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CHAPTER L by the pools, Brendon suddenly per-
THE einem. but
that it was no natural noise
but arose from some human activity.
Mark Brendon, at thirty-five, al -It was, in fact, the musical note of a
ready stood high in the criminal in- mason's trowel, and when presently it
vestigation department of the police. ceased, he was annoyed to hear heavy
He was indeed about to receive an footsteps in the quarry.
inspectorship.
Mark was taking holiday on Dart -
211001', devoting himself to his hobby
A big, broad man approached him,
clad in a Norfolk jacket and knicker-
bockers and a red waistcoat with
of trout fishing and accepting the op- gaudy brass buttons.
portunity to survey his own life from The stranger stopped as he saw
a bird's-eye point of view, measure Brendon, straddled his great legs
his achievement, and consider impar- took a cigar from his mouth and
tially his future, not only as a detec- spoke:
tive but as a man. "Ah! You've found 'em, then?"
He found himself with five thousand "Found what?" asked the detective.
pounds saved as a result of some ape- "Found these trout. I come here
cial grants during the war and a for a swim sometimes. I've wondered
large honorarium from the French why I never saw a rod in this hole.
Government. He was also in posses- There are a dozen half pounders there
cion of a handsome salary and the and possibly some bigger ones."
prospect of promotion, when a senior It was Mark's instinctive way to
man retired at no distant date. Too study all fellow creatures with whom
intelligent to find all that life had to he came in contact.
offer in his work alone, he now began He saw a pair of broad shoulders
to think of culture, of . human plea- and a thick neck over which hung a
sures, and those added interests and square, hard jaw and a determined
responsibilities that a wife and fam- chin. Then came a big mouth and the
fly would offer. largest pair of moustaches Brendon
He was somewhat overweary after remembered to 'have observed on any
a strenuous year; but to Dartmoor he countenance. They were of a foxy)
always came for health and rest when red) and beneath them flashed large,
opportunity offered, and now he had white teeth when the big man talked
returned for the third time to the in rather grating tones. His hair
Duchy Hotel at Princetown. Being a was a fiery red, cut close, and of a
good talker he never failed of an hue yet more violent than his mous-
audience there. But better still, he taches.
liked an hour sometimes with the The big man appeared friendly,
prison wardens. For the convict though Brendon heartily wished him
prison that dominated that gray away
smudge in the heart of the moors "This belly place seems to bewitch
known as Princetown held many in- people," said the big man.
teresting and famous criminals. The other laughed. "There is a
He had found an unknown spot magic here. It gets into your blood."
where some good trout dwelt and on "So it does. A man I know is build -
an evening in mid-June he set forth ing himself avbungalow out here. He
and his wife will be just as happyas
a pair of wood pigeons—at least they
think so."
"I heard a trowel clinking."
"Yes, I lend a hand sometimes
when the workmen are gone. But
think of it—to turn your back on
civilization and make..yourself a home
of Princetown, a road still extended in a desert!
to the deserted spot and joined the
main thoroughfare half a mile distant,
Brendon, however, came hither by
a direct path over the moors. Leaving
Princetown railway station upon his
left hand he set his face west- where
the waste heaved out before him dark
against a blaze of light from the sky; catch anything that'll pull you in."
Against the western flame appear- Laughing at his joke, the red man
ed a figure carrying a basket. Mark strode off through the gap fifty yards
Brendon, with thoughts on the even-
ing rise of the trout, lifted his face
at a light footfall. Whereupon there i
passed by him the fairest woman he
had ever known. She was slim and
not very tall. She wore no hat and
the auburn of her hair, piled high
above her forehead, tangled the warm
sunset beams and burned like a halo
round her head. And she had blue
eyes—blue as the gentian. Their size i
impressed Brendon.
She walked, quickly with a good
stride and heslight, silvery skirts
and rosy, silken juniper showed her
figure clearly enough—her round hips
and firm, girlish bosom.
Her eyes met his for a moment with
a frank, trustful expression, then she
had passed.
The vision made Mark pensive, as
sudden beauty will, and he wondered
about the girl.
Tramping forward now, the detec-
tive came to a great crater that gaped
on the hillside and stood above the
dead quarry workings of Foggintor, distant. Then in the stillness Mark
Underneath him opened a cavity with heard the purr of a machine. He had
sides two hundred feet high. evidently departed upon a motor cycle
Mark proceeded to the extreme to the main road half a mile distant.
breadth of the quarry, fifty yards When he was gone Brendan rose
northerly, and stood above two wide, and strolled down to the other en-
andtill pools In andthe midst circles Trout moved trance of the quarry that he might
and here there eraof light see the bungalow of which the stran-
ger
widened out on the water and rippled had spoken.
to the cliff beyond.The day grew very dim and the
Mark set about his sport, yet hadt fret of light and shadow died off the
cometat a sort of unfamiliar division ear..th, leaving all vague and vast and
brought into his mindy and, while he featureless. Brendon returned to his
antwortten 'tem flies from a sport and found a small "coachman"
box and fastened them to `ths hair-like po
fader he always used, there persisted fly sufficiently destructive. The two
the thought of the auburn girl—her pools yielded a dozen trout, of which
eyes blue as April—her swiftdelicate he kept six and returned the rest to
tread. , the water.
He began to fish as the light thick- Tramping back under the stars, his
thoughts drifted to the auburn girl
ened; but he only cast once or twice
and then decided to wait half an hour. of the moor.
He grounded his rod and brought a i Four evenings after his first fishing
brier .pipe and a pouch of tobacco . expedition to the quarries, Mark de -
from his pocket. The things of day 1 voted a morning to the lower waters
were turning to slumber; but still i of the Meavy River; at the end of
there persisted a clinking sound utter-
ed monotonously from time to time,
which thee sportsman supposed to be
a bird. It came from behind the great 1 about to retire, heard a sudden and
acclivities that ran opposite his place:evil report.
- _I Will Blake, "Boots" at the Duchy
Hotel, was waiting to extinguish the 1• lights, and seeing ''Brendon he said:
r'There's something in your line
' happened, master, by the look of it. A
pretty bobbery to -morrow." 1.
"A convict escaped, Will?" asked
the detective, yawning and longing
for bed. "That's about the only fun
you :get tip hoes isn't it?" j
il.C-onvict escaped? No --a man done
in seemingly. Mr. Pendean's uncle -in-
law have slaughtered Mr. Pendean by
the looks of it."
"And who is Mr. Pendean?"
"The gentleman what's building the
bun alow down to Foggintor:"
ark started. The big red man
flashed to his mind complete in every
physical feature. He described him,
and Will Blake replied:
"That's the chap that's done it. Envious Bug -- "Oh, shucks, why
That's the gentleman's enols -in law!" haven't I got a lot of arms so i Can
Brendon went to bed and slept no be a great juggler like Mrr. Spider. "
worse far the tragedy. Nor, when
A Modest Youth.
Man desiredto e him allthey knew,
e the east
to tempt 'them. lie had discovered
certain deep pools in a disused quarry
fed by a streamlet.
Foggintor Quarry, wherein lay
these preserves, might be approached
in two ways. Originally broken into
the granite bosom of the moor for
stone to build the bygone war prison
"Might do worse—if you've got no
ambitions."
"Yes—ambition is not their strong
point. They think love's enough
poor souls. Why don't you fish?"
"Waiting for it to get a bit darker."
"Well, so long. Take care you don't
TYE STRANGER STOPPED AS un SAW
BRENDON.
that day, not far short of midnight,
when glasses were empty and pipes
knocked out, half a dozen men, just
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ISSUE No. 49
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NURSES
the Toronto Hospital'for leseshtes, to
afttltatfon with eeltorue and Alited ftospt%.iL
New York Oity, offers a three year,' Coons
of • Trat,iinp to sound women, haWno the
required education, and doetrgal of becoming
aureoe. This Hospitet has .adopted the richt.
hour mien". The peptis - oeiva onifornet. of
the •Bebopi, a tnpnthty eliowanos and traveling
ta¢onses. to end teem Nov York, Per portlier
information. oppfy to the SupertntoiUent,
opened the note, find read what was
written: -
"3 Station (Cottages, Princetown.
"Dear Sir; The police have told fele;
that you are in Princetown,.. and it
seems as though Providence' had sent
you. I fear that I..have no right to
seek your services directly, but if you
can answer the prayer of a heart-
broken woman and give' her the bene-
fit of your genius in this dark moment,
she would be unspeakably thankful,
- "Faithfully yours,
"Jenny Pendean."
Mark Brendon murmured "damn"
gently under his breath. . Then he
turned 'to Will.
"Where is Mrs. Pendean's house?"
he asked.
"In 'Station Cottages, just before
you come to the prison woods, sir."
"Run over then, and say I'll call in
half an hour."
(To be continued.)
Dirigible Balloons.
The first dirigible balloon was made
by the Robert brothers, by direction
of the Duke of Ghe tiers, in France, in
1874, within a year after the first bal-
loon in the world was sent into the air.
The dirigible was fish -shaped. That
is about all that is known of it, except
that it provided for propulsion by'
means of oars. In 1834 Count d'e Len-
nox, another Frenchman, built one,
which was to be propelled by. oars
driven by twenty men.
The balloon was so heavy with its
crew that it could not rise from the
ground and was smashed by the spec.
tators. In 185.1 another Frenchman
conceived the idea of an airship with
four balloons which were to support
a platform 200 feet long Lind thirty
feet wide but he could not design a
power plan to work the. screws that
were to propel it.
Henry Giffard, of Paris, built a diri-
gible in 1852 and another in 1855. In
1883 Renard and Krebs built one
which was driven successfully by an
electric motor and screws. Ferdinand
Zeppelin acquired his taste for bal-
looning while fighting on the Union
side in the American Civil War. Re-
turning to Germany, he -saw service in
the war against Austria, In. 1895 he
began importuning the German war
office to build a dirigible balloon, says
the Indianapolis News. At thi's time
he was regarded' as something as a
monomaniac. In 1900 he lead- shed
his first dirigible. There Was not- a
great deal of difference between Zep-
pelin's first airship and those that fol-
lowed, for he clang throughout to his
basic idea which has come to be ac-
cepted, a series of separate gas con-
tainers within a large cylindrical hull.
Instead of rudders Zeppelin raised
and lowered his early models by means
of a sliding weight. His second air-
ship wee built in 1906. Improvements
in power plants came gradually. In
less than ten years' after the Kaiser
had termed Zeppelin a visionary he
was hailing him as "the greatest Ger-
man in the twentieth century." He
was decorated with the order of the
Black Eagle and made a knight in the
Prussian Order of Merit. It was with
dirigible aircraft that Germany bomb-
ed England.
A Poem Worth Knowing.
"How Sleep the Brave."
William Collins died in the year that
Robert Burns, the Scottish Bard-, first
saw the Iight. During 'the last .nine
years of his life he was insane.
Its view of the fact that the seventh
anniversary of the Armistice was cele-
brated on November 11th, the follow-
ing exquisite lines have a special In-
terest:
How sleep the Brave who sink to rest,
By all their Country's wishes blest!
When Spring, with dewy fingers -cold,
Returns to deck their hallowed mould,
She there shall drew• a sweeter sod
Than Fence's, feet have ever trod.
By fairy hands their knell is rung;
By forms unseen their dirge is sung;
There Ron -or comes, a pilgrim grey,
To bless the turf that wraps their clay,
And Freedom shell awhileore•pair,
To -dwell a weeping hermit there!
Envy.
morning came and
n every h aid and
did h shown as interest. "Are you marrying a sensible girl?"
He was just slipping on a raincoat asked his uncle
and about to leave the hotel when "Of course I am. Isn't she showing
Will Blake appeared and handed him she Is marrying mc?" demanded his
a letter, He felt curious and, not as- egotistical nephew.
sociating the incident with the rumor- "�-
ed trivia, • set down his rod arid trreeT1 Minsi'd"e Unlmcrttfor stilt' muscles.
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Sunken Cities.
Au Arab fisherman of Jerba, the
"Isle of. Lotus' Easters," recently s'e-
turned to the island with a strange
tale. He said that bending over the
side of hie little boat, about five hun-
dred yards from the shore, he had seen
what looked like a, city at the bottom
of the sea. His •story was at once
vestigated by experts. They saw the
city under" the sea—they could even
distinguish the streets.
It is believed that this submarine
town is one of the ancient ports of the
Phoenicians, and it is hoped that in-
formation of the greatest value re-
garding this people and their civiliza-
tion will be gained as a result of fur-
ther Investigations. A preliminary
survey is to be carried out by aero-
planes, and after that it is probable
that diver will explore the sunken
city.
Submarine cities% exist, or are re-
puted to exist, in other parts of the
world The Dutch will tell you that
several ruined towns are sunk at the
bottom of the Zuider Zee, and the
legendary city of Vineta, is said to lie
off the coast of Holstein. On quiet
days, so the fishermen of the region
will assure you, the tolling of the bells
in the spires of its sunken churches
may be beard at sea.
The Emerald Isle can also boast of
its submarine towns. According to le-
gend-, the waters of Killarney and
lough Neagh cover two 'cities that
were famous in the golden age of an-
cient Irish civilization,
Yet another submarine city famous
In legend is said to have stood where
the Bay of Douarnez, near Quimper, in
Brittany, is now. This city was built
below sea -level, and was renowned for
its • beauty and magnificence. But a
certain'Princess Dahut, being tired of
life and wishing that liar sepulchre
might be truly royal, opened the sluice
gates, thus letting in the water, which
overwhelmed both herself and the
town.
But the most famous of all sunken
cities' are those •at Atlantis, that lost
continent which la said to have stood,.
long centuries' before beginning of the
Christian era, between the Old World
and tbe,New, and whose splendors, ac-
cording to ono modern theory, are now
hidden by the seaweed of the Sargasso
Sea.
A Mill Underground,
On account of the intense cold in
the Yelson, a Canadian company pians
to ereet an underground mill for dress-
ing ore from its gold mine.
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CANADA IS TIMBER STOREHOUSE
Great -Britain Looks to Dominion for Empire Supply-,
Afforestation Work in Old Country,
The rapidity with which European
countries are realizing that Canada's
forest resources are destined to play
an increasing part in supplying world
needs, and the growing attention be-
ing focused• on our timber supplies,
marketing facilities•, methods of con-
servation, and appalling fire losses
were brought out at recent forestry
conferences held in France and Great
Britain. The mother country, par-
ticularly, looks, to Canada as the great
storehouse of Empire timber. The Bri-
tish Association for the Advancement
of Science, one of the largest and
most authoritative• organizations of
scientists in the world, stressed for-
estry problems at its 1925 meeting at
Southampton, England. The special
forestry section, which was founded
at last years' meeting of the Associa-
tion in Toronto, Canada, was particu-
larly active and showed promise of
developing, in the near future, into
one of the strongest constituents of
the Association. The Department of
the Interior, Canada, was represented
at the meetings of this section by Mr.
D. Roy Cameron, Assistant Director
of Forestry, who during the past sea-
son spent some weeks in. Europe mak-
ing
aking a study of forest conditions and
methods of conservation.
One of the most noteworthy papers
presented before the forestry section
of the British Association was given
by Lord Ldvat, Chairman of the Bri-
tish Forestry Commission, describing
the progress in post-war forestry de-
velopment in the British Isles, and
the Commission's plans for the future.
The Commission is conducting a very
extensive afforestation program and
beginning this fall 89,000,000 trees will
be planted in Great Britain. By the
spring these trees 'will occupy 22,000
acres of what would otherwise be
chiefly waste land. Since it began .its
work live years ago the Commission
has planted 52,500 acres and assisted
local authorities and private owners to
plant another 50,000 acres, resulting.
in 184,000,000 new trees in England,
Wales, and Scotland. The program
spread over ten years provides for the
planting of 250;000 acres with 450,000,-
000 trees.
While accompanying Lord Lovat,
Chairman of the Commission, on__a
tour sof inspection, Mr. Camemofi saw
thousands of acres of plantations cov-
ered with Douglas fir and Sitko spruce
grown from Canadian seed collects
for the British. Government by the
Forest Service- of the Department of
the Interior,
As interesting perhaps as the plat
a3
themselves is the develop
nient of the "forest holidays" policy oil
the British Forestry Commission.'The,
intimate correlation of forestry and!
agriculture is recognized in Great Bri-
tain, and in the extensive afforestation,
projects an opportunity is seen for es-
tablishing permanent rural communi .
ties dependent on both forestry and
agriculture for their livelihood. Ace
cordingiy, the Forestry Commissioners
acquire agricultural lands adjoining
the plantationsandleasp'them on easy
teems The lessees are guarambteedi
not less than 150 days work per annu>zfi
from the Commission and have the e
minder of the year to attend to the
agrioultural pursuits. In this way, not,
only is the farmer sure of a steady;
cash income to supplement the Iwo.,
duction of his- farm, but"the Commis•
cion also secures a reliable and in-
terested.labor supply. -
The number of holdings' is of course
determined by, the labor requirements
of the -plantation project. The rate oi
afforestation is so adjusted that plant
ing will continue year by year until
such time as the earliest plantations
will produce marketable thinnings.l.
The work metquired to thin these areas
will occupy the time of the men no
longer needed for planting. Thinning'
operations are in turn adjusted to
last until the timber on older areas'
reaches maturity and the final crop
can be harvested. Following harvest-'
lug each area will again be planted. ;
This forest holdings policy is con-
sidered by authorities, to be one of the
soundest and most feasible "back -to -
the -land" movements yet advanced in
the British Isles. The supplementing
of farm work with forestry labor, paid
In cash, enables the holder to bring
under agriculture, lands' formerly tied
poor to support a family in Great Bri-
tain. The basis of the whole is the
treatment of the forest as a crop to 'be
handled in perpetuity, lathe than as-
-a
sa-a mine to be exploited and abandoned.'
Parks Wild Animals Losing
Fear of Man.
Each succeeding year's round of
tourists bring new expressions of won-
derment and surprise at the rapidity
with which the wild animals in the
Canadian National parks are losing
their fear of man. Parks' officials,
who administer wild life protective
measures, have watched this condition
develop and to them it was to be ex-
pected, but to the tourist new to the
parks the holding up of one's • car on
a park highway by a band of friendly
Rocky Mounain sheep is a novel ex-
perience,'
Visitore
x-perience,-
Visitors to Rocky Mountains park in
Alberta are always, sure to have close-
up views of mountain sheep and other
wild animals at different points on
the highways, and bears are frequent
visitors to the outskirts of most of the
towns in the parks. In the past year
or -two elk, among the most wary of
animals, have been reported to have
made their appearance on the golf
links at Banff while play • wee • in pro-
gress. in the early part of October of
this year about fifteen elk trotted out
on the fairway of the 13th hole, on
their way from the Bow river to, the
upland forests. These exhibitions of
animal friend mess' are not confined to
Rocky Mountains park, In Jasper
park, on the occasion of Sir Douglas
Haig's visit in July of this year, two
young black bears intefrrupted . the
Field Marshall's game by their, appear
ages on this links.
The growth in numbers of wild anis
mals in the parks and the ease with
which they may be encountered and
photographed is year by year becom-
ing a greater attraction to tourists. '
esa
When hoarse use Mlnard's Liniment,
"To thine own self be true and it
must follow, as night the day, thou
cans') be false to any rnan."
Stilt From Sea on Land.
Studies in -.England contiuned over a
period of 26 years show that the seat
deposits an average of 36,1 pounds of;
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