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Mystcrious Masqucradc
By J, R. WILMOT
sYNoPsa•s.
Roger Darling, dining at the Cygnet
Club in London, meets Molly Carstairs,
Who confesses that she is looking for a
secretarial position. Roger promises to
Ma her. text morning Molly is taken
In custody by a policeman who declares
she is wanted by her aunt and uncle,
kir. and Mrs. Paul silver,
CHAPTER III.
Superintendent Hetherington looked
into the amazed eyes of Molly Car-
stairs and began to wonder.
He was, as Constable Matthews hal
described hint, a kindly, fatherly man
in the middle fifties, He had perused
the newspaper clipping presented to
him by his subordinate and had lis-
tened to the constable's account of his
meeting with the girl.
The superintendent was surprised.
He was not surprised at the event. He
was surprised at the astuteness of
^unstable Matthews. The man was
undoubtedly smart. Some day, he told
himself, he must have a talk with
Matthews. The young man deserved
watching.
But the problem he was now set to
solve was a difficult one. Miss Molly
Carstairs who had entered the station
with Constable Matthews was, with-
out doubt, the same girl whose por-
trait had appeared in the morning
newspaper. There was no denying
that. Even the girl herself admitted
it. That, to Superintendent Hether-
irgtons mind was odd, distinctly odd.
For it had been suggested that Miss'
Carstairs knight be suffering from loss
of memory. That, of course, was pos-
sible.
He had had cases before of com-
plete amnesia, but in those cases the
victims had been rather queer he had
always thought. He had noted a blank
or vacant patch in the eyes. But here
this girl, who resolutely denied. that
she was missing, or that her memory
had failed her, had not such occular
peculiarity. In fact, she appeared to
be unquestionably bright and alert.
What was more odd still she remem
bsred the photograph perfectly. Now,
argued the superintendent, if she can
remember that so clearly and so posi-
tively, how is it that she denies the
remainder of the allegation?
The superintendent w'as seated at
his desk in the station office. On the
opposite side of the table sat Molly
Carstairs.
"Now, Miss Carstairs," began the
Super, "I want to get this quite clear.
You say that you are not the person
claimed in this announcement, yet you
admit that this photograph which
appears here is undeniably that of
yourself. How do you explain the
anomaly?"
"I can't explain it," said Molly. "I
only wish I could. But it must be
quite obvious to you, Superintendent,
that I'm not missing, and that my
memory is perfectly clear."
The superintendent sighed. "That's
best it," he admitted, "it's far from
ing clear to me. You say that you
ere lodging in Chelsea. Now tell me,
how long have you been at your pres-
ent address?"
Molly pondered the question for a
moment and sudden fear leapt _nto
her heart. Yet it would be futile to
disguise the truth.
"Since last Friday," intimated the
girl, fearfully, and she watched the
superintendent make a note on a pad.
"And where were you staying be-
rme that?"
"I was staying in Bayswater with
Mrs. Rickardsen—but she won't be
able to help you. She's gone to Aus-
iralia."
"What boat did she travel by, Miss
Carstairs?"
"I—I can't tell you," faltered Molly.
'I don't know. - She was not a com-
municative woman at all."
"Then I take it there is no one who
tan identify you beyond. Mrs. Dawlish
end her daughter in Chelsea, and you
roust see that their evidence won't
tarry much weight, seeing as you only
went there on the day you are sup-
posed to have left the Silvers in
Ilampstead."
The more Molly thought about it,
the more bewildering and inexplicable
it became. She had no friends in
London—except Roger Barling. But
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what use would Roger Bailing be? He
had only islet her last night, She need-
ed someone who knew her before..she
moved to Chelsa, and there was no
ole—no one reliable.
Meanwhile the superintendent was
beginning to convince himself, some-
what against his will, be it said, that
Miss Carstairs had, indeed, lost her
memory. Against that argument was
the fact that she 'certainly didn't look
as if she had, but there again, the
superintendent was not a recognized
authority on the subject et forgetful-
ness.
He felt that it would avail them lit-
tle to call in the police surgeon. Dr.
Trotter was better on. post 'mortem
than on mind analysis. He liked to
see what he was working on. Then
he could understand it.
"I have; of course, notified Mr. and
Mrs. Silver,' the superintendent told
her casually. "That was my duty,
and I must be guided by what they
can prove—and, naturally, they must
prove it to my satisfaction. You may
go now, Matthews," turning to the
still rigid constable.
"But I tell you 't is all some hid-
eous mistake," protested Molly. "I
have no more lost my memory than
you have, Superintendent. Merely be-
cause I am unfortunate enough not
to be able to bring anyone who can
identify me before last Friday, I am
to be ... Oh, Superintendent, what
is to become of me?"
The Superrintendent shook his grey-
ing head.
"That, Miss Carstairs, I cannot tell
you," he said, awkwardly. "You see
everything seems to suggest that you
are the young lady mentioned in the
announcement. You yourself admit
that this is your portrait, and you are
Miss Molly Carstairs. It would be
difficult to find a set of circumstances
more convincing, don't you think?"
But Molly felt herself utterly in-
capable of thought just then. She felt
the fat.lity of even trying to persu-
ade the police that a mistake had been
made. If she hadn't been so sure
about that photograph, it would have
been different. But she had recog-
nized the frock. In. that, aiid in that
alone, there was no mistake.
Try as she would she could not
bring herself to understand what the
episode could mean: It might be that
she possessed a double, but she told
herself that it would be straining coin-
cidence too far to find that that double
had the same name combinationas
h.rself.
A knock at the outer door announc-
ed a constable with the information
that Mr. and Mrs. Silver had just
arrived.
That announcement intrigued Molly.
Carstairs, their niece—the girl in the
newspaper photograph who was her-
self.
"Bring them in," intimated the
superintendent, enthusiastically. The
morning was wearing on and there
was a great deal of routine work still
waiting to be done. He had already
spent rather longer on this strange
case than he had anticipated.
The door opened againto admit two
people, behind whom towered the blue
bulk of one of the station constables.
It was the ,woman who advanced
first into the room with outstretched
arms and a cry of welcome relief on
her red lips.
Molly had risen in her chair gazing
in. astonishment at Mrs. Paul Silver—
a small, rather florid woman of fifty
or thereabouts, with a wisp of fair
hair peeping from beneath her small
blue hat.
"My dear," she cried with quite
touching fervor, "thank God they have
found you again," and before Molly
realized what had happened, she
found herself crushed to the wom•an's
heaving bosom. , '
Behind her hovered her husband --a
small, heavily -built man, rather grey.
"I am greatly indebted to you, Sup-
erintendent," he exclaimed with a note
of unmistakable gratitude in his voice.
"My wife and I have had scarcely a
wink of sleep for a week since the
girl's disappearance. At first we
thought that she had suddenly chang-
ed her plans and had decided to stay
with friends, but when we discovered
that no and had seen her our, anguish
has been, almost intolerable." .
"This young lady repudiates the
suggestion that she is any relation
either to yourself or to Mrs. Silver,
s' ," the superintendent told him. "I
t ust, of course, be quite clear on that
point." '
"It is .just as I -as we suspected,
Superintendent. Molly must have had
sudden lapse, of memory. She had
a similar lapse five years ago when
we were staying ie. Paris and I had
her treated by a Parisian specialist—
a Dr. Latouche, you have probably
heard of hint, sir. He told us that
there was nothing to worry about,
and that it was due to certain repres-
sions` in childhood."
The superintendent looked across at..
Molly and rioted how white-faced she
le ,ked, with Mrs. Silver still holding
the girls unresisting hands. Soddenly
ths girl's tongue was unleashed,
"I tei.l you, Superintendent, I. don't
lc l,,w these people. I have clever seen
them before in my life, and I demand
that you allow me to leave here at
once."
"There, my dear, you nusn't excite
yourself," purred Mrs. Silver, tighten-
ing her grip of Molly's hands. "Every-
thing
Everything will be all right soon,"
The superintendent looked squarely
into thedeep grey eyes of Paul Silver
who nodded his head sympathetically.
"My advice to you is to return with
your uncle and aunt, Miss Carstairs.
I am sure they will see that you are
well looked after, and that you will
soon be restored to health."
Molly tried to speak again, but her
tongue was parched and there was a
queer choking sensation. in her throat.
Then something snapped in her brain.
A curtain of darkness was rung down
on her consciousness.
(To be continued,)
Lloyd's Paid Huge Sum
Within A Few Hours
Within a few hours of the French
luxury liner, L'Atlantique ')lecoming
a total wreck,' Lloyd's had paid her
insured value. The total commti-
ments- of the British insurers in this
instance amounted to about two mil-
lion pounds. Lloyd's paid up with-
out turning a hair, and not one un-
derwriter or insurance company
havig "business" on the vessel was
unduly embarrassed. In the case of
such huge risks the insurance may
be in as many as a thousand hands,
for large numbers of companies re-
sponsible to Lloyd's underwriters
will accept part of the risk, and then
they themselves may part with a por-
tion of their commitment. Thus
when a call is made, the insured fig-
ure is spread through so many hands
that only comparatively small sums
have to be paid by each ,company.
Originally Llod's underwriers cov-
ered only marine insurance, but
nowadays every conceivable insur-
ance is taken — from the risk of
twins, the loss of a football club
through baC weather, to the loss to
a man's business if a royalty die. All
Lloyd's underwriters have to set
aside very substantial sums of
money as proof of their financial
stability, And it is because Lloyd's
has never let a client down, though
the risk be £10,000,000, that the
world's insurance business comes to
London. Why are underwriters so
called? It is because they write
their names under the insurance
policy, as holding the risk. Even a
motor -car Dolicy, taken out at
Lloyd's, for instance, will contain
the names of all those insurers hold-
ing the risk — the dozen or so who
share perhaps 60 per cent., and the
twenty who take the remaining 40
per 'cent..
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Aerial Cradle
A. month-old baby boy, accompan-
ied by his mother and a nurse, was
among the passengers who flew from
London to Paris in the air liner
Heracles recently.
The baby', for whom a special
ticked was issued at a reduced fare,
travelled in a cradle placed on a seat
in the saloon, ..
Little Johnny had just been to Sun-
day -school for the fir.t time. He was
given a printed text, and when he
came home he told his mother all
about it. "We sang 'All things bright
and beautiful'," he said, "and then
they gave us each a cigarette card."
The Tramp Ship
A tramp ship from the fog -bound
northern sea,
Blinding a course through sleet and
angry foam,
Swung into berth beside the shivering
quay,
That winter's dawn to bring my
lover home.
The dock -hands stirred, and cursed
themselves awake,
Mocking the grimy tramp, all bent
and torn
By murderous waves and fierce ice -
pointed flake—
And yet to 'me, whose praeers were
for that morn,
More wonderful than purple Tyrian
ships,
Of gblden galleons coming home to
Spain,
When he 'careened and comforted my
lips,
Seemed the poor hulk that gave me
him again.
—Laurence Powys.
Humorous Essay on Cows
And Their Relatives
The cow is a female quadruped
with an alto voice and a countenance
in which there is no guile. She col-
laborates with the pump in the pro-
duction of a liquid called milk, pro-
vides the filler for hash, and at last
is skinned by those she has benefited,
as mortals commonly are.
The young cow is called a calf, and
is used in the manufacture of chicken
salad.
The cow's tail is mounted aft and
has a universal joint. It is used to
disturb marauding flies and the tassel
on the end has a unique educational
value. People who milk cows and
come often in contact with the tassels
have vocabularies of peculiar and im-
pressive force.
The cow has two stomachs. The
one on the ground floor is used as a
warehouse and -has no other function.
When this one is filled the cow re-
tires to a quiet place where her ill
manners will occasion no comment
and devotes herself to belching. The
raw material thus conveyed for the
second time to the inte.lior of the face,
is pulverized and delivered to the
auxiliary stomach, where it is convert-
ed into cow.
The cow has no upper plate. All of
her teeth are parked in the lower
part of her face. This arrangement
was perfected by an efficiency expert
to keep her from gumming things up.
As a result she bites up and guns
down.
The male cow is called a bull and
is lassoed along the Colorado fought
south of the Rio Grande, and shot in
the vicinity of the City Hall.
A slice of cow is worth eight cents
in the cow, 14 cents in the hands of
the packers and 52.40 in a restaurant
specializing in atmosphere.
CASTLE IS HOLIDAY HOME.
Perth, Scotland.—The ancient and
historic Kinfauns Castle, in Perth-
shire, which dates back to the 14th
century, has been purchased as a holi-
day home by the Co-operative Holiday
Association, whose headquarters are
in Manchester.
Unbreakable milk -bottles are being
tested in America. If the result is
successful, they may soon be available
in all colors.
Wins Hammer Throw
Pete Zareinba of New York
throw event in. the Penn relay ga
with a toss of 181 feet d inches.
attended the meet."
'inniveraity who won the hammer
gal
at larankl.ill Meld, Philadelphia,
Track stars from ITamllion,. Ont.,
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EPIE Lr4 DrNfi
"'resin fromha. Gardens"
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British Process An Improvement
For Freezing Fruits and Eggs
London.—Canadian experts and re-
search workers engaged in testing the
merits and demerits of instantaneous
freezing of fruits and meats and eggs
who have reported encouraging- suc-
cesses in that line of investigation
have learnt with interest of a new
process which has been operating in
England for some time.
This particular method of preserv-
ing eggs in a• condition equal to their
new -laid form over periods ranging
from weeks to a year is known as the
"autoclave." By . this method new -
laid eggs are placed in great tanks
which are then hermetically sealed
and are afterwards filled with a mix-
ture of.carbondioxide and nitrogen
gas, which lengthy experiments have
proved prevents any deterioration of
the eggs, for almost any period.
Eggs so treated at the Chelmsford.
National Mart Egg Packing Station
and running up to $35,000,000, it is
claimed, will when taken out next De
cember, be equal in every way to the
freshest egg a hen could lay, and in
comparison with most eggs will be'
completely free from taint of any kind;
in fact they can be boiled or poached
in exactly the same way and with!
more uniform results than those nor=
malty sold as new laid.
In view of the vast areas suitable
for low-cost egg production in Canada,!
particularly in the Western'Provinces,l
the testing and establishment of a
series of stations of this kind. in Can
ada will be of interest to Canadian
farmers.
A question may be raised in the
minds of some as to the feasibility oil
such trade. The tremendous business
done here in Australian and. South Aff
rican eggs sent here under ordinary:
cold -storage conditions is just one
favorable factor.
Press -Button Farming
A farm in Connecticut is run en-
tirely by electricity. The first light
of dawn puts out the night lights.
An electric clock set going a gadget
which opens the door of thepoultry,
house. An electric "eye"- counts the
chickens. Another clock turns on a
wireless set. A bugle sounds reveille.
The farmer touches another button
and breakfast starts cooking by elec-
tricity. He then shaves with an elec-
tric razor, has breakfast, and drives
away. As his car goes down the drive
it snakes contact with a gadget 'which
flashes a red warning light to a point
800 feet away where the drive joins
the main road. It lasts for eighteen
seconds, the time it takes to get there.
Returning at night, the farmer's
headlights disturb another "eye."
Floodlights illuminate t:.e garden and
the house, and electric chimes peal out
a welcome. 'When he arrives, another
"eye" opens the doors.
Electric "eyes" outside detect and
announce visitors. In the nursery
the children play with electric dolls,
and the youngest has a muffled radio
in her pillow which plays softly until
an electric clock switches it off. The
electricity bill is 2s id a day. But
the account says nothing about milk-
ing cows, shearing sheep, feeding pigs,
collecting eggs, or mowing meadows
and hoeing turnips by electricity!
Tissue Combats Diseases
Of Children, Says' Doctor
Washington.—New results 'of treat-
ing childhood diseases by making use
of the power of mothers to transmit
immunity to their children were de-
soribed before the American Pediatric
Society.
Dr. Charles F. McKhann Jr. told
of successful efforts to prevent de -
development ohn measles in children
end encouraging results in treatment
of diphtheria, scarlet fever and in-
fantile paralysis by the use of an ex-
tract of tissue from the human body
that contains this power of immunity.
Use of the extract is based on the
discovery, already established, that
mothers often are able to transmit
to new-born children an immunity
against measles that lasts about five
months, and an eight-month immunity
against scarlet fever, diphtheria and
infantile paralysis. Just how the im-
munity works is still unknown.
Might Be W
A visitor to a seaside town was mak-
ing a tour of the district with his host.
"What de these people eat?" he
asked, indicating a number of local
loungers.,
"Fish, mostly," said his host.
priseThe visitor gave him a look of sur-
.
"But I thought fish was supposed to
be brain food," he said. "These people
are some of the moist unintelligent
specimens of humanity I've ever
seen."
"Well," returned the host, with a
shrug of his shoulders, "just think
what they would look like if they slid
not eat fish."
Teachers of Edinburgh
Enlist Mechanical Aids
Edinburgh.—Development . of film)
wireless and gramophon:a for educe)
tional purposes is the purpose o
the Scottish Educational Sight an
Sound Association, which just has
been formed under the auspices oil
Scottish teachers.
Area committees have been set up
and Dr. J, R. Peddie, Edinburgh, has
been appointed chairman of the exe•'
cutive committee. Ai
Membership is open to all inter:
ested in educational work, and the
association has set itself "to invest!
ll
gate, to promote, and to advise on
auditroy and visual aids, i.e., ea*
loguing education films; preparing
or having prepared Scottish regional
films; suggesting educationa. sub;
jects to film companies; promoting
the use of film slides; establishing
a library of regional film slides;
ploring the possibilities of correla{
tion between broadcast and film edii
cation; and using the gramophoi1
in musical education."
Famous London Register
Offices to be Moved
Two famous London register offi3
ces—Princess-row, S.W., and Henri
etta Street, Convent Garden—are
MOW to Caxton Hallt Wertininster
S.W., before the end of the year pr
Tided the Ministry of Health gives if4
approval. 1
In anticipation of this, provisional
arrangements have been made to equip,
Caxton Hall for the work. 3
The office in Princes -row has been
described as "dingy" and "inadequati
to the needs of . the district," but
nevertheless it has probably been thi
scene of more romantic weddings than
any other register office.
Last year Prince Lennart, grandson
of the ?Ping of Sweden, was married
thee to Karwin Nissvandt, daughter
of a prominent Swedish business mai:
Romances of Henrietta street hay
included the weddings of Counter
Montignoso, former wife of the Kin
of Saxony, to signor Toselli, the nusi
professor, in 1907, and Consuel
Duchess of Marlborough to CoL Jaqu"e
Balsan in 1021.
Asking For it
William, the footman, called his mas-
ter up by telephone.
"I regret to inform you, sir, that
your house is on fire," came the voice.
across the 'phone.
"What a terrible misfortune! But
my wife—is she safe?" queried. hid
master.
"Quite safe, sir; ,she got out among
the first."
"And my claughters—are they all
right?,.
1.0
"All right, sir; they wore with their
mother." '
"And what about my motherdn-law?":
"That's what I want to speak to you
about, sir. Your mother-in-law ie.
asleep on the third floor, and knowiing'
your regard for her comfort, I wasn't
sure whether 1 ought 1l disturb her or
not sil."
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