he exclaimed. "You're sure she's gone, hauled?hadn't been "Didn't .I say., slept in?"- Miles returned. "Where'are you going?" .. , "To tell Hitty," Carter called, back over his shoulder. • - With surprising agility considering his ailment, he darted through the farther door: - Hobart Drake Was seated at his desk • as entered s first consisted of vitileklt attacks on it is, but I'm going to have my rights! —'Ow far back dicl- we leave the bloomin' .car?" They turned and moved back along the pathway in the direction from which they had come. Scottie straight- ened with' a grunt. "Two women, eh? Our friend. An- drew had an unlucky day. I think I can guess who this one was, just now.; the lady you niet ,yesterday." "Yes," Miles replied. "It was Maizie." W_',16LEYS it treat in, the Peppermint -flavored is :x•coated jacket and another in the l'eppertaint.*flavored gum inside— inmost value in long-laetitag delight LST ' CHAPTER IX. It was Hobart Drake's unbroken cus- tom of years ' to return. home imme- diately after the market closed at noon on Saturdays, but on.the day fol- lowing that of the arrival of the new gardener, lunch -tine carie and passed and he did not appear nor did any word come from hint. "There is a station taxi corning down true road and—yes, Hobart is in- side!" exclaimed Miss Drake when tea was served. When Miles reached the library door once more the measured tones of Ho- bart Drake cane distinctly to his ears. "—Sorry, but there were many de- tails to attend to in settling up my affairs"' "'Settling up?'" It was Andrew, and the devil-may-care note had van- ished from his voice. "1 am no' -longer .a member of the Stock Exchange," Announced Hobart Drake quietly, "Of all ;the d—d fools!" Andrew ex- ploded. '"p'irst Roger and then you, both of you lying down and taking it! By God, I thought there was more fighting blood in the family than that! You're afraid--•!" It -was still comparatively early when Miles was' free to dein Scottie. "There's only one new angle to con- sider," Scottie remarked at last: "That is Andrew's attitude ' in the matter. He'd not thinking of the fresh gossip. It may be that he has made a good bit of money through Hobart's inside tips in the market and doesn't want to lose the graft. What was that?" "I didn't see anything." "I thought a light twinked ' twice down thereby the gate." They crept around the house and were skirting the hedge when a :sud- den movement behind a tree b1•ot ght bythe Canadian Department of Agri -There are also signs that the Country them to a halt.is susceptible to a new ;type of "'I—I ain't gwine to riah no gun!" culture to the farmers of the�Domin- evangelical rel!gion which has been spoke out of the' ion will only be aseertaine<1 by' furt!i introduced in Certain factory districts. A tremulous voiceer tests. Meanwhile Marquis wheat "Rip!" Miles exclaimed. "You're remains the undisputed champion. some watchman!" Ninety per cent. of the spring:wheat "Lordy!" Rip advanced and added grown in Canada and GO per cent, of sheepishly: "i thought it was dem the spring wheat grown in the Milted two again!" States is Marquis, which is a product "What?" demanded Scottie, of the Experimental Patin at Ottawa: two?' de "Dunne," Rip iritini e "TWo fel- Small Radio Set Brings Music to Gobi Desert Peking—Carrying only a small Jek. ceiver, , the central Asiatic expcdi- tion of the American Museum of Na- tural History obtained little benefit from radio during the three months it was in be Gobi district. •Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews and his party • had few reports of • the world news except on one of two occasions When they put into a' telegraph sta- tion or met missionaries. • :The small radio outfit was taken to. than .one point of view. It is the save carrying heavier apparatus. Its first with a foreign country that has been signed in New Zealand. The Principal function was to pick up• me signals which are broadcast practice in the past in such cases has each evening by the American station been to become a party to a treaty in Manila. Occasionally, the party signed by Great Britain. In view of heard talks from Vladivostok or Mos- cow stations, but none of the explor- ers 'understood" Russian. However, when music was to be received,- there wan a' scramble -to hear each note. 'the urgency of the matter the horn authorities agreed to New Zealand's acion. New Zealand concluded the treaty by virtue of the "sovereign powers,' which for such purposes" sbe" possesses. The treaty will confer substantial benefits on New Zealand, but:7ai!an1 is merely to recive "most -favored= nation treatment" as before. Some comment has been caused by the men- tion by the Japanese Consul -General for Australia and New Zealand of the immigration question, about which New Zealand convictions , are .strong, but the treaty is purely a trade docu- ment. According to Mr. Downie Stewart, Minister of Customs,'' Japan gets no concessions, and she signed partly as a recognition of the way in which She had been treated by New Zealand, and partly because she desir- ed to share in any tariff concession that niight be made to other coun- tries. , , ' The advantage to the Dominion will be that from now -its goods will re-, ceive tariff treatment as favorable as those ,of any other country. In the Japanese market Canadian butter has enjoyed a tariff advantdgb of ah d. •a pound. New Zealand butter will now be on the same footing. At present the trade of New Zealaircl, but�tter,;c at, by the,.qui�eli maga of home ;tint-• with Japan is very s •alnoun iiig.:ce' or dyeing. .With :true, _yacleless to only £22,000 -last year, hbut, it,is.,-3.Diamond Dyes, anyono' can •xio . this, believed and . hoped that there is a successfully, The "know-how" is in greatdfuture for the Dominion's S dairy the dyes. 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Write Mae Martin, Diamond Dyes, Windsor, Ontario. settling an envelepe Milest ed in response to his ring. • Getting -Easier The niob spirit and what I call confermitarianism are abroad in the .land, , crushing out individual. judg- ment and action and silencing cour- age.—Nicholas Murray Butler., "cattle: , "I hear you're engaged- to• Jack, and he is such a shocking gam- bler." . Jean: "Ah, but he has such winning way's"" . . t 0000000000000000000p00000, 'AnyWoinan Con Look Stylish : 13-`MAE.MAET! o00oa 00000 Most stylish, looking, . women know simples ways io make. last season's. things conform to this season's styles. Thousands of them have learned how easily they Can transform a dress or blouse, or Soviet Russia Lags in War on Relgion ; Evangelism . Gains Moscow—Soviet Russia's efforts to suppress the worship of God have steadily Jost vigor. .indifference and tolerance have replaced the intense, propaganda against ecclesiastics which marked the early stages of the revolution: • The movement has • progressed through three distinct periods. The (To be contsnued.) Nearly 500 Farmers Make . Test Ottawa, Can.—bre . of the newest varieties of wheat, known as Reward, a cross betwee nthe famous Marquis and a lesser known :Variety, °labelled Prelude, has been holding the .atten- tion of nearly 500 farmers in Western, Canada this year. Reports .on it 'so far received by the Canadian Govern; meut Experimental Farm at Ottawa, where it was developed, are.very en- couraging. Reward ripens a few days earlier than Marquis, and is also be- lieved to have rust resisting, qualities, though these have yet to be deter- mined. 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