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attached to each other, but I have seen
small evidenee of afl ctian nn An-
drew's part for any of them."
"Do you see all these odd. `caskets
pf metal and carved bone?" Scottie
a pla y' h' torch. th an 'e t
1a" s in 7s oro A over' . e e n
relics which littered the floor, "Per-
haps we can find one or two that
Hasn't been broken open."�
It Was long' past midnight when
they desisted at last and Miles re-
marked with a shrug:'
;no "I guess we'd better give it up, old
man, If there was anything here
bearing on our. problem Andrew must
have made off with it, after all."
Scottie suppressed a sneeze hero-
ically as the dust Which still floated
in the air assailed his nostrils, and•
relied in a strangled voice; •
"The mould of the ages is eating
into my lungs and there's aa musty,
spicy reek from that mammy—"
"The mummy!" Miles struck his
hands together softly. ' "It's 'the one
place we never • thought of, Scottie!
Were not beaten' yet l"
Ile darted over to the long, coffin -
like case and his companion followed
somewhat reluctantly. '
"The—the-peron doesn't appear to
have been disturbed since the Pyra-
mids were built," he ventured. "What
are you about, lad? You're never go-
ing to undress it!" .
"It's Peruvian, not. Egyptian; don't
you see the inscription?" responded
the scientist and Andrew, recently re- Miles in a quick, excited whisper.
honey never came in the first placer "Moreover, the wrappings about the
turned from Australia, place tohem- I' was that made all three of them act head and breast have been unwound
selves in ridiculous situations. Some queer long ago, and though I almost within a veryfew years at most and
power had forced Hobart to deliver a
g g then replaced!
Miles inserted his hand with infin-
ite care beneath the displaced fabric
which covered the shrunken, flint=like•
breast and drew forth a slender roll of
parchment. Scottie hastily returned
his unwelcome burden to its original
position and strode around the case
to stare over his friend's shoulder at
the discovery.
"It's in figure writing!" he exclaim -
fore an open grate in which she' was of getting back at other folks for .all ed disgustedly as the roll unwound.
burning papers of some kind, Pa- the years of hardship they'd been "You'd never he able tb read it and it
triles disappears and Hobart sends for through; getting rich. by making other would do you no good if you did! I've
Miles. folks poor! . It gave me the shivers to, no doubt it's a prayer. Put it back,
GO ON WITH TIIE STORY" bear him. You would have thought Owen, it's defying Providence—"
"Wells is an old fool!" Andrew con- that there was a death in the house!" "Defying your grandmother!" Miles
interrupted. "This message is in
Egyptian hieroglyphics, ` Scottie, I
know that much!—Egyptian picture
writing in the wrapping of a: Peru-
vian mummy!—Get me a piece of that
parchment from the floor, will you?"
Scottie complied .and held both his
torch and that of his companion While,with plain canton -faille crepe. Black
the latter compared the texture of the lustrous crepe satin with pleated in -
molls. -set colla • cu pocketstrim-
breath
At length lie drew a quid. s, i., cuffs, .and trim
breath and faced the older man with fining pieces made of the dull side of
shining eyes. the crepe is smartly wearable. Sheer
"I can't read a word of it, as you tweed, rayon velvet in small print de-
say, but by. the Lord Harry I think sign, canton -faille crepe, flat silk
we've got it! There are professors in crepe, and velveteen are interesting
town who can decipher it for us and suggetsions. Style No. 275 can be had
be depended upon to hold their tongues in sizes 16, 18, 20 years, 36, 38, 40 and
afterward, and we'll seethat it reach- 4t inches bust. Pa'„tern price 20 cents
es one of them tomorrow! hr stamps or coin (coin preferred).
"But it can't be what Lndrew was Wrap- coin carefully.
looking for!" Scottie expostulated. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS.
"He certainly cannot translate heiro
—what you said!" Write your name and address plain-
s "Nor would he have known that it TY, giving number and size of such
was what he wanted if he had found patterns as you want. Enclose 20c, in
it!" retorted Miles. "Can't you see; stamps or coin'(coin preferred; wrap
old man? That was the intention of it carefully) for each number and
the person who placed it there. It is address your order to Wilson Pattern
Service, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto.
Patterns sent by return mail.
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BEGIN' HERE TODAY
"No, and as for Mr. Hobart, I'in
What horrible and mysterious power glad he's given up the stock market
was forcing the three Drake brothers, before—before he lost everything,
Hobart, the Wall Street broker, Roger:, though sometimes I've wished that the
mock speech in the public square, Ro- forgot about it in the years between,
ger to burlesque a scientific address, ! perhaps they've been wrong in the
anal Andrew to sit on the ,ieor and Bead ever since,"
le.ay with toys. Patrkf Drake, daugh..•! ''-i 'TOW' do you mean they acted queer
ter of Hobart, secretly secur is Owen
Miles, detective sergeant, and his col-
league, Scottie McCready, to investi-
gate. Miles ,is empicyed as a house-
man and Scottie as a gardener.. Miss
derusha Drake, spinster siste. of the
brothers, is discovered by Miles in a
wildly excited state late at night be -
when they came into their money?
asked Miles.
"I remember when the news came,
and though they were excited it struck
nue then that not one of them seemed
really happy about it or even surpris-
ed. Mr. Hobart seemed to think only
tinued. 'I say, there is nothing any continued Carter. "They didn't talk
of us can do for Roger; he'll sleep like to each other any more'n they had to,
a baby toniglit and be all right in the didn't scarcely look at each other and
morning I'm going out and I shan't it seemed as though there was almost
be back until late but I'll take my key hatred between them. Mr. Andrew
and I won't disturb you if you'll tell bad ugly fits of temper that he'd never
Carter not to put the chain on the showed before and other times Mr.
door." Roger would break down and go all to
He strode ;heavily from the room pieces right out of a clear sky;, only
and in another ,moment Miss Drake My. Hobart kept a level head on his
and Hobart followed. j shoulders and all at once I noticed that
"It's work for nothing to set the the hair at each side of his forehead
table for them; they don't hardly was turning gray—and him only 23!
touch a thing!" Carter -mourned, as But quiet years came after, and coni -
he and Miles cleared away the final , fortable ones, and I forgot until this
debris of the meal. "I'm sure I don't' trouble now brought it all back to fine,"
kno wwhat's come to this house, nor
where it's going to end!"
"What's there to be scared of?"
Miles asked stoutly. "I've seen no-
thing barring that fainting spell of
Mr. Roger's today. Is he often took
like that?"
Cal -ter shook his head.
CHAPTER XIV.
Like two housebreakers, Seeeeant
Miles and Scottie stole up th4 back
stairs that night and halted before the
door at the end of the hall.
As he drew the skeleton keys from
"Only once before and that was his pocket Miles indicated the traces
just a day or two after—after the con- of wax which still adhered to the lock,
stable brought Mr. Hobart home when then whispered: "Andrew! He wanted
he'd been walking in his sleep.—That's to get in here mighty bad, didn't he?"
what you heard, -ain't it, William?" He Scottie nodded, not trusting him-
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asked the . question with almost pa-' self to speak, and his coin^anion oiled and yet must be undecipherable to
thetic eagerness. the lock and key -hole carefully before
"No," William replied bluntly. "If setting to work. He made Ono noise
you want the truth I heard he was but the minutes dragged out intermin-
either drunk or crazy!" I ably while the other watched and
"Not a thing had he touched that . listened tensely for a possible inter -
night, for I had the only set of key's; r uption. The key clicked faintly in
to the wine cellar!" Carter asserted the lock and the door swung slob ly
solemnly. "I've yet to see Mr. Ho -1! inward.
bart in liquor, but I can't say as much I "Wait till I close the door," Miles
for Mr. Andrew! Mr. Andrew was a can manded; then as a tiny light
trial to the rest of the family when' gleaned out: "Good! There's a bolt
he came back, though he's toned in the inside and we can't be sur -
down considerable, especially -in his prised. Andrew may come home at
any time and I have a hunch that
he'll try to finish then what he started
this afternoon."
"It looks as though he'd -made a
pretty thorough job of it if destruction
"You mean what happened last was his object," Scottie commented
Monday?" Carter lowered his voice. dryly as the rapier -like thrust of light
"If you want to know my opinion played about the dense blackness of
from what I could get out of Edward the room. "May the de'il take us if
I think Mr. Edward was shamming, we're not in`a museum!"
though the Lord only knows why!" They were in a huge, low-ceilinged
Miles glaneed sharply at the old room which had evidently been long
Iran but his tone Was casual as he re-
marked:
"He was playing a trick on Edward,
maybe, but there was no fake about
Mr. Roger's faint today."
language. It was shocking to hear,
William!"
"I shouldn't be' surprised," Miles ob-
served. "Did he bring those fits back
with him, too, from Australia?"
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unused for human occupancy. On the
left trunks and packing cases of all
shapes and sizes were heaped pell-mell
with broken hasps. From their depths
a heterogeneous mass of relics and
manuscripts had been scattered in. all
directions. -
Haughty, -though fragmentary idols
and humble cooking pots, fearsome
weapons•; bits of crumbled carving,
and •among then all roll 'after roll of
ancient parchment together with note-
books of a more modern day.
Scottie approached a long, metal -
lined box and after one glance within
promptly retreated.
"It's a mummy." Miles gazed briefly.
down at the small, tightly swathed
form and then turned indifferently
away.."If Andrew found what he was
looking for this afternoon, we are
wasting our tire, but I ,'ont think he
was successful. Those note -books must
contain, the result of years of study
and classification and see how ' the
pages are torn out and scattered
ant!"
"hen it was writing that Andrew
was after, and modern writing at
that, for he's only thrown the parch-
ments aside!" Scottie gathered- up a
f t. e sheets and exai .
to
handful o he e
ined them critically.
"But what v$ he looking for?
zh,4.t's what We've got to find out,
What would Itoger have written and
carted all ar'our.,d, the world With hint
that bit brother would want badly
enough to steal? Mr. Wells told me
I that the three brothers were devotedly
anyone not a student of Egyptology."
Miles stowed papyrus and parch-
ment carefully in his pocket.,
Switching off their torches they
stole from the room, but as Miles re-
locked the door behind them his com-
panion seized his arm.
"Do you hear that'?" Scottie's husky.
whisper breathed in his ear. "Sone -
one's up, and there's a wee streak of
light coining from that room at the
front. Whose is it?"
"Hobart's,", whisliared Miles in' re-
ply. "Flatten yourself .against the
wall and walk as lightly as you can;
were going to look into this!"
Foot by foot they crept along the
hall until they neared Hebart's door,
and then halted as though transfixed,
for the voice of Miss Drake, trembling
and charged with pent-up emotion,
came to the listener's cars.
"It is no use! If. we were the only
ones concerned I would have kept this
from you but it shall not be visited
upon the next generation! I know
the truth, Hobart! I have always
known!"
(To be continued.) •
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Stanley Taylor, of Colgate College,
came home unexpected by a short
time ago, only to'find his sister ill
'With scarlet leve" and the .tome
tluarantined. However, he spent se'v
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while het'e took the evil sererice etc-
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To Raze St. Lazare Prison
In the three -cornered struggle be-
tween French antiquauians, the Minis-
try of Justice, and humanitarians and
hygienists the Iast have won, and
the Ministry having failed to sug-
gest improvements to theft satisfac-
tion it has reluctantly consented to
he demoliion of the notorious wom-
en's prison of St. Lazare at the junc-
tion of the Rue de Faubourg and the
Boulevard de Magenta, Paris.
The old prison, some buildings of
which: date back to the twelfth cen-
tury, was first used as a leper hospi-
tal, then as an abbey, and then. as a
seminary—all before the French Re-
volution. During the Revolution it
was used to house debtors and poli-
tical
olitical prisoners—some quite famous.
It became a woman's prison in 1868,
and atone time nc fewer than 7,822
women crowded in its tiny cells and
stuffy dormitories. Within recent
years it guarded, while awaiting trial,
the beautiful Mme. Steinheil alleged to
have been perpetrator of th "studio
crime"; Mine. Caiilaiix, wife of the
former Premier, who slew Gaston
Calmette in the oftIce of Le Figaro,
and the Anarchist girl, Germaine
Berton, who shot down Marius Plat-
eau in theoffice of Leon Daudet.
'The principal, defenders of the old
prison have been the antiquarians;
its principal enemies, the hygienists.
Some months ago the latter succeed-
ed in having the 111inistry remove all
the prisoners to other places of de-
tention. Now M. Paul Fleurot,
President of the Conseil General of
the Seine Department, has submitted
a proposal that the site of St. Lazare.
should be used for a new boys'
school. This the Government has ac-
cepted, transferring the historic edi-
fice to the Ministry of Education,
which will immediately begin its de -
mention,
Slight Exaggeration
Greenwalt later staggered into a
roadhouse near by With a story of
having been attacked and killed by
bandits.—Pennsylvania paper.
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Annoying Bugs
River Jungles Bolivia Uoid
Plague of Malignant
Insects
In the jungle along the River ,Beni,.
in Bolivia, are found some .of the Most
malignant Blood -sucking insects in the
world.
Here lives the apasana, a bird-eht-
ung spider, attaining a length of from
eight to ten inches, whose poisonous
bite is sometimes fatal. It has a body
resembling a ball of wool, with black
hairs on its body and red ones on
its legs. Its eyes .are black dna quick
moving, with -a most malevolent ex-
pression. It is very active and jumps
about two feet at a single behind.
The palo santo ant, a fire ant, which
lives in hollow -stemmed trees, is cqm-
inon here. A touch on this tree brings
clown a..Shower of. the ants, whose
bites feel like red-hot coals, the ,sting
lasting for hours.
Other plagues are the zaputama, an
almost invisible insect which lies in
the grass, bites the legs of men and
causes an almost intolerable itching,•
the guanaco, a bug which lives hi the
sand and whose bite .is usually. fatal;
the baregui, a sand fly with a painful
sting; sweat bees, which suck the
perspiration from the hair; the ano-
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and wasps, ticks and jiggers.
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iuife—"Remember now, meet me
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Lawyer — "Very well, clear, but
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