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By T. C. H. JACOBS
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SYNOPSIS.
Henry Holt and his ward, Muriel
Mainwaring are staying at a Dartmoor
farmhouse. bolt has an old friend; Prof.
Moineau, Hang at Kestrel House with
bis nephew, Hayden Mercer, whom Holt
wishes Muriel to marry.
A series of strane disappearances take
place,:,ona Page the vicar's daughter,
being he latest,
Percival Pyecroft arrives at she farm-
house, in search ni• health. He takes a
walk on 'the moor one evening, is knock-
ed on the head and pitched over a cliff.
Inspectoi Barnard questions him in bed,
end then leaves, after having discovered
"something" in Percival's coat pocket.
CHAPTER V.
A. footstep on the landing without
sent Pyecroft hurriedly back to bed.
Mrs. French found him in the act of
pouring another drink, and the action
brought a look of mingled surprise
and displeasure to her cheery, mother-
ly face.
"So early in the morning, Mr. Pye-
croft!" she exclaimed.
"I've had a terrible fright, Mrs.
French, a perfectly ghastly fright."
"Indeed!"
"Do you know that I was in deadly
peril of my life last night?"
"You had a nasty fall; lucky it
wasn't worse."
Pyecroft's mouth drooped with a
disappointrnent.almost comical to wit-
ness:
"I was nearly murdered, madam,'
he aeplieetwrthdcgnity,a,distinct note
of reproval his voice. �rAnd
you
told me that Dartmoor was a nice,
peaceful, quiet place; I think it's a
beastly, lawless wilderness. Look at
this fearful lump on my crown; it
hurts."
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Mrs. French's face struggled to pre-
serve its gravity as she inspected the
top of his head inclined towards her.
"I'm going to get my man down,"
went on Pyecroft. "I don't feel safe
here all alone. I mean, after last
night, anything might happen, what?"
"Will you be staying in bed to-
day?" asked the landlady, presently.
"In bed? No! I was on the point
of rising when that police what's -his -
name cane up and chilled me to the
marrow with his grisly warnings.
Where's the professor, up yet?"
"If you mean Mr. Holt, he has been
up since seven o'clock. He's sitting on
the lawn."
Pyecroft grinned,
"Looking for tha worms, eh? Ha,
ha, guess I'll send him all shivery
with that policeman's horrible yarns.
The old boy often wanders into that
valley in search of the elusive butter-
fly. Any news of Miss Cage?"
"Miss Page, you mean. No, she is
still missing. I'll be geeing you about
your breakfast."
"Ta, ta.orli be staggering along
in a moon o."
Mrs. French glanced at the bottle
and tho'ight that this was more than
probable.
However, when Pyecroft eventually
got out of bed he was quite steady
on his lege, indeedhis m vei
neny
s,
were characterized with" a certain
lithe grace, which spoke more of he
trained athlete than of the habitual
drunkard's flabby muscles and frayed
nerves.
Slipp-ng oil a dressing gown he
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thrust hie feet into a.Bair of.41tt
bedroom slippers and oautiouoly on -
the door. Opposite was a small
window overlooking the lawn, A
glance assured Lim that Holt was• etill
engaged with the morning paper, Hisnext action was to draw on a Pair ,if.
flesh -colored rubber gloves, then sling-
ing a towel over his shoulder he went
towards the bathroom but he did net
enter, instead he paused before the
door next to his own and, ;pressing
his ear against the wood; listened.
Apparently satisfied, he turned the
handle and glided like a wraith into
the room. Here his actions were
stranger still. Standing in the : mid-
dle of the room ae subjected the cham-
ber to one swift, all -embracing survey
and then, crossing to a large trunk,
knelt beside it. Gently trying the
locks he found .hero secure. He paus-
ed a second to listen before extracting
from hispocket a bunch of peculiar
looking keys. He inserted one in the
lock but failing with this tried an-
other, and a faint click proclaimed
his effort to be successful. The sec-
ond lock he accorded similar treat-
ment, and very carefully raising the
Iid he peered inside.
The trunk was empty except for a
few odds and :nds of clothing, at
which he did not even glance, but
straightening a, small folding foot-
rrle he placed it along the inside
vertical edge. Noting the Measure-
ment recorded he next placed it down
the external face and a smile flickered
on his l:ps. Closing the trunk he lock-
ed it and rearranged, with meticulous
exactness, a strip of cretonne along
the top.
Standing up, he opened -the ward-
robe, glanced inside, ran his hands
swiftly over the clothes, examining
the soles of three pairs of boots and
replaced thein in exactly the „same po-
sition as he had found then.
The dressing table next claimed his
attention. Even the most casual and
inexperienced observer must have
seen tha Mr, Percival Pyecroft was
something of an expert at the art. His
rubber gloved fingers explored every-
where, but not by the fraction of an
inch was anything disarranged. Satis-
fied at 'ast he was on the point of
returning when ,.e suddenly stiffened.
In a flash the gloves were off and
stuffed in his dressing -gown pocket
and with a drunken hiccough he lurch-
ed against the table.
In that moment Lis whole identity
changed, replaced again by the blink-
ing, inane fool. It was not merely a
change of facial expression, but some-
thing infinitely more subtle and con-
vincing, a change which would have
deceived the most expert examiner, as
indeed` it had deceived the Been and
experienced Chief Inspector $rnard
that very. ,morning. '
The door opened, .and yi.x ••plenry
Bolt stood staring with undisguised
astonishment as Pyecroft turned to-
wards him.
"'Whet does this mean, this—er--
intrusion, sir?" he demanded, angrily.
Pyecroft blinked at him, "jerking
back his head as if he had been struck,
but made no reply. His mouth gaped
open foolishly, and once his body sag-
ged so alarmingly that Holt half
started to catch him.
"Well, sir, what are you doing in
my room?" he demanded with increas-
ed force, regarding the other as
though he was something utterly dis-
tasteful.
Pyecroft seemed to regain his pow-
er of speech with a rush.
"A sthud, professhor, I whas look-
ing for a thud. Beastly little pests,
they take advantage of me, the mal—
mal—malignity of the inanimate. I
shoveled and shearched and then I
thought my dear old pal the prof is
shure to have one, so along I trundled
—and I whas right, you. shee!! Ha,
ha, ha!"
Pyccroft tittered delightedly as he
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ei.thibited a; stud, but Mr, Holt's face
remained as; cold as his words. He
held open the. door and stood aside,
's'I-Iaving been so successful in your
quest, please ;go."
Pyeeroft's grin changed first to an
expression of .-blank amazement and
then to one of drunken dignity. He
lurched away froth ,the 'support of the
dressing table and'. stood swaying in
•the niid'lle of the rooixi, frowning at
the stout, rosy -checked figure who re-
garded him with such frigid contempt,
"A iiieashly, hotrible, li"lie penny
'sthud. ." he began, but Holt cut
him short with an inpatient gesture.
"Leave my room„, at once. If '•his
occurs again I shall complain with a
view to haviug you sent about your
business ,.You are drunk, arid prat-
tically . 'er . . incapable,” he added,
as the intruder tottered towards the
door.
"Prof, that's ..;"r° libe . . libellous
shtatomen"," stammered Pyecrofb,
stopping to point accusingly with a
finger which trembled visibly. "Any
magish . , inagish .. any beak would
tell you that."
Holt banged the door after him,
and ten minutes later heard hint
splashing in the birth, bawling at the
top of his voice, a choice selection
from his vocal repertoire.
"Drunken sot!" he rnuttered. "What
the blazes Muriel can see in him I
can't imagine. Women are amazing
creatures!" .
By which remarks it may be infer-
red that the .subject of Percival Pye-
croft had come up for discussion be-
tween them and a difference of opin-
ion recorded.
CHAPTER VI.
Muriel Mainwaring breathed a sigh
of relief when lunch was over and
she was able to escape to the peace
of the moorland. She wanted to be
alone, to sort out in her mind certain
matters which were troubling her,
Mr. Holt's thinly veiled hostility to
Pyecroft for some unaccountable rea-
son annoyed her. She told herself
that Pyecroft was a drunkard, a weak
stupid man for all the promise of his
massive frame, and yet she keenly
resented her guardian's attitude to-
wards him.
Perhaps Mr. Holt had been a lithe
clumsy, tactless, in his endeavor to
contrast Pyecroft with Hayden Mer-
cer. The, was another matter which
secretly worried her, more than she
cared to admit. Mercer was persist-
ent in his attentions and Holt had
made it plain that a marriage be-
tween his ward and the nephew of
his best friend was his dearest wish.
As she walked slowly along the
moorland track she tried to analyte
her „ feelings towards Mercer. Sne
wondered why `she dicta:lot really care
for him. He was the type of mart, she
thought, that would make most girls
envious of her good fortune. She
would give him full credit for his in-
telligence, his immeasurable vitality
and his charm of manner, three attri-
butes which Pyecroft appeared to lack
entirely. He was wealthy, she was
poor, dependent on the generosity of
a guardian who Lad been a name only
to her until a few weeks ago. Mar-
riage with Hayden Mercer ' would
place her in a very different position;
yet the very thought of marriage sent
a tiny shiver through her as she in-
voluntarily shrugged her shoulders.
It was unreasonable of her guardian
to expect her to marry anyone for a
year or two at least. She felt that
the expressed wish might soon become
the command, and that she dreaded.
With a gesture of impatience sl_:e
tried to thrust the problem aside.
Raising her head she filled her lungs
luxuriously with the invigorating air.
The cool breeze blowing gently over
the moor was both sedative and stim-
ulant, and she smiled as she paused
to admire the beauty of the wild
land with its rugged tors and sweeping
uplands. Far below her the river
wound its way through the valley, a
gleaming ribbon of silver edged by -
the emerald green of the mash grass.
(To be continued.)
Austrian Professor Hopes
To Forecast Earthquakes
Pecs, Hungary — Professor Martin
Hanka, who predicted and placed the
Java earthquake, hopes to be able to
warn of quakes in time to save whole
populations.
The Java earthquake, for example,
came on January 21. Professor
Hanko had predicted a quake between
the 19th and 21st in the region of the
western extension of the Pacific.
probably Japan or the East Indian
Archipelago.
According to Professor Hanko's
calculations, earthquakes should oc-
cur periodically and with an aston-
ishing exactitude in the different
parts of the world. Ile has estab-
lished a record of foretelling a good
many w' :n a margin of only one or
two days.
To test the. correctness of his sys-
tem he worked back to the greatest
earthquakes of history and found
thatthe historical data coincided
With the results of his system of cal-
culation,
Professor Ranke is sixty-two years
old and has been for the best part
of his career professor at the former
Naval Aeaclemy of Hungary ill Fiume,
• where he had taught physics and
mathematics.
Since 1907 he has devoted himself
to seismologic, oceanographic, mete-
orological and navigational studios
' and is the author of several books
on these subjects.
When you turn over n new leaf,
fasten it down with cement.
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&izdhh .Dog S ?TTIE'
'hat carne before: Captain Jimmy and
and his dog Scottie are exploring (ihina
in their plane. They call on a Chinese
General to get a pass, when Scottie
f..olishl catches him by the foot.
There we stood before General I.u,
wondering what was going to happen
next. Scottie, bristling with angel'
and ready to fight at the drop of a
hat. The interpreter scared white,
or rather, scared lemon yellow—and
myself anxious and worried for fear
that General Lu would refuse to
give us our pass
to the Chinese
front.
Fortunately Gen-
eral Lu was too
great a man to
bother much about
dignity. Without
even a word of
comment on Scot-
tie's absurd attack, he sat down and
wrote quickly on a sheet of paper, to
which he affixed a bright green seal.
Five minutes later we left the palace
with a pass that gc.ve us freedom to
go anywhere we pleased.
Early next morning we took off in
our plane for Liuho—a little town
where the fighting was in full pro-
gress. Soon the country below show-
ed the ravages of war. Buildings
were wrecked by shell -fire, bridges
were down at the rivers, and the
ground was so rough that we almost
crashed at our first landing.
Leaving our plane well back from
the battle front, we took a road lead-
ing up to the lines. The air was
damp and foggy, and the rumble of
the guns seemed muffled under the
heavy grey sky. Bullet -scarred walls
stood bleak and white, and now and
then a tree, with the wood torn into
ribbons, showed the spite of high ex-
plosives.
Suddenly we noticed a group of
soldiers, off duty, grouped around
some object tied to a tree. Coming
near we heard a loud and complicat-
ed din—moaning, groaning and gib-
bering enough to make your hair
stand on encl. To our horror, we
found that the soldiers had caught a
few of the enemy, and tied them up
to a large branch by their wrists, so
their feet were several inches off the
ground. Of course, it must have
been fearfully uncomfortable, but the
soldiers only Iaughed and jeered.
"Come on Scottie", I said, "Let's
bust up this party."
Punching ants poking my wayt
through the ring I stood beside the.
prisoners. The soldiers, of course,
dM not take this treatment too kind.
ly, and began to whisper among them-
selves and finger their rifles. Then
I took out General La's pass, Luck -
fly no one couldreact it—but I point-
ed to the bright green official seal
and made gestures and faces that,
must have convinced those Chinese
soldiers that dire calamity would, be-
fall any man who interfered.
Taking out my knife, I crit the
captives down, and automatic pistol
in hand I shoved thein through the ..
ring of soldiers who were too sur-
prised to resist.
"Herd those prisoners into that
house." I said to Scottie; pointing
to a house which remained standing.
In fact, it afterwards proved to be
the headquarters of the Colonel°"yin
charge. Scottie needed no second
invitation—with a fierce growl he -
lunged for the ankles of the 'three
Chinese, and they covered the die
tance in no time at all.
Then the soldiers suddenly woke
up. Several fired shots, and others
ran toward us with their bayonets.
I ran to the door. This was guard-
ed by a sentry. He made a stab at
me but missed, so I bowled him over
and turned just in time to see two
more figures rushing toward me.
There was, no time to think. Hiding
behind the door, I hit—each as hard
as I could .as he jumped over the sill,
and scored two knock outs.
Then as my eyes became accus-
tomed to the gloom of the house, I
looked more carefully, and diseov
ered to my dismay that one man was
my interpreter, aacl the other no
less than the Colonel himself.
Fortunately the Colonel revived in
a few moments, otherwise we would
have been in a bad fix, as
everyone was running toward
the house shoot-
ing and yelling.
Sitting up, he
fairly screamed
some orders in
Chinese. i n--
stantly the hub.
bub ceased.
T h e Colonel
turned to me.
Quite evidently he hadn't the slight-
est idea what happened.
(To be continued.)
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Child's Stupidity May Be (mediately to a mental specialist, Dr,
Robin urges, for careful diagnosis
Sign of Serious Brain Disease and treatment.
A child who refuses to answer
questions but merely sits still like the
proverbial "bump on a log," may not
be really stupid or intractable, it is
urged by the distinguished French
expert on mental disease, Dr. Gil-
bert Robin, but may be suffering
from the first stages of serious men-
tal disease. This- peculiar mental
inhibition under questioning, as
though the child were literally stun-
ned, is a warning symptom, Dr. Rob-
in believes, of the brain disease call-
ed epilepsy. The look in such a
child's eye after any orcliu ry ques-
tion has been asked, like a question
in school, is described as vague and
wandering. There is no interest, ir-
ritation, or any other sign that the
question has been heard. The child's
mind seems to be a complete blank.
After a few seconds or minutes this
curious state passes off. Sometimes
the child then answers the question
which apparently had stunned him.
Sometimes the whole matter seems,
to be forgotten, as though the child
had been unconscious. In more
severe cases similar attacks of un-
responsiveness may occur without
any question being asked and those'
often are reported by teachers as in-
excusable inatteuti;eness or absence
of mind. Such children or those who
show the peculiar stunned silence
when questioned should he sent im-
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