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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1931-03-19, Page 2fi Salada tea is gathered from d'ane, let me know if anything, won't you?" c il fiziest gardens that her's teep there others, dr^.ti tart 'Fresh front the gardens' Ly THE KESTREL HOUSE MYSTERY !girl left the room. "Haul Mary Jane I optimistic!" "Mary Jane is rather dear," replied Holt,., in "Do you know, Muriel, 1 shoule not interest rn in idle village gossip`: it is all very well for ,•, servants to—er—gloat oy currenee which they lilt mysterious it hardly beeo lady like yourself tq ,"' "Gaardy, you alretlae' I'm not gloating '0'44'4 awfully sorry fora,the would you feel ifla^ a: Mr. Holt rubbed', down at his plate a$a.. "Welt—er—pat ai s By C. H. JACO'BS CHAPTER I. Mr. Henry Holt was roused from his . contemplation of the chickens squabbling in the farmyard by the .stand of the breakfast gong. A bean of pleasurable anticipation over- spread his round, jovial face as he strolled slowly towards the open Frenchwindows overlooking a small lawn on the other side of the house. To the casual observer Mr. Holt presented a remarkable resemblance to the immortal Pickwick. A short, comfortable little man, whose merry, blue eyes twinkled behind a pair of iarge, horn -rimmed spectacles. His high, bald forehead and rosy, clear skin, his ample waistline and inno- cent expression, he was a man to whom most people took an instant liking. . As he took his seat at the break - feet table the door opened and his ward, Muriel Mainevaaing, bounded, rather than walked into the roam. "Oh, what a shame!" she exclaim- ed. "I thought I was going to be first"' Henry Holt smiled as he glanced at the bright eyes, blue as a summer sky. "You'll have to emulate the little larks, my dear,' lie said. "Ah! here comes Mary Jane!" "_Mornin', zur, mornin', xiri55," !mumbled the maid -of -all -work, plac- ing the tray upon the table. "Good morning, Mary Jane, smil- ed Muriel. "Any news of Miss Page?" The maid shook her head vigorous- ly. "No, miss, her's vanished, like as if the -ground have openedup and swallered her up. The vicar be in a purty fine state about her. Coming on top of they there other disappear• anees he's fair frantic, as you might say." "1 expect he is," agreed Muriel sympathetically. "All right, Mary Pure, crisp, light, flaky and always FRESH o hear ing over .old times and adventures, and he's immensely proud of his col. t;cl.oulection of butterflies. My wretched they little bunch would scarcely fill a single Iy the drawer in one of his eases," "But you have only just.comnene- ADVE TETT ZE .'". of ttlA=4. 1/40 collectins" .consoled his coni aan- qi very ed �� I ;ion "I think you have some beauties already osis, my t Twenty naiva.es Tater Molt came '''aoi' clawn the stairs complete with .specs- • men box end •net Muriel was stand- ing itt the door gazing across the moor L'V EVER let a throbbing head interrupt your sltcrppingi Or other pain that; Aspirin ends so quickly. The harmless tablets are an antidoit for the most actt,i pain, Relief is almost list T]t,aneC)U5. Taken in time, they will break tip a cold and head tiff discomfort. They'll relieve your suffering from near algia, neurits or tite lase, at any time. 'i'ii5tieenc:3 ris' women depend upon Aspirin tablets every month to spare therm from those pains peculiar to women. These tablets do not depress the heart; they may be used as frequently as there is need of their quick comfort., So, it's folly to endure any pain that Aspirin tablets could r.Plieve so Tic optly. Get the genuine, 'Ct ` >r"1 is always to he had at L.ay stretchinch away into the purple dis- tance; where the scarred grey tors • e;'As s siteI'i goingt up in ll downittottheod majesty. village, ,young 'I'll come a little way with you," she ,,wise. • announced, slipping' her hand through lrcr,ol9lls- , , � his arm. " Gee, it's going to be a I m 'scorcher today!" Hd v As they came into the farmyard thevillage hired car drew up at the gate and a young man jumped out. "That's the new boarder," whisper- af., ed Muriel, "Mrs. French told me that we were having an addition." mit we newcomer opened the gate and Crossed the, yard, raising his hat as e passed them and murmuring some olite commonplace. `e a."Gee, he's got red hair." "Auburn," corrected her guardian. "Well, my dear, I'll leave you here. I think I'll go through the valley on my way, there may be some speci- mens." "Right ho, good bye for the time, Guardy." "Good bye, any dear, and—er—it is -er—possible that Hayden may be over this afternoon." Mr. Holt avoided his ward's eye as he turned away and set out across the moor. A shadow flickered over ;the fresh; young fade as she watched him go, conscious of a strange chill ,at,' heart. CHAPTER II. course—" "And I'm no relation on his ward, "think wit Page is suffering; you "Oh, but, my dear,',,:° ate all that, but I io t attaching too eei4l}4)" i what may prove'ttd be, nary affair. Large ns' ple are temporarily ij year; most of them to eventually and generally tion is a little—er—sord the sensationalism whic ant, it makes the min introspective, the m events are invested' wi mystery which, is to sa it, irritating to a well Henry Holt pureed himself to the delicious: both pleased and surp had been allowed to without interruption. but distinctly an impr "Oh, so that's what ee it, well, Guardy, let me to ''a really well balanc mine, it is perfectly there is a mystery sons moor is not the sort of, choose to disappear fr. inhabitants." •; Dartmoor strikes, m- markabbly suitable:,,plac.e ori. -'such amusement," smiled 11:/ "Heaven knows, it's big enotz,gh and wild enough." '. "Yes, I realize all': that. But, Guardy, there have been three %sonien and one man within the last three months: Mona Page makes, the fifth, Even Constable Ford admits it's' strange." "Cons'table Ford would. admit, any thing afte} two pint bee ":; nat?r goings on T'ain't no surprise that -H'1 �"'� .�r,,� � y,ync ramet�urtes „ ecta• are e to ordi- peo- very gain aria - 'lore mp' and. are' of t of n1 lied feelin;� that • he ea ' much nusual t. - aboct Vex: like tli.at art - people etally aaae- Made in Canada Mrs. French was "dusting" in the breakfast' room when Muriel return- ed from, the village. "The new gent have come, miss," she confided in a stage whisper, "I saw him. Whets his name?" Mrs. French : foraged in the capa- cious pocket of her apron and pro- duced a letter. "Mr. Perrival Pyeeroft," she re- plied. "He's a London gent, ain't very strong, so he tells me doctors sent him here for his health. They thought Dartmoor air would do him a power of goody and they'm right, too. I've h d a lot of folks 'come to Barrows their health, and 'tis wonderful at a deal of good it have done. "Itegular change from London air and what with they night clubs and such Muted " H 0 t, 'ret oo '",... [; ''"But „ -- e, ” " ' :" ei sis+ed the Iiut he' �looks a�viu31 satll acid -fi te. 'gra rent 'shook Tale Mona's case • p 1 ok girl. "She left the vicarage soon protested Muriel. '11 s: F after five o'clock' and walked over the her head. moor ca Mrs.Hep rtliy's cottage, "You never can tell, miss; but, where she a'iu ed abo ,t' •sial ;or soon s huslx, hes coming down.' after. She stayed twit• the old lady' Muriel glanced towards the deer as for an hem, and titch back. Mrs. Hepw,ci Billy, met her con'; Down, and that saw of her. She into a mire and cause there are` the valley has be,<<, oughly. At sevenv:, daylight, and Moli; as well as any you account for turn?" "I don't know, you?" . "She's been ki Henry Holt lea' and stared at hiz, of a smile hov`= humored nibutli,+y "Is that what he asked mildly. "Mary Jane t rible things," rep little grimace. "Quite, n4 dee I veld& ia.;.,er, y this matter' with'. you did not inthr —things of this were at school." "You bet we diy reply. "Once we' it was ever so tective carie do*" vestigations au Everybody was,4 Henry Holt's ej 's: twinkled merrily i west, that Identifies even the cdrouglit as he shook lss earl in feigned de- Years of past ages. spelt, Now he proposes to apply this meth - "Well, wel1,'Vbi murmured. "I sup od to the varves. He has spent much n't fi pose you wolisten. to e." There- time studying these deposits with after brealeta# proceeded without their discoverer, the Swedish Pro further tetgice to, the series of fessor de Geer. mysterious d app:oarahces which was Water melting from the glaciers in so agitatin' the p ade •of the Dart- summer deposited a layer of sand and moor village.' ' dirt, In winter this deposit stopped. "What lire ;,oft finger doing today, Very hot seasons left their Guardy'?" asked his ward presently. marks in the form of extra deep de - "I'm will tag ove;i;' to Kestrel waits. Through thousands of years 4:a House, my r. Andre Moineau has these successive layers were each sea. seine neweer t±ciniens';' Ire wishes to., sort buried more deeply, pressed fiat show me," 1'ittcl Holt, rising freta' and hard: but as distinguishable as the table w= :; i are tree rings, permanent leaves of "Is Mr.', neau such a .great history for whoever finds the key to f°•fend, Gu Yon ate often going their meaning. Professor Douglass's tree ring dis- coveries offer the dating method. It is based on sun -spot cycles and the lean and thick succession of growth going with dry and wet years. The :sun -spot -eycles swing from wet to dry years and show plainly in tree rings. A few geologists have found records r 'teout to walk. *'s grandson, ricer Brimble e last anyone t: have fallen ;drowned, be. ar them, and arched thor- 4: it is broad. otos the moor en. ' How do sling to re - How do in his chair Nie suspiehru es' his good ne thinks?" grfectly hor- ttriel, with a d that is why id not :diseuss r ' I'm sure 'that, t yourself in—er it opened to reveal the hesitating figure of Mr. Pyeeroft. His hair, she thought, was dark red, copper colored, and wavy, Much too nice to be wasted on a man. She met the slightly startl- ed. stare of his grey eyes with a friendly smile. Mrs. French bustled forward. "This is Miss Maiuwaring, Mr. Pyecroft," she said. (To be continued.) Astronomers Seek Age of Earth • 40tad14,k Dog SCOTTIE- Yes Sir, that bear just poked Isis face out from among the bushes aiad looked at us. We had no gun—not even a knife. It was a great brute of a grizzly; and with her came a half - Scottie and I started to rust ---to gett away from those bears and the plans), which I knew would shortly explode. We had hardly -gong a hundred feet, when Scottie' got between My feet, grown cub. Probably you have never end clown we weiit ie a. heap. Scarce,. Phoenix, Ariz.—A new method of reading the earth's age by counting certain peculiar layers in its crust, just as tree rings are react, is in pre- paration here. The layers are "varves," the geologi- cal name for thin aunual earth de- posits laid down many thousand years ago by the glaciers. The reader is Prof. A. E. Douglass, director of Ste- wart Observatory of the University of Arizona. :tattire when you l In what is considered one of the most amazing feats of modern science Professor Douglass discovered a meth- od of tree ring reading that identifies trees which were growing when the pyramids were building, that tells the dates of constructing prehistoric wooden houses of the American South - 'i was the prompt pad a burglar, and trii;g. A real do - out hi - found no clues. st' thrilled." seen a grizzly loose ly .bed we struck tke•giound when the in the mountains. flames reached the gas an and If you haven't, you WHAM!—it blew up. For a minute have no idea how the air was full or burning debris) big one looks. This What a sight! li seethed like .as• if 'those bears hadn't started to"r u u until they heard all that noise: Tap it was a case of every, be tr.,: for self and never, mind your, neighbor. They, one seemed to be as big as an ele- phant, and s h e looked as mean as poison. It was growing darker every moment and in that narrow valley, shut in by the I mountains, almost anything might , have happened. Mrs. Grizzly is a bad ,' one to meet at any time, but when Cita, she has a cub with her, she is not the company one would choose to meet fairly few. The cub's legs were short in a lonely spot. and stubby, and he:'had to take two Meanwhile the old bear was getting jumps for his, Ma's ones -but --as they, nervous—sort of sniffed around a bit went out of sight, they were so close —and then—well, she and her cub together that they looked like one big started dawn to look us over. li<'ar• Very likely we should have shouted Meanwhile.' ° the wreck of the and aucl waved our arms and yelled plane ii as burning.. brightly. Scottie "Shoot! Shoot!" but I never saw a and I hustled over to the, edge of the grizzly that one could talk out of an wood and gathered, up the driest wood we could find. All night long we kept the fire bin-, ing brightly, for a good camp Bre is mighty friendly and comfortable on a bleak, chilly night when you are out in the open; but we didn't hear of those hears from the time the gas tank exploded. Each time the red blaze began to die down, Scottie would whine and pull my coat until I awakened and put on some more wood.! Probably Scotties thought , he saw more bears in the black shadows., Certainly he kept watch during the, first part of the night. Later on he frust have fallen into a leen a]eep, for; something began to take place which might easily have euded all ojrr adven) tures the and there. Over at the edge of the clearing a little crimson tongue of flame grad ually curled up -nand grew larger—` crept forward and •spread more little curling flames like an advancing army:, of red -coats. But we 'were sound asleep and saw nothing of it. Mean- while the dangerous little flames grew larger and spread back of us through the woods, threatening to ring us around with a wall of.ftre- •(To be continued) idea. No siree! We slid no such thing —we cut and ran Pell mell for the plane. It was less than a hundred feet away but it seemed as if we would never make it. And all the time the hear and'her cub were ambling brisk- ly toward us. I reached for the pot - cock of the gas tank, turned it on and held my helmet under it until it was full and soused it over the wings and body of the plane. Time and time I emptied the helmet of gasoline on the plane—and every time I looked up, there were those bears coming closer and closer. As I threw the last helmet of gaso- line over the plane, I looked up, and there—just across the plane—were the bears. Believe me, girls and boys, those bears weren't sight-seeing—they were out hunting trouble—and that particular trouble was us. I tried to light a match, and did you ever try to strike a match in a hurry? The first one didn't light at all—the sec- ond broke—but the third one lighted. I held it to the edge of the wing— and it seemed as if it would never catch fire. As it caught, the old bear was scarcely a couple of jumps back of e.. Suddenly glee flame flared up. re over to It fts." This was something which Muriel " did not quite under- stand. Holt.was always willing te. take her anywhere onthe moor ex- cept Kestrel Muse. On that point he was evasive:, and once had cleft- nitely re sed to take her with hint. Yet he i,very keen,/ on het seeing : as muchppssible O,f Hayden mer i, of similar cycles to varves, • ter, Mega ,va's nephew: "Why*yes, lily deraiya' replied • Halt, Doctor: A. queer saying that about not looking at; lien° 4slie answered. truth lying at the bottom of the well." 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