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BEGIN HERE TO -DAY.
Mark Brendan, famous criminal in-
vestigator, is taking holiday on Dart-
moor and is engaged by Jenny Pen -
dean to solve the mystery of her hus-
band's disappearance. Michael Pen-
dean is last seen in the company of
jenny's uncle, Robert Redmayne,
when the two go to work on a new
bungalow for the Pendeans neat Fog-
gintor Quarry,. --
Blood is found an the floor of the declines, Uncle Bendigo is on Cap-
cottage and several witnesses testify tain Redmayne's side I can .see. He
to having seen Robert ride away on would not, I am .sure, do anything
hismotor bicycle with a heavy sack to interfere with the law, but he is
behind the saddle. convinced that we do not know all
A. report comes that Redmayne has there is to be told about this terrible
visited his boarding house since the tliizz�• The motor boat. from 'Crow's
disappearance of Michael. A cement! Nen. will be at Ginswear Ferry to
each from the new bungalow is found{
`n: a rabbit hole at afar distance from meet the train reaching there at two
- the scene of mystery. o'clock to -morrow and I hope you may
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NOW GO ON WITH' THE STORY. still be at Paint= and able to come
An hour later Mark Brendon had here for a few hours."
packed a bag and started in a police She added a word of thanks to him
and a regret that his holiday was be -
motor car for Paignton.ing spoiled by her tragedy.
He called at Robert Redmayne s
Jenny Pendean had already left
Princetown and joined Mr, Bendigo
Redmayne at his house, "Crow's Nest"
beyond Dartmouth. She wrote: '„
"My uncle has begged me to come
and I was thankful to do so. I have
to tell you that Uncle Bendigo re-
ceived a ' Tetter yesterday from his
brother, Robert. I begged him to let
me send it to you instantly, but he
lodgings after he had eaten some sup-
per at the Singer Hotel, There he.
had taken a room, that heti might see
and hear something of the vanished
man's future wife and her family. At
No. 7 Marine Terrace the landlady,'n
Mrs. Medway, could say little. • Cap-
tain Redmayne was a genial, kind-
hearted, • but hot-headed gentleman,
she told Mark.
Brendon examined the motor bicycle
wit1. meticulous care. There was a
rest behind the saddle. made of iron
bars, and here he detected stains of
blood. A fragment of tough strip;
tied to the rest was also stained.
Later in the day Brendon returned
to his hotel and introduced himself to
Miss Reed and her family to find that
her brother, - Robert Redina=yne's
friend, had returned to London. She
and her parents were sitting together
`n the lounge when he joined them..
All three appeared to be much shocked
and painfully mystified. None could
throw any light. Mr, and Mrs. Reed
were quiet, elderly people who kept a
draper shop in London; their daugh-
ter revealedmore character. •
"Did you ever hear Captain Red-
mayne speak of his niece and her hus-
band?" Brendon inquired, and Flora
Reed answered:
"He did; "and he always,.eaid that
Michael Pendean was a `shirker' and
a , coward. He 'also aesured nee that
he had done with his niece and should
never forgive her far marrying her
husband. But that was before Bob
went to Princetown. six days ago.
From there he wrote quite a different
CHAPTER IV.
A CLruE.
A motor boat lay "off Hingswear
Ferry -when Mark Brendon arrived.
She was painted white -and furnish-
ed with teak. Her brasses and ma-
chinery glittered; the engines and
steering wheel were set forward, while
aft of the cabins and saloon an awn-
ing was rigged over the stern. The
solitary sailor who controlled the
laiiiich 'was in the act of furling his
protection against the sun as Mark
descended to the water; and while the
man did so, Brendon's eyes brightened,
for a passenger already occupied the
boat: a woman sat there and he saw
Jenny Pendeen eae,.. •
The'•beat .was speedy and she soon
slipped out beth*ern the historic cas-
tles that -stood on either bank of the
entrance to the harbor. •
Mrs. Pendean pointed to the man
in the bows. He sat upright with his
back to them at the wheel forward.
He had taken off his hat, and, ;was
singing very gently to Mimed', but
hardly loud enough to be heard
against the drone of the engines.. His
song was from an early opera of
Verdi..
"Have you noticed that man?"
Mark shook his head.
. `!Ale is an rtal an. He comes from
Turin but has worked in England for
some time."
She called to the boatman.
"Stand out a mile er so, Doria,"'
she said. "I want Mr.. Brendon to
story. He had met then by chance see the coast line.''.
and he found that Mr. Pendean ,had,`^Aye, aye, ma'am," he answered and'
not shirked but had done good work;
altered their course for the, open sea. 1
in tilt' war and got the 0. B. E,>' t He had turned at Jenny Pendean's
voice and shown Mark a • brown,
"You have neither :sen nor heard ; ,
of the captain since?" •; bright, clean -shorn face of great
"Indeed, no. My last letter, which I beauty.
Giuseppe Doria.. has: a wonderful
you can Fee, came three daysago. In; story about himself," continued 14Irs,
it he merely said be would be back' Peardenn. "Uncle' Ben tells the that1
yesterday and meet pre to bathe es '
usual. I went to•bathe and locked otci;j he claims descent .from a very ancient
forihim, but of course he didn't come."
"Pell me a little about him, Miss'.
Reed," said Mark. •"Captain Red-'
panne, I hear, had suffered from shell"
shock and a breath of poison gas also:
Did, you 'ever notice any signs that;
these troubles had left any mark upon •
hila?"
las," she answered. "We all did.
My'amother was the first to point out
that Bob often repeated himself,"
"Was he ti man you can conceive
of as capable of striking or killing a
felibw creature?"
The lady hesitated.,
,
"I only avant to heap him," she ads-
wered. "Therefore I say that, given,;
sufficient provocation, I can imagine;
Bab's temper flaring out, and 1 can
see 'that it would have been possii e
for him, in a moment' at passion, to
strike down a man. He had seen much!
death and was himself absolutely iti-
ditler'ent to danger, Yes, I can imag-
ine him doing -an enemy, or fancied - �^--rw*-'�•
enemy, a hurt; but what I cannot A middle -tined ratan with a tut•_ecope
imagine him doing is what he is sup- eerie to greet then,..
posed to have done afterward—evade
the consequences of a mistaken act." family and is tho•last of the Doria's of
".And yet we have the strongest —1 forget -•--soups place near Venti-
testimony that he has tried. to conceal rnig:ia."
a mindere-whether committed by him- The Boat turned . west presently,
seifr or somebody else, ave• cannot yet passed a panorama of cliffs and little
say:',' ,bays with sanely beaches, and anon
"N.lonly hope and pray,. for all our . skirted higher hind etot-ner precipices,
sak ',' that you will find him," she re- .w1iiish leaped sill hundred feet aloft.
plied, "but if, indeed, he has been be- Perched .arnonr them like -a bird's
trajred into such an awful crime, •1 nest stood,a s»iall•house with windows
do not think you will find him." that blinked out over the Channel. It
"Why not, Miss Reed? But T think rose to a tower room in the midst, andl
1 klaw. What is iti your mind has before the front there stretched a
aTr<;wady passed through my own.. The plateau; whereon stood a flagstaff and i
thatht of suicide." - spar, from the point of which flutter-,
Ste nodded and ,put hes hen dker- e1 a rod ensign, '~.
chic to her eyes. • . The motor launch slowed down and
•
*ark Brendon thanked her for her presently grounded her bow on the i
infnrmation and repeated his gi�nwing `pebbles. Then i-oria stopped the en -
cons ,.tion that the subject of theirgine, flung a gangway stage aspire, I
spec h had probably connititted sitz- •arid stood byte; hated Jenny Pendean
and the detective to the beach. The
place.; ap ie red. to have no exit; but,
behind a ledge ;of rock, stairs carved .-•
in the' stone wound upward, guarded i
by an iron handrail. Jenny .led the 1 `
way: and Mark foliowel her anti( two
hundred Mateps were .elf rzbod and they J
steed tilt tiffs tertstre above, • , ' •
rt was "f)fty yards,long and covered
With . sea, graver - TWO little brass can-,
non thrust theft :muzzles over the
parapet to seaward and then central
space a t!ra0a about aha 1lagpolo 'wail
eiti )e -
Ir two days the'detective remain-
ed.* • Paignton and devoted all his
en;,rty, itiventiain, and, experience to
the'ttask of discovering the vanished
iner)
Men Brendon prepared to return
to Princetown. He wrote his intention
to Mrs, ?cndean "arid informed _ her
ra he would visit Station Cottage on
'f. ::,.wing evening. it happened,
e that Inc letter erosse a t-
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l We p .-es weir altered., for
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neatly surrounded with a .decoration 1 whistler and Ris ` Aithei". I Tile chipping.sparrow,
i3rls�lc little phis^p birth; from our win
low narrow, '.
• Your busy way we weite1i;
You are. a kinsman of, the English epler-
• ' Perhaps• you're Scotch?:
of scall 1"
o
h
p sel s
Fele m.odera, pictures are Were )'a-
"Cauld atnybociy but an old sailor,. ,
have created this 14aee:+" flaked, Bre*,ntiliar to the general i?ulalie; than
don. •!Whistler's. portrait of Lila mother, The
A middle-aged ruin �; ith a tele- sttbje•ct of that i:an ons ) rtral't, 'nna
scope under his arrn carne along aha M•,iirhigtler^, was'�a gentle; effectlonate
ni auris s nils and solid gitli the ttonel in her habits ane outlook upon•
lzri•aco 'to 'refit them. 13endi o Red- and deeply religious old lady, conven-
may o so r w r
cut of the sea about him. ills. eine life, and not at all the kind of,parent
covered head blazed with flaming, one would have expected to belong to a
erase-elippe<l hair and he wore also a bridge,., eccentric, sleariet e reld and
short, red beard and whiskers growing belligeaent genius,. But the relations
grizzled.. .Bet his long; ulrper dip was b:etweien mother and eon, es depicted n smilei of Mre. Whistler's letters re- :
shaved, He had a weathei-beaten
sentry published in : the Atlantic
face --ruddy and deepening to purple, i'ttnthly, were of. 'the liamnest. •The And when we.hear your little s•ong•.is
about the cheek bones -with eyebrows, 'enc old .American, though site had sisbeiit'
rough• as bent grass, over" deep-set, ,s;ont,e natural doubts of the solid value Limited, changeless, sure,
sulky eyes of reddish brown. His
of her son's artistic London friends, -,4 proves yeti are at'S'cot but 'Maon-
`mouth was unclerhung, giving him a gifted and charming though they were, eistent;
pugnacious: and bad-j:empered appear-
ance. 1�Toi 'did" his lool.s appear to endeavored to prove herself adaptable A were bit dour,
and understanding, libel the•.old •sailor, To $,.splen, at ng, and acted success- '
fully as hosteso for her beloved If still we doubt, there is a little mat-
any rate, he showed•at°flist'no very ",)'entre" when he entertained them.' I ter, -
great consideration:'
Yes, doubtless, for your nest
how thrifty! --
With wisps from Dobltip's
You're canny, too, evading
shifty,
Time and again.
is built --
mane;
Puss the
"You've come, I see," he said, shak-
ing hands, "No'nevys?" '
""None, Mr. Redniayne"
' "Weil well!To think Scotland ,cess. Of the famous portrait itself size : A. brown Scotch cap.
Yard Can't find a oor soul that's wrote:'—Robert Gilbert Welsh, in '!Azraei"
g Just now a neighbor and friend in -----c
off his rocker!" tern•upted my writing. She has just'
"You might • have helped us to do Flowers of Iings!ii�ay,
g told me what some of Jerrie a friends
She tried hard to understand and That proves the pointe, maybaP;
appeeciate hie art and took a true Nature has given you—the wiee old
mother's pride and delight' in his sus hatter!—
so," said Mark `shortly, "if it's true said of the portrait of my unworthy' Great .cities are always 'being n-
tfeat you've had 'a letter from your self, An artist said to her, 'It has a built. They are never finished: Lon-
bt^other. don is no exception; it is ttever out of
"I'm doing it, ain't I? It's here for
Yeah,' -., .
•'"You've lost.two days,"
'(To be continued:)
Where Halls Arise. •
Take azliill refeee a „rain,
Dust upon the yellow. plata,
Arad the sombre whiting firs:
Tore a h!11- when rein has passed
Arid this serried pthe'aremassed
Shear, p&tziila' where „a "Breathing stirs.
Tlbere:.tseeomething in a hill _
Ener easel:, always still. •
In the deep heart of<the hills
Are a hitrrclred hidden courses, •
And their plunging waterfalls : -
A}e like'silver running horses,.
While on Windy clays above,
Though the valleys have noesound,
-Where the gentian holds the light, -
•,liIovement' seefts to till"tire- ground.
I was born where many waters are;
I have sewn them•at•.tlieir source, and
Iatei;., ;k...
Watched them when the -floods were
high,
Ci ossecl them when the geese flew by;
1ieiny a sea I've known, but never
Water like a hill -born river.
-Struthers Burt, fin "\When I Grew Up
to Middle Age." •
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Real Estat. '
''Y out Erie whip to ne. this sum-
mer has meant a lot." •
J\Vell, theta, .fill we need uow is the
ho Ise." - -
" Sentence Sermons.
It 'Will Pay Y ou--�To treat any man's
honest opinion with respect.
-e-To give the criticisms of your ene-
ntiee pretty careful consideration.
To. investigate twice before you
incest once: .
:;-To learn to utanage-nioney before
yowl ask- for the big raise.
---To answer your faultfinders court-
eotlsly.
—To invest more in friends and
leave less for Leoneloneka. •
To spend more for books..than for
tanquets.
holy expression. Oh; how much septi- the builders' hands. One of its most
menu Whistler has put into his moth- famous thoroughfares -- Iiing,sway
er's likeness!' Your ,sister Will tell has in recent years been carved out'ef
Yon how wonderfuJ'ly 'the 'three cases
c•• an: area of mean.streets and shabby
of portraits were' preserved from fire buildings. In the place where they
on the railroad; train, though many stood arerrows of fine buildings, with
p.icl.ages,of valuable luggage weer.. e. en.tete great Busli"buildhig, looking up the
tirely , consumed. The flames had Way andeby .its sculptare:a motto,
reached the casein wlrieheey portrait. "Friendship between the two nations,"
was; the lid ewes burnt, a side of the reminding those who pass of the com-
frame was scorched, yet th•e" painting man interests of America and Britain,
uninjured."The transdoirnation took many y elarc.
Suppose the"picture had been burn-
The district wasp for long a mases of
ed.. Could or would Whistler have re- hoardings and scaffoldings. For a long
placed it? It was a narrow escape in time much of the land was unbuilt up-
4eed for one of the really great art on, •after the building -wreckers had
"Fadrks of our time. • 1done their \work.
'i'It is more encouraging to my, hopes , , It was • during. than time that 'a
>f Jemie," continues his mother in her strange thing„ happened. Nature he-
titer, "that, De this. time,when the
Vorld is offered. him, he should con-` gap to turn those• flowernt spaces •
appearedd
'died in me voluntarily his desire to gardens.n Strange flowers
"'rite with ins in the highest of all at, here and there, flowers for which it
'_cinment His is natural rel4gion; he' was difficult to, account; toe, they were
thinks of God as the' rdiffusive source were �ive •blooms. Nieelert naiuralis•ts
of ail he enooys•, in the. giorves• .of the were called in veers. coiled that they
firmatiient, the loveliness "of flowers, were Italian flowers. 'They said that
the noble studies of the human form.
the ground there. had not had a drop
The Creator of all!"
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Winter Warmth.
Twinkling fiances danced:, beneath
the mantelpiece. Bronze andirons car-
ry,. the figures of dormant lions,
mthese flowers were true result. Buried,
bole of soft subservience to the flames, they bad had no •ohance. When at last
asleep like gentle cats under' the spell the opportunity came, those Iong-
of the fire. Lichen -covered logs, col- buried seeds were not slow to respond
of moisture or a ray of sunlight, on it
since the days when the Romans oo-
cupled London and built on that site.
For the first time for all those gen-
turies, the ground had .been opened to
the ministries of sky and of cloud, and
ored a sage green, with young moss
and earthy smell's clinging ,to their
round and l.nottedNeurface, crackle
merrily in the wide fireplace, etched
with polished tiles.- grandmother sits'
contentedlyin a Windsor _chair and,
This is a modern home! Trans-
planted beauty of the ages abounds
within the fair walls of the living
room whc,=e. hardwood floors radiate
I from the Chinese design on the taupe
! Wilton •dig. The fireplace is only
evidence of old-fashioned enjoyment
!of winter in northern lands. The
`blaze is bringing anew a blush to
I grandmother's cheeks. As the living
, Defile leaps from the lag a glowing
' atmosphere is 1:ef't, wkieli forms the
1
to the sun and the rain, and to bring
touches of loveliness to' that stretch
of waste land.
There are •surprises• like that -in hu-
man "life. Buried in pully •, :We'are
potential virtues, things of loveliness,
that have never, found. expression.
They are in the most unlikely plates.
Sometimes they only get their Chance
after an experience that resembles a
demolition. Tule overcrowded ground
of life has been cleared and the buried
things are at lest exposed to those
mini=tries, of God's grace which can
'turn the wllaernesss into a .gai•"den _
-v .
essence of the foyer to tit
French;
,renc;;
the hearth, without its cricket:, to the
English. • ; - -
Tito-• fireplace is- the link with
I ter days of yore. Memories and dim.
pictures are to the fireplace frame—
' pictures that live and breathe and
"vanish with the ever-changing Music
of the crackling loge.,
All pervading is the warmth, • the
winter warm which bears no kin to
the vagabond days of summer. Out-
side, the iawn ,is saow strewn, lit by
the• . glai5 from th'e' window where
fringeof shade heaves a, bar of ellcl.-
ering light and, shallow above the sill.
Odors of the forest fill .the living
roam. 7?hantasies of spring leap from
quickening logs, as' the rich aroma
arises from red and purple flames that
make only eine 'step to the vanishing
point in the somber shadows .of the
ohlmney and go out•over the roof top
into the night• as a veil of s.nioke,
A Good Fan.
Ile -"Now 'd'•e are -art ball-gme,
we'll sit by my friend Jones and keep
cool;" ., • '
S11e—"How can we keep. -cool?".
Ile"IIe's a good fan,"
rte_
Explained:
A little girl: wino. was trying to,tell
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emphasizing the bloused effect;- and •^•
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• is on the inside of yur frock with`
just the back of the seam' shaiving' on
the outside. The appeal of this blouse; -
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dresses that are worn at the 'toff rand
around the hips, yet quite good at -the
lower edge. The ,.turn -out ;top may
be cut off, making a; slip 'over- which
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are gathered.in'to narrow bands at the
wrists, •and. a collar' with long ends is •
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34, 36, 38, 40 and 42 inches bust. Size
86 requires 2% yards 40 -inch, or 21,.;
yards 54 -inch material. ,Price 20c.
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newest 'and most practical styles, will
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the copy. ) .
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IA
Making Use of a Paisley.,
Shawl, -
The fortunate' poes•es•s-or of a.PaIs
fey 's1iaal has a charming clecora,tids
for the wall,'While these drawls, so ..
itopirpar• = in the Lit Century, were,
woven in Scotlaitd,''the Oriental color,
ings'and patterns inakeeth rn delighi
fully harmonious with period furnish
lugs: The iaaniaus?talm-leaf pattern,
for example, is a -tecided "find" tc
hang in- the fashion of a t'pestry-or
other decorative textile, on • 'neutral
walls.. It litakbbh a "point of interest;'`.`
as interior decorators say, when )rung ,
in a dark. corner needing more eolor. '
It may be iia.in:g above took,,shelves,
'above a mantel,. a console table or""a
coticla. I1_ can be fastened directly to
the l?icture zirolding,' or henihied at the '.
A, friend how absent-ntincled her grand top and a stick run ;through the cas•
1ing. Then a cord =1St be' tacked. to
pa was said;
"Ile walks around thinking of notit- each end of the easinig and hung with
ing •and weep eleiereinembers it, hefa tassel like a picture dr mirror upon
the wall.
then forgets that wltiat he thought of fir i i
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was something :entirely different from Sometimes, es, t cas tr
a ed. I aieley
what he, wanted to remember.", may be, too worn ,to he used enn';;
'• tire. Then a strip cut so as to make
the most of the pattern'is ettrareti`a^e' as
KEPI' AFLOAT B'Y LLINMB• i~< (A1140
Pilo swoon -1w Edward ' 3, Farrarhad a narrow escape from being gunk when char eolii.deil with the tatitk'er'
�. 1? g y
Miller cettnty, six utiles off' 13catlrriid Lighthouse hthous�e on the New York coast. Site wase kelt afloat /or 13 Ronne by using
g 1 y if
'ban ,Ittittbtlt `oatga tp fill the oing hole itt the prow.
•
•a straigi.tt table runner, it,should .be-;,
lined with sateen and the edge ma;
be dflnislred *lith a narrow metal gimp..
A' -strip ,cut diagonally from a shawl
may be *sea' either -hi , iiiainer' or as
a centre panel, Ina soft; oushien: Cone:,
traeted with 'black satin •ipritisiey., ie
Very effective 1h. an: oblong. et>,sliieli.
Where it jotns:the .estita the seam may
be covered with gtntp tti -match the
table runner.
One more use for this colorful shawl
is to drape a couch with it. ',Plaiie.en5=
hions should be used. A roque
&1 in Colonial or ,Queen tulle style,
slic daily when the Orient l note is -
present, ivlil be :into ct11t>t with this
pictttresgbe coVef
Colors to s•et:tt off •best•ilciude dull
.. green, gold and black,
• The Diplomat - ,
'Elsie, aged three. Wes Porth' of pliSe •
itl,g t lephine , buthated to hike a btttit..:
'iiiiaki'hg'site would use ',tittle s'toa't-
egy, heir gr.andrnoother:: pi eked .up the
toy telephone anal said. Ellerin, le" :;.
that Elsie?"
1'he child 'was deli:ghtterl in,itcl'eel('l•
"Yes, grandma" • "
"Well, come dull kavas your blade i ; •.
1 "Wrong ttumber,sa,iwl 1tlsati," dtt•�•,l,
•
ping theeeeeiver,
Eleven cubic . :b of Vra()'y'tvrt+lt
irostert, utakee twelve cubic toot ,),,/ ice