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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
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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.
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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
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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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the climaih± god; him; ;hes' a, absolute we lawyers sometimes have to do to
wreck Ytoi , hetet f os out; SO that get et it
is why I lilac to ate hits sometime,
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