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THE
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EBONY TORSO
By J. C. Woodiwlss
CHAPTER XXIII
"Oh yes, I can explain that,"
replied Galesbourne wearily.
"You remember I told you that
Scutt got a pretty large sum out
of me by blackmail?" continued
Galesbourne.
"Um," nodded Sir Hallard.
"I imagined he was drinking it
as fast as he received it," con-
tinued the prisoner. "But after
his death, it turned out that he
was using some of it to buy stolen
property."
"Oh, he was a 'fence,' was he?"
inquired Carlingford. "Dealing in
stolen goods, eh?"
"It appears he'd advanced a
certain well-known burglar,
whose name I can't tell you for
obvious reasons: 35 quid on
very beautiful diamond which was
part of the loot taken from Lady
June Lamnore's house iu Knights-
bridge, three months ago—"
"Well, it seems Scutt was
rather worried about the dia-
mond," said the prisoner. "You
see, be bad no place to hide it in,
and eventually he got the idea
of cutting one of the screws
short that held that Yale lock on
hisdoor, and putting the stone
into a hole behind the dummy
screw, so to speak." •
"How do you know all this?"
asked Sir Hallard.
"Scutt wrote it in the account
of the diamond's hiding place,"
replied the prisoner.
"But where did the cut-off
screw disappear to—why didn't
the officers find it and above all,
where did the new screw, which
was picked up a tthe other side
of the room, come from?" museu
Hopton thoughtfully.
"I'm afraid I can't say," Gales -
bourne smiled. "I've no idea."
"Huh!" smiled Carlingford,
looking across at his brother of-
ficer triumphantly. "Bang goes
a good clue there. Another un-
explained mystery. Funny how
easy it all sounds when it's ex -
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plained. Well, and what did he
do then?"
• "He thought of an even safer
hiding place, it seems, suggested
the prisoner. "The screw -hole of.
iered certain objections, as you'll
realize; the chief snag was that
Scutt couldn't carry the door
lintel about with him, and yet he
didn't like to have the stone out
of his sight; so he used the
Ebony Torso as a hiding place.
drilled a hole in its stomach and
hid the diamond there with a
layer of black composition over
it to hide the hole. His next game
was to do the bogy -bogy stuff
hot and strong and rave about the
curse attached to the thing so
that everyone'd be scared of it
and leave it well alone."
"Not half a bad notion," Car-
lingford smiled. "That's a new
one on me."
"However, the day after his
murder, the real owner of the
stone—our friend the burglar, I
mean—turns up with the thirty-
five quid, plus the interest, and
asks for his property back again.
It seems Scutt had left a state-
ment of where the jewel was
hidden in a locked deed -box in
his kitchen, and this paper was
found by his widow, who very
fortunately for Mr. 'Burglar
Bill," decided to ask for Vicar's
advice before communicating
with the police, and brought the
whole think to me. I, of course,
put our crooked friend wise to
the fact that the police had
taken possession of the Torso,
upon which he started to make
discreet inquiries as .o where the
figure was being kept."
"I'd like to know
found out!" muttered
ford wrathfully.
"So should 1, Inspector,"
smiled the crook. "But these
little official leakages will take
place, won't they? I realized the
man was a dependable sort of
person and finally took him into
my confidence."
"That was a bit dangerous,
wasn't it?" suggested Hopton.
* r *
"It turned out all right," Gales -
bourne assured him. "Our in-
terests were bound up in each
other's. He wanted the diamond
'back and I wanted the evidence
of Scutt's murder destroyed. I
may mention here that I did the
espionage work. Having found
out that the coveted Torso was
in your safe at Lambeth Station,
we had watch kept until we saw
you leave and then my new pal,
who apparently knew the lay -out
and routine remarkably • well,
made a forcible entry, while one
of his companions kept your
clerk busy on the phone in the
character of a lady whose dog
was missing. Our plan was that
after your safe had been cracked
and niy friend had recovered
his property he was to destroy
the remaining contents with a
time bomb. We planned to catch
you on 'the element of surprise,'
Inspector," laughed Galesbourne.
"And if the Torso had been there
it'd have come off, too."
"Anyhow, he didn't get his dia-
mond," chuckled the Commis-
sioner.
"I think you can tare the pris-
oner away, officer," ordered the
Commissioner sharply. "Only I'd
like to ask one more question goes.be-
fore Why
hedidn't this
Red Dave leave footmarks in any
of his escapade. ?•'
"He used to swathe his shoes
in rolls of bandage so they left
no marks, sir," replied the pris-
oner as he rose, "Good night, Sir
Rallard, and thank you for list-
ening to me so patiently."
"Uni," grunted the' Chief
Commissioner, as he looked at his
two subordinates and slowly pol-
ished the lens of his monocle.
"That's another extraordinary
ease eleared up," and ringing his
bell, he rose to indicate the inter -
v w atln end.
e nspectors took the
hint and, wishing the Chief good
night, went down in the lift t�
ilopton's room. Carlingford was
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how he
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in a very quiet and chastened
mood as he took the chair his
brother officer pushed forward.
"You know, Hopton, I rather
feel I owe you an apology over
this case," he began in a hesitat-
ing manner. "I'm afraid I took :I
too certain a line in the begin- '�
ning stages."
"And that's the end of the
Ebony Torso case," Hopton mut-
tered
as he turned over the pile
of papers on his desk in search of
the next job.
But, strangely enough, it wasp;.,.
'not' to be the end of this singular
chain of events, for next morning
Thomas Kendall Brownlee, alias
Thomas Galesbourne, who was
under remand for the wilful mur-
der of the Reverend Francis Gal=
esbourne, was found dead in his
cell. It appeared that, foreseeing
the possibility of arrest, he had
made careful preparations to
cheat the gallows. To this end he
carried a pin wherever he went,
the point of which was prepared
with snake venom and, having
made his final statement, had con-
trived to inject himself with the
powerful poison. So died this un-
fortunate man, the victim of cir-
cumstances which were, in the
main, out of his control, and so
the chief actor in an almost in-
credible drama escape '. the pub-
licity of the Assize Court and an
ignominous death at the hands
of an outraged community.
Miss Ferrier, and Smith, who
was arrested shortly afterwards,
were duly put on trial, the former
receiving a short sentence as an
accessory after the fact, while
the latter, on account of his age,
was placed in a home for the rest
of his life.
THE END •
They Find It in Many Ap-.
parently impossible Places
Geologists, accompaUying Allied
troops to many parts of the globe
are making water . gush from
rocks. They have found water in
hundreds of seeaningly unthink-
able spots.
Exact locations of these places
are a military secret but from
Attu in the Aleutians to the Solo -
mous and in Africa and the Near
East, the geologists have pro-
duced results that seem like ant.r•
acles to the water -conscious men
of the armed forces. •
One geologist has just returned
to the United States from the
South Pacific where he. delivered
water on the spot to American
soldiers and Marines fighting• the
foe from foxholes and behind trees
in jungles.
The geologists have found wa-
ter fit for drinking in gravel near
streams, in volcanic cinder cones
or formations which may be lo-
cated from -the air, and in so-
called "water lenses" in. the peat
swamps.
When the invasion of North Af-
rica took place, geologists went
ashore with the first landing
troops As the troops unloosed
their .machine guns, these modern
Gunga Dins went into action with
drills and pumps.
Troops are supplied with puri -
Xing tablets that make any water
fit to drink but the first problem
is to get the water.
In Sicily there wasn't enough
water at first to supply the,
civilian population plus two arm-
ies, so transport planes flying In
to evacuate the wounded were
loaded with water cans.
Churchill Escaped
Bomb In 1940 Blitz
Premier Winston Churchill
missed death by inches when a
Nazi bomb demolished the Treas-
ury building next door to 10
Downing Street, killing 12 peo-
ple and smashing part of the
Churchill residence.
The story was never published
in Britain but it was told in Que-
bec last week by an official close-
ly connected with the incident.
One evening in November,
1940, during the German blitz
on London, Mr. Churchill, Bren-
dan Bracken, British Information
Minister, and Air .Secretary Sir
Archibald Sinclair were in the
dining room at 10 Downing
Street, the Prime Minister's home.
A bomb fell on the Treasury
building, demolishing that struc-
ture, .The explosion blasted out
the kitchen wall in the' Churchill
home.
None of the British Cabinet
ministers had gone to the bomb
shelters. Two domestics in the
establishment were ordered to go
but refused flatly because "Mr.
Churchill needs his dinner," the
informant said.
And so the dinner continued.
"The cook served Welsh rarebit."
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1 tablespoon melted butter lh cup A11-13ran
i% cup sifted flour JA cup chopped nutmeats
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bakiny powder and salt together. Crush All -Bran into fine crumbs,
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Peaches and Cream
Who is there who does not
look for the first "Peaches and
Cream"? By the time this reaches
you, that period of the peaches
will be over and you will be look-
ing for new recipes. Do not be
too discouraged about the prices
at first for they tell us after the
canners are through there will
still be peaches for the extra
things if the pickers stay on the
job.
Of course, served with cream
and sugar, peaches that are per-
fectly ripe and richly flavored
are fit for a king. Fresh peach
pie and shortcake are treats that
everyone looks forward to each
year.
PEACH PIE
8 or 10 perfectly ripe peaches
3 eggs
1 cup sugar
% cup flour
3 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons lard
lh teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons ice or chilled water
Scald the peaches, slip off the
skins. and cut in halves. Sift salt
with flour and work in lard and
shortening with pastry blender.
Add water a few drops at a
time, Shape into a round, flat
cake and roll on a lightly floured
board into a sheet. Fit into a
nine -inch pie dish which has been
well greased. Pink edges and
fill with peach halves, cut side
up. Beat eggs antil light with
sugar and pour over peaches.
Bake in a hot oven for 10 min-
utes -425 degrees — then ,;educe
heat until peaches are tender,
about 30 minutes longer. .
PEACH SHORTCAKE
About 8 or 10 peaches
2 cups .sifted cake flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
5 tablespoons butter or other
shortening
% cup milk
Peel and slice the peaches and
sprinkle with sugar. Cover and
let stand while malting and bak-
ing shortcake.
Sift the flout once, and mea-
sure and add the baking powder
and salt. Sift again into the
mixing bowl. Cut, in the shorten-
ing with the pastry blender. Add
milk, cutting it in with a broad -
bladed knife. Turn onto a slight-
ly floured board and knead very
lightly with the tips of the fin-
gers, which must be well floured.
Divide dough into halves and roll
gently into two rounds not more
than '/z inch thick. Fit one round,
into a well -greased pan . (layer -
cake) and brush with softened
butter. Put -remaining dough on
top and place in 'hot oven for 20
minutes. Reserve some peaches
for garnish. Spread bottom half
with butter and half of the fruit.
Put on the top, crust down.
Spread with butter and remain-
ing peaches. If you have it!—
garnish
t!garnish with whipped cream or
serve with cream and sugar.
Miss Chambers welconss.s personal
letters from interested readers. She
is pleased to receive suggestions;
on topics for her column, and Is
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