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also bother person was moving BY ANNEBELLE WORTHINGTON
also, but on the opposite. side of the Fur -
corridor. He paused and listened, Illustrated Dressmaking Lesson Z'zsr-
strainine his ears to catch the slight,- raislaeci cess akin Pattern
est sound and, very faintly came the
murmur of restrained breathing, not
more than a few feet away. Whoever
it was ho was fully conscious of l3ar-
nerd's presence and the inspector's
mind flashed back to the open door
below,
This, then, was that person who had
precedea him into this silent house of
mystery. One who had safely nego-
tiated the traps, no novice at the
game, and one who was clearly net to
be trifled with. To raise any sort. of
commotion would bring serious con-
sequences; he was caught between the
devil and the deep sea, and silently
he cursed this other fellow with whole-
hearted feeling.
that •
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1By T. C. H. JACOBS
SYNOPSIS ,made a burglarious entry and was at
Henry Holt and his ward, Muriel I this very moment prowling through
Niainwaring, are staying at a Dartmoor the house?
farm. Bolt has a friend, Moineau, living rim- he the
at Kestrel House, and is desirous that (:oWith
it jaw
n set grimly
try wide levered allowe
Muriel marry Moineau's nephew, Hayden
Mercer, whom she dislikes.him to
A seriesmof mysterious disappearancesghbhood, complete slip
darkness he felt h sow in
way
has been alarming the neighborhood, along the wall, step by step, carefully
Mona Page, the vicar's daughter, being aushing out his right foot and draw -
the latest viarim.
Another boarder at the farm, Percival
Pyecroft, is murderously attacked while g the left up Behind it. Be had a
wanting is the moor. He and his valet, general idea of where he was, some-
,assa, dto ocover aa secret underground `here near the servants' stairs, but
belonging to Mao P ge e P ye° oft locket and a
dbag Holt and ex-' with the memory of that carpet -cover-
ed trap in the main hall still clear in
his in he moved with the utmost'
caution. And it was fortunate that
he did so. Ten stets he took and then
his groping foot came in contact with
•f^„^h
I-1
4
s
Obviously the man knew the. danger
and Vas as averse tonoiseas Barnard
himself. Did he a'.so know the iden-
tity of Barnard? The question was
settled by the man himself. Just when
the strain was becoming intolerable.
a soft voice spoke; it was the merest
whisper, but to the inspector's over-
wrought nerves it sounded like a shell
burst:
"All right, Barnard .. it's a fair
cop."his
Barnard's hand streaked to
pocket. Be failed absolutely to recall...
nize the voice, but his mind instantly
grasped the fact that the ether oe-
lieved himself known. The torch flash-
ed out and the powerful beam shone
for a moment on a white but smiling
face.
"So!" muttered the chief inspector,
and swore beneath his breath,
,erne e
man before him represented
and totally unexpected factor in the
and
game, Slick Samuels, forger
blackmailer, wanted for half a dozen
daring crimes, -one of the Bergen
crowd and a desperate man.
"No dicks;" snarled Barnard, "I've
d.
Flack delibera�G.,r
tract a parcel from his specimen case,
r -
cel. has disappeared. findsthe
steals into
Kestr"1 House alone.
CHAPTER XIV—(Cont'd.)
With an ease remarkable in such a a fine wire. Immediately he
heavy man the inspector moved ford it he"Burglar
knew what atnt was:
of course," he mur-I
ward on the tips of his toes, making 1 inuredlaapprovingly."Goodness se ur-
not the slightest nsound on the tithe knows how many more, they don't
cf:rpet of pine needles. Overhead the # napping!" He branches ruetted threateningly, hut he 1'rel ed atne lightbsagaincaught and found that -
risk-
scarcelytheard them. f His
senses near
alert for some sign 1was at the foot of the stairs. Care -
about the house, and the dismal rustle 1 fully testing each tread he slowly
formed only a background to the gen- . mounted. Another wire he discovered
eral atmosph+ua' of depression. 1 and avoided. One stair moved sus -
around the side of the ; piciously, but gripping the bannister
I
Passing completely circled it' rail he stepped ove.• it and went on.
house, Barnard comp y xoa..h' silence still
twice before he ventured to app Over all the uncanny
the back entrance. Very carefully'
deigned, and Barnard licked his -
s
tried to door and was surprised to find' and sighed as he safely gained the
it uuiocked. Though it was not the' head of the stairs. Somewhere along
ci stone.of the local people to leave this corridor he judged that he would
doors and windows unlatched at
',find Moineau's laboratory, an. inspet
both i ions]
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too find this the case hexe. • I contrary to his statement to ivioanean,
Cautiowsly he turned the handle and the chief inspector had considerable
peered into the biackt.ess, but he could
scientific knowledge, especially in a us- ! ah"Sure; tall, red-headed bloke. I've
see nothing. He listeaed, but the p tricity, and a sight of the app But I
was as silent as a grave, a heavy un- ( and of that machinery which he had I been trailing him some lately.
and
natural silence which affected hint heard working might enabreos him Re, found of instead."
wsafter him,
oddly. Shrugging his shoulders, he i form some idea of their purpose. 1 he guessed
pressed the button of an electric torch was puzzled to understand why the Barnard did not reply,
and for the fraction of a seconddasi g, sound had been so muffled. I who the reel -headed pian was but he
the light forward• Ite, revealed the n& His feet making no sound on the had no time for side issues. He had
stone -walled passage, at the far thick carpet, he worked his way along,' enough experience as an officer not to
which in !using his torch in brief flashes. A be deceived by the complaisance of the
contrast to the outer door bore a big' white painted door at the end was his smooth Slick Samuels, and was alert
of which was another door,
padlock and chain. objective, but he took fully five min- for t seilence thfirst gy of f treac a the broad
Swiftly he went forward, moving
utes to reach it. Cautiously ,urning
•th ease in the darkness, until he felt the handle he found that the door tos main stairs, n l stairs which Barnard hard used, were
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off,
grid ilk 40,0
What came 'before: Captain Jipuny
and his friend Lieut. Jed Stone plan to
bandit . Thy baStone rgain rom the
General Chinese
l e
for hi, assistance, in exchange far liying
him over to japan,
We worked secretly on our plane
from that point, we followed the
trail into the mountains. The camp-•
fire of the bandit guards at the
notch in the cliffs proved ea welcome
beacon, for the sky g
every minute, and thunder rumbled.
for several days, changing it to look in the distance.
Soon the main camp became visi-
lfito afire -eating dragon. The body, '' bio The little tents looked like
we covered with phosphorus paint,
which would glow green in the dark, Chinese lanterns tar below, as we
while a long dragon tail was attached I circled slowly down, and red camp -
behind. We painted batlike marks I fires dotted the ground. Somewhere
on the wings, and wieked•:ooking 1 down in the pit of darkness was Guy,
w•,Q. claws' spread out 1 Jed Stone's younger brother. As
underneath. Even i we circled overhead, there flashed,
in the daytime our before my minds eye a picture
of the
e
-?lane looked her- I clays when as boys
rible enough,. but .1 played on the old ranch out near
at ,night, ;t was 1 Winnipeg, .
enough to freeze• 1 Suddenly the bandits saw 1 us.
any i'g, Panic broke loose in the camp. Black
parent,
bandit camp with I forms rushed about—trapped, fell and
fear. 1
r���, , ;�• Taught each'otiiei, frantic with
t"� ahf
Of course, that is just what we in- I switched.. on -t•he landing lig The
!lo the '' sr'en whistid.
tended our plane to do.
bandits fled in terror, we would have
e
a chance to rescue Guy Stone,
brother of Lieutenant Stone, who e0 had
been held captive for many
Just for safety, we mounted a ma-
chine gun in front of our plane. If
any Chinese proved too hardy to be
afraid of our dragon, he would cer-
tainly understand enough not to fool
with a machine gun.
As the sun sank toward the ane
west-
ern sky line, -we wheeledouron
were
out of the hanger, and
heading full speed toward the timed
cruel
Chinese bandits' camp.
our raid so we would arrive just after
dark, while the bandits were still
astir.
As we passed over the country-
side, the poor Chinese families hear-
ing the drone of our, motor rushed
to the doors of their.„liovels. Seeing
our dragon glimmering in the sky,
with its bat -like wings spread. the
turned on he
sound
ntai hl pass. The eterror d o was
complete!
Landing on the ground, we roared
clown toward the Lents. The entire
force of bandits
seemed to ihaore
deserted and
taken to the
forest. Then a
dark form rush-
ed toward the ' ,
tents with aflami%��
brand fj
from n� he fire. "
ane bbraver then tentsrest,
ablaze.
wattempting
we fired a few rounds from the ma-
chine gun, and for hely winged dropped -int
the
•
in the. foot,
brand, and limped into the darknes,,,
"Hurry," I cried, "we must burned.
the tents before they are
I search.
Keep the motor idling
Use the machine gun it the bandits
A youthful model of printed aitton
voile of princess lines, is shirred at
the front of the bodice to create a
softened line. to
The skirt is cut in gores so tl r side
ft ed and long tail iiYing hind return"
got you covere Bar -
hole,
wind, they, fell on their knees and (To be continued.)
"And you're a cheerful liar,ei tracks, Note: Amy of our young readers buried their faces in their hands. to Captain Jimmy".
nerd," whispered Slick Sam ,5��at l the frontconcentrate yand at either side of the! We followed the railway writing "
out the melodrama, boy, graceful and' came to the siding Toronto, will receive
h f this back. It is decidedly and soon we bandits in I Star Building,
out
hob
y'1
to here. I've had enough o t ae • 1 from the an - bete free
e, it gives me the willies. while'
ba
tear that hell fire screaming
at: d the
coming. 'where we hu r
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"No," snapped Barnard Lea 4 l simple to make.
s" It is amazingly 1y yardso3ke..neh
way, Slick, and mind the teens."
"Only one trap, boy, in the hall, it's i No. 2645 size 36 41/2
1i inch ribbon.
" replied Samuels. • material and %, y be made sleeve -
easy," you cee?" de- If desired, it may
"Which way did falling cape collar
mended the inspector, a new stispi- covers The armshe sufficiently to make
cion flashing into Itis min it q to for town as well
"Front room window, t
"Then move quickly, my t ',
another shadow stealing
house beside ourselves
iaaav ` a'.r �be awl r eaeld
ti
Slick Samuels g
•
ness as, with noiseless ease
„
there's
and this
I've a
Ile glided
uite appr0Prta t
resox _._
batiste,!
Chiffon, crepe silk, printed-'~ the table happy "roup quickly
dotted swiss and printed sheer.linen tt while bo
tractive for this model of. mem
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at
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wi to a bunch of skele
wo outstretched fingers touch t e locked. Slipping wood. He groped for and foundmadete keys from his coat -pocket he inserted
apremarkable and at the same the lock was ; one in the lock and turned. It yielded,
a discovery: tend with infinite caution and patience
hanging open. he slowly opened it. His nostrils
Barnard leaned against the wall,
1 twitched as he sniffed the close, musty
ansly, Something { 11 As he pressed the button of his
thinking furl
wrong, they would never have been so to ch he knew what he would see. The
the light again, he
careless. Riskingaroom was innocent of anything except from hrecsomewhere below, note a faint unlike the
swept it over the door and made a dust and cobwebs.
The door was I 1 rattle of a chain. A second later Slick
Samuels groaned aloud a sthlresburst
t
upon their ears a cry,
of mingled rage and fear, animal, yet
with a strangely human. note.
"D'hear it?” whispered the startled
crook.
Barnard swallowed and a lump
seemed to stick in his gullet. "Get
on," he ordered in a husky voice.
From somewhere above them a door
opened and footsteps sounded hasten-
ing along the corridor, Slick Samuels
leaned the trap and glided across the
very coon hi which Barnard had in-
terviewed Moineau. Close on his eheeels
into the open air came the insp f,,
and together they softly closed the
window, Samuels sliding the cat•:h I ly peer into eYe piece
with en instrument which Barnard, ormen. itlnor even
wo architects could get
k.
viewed with much curiosity.
"Easy, elf?" smiled the crook, as
theyhastened to gain the cover ,+
free from traps. �, .warned
"Watch your step here,"
tread on the
Slick in a whisper,
belly carpet, boy." •
"I know it;" returned the inspector,
"get on."
But before either could make a
ries Recalled
to the past is
A delightful view an „
glimpsed in this extract from A
Half Century in Salem" by M. C. D.
,7110'Jcc.
All through the long, severe winter
we were cold as a matter of course,
books, work, game
rounded, a . d!at ...
slates and pencils, w
rosy apples, furnished the •,..,.
•ants of the evening ... and the win-
ter's day of Salem wag.; ended.
t The ArtofLiving
Ta touch the cup with eager lips an Yin
taste, not drain it;
excepting the side nest to the glow
-
1 wood fire, and that was scorch-
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pattern, with a mirror thirty-six
inches in diameter and with a spec-
troscope attached. The cost is to
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Yapp, a Londoner, widely known in
commerical circles, and a mining
director with interests in British
Columbia. The telesconneew widoll ma re-
quire the addition of a
to
the historic building which overlooks
d may be said to house
further discovery.
actually standing open and the chain
had been swung around from the
other side for the purpose of prevent-
ing it from
ed as he guessed the reason, someone faintest creak, et he
was very anxiousith that dear should when. }lied heard it. -was but Standing perfectly still
itis eyes
Softly closing and locking the door
again he leaned against the wall. But
second later he had stiffened, pre-
? �.
nI
pared for instant action. Something
had moved in the darkness ahead. It
„losing, His eyes narrow -
no troable w
came to open it. Was it some mem-
ber of the household who h? Or aadsa secrett
mission of person had, like himself,
some other P
he waited, every muscle tense,
peering • into the inky blaclmess vain-
ly endeavoring to see who or what
it was.
There is �.o
substitute for
Por nearly 80 years preferred by the mothers of Canada
because of their jrevan purity Christie* nd hi hquality.
Only Chtistte s can male
the
woo and empty n dtcourt a bliss—1
•
ed; the entries and sleeping -rooms
were probably at freezing point, ice To fondled and caress a joy, yet hold it'.
Lightly; too:
in the water owshers, ut g rost
on the windows. But the roaring Lest it tightly;
necessity and cling
fires were built up in the spacious 1
cavities with back log, back sticlt To watch the sun set in the west with
and fore stick, split wood and cat' out regrettin,,,
stick, chips for kindling, with big To hall its
adventn the east—they
cared r blow the flame, and who
nightforgetting;
cared for cold? In those far-off , To smother care in happiness and.
the list of 1 grief in laughter; nes
days punctuality headed
domestic virtues; establishments To hold the lliereafte close—notq
two or three at the 1 tioning were not large,
utmost constituting the force. We y To have eofugivittehRte--to know he
kept help then; sometimes they were 1 joy
hindrances, addicted to occasional To thrill vin all the sweets of life—
especially it theyi
good, andss, in the parlor' _____,,e_____.
would bave
good, nobody
been bold enough to in- Jack Tar's Uniforms Number
ia11Y in the woman's Nine In
the Thames an new trap 1 terfere mater
e
kodifferent
the world's time-piecs, A
n
apparatus also is to replace rights of the kitchen. Still, a
was an admirable institution, The British sailor has nine
sit -circle appitu ion -1 uniforms, and hiso sartorial n
that huwt by eSirst George Airyhe 1851, and when it was judiciously
s described as gave large returns of love and are so perplexing
appoint the commie-,
which was Rias hall to
serviceable meridian instrument ever se it
bMore than Half a mil- service. - evamine all . "The of cuts and
constructed."been made The family all met ati too clock, i will to solve them. "The�cc mnuTke,.
won observations have
year this instrument t The nitsews
eighty fast very in winter at eight cad materials end of fficial: will
news value and very C07Y cal d. appetizing
gbr as 1 style,,, says an Admiro has not ,�
of
of service. eor Indian- d mat ri is ndv methods. A
se stories such son• eepe above room crakes, ryegriddlecakes, sailor them is 0o
despite bis nine.
trivial to s g from its i extensive a wardrobe,
seemthe enaction of a meal Johnny cake, smolcin;, re•�
si
spkred with (say)orof a board, and drop cakes baked on the uniforms. Every one
giant hip. But the building uniform, i
de
.lied. . Breakfast over, gulatfons. He 1•ias a ceremonial dress,,
hi without the observe,- brick floor of the oven, were ?bund- 1 scalls- and
=Mem, workinguniform,
by
giants 'the men who patient- atly supplied. tions made by s nether sail- the next duty was to fit ourselves a leave tt
for the outers,knit
wadded hoods,
aisu it -white ilskins sand three unieorlms!
long tippets, knit mittens,
moccasins, woolen overcoats, for the fO `ve—in the tropics." I
as
girls; with a difference for the boys .a-E� � t.:
t of greased boots, ugly beaver 1•ats, ti >,
or knit caps shaped like a pit 1 ling
bag.
Then came the fun of sliding in
the wide gutters all the of rye way e o
school (there was
in
front of bliss Becky Cabot's fine
deed
y�\\ !� y house), .or plodding
� snow banks which buried us up to
our beasts; but only boys • were per-
mitted by public opinion to drag
- r=eel
the plantation "Guess those birds
rely on their precious trans:" ia�•, �����
Barnard nodded, never for a mom-
eat taking his eye off the other, It "'•. �. '
was highly probable that the man Wes '
armed, but that was a matter which
could wait until Trotter appeared.
' (To be continued.)
i:,
Business sleds, and the sole girl of he
who dared so to do \vas called viper
-
Port have heard of a fellow boy,' by way of showing
Port Colborne ---•An increofeOf OTer tran far f faro good manners of the nixmerous
eighteen million bushels I' foot in it, but Ii have ttunder- 0111105. jl
grain ,through local elevatorstitle
dor-t At one o'clock droller was served
•
Year ntdate er compared d in -1 stood wby before." At
reverse order: first thesrepudding,
i r i ate dibg period last Year is re. , 1 tort, 'England,
yen alit re-, To the Is urtti � mo:n.r alien the meat, and 'as clic cltildren
cheated- by the figures gi were obliged to be in the school'
Wilily, The inward and outward who gives birth to triplets bet\ween
movements this year totalled 48,500' 1.01 and cne p,m, on the opening qday room again at two o'clock there was
'175 bushels, while last year only '20,- of "Civic Week," the city will pree.ent no time for dessert, and the fruit was `
b l els were transferred-. 325,000; to the mother of twins born disposed of at odd seasons. it sits
C 1 ding Jane Nth, at that rima „ie t 1 it bc'Wr "Oi' i nt tea d seasons,
It i was gpiaacl,•
Ss Xt31pr0Ye$ i, n ,....i they stave found a
At Port •Colborne i slier, pa
l,..;1 that is intoxicating:'
11 who
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c isp(i8.. ` BS it WAS
04 040 lid i h ' �, reward will >,• the pleasant and
: Inning the \\e' t ending
aaitig I•,933,4I'5 In Canada, er: • lb iii f,;t,0(l0.000 usually called, ,;
1,8Gg,;•,Oi;btttltels� tion` a•ereive(1 tad. when �tlie 'second girl" had cleared
1,G71,285 Enrwarbin is acres of land re tinder cultivation,
bushels ln the' inns,
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