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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1916-06-16, Page 6AN EXCITING RE$�ENT bAY ROMAN ` BY 'WE A.TI1 RBY Ci ESN 01 CHAPTER XVI.—(Cont'd.) "Was that all?" "Yes, except a. few lines directing that the manuscript was to be . st b- tnitted to the judgment of Mr,' Davis, and if he approved, was to be pub- lished. My mother tore it' up and threw it into the sea." "What? The note, you mean!" ex- claimed Scarborough. "The manuscript," said Elsa. Scarborough smiled; but there was no amusement in his smile—only pity. The guilty man had spent two years able than :a simple curiosity to know what we were going to do there." Scarborough shook his head, say- ing: ""Did Mrs. Carrington think so ?" "`No,"'said Elsa. '""Mother seemed to ff be afraid of him. I don't know why?" ""I think I can see why," said Scar- borough. "She had a document on her possession which was valuable, and she was nervous about losing it. Also it looks as though she had some reason to think that there was some- one in the island who knew enough to over that manuscript, had made it be dangerous. Rad she read that let - his hobby, perhaps had .dulled the ter which you showed ine just now?" gnawing of conscience by doing what "Yes," said Elsa. he thought was useful work. His evi- "Then she probably interpreted it as dow came, and she threw it all into I do. • There is someone who knows the seal about the diamonds, and has already "`She showed no more respect for his made attempts to get hold of them." wishes in that than she did in another "Do you mean .the hooded woman?" thing on which be had set his heart," Elsa asked. sail. Elsa. "She read me some of his, "Perhaps the hooded woman will letter. It was an earnest appeal to i turn. out to be the person I mean," said her to keep me in ignorance of his Scarborough. ""I don't .a ow. But I guilt. Her answer to that appeal was { am sure that there was e eneone who a sneer and a jibe. She took away was threatening your father. In his every shred of my ignorance, cared letter to you be speaks of_ himself as nothing that he had loved me, and going to meet a known danger for laughed at me for having had the your sake:—.`I shall be engaged in a folly to believe in him. I think myl con`.est with an enemy who is well mother is a wicked woman, Horace., known to me; an enemy who of late In one part of my father's letter to , has taken to using threats.' Those her he said that she had driven. him f are his words. ""What do you sup - into crime. She read that to me,•too,' pose they mean?" as though it were true and "I took' them to refer to his physical as though she did not care I weakness -the aneurism which killed whether I knew it or not.. Cer- tainly she did not deny it. I must be- lieve that it was true. But there was one part that she did not read. It was .wards, in a different connection I the part in which he told her where don't think the two things are the the diamonds were. I think she did'same. Besides, he hints that he is not read that, because she knew that being shadowed." I would prevent her from getting "By somebody in the circus .com- them, if I could_" . pang -Margaret Ryan," said Elsa. ""One moment," said Scarborough, "The circus company had only just quickly'. "How do you know that the part which she did not read contain- ed ontain ed that information? Did she tell you so?" "`No:" "Then how do you know?" "I don't know. But she blamed him," said Elsa. ""I don't think so," the young pian replied, ""He. speaks of that after - arrived, and there is no reason t suppose that he knew anything of i members. The `Danger—circus'.cabl gram came only the day before, an gave only a vague warning. I that it is obvious that there had al ready been some attempt to take th me for having left the stone jar where diamonds from him, and the expedi- t-=lid. She said that if anyone else tion he speaks of was rendered neces- had found it, she and I might make up our minds to be paupers; and that it would be my fault. She said so more than once. The last time was when we found that someone had been. watching us all the time that we spent at the Ring -Rock." Then Elsa went on to explain that when they were drawing near to the Ring -Rock a small boat with a man in it had shot out from the opening, and that her mother bad said that if the stone jar was not where Elsa had hidden it, the man must be pursued. Afterwards, in the excitement of what followed, they had both forgotten about this man, and they sailed away from the Rock without thinking of him again. However, when they "'"were about half a mile away from it. they saw him climb down its outer flanks and get into his boat. He had , and Searboroug t recognize, that mealtt every word of 4.e>!' de.. ,t; a.atioli td tester() her ire of tl? t ie girl whom her father a rob was due to a .s tupa pride in doing tze thing }}i'hdel set ught to be right.. Pres6ntly she as tg ; "" ee :Margaret Ryan ever explained what the mysterious basi less was whloh kept her from performing in the circus the night my father died? It must have been something more im- portant than a simple bicycle ride. Hes she said what it was?"" "She refuses to do so•."; "Well, then?" said Elsa. Scarborough shook his head. "You. are wrong," he said. "Will you come with me to see her? I am off duty for the rest of the day. Will you ride to Ponta Delgada with me :low?" "What shall we gain by seeing her ?" "Perhaps she will tell us what we want to know." "Very well. 1 .will come." Scarborough had a double motive in making this suggestion. In the first place he thought that if Margaret Ryan knew that they were working in her interests, she might be more ready to help them. She had refused before, but that was because she re- sented the implied suspicion which she thought that her questioner felt. Differently approached, she might be willing to say what she knew; and Scarborough had seen signs, in the last interview he had had with • her that her attitude towards himself had changed. He remembered too that she had said that she liked Elsa, in spite of the scorn with which Elsa had. treated her; and she had even wished him . God speed in his wooing. His second reason was that he re- membered that when in the beginning he had himself felt inclined to sus pect, Varney had angrily declared that the best cure for that folly was . to know the girl herself. Varney had in- troduced him, and the cure had been complete. , Perhaps in Elsa's case too a fuller acquaintance with the girl whom she suspeeted would be the best means of killing the suspicion. Val B. Montague had taken a house in Ponta Delgada forthe use of his troupe ntntil the Sea -Horse should be ready for them agein. Scarborough and Elsa went there, and asked'for o Mona de la Mar. is ! She received them graciously, and e lthough. Elsa responded to her ad- d i vances coldly, she refused to see that thin she was snubbed. Scarborough told - her shortly what had happened, ex - e sary by that attempt. The thing which we have as yet no clue to is the object of that expedition." "Surely to hide the diamonds," said Elsa. "He might have done that near home, without endangering his life by making a .tremendous physical effort. It seems to me that he went to meet someone. For what reason, we don't know; but it may have been to ar- range a compromise, or even to pay blackmail for immunity in the future. The key to the riddle may, as you sug- gest, be the idenity of the hooded wo- man." Elsa said nothing' for a moment. Then she looked gravely at the young man, and said: "I believe the hooded woman .was Margaret Ryan." Scarborough turned to her with a evidently waited till they were inside, I stare of genuine surprise. So this was why she said that Margaret Ryan had still to prove that her 'hands were clean of blood! "You believe that?" he asked. "Yes," said Elsa, "I think I can prove to you that you are wrong," said Scarborough, quietly; "I know that the place where she met and had then returned, landed on the outside, and climbed up to a point from which he could watch them. The day 'vas calm, and the movement of water against the flanks of the rock was less than usual; but even so there was a constant noise of break- ing water. It was hardly likely that he could hear as well as see. (your father—met him accidentally, I "Do you know who he was?" asked believe teas ten miles from the place Scarborough. "No. I thought that most probably he was a chance visitor, who was im- pelled by no motive more unexplain- sant Elsa. ".A.nd you think that be- cause she says she was bicycling in the Furnas district, it is impossible that she should„ a couple of hours lat- er, be masquerading in capote and capello near the Sasa Davis and the Calclaeir de Morte. Why it is impos- sible? I believe that it is a fact. I think that she was the last person who spoke to my father in life, and I do not acquit her of responsibility in his death. He died of over -excitement or over-exertion. How do we know that it was not the excitement of his interview with her which killed him? If the diamonds can be found, I mean that she shall have them; but that does not mean that I believe for a moment what she says." "Will you tell me what it does mean?" "Merely, as I told you before, that since I cannot prove that my father was innocent, I will de all that I can to atone for his guilt, by giving back where I can:' : I used to take pride in the thought that one day I should help him to clear his name from every stain, I cannot do that now, --but though I loved him --perhaps . because I loved hind -I shall take pride in try- ing to reverse the evil that he dd.," She said this with an earnestness Which was almost fierce in its inters where Mr. Davis saw the hooded wo- man following him." "You have only her word for that," w"1;1i• Of Guile YO/l1 Need ,1 T '' a Ice Cream comes out of the freezer with a volvety smoothness—end a now dollcioucness—when it is made with BENSON'S. And It is' pretty hard to ask for any- thing more de£ictous than a Chocolate Blare Mange or Cream Custard with Fruit, made of Benson's Corn Starch. Our now Recipe Book "Desserts and Candies" tells how and how much to use. write for a cony to our Montreal Off Ice... -and besare to tell your grocer to send BENSON 5, the standby in Canada for more titan half a century. THE CANADA STARCH CO, LIMITED Alb N"rntee, CARDINAL, OaANTPOaD, 216 roar wtLLIANI. eanireigreaVOISW plained that they were now working. for her, and again put his question. about her business on that night. have given up all thought of re- covering what was stolen from r^-" she told him. "Even if you could of- fer, me those diamonds to -day, 1 am not sure. that I would take them." Elsa smiled faintly), ..and ;Scarbor- ough said: "Then you still refuse to help us?" "No. If it will help you to know what my business was, I will tell you. I would have told you at first, if I hadn't thought that you suspected nee of complicity in Mr. Carrington's death. My business was with a man who had written to me that he could recover my property for me, and would do so if I : agreed to the terms which, he would propose. He asked for an interview." "You gave it hien?" cried Elsa. "Yes." ..And afterwards ?" "Afterwards I went for, a bicycle ride, and met your father," (To be continued.) INDIA'S 19,000 CASTES. Most of Them Belong to Three Great Groups. Pour years ago up in the northwest of India, a child belonging to a Brah- min family fell into a well, relates the World Outlook. All the men of the family were away, and the wo- men were helples. The servant known as the sweeper—a very low caste man—offered to climb down the well and rescue the child. Itis suggestion was regarded by the wo- men as scandalous, forhis touch would have defiled the drinking wa- ter of the household and also the drowning boy. Hence " the little fellow was leftin the well, to be fished out dead seine time later by the clean hands of a Brahmin. Rather death than defilement from the touch of an "untouchable!" At present there are upwards of 19,000 castes and subeastes in India, most of them belonging to one of the three great groups known as Brah- mins, Shudras and Outcasts. Indi- viduals belonging to the latter of these groups are considered so im- pure in nature that to touch them brings defilement—hence their com- mon designation, "the untouchables." The higher oasbes, though relatively tolerant of each other, must not dine together nor intermarry en pain of a social persecution which, for most individuals, is almost unendurable. The range of shrapnel is' very ranch grater than that of la shot -gun, lc Su is.pacli eci by automatic machin. ery i strong White cotton bags and cartons at the refinery. This is far safer and more sanitary than sugar packed by hand in a weak paper bag which: breaks at a touch. No hand touches LANTIC SUGAR until you open it your- self. just cut off the corner of the carton and pour out the sugar as you need it. 2 and 5 -Ib Cartons 10 and 20 -Ib Bags "The All -Purpose Suga 99 7 ar Pure ane Extra Gran enlivented tra Quake)' ,iuiR t 2 i".t�YvM'i; os+ 't'e'xt ain'41a ,'1. "COUGHING S ment? Did you ever notice that if one person coughs a lot of others do, ft and that the amount of coughing in NT 79 a public place depends not on con- ditions of throat and lungs, but upon habit, tradition and usage ? SHOULD BE AVOIDED, SAYS ' A NOTED DOCTTR. Y --- Sneezing and Picking of Teeth Un- warranted Pieces of Self - Indulgence. Dr. Woods Hutchinson, the widely known American popularizer of medi- cal knowledge, wants people to stop coughing, whether they have colds or not, He says that the sanitariums -for tuberculosis have been able to "educate coughing almost out of ex- istence, so that visitors frequently comment on how seldom they hear one of the patients cough." A large share of the credit of this change, he says, is due to the gentle and persuasive training and the good ex- ample of the other patients. Cough- ing does the consumptive no good whatever, and does him much harm by exhausting his strength, breaking his sleep and increasing the danger of ulceration. If the habit can be stopped among the tubercular it is immeasurably more inexcusable among those who can complain of only an ordinary cold. Try Not To Cough. If you have never tried it, the next time you are tempted to cough In clear your throat, see how well you can get along without doing so, and after a little practice you will find your control complete. Coughing is for the most part .a nervous habit, due to a tickling in the throat brought on by previous coughing, and also by a sort of unconscious imitation. Did you ever notice in a threatre or other place of entertainment that no- body coughs in a highly dramatic or otherwise especially interesting mo - Annoyed Billy Sunday. The despatches relate that Billy Sunday expressed himself as decided - 1 ly annoyed with his auditors at Syra- cuse recently because they coughed so much. He was entirely justified in this. This coughing was unneces- sary. It may have reflected a languid attitude on their part which they would not have experienced had he made the occasion one of great theat- rical stimulus. But beyond that they had no excuse for' disturbing him— except a had habit. A Boston physician tells the story of a patient riding with him one day who coughed and cleared his throat incessantly. As the young man had been learning to run a motor car, the physician offered him a chance ate take, the wheel. So intent was the beginner on his new job that for half an hour not one sign of a cough or throat clearing' occurred. When at last a light rumbling appeared the physician remarked :• "You must feel that you are now familiar with the machine," and when the young man asked why, the physician answered by alluding to the resumption of something that only bore evidence of a mind not .fully employed. Much the same thing is true of sneezing. If it could become recog- nized that to cough and to sneeze were each alike an unwarranted piece of self-indulgence, both as much un- der the control of the doer as the I -picking of his teeth—an equally dis- agreeable habit—we should not only get along without coughing or sneez- ing, but we would take a long step toward arresting the spread of winter maladies. 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Paris green kills quicker than arsenate of lead but the latter ad- heres better than Paris green, hence a mixture of both in the proportion of eight ounces of Paris green and one and a half pounds of arsenate of lead to 40 gallons of water will kill quickly and adhere well to the foliage The poisons mentioned will, to some extent, check the cucumber Ilea beetle, but in addition to them, a better pre- ventive is a covering of Bordeaux mixture, on the foliage. The Bordeaux mixture should also he used to con- trol the early and late blights of potatoes, the latter disease causing rot. These are two of the common- est diseases. To control the early and late blight of potatoes 'spraying with Bordeaux mixture should .be begun before the disease appears and the plants kept covered. until autumn. It is safer to start) spraying with Bordeaux mix- ture when spraying for the potato bee- tles. The poison of the latter may be mixed with the Bordeaux. From three to four sprayings or more will be re- quired, the number depending on the weather. Taking the average of three years, the increase of yield from spraying with Bordeaux mixture was at the rate of 94 bushels an acre. In some years it is much larger. The importance of keeping plants growing as late as possible is well il- lustrated in an experiment where the total crop of marketable potatoes, per acre when dug on September lst was 234 bushels per acre, whereas in the same field the same variety yield- ed 353 bushels marketable potatoes per acre when left undug until Sep- tember 22nd, or in three weeks the crops had increased by 119 bushels per acre of marketable potatoes. Bordeaux mixture is made in the pro- portion of six pounds bluestone, four pounds lime and 40 gallons of wets-•. Spraying mixtures should be used at the proper time and thoroughly, if good results are to be expected.—W. T. Macoun, Dominion Horticulturist, Ottawa. Separator Milk For Calves. In writing of his experience in calf rearing and the value• of separator skim -mills as calf food, in the "Jersey Bulletin,” Prof. T. L. Hawker of the Minnesota experiment station says: I have made calf rearing my busi- ness for over twenty years, and dur- ing the last fifteen have placed my reliance on skim -milk. For growing calves I consider separator skim -milk at least equal to whole milk, though calves will not lay on as much fat as they will when whole milk is fed; but they will make as good growth and be as thrifty on skim -milk. There is nothing in butter fat that a calf can use in building body tissue. Butter and body fat, and nutriment for this purpose can be supplied more cheaply with flax meal, which contains from 30 to 36 per cent. oil. My system of feeding is very uni- form. When the calf Is dropped I let it suck once and then remove it from the dam. If it is removed in the morning I give it no feed until the following morning. I give from three or four pints of its mother's milk twice a day, immediately after milking the dam. A small calf gets three pints and a large calf four pints. This I continue for about one week. Then foe one week I give it whole milk half and skim -milk half twice a day, giving it only from three to four pints. The third week I feed all separated skim -milk, but put in the milk a teaspoonful of ground flax. I gradually increase the skim -milk and flax meal so that, by the end of the .. fourth month, it is receiving a heap- ing tablespoonful of flax meal and ten pints of milk twice a day. After the first month it has access to a little early -cut hay and a little whole oats, or a mixture of whole oats and bran or shorts. The important points are strict re- gularity in time of feeding, quantity and temperature of milk, which should be from 98 to 100 degrees F. From the first of Jane the skim -milk should be pasteurized so it will not get sour., It hals been the general opinion among farmers that separator shim- milk was not strong or nutritious feed and that a large mess must be given to make up in quantity what they supposed it lacked in quality, and the result was that calves were over- fed and indigestion was produced, which was followed by scours and bloat. Truth is mighty ----and mighty in- convenient for some people.