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SYNOPSIS "I've only two servants, Mr. Police -
Henry holt and his ward, Muriel • man; one is deaf and dumb, and the
Mainw•aring, are staying at a Dartmoor other is practically blind; neither go
farm. Holt has a friendMo4hicgandtiliving „,
at Kestrel House, and is desii's teat Outeide the house,
"Indeed, sir,li replied Barnard. "I
saw the mute; he admitted me; rather
a curious man, and the other I take it
is a woman?"
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reeler marry Moine qq , Nephew, Hayden
inert tr, whom she dislikes.
4, series of mysterious disappearances
bMsVe been alarming the neighborhood,
Mona Page, the vicar's daughter, being
the latest victim.
Anotherboarder at the farm is Perci-
val Pyecroft, who is murderously at-
tacked while walking on the moor. Then
he and his valet, Flack, set out to dis-
cover the mystery of Kestrel House.
Pyecroft finds a locket belonging to
Mona Page, and also a secret under-
ground passage. They give the locket to
Chief Inspector Barnard, who goes to
Kestrel House to question Moineau.
CHAPTER X.—(Cont'd )
"The locket was found by one of
my men," said Barnard slowly. "He
came up the valley and crowed the
bridge into the plantation, where he
found the locket. At the time he be-
lieved this house to be closed and un-
occupied. I was wondering if it would
have been Miss Page's int entiea to
call upon you?"
"Very unlikely, sir, very unlikely.
I am not so young and handsome as
I used to be." A second time. Moinea e
gave that hard, =mirthful Laugh as
he stared at the inspector through his
glasses, with bright, =winking eyes.
Barnard felt his temper rising,
there was something peculiarly loath-
some about this terrible old man. He
sensed that he was being regarded
with jeering contempt and somehow
his normally clear head was becoming
unaccountably muddled.
"Do you get many visitors, sir?" he
asked, mainly for the purpose of gain-
ng- time to think.
visitors? Holt comes over to see me
now and again, he's an old friend,
keen on entomology, likes to come over
here and admire my collection. Occa-
sionally helps nee with my electrical
work; wcrc, sir, which will one day,
not so far distant, oh, no, not so far
distant I say, work which will startle
the world and give a blessing to man-
kind such as has never been dreamed
of."
The rising voice, charged with an
enthusiasm entirely fanatical, sudden-
ly stopped. The hawklike face was
thrust forward towards the inspector
as he asked in a hushed whisper:
"How would you like to live forever,
eh? Never to die, never to rot in the
grave, eh? Always young, always in
the full bloom of manhood, what do
you say to that, eh?"
Despi+e himself Barnard shrank
from the wild eyes gleaming at him
from behind the tinted glasses. The
man was mad, unquestionably insane.
The muscles of his face were working
in a manner horrible to witness, his
claw-like hands clenched and un-
clenched rapidly as they beat upon the
arms of the chair. Barnard half ex-
pected hint to leap forward, and
braced himself for action, but in a
minute the spasm passed, and Moineau
fell back in his chair apparently ex-
hausted, his head lolling against the
cushion and his dreadful eyes closed,
The clock striking in the hall roused
him at last and he opened his eyes to
glare at the inspect r.
"Think I'm mad, eh? Well, perhaps
X am, perhaps I ani. Don't think
eternal life is possnle, do you? Bah!
what do you know of the march of
science, how can you comprehend the
wonders of mode:,r chemistry .zed
electrical resea"ch?"
With an effort Barnard controlled
his rising temper.
"I'm not a chemist, sir," he said,
"but I have a vast admiration for
those men who devote their lives to
Scientific research. I should very
much like to see you: electrical plant."
Moineau chuckled, a harsh, rasping
sound.
"Doubtless you would, Mr. Police-
man, but not yet; some.. day perhaps
you shall make a very close inspection
and give me your opinion,"
Again he chuckled, and to Barnard
it seemed to suggest a menace, inde-
finite, but very real none the less. He
had hoped to draw the old man into
showing him the machinery which he
had heard working, but he saw that
Moineau had no intention ref bing
drawn. He decided to try another
"1 *onder if any of your s,:vvants
cee'd tell nee anything of Mi, s Page?"
I" e.'. ."It is possible that they
Have seen her."
"You may take it as you wish, Mr.
Policeman, and you may take it with
absolute certainty that I ani very tired
of this inquisition, so I suggest that
you join your subordinate who is
prowling through my grounds."
Barnard started; how had the old
man known that Trotter was in the
•grounds? He was about to frame
some evasive reply when suddenly a
hand touched .him roughly on the
shoulder, and he swung around to find
the deaf mute behind him. He had
seen no signal made by Moineau,
neither had he heard the man ap-
proach. It came to hive very forcibly
that the butler must have been con-
cealed in the :oom throughout the
whole interview, and yet he was ready
to swear that the door had not been
opened after Moineau had entered.
The old man made a gesture of dis-
missal as he sank back in the chair
and closed his eyes, but when Barnard
turned to go there flashed into then
an ugly gleam, and the thin lips creas-
ed into a vicious sneer of hate.
Once more in the open air the in-
spector took a deep breath. He had
had quite enough of Kestrel House for
a while. Though he had not accom-
plishe,: all that he had hoped to do,
he felt that his visit had not been
barren of results „ , ,... T
edge of the plantation, and Barnard,
used to his assistahr,'s little manner-
isms, guessed that he had discovered
something which he judged to be of
importance, and he was not mistaken.
"Dog bite me, chief!" whispered
Trotter, with suppressed excitement,.
"we're on the right track, look what
I've found."
Barnard felt a sudden quickening
of his pulse, and Into his steely, grey
eyes there crept a gleam of interest;
as he stared at the object which Trot -1
ter held, half concealed in his hand-
kerchief,
a portion of a charred, hu-'
man jawbone in which several teeth
still remained.
But Moineau's words, fresh in his
memory, urged him to be cauti us.
"Put it away," he hissed, "and '_et'::
get out of here as quickly as possible."
Trotter grunted disgustedly as he
pushed the handkerchief back into his
coat pocket and fell in beside his chief,
who led the way clown to the little
bridge and up the hill on the other
side. "When they were concealed by
the bend in the path he stopped:
"Nue, let's see it, Trotter," he ord-
ered. "Did you think I was going to
hold. an inquest on it, right under
their noses?" .
"Hey, go easy, chief," protested
Trotter, "they 'ouldn't see us down
where we were. I'm not daft,"
"You surprise me," snapped Ber-
ner. "They knew that you were in
the grounds and had a pretty shrewd
idea of your purpose. For all I know
Trotter pulled the bowler an
firmly on his head and Stared b•
in astonishment,
"You'll drag the brim ;off tl
hat one of these days,'I' sdia
ped Barnard irritably, "Letyit aloi4',C ANNABELLE WORTHINGTON
and try and look intelligent'
Trotter grinned as the i e etc'' Inlestrai,od Dressmaking Lesson Fur -
turned away and proceeded tp •,,xa". n.•ishecl With Every Pattern
ine the gruesome find, He wa `ono is
the few men in the C.I.D. wh 494
work with Barnard without ,010,
and while be filled and hghi„ti /IS
pipe he watched in silence, 4,ie;",
Presently the inspector looke(r?ul:
"Male, one tooth filled with c&pj}r•
amalgam, I think; with luck it aniglt
be identified," he said. "Where; i'i
you find it?"
"Down in the wood at the back 5f
the house. There's a piped -in etre in
or something of the sort, 'opens`t
there and runs down the bank toik
.
river. Regular good gush of 'si
comes out. I found the bone Iod.
,,in a root by the side, and if you oak.
'rite it ain't so very old. By the kir
of it I'd say it belonged to a pret'tt•
hefty bloke."
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"And you would be correct," agre`{'d
Barnard. "Anything else?" The
geant shook his head:
"No, chief," he replied. "I male
some fairish drawings of the pl �"
but I didn't see nor hear a soul;:. it
licks creation how they spotted vie '
"The unpleasant fact remains thet.
they did," said Barnard, and lap ;1
into a silence which he maintain d
during the whole of the return jor-
iiey, has mind filled with a prepost
ous theory which was yet. rety por'ti'd
by a collaboration of circuinstend
of which the madness of Mr Moine
was not the least.
CHAPTER XIs
The sun was sinking over the gr iy
Dartmoor tors as Henry Holt cliinji.d
out of the valley and pauses ekii e
crest of the hill to admire thee. vi ,t
Placing his specimen box and t
upon a boulder he sat down itse re.
for a few minutes before contil uirig
his way. He was in the act of lit-
ing a cigarette when a figure stele Another snappy sports dress that
silently from behind a gorse bush aid Paris designed for youth.
came swiftly towards him. +� And to make it just as simple as
Holt turned his head as he hea4a.
a soft swish but he was too late. A
sandbag thudded upon his skull and
without a cry he toppled forward to
lie sprawled upon his face in the hea-
ther. His assailant stood for a r
meat looking down upon him beft re
falling off a log!
Don't you lova the umbrella skirt
plaits? The cross-over yoked bodice
gives it much distinction. It's sleeve-
less, of course.
This ideal sports type is delightful
he picked up the specimen -box. Wm as opaline yellow flat washable crepe
dexterousgloved finers hesilk.
grin pri. e- Style No. 3056 may be had in sizes
open the lid and a of satisf ;c-
tion overspread his lined, sallow Wit,. bast.
16, 18, 20 years,
36 and 38 inches
face. r'ronh the box he extracted n White shantung is stunning too and.
ripped it open at one corner.
neat parcel and, breaking the ser'. play be trimmed ; ith vivid red bind -
At the same moment another figtre rugs'
stepped from behind a rock some tws Skipper blue linen with white dots
tance away and cavae quickly 'ip etc i • sportive.
slope Pale blue flat crepe, white wool
"Excellent, my dear . Fl
drawled, "I obex ve tact
,foaottep.the .f: .-_t'
F r eleedein ed as he °held
parcel, exposing a portion of the on -
tents.
(To be cont.nueciSe V!, 4
jersey;. light vivid blue, white and
a1
s1 P cotton broadcloth, calico
yeti be .:and peach-
bem;iit pique wall m e beautifihlly
in this model, • "
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pr $ yards 39 -inch,
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Write your name and address plain-
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"l1'e shan't ask Mrs. Green to
join our bridge club next year.
"Why not?"
She entertained us today and ac-
tually adhered to our rule not to
provide an elaborate luncheon."
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Pride's Fall
"I'nm. proud of Brown," said a
schoolmaster to a visitor on whom he
wished to make a good impression. "I
have so inculcated in him the love el
knowledge that he now prefers study
to play. I suppose at this moment he
is writing Latin prose."
He called the lad to him. "Brown,"
he said, "let me see what you are
doing."
"I—I'd rather not, sir," said Brown.
"Conte, Brown, let ale see what you
have been writing," the schoolmaster
persisted.
Still the boy demurred, so the
schoolmaster took possession of the
Green "You said you always have paper, and there, in neat incitation of
the last word with your wife, but since feminine handwriting, he read:
I've been here she continually ordered "Please excuse my son James from
you about." Brown: "I do have the school today. He is wanted at home."
last word. Didn't you hear me say ❖ ---
`All right'?" 1 shall try to correct errors when
—�`- et: shown to be errors, and I shall adopt
"Death would be awful only if we new views so fast as . they shall ap-
were conscious in death of not hay- pear• to be true views.—Abraham
they may have seen you pick this up." ing lived."—John Erskine. ' Lincoln.
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G1AnT AND THE PIGI4iA"
i ::c1v:,ntnge of the height of the i, ::arm abet
Can., h1 ,.':a new "8000" multiple -per sse eo loeomotiv
ah;hvc p.c..0:t' cannot measure up to the top of the hu e cylinders,i>
most powerful of itie, kind in the world, and nn:que on the American
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rail -level, W:111 h i i
,he Bantam
tee.
e great engine,. wh:eh is rile La-;;e.5t and
ontinehht. •
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and k.Doi' SCOTTIE -\1$0"
What came before—Atter .many i d -
ventures flying over China, Captain Jim.
any Is captured by bandits. He escapes
in a freight train and meets an old
friend, Lieut. Stone, on board, seeking
a brother who has also been captured
by bandits.
After we had cut the freight en-
gine free from the cars, we roared
along the tracks at a great rate.
Now and then we rushed by little
groups of soldiers in the fields. Soon
--,- we would be near
the enemy's head-
quarters.
"We're getting
close up to the
lines," I yelled
above the infer-
nal Packet a n d
clattering our en-
gine was making,
"Before long we must abandon ship
and set out on foot. Otherwise
some stupid Chinese General niay
have ties put on the. track and stop
us. And it's •going to be just the
least bit difficult to make him believe
we didn't steal this old wagon. So
I think we'd bettor swap this thing
while we still own it."
"Too late. Here he is," Stone re-
plied,
There, on the track, not calf a
mile away was piled an immense num-
ber of wooden ties. Around about
were perhaps a hundred soldiers
with eight or ten .officers on horse-
back.
"Jump before we're hit, Jed," I
hollered. "Get a horse somehow
and ' ride for those woods. There
will be plenty of vacant ponies when
they hear us go into action with our
-brakes and whistle. . You under-
stand, Fu?" I added.
"Uh Huh -- me savvy," Fu answer-
ed.
The group of soldiers stood near
the obstruction on the track and
waited for us to arrive, Quite ap-
parently they expected us to set the
brakes and come to a stop. But
they didn't know our brakes.
Down we bore on them not at any
great speed—but x could see that we
were going to hit with a, sound
thump. -
Suddenly we jammed on the
brakes, pulled the whistle valve
wide open and skated into their
midst like a shrieking, fire-eating
dragon.
"Jump!"
And jump we all did. Scottie went ,
into action with the rest of us, and,
having the advantage of being on
top of the tender, he quite naturally
jumped higher and went further.
Out of the corner of my eye I
saw hien sail thru' the air. A Chinese
officer was striving to quiet a frame
tic horse. Straight as a bullet sail-
ed Scottie landing right on the back
of that Chinaman's neck.
Off the horse they both went, and
of all the blood curdling yells—
whewl—that officer just knew the
old dragon had got him at last,
Meanwhile I was doing a bit of
sailing on my own account.
I jumped for a man on horseback
but I miscalculated my speed and
missed him entirely. Just behind
him, however,
was a second
mounted China-
man and I clos-
ed in on him
like a football
tackler and oft
he went.
There was ne
time to stop
and palaver and argue about methods.
I had to get a horse and get out—
and so I did. It was a regular bedlam
let loose. Our old locomotive had
slid into those ties, kicked a few off
the track and then rolled over on her
back, wheels in the air, like a tired
old horse,
(To be continued)
Note: Any of our young readers
writing to "Captain Jimmy", 2010
Star Bldg., Toronto, will receive his
signed photo free.
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New Sugar Cane •
Good Producer
U.S, Federal scientists are enthus-
iastic over the breeding and de-
velopment of a new variety of su-
gar cane which bids fair to further
iaereaae w1zi•ealds-.., of_.sugar... already.
greatly augmented by the adoption
M Louisiana of varieties imported
and distributed by the United. States
Department of Agriculture several
years ago. The first release of the
new variety, which is now known
as C. P. 807, was in the 1930 season,
but the sugar experts have watched
experimental plantings for several
years, and base their expectations on
results of these tests, in which C. P.
807 outyielcled the best of the com-
peting varieties by nearly a ton of
sugar per acre, or by more than 35
per cent. Strange he never wondered why
The initials "C. P." in the name of 1 Others stayed so cheerful
the new variety are derived from' Underneath the self -same sky
Canal Point, in Florida, where the 'Where he Was so tearful.
new variety was bred at the United 1 Suffering many a ]hurt and sting,
States Department of Agriculture's They coeld often laugh and sing.
field station, This station was es-
tablished by the Bureau of Plant In -Every caro unci grief and woe
dustry in 1920, and this is the first I That on him seemed piling
improved sugar cane variety prod- Had at times been theirs to know,
aced there, which the sugar special-: But be saw there smiling,
ists have recommended to the plant- Yet o'er fancied hurts and slights
ers. At the station the breedingIle spent many sleepless nights.
program has had two objectives, pro- I •--Edgar E. Guest.
duction of a sugar cane that would
yield a large. quantity of sugar, ands
which at the same time would be
The Sensitive Man
He was quick to find a slight
Where none was intended;
Fancying wrong where all was right,
Oft was he offended.
Hurts which others never felt
Left on him a livid welt.
Troubles others laughed away
Bitterly depressed hilts;
Trivial things which people say
Seriously distressed him.
Cares which others tossed aside
Gloomily he magnified.
Those who tried his friends to be
Soon he'd disagree with;
People quickly learned that he
Was difficult to be with.
One so sensitive to pain
Lonely often must remain.
Back to the Land
highly resistant to the diseases that I Ottawa Droit: Canada is vast en-,
nearly wiped out the sugar industry ongh to feed all her children. Ig
in Louisiana prior to 1926, when it she is not succeeding at the mom
was rejuvenated by the department's ent, it is because her population is
introduction from Java of the disease- , badly distributed. Too dense in
tolerant P. O. J. varieties, !the towns, it is too sparsely populat-
Compared with the best of the ed in the country districts, Every
Java canes, P. O. J. 213, which yield- effort made to re-establish the bal-
ed 4,865 pounds of sugar per acre aui'c Nhould meet with encourage -
in four test plantings last year, the moat.
new variety in adjoining plots yield- —
ed 6,725 pounds,
Cutting It Short
A butler always annoyed his mis-
tress by announcing her visitors sep-
arately For instance, instead of say-
ing, "Mr, and Mrs. Kilkelly and the
Misses Kilkelly,' he would call out,
"Mr. Kilkelly, Mrs. Kilkelly, Miss
Norah Kilkelly, and Miss Kate Kil-
k.:lly," mentioning each member of the
family by name.
His mistress told him on her next
"At Home" day to make the announce -1
ment shorter,
Mr. and Mrs. Penny, with them
grown-up son and -a little daughter,
Were the first to arrive, whereupon
the butler electrified his mistress by
throwing open the door and shouting,
"Three -pence -half penny."
A man's own good breeding is kis
hest security against other people's
ill manners, ---Lord Chesterfield.
"'Phare is no more dangerous doe -
!rine than that a law is not law if
for some nelson you dislike some.
thiing about it" --William G. McAdoo,
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Read proven directions for many(
important uses. Genuine Aspirin
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No 23 '31