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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1914-11-27, Page 7914 wri es: tat and itorway did not iederfid om its tract a IOU oe- alftion- ever, it g colds weekm began y local , I had Fie as. a le part- thich I _ut any getting 'tld, but 311 to lad he xway Stained else ut tie and r drug- direc- Heed a a that in ten I con- e. your zd it to always ter the Tommy dealer. line is IlIburn NOVEMBER 27 The• Cause of Dyspep Me Symptoms sad Tke Core. THE Ciii‘USE., 4allehaaniasuesaamees Too rapid eating, eating too much, and . too often, improperly ehewing the foo& eating too taut* stimula6ng food, and , indulging in improper diet generally. THE svhirroms. Variable appetitet rising and souring of food, heartburn, wind in the stomach, a feeling of weight in the stomach, in fact a feeling that your stomach has gone , att wrong and that the hood you eat does not seem to agree with you. THE CURE. - 111,11DOCK Bi.00D BITTERS. Mrs- E. Williamson, Wheeler, Ont., wiitee: "I have been a sufferer for years from dyspepsia, and could scarcely -eatanythijg. I tied Burdock Blood. Bitters, and 1 ara entirely cured 1 have not been troubled since I took it, and that is two years ago. 1 can. now eat any- thing I wish." B.B-B. is manufactured only by The T. Milburn Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont TAKES OFF DANDRUFF, HAIR• STOPS FALLING Save your Hair! Get a 25 cent bottle of Danderine right now—Also stops itching scalp. Thin, brittle, colorless and scraggy hair is mute evidence of a neglected scalp; of dandruff—that awful scurf. There is 'nothing so destructive to the hair as. dandruff, it robs the hair • f its lustre, its strength and its very life; eventually producing a feverish- ness and itching of the scalp, which if not remedied causes the hair roots to shrink, loosen and die—then the hair falls out fast. A little Danderinc tonight—now—any tine—will surely save your hair. Get a 25 cent bottle of larmeatoe's Danderine from any- drug store. You surely can have beautiful hair and it of it if you -will just try a little Dm- derine. Save your hair! Try it! LEGAL. Solicitor, Conveyancer and Notary Public. Solicitor for the Dom - lam Bank. Office in rear of the Do- inlon Bank, Seaforth. Meney to lo J. M. BEAT. Barrister, -Solicitor, Conveyancer and Mary Public. Office up -stairs over Walkers furniture store, Main street, Seaforth. F. BOLMESTED. Barri-ster, Solicitor; Conveyancer and Farms for 1e. Office, la Scott's block, Main ,street, Seaforth. PROUDFOOT, HAYS & KILLORAN. 'Notary Pektitc. Solicitor for the Cana- dian Banke411111Commeree. Money to loan. Barristegc SolleitormIlNo taries Publ etc, Money to lend. In Seatorth tin Mon- day of each week. Office in Kidd -block.," VETERINARY JOIIN GRIEVE, V. S. ROTIOr graduate ef Ontario Vetelin- sry College. All diseases of Domestic - Animals treated. Calls promptly attend. - eel toand charges moderate. Veterinary Dentistry a specialty. Office and resi- dence on Goderich street, one doer east of Dr. &ott's office, Seatorth. , F. HAR.BURN, V. Honor .graduate of Ontario Vetetin- ty College, and honorary member of the Medical Association of the Ontario Veterinary College. Treats diseases of ali Derneatic Animals by the most mod- ern principles. Dentistry and Milk Fev- er a epecialty. Mies, opposite Dick's Rotel, Main street, Seaforth. All or- ders lett at- the hotel will receive prompt attention. Night calls received at the office. MEDICAL C. J. W. KARN, aLD C,M, 425 Richmond street, London, Ont. Specialist urger y and Genito-Urin- ary diseases of men and women: DR. GEORGE 1 I-MILER/ANN. Osteopathic Physician of Clodericle Specialist in. -women's and children's diseases, rheumatism, acute, chi -relic and zervous disorders-, eye, ear, nose ard throat. Consultation free. Office at Commercial Hotel, Seatorth, Tuesday and Frida,sna 8: ta.ni. till I Ram. ' DR. F. J. BURROWS. Office and residence--Goderich street, east of the -Methodist church, Seafortm Phone Nu. 46. Coroner for the CsentY Of Huron. DRS. SCOTT & MCKAY. 3. G. Scott, graduate of Victoria_ a.nd College of Physicians ,and Surgeon.s. An Ataor and ommlem ef the Ontario boroner for the County of Huron. • C. 'MacKay, hencur graduate of Trinity University, and gold medallist of Win- ity 'Medical College; member of the Col- lege ef Phesicians and_Sergeo. s, Ontario. DR. II. HUGH ROSS.. Graduate of University of TorontO FaCeity of Medicine, member of Col- lege of Phy,sitians and Surgeons of On- tario; mess graduate ccurses in Chico Clincal School of Chicego; Royal Oph- thalmic ntsspitaa, Londen, England, University College Hospital, London England. Office --Back of the Dominion Bank, Seaferth. Phone No. 5. Night cans answered from residence, Victolla street, Seafetth. AUCTIONE FP.S. THOMAS BROWN. Licensed aelctioneer for the counties, of Huron. and Perth. Correspondence ar- rangements for sale dates can be made by calling t.D Phone 97, Sseforth, or The Expositor office. Cherems moder- ate and ;satisfaction guararee JOHN ARNOlee . Licensed auctioneer for the counties of Heron and Perth. Arrangements. for sale dates can be made iby calling ep Phone 2 en 23 Dublin, or 41 aeafortia, 1 or the Expositor Office. Ohm ges mod- erate and eat isfaction guas enteed. ke PHILLIP' *of Huron and Perth. Being r eractical termer and thoroughly uederstandiag the vame of farm stook and implen3ents -Pisces nte in a better position to re- saize good pricee. Charges moderate. 1 diethifaction guaranteed or no pay. Ail orders left in tiixeter will be promptly Wended to. _EL IN ar ------sereseesewersour MVP A low eryt the most desolate, the most Stricken sound that Sedgwick had ever heard from human lips, trem- bled on the 'air. Before- be could gather hie Sepses to retort and deny she had drawn herself to her feet and the rose bowered window framed only emptiness. "Is it possible that you reallybe- lieve it?" Sedgwick exclaimed. , "So possible that but for the scan dal I would do what I cannot invoke the law to 'do and exact life for life. Am], to crown all, I find you with my son's wife- -Your son's wife!" The cry burst from Sedgwiek's lips. —'in the dead of nigtit at a. ren- dezvous," coneltuled Blair. "That is a lie." said Sedgwick very low, "for which I shall kilt you if you dare repeat it even to your own thoughts. It was no rendezVous. Is your mind so vicious that you can't believe in innocence? Stop and think HOW could it have been a rendezvous when I came here, as you know, for auother purpose?" - "That is true," said. the, other thoughtfully. "That still remains to be explained.h "By you," returned the artist. "You speak of your son's wife. To carry out the farce of the sbam burial shouldn't you have said his 'widow'?" "The widow of n day. as you well know," enswered Mr. Blair bitterly. "As I do not know at all. But I think 1 begin to see: Ifghts 'Tile' rose topazes on the dead wornan's neck. Her topazes. That helps to clear it up. The' dead woman was some past light o' love of Wilfrid Blair's. She 'came here either to reassert her sway over hirn or to blackmail him. He gave her his wife's jewels. Then he followed her to the cliffs and killed her, perhaps u a drunken frenzy. And you, Mr. Alexander Blair, to -save your son have concealed him somewhere, bribed the sheriff and the medical officer, contriv- ed this false death anti burial and are low turning suspicion On a man you, know to be innocent further to fortify our position. But what damnable lie ave you told her?' During this exposition Alexander Bialee face was a study in changing motions. At the close his thin lips pried in the suggestion of a sardonic rime there you to the company ,of your heory. 'Or," said he. and the door Iosed sharply after him. Three, haurs litter, wet and belleag- man ytin displayed Id your last bee . lila"; broke in Kent curtly. "Attkilig tiVointin to Merry you the. day of her husband's burial!" "lit Wasn't her husband's burial." "Shesuppesed it Waif." Sedgwick ,Chetelted his nervous tete- awe "DO you think So? You White she wasn't, a party to that ghastly fra"Cethirtar inly not. She atte.tided' the funeral ceremony in good 'faith. In my belief the reali dircumstinees of Blair's death are as ultialoWin aa they are to -40'70W' ' "Assuming alWaysi that he is dead. Your confidence being so 'Botintl, It must be basedon Something. litaw did he mite table deathr "If kneit that I shouldn't he going to Billiton to consult an .astrologer. And you"— e "I am going back to Hedgerow house," coneluded the artist 'WWI- aately. - "Do you know Room 571 at the Eyrie?" asked Kent' abruptly. "No. Yes; I do tete" - "Walk up • to the hotel. Give this card to the clerk. Get the key. GO to that room at once. Lie down on your back with your eyes open and think for one hour by the wateh. If at the end of that time you still 'be - leve you're right go ahead. Will you do ltr. "Agreed. It's a bargain. But it won't change my. mind." "A. bargain's , bargain. It won't rfeed to," said Kent coolly. "By ,that time, if I have any understanding of Mr. Alexander Blair, he will halve put your lady Of. mystery on the morning train which leaves for Boston by one of the other roads. If not, why, you may take your chance." "Tickled!" said Sedgwick. "NVell, I 0'0713 you too much to gra back on my agreement. But—see here, Kent.' She's going to Boston. You're going to Bos- ton. You can easily find out where the Blake live. Go to her for nle and find"— "Heaven forbid!" cried Kent piously. dewily te • "Haven't I told you that I am a timid creature and especially about fe- males? Over seventy I like 'eni, and under seven I love 'em. Between I shun 'era. do anything for you but that, my boy," he concluded as the train came rumbling in. "Then shall have to follow and look her up myself.," returned his friend. "I'll wire you before I come. Goodby." "By the way," said Kent, leaning out from the car step upon whidh he had swung hiniself, "don't be disturb- ed if yeti miss that drawing which we bought from Elder Dennett at a bar- gain." amiss it? Why, w -here le it?" "In my suit case." "What's it doing there?" "Why, you see, if it's a sketch for a nished portrait. by Elliott, as I sus- pect, some of.theart people in Boston might recognize it Good 'ugh! I hope ;mit to see you soon—toe soon, that le' Chance. and a deranged railway -schedule oonsrred against the peace 4 mind of the shy and shrinking Kent Outside of Boston a few Miles is a junction and a mersing. elere Kent's train was held tip by some minor ac- cident Here, too, the train from the north on the other road, stopped for orders. Thus it was that Kent, step ping out to take the air, found himself looking into an open Pullman window it a woman's face framed in deepest black. "Mrs. Blair!" For once in his life Chester Kent's sontrolled tongue had broken the leash. Immediately he would have -given a considerable 'sum of money to recall bis impulsive -exclamation. He was hi an agony of shyness. But it was too late. The girlish face turned. "I beg p -p -Pardon," stuttered the man. 'Ate you Mr. Blair? I'm Mrs. Kent." At this astonishing apneuncement, .amusement gleamed in the woman's eyes and gave a delicate up twist to the corners of the soft mouth. "I don't recognize :von in your pres- ent attire, Airs. Kent," she murmured. "No. Of course not. I—I—meent to Say—that Is, you know"— Kent gath- ered his forces, resolved desperately to see it through now. "There are things I wantdto speak to you about. wish to get on your car." — "Certainly not," replied she decisive- ly.. "1 do not know you." "I am a friend of Francis Sedg- wink. Try to believe me when I tell you that I wish only to save both of you misuuderstanding and suffering— needless misunderstanding tihd suffer- ing," he added. 'It is too late she said hopelesslY. "Now,' what cock and bull story has Alexander Blair told her?" Kent de- manded of his mind. '„'How much does 1 -g • riff yeti married already," he said unsteadily. • e • gled, but with a fire at his heart, the nightfarer came to his bonze and roused Kent from slumber on the studio couch. - In brief outline Sedgwick told tbe moonlight interview. "Do you know," Keret said, "I would Dot wonder if Blair really thoudbt yon the murderer. Yours is a very interl esting and ingenious theory. But ,the fact is. that Wilfrid Blair was dead before his fatber ever 1earnet1 of the tragedy of Lonesome Cone." tH APT ER XVI. 'Chance Sits In. UlT case at his side, Cbester Kent stood en the platform of the Martindale Center station wait- ing for -the morning train to Bos- ton. Before him paced Sedgwick, with a face of Storm. "This is something I must do for my- self," the artist declared. "Chet, I Eli LIS t see her again," pleaded Sedg- wick. "I must"— "Exhibit that tact and dellenee , • 4.#ASTO RIA es: For Ififanis and Mildren In For Over 30Years • -AlwaYs bears the .Signature of a4g 5 he know or how little?" The jar an forward lurch of -the ear before him brought him out•of his rev erie. "Can I see you in Boston?" he asked hurriedly. She sholik her bead. "Not nota I can see no obe: And, remember, I do not even know you." Kent castebout rapidly in his mind as he walked aiong with the car for sones -one who -might he a common ac- quaintance. He mentioned the name of a very great psychologist at Her- Vard. "Do you know him?" be asked. "Yes. He is my mother's half broth- er." 0 "And my ,valued friend," be cried. "May I get him to bring me?" He was almost running now beside the NV i dow. "Yes," she assented, -"If you insist But I will hear no word of—of your friend." "I understand. Agreed," called Kent. "Tomorrow morning then." Kent went direct to Cambridge. He found his friend, one of. the finest and profoundest philosophers oft his tilne, sitting in a closed house over a game of that form of solitaire appropriately denomihated "idiot's delight." "It is long since you -havedone me the honor to consult me," said the old schelare Kept outlined the ease to bim. "You see." be said. "there is an ob- • • FroniFernale Ills `‘.---Itestoired to Health by LydiaE. Pinkham's Vegetable Conimund. Belleville,.N.S..,Cinada.— q doctored for ten years for female troubles and did not get well. I rend in the paper about. Lydia:Z. Pinktiam'S Vegetable Compound and decided to try it I write TIOW to tell you quit I am Aired. You can imblish my letter as atmitiinonial." ,-;••• Mrs. SU*RINE Bemis, Belleville,. Nova Scotia, Canada. . . Another Woman Recovers. Auburn, N. Y.— " I suffered from nervousness for ten years, and had such organic pains that sotnetbnes I woulcilie in bed four days at a time, could not eat , or sleepand did not want anyone to talk to me or bother me at all. Sorrietimes the best they could I would suffer for seven bonnet a time Different doctors did . 1 for me until our months ago I began giving Lydia E. Pinithinfs Vegetable Compound it trial and now I am in good health."—Mrs. WieittemE. GuiL,No. 15 ,..Pleasant Street, Auburn New York The above are only two of the thou- . sands of grateful letters which are con- stantly being received by the Pinkham Medicine Company of Lynn, Mass., which show clearly what- great things Lydia E. Pinicham's Vegetable Com- pound does for those who suffer from woman's ills. If you want spe- dal advice write to Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine CO. (ionii• dential)Lynn,Iass. Your letter will be opened, read and answered by a wo- man and held in strict confidence. vtous connection between the_unknown body on the beach and the Blair trag- edy." "Poor Marjorie!" exclaimed the old man. "For her marriage leblame my- self largely. When Marjorie Dorrance was left an orphan I was her nearest relative of_an age and position such as to constitute a moral claim of guard- ianship. She visited here when she was-eighteen—came like a flood of sun- • light iiito this house. A beautiful vivid girl, half child, half woman; with a beautiful vivid mind. When I return- ed from one of my dourneys into the past I found that flarjorie was en- gaged te that wretched creature. Now, he Is dead. Let be. I. have seen lit- tle of tier in late yeate. Go -d grant the, life with him has- not crushed out of her all lier sWeetness and bappl- . . lieSS." - "While I ern no judge- of women," said Kent judicially, "I should ven- ture to aver that it hasn't. But about calling on her—my being a stranger, you see—and in the first days of her widowhoOd—social conventions, and that sort of thing." "Mist -and moonshine, my dear sir! Moonshine -and mist! Marjorie -feels no grief. She will pretend to none— not eVen to herself. I will take you to her tomorrow." - "Blair III treated her?" asked Kent. "Oh, ill treatment! That Is a wide term. I believe that the poor weak- ling 'lid his best to keep faith and honof. But ropes of mud are strong. Tbose with which he had bound. him- self drew him resistlessly back to the seWers. _Here was but a marriage of glamor at best." "Does she know anything of the manner of Blair's death?" "Not one knows . much of it from what I _understand, unless it be Alex- ander Blair. One of the , family who went to Hedgerow house for the fu- neral called upon me as a courtesy due to Mrs. Blair's nearest relative. Alex- ander Blair, he said, was reticent. His dread of publicity is notorious. But from what, he, the relative, could as- certain the affair was substantially this: On the evening before the wo. man's body was found Wilfrid Blair, • who had been exhibiting symptoms of melancholia. left the house secretly. No one saw dam go, but about the time that he left _the unknown woman was seen in the vicinity of Hedgerow house." • • " "By whom?" "By a half breed Indian, a devoted servant of the family, who was pra'c- Ideally young Blair's body servant." "Gansett Jim! That helps to ex- plain," "Whether or not Wilfrid Blair had arranged a meeting with tbis woman is not known. As you know, she was found with her skull crushed on the isea beach. Blair was: afterward dis- covered by his half breed servant mor- tally injured and was brought home to "That is Alexander Blair's version of the tragedy 7' "As I understand it." "Wilfrid Blair never ' was • brought home." "Ah? In any case Alexander Blair Is striving to conceal some scandal, the nature of which I have no wish to guess. By the way, I should have add- ed that he suspects a third person, an artiSt, resident not far from his place. 'f being his son's assailant." "Francis, Se'dgwick.". Dr. Morse's 1 Indian Root_ Pills exactly,, meet the need which so often 'arises in every family for a medicine to open up and regulate the bowels, Not only are they effective in all cases of Constipation, but they; help greatly in breaking up a Cold or La Grippe by cleaning out the system and purifying the blood. In Ole same • way they relieve or cure Biliousness, Indigestion, Sick Headaches, Rheum- - atism and ether common ailments. In the fullest sense of the words Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills are 47 dt% Id ea It s erivo d sue d 7 -eve smowecne Maar "It Is on his . behalf that i am act - fag," yenned Kent. "My Informant, however, Incliner; to the belief- that Alexander -Blair lit wrong, that WIIfild Blifir killed the woitan and then inilleted mortal wotiiiiis upon himself.' 'Perhaps you` , wank], better see my interment for yottiself." I "Unnecessary, thank you Mr. Blair Is not telling -quite OIL that be knows, believes if I cc:directly foil* his mental prOcessest-that Francis Sedg- wick- met his ion on the night of the tragedy, by chance or otherwise, and that in the encounter which he be - Heves followed Wilfrid Blair was kill- ed. Unfortunately some color of mo- tive is lent to this by the fact that Sedgwick had fallen desperately in love with MIS. '13jair." "Impossible Marjorie IS not the wo- man to permit such a thing." "Without blame to her orindeedto either of them. She alsp believes now ,that Sedgwick killed ,hefhusband." your/friend?" asked the old ,eeliolat slowly-. • "I fear—that is. I trust so. Ciroun, • "And—and she was interested I r stantial evidence is against SedgwIck. hilt I give you my word, sir, it is wholly impossible that he should have killed -your niece's husband." "To doubt your certainty would be rrassly stupid. And are you hopeful of elearing up the circumstances?" "There I waist' your aid. The night of the tragedy a person wearing a dark garinent embroidered with silver stars was on Hawkill heights. 1 Mere reit: eon to believe that this person came there to meet some one from the Blair place. It is to run hiln down that I have come to Boston." "A man wearing a dark garment erii- brolaered with silver stars," said the philosopher. "Surely a strange garb In this age of sartorial orthodoxy." "Not for an astrologer." "Ah, an aStrologer! And you think be came from Boston?" "I- think," said Chester Kent, draw- ing some newspaper clippings from his pocket, "that somewhere atnong these advertisements taken from, the news- papers which- are subscribed for at Hedgerow house he is to be found." "There I ought to be able to help. Through my association with the oc- cult society I have investigated many of these gentry. Great rascals, most of them." , "Whom would you consider the most able of the lot?" The old man set a finger. on one of the clippings. "Preston Jax," said he, "Is the shrewdest of them all. Sonne - times I bave thOught that he had dim flashes of real clairvoyance." "Probably he is my man. Anyway: I shall visit him first, and if I find that his office was closed on July 5"— . "It was and for a day or tvto there- after as I ehance to knowrbecause one. of the ,oicult society's secret agents was to have visited him and could not get an appointment" "Good! / shall see you, then, tomor- row, sir." • • • . * * -Ten o'clock of the following morning found the Harvard professor formally presenting his friend, Chester Kent, to Mrs. Wilfrid Blair at the house of the eousin with whom she was staying. , "My dear," said the old gentleman, "you may trust Professor Kent's judg- ment and insight as implicitly as his honor. I can give no ,s4onger recom- mendation and will ntw take my leave." t - Kent resisted successfully a wild and fearful desire to set a restraining hold upon the disappearing coattails, for erni barrassment bad again engulfed the scientist's soul. "I don't know exactly. how to begin," he said. "Then I will help you," said she, be- coming suddenly grave. "You are here to 'speak to me of some topic- wholly distinct from one forbidden phase." "Have you lost any jewels lately, Mrs, Blair?" The girl-widOw started. "Yes. Hew did you know?" "You have made no complaint or published *no advertisements for them?" "I ihave kept it absolutely secret. Father Blair insisted I should 'do so." "Tbey were valuable, these jewels?" "The rings were, intrinsically, but what 1 most valued- was the necklace of rose topazes. They were the Gros- venor topazes." "A family relic?" "Not my own family. My husband's mother left them to me. They came down to ber from her grandmother, Camilla Grosvenor. She was rather a famous person in her time. C. L. Eh • liott painted her—one of his finest por- teaits, I believe. And—andshe was remarkable in other respects. She was a .woman of great force of 'clIeracter and great personal attraction, 1 be- lieve, though she was not exactly beau- tiful. When she was -still under thirty she became the leader of a band of mystics and star worshipers. I believe that she became infatuated with one of tbena, a young German, and that there was an elopement by waterrThis I remember, at least—her body washed • ashore on the Coast not very far from Hedgerow house." • "At Lon.esome Cove?" , "Yes. The very name of it chills me. For my husband It had an uncan- ny fascination. He used. to talk to me about the place." - "Would you know the face of Camil- la Grosvenor?" "Of course. The ElLiott portrait hangs in the library at Hedgerbti house." Kent took from under his coat the drawing purcbased from Elder Dennett "That is the same," said Mrs. Blair unhesitatingly. "It isn't quite the same pose as the finisbed portrait, and It, lacks the earring which is in the portrait. But I should say it is surely Elliott's work. Couldn't it be a pre- liminary sketch for the portrait?" "Probably that is what it is." • "Can you tell me where it came from?" "From between the pages of an old book. Tell me how yonr neckiace was rompr,,,,k-ffirmspqmoy..,:i; - - ex*, 1-- •rAso,••••1,4114F 7 teeese." "I don't' know. On the afternoon Of July 5 I lett Hedgerow house' rithat hurriedly. My maid, whom 1 trust im- plicitly, was to follow_ with my trunks, including my jewel case. She arrived day later,' with part of the jetiela missliag, and a note from Father Blatt saying that there had been a robbery, but that I was to say nothing of it." CHAPTER XVII. The Master of Stars. sts ULY 5," reinarked Kent with his lids dropped over the keen gaze of bis eyes. "It was the followt Ing morniqg that the unknown body was found on. the beach near Mr.—near the Nook." Marjorie Bialr's face showed no com- prehension. "I bave heard •nothing_of any body," she replied. "Did none of the talk come to your' • 1.vily I 1 s IF 141011 : manila 'Yonder is 1-aishlt t eat from It "dead faiiher Walt' Preston a. a rule, receive more thim*le a, .tjni Pence witriefelea trk d the gtarouterwa .of picious nature. Now, Itowettpate held a &lemma clad in stedlietWaral asnev r police spy nor 1nveeUgit1ng agent ore, a rathet p ness" the tern is -culled Ja0 nviens thoughts),_ Melee it iips peered to be individual *004 being In any particular' tionapienons. The visitor vas obaicalsly, Quittl ig his pe4p hole, the storm* ter pr ed a Witten. Sims:tits of muste, soft an sourceleas, tilled the air (tient- a phongrap1i muffled in rugs). The moon gl w paled a little. There watt. a soft ustie and fluctuaon of wall draperi in the apartMent. The light waxed. The smooth shaved -.germas. ter stoo before hi e visitors. They eheld a man of undistinguish- ed size nd form eked out by a splen- did pom osity, of manner. To this his, arb con ributed. All the signs of the zodiac had lent magnifieence to the tong, bl ck, loose robe with gaping - sleeves ivMth he wore. Mrs. Blair noted Wi vague interest that it was all band eahroidered. With aj rhythmical motion of -arras and hands he came forward, perform- ed a spr ading bow of welcome and drew ba k, putting his hand to uto brow as f in concentration of thought. Marjorie lBlalr felt an unholy desire te, laugh. he glanced at Professor Kent and to h r surprise found blot exhibit- ing ever, evidence of discomposure. "Stupi of rne," he.muttered in apol- togy. ts on one's nerves, you knOwe Awesoin and all :that sort of thing fusiing ith the stars." "Fear othing," "said Jam "The star forces- re pond to the master will of bini Who comprehends =them. Madam, the date; year,-Jnonth and 'day of your hirth, if "Mareh Propel' tial globe sa, a steles - ard, roll your star," declared the t siiuli it w astroiogist. '• and more came to a ears of a strange woman- found at Lonesome Cover; "No. Wait. though. After the fu- neral one 'of, the cousins began to epeak of a mystery, and Mr. Blair shut him oft" "Your necklace was taken from that body." Her eyes grew wide. "Was she the thief?" she asked eagerly. "The person who took the necklace • from the body is the one for whoa I am searching. Now: Mrs. Blair, will you tell me in a word how your bus. band met Ills death? Yeur father-in- law gave you to understand, dfd he that Wilfrid .Blair -met and idpar- reled with—with a certain person and _ was killed in the encounter which .fol- lowed?" "Him shall I ever free myself from:. the consciousness of my seem pariJn It?" she shtrddered. "Don't—don't !Oak of it again. I can't bear it" "You won't have to Ye* long," Kent assured her, "Let us get bark to the jewels.* Yon world be wilting to make a considerable sacridce to recover thein?" "Anything!" "Perhaps you've heard something of this man?" prawing a new/Matti' Rage from his odket, Kent indleatted an advertise-, 'exit Wined 109 penult It was elabepitely dkolaytd 481011mA; . , Tour 1Pate Zs Written In the Ifeav- ens CONSULT 'THE - Star Master - Past, Present p.nd Future Are Open Books to Ms Mystic Gaze -!-Be Guided Aright In l3usin.ess,Love and Health Thousands to Whom he has pointed Out the Way`of the Stars Bless Hiin for His, Aid. CONSULTATImONBTY APPOINT- ENPreston jax Suit 77 Mystic Block, 10 Royal Street 411••111E, Mrs. Blair glanced at the announce- ment ° "I want you to go there with me to- day;" said Kent. "To that charlatan? Why, Professor Kent, I thought you were a scientific man. I can't understand your motives, but I knew that I can trust you. When do you wish me to go?" , "I have an apointment for us at high - noon:" • As the clock struck 12 Kent and Mrs. Blair passed from the broad noon- day glare of the street and were ush- ered into -the tempered darkness of a strange apartment. It was hang about with' black cloths and lighted by the effulgence of an artificial half moon and peveral planets cOntrived, Kent conjectured, of isinglassset into the fabric with arc lights behind them. .A. faint, heavy but not unpleasant odor as of incense hovered in the air. The moon waxed slowly; in brightness, II- luminingithe two figures. "Very well fixed up," whispered Kent to .41a..eetnpanion. "The astrolo- ger is new Woking us, ever." In fact, at that monient a contem- plating and estimating eye Was fixed onsly ap • lation. "Yonde astrologis seeks it." -monocle. gets on on "Sieh-te Unhappy, I If you lost ou please?" ' ' 15, 18$9," replied Mrs..Blair. by an unseen force, a eeles- mounted on a nickeled stifind- d forth. The, starmaster th a practised hand. Slowly. slowly it tnrned Until, as it stop, a ray of light, mysterte ruing, focused on a constelt a • is your star," declared the; _ 'See hew the: aural light 1 ay!" murmured he of the "Weird, you know! Quite 'a nerves. Quite"— - !" reproved 1Preston Jut, "Silence 1i the fitting mediate of the! higher steieir mysteries. Madam, yettri athway .between hapidness - Loss, like it tipeeding comettl it here. %Happiness, like on glow, has beamed upon life is a and grief. has cross the soft m it, and wi I again beam, in fyllet etei fuigence." .1 With b utifully medeleted intones?, thins he oceededriwidle one of biat visitors re arded hint:with awe *tick reverence, and the other waited With patience— unimpressed,' so the ora- tor felt, b Ids gifts. His -voice-sank,' by deep to ed gradatioas into silence.' The ray wnked mit. Then the ivomatS: spoke. -j "Is it po Bole for your stars to guide me to an object which I have 1osi1" "gething is hidden from the stars,"e declared th r master. "You' seek jew- els, mada ?" (Kent had let this mu& out, as if b .aceident, infthe morning's conversatfo ) "Your -bhtth stone is the bloodstone. deed, would be the omen one of those gems!" iEfe Was fishing and came forward toward - her almost rishing'Kenti "But I tia. ," cried Kent tn- apparent- ly contr able agitation; "did youri stats„tell y Ai th that she had .litiit.,tiOnse, Je dis ry? at thowi7ou w?” -Tell me, In his eagerness he caught at: the aitrologees 'arra, the tight one, And. long finger, gathering in the folds of the gown, preseea tiereektIsly upon tbe virrist Preston ..JaX winced away. All he excited- vapidity passed from Kent' speech at once. "The je els which thin tady hu:i lost," he sa d very quietly,: "are d set of unique r se topazea 1 thought—in fact, I felif that you could, wait oz( without the aid of Your stars, heith her to recover them." • : I .; Blackness instant and Impenetrable,: was the wer fdi this. Kent ',Mead his voice th merest trifle. "Unlessou wish to be .arrested advise you iot to leave this place. Not • by either t." "A.rrestedl on what charger' tams half ehokin ly out of the darkness. i "Theft." +Styes:a "I didn't take them." "Murder, then." God!' So abject was tbe terrot an -misery in the try that Kent felt sor for �e wretch. Then, with * cer in dog ed bitterness, "I don't care' whit you now; I didn't kill her." hat is eery likely true," replied Keit soo gly. "But ft is what mut know 1 inaeletall. Find. your foot lev r and t ,bn the lizht." Con limed Next Week. -41=1.11 Children Or s FOR RIMER'S CA?"ar9RiA _mete e_em