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Zurich Herald, 1933-05-25, Page 2P ,.41,,1-4.11,.,.%w--+r.r-...-.-.+...:-10-10.. THE... 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 TSSt.,IE Na. 20 33 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.. • 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., OR 111 EPIE Lr4 DrNfi "'resin fromha. Gardens" iso 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." Write for our opinions on Market A. E. OSLE t & CO Established 1886 •MVMEMBERS TORONTO STOCK EXCHANGE Osler Bldg., 11 Jordan St., Toronto (2) ELgin 3461