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Exeter Advocate, 1908-09-17, Page 2•-- iO.O+O+Qt+O♦0+ 0t+i0+0+CN0+0+tW Ct+0+0+O+*+*+0+0+la A House of Mystery OR, THE GIRL IN BLUE D+Ar+O+ci•04iO++Q+O+lCt+f +0+t*1OtO+:Ccatt4.0+0+Ciattati+:1 I went on in blind despair to wards my hotel. Determined upon tracing Mabel and ascertaining from her own lips the reason that our engagement had been terminated, I travlled on the following day down to Bournemouth and made inquiries at the hotel from which her letter had been 'at - ed After searching the books the ho- tel -clerk showed me certain entries, from which it appeared that Mrs. Anson and her daughter had arriv- ed there on May 12th, 1S91, and had occupied one of the best suitors of romps until June 5th, when they paid their bill and left suddenly. I glanced at Mabel's letter. It CHAPTER XXVI.—(Cont'd). fore the Director of Criminal In- was dated June 4th. She had left vestigations, including this story of .n the day following. I could learn Illy- words perplexed her. That yours regarding the Prince and his nothing further. she vas acquainted with the An- people." In an excited, unsettled state of ec•ns I had no doubt, and I was She rose slowly from her chair, mind, unable to decide how to act, likewise certain that she would perfectly calm, her dignity input_ I returned to London, and thou, never risk information being given fled. Her manner was absolutely out_of sheer want of something to to the police. More than once in perfect. Had she been a princess do, I travelled down to Heaton. the days long past i had e e rsei herself she could not have treated The old place was the same: neglcc- a shrewd suspicion that shh he e herself Nus the actual murderer of that my sudden ebullition of anger with ted and deserted, but full of me young unknown man. I looked at greater disdain. mories of days bygone. Old Baxter her pale face, and vaguely wonder -She gathered up the papers she and his wife were both dead, and eel again whether such were the had put before me, and, replacing the caretakers were fresh servants truth. them in the despatch -box, locked it whom my agent had apparently en - with the golden master -key upon gaged. I also learnt that Parker, The faet that she had secured my her bangle. Inc faithful old won:ein who had silence in return for my life as an tended to my wants in Essex street, outcome of that most ingenious Afterwards, she turned to me and f•aci also passed away more than conspiracy had seemed to me proof said, in a hard distinct voice— two years before. conclusive of her guilt, and now "Then I understand that I have I spent a dismal day wandering that wo had met in those strange to inform His Serene Highness that through the house and park, then circumstances the idea became iin- you refuse to assist hire further?" drove back to Tewkesbury, and on 'pressed upon Inc more forcibly than "Tell him whatever you choose, the following morning returned to over. madam," I answered, rising and London. In the six years that had What might be her real position taking up niy hat and canc. "I elapsed since my last visit to the in the secret diplomacy of Bulgaria shall, in future, act according to Manor nothing had changed save, I knew not. It was evident that my own inclinations." " Perhaps, that the grass had grown considerable confidence was repos- "And at your own risk !" she ad- more luxuriantly over the gravel- ed in her. She had come to me with ded, in a harsh voice, as, bowing led drive, and the stone exterior a cool demand to raise a loan of stiffly before her, I turned towards was being gradually rendered grey half a million sterling, and it was the door. by the lichen which in those parts t,lain from what she had explained "Yes, madam," I answered ; "I overgrows everything. hat the money was urgently needed accept your challenge—at my own The mystery of the crime, and of tor the protection of the State risk." the singular events which had fol - against enemies both internal and lowed was an enigma which seerned external. My own position was uni- CHAPTER XXVII. utterly beyond solution. que. Had not Gedge shown rueMy nerves were shattered. As those official documents, which gavo The mellow summer twilight was the days went by an increasing de - o! concessions in the Principality fast deepening into puss I sire possessed me to ascertain more o. Bulgaria! I should have laughed strode along V';c d;Tl3 towards tale ofrtiiat woman oho ca�►ca c el4• this woman's curious story to scorn Grainger, and was the confidential as a piece of impossible fie i ut-�'1't'L'us, after leaving the grey eyed emissary of a reigning rinse. She I had lar eed woman who held the secret. g g p g r some of those What she had revealed to me was alone knew the truth, therefore ' , s at Denbury, and was satis startling, yet the one fact which why should I not carefully watch ed that I had actually had many caused mo more apprehension than her movements, and endeavor to dealings with that State during the all others was the curious means by discover her intentions? From the sig. years of niy unconscious but which she had discovered my where- veiled prosperous existence. There seem- abouts. If she had been enabled to ed every truth in her statement that cio this, then tho police would, no to her had been due my success in doubt, very soon find me and return might make, yet she regarded me the City in the first instance. me to my so-called "friends." as a person detrimental to her in - "And supposing you broke your In despair I thought of Mabel. terests. As long as I had acted as promise and went to Scotland Long ago I had • surrendered my her agent in negotiating loans for Yard 1" she suggested at length, w hole heart to her. She had at the Principality, she had secured her oyes still fixed upon me. "What first placed a strong and high -mind- for mo high favor in the oyes of would you expect to find?" ed confidence in me, judging me by Prince Ferdinand. But the fact "To find?" I echoed. "I should her own lofty spirit, but that unac- that I had gained consciousness And traces of the crime within that countable rupture had occurred. and refused to assist her further room." and she had gone from Inc crushed had taken her completely by sur - She nodded. I had expected my and heart -broken. In my pocket I prise. words to have some confusing ef- carried her letter, and the more I That same evening I called at the fleet upon her, nevertheless, on the thought over it the more puzzled 1 Bath Hoel, and ascertained that contrary, she remained perfectly became. Daily, hourly, I lament- "Mrs. Grainger" had left some calm. Her self-control was extra- e 1 over the broken and shattered days before. She had not, it ap- ordinary. fragments of all that was fairest on peered, given any address where "And what would it profit -you, earth ; I had been bore at once from letters might be forwarded, but a pray?" she asked. calm and lofty and delighted spo- judicious tip administered to a hall - "I should at least know that I Mations into the very heart of fear porter caused him suddenly to re - bad endeavored to bring to justice and tribulations. My love for her collect that a couple of days before those responsible for the poor fel- was now ranked by myself as a fond her departure she had sent a dress - low's death." record which I must erase for ever ii,g-bag to a trunk -maker's a little "It would only be an endeavor— hem my heart and brain. Once 1 further down Piccadilly, to be re - it vain one, I assure you." had thought to link my destiny with paired. This bag had not been re - "You mean that the secret is too hers; but, alas: I could not now turned to the hotel, therefore it well concealed ever to bo reveal- marry her, nor could i reveal to was quite probable, thought the ed," I observed quickly. her, knowing them not, the mysteri- hall -porter, that the trunk -maker "Yes," she said; "you have ons influences which had changed had forwarded it to her. guessed aright." the whole current of my life and "You know the people at the "And, in other words, you defy purposes. My secret burden was tiunk-maker's, of course?" I said. The to discover the truth?" that of a heart bursting with its "Yes, sir. Many visitors here "I have not said so. The wori cwn unuttered grief. want repairs done to their boxes defy is scarcely one which should The whole of the events swept and bags." be used between us. I think, con- past me like a torrent which hur- "The Bath Hotel is therefore a sidering that our interests are to- rigid along in its dark and restless good customer ?" I remarked. day mutual—just as they were on ceurso all those about me towards "They would certainly give you her the night of the crime." some overwhelming catastrophe. address if you asked for it." "1 fail to see that," I answered. Tormented by remorseful doubts Ile scorned a trifle dubious, hut "I have no interest whatever in and pursued by distraction, I felt at my request went along to the keeping this terrible secret hidden, assured that Mabel, in her unresist- shop, and a quarter of an hour Int - tor while I do so I am acting too ing tenderness, her mournful sweet- er returned with an address. part of accessory." ness, her virgin innocence, was She had not moved far, it ap- "But surely you have an interest doomed to perish by that relentless reared. Only to the Midland Ho - in preserving your own life 1" she power which lied linked her distiny tel at St. Pancras. urged. with crime and contest in which Late that night I myself left the "Then you imply that if I were she had no part but as a sufferer. Grand, and, assuming a name that t;, lay information at Scotland Yard It is, alas! the property of crime was not nay own, took a room at 1 should be in peril of my life c" to extend its mischiefs over inno- the Midland. in order to commence 1 asked, looking straight into those cence, as it is of virtue to extend my observations upon her move crani eyes that ever and anon seem- its blessings over many that de- menta. It was certainly a risky ed full of mystery. serve them not. business, for I knew not when 1 "Of that 1 cannot speak with any Plunged in that sea of troubles, ou=ght encounter her in the vesti- degree of certainty." she respond- of perplexities, of agonies, and of bills in the lilt,or in the public cd. "I would only warn• you that terrors, -I reflected upon all that the in this matter continued silence is woman Edna had told pie. It scent - by far the best." cur inconceivable that Bulgaria's ''ilut you have uttered a veiled ruler should demand assistance of threat'" I cried. "You are aware me—and yet it was undoubtedly of the whole facts, and yet refuse true. too impart to me the simple informa- Presently I turned down the Hay - tion of the whereabouts of Mrs. An- market, still walking slowly, deep [son. Do you think it possible in in reflection. such a cave that 1 can entertain Should i inform the police? Very any confidence in you. or in your calmly I thought it over. My first extraordinary stety regnrding the impulse was to go to Scotland Yard affairs +.f Bulgaria and its Prince 1' and make a plain statement of the "1 am unable to give you any whole facts, laying stress upon the information regarding the lady you suspicion against the woman Grain - mention," she replied with a slight ger as an accessory. Yet when 1 frown of annoyanse. "But you are acquainted with her ' i may be --what then 1" '' I demand to know where she f< t! "And in reply i tell you that I sin in igrrorance." "In that case." i said angrily. "I refuse to have any further dealings w int: Bever with you. I rem the the statement of one believed not f t 1 became drnwn into a trip to be exactly responsible for his h.• soli. bound down and for six actions must be regarded with but Ecars held silent by your threats. Uttle credence. at, madam, 1 now tell you plain- No. circumstances themselves ly of my intentions. i mean to- h::d c.,nspirccl to held ma in si- t.�orrow• to lay the whole facts be- lence. • oil d throat she had uttered, it was evident that although she did not fear any revelations that I carie to consider the result of such action i saw with dismay that my lips were sealed. Such statement could only reflect upon myself. First. I should, by going to Scot- land Yard. be compelled to reveal my own identity, which would mean my return to Deubury ; secondly. 1 eeuld give no account of those six lest years of spy life, and, thirdly. • i • • About the Farm • • • +• 4 • • il♦++++••••••••••,++++• BUMBLI. FOOT. Fowls roosting on high porches sometimes injure their feet in jump- ing down from the roost to the floor. An abscesafurms on the sole, which becomes hard and calloused, and a condition known as bumble foot, results. The disease, if neglected, mayextend upward in the leg, af- fecting the joints, and ultimately causing death. A fowl that has once had bumble foot is of little more use. The lameness is liable t , return at any time, and birds suffering once from this disorder very rarely become profitable pro- ducers again. The best way is to prevent trouble by making the roosting perches low, and all on the same level. The old-fashioned way of putting the roosts up, one above the other, like the rungs of a ladder, is the easiest way of lay- ing things out for trouble of this kind. Tho hens crowd up to the top perches on going to roost, and when they come down in the morn- ing jump from one perch to an- other. Hens of light -weight breeds, such as Leghorns, can make the descent every day of their lives without injury to the feet, but heavy-weights,like Plymouth Hocks, Wyandottos or Cochins, are A syndicate has been formed to liable to put their feet out of busi- re -open and develop the Enrick cop- ness by tale performance; and the l,er mines at Gatehouse. The total municipal expenditure in Edinburgh noxi year is estimat- e 1 at $2,135,025. Wenryss School Board has finished Denbeath School, the third built this year, at a cost of $145,000. A Kilmalcolm dealer in footwear announces the sale of five thousand pairs of shoes at one shilling a across each other, in the form of an pair. X The matter is then washed out The two -days' sale of surplus with warm water ,;ontaining a lit- goods in Rothesay Castle on behalf -sold; and _ cnrbolatedeso.the.Highland .Aa::(sciution realiz- vaseline applied daily to the wound ed $Goo. until a cure is effected. The hatch- Coatbridge is suffering from a et treatment is used by poultrymen scarlet fever epidemic. There are cf experience, with rather more es er 70 cases in hospital, and some satisfactory results than any kind at the horses. o; doctoring. Miss Jenny Willison, Achran, Kil- lin, has been appointed principal cc:ntralto in the Opera House, Brunn, Moravia. Coatbridge Town Council are erecting new police buildings at 11'hifllet, including dwelling -house. recreation hall and cells. The Loch Carnan fishermen with whom the herring fishing has is year been a failure, have se^area heavy catches of mackerel. Marion, daughter of Bailie Wil- son, Gourock. has been appointed to the newly created position of lady health visitor at Durham. At Aberdeen, a train of some for - 1 SHREDD Start the Day Right by Eating SHREDDED WHEAT for breakfast with milk or cream and a 'RAI"- fruit. ittl�` fruit. It is a muscle -building food, easily di- gested by the most delicate stomach. Puts Vim and Vigor into tired nerves and Weary brains SOLD RV ALL 4@Dorsa 1osi Tit. F ROM BONNIE SCOTLAND [permanently er's htdestroying Thomas Statham, who had rung the bells of Berwick for about 55 years, is dead. He was the last of a family of bellringers who were connected with the bellringing of Berwick for over a century. Tho lady students of Aberdeen University are proposing to run Mrs. Henry Fawcett, president o1 the National Union of 1Vomen,s�. Suffrage Societies, as a candidate for the Lord Rectorship of the Uni- versity. By the death of John Elliott, a Berwick ferryman, a literary link has been broken. Deceased was a grandson of Hobby Elliott, whose original method of training his twelve sons is one of the gems of Mackay Wilson's `Tales of the Bor- ders." the for - NOTES OF INTEREST FROM HER BANKS AND BRAES. What is Going on in the Highlands and Lowlands of Auld Scotia. An Edinburgh lady has left 820,- 000 to her maid. Dalbeattie, the youngest burgh of the Stewartry, celebrated its bur- ghal jubilee recently. Scotchman's adage about the horse holds equally true with the hon, Nc foot, no hen. Frequent applications of crude petroleum is a good remedy for bumble foot in the early stages of the disease. If the trouble is neg- lected, it becomes necessary to open the abscesses by making two cuts LIVE STOCK NOTES. Do not allow the dealer to come in and sort out the largest and fin- est lambs and leave the culls. Sometimes farmers sell their Iambs at a fixed sum per head early in the season. The dealer will call when he needs lambs and sort out the best and never come to get the smaller ones at all. The yearly cost for food for the average dairy cow is about $30. Un- less the income from her milk ex- ceeds this amount, the cow is clear- ly not paying her way. The only satisfactory method of determining this question is by weighing the milk and testing the per cent. of butter fat by the Babcock test. A cow that does not pay takes up just as -much room as a profitable one. Relatively to size, the horse has n smaller stomach than any other domestic animal. This makes it necessary that he must feed fre- quently, digest promptly, and have a rich material in a small bulk, thus adapting him especially to per- fcrm rapid work. In a state of na- ture he is under no necessity of eat- ing too much at any one time, but replenishes the stomach lightly and at frequent intervals. There is no overtasking the organ, and no ex- treme exertion upon a full sto- mach, which so often takes place in the domesticated cunditioti. A horse will maintain excellent health on the natural grasses, but when he is placed under the saddle or in harness and subjected to work, we take him from his natural state and the same feeding will not longer meet the demands of the system. TEACHING CHICKS TO ROOST. Chicks of Leghorn and other light -weight breeds will begin roost- ing of their own accord when six 1,t eight weeks old. Chicks of the heavier breeds often do not roost until taught to do so by the keep- er. The general practice is to keep chicks of 1 d breeds met ium-size res s on "A MIRACLE IN _WHEAT."_WHEAT."The Story of This Marvellous Wheat Is Not True. This paper printed an article from the Saturday Evening Post about a wonderful new what which one Adams is said to be raising on his farm in Idaho. If the claims fur this wheat were true it would revolutionize farming the world over, but so far as further investi- gation has brought out, they aro not true. The Saturday Evening Post dispatched a thoroughly reli- able man to Idaho to examine the wheat on the ground, and his wired report, which follows, pretty thew oughts'disposes of this agricultur- al marvel: "Assertions of huge crops or good flourmaking quality not justified. Adams' only claim of proportion of two hundred bushels an acre is with an eight of an acre patch two years ago. For last year ad- mits farm average only thirty bush- els. So far this year only twenty- five to thirty-five an ificre. Offeilew 11 excuses such as weals—and under - sowing. Not true that wheat has tv waggons broke away ani ran been successfully grown elsewhere. down an incline, crashing thrnrg Misleading to say frostproof, for the wall of the forwarding Asaadmits some injury by snow. Flour - Mr. W. S. Wilson, engineer in making qualities unknown. Adams charge of the operations at Ayr eat;given experiment station ana- Auld Brig. reports that the stabil- lysis last year and told with it that ity of the arches is now assured. milling teat was necessary to show At Paisley there are 15,097 in at- the quality with certainty. Has net tendance at the various schools of had the test. The wheat in appear - the burgh, 11,010 being in the board ante is much like certain targe, and 4,051 in the non -board schools. erarse wheats not valuable for Tho old proposal to purchase Ashburn House and convert it into a concert pavilion and pleasure gr,rd.en is being revived in Green- ock. Kilbrannan fishing fleet I.id a great catch, the steamers being filled and G00 boxes landed at Car- raciale. Campbeltown pier was also congested. Mr. John Munro, merchant, El- gin, who died recently, left a leg- acy of $30,000 to Elgin and a similar and one of the most celebrated of - amount to Forrest for the erection ficers in the Russian service, has re - of public baths. ec•ntly had the courage to publish The other day a fight betwixt an a pamphlet which supplements the ed and a big salmon was observed at Helmsdale. The former le ivted itself round the tail ef the latter and ultimately killed it. The death has taken place at her residence in Winton Circus of Miss Bessie Miller, who for over a quar- ter of a century was infant mistress of Saltcoats Public school. The death took place very sudden- ly recently of Mr. Thomas Wilson, sen., Cairnholly, near Creetown. The deceased was a well-known far essential to secure - reliable and rooms. As soon as my roots was mer in the south-west of ficotland. c,,rnpetent non-commissioned ofli ac signed teems, i ugla� glanced through old, and chicks of the lathe floor uhtal about lrgest breeds parish ofe Killeen and ayers of it Kilehen ,i^ �; rsa The were `the rrealn leaders oed f tic list eagerly, n month or two longer. Unless the that if she were there she, too, had ate a conacientirnis lot. There has the mutiny on board the Panont changed her name. In the long list floor is kept clean and the chicks n,+t. been a farthing nr arrears of 1;oB, the superior officers of that of visitors was one, that of a Mrs. well bedded, it is better to teach assessment for the last five years. All to roost early. If suitable wide cruiser not haling the slightest idea Slade. Slade 1 The name was fa Last week Lor kerbie School rniliar. It was that of the (Cietor who had given me back my sight. That name struck me as being most probable. She occupied a roots on the same floor as mine, numbered .too. The door of that room I in- tended 'to watch. (To be Continued.) flour. UNREST IN CZAR'S N.1VY. ftp;elatiuny by Prince Alexander Lic%en. That the Czar's navy is seething with disaffection has for some time been an open secret to students of Russian naval affairs. Prince Al- exander Lieven, a naval commander criticisms of the Douma on the mis- management of the navy and the cause of disaffection. The Prince states plainly and without reserve that the Russian navy is not only destitute of dis- cipline, but of esprit de corps, and that there will be no improvement in this state of things until thor- oughgoing reforms are carried out i a all departments. First of all, he says, it will be d. - Visitors to Thurso observe its in- timate connection in days of yore with Norway. from the many Scan- dinavian surnanles and facial char- acteristics of the people. Thurso v.as founded in the twelfth century. Major Maclaren. Gla.gow, Ring's Own Scottish Borderers. has retired from the service. Ile joined the army in March. lss3, reaching Itis present rank in April, 190.1. Two additions boa been made to the Children's Musei:m, Tollcross Park. One is an observation hive et bees, by means of which visitors 'can see the bees in full activity. toasts are used, there is no more Bard appointed Mr. William Os- dr.nger of crooked breasts than on wall, M.A., Stirling. as science the floor, and ninny poultrymen toaster of Lockerhie .academy. There were six applicants for the pest. !for us, for it will cost manti inore While operating about seven of us sur lives if this question is not miles off $t. :1hbs Head. the Craw -r solved in a satisfactory manner. ler James landed a large shark of i One makes n great mistake if one the blue species. it measured 9',;! imagines that the mutiny has ecas- fret in length and nearly G feet in; ed. If at the present moment the girt h j air aeerna to he quieter, it is only .1 Glasgow east end bride went because there is a mere outward en en her honeymoon the other day calm among the people. The truth think the general advantages of get- ting the youngsters on the roost, where they cannot crowd and hud- dle in corners, and are not soiled by their own and each other's droppings. more than compensate for what keel bones are twietcd. Often chicks can be taught to roost by putting in low roosts and placing with them one or two old hens or chicks that are in the habit with a black eye. The optic was is w•e are not in a position to exert of roosting. if this plan cannot he dr.rkencnl by a badly -aimed boot any influence over our sailers. We tried, or d:,es not work, a wide thrown for luck by one of the have nothing in cornmon with them, board should he placed close to the guest R. i and they on their part allow them - wall. about a foot from the ground, •'t ('rimer.a veteran has passed selves to he entir••iv led away by and the ehicka placed on it after, away at T,ngg. .Tura. in the person fleeting pablic opinion. When a dark, night after night. until they 'ef Duncan Carmichael. He was still stronger popular mo%cinent will go to it of their own accord. ei er 84 years of age. a native of , l,reak.. forth the fleet will join the After that. a wide roost. the regula- Islay, and had resided in Jura f•'r i,eor.le and inerea,•e the danger tion distanee from the wall. maythe , he+ycnrs. !which thrcritr:rs the Che •rnment substituted for the hoard. .. %semen arned Winifred Delar-I "Is is ,+,t. .f"1. "v. but the 0-_-____ gee pleader guilty in a r?,ti.,i, . •• .±, - .. , , + w•• t. • real command- substituted language is often used in;court to hrn►ng [lir: . ,: •y if 'he t;r.aa.a11 making sharp retorts. Iof vitrol on her friss Is,' ..0 e .., 4,f what was in the wind until they were surprised and killyd.L The question of non-conri,sion• ed officers for the Russinrt navy. he adds, is of the greatest importance 1 1