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Mystcrious Masquerade
SYNOPSIS.
At a London dance club Molly • Car-
stairs, a pretty unemployed secrotarY,
meets Roger Barling, who promises to
get her a job. The following morning
Holly is stopped by a policeman who
takes her to the police station, showing
her a newspaper cutting announcing that
B. Molly Carstairs is :Hissing from her
home. At the police station Molly meets
Mr. and Mrs. Silver of Hampstead, who
profess to bo her uncle and aunt. They
persuade Molly to accompany them
home. Molly is treated with the greatest
of kindness, hut is neverth• ass a pris-
oner. She is presented with a new even-
ing frock and.that evening meets a num-
ber of guests who are a somewhat railed
Mt. Roger Barling is puzzled at her
disappearance.
CHAPTER IX. (Cont'd.)
Roger preferred London to Paris or
even Berlin, which was surprising
because he was not a great "mixer."
He chase his friends with the same
discretion with which he chose his
clothes and as he was frequently the
despair of bis tailors by reason of the
fact that he persisted in clinging to
old clothes far longer than the dic-
tates of presumed good taste permit-
ted, it will be seen that his friends
were few but nevertheless worth re-
taining.
It was inevitable, perhaps, that
with a young man like Roger Baaling
.there should have been one or two
women in his life, but they had not
remained long. Roger saw to that,
and since their debut within the circle
of his consciousness and activity was
due solely to the despairing efforts of
his sister, Lady Gwen Torringdean,
Boger had informed her in language
more forceful than polite that he re-
sented being shown to her girl friends
as if he were a bargain in the sale
basement waiting to be snatched up.
"If you do regard Hie like that," he
had told her on a memorable occasion,
"you can mention that I am a piece
of the Royal regalia in the Tower of
London and then, perhaps, they will
realize that my position is unassail-
able."
But during the past few days Roger
Barling's unassailability had under-
rate a change, and that change dated
axactly from the night he had danced
with an unknown girl named Molly
Carstairs at the Cygnet Club. Had he
been able to state in understandable
terms why he had been more attracted
to her than he had to the girls Lady
Gwen had posed before or
him,
he
could
ld
not have answered: And perhaps that
Is why it frequently stated that love
Is an enigma—a quality that cannot
be reduced to a common denominator.
The girl had certainly attracted
him. Many a time he had recalled her
• eyes; the curve of her lips as she had
smiled; her occasional but quite un-
willing self-consciousness.. Yes, there
had been something about her that
had appealed to him. And she had
been worried frightfully worried.
She had wanted a job and wanted ane
urgently. And he, soft-hearted fool
that he had been,- had promised to
help her.,
He had got Rex Willington to take
her on in his office. A topping good
sort, Rex was. Always glad to do a
chap a good turn whenever he could.
He had gone straight away, to her
Lodging, and when he did not find her
there he had left a note which, he
presumed, she must have received. But
the hadn't turned up at Willington's
office. Rex had 'phoned him that no
one had been there for three days—
teastways no girl looking for a job,
and Roger was disappointed. He felt
that for the first time hi his life his
judgment had been at fault. He had
thought that she was really in earn. -
est. He could have sworn to that. No
girl, he had persuaded himself many
tines during the past forty-eight
hours, could possibly have acted the
"pathetic stuff" so cleverly as to de-
ceive'him. In short he felt that he
had been let down—badly.
.As he sat in his dressing gown in a
deep reclining chair before the fire in.
his apartment, he was reviewing .the
tituatioe all over again. trying to find
n'new angle, which is another way of
saying that he sought a new explana-
tion for the girl's conduct. •
One thing was certain. He wasn't
going trapsing down to Chelsea again
e$i n if it might satisfy his curiosity.
He had written to her on the assump-
lion that she would go down to Will -
j gton for 'the job he had promised
• t`o find her. He certainly was not go
-(iigg to run after her whatever she
)plight think to the contrary. He had
done his part of the deal; now it was
pp to her to make the next move.
me? I don't mean by post --by hand,
perhaps."
Cleveland laid down the silver but-
ter dish with as nnich reverence as
he would, in other circumstances,
have accorded a chalice.
"I am quite certain, Mr. Roger,
that you have received everything
that has been handed in here. May
I hope that there is nothing seriously
amiss?" '
"If that is your hope; Cleveland, I
should hate to shatter it, but I .am
afraid there is something amiss as
you so aptly terns it, and that which
is amiss is a Miss," he smiled, bright-
ly. "But perhaps. I shouldn't tease
you with my subtleties, Cleveland. I
have heard it said that a Miss is as
good as a mile. Perhaps she is, but
I must confess that the track does not
appeal to me."
Not a muscle of Cleveland's face
moved. "I regret, Mr. Roger, that
there is something amiss, but if you
will pardon me, sir, I had suspected
it. Yes, sir, I had suspected it"
"Good Lord, Cleveland, surely it
hasn't been obvious --to you?"
The factotum shook his head sadly.
"Yes, Mr. Roger, I'm afraid it has
been obvious even to me. It was
Tuesday, sir—or maybe Wednesday,
that I first noticed it. You were
singing in your bath, and my experi-
ence has always been that when.
gentlemen sing in their baths there's
always a woman in it."
Roger swung around in his chair
with horror in his eyes.
"In the bath, Cleveland? Really,
Cleveland,and your references were
absolutely impeccable. What sort of
people must you have been with be-
fore I found you? Cleveland, I am
s:iocked—shocked almost beyond be-
lief." -
"What I meant, sir," broke out the
agitated. Cleveland, "was that there
was a woman in the case, sir. Cer-
tainly not in the bath. I really don't
know how you could ..."
"What's she doing in a case, Cleve-
land? You're going now from the
romantic to the inurderous. What was
she doing in a case? Had they done
her in, or was it just a game they
were playing? I'd really no idea you
had valeted people who did things like
that. Was the Countess of Giencarme
given to holding homicide parties?"
"I fear you are deliberately mis-
understanding me, Mr. Roger, but I
am glad of it—very glad indeed. It
tells me you are recovering. If I.
might venture an opinion, sir, no wo-
man is worth it."
"Really, Cleveland, this is most in-
teresting. You deduce, I take it, that
because I sang in my bath on Tues-
day morning that I was in love with
a woman, and that because you failed
to hear the liquid notes this morning
that something had happened. Have
I got that right?"
"That had been my impression, Mr.
Roger." •
"And wereyou basing your judg-
ment on past experience or may I take
it to be due to the influence of the
talkies?"
"I much prefer the theatre, sir."
"Ah! Then it must be from experi=
ence, because the Lord Chamberlain
would never permit a stage play in
which a young roan was seen singing
in his bath. What about a biography
'The Private Life of William Cleve-
land'? I bet that would make the pub-
lic sit up and take notice. 'Things I
Have Heard Behind Bathroom Doors.'
Cleveland I'm afraid you're wasting
your time here. There's a great fu-
ture awaiting you in literature."
Cleveland looked manifestly con-
fused. He gathered up ,the butterdish
and reached for the tray. Then he
forced a grim smile. "Yes, Mr. Ro-
ger," he said, "I am. afraid I am
wasting time."
Roger Barling laughed. Cleveland
was a priceless treasure. Reflecting
on. Cleveland's utter lack of a sense
of humor, Roger once again felt that
nioden ecclesiastic had missed a mi-
nor prophet.
Almost before' Cleveland had com-
pleted his table duties, however, and
certainly before Roger Barling had
decided to complete his dressing, there
came a ring at the front doorbell.
A moment later Cleveland announc-
ed the arrival of Mr. Gerry Fosdyke.
"Hello, Roger, old thing, not dress-
ed yet? You're a lucky blighter.
Thought I'd drop in on my way down
to tell you the news."
"What's happened? Someone paid
your debts?" laughed Roger, passing
over his cigarette case.
"Not yet, but while there's a debt
there's a hope. As a matter of fact
I waa;,up at the Silvers last night
and what do .you think? Old Pa Silver
got a girl up there—the sunningest
child you ever flicked an eyelid over.
As Percy B. remarked '0', boy, did
you seeher eyes.' It's his niece just
fresh.from Paris."
"Who's niece, Percy''s?" asked Ro-
ger, ingeniously. "I always thought
he was entirely without relations."
"No. Silver's. Name of Molly---
1Vlclly something or other."
"Molly!" exclaimed Roger, so quick-
ly that Gerald Fosdyke regarded him
wvith surprise,
Just at that moment Cleveland en-
tered to clear away the breakfast
dishes. He was a tall, ascetic -looking
- isian of fifty or thereabouts with a
high forehead and a long nose. to -
•r always considered he would have
added dignity and distinction to any
pipit in the land. Ilia figure and his
general demeanor were quite definity=
ecclesiastical. Given the opportun-
In early life he might by now
asily have become a bishop. Which
thought well fitted Roger's one 'great
Ionviction; of our social life that moat
pen and women might have been very
iiffexent beings had they been given
the right tort of opportunity.
"You are tjulte sure, Clevelarfd, that
no one has called with a letter for
An
Eventful Life Pedestrians Given
Her mother is worth millions,
her father was once secretary at
United States' legation in Rome,
she was educated abroad—no'w
she's a prisoner at Los Angeles
jail, charged with. housebreaking;
That's the story of Georgians,
Moore.
"That's the name, old son. But did
you know that Silver had le. niece?"
Roger shook his head. "No," he
said, quietly, "it was just the name
that sounded familiar." ,
"Not such an unusual name, old
man, but you really must trot along
and see her."
"Perhaps I shall, one night," Roger
conceded, "but of course it can't be,"
he mused.
"Can't be what?" demanded Fos-
dyke puzzled.
"Oh, nothing," smiled Roger. "I
was just thinking, that's all."
(To be continued.)
Country Window
This is a country window, wreathed
with vines.
The wooden shutters you may . open
or close,
Fling them wide to greet the sun in
the morning;
Draw them against the heat of the day
and doze,
While the sun lays ladders of gold on
the bedroom floor,
And airs of summer slip thiougl'i'the
half -swung door.
Then when the sun is Iow, admitickhe
light,
For the dew is sweet and so is the
cool of night.
But draw the slats against the mutter-
ing thunder,
The lightning's dagger, and the aching
wonder
Of moonlight; seal your shutters to
the sleet,
To direct cold, to panting breaths of
heat,
So will they serve you, - 'spread or
locked together
Against,the glare, the unfriendliness
of weather.
—Marie Bilchrist in the New York
Sun.
.
Regular services of motor -omni-
buses are run on certain routes across
the Sahara Desert.
•
Rules for Safety
Average Klan Inclined to
Measure in Terms of Dis-
tance Instead of Time
Critics of titan's traffic conduct are
convinced that the Iranian: eye is not
being used to the best advantage from
the standpoint of safety.
Their point is that the sense of
sigbt could make a larger contribu-
tion to sate walking and driving if
the knowledge it tr'ansnlitted to the
brain were used more wisely,
Pedestrians, it seems; are the great-
est offenders in this respect, but mo-
torists by no means escape driticism.
Sam ryl,,}?Dllman in his Feature
'Service (Wasliln`gt
An analysis of thy. trian's fail-
ure indicates one outstare , I
thinking. It is his tendency , , sti-
mate the danger presented by ae =p-
proaching automobile in terms of ,is-
tanee. This habit of mind, a heritage
of the days when traffic moved at a
slower speed, was all right at one
time. Traffic moves at a greater speed
these days, however, and it calls for
a readjustment of the thinking pro-
cess.
Instead of the distance yardstick in
measuring the potential clanger of an
approaching automobile, itt is suggest-
ed that the pedestrian start thinking
in terms of time; in terms of seconds
instead of feet.
He can not entirely divorce the two,
t• , e sur or the time will be de
to u: t ` ' some extent by the dis-
tance • e car must travel before ,it
reaches him. 'Yet to make distance
the only consideration is to overlook
the tremendously important fact that
cars move at speeds which vary from
one to seventy-five miles an hour,.
Just how important it is for the
pedestrian to .think in terms of car.
speeds can be shown with a few
simple figures. The average fast
walker covers about four feet per sec-
ond. If the car 200 feet away, and
whose path he must cross, is moving
at twenty miles an hour, the pedes-
trian can cover the distance of twenty-
six feet before the . vehicle comes
abreast of the line upon which he is
walking.
Suppose, however, the car is travel-
ing at a xate" of thirty m
iles
an hour?
In that case the pedestrian will be able
to progress only seventeen feet before
the car reaches his line of passage.
The distance away of each car. is
precisely the same, but in point of
time, the car moving at thirty miles
an hour is one-third again as close as
the one proceeding at a twenty -mile
rate. 'In. seconds, the first -mentioned
vehicle is hour and one-third away,
as cdmpared with the six . and one-
half of the slower machine. The fig-
ures indicate quite emphatically the
importance of estimating a car's speed
as well as calculating the distance it
must traverse. To quote again:
Admittedly, this suggested task set
for the pedestrian is not a simple one!
It is no easy matter to determine the
speed of an approaching 'automobile
from a position almost III front of it,
for the vehicle can not be seen in its
relationship to fixed objects which it
passes in its forward flight. Yet by
striving to make such calculations, it
is believed that any person can acquire
reasonable accuracy in doing so.
If pedestrians were to think in
terms of time as well as distance in
fixing their relationship to potential
hazards, their thought processes
would bear a closer kinship to those
of vehicle operators. While he is by
Hollywood's Latest Blonde
Pretty ii.aquel Torres decided her pet chow dog was tired of be ng
a red -Bead so had her pet touched up ata dog
first the movie canal has ever sten.
beauty 'salon, It';s the
Infuse six 'heaping teaspoonfuls.
of "SAP ADA" Black Tea in
a pint sized lea -pot. After six
'minutes strain and pour liquid
into half -gallon ;container.
While hot, add a .cup and a
half of sugar and the juice of
two lemons; then fill container
with cold .water..: Do not re-
frigerateas lea will turn cloudy.
Serve as required, with an ice
cube in each glass.
'Fresh the gardens"
no means perfect at calculating its
effect, the motorist always is instinct-
ively aware of the factor of speed in
the distance between himself and the
object ahead, for which he must stop
or alter his course.
However, when he steps out of his
car, his mental processes become typi-
cally those of the pedestrian. What
evidence is available on the subject
indicates that he makes no use what-
ever
hatever of his experience behind the
wheel of his car, at least with respect
to . considering the speed of approach-
ing vehicles. '
There is no implication that the
responsibility is entirely the pedes-
trian's in the suggestion that he use
his eyes to better advantage in mov-
ing safely through traffic. The mo-
torist still has the same obligations
ha always has had. - However, the
proposal would find the two thinking
more alike, and that holds Promise
of helping an unhappy situation.
Man Kept Rive
After Heart Failed
•
,Kept Alive by Doctors Fortyl
eight Hours to Communi-
cate with Son
Milwaukee, Wis.—The strange stor
of a man literally "raised from th
dead" and kept alive after his hear
had failed so he might tell his son
confidential matter of great import"
once was revealed last week at th
American Medical Association meet
ing.
His heart was kept beating artificial•
ly for two days by a machine known ag
the "artificial pace -maker," develope
last year far re -starting heart beat`,
stopped by shock or other means.
The man knew he was dying an
urged his doctors to keep him alio
until arrival
of his son, who
had bee
Y,
summoned from an Francisco, an
Spain Still Favors was hurrying to New York. A fent
2 -Hour Luncheon
Even Tobacco Shops Close
For Two Hours in Mid-
dle of Day
The new regime in Spain has `made
the afternoon siesta apply so widely
that even the tobacco shops now close
for two hours in the middle of the day,
Madrid in the after -luncheon hour is
like the famous "Deserted Village," for
the hour is the most elastic in Europe,
lasting never less than two hours and
more often three or four.
Most business houses open between
9 a.m. and 10 a.m., and close down for
at least three hours in summer, gen-
erally from 1.30 p.m. to 4.30 p.m. But
Spain being what it is, that does not
mean that the employees . get back at
4.30. They generally arrive about 4.40
and give themselves a few minutes to
get really going. And closing time
conies at 8 p.m.
Food stores open from 8.30 a.m.' to
1.30 p.m. and then take four hours for
luncheon and the afternoon siesta.
They re -open at 5.30 p.m. and close at
8.30. p,m.
Government employees, who make
up a large part of Madrid's population,
have their working hours arranged so
that the habit of taking an afternoon
nap is not interferred with. Officially,
they are suposed to work from 8 a.m.
to 2 p.m., but in the Ministry of Fin-
ance, the strictest of all, the hours are
9 a.m. to .2 p.m. The Ministry of Ag-
riculture's hours are from 10 to 2.
In inan.y other offices the general
run of employees begin their working
hours about 11 a.m. They usually
start with a leisurely perusal of the
morning newspaper.
Towards 1.30 p.m.' they begin look-
ing for their hats and preparing for
the luncheon appetizer. The rest of
the day is free, except in a very limit-
ed dumber of cases.
Many Government employees, after
having done their day's "work" from
11 to 1.80, go to outside jobs during
at, late hours of the flay. A .large per-
centage of newspaper: employees are
in Government offices in the mornings.
Life in Madrid is virtually at a stand-
still from 1.30 p.m. to 4.30 p.m., so
there is plenty :of time for everybody
to go home to lunch, have a. Siesta, lin-
ger over a drink and a cup of coffee in
a cafe, t.nd still be back in time for
work. From noon to 3 p.m. is, in fact,
known as "midday." '
And, in Spain, there. is always an-
other day to -morrow.
Seeks to Popularize Tea
London.—The Indian Tea Associa-
tion is making efforts to increase the
sale of tea in different parts of the
world. It will spend x£40,000 in India
alone, for India uses very little of the
•tea grown within its own borders,
Unlike the Chinese, very few Iiitlians
are tea drinkers, and the proper use
of it is limited to those who are Euro-
peaalzed.
minutes afterward his heart apparent
ly stopped 'beating, said Dr. E. Fritze
of Beth David Hospital, New York;
who told the story. The pacemaker
which works by a needle inserted int
the right auricle of the heart throng
the chest, was brought intoplay.an
he was "brought back to life."
The pace -maker was kept in opera/
tion until the son arrived, and the sicl(
man was enabled to give him the int
formation he desired.
The pacemaker stimulates th
nerves, which cause heart muscles t
expand and contract, by means of till
electric currents.
"Self -recommendation very easil
degenerates into depreciation of other
and denial of their rights."—Viscoun
Cecil.
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were exhibited by mac firm of grower(
at a recent horticultural show.
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