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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1928-12-06, Page 2"Marks, take Gray into the draw -tan them for money' and increase your ing room," Miles ordered, "Farrell, demands until you had bled then roll up the right sleeve of the man white." who calls himself Andrew Drake and takeoff the bandage." A gasping cry carie from Jerusha Leat Miss Hawks moaned: "That was what deceived me so thoroughly when he was putting on h;s coat out in the garden the first day 'I called!" The psuedo Andrew set his teeth Let he ,made no shot' of resistance when the bandage was removed and on the still inflamed surface of his arin appeared theblurred, inter- twined letters "H" and "0". "You thought they were your own initials, did yeu not, Miss Hawks?" Miles asked gently. "Forgive me for re -opening an old wound, but that touch of sentiment for a time blinded you to certain 'nconsistencies which even crime committed in the far past. the Drake fancily themselves failed Right then the solution was in my to note?" grasp, for you bad learned that in She nodded dumbly in an' obvious their youth Roger had been interested effort to control her emotion and the in chemistry, dyeing and in photo - detective went on: graphy, that Hobart was a pen -and - "In reality the initials are his own, ink artist and Andrew had worked. as ear as the police records of Aus- for a time in a pulp manufacturing tralia show His name is Hugh Os- plant. The old chest of metal junk borne and, he, too, is badly wanted which we carted away from under. but not foe the same crime as his the floor of the summer -house and de - present accomplice. Will you tell stroyed tbe morning after we wound Mr. Wells and your old friends here up the case, Scottie, did not contain when the first doubt of his identity the remains of a printing press as you entered your mind?" surmised, but the relic of a machine "I called here yesterday, but as I for making a replica of the silk grew reminiscent and he betrayed an threaded pape_ the government uses utter ignorance of .:the incidents Ifo,• genuine greenbacks and had been mentioned a wild suspicion came into an original invention of the real An - my mind. I spoke of my initials on drew. his arm and though he swore that he "It didn't come to me even then had had, them tatooed there in rens that the truth was staring me in the embrance of me I was still uncoilface until you brought me that vinced. I felt that I must be going twenty -dollar bill Rip got knifed over mad and yet I bad to make sure. I and I found it i as counterfeit. It was ' laid a deliberate trap for him and he scorched at one end; and knowing that fell into it!" Rip must have found it somewhere I Miss Hawks rose. "Now 'may 1 concluded that it bad been on the go? I came as I promised, but I—I can endure no more. Jerusha, forgive me,' but surely, it is better that you know the truth!" "The truth is always best, Ora." Miss Drake rose and a stern, Spartan gravity had robbed her set features of all other emotion. "Tonight shall see the end of more than one living lie !" John Wells escorted the trembling woman to her waiting car and scarce- l•y had, the attoriieye reappeared when the imposter broke out with an oath. "You're right it will, Miss Jerusha Drake! Lord, wha, a six months I've put in, in this pious, hypocrjtal househeill-Why, you're au w se crooks than nie, eveFji one.of you, and I've got the goods on you! We could have fixed this little matter up friend- ly all 'round if you'd been sensible, but, es it is, I've My own story to tell,'. and by —, I'll tell it!" Miles did not look at Scottie, but seated himself with a laugh. "Going td try to stick to that far- fetched blackmailing scheme you and that previous partner of yours hatch- ed when you found' that Andrew Drake had left relatives here with money and social position to lose?" he asked easily. "Farrell, you can join, Marks and his pian till I call you. ?dr. Wells, listen to this for the wild- est cock-and-bull yarn that two cheap crooks ever conceived! 1Jr. Hugh Os- borne, here, is wanted in Victoria for blackmail and forgery now. He won't be extradited until he has been tried and served his terms here for fraud, attempted blackmail, attempted ab- duction. of Miss Patricia and several other little items growing out of this case if Mr. Hobart Drake wishes to prefer the charges. How the private papers and letters of the real Andrew r Drake cane into the possession of Hugh Osborne is a question which the next official cable will answer." "Oh, you needn't wait for that!' Osborne remarked, sullenly. "Andy and I were friends. He was taken down with the fever and I nursed him till the end, but before he died he left me everything. It was all fixed up legal and proper by his own wish and I can prove it, though there was little enough to leave, for the sheep ranch was a wretched failure, and he'd been too proud to write the truth horse. Before he died, too, when the delirium was on him, he toll me how he and his brothers bad flooded the country here with counterfeit bilis long ago, but I never meant to make use of that then. When I fell in with Gray in Melbourne about a year and a 'half ago, I remembered haw much I looked. like Andy, and Gray and I --well, we saw there was a good thing in it." "So Gray c•arrie on here ahead and for a year paved the way by getting it with Mr. Roger Drake and then *5411. a . ear€5i as Andrew awl felt' ` eeik. Pp s bgo ;Toe began to Work secretly with your accomplice to terrorize the family while yourself pretending to be a victim as well!" Miles declared. "You knew you couldn't get away with that accusation of counterfeit- ing if it came to' a .showdov`n, for the yavings of a, meat. in delfrime wouldn't bt taken seriously, but you and Gray • Inter, too, that if you forced the men rt' the family by anonymous threats notoriety to commit ridiculous pub - 1 •. +, sett cou1&eoor.' put the screws UE po, 48— 28 CHAPTER XIX, "What was the 'first thing pet you on the right track, Owen lad?" Scot- tie puffed contentedly on his pipe. "I think it was Andrew himself," Miles responded, "It struck lice as odd in niy first talk with Wells and little Miss Patricia that Hobart and Roger should both have made public exhibitions of themselves, but An- drew's fit of supposed insanity took place safe at home, for the benefit of one of the servants alone. "When I had made up my mind that insanity played no part in the strange events the only alternative to consider was blackmail, and it must have been for some indiscretion or dust -heap where Miss Drake mute have thrown it among the :ashes which she cleand out of the drawing - room fireplace after I had seen her burning something there at midnight. "I recalled her wards: `Ashes, every one. If only the first had• never been nceee M. Georges Jean Knight, n,ew Minis- ter Plenipotentiary of France to Can- ada, photographed at the Windsor Street Station, Montreal, etc route by the Canadian Pacific Railway from New York to Qttawa. Sav ng Bits of 'Soap Pieces of toilet soap inay ,he sal- vaged and utilized if the following plan is carried out. i eep a jar in the bathroom closet for collecting the broken bits that would go down the drains to be wasted otherwise. It is surprising holy fast these small pieces accumulate, especially in a home where there are several small chil- dren. When a cupful or mere has been collected, put the pieces into ,a stew- pan with sufficient water to allow the mass to dissolve, place it over a slow fire stirring and breaking up the bits until all may be molded. to- gether. It is not necessary that all the pieces be dissolved if there is suf- ficient soap jelly to bold the pieces �r.tisevelo together in a solid cake. Perfume may be added, and if a bit.of coloring is' put in the children will be pleased with individualcakes and the washing of small grimy hands be more speed- ily and satisfactorily accomplished. If The subtle delicacy in everything Japanese ap- pears also in the captivating flavour of her income - h Parable first crop teas.. Only first -crop leaves are used n this new Japan green tea. 1! Fresh frons tide Gardens resh and his only thought was to get home and warn his brothers, but he was stricken with the word unuttered upon his lips." • Miles rose. "That papyrus was curious, wasn't it?" "It was an example of remarkably poor judgment on Rogers part, pic- ture writing or no, if it was as you said, a complete record of the way they made their counterfeit money," remarked Scottie. `It was more than that; 'an ex- ample of the Drake conscience work- ing overtime," replied Miles:` "Roger had designed it , in the nature of a confession and meant to leave it on this death to his intimate friend, Pro- fessor Masterson, though when Os- borne ransacked the storeroom he hoped to find something more tan- gible." . "There is, one thing that` still is dark to me." Scottie pulled at his pipe, and finding it dead laifl it on tlae mantel. "How did Osborne and his confederate know that the paper- making machine was buried under the ,i summer house?" ~' "They only knew it was hidden somewhere, for the real Andrew must have talked a bit more in his dying ravings than Osborne told and I fancy they hoped to find the whole para- phernalia .so that a they could make some more of the queer and shove it themselves." (The End.) A gasping cry cane item Jerusha. conceived this horror would not have descended upon us.' She had known from the start what her brothers were doing. None of her .brothers knew until just before the explosion cane that she had been wise all the time; they thought she believed that myth- ical tale of an inheritance and I could kick myself for: accepting it without verification, but Wells had taken it for granted and so did I!" °'It's no worse than me!" Scottie remarked consolingly. ,"Wh,r didn't I see that tattoo' mark on Andrew's arm when he took o his coat there in the garden just before Miss Hawks appeared? To be sure, my back.was to him and everybody. How did you guess 'that the Hawks woman knew Andrew for an impostor?" "1 happened -to be in the hall when she ran out of the house like a mad- woman after a tete-a-tete with An- drew and the next iniinute he upset the table and scalded his arni. It wasn't a bad burn and it occnreed to me that it was just an excuse for • a bandage!" Miles' face sobered. "Gray was the real brains of the scheme. It was he who wrote' that devilishly satirical lecture and forced poor Roger by anonymous threat to deliver it; he who wrote the other anonymous let- ters, one of which he slipped into the house by means of a French window which Andrew had left open for hint and left on the hall table the night of my arrival, to be mixed with the mail next morning, when I concluded 'it was some member of fee household. He disguised hie Voice for the tele- phone threats which so agitated the family, but he cannot figure out how Roger Drake penetrated his habitual disguise. . of the Privy Council"liar granted five "Roger did, thee?" asked the othen representative women of Canada lewd to appeal to the Privy Gotineil from the judgment of the Supreme Court of Canada, which ruled that women Were not "persons" under the mean- ing of the British North America Aet and therefore were not eligible .fox the Canadian Senate. Cheap Cotton to Regain Markets the solution seems too thin, stir in. Substitute Plant Discovered in enough, oatmeal to thicken it and re- Guiana Seen as Key to small molds or fashion it into cakes Recapture of Trade with the aid of dry oatmeal, and set London.—A _substitute cotton at it away to harden. The oatmeal has twelve cents a pound, compared to a softening effect when the soap is twenty cents, which is the present •ice for the genuine article, will be Jai supplied to the cotton mills of the Bri- Anglo-French Friendship London Referee (Cons.) :, The et forts of interested parties to .drive a move it from the fire. Pour it into used. When the cakes are rolled in cornmeal it tends to cut the dirt f small hands that have perhaps ni mud pies. Since it is not well to mix laundry soap with the bits of toilet soap, a wire shaker may be kept by the kit- chen sink for the collection of bits that may be used in dish washing. t A Real Gorge Ethiopia Feasts Forty Days • As "King of Kings" Is Crowned London—Feasting and rejoicing in Ethiopia in honor of the coronation of Ras Tafari as "Icing of Kings," which has been in progress since Oc- tober 7, is at last beginning to sub- side. Reports from the inland fast- ness of Abyssinia, state that the capi- tal city of Addis Abbeba for more than month has been giving the "The Lion of Judah and Elect of God" a proper sendoff on his reign. Virtually every engineer, carpenter, mason and workman of the country was engaged by the government in sub -deb of 8, 10, •12, 14 and 16 years. erecting triumphal arches, building roads and hanging flags and decors- Sty le No. 349 requires but 1% yards tions at public places, of 40 -inch material with ire yard of -One of the biggest events of the 82 -inch contrasting. Pattern price 2,Oc ceremonies was a seven-day • feast. in stamps or coin (coin is preferred) . There was a continuous stream of HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS;.. cattle, sheep and countless loads of Write your,naiiie and address plain - grain and native beverages from'the ly, giving number and size of such rural parts to the city for the garga- patterns as you want. Enclose 20e in ntuan affair, The entire Abyssinian stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap army—and almost every able-bodied it careflly) for each number and male in the kindoni is a -part of tbe address your.: order to Wilson Pattern army—was fed. They had to be Service, 73 `gest Adelaide St., Toronto. marched to the banquet board in re- Patterns sent by return mail. lays. �a. Only actual heads of foreign lege- Censorship ceremonies October 7, but . nelther Irish Statesman (Dublin):It is the, they nor anybody else sa* the actual duty of the 'State to restrict the civ crowvtiing, as a curtain was drawn culation of literature' obviously porno - around the majesties—Ras and his graphic or hdecent. But it is no part aunt, Empress Zanditu. Behind it the of the duty of the State to allow a Empress placers the royal diadem on group ,of live people and a Minister the head of Ras Tafari, proclaimed to regulate its reading geiieraily.. . him the monarch, and handed him a Censor by all_means obscene litera drawit and a salute ot sword. Then the curtain ...was with, ture, but de not create by political • twenty-one means associations of people whose guns was fired. legal function is to be virtuous above their fellows, and to show this by Senate $A14 rumaging about until they can dis- to Be Appealed cover Obscene passages in books and • London --The Jedicial Committee give publicity to them. . We grow nobly like what we love, and ignobly like what we hate. Tee soul bag laws just as unalterable as the laws of nee ture, pi bas not only the soft and lasting sheen, but also the lustre whfeh arta ficial silk producers have been `striv- ing for years to obtain."• The, producers' state that ,by -pro•, ducts of the new plant include parch ment, building materials and, certain drugs and that the English. soil will produce 800 to 900 pounds of fibre an acre. "The. Observer" states that the pro - queers l of the cotton substitute have adequate financial backingand that no monetary interest therein is avail- able to the general public. PiPRaf r! NfW Y0 , tish MVIidiands next summer, according to an article which the conservative and unsensational "Observer" recent- ly published. wedge 'into' Anglo-French ' friendship The newspaper, declaring that Lan- Have, been rendered nugatory by Lord rq.s!iire and Yorkshire will be placed Cusbendun's unequivocal announce - in a position next summer to meet all went that the Entente Cordiale bas oui.xi,4uuou and to recapture the Far, never been dissolved. We never for a Eastern market, asserts that between moment believed otherwise, for an al - three and four million pounds of chis Nance cemented by the blood of two artificial cotton is now being grown million men shed in a common cause In Essex and Sussex and that the crop cannot be lightly broken. Moreover, will lie available in July, 1929. ' Secret Taken From Birds. According to D. A. Walters, director of the company which is marketing certain contingencies, converge and the new product, this cotton substi- tute was discovered eight years ago unite. in British Guiana. "At that time," Mr. Walters is quoted as saying, "we dis- covered birds building their nests from a material which. closely resemb- led cotton. We kept close watch and found the. birds picking a certain .plant and stripping and treating it. "We brough the seeds and roots of this plant to this country. and have grownit on. soil' that, is little fit `tor anything else to a heigh of five to seven feet. It has been brought to succi a state of perfection here that the yield is greater than that of the original weed." ` • the fortunes of Great Britain and France, as dictated by present fine neral, economic and political condi- tions, run parallel and must, under FOR CLASSROOM. It simulates the two-piece node with its wide suede belt narking, nor - mai waistline. 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