Loading...
The Brussels Post, 1921-3-31, Page 6Deiicious" tive op aim**,of an who have ante tfriie4 tasseled bag. "Thee 0e which you left in the Cafe Deane, Lady' Ireton," he replied. "Here also I helve'" -•-from another pocket he drew out a diamend ring-.. "something whith was extorted from, yeti by the fellow Meyer." Without touching her reoovored property, Lady Ireton stood beside the chair from which she had arisen, her gaze fixed upon the sneaker. "My friend Mr. Knox ie. aware of all the circumstances," continued the latter, "but he is as anxious as I am to terminate this painful interview. I surmise that what occurred on Wed - if nesday Ie am wrong; was Whileidinngrect wih Mr. De Lana you heard sounds of a quar- rel in the street below. May I sug- gest tthat you recognized one of the voicIndy Ireton, still staring straight before her at Harley, inclined her head in assent. "I heard my father's voice," she said hearsely. "Quite so," he continued. "I am aware that Major Ragstaff is your father." He turned to me: "Do you recognize the touch of genius at last?" Then, again, addressing Lady Ireton: "You naturally suggested to your companion that he should look out of the window in order to learn what was taking place. The next thing you knew was that he had fallen into the street?" Lady Ireton shuddered and raised her hands to her face. "It is retribu I tion," she whispered, "I have brought "He waited until after 11 o'cloek.l this on myself. But he does not de - The dinner is spoiled. He pays, but serve—" Her voice faded into does not complain." silence. "No," said Harley, musingly, "he You refer to your husband, Lord had nothing to complain about. One Ireton?" said Harley. more question, my friend. When the Lady Ireton nodded and, again re- lady escaped hurriedly on Wednesday covering power of speech: "It was to night what was it that she ]eft be- have been our last meeting," she said, hind and what price are you trying to looking up at Harley. She shuddered extort from her for returning it?" and her eyes blazed into sudden At that the man collapsed eintirel7' fierceness. Then, clenching her hands, Do you understand, Knox?said she looked aside. "Oh, the shame of Harley as the cab bore us toward Hamilton place. "Do you grasp the this hour! she whispered. details of this scheme?" And I would have given much to "On the contrary," I replied, "I nm have been spared the spectacle of absolutely at sea." this proud woman's humiliation. But Nevertheless I had forgotten that I Paul Harley was scientifically re - was. hungry, in the excitement which morselese. T could detect no pity in now claimed me. For, although the his glance. thread upon which these seemingly "I world give my life willingly to ddsconnected things hung was invisible to me, I recognized that Bampton, what hasare y husbanddth saine wknowledge Ire - whothe city clerk, the bearded strangery who had made so singular a proposi- ton in 'a low, monotonous voice, tion to him, the white -hatted major, Three times I sent my "maid to re - the dead stock broker and the mysteri- cover my bag, but he demanded a price which even I could not pay. Now it is all discovered and Harry will know." "That, I fear: is unavoidable, Lady Ireton," declares Harley. "May I ask where Lord Ireton is at present?" "He is in Africa after big game." "H'm," said Harley, "in Africa, and after big game? I can offer you one consolation, Lady Ireton. In hie own interests Meyer will stick to his first assertion that Mr. De Lana was din- ing alone." A strange, horribly pathetic look came into the woman's .haunted eyes. "You—you—are not acting for?"— she began. "I am acting for no one," replied Harley tersely. "Upon my friend's discretion you may rely as upon my own." Then why should he ever know?" "Why, indeed" murmured Harley, "since he is in Africa?" 4s we descended the stair to the hall, myfriend paused and pointed to a life-sized oil painting by London's most fashionable portrait painter. It was that of a man in the unform of a Guards officer, a dark man, slightly gray at the temples, itis face very tanned as if by exposure to the sun. "Having had no occasion for dis- guise when the portrait was painted," said Harley, "Lord Ireton appears appears here without the beard; and as he is not represented smiling ore cannot see the gold tooth." "But, Harley—it was murder." "Not within the meaning of the law Knox. Lord Ireton is officially in Africa—and he went actually after 'big game.' The counsel is not born who could secure a conviction. We are somewhat late, but shall have less difficulty in finding a table at Princes'." 11 YOU have not tried it, send pis a post card fora ire sample, stating the price you now pay and it you use Black, Green of Mixed Tea, .AddressSalada,Toronto be, hitero. , Hat PART IV. 'You are looking at this tragic fragment, Knox," said' Harley, taking up the bar. "Of course"—he shrugged Ms shoulders—"it explains the whole unfortunate occurrence. You see, there was a flaw in the metal at this end"— he indicated the spot -"and the other end had evidently worn loose in its Becket" "But I don't understand." "It will all be made clear at the inquest, no doubt. A most unfortun- ate thing for you, .Mr. Meyer." "Most unfortunate," declared the proprietor of the restaurant extend- ing his thick hands pathetically. 9,lost ruinous to my business." "We will go upstairs now," said Harley. "You will kindly lead the way, Mr. Meyer, and the whole thing will be quite clear to you, Knox." As the proprietor walked out of the office and upstairs to the second floor Harley whispered in my ear: "Where d'd she ga?" "No. 45 Hamilton Place,' I replied ops woman whose presence in the in an undertone.' ease the clear sight of Harleyhad "Good God!" muttered my friend promptly detected, all were linkd to- gether by some subtle chain. I was convinced, too, that my friend held at least one end of that chain in his grasp u cr [acini Its furniture consisted "Iorder to clear your mind for PP the interview which I hope to obtain of a round dining table, several chairs, this evening," continued Harley, "let a couch, and very little else. I ob- pie clear up one or two points which may seem obscure. In the first place, yourecognize that anyone leaning out of that window on the second floor would almost automatically rest hip weight upon the iron bar which was piaeed there for that very purpose, since the ledge is unusually low?" "Quite," I replied, "and it also fol- lows that if the bar gave way any one thus leaning on it would be pitch- ed into the street." "Correct:' "But, my dear fellow," said I, "how could such an accident have been fore- seen?" "You .peak of an accident This E3y Sax Rollmer and clutched my arm so tightly that I winced. "Goo,[ God! This erime was the work of a genius:' Opening a door on the se'ond land- ing, Mr. Meyer admitted us to a small served, however, that the farmture, earpet and a few other appointments were of a character much more ele- gant than those of the public room below, A window which overlooked the street was open, so that the plush curtains which had ween drawn aside proved slightly in the draft. "The window of the tragedy, Knox," explained Harley. Ile crossed the room. "If you will stand here beside me, you will see the gap in the rail- ing caused by the breaking away of the fragment which now Iies on Mr. Meyers desk. Some few yards to the left in the street below is where the assault took place of which we have was no accident! One end of the bar heard, and the unfortunate Mr. De had been filed completely through Lana, who was dining here alone—an although the file marks had been.'care- fully concealed with rust and dirt, and the other end had been wrenched out from its socket and then replaced in such a way that any one leaning upon the bar could not fail to be precipitated into the street." "Good heavensl Then you mean—" "I mean Knox, that the man who eccentric custom of bis—naturally ran to the window upon hearing the disturbance, leaned out, supporting his weight upon the railing. The rail collapsed, and—we know the rest" "It will ruin me," groaned Meyer; "it will give bad repute to my estab- lishment "I fear it will," agreed Harley occupied tiie supper room on the sympathetically, unless we can man night before the tragedy the dark age to clear up one or two little dlffi- man, tanned and bearded—spent his ?pities which I have observed. For time in filing through that bar—in instance"—he tapped the proprietor short, in preparing a death trap!" on the shoulder confidentially—"have I was almost dumbfounded. "But, you, any ,.idea of the identity of the Harley," I said, "assuming that he woman who was dining here with Mr. knew his victim would be the next De Lana on Wednesday, night?" occupant of the room, how could he The effect of this simple inquiry know upon the proprietor was phenomenal. I stopped, Suddenly, as if a cur - His fat, yellow face assumed a sort of fain had been raised, the details of leaden hue; and his already prominent what I now perceived to be a fiend - eyes protruded abnormally. He licked his lips. "Itell you—already I tell you," he muttered, "that Mr. De Lana he en- gage this roost every Wednesday anti sometimes also Friday, and dine here by himself." "And I tell you," said Harley sweet- ly, "that you are an inspired liar. You smuggled her out by the side entrance after the accident" "The side entrance?" muttered Meyer. "The side entrance?" "Exactly; the side entrance. There is something else which I must ask you to tell me. Who had engaged this room on Tuesday night, the night beforethe accident?" The proprietor's expression remain; ed uncomprehending. "A gentleman," be said. "I never see him before." "Another solitary diner?" sug- gested Harley. "Yes, he is alone all the evening waiting for a friend who does not came." "Ah," mused Harley—"alone all the evening, was he? And his friend disappointed him. May I suggest that he was a dark man? Gray at the temples, having a dark beard and mustache, and a very tanned face?" "Yes, yes!" cried Meer, and his astonishment was patently unfeigned. "Itis a friend of Fours?" "A friend of mine, yes, said Har- ley absently, but his expression was very grim. "What time did he finally leave 1" ishly cunning murder were revealed to me. "According to his own account, Knox," said Harley, "Major Ragstaff regularly passed along that street with military punctuality at the same hour every night. You may take it for granted that the murderer was well aware of this. As a matter of fact, I happen to know that he was. We must also take it for granted that the murderer knew of these little dinners for two which took place in the private room above the Cafe Dame every Wednesday—and sometimes On Friday. Around the figure of the methodical major, with his conspicu- ous white hat as a sort of focus, was built up one of the most ingenious schemes of murder with which I have ever come in contact. The victim literally killed. himself." "But, Harley, the victim 'might have ignored the disturbance." "That is where I first detected the touch of genius, Knox. He recognized the voice of one of the combatants— or his companion did. Here we are The man ushered us into an ante- room off the lofty and rather gloomy hall and closed the door. "Harley," I said in a stage whisper, "am I to believe--" "Can you doubt it'?" returned Har- ley with a grim smile, A few moments later we were shown into a charming boudoir in which Lady' Ireton was waiting to receive ms, She was a strikingly , handsome brunette, but to -night .her Used fact, which normally, I think, pos a anraarn b al.. _k r lo]rin w ii Aln.oai u __ � .�..� _ iia .� t lid; iiritrt l f'.t wd1 a hunted look in ItaAan. 'ne 'I's •x Its ld her dark eyes whicli made me wish cors of all type.' • cola su cot to aoitvor+ ,,y° b Ra s�m, ar toot to be anywhere than where 1 found n of • anee It au wlab. to as m self. r� s ilei Y Y e Or ttroltsri d 6 p helot as purolsaeo , "I fail to understand your message sloe ruaaeeb RING raoohanla or ohne oirn b0ofoe B•ir," she said; and X admired theim- to look them over,er atilt uate; perious courage; with whieh she faced aknoratiro " ittryei ilarrae took e1we 'ta him' "You say you have recovered and, a handbag which, I had lost?" areakey'a Used Oar. Mirka dos 'yoaxe s:y-•et Harley bowed, and froth the pocket (The End.) Princess Juliana Sees Her First Movie. The little Princess Sultana, only chlid of Queen Wilhelmina and Prince Consort Henry, who may one day suc- ceed to the throne of the Netherlands, has Just been permitted to see her first motion picture show, says a des- patch from the Hague, She is 11 years old and Is being reared In the sheltered fashion characteristic of the home life of Queen Wilhelmina. The little Princess, however, Is being train- ed in music and ether arts as well as in the duties of a housekeeper. Her first motion pieture show was of the educational type, a South Pole picture. Queen Wilhelmina rarely appears at fetes, publlc receptions or patriotic celebrations. .In fact, she is seldom seen in publlo except when walking through the woods or driving In one of her carriages or automobiles. She prefers dignity to display, and her re- sidences could hardly be called pal- aces, Women! Use "Diamond Dues." Dye OM Skirts, Dresses, Weide, Coats, Stockings, Draperies, Everything. Each Dosage of "Diamond Dyes" contains .easy directions fordyeInit any article of wool, silk, cotton, linen, or relied goods. Beware! Poor dye eirealts, spots, fades, and ruins ma• tonal by giving It a 'dyed -look." Buy "Diamond Dyes" only, Druggist bas Color Card, The tea -tree is an evergreen. Of all sea -water inhabitants, the whale is the best swimmer.. of his greatcoat 'Wok out a silken i Mlnard's Liniluent for Burns, eta 4DERWEAR and DMIERY FOR ALL THE FAMILY LATEST STYLES AT MODERATE PRICES MADE IN CANADA BY CANADIAN PEOPLE Our Guarantee on Every Garment Sold at Most Good Shops That Baby of Ours. I often wonder if mothers ever ap- ply the old saying, "What is one man's meat may be another man's poison" to their babies? For this is certainly true, I have seen one baby thrive on the same diet that made another baby sick. For instance; nearly every article I have ever read on this subject strongly recommended cow's milk, yet my own baby would vomit the milk within half an. hour of drinking it, and the milk would be in hard lumps. After doing this too or three tines I decided sweet milk was not good for him. I have there- fore never believed in any set menu for babies, thinking it best for the mother to watch carefully and judge each child's foot} from the effect on the child. Nevertheless, I have had such suc- cess with my system of dealing with this food question that I am sure, by varying the food according to each individual child, the same system will help other mothers. I begin to feed the child at'six months, and wean it entirely by its ninth month. The weaning is so gradual that there is never any worrisome "weaning time" that most mothers so dread. I have always believed most of the trouble in getting a child to eat just certain articles of diet tomes from seeing so much other food before him. I bought a regular high table chair with the table front. The legs of this chair were sawed off so the seat would be within a foot of the floor. This will prevent the child from seeing the food on the dining table and, as it is so low, he can get in and out by himself,' and it also does away with the "cute" little habit some children have of pushing themselves against the table and turning themselves' out of the chair, As he is out of reach of the dishes and tablecloths he can got into no mischief from this source. Baby is set within easy reach of me,yet he can not reach me to pull and worry while T am pouring coffee and the like. I fill his plate with just what 1 want him to have before I begin with my own eating. A damp- ened napkin is in his reach, and. he is taught from the first to be "nice." The sixth month S fix him in his chair at mealtime to teach him the habit. Ile is then too young really to eat anything, but I give him a nursing bottle with very weak condensed milk in it, strengthening it a little every day. The seventh month I vary this with thin soup, strained through a wet cold rag to remove the grease, and fruit juices. If I have stewed figs or prunes, I give him the syrup weak- ened with water, or a little orange or lemonade. By the eighth month ho Will be holding a cup or bowl. He should then be given a:spoon, :end the bottle gradually be taken from pini. During this month I crumble wheat bread in tiny bits, brown then[ crisp, and add this to his soups. All cer- eals are boiled in plenty oT water for two or three hours and then strained; and he is given the gruel. Ile is also given the "pot :liquor" from Togo - tables, to which I have added the browned "crisps" During this month he is fed every three or four hours. I never call a child to be fed, but al- ways watch for restlessness, nor would I feed a baby just because it would seem to me that it must be hungry. Even a tiny baby will first get restless when it is hungry, and will squirm around quite a bit before it really cries. Never wait until it cries, though, for then it` will eat or drink greedily. After the ninth month eggs cooked very soft can be given. A good way to cook these eggs, and a way that is not generally known, is to butter the inside of a cup, break the raw egg in it, and set the cup in a kettle of boiling water. The cup will float. When the egg begins to turn white, add a little butter and salt, and beat the egg until it is smooth. Baby will. be sure to like this. The strained gruel from the cereals can be''tbick- ened a little by adding a very little of the cereal itself. From the first year until the second he is given such a variety of food that it would take too long to enumerate them. Almost anything that could he mashed and given him without a single little' lump, or that he does not have to chew will he good for him. This includes spinach, cooked thor- oughly and cut up very fine,' mashed potatoes, stewed fruit, if plashed fine, the thick fruit syrup with toast or browned crumbs, baked apples with the skin and core removed, and well cooked cereals. Babies are all born without habits or knowledge of food. Every baby I have ever seen that "ate just any- thing," or was fed coffee or tea, was a crying, colicky baby. If a child is never taken to the table and fedi "just anything," it will never cry for ford that would hurt it. It is lots easier to teach good, healthy, habits than to unteach them. Fruit Recipes for Spring Desserts. Pour one cup boiling water on two tablespoons cornstarch, moistened with half cup cold water, and cook until thick and smooth add two table- spoons sugar and one teaspoon lemon extract, and fold in the stiffly beaten whites of two eggs. Put into a hollow circular mold; when firm, untold, and 3111 the centre with canned pears cut in small pieces. Serve with the pear syrup as a sauce. Delicious cake pudding -2. cups mince meat, 1 cup prune pulp, cake erumbs, 1 cup whipped cream. Stew the prunes until tender, and • then put PEASANTS BLOT OUT SOME SHELLQ.S TRACTORS USED IN RE- CONSTRUCTION. Sometimes Plows Hit Unseen Shells and Farmer and Horses Perish, A mlracie lids been wrought in a battlefield of the Somme region, the. scene ofconstant action ever Since the not battle of the Somme, writes Sir William Bedell Thompson lu the London Daily Mail "A good part of that epa0lous field yielded most excellent crops last au- tumn,' he says. "Even the small farm- er, who loves to grumble, contestant that, Much of It has grown two crops since the war. "An eager peasant who had helped to .produce the miracle gave me the details, "The first year a plague of nice and fats appeared. 115 seemed to think they had been' spontaneously bred from shells co released from some devil's cavern by burrowing soldiers. The rodents ate every other plant that pushed up. "The second year they vanished as mysteriously as they came. "This peasant bad his stock housed, slime under lean-to tarpaulins, some under bits of tin and wood jutting from shattered walls. He himself. lived In a hut with his family. Intense Patriotism of the French. ""What would you?' he said, 'A man loves his country.' "Ile meant not France, but his bit of country; his parieb, his plot; and in this sense. doubt whether any people in the world have such passion es the French for their land.' as such. "The state, with a simplicity that marks the best french work, sent out '-"". men with spades and tweezers. Aftet through a sieve, taking care not to 1 cutting the limitless wire into two. get much juice into the pulp mixture.1 yard lengths they went to work like Combine the pulp and crumbs, blend -1 Darwin's earthworms, so patiently, so ing thoroughly,,. Fold in the whipped' effectively. Every shell hole was fill - cream and set in a cold place for ed in by spade and shovel; and so three hours. Cut in slices, and serve, thoroughly done thatthereis no with whipped cream. I cracked shrink -fug to denote the Prune Gelatin—iba cups prunes, 2 crater. The uulocal and casual road - tablespoons gelatin, 'fs cup sugar, 1: Hien who 411 up holes near the road cup cold water, 1 tablespoon lemon I leave wire sticking out, and after juice, 2 cups boiling water. Soak{ some days a subsidence is very plain. prunes overnight; in the morning cook! It is not so at all on the farms. A until tender, and press through al rough tractor follows the long-hand- coarse.sieve. Add sugar and flavoring.: led spades; and then the tanners get Dissolve •the gelatin in cold water,! to work,wtth those very shallow plows and then add boiling water. Pour of theirs that regard only the surface, ithis into the prune mixture, and set but are by no means superficial, in a cool place until it jells. Pour into "Shells work- up by degrees, and . wet melds, and set to cool. Serie. When found aro put up couspICuously cold with sweetened whipped cream. or stacked and :tagged for the engiin- eera tv Collect and explode, Some - Orderly Boys.' times they aro hit before being seen, The simple matter of a boy's being' When good -by plowman, plow and trained to be orderly mny seem of horses; but for the sake at the laud very slight moment 'in determining that risk is run. the happiness or unhappiness of his "If n class prize were given far re future hone, but at least every house -construction energy the French farm- wife with a careless husband will rip- er wopld get it. preciate its importance in practical[ "73 there were a village competition living. A lad accustomed to have his I should pick from .he very many oil- sisters or the servants pick up what -Mages I have seen 'Villers Ir • t nnoux ever be chooses to leave aboutwillj as prize winner. come some day to be a constant v exa- "!t would please every Australian; tion to the tidy soul of his spouse, especially the people of Melbourne, w when he [night almost as easily have who liavo adopted it, to sec already been taught to aid rather than destroy built a largo and well equipped tic• the neatness and order of his home.: tory, a new chateau with many are" The mother who allows her son al-' tecturel trimmings and a .rmniber of ways to consider his own interests[ real brick houses under Construction. and never to feel' that the comfort and The village Bart the death of German wishes of those about him are his of -1 hopes. When with a tank or two the fair is preparing a husband who will, Australlans stopped the German ad - some day render miserable through i Vance there, what nu ,incurable moss of ruin the village was—of brickbats, sheerthoughtlessness any sensitive i beams, trunks, girders, airplane sheds and bits of tanks; of dead things en- tombing dead lite. " It is now alive again, with rich farms around .it and a cheerful peo- ple," M1 The Power of Thought If a thought can in an instant of time dilate or contraet a blood vessel; if it can increase or decrease the se- eretion of a gland; if it can hasten or retard the action of the heart; if it can turn the hair gray in a Melte'"W'H LOOK OLD? night; if it can force tears from the when one anon ea. .eyes; if it can produce insomnia; if tion bt llultoa's as has often occurred, It can bring in- irnievee rBy oraentitivs e stantaneous death,—thenen is it not keeps the hair natural for ns to conclude, without natural. No further argument, that it may bring oil, eo dirt; -the hair can about a more or less continuous de - woman who links her destinies with his. Mlnard'a Liniment Relieves Golds, ete. COARSE SALT LAND SALT Bulk Carlota TORONTO SALT WORKS O. J. °LIFT, TORONTO be washed when des. red. Try It. Black or Brown. • Trice, 52.00. Sent prepaid to CaanY in E. e. Carnoohan, Power Ave.. Ottawa So many daily uses mill. rail! A. it is served' in some form at every meal, and keeps indefinitely, many thrifty housewives order several cans of Crown Brand at a time. Thus they always have a supplyon hand. How pleased they are to find that to emergency calling for cooking, baking or can dy-makin g finds them unprepared. It is economical. ADA S'rARCIt CO., LIMITED, MONlR'kAL. MS cert Brand. rown up t �j-he Grecte Sweetener 26 In 2, 5, and 20-1b. tins rangemeirt of the physical organiser that we call disease? I' have seen the most wonderful ef• fects follow a fit of anger, After an outburst of passion the function of every gland in the body is impaired. Time and time again, I have observed acute illness In an infant when it was permittedto nurse immediately after the mother bad engaged' in a quarrel, and on more than one occa- sion I have seen death follow within a few hours. The standing army of the human body Is the corpuscles of the blood: Upon then[ we depend to heal the wounds, build new time and attack the:polsotions bacilli that may attempt to outer our systems. Thought produnes disease because of Its action on the corpuscles: -of the blood 'rltese corpuscles are wonder- fully influenced by the mind. An out- raged consoien00 heti, envy, anger and fear crush the vitality out of them and leave too citadel Ot life ex• POW, Hut faith, hope, happiness and. love create them end send them swarming through tlio body till every fibro and tissue throbs with life, 'I']tla is demonstrated b; the tularaemia -- Dr, Charles Gilbert Daubs.