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JOHN J. HUGGARD
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• THE' #1.444--iN EXPOSIT
•I I The Way of
These Women
by E. PHILLIPS. OPPENHEIM
OR' 4,
(Continued from last week)
s‘I have engaged an awfully clever
ipriuvate detective," the young men
went on. "I want you, if you will,
to be so good as to give him a clear
run down at Annerley, and to let him
interview you about the affair before
he goes down."
Jermyn was silent for some little
time.
"D,o you mean to say that you have
actually engaged this fellow?" he
asked.
"I have engaged him all eight,".
Gerald Lakenham answered. "He's
guaranteed me an arrest within thir-
ty days, and it seems to me that he
knows his business."
"Did you consult anyone lbefore
you took this step?"
"Not a soul. There isn't anyone
really, you see, exoe•pt you. It fact,
you're the (first person I've talked it
over with. Of couree, the matter
doesn't co•unt. Women don't under-
stand a matter or this sort."
."I have nhe confidence," Jermyn
said quietly, "in private detectives."
"This fellow Grayson is awfully
clever," his visitor assured him. "It
was he who found out all about the
Midland Bank roleberries,and he has'
a little memorandum of all the leest-
know-n thieves in Europe, compiled
by himself. The. police make use of
him often, although, of course, they
always take the credit. Jolly inter-
esting fellow, too, to -talk to."
"No doubt," Jermyn admitted,
"and yet, I am afraid I shall have
to say that I disapprove altogether
of his employment in this case. I
think the Scotland Yard people are
doing everything that tan be done,
and any outside interference is only -
likely to make the matter more dif-
ficult for them."
,"Up to the present," Gerald Laken -
ham remarked dryly, "everything
that can be done meanthat nothing
has :been done at all. You knew,
,don't pretend to be overburdened
with sentiment, and that sort of thing
but Ayetesworth wa t my brother, and•
head of the family, and I don't feel
like sitting still anti leaving the
mystery of his death unsolved."
"Perhaps,",Jermyn 'replied thought-
fully, "if he were alive that is pre-
cisely what he would wish us to do."
The young man was impressed.
dI wonder," he said, "if you really
believe that?"'
"On the Whole," Jermyn assured
him, "I do. Aynesworth could have
made a statement, if he had chosen
to, before he died. , He had several
minutes of complete consciousness."
Gerald sat for a few moments with
afrown upon his forehead. This was
distinctly a disconcerting point of
view and one which had not previous-
ly occurred to him.
"Have you any idea," he said slow-
ly, "whether there is any truth in
the rumour that Sybil Cluley and
•Ayeeswarth had met before that
time at your hou,se?" • ,
."No truth at all," Jermyn answer-
ed deci•dedly. "Mis-s Cluley is a very
charming and delightful young lady
and she has nothing whatever to do
with this terrible business. If the
detective of whom you speak is go-
ing to cause her the least annoyante
I tell you' frankly, Gerald, that I
shall take steps to protect her.
"The fellow only wants to find out
he truth," Gerald protested. "I
lonA suppoee Miss eCluley Objects to
hat. It's as much in her interests as
nyone's."
"I don't suppose that there is any-
ne in whom we are likely to be in-
erested, who would not be immense -
y relieved." Jermyn agreed, "if only
he truth could be discovered. At
he same time, these fellows often
do a lot of mischief going into met-
ers which don't concern the case at
11. I must admit that I ,have a
trong prejudice against their. The
cotland Yard people may do their
vork s•lowly, but as a rule, if there's
nything to be found out, they dis-
over •it in time."
"Pin sorry you don't a4rove,"
((rale remarked, helping himself to
ne of the cigarettes which derneyn
ad proderced, "but I've earned Gray -
on loose on the job now, so I sup-
ose he'll have to get along a hit.
hall you mind his asking yo't a few
uestions?"
"It depends very much upon evhat
hose questions are," Jermyn replied.
As I said before, I am not favorably
isposed toe -ales his class, nor am I
n favor of his being employed in'
he present rase." e
"Well, he's 'outside in my car,"
eeald said. "Perhaps you'd let him
ore in now and you can look him
ver. L'Want you, if you will, ton,
o give 'him a letter of introduction
o Miss Cluley."
"I'll see him myself," Jervern a --
-reed. "I tell you frankly, Gerald,
hough, that I can't peornise lil do
nything to help him interview Mies
luley. She was groy guest at the
ince that wretched affair hap.pen.ed,
t was my fault entirely that she was
-ought into it, and she has already
eon bothered enough abaft it."
"I'll fetch, the fellow in, anyway,
erald decided. "You'll perhaps think
mre of him if you talk to him for a
it."
"Grayson turned out to be a eery
nofferrsive-ladking person, scarcely
!deer than Jermyn himself. He was
uietly dressed, and his face wee
uite unnoticeable except for the oc-
asional brilliancy of his deep-set
rey eyes. He looked like a man of
he middle classes -a traveller, per-,
ape, for a jewellery firml-neatly
'reseed. stolid, net in the least self-
seertive, yet with sufficient self -as -
'Terence Jerilyn receive(' him a lit.
le curtly and motioned him to a
hair.
"Lord Lakenham has lbe•eri telling
Me that he has engeged you to make
erne inquiries with reference to the
mlureler of the late Marquis," Jer-
Y11 'OEM. "I should like you to un-
derstand wt onee that I am strongly ,
averse to the step which he has tak-
en..
am sorry to hear that, sir,
Grayson ,declared, "very sorry indeed.
'Might I ask if the reasons are in
any' way persohal ?"
"Not at all," Jermyn adieittect. "I
nevem heard of you before. 1 sim
have a prejudice against your p
reesion. • I believe in these' cases be-
ing dealt with by the recognized au-
thorities, and I think that if they are
left to themselves they are general-
ly successful."
"They don't ,seene to ,har-e got very
far .with the .present -matter, sir."
"They .heve a way of taking their
time," Jermyn asserted, think
they are quite right. To arrest a
man prematurely is the worst gnis-
take that can be made. I have heard
of cases in which they have watched
the person whom they have known
perfeetly well to be guilty of a crime
for months before they have arrest-
ed him, waiting for the last link of
evidence. I have heard, too, of ain,.
ateues who rush in, put people upon
their guard, and generally make a
hash of things."
"There is a great deal of sound
common-sense in your point of view,
Sir Jerilyn," Grayson agreed. "I am
aware that my profession is an un-
popular one and that thee* are many
people _who consider that we should
be. abolisheel. If Lord' Lakenhaim is
inclined to take your advice I shall
not stand in the way for a moment.
I shall only require the small sum
I have spent for outpeckets, and I
will willingly drop the matter.
Gerald shook his head, doubtfully.
"I don't think that I am quite in-
clined to consent to that," he decid-
ed. "What Sir Jermyn says may be
all right, but I can call to mind se,v-
eral cases lately of serious „crimes.
where, no • arrest -whatever has been
made. So long as you go carefully
I .don't see the least reason why you
•s,houldn't have a shy at,ehis."
"I take it, then," Grayson inquir-
ed, e'that your lordship is not at
present disposed to rescind your in-
structions to me?"
"I am ,not," Gerald, declared
"In that case," Grayson proceeded
briskly, "as I. am here, will Sir
Jermyn Toine answering a few ques-
tions?"
. "I don't know that I have any
particular objection," Jerrnyn re-
plied slowly, "at anyerate s:o, faras
theyeconcern myself and nty own do-
ings." -
"There are so few people who
could have committed this crime,"
Grayson said, "that one is rather in-
clined to take the possible persons
one by one, ,and analyze their rela-
tions with the deceased. I have act-
ed to some- small extent upon this."
"Indeed,'" Jerilyn remarked dryly.
"1. have carefully considered, for.
• instanee," Grayson• told him; ,"your
own relations with the late Marquis
of Lakenham, and I have come to
the conelusion, Sir Jermyn, that. there
was not, nor could there have been
at any time, anything connected with
them evhic,h might have caused bad
blood between you two. I have put
you, therefore, outside, the caseee.
"-Yoe relieve me iinmensely," Jer-
myn assured him satirically.
"I am not able," Grayson continued
unmoved, "to dismiss Miss . Sybil
Cluley from the case with the same
facility."
Jermyn was suddenly quiet. The
fingers of his right hand trembled a
little and there was a dangerous
light in his eyes.
"in the course of my investiga-
tions," Grayson went on, "I have dis-
covered that the late Marquis' of
Lakenha,m. and Miss Sybil Cluley/
who met at your house as strangers,
were in 'reality nothing of the sort."
"What the devil do you mean?"
Jermyn demanded.
"Precisely what I say, sir," Gray-
son answered firmly. ":Vlise Sybil
Cluley six years ago was acting in a
stock company at Blackpool under
the name of Miss Mary :Vlarvis. The
late marquis was in Blackpool at'the
time, was friendly wieh the manager
of that comeanee and was, without
the shadow of a double not only ac-
cjuainted with but an admirer of Miss.
Clufey." •
"Moat interesting!" Jerilyn mur-
mured, in a voice dangerously low.
"And *from teat you deduce?"
"At present 1 have .dedeced noth-
ing," Grayson replied calmly. "At
the same tim-e this seems,to my
mind, to throw an altogether new
light upon the situation. Mier; Clu-
ley, at the time she knew the late
marquis, was in excesdingly poor cir-
cumstances. The company with
which she was connected came to
grief at Blackpool, and she was left
with the charge of her invalid sister.
There is not the slightest doubt that
his lordship at that tiere was an
1.rdent admirer of 'Miss Chiley. Those
are simple, incontrovertible facts.
This unexpected meeting under your
roof, Sir Jermyn, might well have
prayed embarrassing for the young
lady."
"As a matter of fact," Jerreyn de-
clared, "it was nothing of the sort.
This I can answer for, for I was in
Miss 'Cluley's confidence. The ac-
quaintance at Blackpool of which you
have spoken is a matter of common
knowledge to those who were there
at the time, hut let me tell you this,
My, Graysene-sMiss Cluley and , her
sister left Blackpool when the com-
pany was broken up, and never from
that moment had she seen anything
of Lord Lakenham until they met un-
der my ropf. I !make a statement
there which I defy you to di'prove."
'Phe detective listened and inclined
his head slightly.
"My investigations as to what fol-
lowed. after Bletekpool• have yet to
be made, Sir Jermyn," he said.
"You spoke of •some questions,"
Jertayn reminded Wine
I?
04.1 have some .questions, a few,
which. I 'should like to aek," Grayson
confessed. " "1 should, like to ask
you, for instance, what were your
general impressions as to the nature
of the terms existing between Miss
Cluley and tilee, deceased?"
They met as fellow -guests under
my roof," Jermyn replied, "and with-
out any recognition of that previous
acquaintance Which, I mray tell you,
was a great deal slignter than you
ihaveThinte,d. Miss Cluley recalled it
slighter than you have hinted. Miss
Cluley recalled it and mentioned it to
Me, Lord Lakenham never went fur-
ther than to say that he believed
they had met before. They were
perfectly civil to one another and
that was all. 1 don't suppose that
they ,exchanged a hundred words all
the time, nor half a dozen sentences
alone, up to the night of the acci-
dent. 'We were a small party and
we were 'generally all togethee, ex-
cept when Miss Cluley and I were
engaged reading the play which I
have been preparing for her." .
"Is it a fact," Grayson continued,
"that Mies Sybil Cluley endeavoured
to obtain admission to the marquis's
chamber on the night of his death?"
"It is very possible that she went
there to inquirer Jermyn •ansevered.
"We all did at. various times during
the night. There was no sleep for
anyone."
"Miss Sybil ,Cluley states that she
!left the ,Seeeequis of Lakenham alone
in the billiard -room because of a
headache," Grayson went on. "Had
she complained to anyone of feeling
unwell ?
PSeve,ral times, and to several peo-
ple," Jerilyn assured him. "The rea-
son she refused to play bridge and
started that' unfortunate game of
billiards at all was because she did
not feel equal to anything which made
any demands upon her."
Grayson was. looking out of the
window steadily. . At. this juncture
he slowly turned his head and looked
Jermyn full in the facie.
"Is' it true, Sir Jermyn," he asked,
"that you anerounced your engage-
ment to Miss Sybil Cluley at Anner-
ley Court on the day before. the mur-
der that subsequently ,the aneounee-
m,ent was :retracted, and that you are
now about to be married to another
lady?"'
"You make free with my concerns,"
-Jerilyn replied, his voice trembling
with anger. '"Whatyou say has
some truth in it, but the engagement
between Miss Cluley and myself was
never confirmed. She is too devoted
to the stage'to care about marriage."
Grayson folded. up his note -book
and returned it to his pocket.
"I am afraid, 5ir Jerreyn," he said
"that yourprejudiee in favour of this
young lady prevents your consider-
ing the case a•gaihst her from an
impartial point of view."
"If I have any prejudice in feeler
of her at all," Jermyn letorted, "it
is because I know her to be incap-
able of hurting anyone or anything.
Hier 'feelings towards Lord Lakenham
were simply feelings of good-temper-
ed indifference. She started that
game of billiards on the distinct un-
derstanding that she might leave off
if she felt unwell."
"The weapon, I believe," Grayson
inquired, "has never been found?"
"Never to my knowledge."
4.'Night I ask whether a visit from
me would be permitted at Annerley
Court?"
"It would not," Jermyn de/dared.
"I am perfectly satisfied with the
present conduct of the case, and I
resent your interference in it,"
Grayson rose.
"In that case, sir," he said, "you
will ,permit me to retie."
"One mornentb Gay- en," Gerald
called after him. "1 an coming a-
long."
"I will await you in ' he car,
Grayson answered.
The detective turned stolidly to-
wards the door and nettle his way
downstairs. •
"You don't like the fellow,' Ger-
ald remarked.
Jermyn shrugged hie houlders.
"T haven't artveal f, eines about
him. only 1 can't 11(.111 iinehee that
hie' interference in thio wetter is urn
necessary and annoyin„. His re-
marks about Mee Chile:. too', I look
upon as sheer Ice."
Gerald nodded and hi ,elf prepar-
ed to depart.
"That's all very \veil, TErmyti," he
objected. "You think great deal
of Miss Cluley, evident!, . and dare
say she's a jolly girl- 1,1; every word
of what Grayson hoe d is, to my
mind, sound commoidetie. Come, I
challenge you, now, -1 li me why
you were engage!! to Cluley the
day before the murder, nil now you
1.0 going to marry. th, Duchesse de
Sayers?"
"The matter is emit. :y a private
one," Jerilyn replied, "You know
very well that Lucille :1,1.1 I have been
the greatest of friend- ell our lives.
Our marriage ha e he e spoken of
more , than once."
"1 wonder if you are shielding that
red, Jernyn?" Gerald n ked sudden -
Jermyn nevee flinehed.
"You don't know Mid Clulee, Ger-
lc
I,od you wouldnadei
't , ch a ques-
tion,"Gereld smiled as le) !limed away.
r 'must confese," he declared, with
a little sigh, "that there have been
times when I have wi-hi that I did,
and not very long were She does
leak the ,most delieldell person on
the etage, and quite,' a you say, as
though she wouldn't hint a fly --
Well, so long, old fellow. I can see
that you are not on our side. We
must do the best • we can without
you,"
"
• CHAPTER XXV II
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,elleparted, Jemrn was ringing the
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°see,' the maid announced, was in the
hands of the dressmaker, but moil-
sieur should 'be kept waiting only
very few min'utesh Almost as she
departed, Lucille swept into the room
frolin her ealedining bedchamber
dressed in a wonderful- creation of
green velvet and lace.
"You are just in time, my dear
Jertnyn," she declared. "How glad
I am to see you! Madamo Lucie has
brought some of my dresses rented
herself, and we cannot decide about
the length of this jacket. You are a
man and therefore you know nothing,
about it; therefore, you ought to be
able to judge precisely what is cor-
rect. Shill A be as it is or two
inches longer?"
"T,yvno inehes longer," Jermyn re-
plied, without hesitation. "And Luc-
ille, I want just a word with/ you at
once,"
,She closed the con emunicating door.
"Well, I am here,' she pointed mit.
"I can assure you that you are 'the
only person whom I should recebve
Under such conditions."
"Do you know an of a man
named Grayson? Flas he been to
see you?"
ILucille assented..
"He called a few minutes ago with
a note from Gerald. I was going to
tell you about it this evening.
"And you?" he asked swiftly.
"I declined to receive hint. Isn't
hat what you would have wished?"
"Entirely," Jerilyn replied in a
one of eelief.• "You did not see him
at all, theny
"Certainly not. tl have made a
argain and 1. mean to keep to it, in
he spirit as well ae the letter. I
ave no information to give him,"
Gerald has come back full of this
matter," Jermyn went on, "arid he's
ot it into his head that Scotland
'ard are apathetic about it. He's
one to'this man Grayson and the
ellow actually admits openly that he
uspeets Sybil. He dare,d to ask me
iestions. He ho' m,e quite
learly the *line his investigetions
ere going to take,"
"Jermyn;" she said calmly, "I 'am
he only person who can bring this
king home to Sybil Cluley. My
•ord is ,passecl. to you and Sybil Clu-
ey is safe, su,p,pose, 'in your un_
allant way," she added, making a
ttle grimace at him, "you would say
hat you were paying the price."
dI am paying the price!" he declar-
d passionately. "You know that I
m! I love Sybil Cluley. Every day
y feeling for her grows stronger.
t is indeed a price that 1 am paying
nd that is what sornetilmes m,akes
y blood run cold. If it ,should be in
al`IITIII"ere is eeo fear of that," Lueille
sewed him. "This Man • may sus-
ect,• as anyone who knew a few ord-
nary facts which presume, he Fes
ollected, certainly wouief• suspect.
Visit do his suspicions amount to?
°thing at all. There are hundreds
f people whom Scotland Yard know
erfectly well are guilty of various
rimes, but they'll. go free all their
ays for want of a little evidenee.
he only evidence against •Sybil Clu-
eY is in my- pos,session, and you have
ou.ght my silence. 1 will admit at
rice, if you like, that I could hang
er. I could' It is easily within my
ower. Yet you need not have e
toneent's fear. She will be as free
a;ddenty years' time as she is te-
Jermen was -walking -restlessly rd down the little apartment Its'
ny luxury, its volt
iptuous air of
emininity, seemed somehow to offend
im. He felt the toils cemieg near -
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"Sometimes," he said, "I Oink
hat we have made huge neistake,
11 of us. If Sybil really did this-' Sybil really did this!" Lucille
iterrupted I/lacier/glee
',Leave the 'if' out, then," Jermyn
ontinued. "Let us say that Sybil did
She was driven to it, she' was
ad. the brute 'provoked her. 1 re -
vet her for it. I know the story
f their former aequaintance. I know
10 sort of /ran Aynesworth was. I
an guess what passed between them
the billiard room. In a moment
f ang,er ehe may have fired that ehot.,
don't lelieve that any jury in Eng-
le' who knew the facts of the case
ould treat her leve
Lucille laughed coil te met UO 0 el y.
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"My dear Jermyn," she said, "we
re not in Europe or in America.
here are no uneeritten laws here.
he man rir woman who tale's life
ays for it according to the old Ilih-
el law. Our juries nre not swayed
y sentiment and hysterics, nor our
Igo s i:y a pretty womitn's tears.
hit Ultiley did vc,ll to conceal her
lilt, and you have done w, 11 to huy
1. immunity. Only, Jermyn " she
Wed, eotring a little closer
do wi.,11 that you didn't think the
•it.t, was such a terrihle ono'. 1)o
believe that there are many men
in would fc el as youdo? 1 can
iderstand the tveak-kneind, holddede-
ny pois of our decent people -going
nd throwing themselves away upon
ese stag(' puppets; hut when a man
ke you. with brains, who should
low what woni.n really are, what
ce counts for, what it meanto
sterity, goes moonstruck nhout a
the actress and wants to marry her
u make me feel inclined to wonder
ter all, whether I shouldn't do the
nth -'i thing if I turned you nut of
y house and rang up Scotland Yard
). that telephone. . . No, 1
on't go on." she added. "1 don't
ean this, of course, but dnii't talk
me of Sybil ("Miry if you can
Ip it. Presently I hope you will
e rsta nd my point of view. .
nd now, if you don't mind, ynu TITUS t
n away, please. We shall meet
ter on. Where is it we are din-
g? I forget for the moment but
suppose we both have it down."
"At the Rochesters," Jerilyn m-
inded her.
"Od course! Dear old-frishioned
°pie Florerice's father and mother,
ho will see that you take me in to
nni'r, and put us side by side, and
d and seivile all the time as though
engagement were some sort of
culiarly humorous situ/Woe devis-
for their entertainment.
rmyneif you have nothing more to
y to me about this, we can have
chat about other things then. But
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been a fool to mistrust her. He mad
this way to the; theatre' on :the eliene
of seeing Sybil there, although it wa
not a regular relleitrsai-afternoon
,He found -her going through. e por
tion ofher the last aft with leadin
man. She appealed to bine at °nee
about a rendering of her part, ait
he sat, in the 'stalls of the gloomy
unlit auditoriarit listening, at/riving
to keep his mind upon the disputed
psychological que-stion of her attitud
towards the man whokn, notwith
standing his faithlessness, she loved
When he had given his decision h
returned to the stage.
"Ieshall jest have time," he said
"to drive you home."
"You nre getting me. into fright
fully extravagant habits," she declar
ed. "Whatever shall I do, I wonder
when I have to look after myself al
the time?"-
He was silent. He lied not yet ar-
rived at the stage in their relations
when he could listv to such speech-
es untheved. They stepped out into
the street and, he sent a boy for a
taxi. At that moment Grayson wet
etrolling by. Jermyn excused himself
witile a muttered word and crossed the
road. He accosted Grayson with lit-
tle ceremony.
"Look here," he began, "you re-
rrtedep-tbeerfrectye?, "sir
Jermyne' Grayson
Jermyn held him by the ar:n; the
man was powerless to move.
"Listen,h he coetinued, "you can
pursue your :dirty work when and.
how you like, but if you make your-
self in any way obnoxious to the
young lady whom •I presume yea are
here to watch. I shall take, you by
the scruff of the neck, law or no law,
and thrash you till you howl for
mercy. I don't know what the devil
men like you are allowed to go about
for, poking your noses into other
people's business:, raking up the ash-
es of dead miseries. The law cara.
look after her own children and- her
own sintiers. You vermin, trying to
bring about a man or a( woman's
ruin for the' sake of your fees, ought
to be stamped out of existence. You
understand me? I am in earnest."
"I realize that you are in earnest,
Sir Jermyn," oraysen said, "and I
will not argu-e with you. .1 cenreply•
only that I have accepted a certain
commission from the Marquis of
Lakenham and so far as I am able I
shall do ney duty, re,gardless of
whom •it may affect."
"Then you are warned," Jermyn
exclaimed fiereely, for if it be in the
middle of Pall Mall, with a dozen po-
licemen within call, the first time I
come across you I'll beat you till yon
can't breathe if I find you making
yourself o,bje.ctionajble to the key
over there. So now you know. Earn
your money if you can, but remem-
ber!"
Jerilyn recrossed the street. The
taxi cab was standing by the curb.
He handed Sebil in and seated him-
self by her side, white-hot with an-
ger. •
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"My dear Jerme-n;" she cried.
"Sybil, I am a fool," he admitted.
"I can't help it. That ass of a young
Lakenham is employing a private de-
tective -that's the whole truth.'
She was suddenly frightened.
"You don't think that he'll find out
anything, do you?" she asked, -catch-
ing at his hand:
,Fle. drew her fingers firmly. into his.
"My dear," he declared, "there is
not the slightest ih ar. There is 'not,.
nor ever will be, any evidence forth-
coming sufficient to justify the arrest
of any living person for killing- Lek-
enham. That I know to be a,fact.
It's the annoyance of the thing eyhich
fed -nothing else. I hate that
slimy sort of person, wandering a-
bout with its nose to the ground,
planning the destruction of a Mullen
being. . . . You see," he went
on, in a moment or two, "I've got
over the horror of it all% always•
was a little of a pbilosopher, you
know. and if ever thtre was a man
who desert•ed to die, it was Laken -
ham. I ant sorry. hut he's dead, and
he's met the fate. he's. gone ahout the
tVorld asking for for years. That's
how I look at it. It may seem callous.
ou may not agree with me. 1 c,u unleefielel
nay feel a littlo more sentiment, a- Il'i.(i,PliPseann
bout it. But 1105 dead and here's
an end of it. That's my attitude." Exeter
She sat by his side. quite s:lent.
"f ant sorry ahout this dete7tive."
she said. "hut you fir., eight. of Exolc•I'
course. It isn't of any serious mem-
tIemsall
'n!. and i'a'llsi<aft(1\1r 'w' (.1.
4;:::1-.7: .1t1 1
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uit.!.(‘ 11.1: (1:(t:1111(1
VieSS what will hill).. ,clinton
it simmo- down, I sui•:,,,,(.0" I.onth}oro
"I'111sic
this affair,' Jorm: 0 co:tenure. "Joe
at present Fin feeling sidlImely
egotistical. To me the t rav: dr of
\vnnsv,1h' 13 li i rothine
the tragedy of iny taking .itiother
woman to be my tvi.f . As the days
grow rivaPor, trio thint- rises tin he- l;r)(101'1'11
fore liktn a view theenienine (:lin'rin
dr00 1 (1 140:\ onil a fc.t.to4,;11., setlferth
tee..dorrew.1 can't. realize eilty f
lure for neself as the Hene"
She shiv red slightly. but she 'hop'` 1 Roblin.
he1 oier 51 early.
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I atm! not goin.gto ak you in to -night.
I have to go to a 's -dinner at .
the Lyceum Club and I want to make
a few notes. Fancy saying things
about the stage! Doesn't it seem.
absurd? I ought to have asked you
to have written out .my speech for e
me. And don't worry about that. ..
man. I don't think that, starting as
he has done, he is likely to find out
much that Scotland Yard hasn't
found out hong ago." . . .
• (Continued next week.)
Value of Cooling Milk
It is a simple matter to control
bacterial growth in milk. At 40 de-
grees 'P. there is practically no
change in the number of bacteria, at
the end of 24 hours; at 50 degrees
the number increases four fold and
at 60 degrees nearly a hundred times
as 'mem/ as at the start. Milk shetild
be cooled as epro,neptly as pessible.
Freshly drawn milk contains a sub-
stance known as lactenin which is
a,ble, to restrain bacteria for a cer-
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thee effect soon passed off; by., promrpt
moiling the Iactenic effect may be
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Sudan grass introduced to the 'Unit-
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it," he criel swiftly. "There alone,
is where my hope lies. Ilene are
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