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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1928-09-27, Page 7jatooed Jtrm by Isabel Ostrander CHAPTER 1 It was because of dainty, little Pa- -tricia Drake, who was seated oppo­ site him in his private office, that Attorney John Wells had telphoned to Police Headquarters and summon­ ed a tall, drak-lxaired young man with a respectful but bored manner Of a presumable son of the elect. “Sergeant Miles. You sent fox* me?” John Wells gave him a swift glance of appraisal and with a ges­ ture indicated' not only his youthful feminine client, but a vacant chair facing the cold light of early spring. “Miss Drake, this is Sergeant Miles. I should advise you to be Srank with him as you have with me, Be seated here, Sergeant, if you please.” The detective took the chair in­ dicated. and the young girl drew a ijuick, convulsive breath. “How—how do you do? I would have consulted an alienist rather than my father’s attornew had it not been for the fact that I feel, I, at ligst, am still sane, Sergeant Miles. /d7—do you know anything about psychology?” “Psychology” from a big-eyed dighteen-year-old kid! Owen Miles, university graduate, pauperized by his father’s mining operation and member of the Police Department through an innate passion for crim­ inology, pricked us his ears, repress­ ed a smile andi replied gravely: “A little, Miss Drake. Enough, I think, for practical purposes.” It was John Wells’ turn to con­ ceal surprise at the cultivated, veil- edly amused accents of this most ex- traodinary emissary from Headquar- terh, but the girl merely hesitated a moment and then spoke in a quick little rush. “Then, perhaps you can under­ stand why, with no insanity in the family, three dignified, middle-aged gentlemen, brothers, should sudden­ ly become victims of the wildest hal­ lucinations, like—like the three Mad Hatters, and do such queer, ri­ diculous things that they are the . talk of the town?” There was a V hint of tears in: her voice. “I sup- * pose this will seem disrespectful when I tell you that it is of my father and my two uncles I am speaking, but it is the truth!” “What sort of hallucinations have they, Miss Drake?” j “Perhaps,” the attorney inter- W ’ posed in his urbane, well-rounded tones, “it will be well for me to tell you a little of Miss Drake’s family. She is the daughter of Hobart Drake of the New York Stock Exchange. His wife died when. Miss Patricia, here, was born, and she was brought up by his maiden sister, (Miss Jer­ usha Drake, a. lady of the soundest practical common-sense. They have always lived in the old family resi­ dence out on Long Island, at Brook- lea.” Owen Miles nodded quickly with­ out speaking and -the attorney went -on: “Fie years ago Roger Drake, the eldest of the family and a scientist of world-wide reputation, returned from Europe to the old home at Brooklea and, a few months since the other brother, Andrew, came back from Australia—where he had amassed a fortune in sheep-ranch­ ing. You can see that the three brothers are widely disimilar in character, yet a very great affection, has always existed between them. I have known them all since they were mere boys and I can speak from personal observation.—Pat.” Well turned to the young girl, “did all three exhibit the symptoms at the same time?” “No. Poor father was the first to break out/’ Her lips quivered “People put the most—most scandu- lous construction on it, connected with the wine cellar, and; I know it wasn’t true. “For the past month or two I have noticed that father was wor­ ried about something. I don’t think very seriously about it until that dreadful time a fortnight ago when in the middle of the night we were all awakened by a- loud knocking on the front door and finally Carter', the butler, went diown and opened it. “I was leaning over the balus­ trade, and what do you think I saw? >Our local policeman, Sam Clark, was bringing in a stout figure, dress­ ed all in flowing white' like a ghost, that reeled as it walked. “I’ve brought Mr. Hobart home, Carter,” Sam said. “I’d get him to bed real quiet, but in. the morning you tell him that if it happens mgain we’ll have to confiscate what he’s got left in his cellar.” ■ “He was down in front of the soldiers’ monument,” Sam explained, rigged out in these here bed sheets, and spouting like a Fourth of July orator that he was Julius Caesar, Lucky it was so late oi’ he’d have had the whole town round him. Soon’s I touched him he seemed to sOrt of collapse and he came along home without any trouble. He’ll likely be alright im the morning.” Patricia had given an unconscious­ ly graphic imitation of the country Constable, but as she paused and covered her face with her hands there was nothing of amusement in the expressions of either of her hearers. “Did you get a closer view of your father, Miss Drake?’ the’latter ask­ ed after a, moment. “Yes, I heard a sort of gasp be­ hind me and turned to find Uncle Roger there, staring down at father with such a shocked, horrified, ex­ pressions that I thought he was go­ ing to have a stroke or something. We stood watching them bring father upstairs.” “And where was your other uncle, Mr. Andrew Drake, during this time?” “Uncle Andrew slept through it all,” Patricia paused. “He is aw­ fully jolly and the next morning he triedi to make light of it, but when he knew how really ill father was he was terribly worried.” “Your father was seriously ill, then ?’’ “Yes. It was a week before he went to his office in Wall Street and he hadn’t gone to the village once— I don’t blame him!” Her small gloved hands clenched on the arms of her chair. “The things that were said and the horrid jokes that have been made! I was ashamed before —but it’s worse now!” “You mean that your uncles have exhibited similiar signs of—er— ec­ centricity,” the detective asked. Patricia nodded. “Not exactly similiar, .but they have done things that it seems to me only people whose minds were de­ ranged would do!—And Aunt Je- rusha’s attitude is the most inex- licable of all!” “My dear Pat!” John Wells ex­ claimed. “You cannot mean that she also—!” “Oh, no. Aunt Jerusha hasn’t gone crazy, too, but she insists that there is nothing wrong. When 1 suggested an alienist this morning she was angrier than I have ever seen her. “Nothing more happened for the first week after father’s strange at­ tack except that Uncle Roger seem-, ed to grow more deeply troubled. He had promised to give a lecture on archaeology at the high school last Wednesday. If I had only known!” “Was the lecture not given?” “It was!” Bitterness sharpened her soft, girlish tones. “And the next morning the village was talking worse than, it had over father’s be­ haviour! Sergeant Miles, that lec­ ture was the most hideous travesty imaginable. Had it been sheer dri­ vel it wouldn’t have been so bad, but it was a clever, satire, ridiculing the archaeological discoveries of re­ cent year. The audiences didn’t know whether to laugh or to feel af­ fronted at his insult to their intelli­ gence.” “The next day no one told me anything until Mr. Grayle came over. It was awful!” “Who is Mr. Grayle?” queried the detective. “A neighbor, a naturalist,” Pa­ tricia responded. “He and uncle Roger have been great friends ever since he bought The Rose Tree, next to the Kemp estate—” She paused and a deeper flush suffused her face. Sergeant Miles glanced at the attorney, who smiled and nodded almost imperceptibly. “What was your uncle’s explana­ tion?” “He made one.” She shrugged. “He looked dreadfully worn and ill but he was as dignified as ever and merely said that he regretted his dis­ couse had not met with the approv­ al of his hearers. On Saturday when the paper came out there was a perfect furore; the editor intimat­ ed that the lecture was the work of a disordered mind; and recalled father’s oration before the soldiers’ monument, insinuating that they had both fallen victims to some strange aberration. In the very face of it Aunt Jrusha made me go to church with her yesterday and I never thought I could go through such an agony of mortification! “I made up my mind I would come to see you today, and then when Uncle Andrew was found this morning!” She. broke off once more as though too overcome to continue. The detec­ tive and attorney glanced at each other before the latter remarked: “Go on, my child. Tell the Ser­ geant exactly what you told me.” “Early this morning, Edward the houseman found Uncle Andrew sitt­ ing on the drawing-room floor in his pyjamas playing like a child with some ornaments which he had taken from the cabinet and mantel, and when he saw Edward he ran to­ wards him on all fours, growling as though he were pretending to be some kind of an animal! -Edward has never gotten over being shell- shocked. This morning was the last straw and he gave immediate notice, so Aunt Jerusha sent me into town to engage another houseman and a gardener. That gave me my opportunity to come and consult Mr. Wells.” She hesitated once more. “I don’t know, though, what she will say when she sees you, Sergeant.” “She need see in me only what she sent for—the new houseman!” Ser- gant Miles announced. Patricia’s blue eyes opened very wide. “Oh, could you?” she breathed “I want an assistant outside as well,” interrupted' the detective. “You say that a gardener is needed, too?” “You—you don’t know any detec­ tive who is a gardener, too, do you?” “I know the very man!” Sergeant Miles exclaimed with enthusiasm. Patricia glanced from one serious face to the other. “Then you don’t think it is just that they’re losing their minds, my father and—and my uncles? You don’t think my aunt will be the next to go and then—perhaps—!” She faltered once more but her meaning was unmistakable, and, al- thought the attorney was discreetly silent he laid one slim, blue-veined hand upon her arm reassuringly. (To be Continued) CAR CRASHES INTO HERD OF CATTLE A bad accident occurred on Mon­ day afternoon about five o’clock on the road between- Goderich and Clin­ ton, when Mr. John Sproul, of Gode­ rich drove into a herd, of cattle own­ ed. by Mr. Trewartha, who was in charge, of the cattle at the time, be­ ing unable to stop quickly enough. Three of the- cattle were killed and the car was badly damaged. Mr. Sproul himself,, sustained injuries which necessitated some stitches and Mr. Wilfred Hoggarth, who was in the car also needed medical atten­ tion. $300 FINE FOR HAVING STILL Chris. Zirk, R.R. No. 3, Zurich, was fined. $500 and costs by Magis­ trate Reid at Zurich on Monday, convicted of having a still in his possession. A quartette of Indians are in the jail at present, the offence being theft of a drum of oil and a quantity of gas in the Township of Usborne. Several liquor and motor vehicle act cases were disposed of by the court the past week.—Goderich Signal. Tired of circus life, Tom, an ex­ pert actox” among his own class, es­ caped on Friday evening about 7:30 from the circus in Ridgetown. A search of 12 hours was necessary to find the missing actor, but was fin­ ally located by circus authorities about a mile from the tent, in an orchard, having a feed of nice fresh fruit. Tom is the most valuable monkey in the show and his services during .the evening performance of the Barnett Bros. Circus were great­ ly missed. The curb gas-pump .is adding to traffic congestioxi in many towns and is proving a vexatious problem. The Provincial authorities have now decreed that municipal bodies which granted licenses to operate pumps on the curbs have done so illegally. The Town Council of Simcoe was re­ cently notified to this effect and. forthwith not only refused an ap­ plication for a license, but cancelled all the permits that had been grant­ ed in the past, throwing all respon­ sibility for the pumps on their own­ ers. A Sandwich magistrate has de­ cided that it is not legal for 'trans­ portation agencies to undertake to deliver liquor in the United States contrary to the laws of that country, since the contract cannot be carried out without committing a crime. It this decision is upheld by the higher courts it may be a real help to stop the scandalous conditions along the international boundary line. THE EXETER JIMES-ADVOCATE THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2701 £&he <Junaat/ School Wesson By CHARLES G. TRUMBULL, Litt. D, (Editor of the Sunday School Times) REVIEW: PAUL THE MISSIONARY Sunday, Septembei' 30 Golden Text Christ liveth in. me. (Gal. 2.20.) The Apostle Paul stands out as one of the greatest figures in all human history. He was called of God to a unique work; he was God’s chosen vessel, alone among men. to receive the full revelation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Christ Himself in His early lifetime did not disclose that Gospel to His own disciples as Paul was supernaturally enabled to dis­ close it to the church. We have had three months of the six months’ course of lesson in. the Life and: Letters of Paul. The aim of the course, as suggested by the Lesson Committee, is: “To discovei’ through the life and writings of Paul (1) the elements of that growing in­ ner experience of God in Christ which made him the outstanding missionary and teacher in the early church: (2) practical applications of Christianity to everyday life and con­ duct; (3) ways in which the rule of Christ is to be established among men. Teachers can profitably keep these three parts of the aim in mind in teaching the review lesson in class.. 1. The Early Life of Saul. Deut. 6: 4-9; Phil. 3:4-6; Acts 22:3, 27, 2S. As boy and young man Saul was brought up as a strict, devoted Hebrew, and these Scriptures tell how. He must have been thorough­ ly familial- with the Old. Testament, an example we would do well to fol­ low. He was a highly cultured man —and God can, use such. 2. Saul and Stephen. Acts 7:54 to 6:3; 22:3, 4, 19, 20; 26;4, 5, 6, 9-11; Gal. 1:13, 14. But his cul­ ture and his religious zeal left him not only spiritually dead, but love­ less and an unmerciful persecutor. 3. The Conversion: of Saul. Acts 9: 1-1 9a; 22-6; 1. Cor. 15:8. Let us never make the mistake, as some do, of saying that Saul’s experiences, his study of Stephen, and his medi­ tation on what he had seen and he^rd, brought about his conversion. The Scriptures say something very different. It was the Lord Jesus Christ, appearing in person and in dazzling glory striking Saul to the earth iu blindness and helplessness, then revealing Himself to him, that brought about Saul’s conversion. It is the way “all Isreal” is going to be saved at the second coming of Christ, by his sudden appearance to them in, glory. 4. Saul’s Early Ministry. Acts 9 19b-30; 11:19-30; 12:25; Gal. 1: 15-19. Saul now became as zealous for Christianity as he had been zeal­ ous -against it. All his culture, training in the Old Testament Scrip­ tures, and wide experience were la­ vished in the ministry of the Gospel. Unbelieving Jews could not answex- his testimony or his arguments. When logic is put at God’s disposal, and is linked with Godi’s revelation, it is unanswerable. 5. The First Foreign Missionar­ ies Acts 13:1-52. Foreign mis­ sions originated with God, not with men. Some one has well said: “God had only one Son, and He gave Him to be a foreign missionary.” And the first missionary move made by the church was initiated by the Holy Spirit, who directed the Church to send out Barnabas and Saul. Should any one evex- undertake Christian missionary work unless the Holy Zurich A couple of oil drillers have land­ ed on tihe farm of Mr. Ben Char­ rot te, of the Blue Water Highway, and are ^trying to interest men of the community with capital, to fi­ nance the sinking down of a shaft with an endeaox- to locate oil. Mr. Floyd Fing met with a pain­ ful accident when returning from Mildmay to Zurich. In some way the car took fire but by heroic work oxi (his part the flames were extin­ guished. He suffered from bad burns on his hands. Mr. Walter Sclinurr, who has con­ ducted a blacksmith business ixx the shop formerly occupied by Mr. John Kepper is closing the same and is moving to Clifford, having purchas­ ed a. similiar business there. Mr. Herbert Kalbfleisch, B.A., son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Kalbfleisch, of Hay Township, is attending a Uni­ versity in New York city. Hay Council held a special meet­ ing in the Clerk's office when new* assistanas was hired for the Tele­ phone Central at Zurich. Misses Margaret Schilbe .and Lottie Tuerk­ heim were appointed. Mrs. Joe J. Schwartz and daugh­ ter Eunice left for their diome in Detroit aftei’ a pleasant visit with relatives and friends. Spirit calls and empowers him for it? The first missionary journey, being wholly of God, was marked by miraculous experiences—and by per­ secution. 6. Paul in a Pagan Country. Acts 14:1-28.1 God enabled these first missionaries to work “signs and wonders,” including miracles of healing. In consequence the pagans would have worshipped them as gods, but this only gave a fresh op­ portunity to preach the living God and to plead with the hearers to “turn from these vanities.” The first missionaries did not seem to think .they must be careful not to denoxince the false worship of the heathen—and they got results. The fact that they were continually per­ secuted showed what an impression they were making. 7. The Council at Jerusalem. Acts 15:1-35; Gal. 5:1-15. A crisis con­ fronted the Church. The question had to be settled whether men were saved partly by good works—that is, by keeping the law of God—ox- by faith alone. Petex- and Paul and Barnabas testified from their own evangelistic experiences that God was actually saving men, wholly apart from works, by simple faith in Christ, and Gentiles as well as Jews. A formal Church Council, under the direction of the Holy Spirit, recog­ nized the principle of grace, not law, as the way of salvation. 8. Paul Carries the Gospel Into Europe. Acts 15:36 to ’16:15. By the direct intervention of the Hob- Spirit, Paul and Silas in a mission­ ary journey were turned from their own plans and brought into Europe with the Gospel. A business woman' was one of the first converts. Eur­ ope might have waited long for the Gospel but for God’s sovereign guid­ ance. 9. Paul in a Roman Prison. Acts 16:16-40. At Phillippi one of the great prison experiences of history occurred as the missionaries were hounded by persecution and thrust into jail. Perhaps God knew that was the only way the Phillippian jailer and his entire household could be saved- The jailer and his pris­ oners are rejoicing today in that night’s experience. 10. Paul in Thessalonica. Acts 17: 1-15; Rom. 15:18-20; I. Thess. 5:12-23. Violent persecution broke out against the missionaries in Thes- salonica.but a church was formed there to which two of the rich Epis­ tles of the new Testament were writ­ ten, including one of the great Scripture passages on the coming of the Lord. (1. Thess. 4:13-18.) 11. Paul in Athens and Corinth. Acts 17:16 to 18:17 I. Cor. 2:1-16; I. Tim. 2:3-7. In cultured Athens Paul nxade a very literary address, and; won few converts. In Corinth he “determined not to know any­ thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and Him crucified”; and a great number turned to Christ. 12. Paul Writes to His Friends in Corinth. 1. Cor. 1 to 4. Here is the great Scriptual plea against di­ visions among Christians. They are not to separate one from another by­ following different preachers, such as Paul, or Apollo, or Peter, but they are to be one in Christ Jesus. 13. The Christian Basis of Total Abstinence. (Temperance lessons.) 1. Cor. 8: 1-13. The Christian al­ ways has the right to forego his rights. He nevex- has the right to use his rights if doing so may in­ jure another. MISS FRANCES .MILLYARD TAKES UP INTERESTING WORK Miss Frances Millyard:, R.N.. dau­ ghter of Rev. J. E. J. Millyard, pas­ tor of Wesley United Church, and Mrs. Millyard, London, left for Bangkok, Siam, where, with an Am­ erican nurse, she will take charge of the nurses’ training school in the Rockefeller Foundation Hospital. The training school was establish­ ed two years ago and is being car­ ried on by the foundation until 1931 when it is expected the Siamese Go­ vernment will take charge. The Prince of Siam is the patron of the instiution and it is at his instigation that Miss Millyard! goes to Siam. Aftex- completing her collegiate education in Canada, Miss Millyard entered the training school foi- nurses in the Port Huron Hospital, after which she was connected with the staff of the University Hospital at Ann Arbor, Mich. She expects to remain in Siam until 1931. Miss Millyard expects to sail from Vancouver on the SS Empress of Russia on September the 27th. She will touch Japan en route and at Hong Kong will change to another vessel for the voyage to Singapore. From, there she will continue the journey to Bangkok, which she hopes to reach by the first week ;r. November, Here and There (134) The biggest day for grain hand­ ling that the port of Montreal haa experienced this season was regta- tered on August 21st, when deBr- erles went well over the 2,000,000 bushel mark for the 24 hours, and receipts were recorded at nearly 1,500,000 bushels, a total handling of 3,500,000 bushels for one day. The almost complete absence of forest fires with their smefle® screens marring scenic effects—(he brilliant clearness of the air in this region has mads the present tourist season the best on record in Brit­ ish Columbia. Many touring par­ ties travelled over the Canadian Pacific lines, some breaking the journey to motor over the pictur­ esque Banff-Windermere highway. Among other groups may be men­ tioned the Alpine Club of Canada, which held its camp at the Lake of the Hanging Glaciers, followed by the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies. Approximately 250 new elevators have been constructed throughout ■Alberta this year, it is estimated by local grain men. The total capacity of these elevators would be about 18,000,000 bushels, it was stated. Complete figures for ele­ vator coixstruction in the province were not available, but grain men stated that extension of facilities had been progressing rapidly in all parts of Alberta. The capacity of the elevators varied from 35,000. bushels to 140,000 bushels. The* Alberta Wheat Pool alone has 1101 grain elevator companies have in- 1927 and practically all the public’ grain elevator companies have in­ creased their storage capacity. For the first season in a number of years the Nipigon trout may be said to abound. Hydro-develop­ ment with accompanying fluctua­ tions in water levels, threatened extinction of this exceptionally game fish, but the careful regula­ tion of the past three seasons has apparently restored the world’s •most famous trout stream to some-, thing of its old standing. Six guests of the Bungalow Camp here- brought in 125 pounds of fish yes­ terday, counting a fair number of four and five-pound trout caught mostly at the entrance to Lake Polly. Pike and pickerel still abound in large numbers, so it is thought that the restoratioxx of the •water level rather than the destruc­ tion of natural enemies has brought back the Nipigon trout. Entirely new and important schemes involving large expendi­ tures on the part of the Canadian Pacific Railway in the placement of British colonists upon the laud, are to be undertaken through the De­ partment of Colonization and De­ velopment of that companv, work­ ing in co-operation with the Over­ seas Settlement Committee of the British Government. The details of these schemes have been nego­ tiated during the present visit to* Canada of Lord Lovat. Under Sec­ retary of State for Dominion Af­ fairs and chairman of the Overseas Settlement Committee. One un­ dertaking provides for the building of one hundred cottages by the Canadian Pacific for the use of British families. 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