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The Exeter Advocate, 1915-11-25, Page 7xe1 The Green Seal By .CHARLES EDMONDS WALK Author of "The Silver Blade," "The Paternoster Ruby," "The Time Lock," etc. r. "S first Question.. "Nobody knows what's FiXb� i" % happened—only as I've doPed it out, Pt Wait till Miss/Fox has• had time to eS4 talk to her aunt, then - we'll know whether kmright or not. She's quiet if enough now,. I persuaded the neigh- bors to go hone. Fussy lot, believe me. Nothing ever happened on this .street .before," "What have you `doped` out?" I was impatient to know, "And why rp • should Mrs, ' Fox • have been `scared stiff,' as you expressed it? What CHAPTER XIV,---(Cont'd), "X was .not wide awake enough to wonder at such an unusual occur-' rence. •, A lighted lamp stood on the dresser, . and, I remember, it was the presence of the lamp that convinced me next morning I hadn't been dream- ing. Almost right away I drifted back to sleep; but not before I heard Aunt Lois whisper in a distressed tone: 4The Kiss of the Silent Death— God. protect this poor, helpless, inno- cent baby!' "That ' episode remains the most vivid of my early childhood, What could she have meant by those strange word's? Did she refer to the mark? I never forgot them. "Aunt Lois, you must understand, is naturally nervous and excitable, hn o d as young 'as I was I made al- lowances for her disposition, without knowing why I did so, Children, you know, seem to understand such things intuitively. But as I grew older—I mean mature enough to speculate upon it—I used often to Wonder what she meant by `The Kiss of the Silent Death,' So one day I able, I telephoned for a taxi, and by. the time Miss Fox had donned hat, coat and gloves, and we had descend- ed to the groundfloor, it was waiting for us. She gave the chauffeur the street and number, and I promised him he would lose nothing by forgetting speed ordnances. We turned into. First Street and had proceeded per, haps half a block when Miss Fox looked back, My mind at the moment was tou1 to to any fh Iat c to the act, and I thought no more of A until a minute or two had elapsed, during which she east two more un- easy glances backward as we mount- . T`e tracks, and again as we climbed the acclivity along whose crest run Boyle and Pleasant Avenues, The last time " mechanically clutched my arm, "Look:" she exclaimed under her breath. ''It is they!" "They? I dully eehoed,- rousing myself from my preoccupation. 'Who ?t, • Iger reply was another excited com- mand, om asked her,"She ma ook "Look—quick!" neighborhood the occurrence of vio- dit fell silent and sat for a while I turned barelyin time to glimpse lence of any deseription was'incon- ceivable, meditating, I did not interrupt, but a long, speedy loking machine. p It The time was broad day, I was thinking that Km. Fox must was about midwa in the straight,the immediate setting the most mod - hold the key to the riddle and if my y scared her?" "Dunno what scared her. It might ,t a-neoxl worse tnan tnat it x n< come just when I did. You see, the inside door was•open; just the screen was shut. I knocked a couple o' trines and didn't raise anybody. .Then I walked in—in a hurry, 1 smelt chloroform," "Chloroform!" . I ejaculated in maze11•tent. • . "Yep, chloroform. . I had a hunch I'd better not waste any more , time knocking. And I warn t any too soon, either. Found the old Iady on the dining -room floor with a towel over her face. Towel was soaked with the stuff, I got rid of the towel, nobody but me got wise to the chloroform." I could only stare in wonder and wait for him to continue, ,44I was 'just going to hunt a doctor when she come to and see me. Then she went from one At to another, so T rustled the neighbors andphoned you to get the young lady home" _. It all seemed such an incredible proceeding that 1 could only slowly reajize Struber's words. In this emin- en' y lespectabie and quiet residence level expanse of street stretching beest and quiet of all the houses, the hind us from the base of the hill to particular victim of all others: the one tact and diplomacy could do it, it was up to me to persuade her to unbosom herself, Lois looked toward me again and took up the thread of her narra- tive. "Poor, dear Aunt Lois. When I told her k had caught her crying over me in the middle of the night her confusion and distress of mind scared • me so that I commenced•howling at the topof ray voice.. v Shecaught e a'tm up in ,h.er arms, declaring that she had meant only to mother me; that in the same way she often had tiptoed the viaduct, and hitting it up at a least easy toreconcile with the appa- rent 1 I' . ' rent outrage, "Was. it robbery?—burglary?" I asked, "Well, you might call it both," Struber slowly admitted, "Somebody wanted something of the old lady's mighty bad to take such a chance. What's she got that's worth the risk? I've mixed . with all sorts. of crooks in my time, but never crossed ropes i with one that'd a -pulled off a; stunt like this unless he knew it'd put him en Easy Street the rest of his life, T'm waiting to find out what they ive y c ip They didn't mean to lose i us, it was manifest, in the maze of winding streets of which we might now take advantage if we were so' minded« But I had no intention of trying to elude than, For there was nd mistaking the car i or its two muffled, be -goggled, un- • occupants, recognizable ants, g p It was:thegrayautomobile, in to where I slept to see that every CHAPTER XV. thing was all right with me and Precisely at what point the grail' that I must 1 d l d was after d whether not th a run along an play an ' automobile abandoned its pursuit o think no more about it, 1 "Her betrayal` of her heart -hunger us I did not observe; doubtlesseafte on 'that occasion made me for the its occupants, whoever they were, had satisfied themselves as to ou time realize keenly that I had destination. It was more than likely no mother but her—that .she had no too that the low shadowy car pro child but me« I never got any fuller! peened to an advantageous positio explanation, and after that, my Buri-, nearby, from which our departur osit *, childlike, dwindled and finally might. be noted and - the chase one died away, 4< I more resumed. T could not say. So ,it came about that after a 1 was too much taken up with the cot whiie,the details got to seem like a i tage Miss Fox indicated as being he dream and when X thought of the , aunt's home, episode at all it was as such, But } Houses that people live in, to som you must see, as I do now, how im-, extent at least, have a personality possible such a dream would be for a their own, and they- and their imine child who had never heard of death. "I understand better now. She was looking at my mark—my in- delible badge of infamy—of murder! cottage, I might say, for it could no —of God knows what!" She clutched have owned more than five or six at her bosom as.if she would pluck rooms fairly smothered beneath a . the stain from her. "I can almost welter of gold of ophir roses whose feel the horrible thing burning into myriad blossoms shone like newly nay flesh! No wonder it filled her with pity and compassion!" From whatever angle one might view it, it was in all conscience a monstrous thing that anybody could i street the sidewalk was shaded by f , an w e er or the ✓ copped it,' • We moved together up to the ur porch, where Miss Fax almost imme- diately joined us. Her aunt was ly- ing down, easy now except for a n nausea that was the natural after of-' e feet of the drug. In a low voice she e suggested that we go over to a couple of lawn seats. She was deeply _ troubled. ✓ "Mr. Struber, do you know what happened?" she asked as soon as she e sat down in the bench facing the one of Struber and I chose. "Only what I've guessed, Miss diate surroundings reflect the charae ters of their tenants. I saw a small cottage—a•very smal Fox," he replied. "I was hoping • your aunt could tell us about it." The girl shook her head decisively. t . "She can't tell much. She was busy in the kitchen when she was attracted by a slight noise 'at the front of the house. At first she paid no attention to it, but when it was repeated she came to the front door to investigate. All she saw was what she took to be a Chinese laundry man's wagon standing at the curb. It wasn't right in front of the house, but down a way, toward Mrs. Falk- ner's, next door. -, "But you know the Chinese habit of walking night .-into one's house without knocking. She thought of this and turned to look into the front room; then she was seized from be -1 hind.. Before she could scream or struggle, she says, a cloth was press -1 ed over her face, she was dragged back away from the door, and knew nothing more until she came to and saw a strange man stooping over her. She never saw her assailant at all." "That was me she saw," Struber explained. "The cloth was a towel and it was soaked with chloroform." "Good gracious!" exclaimed the girl: Struber pursued: "I made a quick search of the house ,before the neighbors got here, but it didn't `look torn' up any. Of course I couldn't tell if anything was missing. Then your aunt didn't see anybody?" Miss Fox again shook her head. "No, nobody at all, except you. She was not given an opportunity. But "I have discovered what they wereeafter '—what they took." We waited expectantly f "The little ivory box, she added soberly,, her eyes on Struber;;"the one you came here to see. (To be continued.) Putting It Otherwise. • His Wife—Oh„ dear! I wonder if there is any perfect happiness in this world. The Cheerful Pessimist—Not likely. Silver linings are `surrounded by clouds. • • t minted money. The thick, tangled growth had clambered clear across the roof and back to the ground again on the farther side. A11 along the have been so inhuman as thus to fine old pepper trees, and wh _ brand and disfigure a helpless, nno- t turned intow-the walk leading,u to cent child with a mark of such abom-s the cottage two uncommonly lofty inable associations. It was much as i Lombardy •poplars stood sentinel - if she rested under the stigma of a : like, forming a noble gateway. There crime of which :she was not only was a well -kept lawn bordered by blameless but ignorant. And yet, had every conceivable variety of rose, it not been put there, her very exist- most of which were in bloom. There once would have been snuffed out! were, too, beds of other flowers and years and years before. This I was some agreerbly arranged shrubbery. to learn later. loquats, guavas, oleanders, privet "The Kiss of the Silent Death"— and the like. verily, the touch of the accursed. ring t But I was most forcibly impressed, was patly described in this euphem- first, by. the homelike air that hung istie phrase. I about the place, and, next, by its de- I had just reached a decision that tachment, as if it had 'withdrawn I must see and talk with Aunt Lois, from the rest of the world to pursue and try to convince her that it was a placid, unruffled existence independ- - now her duty to tell what she knew; ; ent of the quiet. neighborhood envir- that the mystery hanging over her: onment. niece and foster child had assumed a ( Was it an atmosphere of secretive - phase that threatened her with name- ( nese? Perhaps not. But the thought less injury unless the handicap of: came to me. silence were removed so that friends ! It seemed impossible that any jar - who were ready to help her might belting note from the outside . alien armed with knowledge, when a slid ; world could intrude here to shatter den clamor of, the telephone . made the serenity; yet, if_Struber were to be believed, this wag -exactly what had happened. Our machine stopped, ander I was given a fresh demonstration of the detective's adaptability to his calling, voice. which this time was his facilityin "That you, Mr. Ferris?" he asked. effacing himself from observation. I "This is Struber."Say, if you can did not see him at all until he detach let Miss Fox off she'd better come ed himself from the trunk of one of home right,: away. Don't scare. her; the poplars against which manifestly her aunt's -all•/right; but, something he had been leaning, and approached was. pulled off before I got here and to open the tonneau door. the old lady's gone bug. Get me`?" ( Before my companion had time to I became aware. that Miss Fox, voice her anxiety, he' announced: white -lipped, tense, with anxiety, was ' "The old lady's all right now. She's ,bending over me.-- She too had heard.' alone." And at that moment I be - "Ask him," she hoarsely demand -1 came.aware of a covert surveillance "what has happened." ` I from every house ,along. the : street. "Look here, Struber-Miss Fox' Truly, curiosity must. have been ram heard you. You must make it more pant. 'convincing that nothing serious has Miss Fox hastened 'up' the narrow. happened, to her aunt." gravel walk and disappeared in "the. I3e broke in quickly. house. P lingered to hear the particu- "Take my word for it, Mr. Ferris, lars from Struber. Mrs. Fox is; all right..,, She s simply That worthy also • watched the been scared stiff; and her own kin graceful form until.the screen rdoor cam, do more for her than a flock of closed and hid it. There was a queer dippy'neighbors. I `don't want to say expression on his' narrow features, too much over the phone." .. and his crooked beak wrinkled with I hung. up and turned to the aux- excess 'of 'inward emotion when he ious'girl. • turned again to me. Pushing the fin - "We can believe:>him," said I with gers of one hand up along the back conviction. "Goodness only knows of his head and tilting his derby for- what it is, but. no harm has come to ward, he' ruffled his hair in perplex- ' your aunt. I'll'go with you." it This proposal seeming to,be agree- Y"Don't'ast me," he forestalled my. THREE VITAL QUESTIONS pression in ,tomaoh and' chest after -eating, with Are yon full of clergy vital force,and general constipation, headache _dizziness; are sure sign,' . good health? Do you Lnowthatgood digestion of Indtgeation. Mother Seigel's Syrup, the Arcot is that foundation of good health; Pains and op-, herbal remedy and tonic, will cure you. IM O T H E y Lois and me jump,' Such was our , nervous , tension at,the. moment.; I grabbed up the instrument and clapped the receiver to iny.. ear, and immediately recognized Struber's AFTER M:EA LS TA K E MIS h SYRUP. At all Druggists, or direct on receipt of price, 50c. and $1.00. The.l liege. bottle contains three, times a -such as rhe Awairer. A. 7; Wurrs & Co. ListITEp..Cra(g Street West, Montreal, The Farm ,, A. Few Pointers for Dairymen.. A poor milker never gets the best results from a cow. A nervous ani- mal resents the bungling touch of a rough or inexperienced hand. Whyr not encourage the little peculi arities of the well-bred dairy co She is simply a big milking machin arid if her whims will produce more eher have If we are going to select a bull we would select the one with, the wore temper, all other things being equal Becaii,se temper and vigor show male characteristics which should not be ig- nored, g- n e- oxd« A gentle sleepy bull that -can . be managed without a nose ring does not as a rule produce the best calves. It is downright cruelty to _keep a bull in a small enclosure in the sum- mer, a victim to heat and . flies—but many men, who claim to be good dairymen, do this very thing, How could we expect a cow to keep in goo health and give pure milk when she is confined in foul and ill - ventilated quarters, winter or sum- mer. bought pair . of horse -clippers can be for $1,50 and the use of these once a month on the cow's flanks and udder will make it an easy matter to keep them clean. How many cows on the average farm give milk containing mare than twenty per cent. of butter -fat? Per- haps not mere than one out of every 100. The separator should never be al- lowed in the 'barn or near it. A half dozen window sash, glazed, will make a. dust -proof box in which the.. dairy ry vessels an be sunned upped And kept absolutely clean. Any enterprising farmer living near a town of 5,000 or more can .sell every pound of his butter at full re- tail ,prices or little above, the year round. For several years we have bought farm butter from the sande farmer, at two cents above retail market price, every month in the year and glad to get it, Never attempt to keep summer but- ter for early fall prices, because it will not keep. All milk should be aerated a$ soon as taken from the cow. This can be done by passing it through the sepa- rator, but it is not as good as a de- vice which divides the milk into many fine streams and then allows it to flow over auwide surface in thin sheets with plenty of "ice to keep the sur- face cool. If nothing better can be had, milk may be aerated by placing the cans in a trough of cold water and clipping the milk with a long -handled dipper and pouring it back into, the can until it is thoroughly cool. Never cover milk while warm, in the cans, as it will produce a musty odor, The milker who will thump a cow for squirming under the attack of flies, ought to be hoisted out of the barn on the toe of the dairyman's boots, Need not expect cows to keep up the milk flow during the tail -end of summer, unless you have plenty of soiling crops to feed. Dead grass does not produce milk. U his Advertiscment may induce you to try the first packet of but we rely absolutelyon the i!n►ulni b and qualityt . a � le flavour e , o make you a permanent customer.. milk 1 t them. l We will even offer to. give this first trial free if you will drop us a postal to :Toronto. . The Value of Cow` Peas, They can be grown as far north as Dent corn can be grown and on land so poor that clover would not catch at -all. They are called "the poor man's clover," because you can get such quick results. A crop of cow peas can be grown in three. months, and it will be' fully equal to a two years'. crop of clover. You can sow the peas any time from May to Au- gust and can, get a good big crop fol- lowing an early crop taken off in June. Plowed under after the first rost, they will, leave the ground ` in elegant shape for a crops next year. The seed coats about $2.50 per bushel and should be drilled in at the rate of one half bushel per acre. Ration for Chicks. A simple grain mixture is corn, wheat, and oats, a little more corn as the weather gets colder and less dur- ing the summer'days. A little buck- wheat and sunflower seed -added to his mixture during fall and winter months is beneficial: Green foods, uch as alfalfa, • cabbage, sprouted ats or mangles should be fed freely. resh green cut bone or feed scraps nd charcoal should also be supplied at all "seasons of ; the year.' Unnecessary Exertion. Pullman Porter—Next stop is yo'. o station, sah. Shall I- brush yo' off now? • Morton Mbrose—JNo; it is not a necessary: When the train stops I'll step off:' No Nightly- Visits: Burglar (just acquitted, ;to his law ,ver)—I will drop in 'soon ' and see you . Lawyer—Very' good; but in ,tire. daytime, please., Half a guinea is the daily pay of quartermaster in the leacling British cavalry regiments: Up to date, at least 1,700 men of the London Police Force are serving with the Navy and Army, whilst a further thousand have been drafted out of the metro olis : i'oz the n otec ' P protec- tion . tion ofdockyards and• military, Sta- tions in the Provinces. it Inventors' Fortunes. It is not always the greatest inven- tion that brings the largest financial reward. Roller skates are . said to have brought their inventor $3,000,- 000, while atearly half a'million was realized by the .man who first devised boot laces. The inventor ofthe safety pin, who took the idea from a repro- duction of a Pompeiian cameo, made $1.0,000,000. On the other hand, Charles "Beurseul, who discovered and described the ;principle of the tele- phone, in 1855, died poor; Michaux, the, inventor of the bicycle, ended, his clays in the utmost penury, and Fred- eric Sauvage, who is credited with the invention of the screw w propellor, iopelloi, was imprisoned and died bankruptand insane. BU3 GERMANY'S IGNOBLE BACK - DOWN, By Chas, M, Mee, Denver, Col. After much "crimination; and re- crimination" between the govern-, meats of the U. S. and that of Ger many, the Kaiser has at Last yielded to the American demand respecting• submarine depredations. S. om fi people e li i pa this 1 p F s a diplomatic oinatia victory for the Yankee nation; but others are equally insistent that Ger- many has yielded only because "the waters were made too hot" for her by sympathizers, he deserves and will c ive xe e the adorationof a grateful people. Certain papers - in this country that stand for America's preparedness, however, are disposed to belittle the achievement, ant claim, if there is. a triumph, it is naval rather than diplo- (F "Germany say t m_ for,s he r $ Ge m ri has s y , .X' y abandoned , her submarine warfare against merchant shipping and the rights of neutrals because the British fleet has made the submarine question a dead issue« What about the Lusitania , demand these papers. That .question is still the activity of the British naval force« unsettled. Whatever may be the real cause of But Germany's answer in the case Gerinany.s acceding to Americas de- of the Arabic,. and the concession mend, the result is equally glorious f therein made, and principles anima, and reassuring, Regret, disavowal and indemnity are all conceded by Germany, with the assurance that the Teuton will hereafter be goad, We are assured that the Kaiser's or- der to his submarines has been made so drastically stringent that the re- currence of incidents similar to the Arabic and Lusitania cases is eon- sidered out of the question. Atthe is outset of the negotiations. Germany asserted her right iunmis- takable terms to continue her original submarine policy,. and stated in its first note that "the German Govern- ment is unable to acknowledge any obligation to grant indemnity in the matter, even if the commander of the submarine should have been mistaken as to the aggressive intentions of the Arabic," But, in the note a month or so later, we were informed by Count Bernstorff, that Germany is willing to negotiate concerning the amount ttf the indemnity to be paid for the disaster, and this is expressly stated, whether the submarine com- mander was convinced or not, that the Arabia intended to ram the submar- ine; and Germany has gracefully yielded to the testimony of the Bri- tish officers to the contrary, The Imperial government, in the same note, assured America that "the at- tack of the submarine was under- taken against the instructions issued to the commander," and that "the Government disavows the act and has notified the commander, Schneider, accordingly." We have •some recollection of a "war zone" decree, and the liberal dimensions thereof, as set by the Ger- man naval officials, but all this is now a mere reminiscence, it seems, and we are to hear no more about it. This is a signal and surprising vic- tory for the whole world, for it fixes the limits of submarine activity for all time, and demonstrates how illy founded were Mr. Bryan's direful ap- prehensions that found expression in lois resignation as a cabinet officer. What a chance for immortal glory his evil genius induced him to throw away! This is not merely an American vic- tory. In principle the U. S. has been defending the rights of all neutrals, and all will rejoice over the success of American diplomacy. The result will make it easier to broaden and strengthen the code of international rights when the present war is ended. Force has bowed to rectitude, and morality has dominated power once more. President Wilson's :statesmanship, inflexible will and lofty courage have again triumphed, and though harassed at home by the impatient, and heckled by Teutonic ated, should easily apply to the Lusi< !tattle when the time comes to settle that dispute It is enough to know I that the weapon she relied upon has ;been struck from her hand, and that :ends it, The President got nearly every- thing he derended, bit by bit, and the American public kept its head and backed the President. The war-toot- expeace-at-any-price sand fawners and the angry hyphenated citizens have had their day in court. The public has had enough of them. Whe- ther the President "muddled through," in the diplomatic controversy, as some claim, or not, we have escaped the danger of being dragged into an igno- minious war. Never woman o judge by the com- ny she is compelled to entertain. 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