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Zurich Herald, 1928-11-22, Page 2JAxu !FROM -r - E GARDENS .35 perAb lb 513 Miss Drake's door with one side bof y his face convincingly swollen means of as improvised cotton plump- er which he had inserted inside his cheek. - "It's any tooth, ma'am," he explain- ed. "I just can't stand it any longer and the milkman will give me a lift to the station if you can spare me to run to town and see my dentist." Permission was granted and he was soon rattling townward in the early train. On arrival he wont straight to Headquarters and then jo'u ho eYpup- town to an actors'agency, pro- prietor was an old acquaintance. "You ain't givin' me much to go on, Owen," he complained when the visi- tor's errand had been explained. "A. full -figured. blonde, you say, and youngish. Calls herself `Maizie'? I'll do what I can for you." It was not a great distance from the theatrical district to the dignified Archaeological Museum where Miles found Professor Nigel Lorton. Spread beforehim aen fromthewr'ap- ntase spur- ious papyrus pings of the Peruvian mummy and which the detective had entrusted to Zorn to deliver on the previous day. The old professor removed liis spec- tacles and tapped his knee thought- fully with them. "My dear Sergeant," he began at ant - last while the other waitedectum- ly. "This document is, as you ed in your note, an imitation in tex- ture and symbol of the ancient Egyp- tion and whether it be a hoax or not I confess that it is the mostremarkable record it has ever been my privilege to examine." translate, "You found it easy to sir?" Miles asked. "Fairly so, ,although the terms used were iliar to me. I have made a literal translation for you also and with your knowledge 1 be able f the subject o dof which it treats you disordered ;mind or theis the ucination revelation fof a brilliant if abnormal one." It was well toward noon when the conference ended and Miles left the building with a feeling of exultation not unmixed with awe at the very enormity of the secret so fortuitously disclosed. The theatrical prod ce inath exb ed himsel fto some p P' ef period allotted to him in whih picture art stecMitoo locate the notion p Maizie Gray, it happened, was playing second loads with t e Luxor Company and would be delighted to meet the press representative, Mr. Oweu Miles, at the Admiral for luncheon. 7r; tive went ons "There's a lot you'll, have to take for granted, but you must. use your own judgment about trusting me. If you show up with your little story before the right minute you'll queer the whole thing and we won't any of us get our bit, but it is only right that you should be on the spot to appear when I tip you off, and we two can rake in all the swag for ourselves." "Sounds fair enough," Maizie ad- mitted slowly. "You've come out hon- est, and strike me pink if I don't think you're on the square ' ith me." The arrival of their lunch put a temporary halt to further discussion of the subject, but later over the sweets Miss Mazie Gray showed her- self to be a person of quick decision. "I've myde up my mind to put my money on you, old top!" she announc- ed. "When do you want me to go to Brooklea .and where'll I put up? At the King's Arms? Wot price, a willow named Mrs. 'Iggins who keeps to 'er room until she 'ears from you?" (To be continued.; "Tried to catch the spirit' kettle when the table tilted and the blazing alcohol ran up niy sleeve!" He groaned in spite of himself and, seizing a serviette, he wrapped it about his injured arm. "Don't putter ab few steps to rest. "Excuse me, sir, but may I help you?" Miles asked as he hurried for- ward. "I saw you coning and I thought that you aright perhaps feel a little weak still." out with that stuff like an ass!" Miles became aware of the extreme "Very good, sir." inward agitation of the man. When this was accomplished Miles Roger leaned his weight heavily sought Scottie and found the latter 1 upon the younger ran, who could chuckling to himself. feel the thin fingers closing about his "What's the joke? Did you see Miss elbow like bands of steel. The scien- Hawks armed for conquest?" i tist summoned his remaining strength "I did not!" Scottie still smiled to negotiate the steps of tho verandah broadly. "I'm thinking of the march and Hobart Drake himself opened the front door. "What is this?" he exclaimed as he hastened to support his brother to the other side. "Hobart!" With unexpected vigor the weals man thrust them aside with a sweeping gesture of his long arms and stod erect. "Hobart, I have found out who it is! I know—I know the—the nemesis—!" His voice had thickened oddly and the last word ended in a choking cry as he wavered and then suddenly pitched forward on his face. Miss Drake's startled exclamation from the staircase was lost in Hobart's sharp command: the young people have stolen on their families., Dick brought the girl back as he promised but she's not 'Miss Patricia' any more; they bundled old Higgs on the running board and made for the minister's house before they left Freedaie and it is young Mrs. Kemp who has come home." "I'm glad of it," Miles said after a pause. "There comes Roger Drake up the drive from the gate," he continued. "He's a sick man, and no mistake!" The scientist was walking more steadily than when and he had left adsedthe house but slowly,he p every Minard's Liniment for Asthma. "Don't try to lift him, William; turn him over—Great heavens! He has had a stroke!" The body turned rigidly beneath their hands and Roger Drake lay star- ing widely up at the ceiling, the left side of his face twisted into a hideous- ly grotesque mask, the arm crooked and leg drawn up in a manner there could be no mistaking. Miss Drake swept 'down to kneel be- side him, but Andrew brushed her roughly aside and descended in reck- less leaps. "Is it paralysis, Hobart? Shall I 'phone the• doctor? Can he speak?" His ruddy face had paled and his' voice was grave and shaken. "The doctor, by all means, as quick- ly as you can get him here!" Hobart. responded. For an hour all was excitement while the stricken man was carried tc his room and placed in bed. Car- ter admitted the physician and the de- tective was able to catch snatches of his phrases. "—in these eases, nothing— Pos- sibly in a day or so, possibly in ten, unless, of course, another stroke— only absolute quiet and, look in again tonight." Hobart had established himself as nurse and although Miss Drake de- murred, she was for once overruled and only permitted to take his place while her brother descended to snatch a hasty bite in the dining room. Miles hovered about in the hall just outside the sick room, beset with the question which haunted his mind. While he pondered, Miss Drake :ap- peared suddenly in the doorway and seeing him, beckoned. "William, I must go downstairs for a•moment. Will you come in and sit beside Mr. Roger?" Secretly thanking his lucky stars that he had been at hand, Miles en- tered and heated himself beside the still form oustretched upon the bed. Maizie was prompt to keep the ap- pointment but her professional smile changed to one of good-natured de- rision when she recognized her host. "'Ullo!" she exclaimed with the ut- most sangfroid as she buried her nose in his fragrant offering. "I might 'a' knowed there was ado somewhere. I wasn't on that you were in the gyme when I spoke to you in the road the other day, but I knew you were fol- lowing Mr. Enslee Grayle and his nobs, Mr. Andrew Drake. Wot's the lay?" "I can't tell you that, but Drake's going to double-cross you y" Miles had lowered his voice confidentially. "I ' have proof that he means to double - he instant Miss Drakes footsteps cross me, too, and that's why I've d died away the detective bent for: scone to join forces with you if we ward: "Mr. Roger!" He spoke in. a low, compelling tone. "I am here to help you. If you realize what I am say- ing close your right eye!" A wave of exultation swept over him. The eye -lid quivered and slowly, flutteringly, it closed! "Good!—Now, sir, I can't take your message to your brother for you, the thing you were about to tell him when. you were overcome, but do you want to see him? Can he guess the name you were trying to speak?" Miles waited but the eye stared un- blinkingly, although a spreading mois- ture had come into it and the pupil seemed to enlarge and darken with the effort at expression. "Is there something you think I can do?" The eye closed, more quickly this time. • "Do you want anything? Is. it in this room?" The lid remained open but the eye itself moved toward the right as though striving to see through the blank wall beside which the bed had been placed. Beyond the wall was the locked door behind which lay the relics of the past in the impotent guardianship of the woman centuries dead. "You mean your storeroom, don't you, sir?—You know that your belong- ings in here have been searched?— Do you know also that the lock of your storeroom has been tampered with?" Miles drew a• deep breath for at each question the eye . had winked rapidly anti aneager glint had shot across its dulled expanse. "The room has been ransacked, sir. Did you know that?" The eye widened and into it came a look of such utter despair that Miles obeyed a sudden impulse. "ifounda -newkey ke. in the lock and the door swinging open. The only thing that hasn't been touched is that long box that looks like a mummy case. It's safe still. I can fix that door so it can't be opened again by. anyone, Shall I do it, sir?" , The eye winked spasmodically and rested on his for an .instant while a single tear welled forth and rolled down the waxen cheek CHAPTER The dtlybr Li*ht,r as the~ Sea reezes Marshmallow, light and creamy; crisp, vanilla -flavored cake wafer; fresh fruit jelly fillings and -- a generously, thick coating of pure Cocoanut Icing! .� •,.w E'en more delicious thanat soundsM les COCOANUT PUFFS can reach an agreement. Suppose we give our order and then we can talk in peace.", That detail attended to, the detec- Minard's-Liniment for Grippe. XVL next tray was a busy one. At eak Miles presented himself pt ISSUE No. 46---'28'" Outdoors or indoors — whatever your, task. Let WRIGLEY'S refresh you — allay your thirst, aid appetite and digestion. Helps keep teeth clean. 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