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BEGIN HEI.iE TO -DAY. Brendan knocked at No, 8 and was
Tendon famous eri'unel ins I admitted by a thin, gray-haired wo- mayne was a sailor in the merchant
Mark k� man who had evidently been shed- marine. After reaching the position
Dart ator, is taking a holiday old . ,
h• t Foga 'ding tears He found himself in a lit- of a captain in the :Royal Mail Stearn-,
eros father's death, four years ago. But
Ertl that she holds his a"ttention until 1 "Do I speak .to Mrs. Pefzdean?'t the sea is his devotion, and when he
• . • eon- able to do so he built hi,mse;f a
Dartmoor, While on Is way
o -
{� *arry, to visit a troll` stream, � tie -hall decorated with many .trophies ship Coinp�any he retired on my grand-'
glare* U ,
hispath iscrossed by a irl so beauti- ; of fox hunting. w
she passes out of his sight. Mark a asked Bren(lon; but the old womanwas a e ,
times on his way and sets about his shook her bead• little house on the Devon Cliffs, where'
sport."No sir. I'm Mrs• Edward Gerry,' he now resides within sound of the
A big man clad in Norfolk
olk ja` itcoler,;;
knickerbockers -and a re widow of the famous Ned Gerry, for waves,
man of •the
rd uncle, Robert
'with brass tops to comes into the; twenty
noon ds. Mr. and Mrs. Drat
- is at thislmoment apparentlysusp suspect-,
quarry and stops to chat with Mark. I meal .
The ..tranger's hair and leis large pair; dean were—are—I mean' she is my ed of having killed my husband, but
of mustaches show fiery red in co or. i lodger." the snore I think of such a hideous 1
Upon returning home Mark hears, RIs she ready to see me?" - situation, the less possible does it
thlettnewser from Jenny Pendeanf a murder <tsI fig him ! Whaceives al „ t enancieusirl hard hit, poor lady: appRobert Redmayne in youth was his
r.
to investigate life mystery of her miss
in;; husband.. ""Mr Mark Brendon." i father's favorite and if he spoiled any i
Mrs. Gerry openeda door upon the of : his sons he spoiled the youngest.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY. right hand of the'entrarce. 'Uncle Robert came to England, and
"The great Mr. g
Tendon be here; being fond of cattle breeding and
Blandon ,,, read the letter again, Mrs. Pendean," she slid ;.. therl Bren- : agriculture, joined a farmer, the taro -
studied its neat cartgraphy, and ob- don walked in and the widow shut the they of an Australian friend of John
served that a tear had blotted the door behind him. I Redmayne's. He was supposed, to be
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1 lidd:•e of the sliest. Once more he ' Jenny Pendean rose from her. chair ! getting on well, but he calve and went,
said "damn" to himself, dropped his by the table where she was writing, for my grandfather did not like a year
fishing basket and rod, turned up• the letters and Brandon saw the auburn
collar of his mackintosh, and walked girl of the 'sunset,
to the police station, where he heard
a little of the matter in hand from CHAPTER II.
a eenstable and then asked for per -
THE PROBLEM STATED.
mission to use the telephone. In five As Mark entered the girl rose arid
minutes he was speakingef at Scotland Yard, and his. own the fa -
saw in his face an astonishment which
chi
miliar cockney voice of Inspector Har- seemed not much to surprise her, fee
'risen came over the two hundred odd she, was used to admiration, and knew
miles that separated the metropolis that her beauty startled men.
of convicts from the metropolis of the Brendon, though he felt his heart
world. beat quicker at his discovery, soon
' "Man apparently murdered here, had himself, in hand. He spoke with
inspector. Chap who is thought to tact and sympathy, feeling himself
p
have done it disappeared. Widow already committed to serve her with
wants me to take upcase. I'm unwill-i all his wits and strength.
ing to do so; but looks like duty." "Mrs. Pendean," he said, "I am
So spoke Brendon. very glad, that you learned I was in
"Right. If it looks like duty, do it. Princetown and it will be a privilege
Let me hear again to -night. Half -yard,' to serve you if I ban."
chief at Princetown, is an old friend i"Perhaps it was selfish to ask you
of mine. Very good man. Good-bye." l in your holidays," she said. "But,
Mark then learned that Inspector somehow, I felt—"
Halfyard was already at Foggintor.I "Think nothing whatever of that.
"I'm on this," said Mark to the I hope that what lies before us may
constable. "I'll come in again. Tell not take very long. You will do well
the inspector to expect me at noon to let me know everything bearing
upon it that went before this sad
affair."
"I can throw no light at all," she
said. "It has come Pike a thunder-
bolt and I still find my mind refusing
to accept the story that they have
brought to me."
"Sit down and give me some ac-
count of .yourself and Mr. Pendean.
You cannot have' been married very
long."
"Four years."
He showed astonishment.
"I am twenty-five," she explained,
"though I'm told I do not look so
much as that."
"Indeed not; I should have guessed.
eighteen. Collect your thoughts now
and just give me what of your history
and your husband's you think most
likely to be of use."
"I'll begin at the beginning," she
' answered...
"The story of my family is this,:
John Redmayne lived his life on the
Murray River in Victoria, South Aus-
tralia, and there he made a consider-
able •fortune out of sheep. He mar-
! ried and had a large family. Ont of
sever sons and five daughters oorn
} to them during , a period of twenty
i years, Jenny and John Redmayne only
saw five of their children grow into
taluit health and strength. Four boys
, lived, the rest died young; though two
(wei c drowned in a boating accident
and my Aunt Mary, their eldest
daughter; lived a year after her mar-
riage.
":There remained four sons: Henry,
;the eldest, Albert Bendigo, and Rob-
! ert, the youngest of the family, now a
man of thirty-five. It is he you are.
seeking in this awful thing that is
'thought to have happened.
"Henry
father's
was as his fa
Redmayne �
y
I
representative in England and a wool
i broker on his own account. He mar-
ried%and had one daughter: myself.
• i I• remember .my parents very well, for
I was fifteen and at school when they
died. They were on their way to Aus-
l•tralia, so that my father might see
'his•'father and mother again after the
'lapse 'of many years. But their ship,
;'The Wattle Blossom, was. lost with
all hands and,I became an orphan.
" "John 'Redmayne, my grandfather,
to pass without a sight of him.
"After the death of my own father
I saw a little of Uncle Robert from
time to time, for he was kind to : me
and liked me to be with him in my
holidays.
"It was summertime and T was
stopping with my Uncle _Robert at
Penzance when two great things—
indeed
hingsindeed three great things -happened.
The war broke out, my -grandfather•
died in Australia and, lastly, I became
engaged to Michael Pendean.
"I had loved Michael devotedly for
a year before he asked me to marry
him. But when I told my .Uncle Rob-
ert what had happened he chose to
disapprove and considered that -I had
made a serious mistake. My future
husband's parents 'Were dead. His
father had been the head of a firm
called Pendean & Trecarrow, whose
business was the importation of pil-
for all details. I'm going to see Mrs.
Pendean now."
The policeman saluted. He knew
Brendon very well by sight.
The detective nodded. Then •he
sought No. 3, Station Cottages.
The little row of attached houses
ran off at right angles to the high
street of Princetown.
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Catching Snakes for a Living.'
A writer in "The Wide World Maga-
eine" gives an interesting 'account of
a strange tribe of snake -Bunters whom
he met in the cau'ree of a trip through
the Stiliderlbunds, a network of islands
end creeks at the head of the Bay of
Bengal. He writes:—
"They exist solely by means- of
cabching;snait;es, which they sell to
private • collectors .and `the Zoological
Gardens in Calcutta. By snaieea 1 -coo`
not mean harmless. grass snakes; and
the like; on the 'contrary, their choice
is In tie direction of the venomous
and deadly cobra, the dread hama-
dryad, and the great python.
"I have seen these amazing people
approach a deadly 'speetaoled' cobra
and catch it with bare hands • with the
ease and dexterity of a man picking
up a piece of rope! They usually car-
ry with them a long polished bamboo
of fine balance and weight, having at
its end•a-blunt, two-pronged forst, and
also another bamboo with a shnrp
spearhead, but not once during the
couple of ct^evs• I watched them did the
hunters have occasion to use these
implements. • .
"The poison is apparently not ex-
tracted from the fangs of the snakes
by these strange people—at least, so
they told me. In view of that.state-
Inent you can irila.gine my horror to
see one of the women teasing a great
eight -foot cobra, freshly caught, and
not even wincing wlen the hideous
thing struck at and bit her on the
cheek -bone! Indeed, she laughed and
continued her teasing what time my
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chards to Italy. But Michael, though -
he had now succeeded his father in
the business, took no interest in it.
It gave him an income, but his own
interests were In a mechanical diree-
tion. — —
"On the death of my grandfather
it was found that he had written a
peculiar will; and we also learned
that his fortune would prove consider-
ably smaller than his sons expected.
However, he left rather more than
one hundred and fifty thousand.
"The terms of the will put all his
fortune into the power of my Uncle
Albert, my grandfather's eldest living
son. He told Uncle Albert to divide
the total proceeds of the estate be-
tween himself - and his two brothers
as his judgment should dictate, for he -
knew that Albert was a man of scupu-
justlyall.
would do
rand
shone
lou by
With regard to me, he directed my
uncle to set aside twenty thousand
pounds, to be given me on, my mar-
riage, or failing that, on my twenty=
fifth birthday. In the meantime I was
to be taken care of by my uncles; and
he added that my future husband,if
he appeared; must be approved of by
Uncle Albert.
"Though jarred to find he would
receive far less thanhe had hoped,
Uncle Robert was soon in a good
mind was reeling with horror, for T
expected at any moan ent, to , .see the
poor woman fall back and expire.
"A man, however, seeing the,• anahl
ous expression on my face, explained)
that the members- "of title tribe 'uveae(
immune to the effects of the snakes
bites." '
though a rich man, *as a great be temper, for their elder brother inform-
!.liever:. in work, and all• hisssonshad ed Uncle Bob and Uncle Bendigo that
to Mel occupation and justify their he should divide the .fortune into three
lives it liis eyes. Unele•y Albert, ,who equal parts.
\vas ,only a year younger than my (To be continued.)
'lather; cared for studious subjects
return mail,
King Fulfills Promise By
Reading Bible Daily.
A :short time ago the newspapers
printed a cable despatch from London
to the'ef-est that George V. reads one
chapter of the Bible daily. This is `;
and literature. He was apprenticed in Are You Bald? -
youth to .a bookseller at Sydney and If powerful electric lights strung,
• after a' tune came to England; jo'.ried over a barren lawn canforce.grass In
a large and important. firm of book- to 'rapid growth, wby should not simi-
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keeping se promise which he made to _ _
'his mother, Queen Alexandra in 1881
If he has taken the authorized version
in sequence; commencing with .the
first chapter of Genesis and raiding
one chapter each day, it would mean
that he has read the Bible through 1
thirteen' times and has a good start on
the fourteenth reading. It would take
him a little amore than two years and
six months toread the Old Testament
and', three years and sixty-four days to
read both Testaments, ,
Prtbab'ly, dike all other readers of
the Bible, Bing George has his favor-
ite passages. Undoubtedly he has
read the Bible through from cover'to
cover at least once, not missing a
single word. Having
done
this he
Would be at liberty to select his fa-
vorite passages and read them again
and again.
It was an excellent habit which
•Queen Alexandra instilled in her son.
if a king o n find time to read a chap-
ter of the Bible daily surely any other
person ean.•' It it; an excellent example
to the millions of persons who owe
their allegiance to him. There Is no
more majestic prose car majestic poetry
ci-in the Bible, In these
days the Bible ought to be good read-
ing
ead-
in.g' for. longs and for commoners as
well. For an 1:higiish king the ]ngl'ath
version, is especially good re3'aiimg ,
took hili into partnership, • and "'he bald. heard? • , Dr. Andreae Christian.
txt1 the o •( doors travelled for them and spent some claims•that bald 'heads may be cover -
tilts iitier•take years in New York. 3ut his special ed, and hcartis coaxed on clean-s�haveii,.
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subject was Italian Renaissance liter- paces . by the fist of strong artificial
a .'
rittruL ''ea ` ► ature and his joy was It ly where he Might.
gates now lives. Ile found himself in a .;•
pe,.ition to retire'about ten years ago, Work.
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**lents. He knew, moreover, that•his I
May 1 scud you our f,ic tlrcrolt<ert?trim, so that your barns may be fall
ea a, Robertson, :ram. Pass, gent father must soon pass away and, as oaf, provision in due season. Whatever
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•,xt natroit, Mtni ,,, chow ?,lain e03 fl of the larg e fortune to be divided 'The spinning -jenny was. patented by,
ideirgtitagitilikliSsidatteittstiMil presently between himself and. Ms two atones Hargreaves in 1770.
-=- - remaining brothers,
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