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The Wingham Times, 1909-04-15, Page 7TII4 WINGII4M TIMES, APRIL 15 1909 4444e»i•++e•++.!»fl" +l,+h+44.44+4. Te Opal Serpent By FI3RGUS HUME, Author ef "fine Mystery I a Hagsom Cab." "e Mandarin'; Fan," Eta. COPYRIGHT. 1905. Hy C. W. DILLINGHAM COMPANY a. ,fiN +1+•1.z.4.4 4.49,1.1.1.4 2 +1.1:•*•14.;04.,t,.y/i..v +S•4+e+1.4.,1,4 t'e'+i.4.94.k i 3'++D•+ •was lying in the corner with her lips fastened together with the brooch." "What7' cried Hurd, starting to his feet! "The same as her—the same as ;pommies wast" • lessop nodded and drank some rum. "Made me sick, it did. I took th' brooch away and slipped it into my pocket Then the kid said her fa- ther had fastened her lips together and had knocked her mother flat when sae interfered. I brought Mrs. Krill round and then left her with the k1/1, and walked oft to Southampton. r ' e police found mo there, and I told t' • n what I tell you." .. Did you tell about the brooch?' Well, no, I didn't," confessed Joe - 1 I coolly, "and as the kid and the xr.other said nothing, I didnft see why I shouldn't keep 1t, wantln' money. 4►'So I went to Stowley and pawned It, then took a. deep sea voyage for a year. When I come back, all was over." "Do you think Krill murdered the woman?" asked Hurd, passing over for the moment the fact that Jessop had stolen the brooch. "He said he didn't" rejoined the man with emphasis, "but I truly be- lieve, mister, as he did, one of them times when mad with drink and out of the room. He wanted the brooch, d'ye see, though why he ehoeld have lost the loot by sealin' the kid's mouth with it I can't say." ' "When did you come again?" "Ho;" said Jessop, drawing his hand across kis month, "'twos this way, 'ye see. I came round here lots, and a swell come, too, a cold"— "Grexon Hay," said Hurd, pointing to the photograph. "Yes, that's him," said Jessop, star- ing, "and I hated him just, with his ,eyeglasses and his sneerin' ways. He loved the kid, now a growed, fine gal, as you know, and come here often. In June—at the end of it anyhow— be comes and I hears him tells Mrs. Krill, who was always looking for cher husband, that a one eyed booksell- er in Gwynne street, Drury lane, had fainted when he saw the very ideate 'cal brooch showed him by another 'cove." "Beecot I know. Didn't you won- der how the brooch had left the pawn- shop?" asked Hurd, very attentive. "No, I didn't," snarled Jessop, who was growing cross. "I knew old Tink- er's assistant had sold the brooch and be didn't oughter t' have done it, as I wanted it back. Mrs. Krill asked me about the brooch and wanted it, so I said I'd get it back. Tinker said it was gone, but wrote to the gent as bought It." "Mr. Simon Beecot of Wargrove, in Essex." "That wos him; but the gent wouldn't give it back, so I s'pose he'd given it, to his son. Well, then, when Mrs. Krill heard of the one eyed man faint- ing ainting at the sight of the brooch she knew: 'twas her husband, as he'd one eye, she having knocked the other out when be was sober." "Did she go up and see him?' • "Well," said Jessop slowly, "I don't rightly know what she did do, but she went up, I don't think she saw Krill at his shop, but she might have seen that Pasb, who was Mr. Hay's law- yer, and a dirty little ape o' sorts he "Ila," said Hurd to himself, "I thought Push knew about the women beforehand. No wonder he stuck to there and gave poor Mise Norman the go-by." He rubbed his hands and chuc- kled, "Well, we'll neo what will come of tho matter. Go on, Jemmy:" "There ain't much more to toll," grumbled the eaetain. "I hoard of this. across Krill and I wasn't meant to hear. But I thought I'd go up and see if I could get money out of frill by saying I'd tell about the murder of Lady Rachel." "You are a scoundrel," said Hurd coolly. "I wos 'ard up," apologized the cap- tain, "or I wouldn't, not me. I'm straight enough when 1n cash. So 1 went up in July." "On the 8th of July?" "If that was the day of the murder, yes. I went up and loafed round until it wos dark and then slipped through that side passage at 8 o'clock to see Brill." "How did you know where to find him?" "Why, that Hay knew about the chap and said as he did business 1n a cellar after 8. So Krill let me in, think- ing, I s'pose, I wos a customer. He'd been drinking a little and was bold enough. But when I said as I'd say he'd killed Lady Rachel he swore he was an innercent babe' and cried, the drink dyin' out of him." "The same as it died out of you late- ly," said Hurd, smiling. "Go slow," grunted the captain in a surly tone. "I ain't afraid now, as I ain't done nothing. I said to Krill. I'd say nothing it he'd give me money. Ho wouldn't, but said he'd placed a lot t pawned things with Pash, and I Mise Qian, thinking her to- be mgroly an actress, simpered across the card table at his goddess. The four wore. playing a game Which involved the gaining and losing of mucho * money, and they bad been engaged an hour. Miss Stably, having eaten a good dinner and commenced a new shawi, was half dosing in the corner and paying absolutely no attention to the .players'. "It'e a good thing we're hanging on. our own hooks in this game," paid Miss Qian. "Were I your partner, 8an- dai"--she always addressed her friends in this tree and easy fashion --"I'd be losing money. What luck you havel" "I never do seem to win,' lamented Lord George. "Whenevex 1• think I've got a good hand, the thing pans out wrong." "Hay has got all the money," said the simpering admirer who answered to the name of Tempest. "He and you, Miss (Dan, are the winners." "I've made very little," she replied. "Hay's raking in the dollars hand over fist" "Lucky in love, unlucky at cards," said Hay, who did not like his good fortune to be commented upon for reasons which Miss Qian knew. "It's the reverse with me—rm lucky at cards"— "And lucky in love, too," interrupted Aurora, with a grimace, "seeing you're going to marry that Krill heir- ess—if she is an heiress." "What do you mean?" asked Hay, who was dealing a new round. "Go on with the game and don't ask questions," said Miss Olen in a saucy manner. "Sandal, don't stare round, but keep your eye on the cards," and she winked stealthily at the young lord while Hay was exchanging a word with Tempest. The young man, who had spoken privately to her Immediate- ly before the dinner, knew well what she meant. Had Hay been likewise "in the know" he would scarcely have done what he did do and which San- dal saw him do in a few minutes. Hay was rapidly dealing, and the o cards were flying like leaves. A pile could have them. He thea gave me of gold stood beside Hay's elbow and a paper saying I was to have the some silver near Tempest The game things, and I went to Push the next commenced, and soon the players were morning and bad trouble. But I heard engrossed, heedless of the patent snor- by chance," again Jessop cast a ing of Miss Stably, who, poor old thing, strange look at Hurd, "that Krill had had succumbed to the lateness of the been murdered, so I didn't wait for the hour. Suddenly Lord e George, touched who had lawyer to come back, but eut down to been very vigilant, felt Southampton and • went on a short under the table by Miss Qian. He voyage. Then I come here, and you rose at once and snatched up the gold nabbed me," and Jessop finished his standing near Hay. rum. "That's all I know." "What's that for?" demanded Hay "Do you swear you left Aaron Nor- i angrily. ++ said Sandal, "and man alive?" "You're cheating, "Meaning Krill? I do. He wasn't no I don't pa with I did na m heat" re." use to me dead, and I made him give " cried Mies Qian, me the jewels rash had, d'ye see." "Yes, you did, "But who warned you e d of the death bending forwardd ng seizing ythe cards; u. Tem; when you were waiting?"swan Jessop seemed unwilling to speak, pest"— it all right," said the other. but when pressed buret out, "'Twee a measly little kid with ragged clothes "You took up that king"— and a dirty face." I "And its marked," said Aurora. "I "Tray," said Hurd. "Hum! I won- believe Hay's got cards up his sleeve. der how he knew of the murder before Rg�neethepards." albut still keeping his it got into the papers?" countenance, tiled to object, but the CHAPTER KBI. two young men seized and held him, while Miss Qian, with a dexterity MID'S sister was a clever acquired in detective circles, rapidly young woman who is her time searched his pockets. had played many parts. She „Here's another pack," she cried, and began her career along with shook an ace and two kings out of the Hurd as a private detectivebut when detected swindler's sleeve, "and these her brother joined the official service aids.— Miss Hurd thought she would better Sandal took one and went to the her position by appearing on the stage lamp. "Marked, by Jovet" he cried, and therefore took the rather queer but with a stronger oath. "Here's a pin name of Aurora Qian. In her detective prick!" capacity she had often disguised her- "You are mistaken," began Hay, self when employed 1n obtaining eve • quite pale. dente and was remarkably talented in "No," said Tempest coolly, "we're changing her face and figure. This art not. Miss Qian told us you cheated, she used with great success in her neWi and we laid a trap for you. You've profession and speedily made her mark as an impersonator of various charac- ters out of novels. As Becky Sharp, as Little Dorrit, she was said to be inim- itable, and after playing under several managements she started, in the phrase of the profession, "a show of her own" and rapidly made money. But her great faults, among others, —• were vanity and extravagance, so she®®�' was always in need of money, and j� when chance offered, through her I� it® s brother, to make taay she was not averse to returning to the spy bust - nese. Thus it came a she PINE SYRUP watched Mr, Grexon Hay for many a long day and night, and he never sus- pected the pretty, fluffy, kittenish Mies Qian was in reality an emissary of the Is A Remedy Without An maw. Consequently when Aurora ask- ed him to a card party at her rooms Hay accepted readily enough, although he was not in need of money at the time. Miss Qian occupied a tiny fiat on the top of a huge pile of buildings in Ken- sington, and it was furnished in a gim- crack way, with more show than real value and with more color than taste. Like the Becky Sharp whom she im- personated with such success, Mill Qian possessed a chaperon, not because she needed one, being very well able to ` and the bronchial tubes, are, in the begin• Wok after herself, but because it sounded and looked respectable. Miss l nin gr but coughs and colds. Weak Kidneys Weak Miners surely point to weak kidney Nerves. The Kidneys, like the:RReart, and the stomach, find their weakness, not in the organ itself, but in the nerves that control and guide and strengthen them. Dr.vShoop's Restorative is these controlling inenerves, To doctor the to alone, is futile. It is a. waste .of time, and of money as well. It your back aches or is weak, if t scalds, or is dark and strong. if you haves of Brights or other distressing or San ney disease, try Dr. Shoop's Restomtiv Tablets or do foryou. D Drruga l red comee mend sand seln l will i urine rQ us fid., month -- r. She stor WALLEY'S DRUG STORE. asnd En the TraveDer's Grip H �'�" 1E3, t T,ytti, NORWAY going to be made out an adventurMa and a bad woman for the sake of that swindler Hay So you boys will just hold your tongues." "No," said Sandal, "my Inoiley".•- , "Oh, bother your moneel I'll ee that Hay pays it back. fl'ie's going to marry this Krill girl, and she's able to supply the cash." "But the girl shouldn't be allowed to marry Hag " said Tempest. "Don't you burp your fingers with other people's fire," said Aurora sharp- ly. "This girl's in love with him • and will marry him in spite of everything. But I don't care a cent for that. It's myself I'm thinking of. If I get your money back, Sandal, will you hold your tongue?" Lord George, thinking of what his noble father would say were he in- volved In a card scandal connected with an actress, thought it just as well to. agree. "Yes," said he hesitatingly, "I'll not say a word it you get the money back. But don't you let Hay speak to me again in public or I'll kick him," "That's your affair and his," said Aurora, delighted at having gained her point; "but you hold your tongue; and you, Tempest?" "I'll not say a word either," said the young man, with a shrug, "though I don't see why you should save this blackguard's reputation." "It's my own I'm thinking of, so don't you make any mistake. And now I have both your promises?" "Yes," said Sandal and Tempest, thinking it best to hush the matter up, "but Hay"— "I'll see to him. You two boys clear out and go home to beds." "But we can't leave you alone with Hay," said Tempest. "I'll not be alone with him," cried the little woman imperiously. "My com- panion is with me. What do you mean?" "He might do you some harm." "Oh, might be? You take me for a considerable idiot, I suppose. Yon get along, boys, and leave me to Le up things." Both young men protested again, but Aurora, anxious for her conversation with Hay, bundled them out of the flat and banged the door to when she heard them whistling* below for It hansom. Then she went to the dining room. "You come along to the drawing room," she said to Hay. "Diss Stably, stop here." "I haven't got my shawl," bleated the old lady. "Oh, bother!" Aurora ran to the oth- er room, snatched up the shawl and saw Miss Stably sitting down to knit, while she led Hay back into the draw - Ile looked round when he "Here's another pack," she cried. been trying this double card and marked card dodge several times this very evening." "And he's tried it lots of times be- fore," said Aurora quickly. "I have been at several places where Hay scooped the pool, and it was all cheat- ing!. heating.. "If it was," said Hay with quivering lips, "why didn't you denounce me then and there?" "Because I denounce you now," she said; "you're cooked, my man. These' boys will see that the matter is made public." "By Jove, yesr" cried Sandal, with a look of abhorrence at Hay, "and I'll prosecute you to get back those thou- sands you won oft me." "I never did"— "You've been rooking this boy for months," cried Miss • Qian. "Here, Tempest, get a constable. We'll give him in charge for swindling." "No! no!" cried Hay, his nerve giv- ing way under the threatened ex- posure; "you'll have your money back, Sandal, I swear." "Lord George to yon now, you black- guard; and how can you pay me the money when. I know you haven't got a cent?" "He intends to get it from the heir- ess," sniggered Aurora. "Oh, dear me!" rose the plaintive voice of the sheep dog, "what is it, Aurora? Anything wrong?" "We've caught Hay cheating, that's all, and the police"— "Oh, Aurora, don't bring up the po- The means by which he cured a very seveye case of piles. 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Some of these effected even after surgieal operations had f ailee. t''+ cents a box, at all dealers or Damao, •n, X3ates tic bio., Toronto, Equal For COUGHS COLDS, And All Affections Of The THROAT and LUNGS. Coughs and Colds do not call for a minute recital of symptoms as they are known to everyone, but their dangers aro not understood so well. All the most serious affections of tho throat, the lungs Stably, who filled this necessary office, was a dull old lady who dressed ex- cessively badly and devoted her life to knitting shawls. She talked very little. This sort of person exactly suited Miss 'Qian, who wanted a sheep dog who could neither bark nor bite and who could be silent These qualifica- tions were possessed by the old lady, and for some years she had trailed through a rather giddy world at An. roues heels. In her Own dell way she was fond of the young woman, but was far from suspecting that An- rocs 'was connected in an underhand �. e is th th i neer w mariner This was the old laky who sat In ;the pink drawing room to pity Pro- priety for Miss Qian. Lord George Handal was present, looking rather stashed out, but as gentlemanly. aa . gtyy with his fixed 'eyeglass and etecaall,C cold smile, was there, Too much stress cannot be laid upon the admonition to all persons affected by the insidious earlier stages of throat and lung disease, as failure to take hold at once will cause many years of suffering, and in the once that terrible scourge of " Consump- tion." Dr. Wood's Norway Pine Syrup is not Sold as a Cure for Consumption but foe affections tributary to, and that ing room. entered. "Where down. "Gone. But It's all right. rve made them promise not to say"— Grexon Hay didn't let her finish. He fell on his knees end kissed her hand. Isis face was perfectly white, but his eyes were full of gratitude as he bab- bled his thanks. No one could have ac- cused him of being cold then, But Miss Qian did not approve of this emotion, natural though it was. "Here, get up!" she said, snatching her hand away. "I've got to speak straight to you. I've done a heap for you. Now you've got to do a heap for me." "Anything — anything," said Hay, whose face was recovering its normal color. `You have saved me—you have." "And much of a thing you are to save! You'll be cheating again in a week or so." "No," cried Hay emphatically, "I swear I'll not touch a card again! I'll marry Maud and turn respectable. Oh, what a lesson I've had! You are sure those fellows won't speak?" "No. That's all right. You can go on swindling as before, only," Miss Qian raised a finger, "you'll have to nay Sandal back some cash." "No, don't," said Hay, who was now trembling. "I'll do whatever you like. Don't show me up—I'm—I'm go- ing to be married soon." "No, you sha'n't marry," cried Tem- pest sharply; "I'll see this girt myself and save her from you." "You can't prove that I cheated," said Hay desperately. "Yes, we can," said G•corgo. "I and Diiss Qian and Tempest all saw you cheat, and Miss Olen has the marked cards." "But don't expose me. I-1"— Hay broke down and turned away with a look of despair on his face. lie cursed himself inwardly for having ventured to cheat when things, by the marriage with Maud Brill, would have soon been all right for him. "Miss Qian," he cried in a tone of agony, "give me another chance." Aurora, playing her own game, of which the two young men were ig- norant, appeared to repent. She beck- oned to Miss Stably. "Take Mr. Hay into the dining room," she said, "and I'll see what I can do. But you try and bolt, Ray, and the news will be all over the west end tomorrow." "I'll stop," said Hey, whose face was colorless, and without saying a word he followed the sheep dog into the dining room in an agony of mind bet- ter etter imagined than described. Then Miss Qian turned her attention to her guests. "See hete, boys," she said frankly, "this is a dirty business, and I don't want to be mixed up with it." "But Hay should be exposed," in- sisted Sandal; "he's been reeking me, I do believe, fOr months." "Serve you jolly well right," said Aurora heartlessly. "I warned you again and again against him. But if there's a row, where do I come in?" "It won't hurt you," said Tempest eagerly. "Ole 9won't it? Gambling in my fiat and all the rest of It You boys may think me free and easy, but no one ..: esv a word against me. I'm not (To be Clontinued,l are they?" be asked, sitting 41111PIIIIIXIXItIl011i11X11pI11111XI11111tIIII11i111X11allnl111u,u "I'll do that. Maud will lend me the money. Does he want all?" "Oh, a couple of thousand will shut his mouth. I'll not see you left Its all right, so sit up and don't shake there like a jelly." "You're very kind to me," said Hay faintly. "Don't you make any mistake. So far as I am concerned you might stick in the mud forever. I helped you be- cause I want you to help me. I'm in want of money"— "ril give you some." "ricked from that girl's pockets," said Aurora dryly. "No, thank you. It might dirty my fingers. Listen. There's a reward offered for the dis- covery of the murderer of Aaron Nor- man. I want to get that thousand pounds, and you can help me to." Hay started to his feet with amaze-' ment. Of all the requests she was Iikely to make he never thought it would be such a one. "Aaron Nor- man's murder!" he said. "What do you know of that?" "Very little, but you know a lot," "I don't. I swear I don't" "Fish?' said Miss Qian imperiously. "Remember I've got the whip hand, my boy. Just you tell me how Mrs. Krill came to strangle the"— "Mrs. Krill?" 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