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as blossoms in its flavour
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looking the plantation he
behind a rock to wait,
At 'fast be was going to
with the man who had mad
living hell, who had thre
ward with a ghastly ;fate
to put that threat into exec
he crouched behind the b
marvelled that be had stood
that he had been such a poor
creature as ever to have con,
selling a young, pure girl t
own miserable skim.
A hot blush of rage overe
cheeks as be thought of the
to which his ward had been,
He saw again to marks a1
ward's mouth where the filth
of the half-caste had bruised
he cursed Mercer savagely,
Something moved among
opposite and he immediatel
alert. The automatic came
pocket, he pushed up the safe
down
ever
ifea
his.
e
r he
long,
a rdly
la+;e d
e his
d leis
ignity
eeted,
d his
ngers
, and
trees
ecame
pm his
alert
and eased himself into a mo`e com-
and later Mercer's face appeared, set
in a diabolical, grin. Something flash-
ed in the sunlight. Holt felt a dull
pain below his shoulder as, with an
oath, lie fired and toppled forward, a'
knife buried to the hilt in his breast.
With a supreme effort he rose to
his knees to fire again, but a second
shot was not necessary, Mercer's body
slithered from the ledge and thudded
been beside him, lying grotesquely
spread upon the rock,
Holt, himself mortally wounded as
he knew, crawled over, and with the
last reserve of his failing strength,
pushed hint over. He watched the
body of his enemy fall and disappear
among the tall stems of bracken. A
sudden stab o£ pain shot across his
chest, a mist clouded his eyes as with
a little sigh he fell forward over the
ledge.
A. buzzard circled high above them,
gazing down suspiciously upon the
two dead men in the valley.
(To be continued.)
fortable position. Presently;the reg:-
KEsTREL tiousE ongized Hayden Mercer and has heart
MYSTERY
By T. C. H. JACOBS
e ' was filled with a cold fury which sent
a shudder through his body. With an
keffort he controlled himself, he must
y j keep his head cool and his hand steady.
Merger came slowly from the plan-
tation and crossed the bridge .`,mould
he continue up •the hill or 'take the
track along the valley? Holt watched
him pause as if undecided which route
to follow, and then coming to a de-
cision he turned back and commenced
to walk along the river bank.
Holt swore softly to himself; he
would be forced to keep him,n sight
until he could get within range. If
he had come up the hill he would have
shot him easily without danger of
missing. He had never been a goad
shot, and it was some years since he
had used a revolver.
His jaw set grimly as he crawled
from behind the rock and followed his
quarry, keeping well under cover,
though there was small danger of the
other seeing him from the valley,
When they were almost abreast of the
tor where Mullen had been •' hiding,
Mercer stopped. A winding.track led
up the steep slope, rough and offering
a precarious foothold.
Holt's heart filled with a savage
as he saw his man turn tow .rd it.
Here, even better than at the other
place, he could shoot down upon Mer-
cer and make sure of hitting him, He
crept forward until he was able to
ticulate with excitement. obtain a c'ear view of the track. Well
Very deliberately he tied the papers within range it wound up directly be -
into a neat bundle, placed them in his neaih him.
Fettling himself behind a clump of
gorse growing at the very edge he
waited. Several times-Mercee pawed
out of sight as the track wound under
rverbangiag 't dges, but at. last he
came to the final turn. a
dreadful upheavalfrof his soul had lost Holt raised his revolve loolred-}
his capacity for fear. d along the sights, had . time yto notice•
He found his ward in the dlnicig.
•-eetanix- eve steady was his hand, ail tl7 n he
roe
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SYNOPSIS he grinned. "I'm saying nothing that'll
Ben r Holt and his ward, Muriel let the gov'nor in, and that's straight."
Mainw ing, are staying at a Dartmoor "You'll get five years if you get a
farm. ^Flolt's friend, Moineau, living at
Kestrel House, is desirous that Muriel day, Flack," said Barnard.
marry his nephew, Hayden Mercer, "That will be nice;" jeered Flack,
whom she dislikes.
A series of mysterious disappearances undaunted, and the inspector knew
Das been alarming the neighborhood, that he would not speak.
Mona Page the vicar's daughter, being Not caring to risk a similar result
the latest victim.
Another boarder at the farm, Percival with his other prisoner, he left Txot-
a ecroft, and his valet, sagFlack, discover car to
a secret underground passage to Kestrel ter in charge and returned by
House. Inspector Barnard steals into the Blue Boar with the intention of
Kestrel House and runs into a crook, matin a bold bid in the morning.
Slick Samuels, who gives some interest- g
ins information Later Samuels is found But at three o'clock fear had done
stabbed o
t death. hreeroft disappears. its work. Darkey 'Mullen indicated to
Hayden Mercer threatens Muriel on
her refusal to marry him, and she is at- Detective Sergeant Trotter, sitting by
Barnard tacked on the moor by Darkey Mullen. hiss man bed,that he had a few words to
lens, thenlaysa nchargep ofeTmurder say.
against him. Under the gentle hut persistent
CHAPTER XX. promptings of the experienced ser-
geant a tale was unfolded which
Darkey Mullen, dumb with terror shocked even the blase police officer.
and rage, listened to the measured
tones of the Scotland Yard man as lie Henry Holt was sorting papers in
charged him with attempted murder his bedroom when the news of Muriei's
of Flack and being concerned with adventure and of the two arrests made
others n printing false Bank of Eng- by Barnard was brought to him by a
land notes. wide-eyed Mary Jane, almost inar-
Mullen's mind was one which was
incapable of holding more than one
idea at a time, irrespective of value.
For' the moment he -forgot the first
terrible charge, Barnard was all
wrong on the third, it wasn't Bank of
England notes, and. the fact amused
him strangely. But' when the voice
of the Iocal inspector reading over
the charge came to him, it roused full
consciousness of his position., For the
in
on
len
next three
minutes
thenduty
• the charge ragen lase ; t r time
?ilex
occupied. " w�
�5.
uino«i. «, `t1 t,.,v •r,1, r,^--x,YG,1n. t
, after being. charged with aid-
ing "Pyeeroft in his escape, was coo=
ducted to the cells. Barnard -followed
him in and agve instructions that he
was not to be interrupted.
"Now then, Flack," he said, seating
himself and motioning the prisoner to
do likewise, "you're up against it;
come straight with me and I'll see
r�;hat can be done for you."
Flack grinned, a cheeky, impudent
grin.
"Cut it out," he said, "nix doing,
Barnard. You want to know, where
the guv'nor is hanging out, eh? Weil,
it's where you won't find him. You
want to know who the gov'nor is, well,
arsk me sunnink else, 'cos I ain't got
the tail end of a notion. If you got
the idea that he done that Slick Sam-
uels job, you're barmy. And you can
keep on asking me questions till I go
to sleep, and you won't get no an-
swers."
For fully thirty minutes Barnard
bullied, threatened and cajoled, but
Flack continued to grin and say no=
thing. Finally the chief inspector
gave it up. Like Darkey Mullen, he
roust be left to cool his heels a little
longer.
He tried again later in the after-
noon with a similar result. Flack
was adamant.
"'Tain't a bit of good, Barnard," when at last he reached the hill over-
trunk and locked it. On his face was
an expression of deadly calm as he
slipped the heavy automatic into an
inside pocket of his coat; it was the
expression of a mar. who by some
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around and disappear over the ledge.
struetions to Mrs. French as to the He had shot low, too low he feared,
manner in which his ward was to be to have killed him outright. He had A tremendously good locking
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tion of going for the doctor. Muriel than wasted. a definite place in `smart woman's
tried to dissuade him, assuring him
that she was none the worse for a Cautiously testing the ground, Holt wardrobe.
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determined and she let him go, feeling
herself too fatigued to argue.
Holt walked down to the Blue Boar
and telephoned to the doctor in the
next village. He then climbed the hill
and set off for Kestrel House. All his
actions were characterized with such
a deliberation of movement as to be
almost automatic.
Darkey Mullen had been captured;
sooner or later the police would per-
suade him to talk. Mullen was a cow-
ard at heart, and then the game would
be up. But before that happened he
had to make sure of one thing at least.
'siltlisteree l ':*teen exp/resaion e_
right
beside him saw it m spin
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PRETZELS
What came before: Captain Jimmy
sees a Chinese pirate junk trying to sink
another ship and goes to the rescue in
his plane. He swoops down in . a sur-
prise attack and leaves the junk in a
disabled condition.
The last we saw of her, she seem-
ed to be half full of water. Whether
she ever made the shore of China,
in the stiffening breeze, is doubtful.
back we circled b ck toward
the little ship. Something white and
dense rose from
her decks. Smoke!
Then a flash- of
red flame. Sure
enough—those vi
Bans had set her
afire.
As we circled
over the doomed
vessel, large
clouds of heavy white smoke drifted
up from the decks. Then, to our
dismay, we noticed that the pirates
had cut every life boat loose before
- they Sed from the ship, thus takin
away the crew's only means of es
cape.
Back we, headed for the. freighte
aid ashwe 1; 0-.4".
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hi on fire Pl
Meanwhile, the freighter drew
near, the epatain manoeuvreing his
ship so it would approach from the
windward of the burning boat. The
wind would then be driving the
smoke away from the freighter.
For a few minutee we could 'not
understand his plan, then it became
clear. He swung his bow around
and made it fast to the bow of the
burning ship. In a minute more he
was taking the passengers off and
none too soon for the little ship was
fast becoming a raging furnace.
1_ Meanwhile, we spotted a patch of
nice smooth water to the lee of the
freighter and quickly alighted. In
a few minutes the derrick swung us
up to the deck and we rushed for-
ward to help in the rescue.
11 The first sight that greeted our
eyes Chung—hanging on for dear
life to the nozzle of a fire hose, with
a big Filipino sailor helping him.
g Just then, one of the ship's officers
- called the sailor who went away and
i left only Chung to handle the hose.
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vx � d
s rev.•-. , lax,. eg an
p'•'l"'ag�es�'"t'ivo� stgong <neen is •cviitzv�
Mullen had ween acting under in-
structions when he had assaulted
Muriel. Hayden Mercer had no in-
tention of waiting the seven days he
had stated; he had realized that the
girl's word was final. Mullen's ab-
sence would raise the alarm at Kes-
trel House and someone would conte
out to find him and Holt anticipated
that that someone would be Mercer.
As he approached nearer to his des-
tination he became more cautious, and
ry
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he had made certain of Mercer's
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This charming model has many pos-
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If Mercer was not dead he was at
least unconscious. Strange that `he
could not see the body somewhere
down there.
He glanced up the cliff face, esti-
mating the probable course of the
falling man. Several ledges overhung
on which he might have landed, but
Holt had examined them as he des-
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needed no warning Steam up he
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drove his ship with all possible I j' go, the hose be -
speed. Meanwhile, we circled around s came al i v e.
and waited, for the water was now ,, C h un g didn't
too rough to alighe. , ; dare let go for
Fire at sea is a beautiful sight and
ear it would fly
a dreadful one too. In some way it !' up and hit him
is like a fire in the country. Unless —and he simply,
�,;�. couldn't steer it,
someone catches it at first, it ie al Scottie and I. rushed forward it,
most imuossible to put it out, and
all you .:an do is to stand. by and help Chung and despite the serious -
watch it burn. ness of the situation, we- had to laugh
The stern of the little ship now be- at the funny picture of all those
gan to blaze brightly and the pas- Chinese scrambling away to escape
getting drowned by Chung and his
sengers turned like a mob of fight-
ing madmen, pushing and shoving to hose.
get away. Here, the value of dis- 1 (To be continued.)
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Looking Forward
I find it rather good to live
In spite of doubts and fears,
And all the blows the fates can give
And changes through the years.
For further time I'm glad to plead, .
I still have books I want to read.
I fancy 'as I go along
There will be pain to bear,
No doubt some newer form of wrong
Will catch me unaware,
But still some joys I've set aside,
I've hoped the future will provide.
I know the future cannot be
1VIuoh sweeter tlian the past;
That whatof pleasure comes to me
Forever cannot last,
But still I'd like to live to see
A grandchild sitting on my knee.
I hope the Lord will let me stay
A little longer here.
The price in pain and care I'll pay
For every added year.
Life still has countless charms to give'
For which I wait and want to live.
—Edgar .A• Guest:
Miniature Skyscraper
To Be Erected in Rome
Rome. -Rome is to have a sky-
scraper, a very modest onp of 12 or
14. storeys, which will be, nevertheless,
the tallest office building in the city.
The matter has caused much news-
paper discussion, and violent crib
tb introduce a type of architecture in "`
cisms have resulted oyer the attempt
to Rome for which there is no prece-
dent.
Architect Armando Brasini, the de-
signer of the baby skyscraper, has
been under fire for his plan and "at-
tempt Ito introduce into Rome .tr'ans-
Atlantic architectural styles, which
may be all right and necessary in New
'Rork, but quite out of place in Rome
with its mixture of Renaissance and
baroque architecture."
The building is to provide offices fol
the National Insurance Society which
specializes in workmen's compensa
tion Insurance. In spite of , the pro-
tests of the purists and conservatives,
the municipality has refused td veto ,
the construction of the new befitting.
Righteousness I Some would be thought to do great
An uneducated population maybe things who are but tools aid instt'tt,
degraded; a population eduoa.ted, but menta, like the fool who fancied he'
not in righteousness, will be ungov played upon the organ when he only,
ernable. The one may be eiaves, the blew the bellows,
other must be tyrants.—Henry the,
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