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The Brussels Post, 1912-11-14, Page 7ONLY A MONTH; OR, A CURIOUS MYSTERY EXPLAINED. CHAPTER XXIV. Mr. Boniface insisted on keeping thein all till the following day, when once more they enjoyed the delights of coaching, getting back to London in the cool of the ev- ening, laden with wild roees, haw- thorn, and the field flowers, which gladdened more than one of their neighbors' seems in the model lodgings. It was not till Wednesday in Whitsun week that Frithiof found himself in his old place behind the counter, and it took several clays before they all got into working order again, for though the holi- day had done them good, yet it was not very easy to get back into the routine of business. But by Mon- day everything was in clock -work order again, and even Mr. Hor- ner, though ready enough at all times to grumble, could find no- thing to make a fuss about. It hap- pened that day that Mr. Horror was more in the shop than usual, for' Roy had unexpectedly been obliged to go to Paris on business, and it chanced, much to his satis- faction, that, while Mr. Boniface was dining, Sordoni the tenor called to speak about a song. There was nothing that he enjoyed so much as interviewing any well- known singer ; he seemed to gain a sort of reflected glory in the pro- cess, and Frithiof could hardly help smiling when at the close of the interview they passed through the shop, so comical was the obsequi- ous manner of the little man to- ward the tall, jolly looking singer, disagreeable business by going and so curious the contrast between through the ordinary form quiet - the excessive politeness of his tone to the visitor, and his curt com- mand, "Open the door, Feick." Frithiof opened the door prompt- ly, but the tenor, whose misehevi- ous eyes evidently took in every- thing that savored of fun, saw plainly enough that the Norseman, with his dignity of manner and no- bility of bearing, deemed Mr. Hor- ner as a man beneath contempt. "Oh, by the way, Mr. Horner," he exclaimed, suddenly turning back just as he had left the shop; "I quite forgot to ask if you could oblige me with change for a five - pound note. I have tried to get it twice this morning, but change seemsto be short." "With the gleatest pleasure," said Mr. Horner, deferentially. And, pushing past Frithiof, he himself deposited the note in the till and counted out five sovereigns, which he handed with a bow to Sardoni. Then, . with a friendly "good - day," the singer went out, and Mr. Horner, rubbing his hands with an air of great satisfaction, retired to Mr. Boniface's room. The -afternoon passed on just as hundreds of afternoons had passed before it, with the usual succession of customers, the usual round of monotonous work; there was no- thing to mark it in any way, and no sense of coming evil made itself felt. In the most prosaic manner possible, Frithiof went out for the few minutes' .troll in the streets which he called tea-timo. He was in good spirits, and as he walked along he thought' of the days by the sea, and of the boating which he had so much enjoyed, living it all over again in this hot, dusty London, where June was far from. delightful, Still, it 'was something to be out in the open air, to got a few moments of leisure and to stretch one's legs. He walked along pretty briskly, managing to get some• littleenjoyment out of his short respite; and this was well; for it was long before he could en- joy anything again in that uncon-, cerned, free -hearted way. Yet no- thing warned him of this; quite carelessly he pushed open the double swing -doors and re-entered the shop, glancing with surprise but with no special concern at the little group behind the counter. Mr. Horner was finding fault about something, but that was a very or- dinary occurrence. A thin, grave - looking men stood listening atten- tively, and Mr. Boniface listened, too, with an expression of great trouble on his face. Looking up, he perceived Frithiof, and with an exclamation of relief came toward. him. "Here is Mr, Feick," he said; "who no doubt will be able to ex- plain everything ,satisfactorily. A five -pound note has somehow dis- appeared from your till this after- noon, Frithiof ; do you know any- thing about it1" "It was certainly in the till when I last opened it," said Frithiof ; "and that was only a few minutes before I went out." "Very possibly," said Mr. Hor- ner. "Tho question is whether ib was there when you shut it again." The tone even more than the words made Frithiof's blood boil. "Sir," he said, furiously, "do you dare to insinuate that I—" But Mr. Boniface laic' a hand on his arm and interrupted him. "Frithiof," he said, "you know quite well that I should as soon suspect my own son as you. But this note has disappeared in a very extraordinary way, while only you and Darnell were in the shop, and we must do our best to trace it out. I am sure you will help me in this "6MY STOMACH IS FINE Since Taking Na-Dru-Co Dyspepsia Tablets" Mrs. J. Merkhuger, Waterloo, Ont., enthusiastic al ly recommends Na-)ru-Co Dyspepsia Tablets. Her experience with them, as she outlines it, explains why. "I was greatly troubled with my stomach" she writes. "I had taken sb much medicine that I might say to take any more would only be making it worse. My stomach just felt raw. I read of Na-Dru-Co Dyspepsia Tablets, and a lady friend told me they were very easy to take, so I thought I would give them a trial and really they worked wonders. Anyone having anything wrong with his stomach should give Na•Dru-Co Dyspepsia Tablets a trial, they will do the rest, My stomach is fine now and I can eat any food." i One of the many good features of Na•Drn-Co Dyspepsia Tablets is that they are so pleasant and easy to take. The relief they give from heartburn, flatulence, biliousness and dyspepsia is prompt and permanent. Try one after each meal—they'll make you feel like a new person, Sec. a box at your druggist's COM - pounded by the National Drug and Chemical Co. Of Canada, Limited, Montreal. 141 Then, turning to the private de- tective who had been hastily called in by Mr. Horner, he suggested that they should come to his own room. Mr. Horner shut the door with an air of satisfaction. From the first he had detested the Norwegian, and now was delighted to feel that his dislike was justified. Darnell was a rather handsome fellow, with a short dark beard and heavy mustache; he looked a trifle paler than usual, but was quiet and collected, perhaps a. little upset at the unusual disturbance in the shop where for so long he had worked, yet without the faintest sign of personal uneasiness about him. Beside him stood the tall Norwegian, his fair skin showing all to plainly the burning color that had rushed to his face the instant he knew that he lay actually under suspicion of thieving. "I will examine you first," said the detective; and Frithiof, seeing that' there was no help for it, sub- mitted with haughty composure to the indignity, In solemn silence two pockets were turned inside out. The right- hand waistcoat pocket was appar- ently empty, but the careful detec- tive turned that inside out too. Suddenly Mr. Boniface started for- ward with an ejaculation of aston- ishment. "I told you so I" cried Mr. Hor- ner, vehemently. And Frithiof, roused to take no- tice, which before he had not con- descended to do, looked down and saw a sight that made his heart stand still. Carefully pinned ler the inside of the pocket was a clean, fresh, five - pound note. He did not speak a word, but just stared at the thing in blank amusement. There was a painful silence. Surely it could be nothing but a bad dream! Ile looked at the unconcerned detective, and at Mr. Horner's ex- cited face, and at Mr. Bonifaee's expression of grief and perplexity. It was no dream; it was a• most horrible reality—a reality which lie was utterly incapable of explaining. With an instinct that there was yet one man present who trusted him, in spite of appearance, he made a step er two toward, Mr. Boniface. "Sir," he said, in great agita- tion, "1 swear to you that I knew nothing of this, It .has astounded me as mita as it has surprised you. How it came there I can't say, but certainly I didn't put it there." Mr. Boni.faes was silent, and glancing back Frithiof saw on the thin lips of the detective a very expressive smile. The sight almost maddened him, In the shock of the discovery he had turned very pale; now the violence of his wrath made him flush to the roots of his hair, "If you didn't put it there, wlio did 1" said Mr. Horner, indignant- ly. "Don't add to your sin, young man, by falsehood." "I have never spoken a .false- hood in my life; it is you who lie when yon Say that I put the note there," said Frithiof, hotly, "My poor fellow," said Mr. tori' face, "1 sun heartily sorry for ;you, but you must awn that appearances; art against yee." "WhatI yen too, sir l" cried Fri- thiof, his insligriatlos place to heart -broken 'wonder, conzepal my, iieia-A _Ifa keritiefeae We the CLEANEST, SIMPLEST, and BEST HOME BYE, one can buy—Why you don't even have to know -what HIND of Cloth your Goods pro mad,; of. --So hflstulre, ere Impossible. Send for rice Color Cord, Story Booklet, and Booklet giving results of Dyeing over ether colors. Tho IOHNSON.RICfiAROSON CO., Limited, Montreal, Canada. The tone went to Mr. Boniface'e heart. ;`I think you did it quite uncon- sciously," he said. "I am sure you never could have taken it had you known what you were about, You diel it in .absence of mind—in a lit of temporary aberration. It is, per- haps, a mere result of your illness last summer, and no one would hold you responsible for it." A horrible wave of doubt passed over Frithiof. "No one in absence of mind could deliberately have pinned the note in," he said. "Besides, my head was perfectly clear—not even ach- ing or tired." .'Quite 00; I am glad that so far you own the truth," said Mr. Hor- ner. "Make a free confession at once and we will not press the pro- secution. You yielded to a sudden temptation, and, as we all know, have special reasuns for needing money. Come, confess !" "You are not bound to incrimin- ate yourself," said the detective. "Still, what the gentleman suggests is by far the best course for you to take. There's not a jury in the land that would not give a verdict against you." "I shall certainly not tell a lie to save open disgrace," said Fri- thiof. "The jury may say what it likes. God knows I am innocent." The tone in which he said the last words made Mr. Boniface look at him more closely. "Now I know that you are ly- ingl" Mr. Horner cried; '`don't add blasphemy to your crime. You are the most irreligious fellow I ever came across—a man who, to my certain knowledge, never at- tends any place of public worship; and do you dare to call God to wit- ness for you l" Nothing but the strong conscious- ness of this new Presence kept Fri- thiof from making a sharp retort. "God knows I am innocent," he repeated; "and only He can tell how the note got here; I can't" "One word with you, if you please, Mr. Harris," said Robert Boniface. He leo the way back to the .shop, where, in low tones, he briefly gave the detective his own opinion of the case. He was sure that Frithiof firmly believed that he was telling the truth, but unable to doubt the evidence of his own sen- ses, he was obliged to take up the plausible theory of temporary ab- erration. The detective shrugged his ,shoulders a little, and said it might possibly be so, but the young man seemed to him remarkably clear-headed. However, he accept- ed his the and went off, and Mr: Boniface returned sadly enough to his room. "You can go back to the shop, Darnell" he said. The man bowed and withdrew, leaving Frithiof still standing half bewildered where the detective had left him, the cause ofall his misery lying on the writing -table before him, just as fresh and crisp -looking as when it had been issued from the Bank of England. "This has been a sad business, Frithiof," said Mr. Bonifaoo, look- ing with his clear, kindly eyes at the young Norwegian. "But I am convinced that you had no idea what you were doing, and I should not dream of prosecuting you, or discharging you." (To be continued.) SAVED BY A. BUOY—AND A. ROY How a Pleasure Trip Almost Ended is Disaster.. The yacht—it was a six-ton schooner, and belonged to a Mr. Carsdale—had pet out from Mans - kart, New Zealand, on a pleasure trip up the coast. There were six aboard, the owner, his wife, a boy named Squires, who acted as "crew," two ' young girls, and a man friend of the skipper, It is the latter wile tells the story in the Wide World Magazine ; The Miramar was sailed up through the narrow channel of the Aivitu Inver, between the boiling breakers on the bar, where ebbing tide and eurrent meet the heavy Pacific swell,. The wind was fair, and the boat went through on tip- toe, and a half -mile tip the river. Then the wind suddenly fell flat the ,sails slatted idly, and the yacht began to drift with the hurrying tide baelc toward rho reef and the breakers, The word was given to drop an- oher, and young Squires let it go. The chain. rattled \ through the hawse to the very end, and then fell with a splash into the water. Harry Squires, set to chip rust from the cable that morning, heel removed the shackle -bar from the ring -bolt, and forgotten to replace it! An- chor and cable were gone forever, and on the breast of a five -knot current the yacht was racing down to the bar In that tumble of angry water, among jagged rocks and hard stretches of wave -pounded sand, the little Miramar could riot live a minute, and some of the party --- perhaps all—would surely lose their lives. Young Squires alone had his wits about him, He seized a loose end of fishing -line, knotted it round his waist, ]ticked off his shoes, and went overboard. Inside the reef, a hundred yards above the line of breakers, was moored a channel buoy. It was on the port, perhaps two hundred yards below the drifting Miramar. With a short, choppy stroke, Squires struck out for this buoy. Could he reach it? Would the sag of the dragging line prove too much for him l Already the yacht was abreast of the buoy, 'and to the ea- ger watchers the swimmer seemed to be flagging—and the white line of the surf was near. Mrs. Cars - dale clung to her husband's neck, and the two girls wept in each oth- er's arms. Then suddenly we saw that Harry had judged his distance well, after all. He was above the buoy, and breasting the current bravely. We saw him turn, shoot down on the current, throw up an arm and grasp the ring of the buoy. As it swung over to his weight, he pulled himself up and sat astride. Hand over hand he hauled in the two-inch rope we had tied to the end of the fish- ing -line, took a half-hitch round the ring -bolt, and waved his hand to tla. We were saved, but it was a near thing. As we swung at the end of that line, the boil of water on the bar was hardly fifty yards away. Under our stern the water was smoothing to the curl of the first surf line. We hung there for two hours, "serving" the swaying line with pocket -handkerchiefs against the chafe of the gunwale. All that time Harry remained astride of the buoy, watching the other end of the rope. Death was only a biscuit -toss away, but the rope held. At last the tide turned, and as we floated up -stream we picked young Squires off his perch. Oarsdale wrung his hand with tears in his eyes, and the ladies, weeping also, kissed him. The young scamp l I'll be sworn, he thought more of those kisses than of the sovereign I slip- ped into his palm! CURE FOR DIABETES. New Serum Said to Have Been Very Successful. Eleven eases of diabetes, a dis- ease which physicians have come to look upon as incurable, have been cured by the use of bacillus bul- garieus, a new serum, according to a statement made by Dr. J. Walter Beveridge, New York, In making the announcement Dr. Beveridge disclaimed any sovereign cure for the disease had been dis- covered, but said he merely was setting forth the results of the work undertaken by a trio of physicians, consisting of himself, Dr. George Llexnann, of Bellevue Hospital, and Dr. I. Horowitz. The three physicians determined to make a test of the bulgarieus culture, which they obtained from Europe. The tried it in eighty cases of diabetes. Of these one showed four .and nine -tenths per gent, of sugar in the blood at the start, and at the end of the third month there was less than one- tenth of one per cent, of sugar shown in the index. Eleven eases were cured absolutely in six months, and sixty showed marked improvement, said Dr• Beveridge. The explanation of the aetion of the bacillus bulgarieus offered by Dr. Beveridge is that it has formed by a process of fermentation a nas- cent lactic acid, which is a natural cleanser and purifier of the diges- tive tract in conditions such as PERRIN GLOVES The best for all occasions. Always suitable. Always stylish. See that the tr*de mark Is on every glove. there which obtain in cases of dia- betes. "This is the first time a bacillus culture has been used successfully in the Duro of a disease," said 1)r. Beveridve. 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It is a well-known feet that by far a greater number of dairy °owe are allowed to follow the most nes tural course, and either by (edit, ference or intention, they freshen, in the spring, writes W. H. Under- wood. The producer of milk for sale, if he has an even trade, may want to have an even number of fresh cows in every month of the year. If the bull is kept confined and service controlled, this can be re- gulated as a rule, although unplea- sant irregularities in breeding will sometimes occur and stubbornly re- sist correction. But if the prime object is to pro- duce the greatest quantity of mills of the best quality and the great- est profit with any number of cows ,within a year, evidence is over- whelming that the cows should be managed so as to calve during the autumn months. For like reasone, September is the best month in most parts, of the country for a heifer to drop her first calf in order best to develop as a cow. This almost regardlesa of the animal at the first calving. Calves born in the fall are more easily reared and make better cow* than those born in the spring and summer. It seems needless to re- hearse the stock arguments on the subject, based on long experience of successful dairymen, but a brief recapitulation may be useful. The cow or heifer calving in the fall needs the most healthy and nu- tritious pasture just following the strain while coming into full. flow. Just at this time, when some falling off is likely to occur, the animal is brought into the stable and receives good care; the winter feeding and the returns from it may be depend- ed upon to exceed the midsummer results for any like period. At the stage of milking and ges- tation, when another dropping off of the milk yield may be looked for, the fresh pastures induce a fresh cow, lengthen the milking season and increase the year's total pro- duct December and- January are good months in which to control and sup- ervise the service of a bull. Mid- summer and the dog days are a good time for the cow to be dry and preparing to calve again. With fall -fresh cows the greatest and richest product comes at the season when milk and butter are always comparatively high in price. In actual practice four fail -fresh cows have been found equal to five which calved in the spring in twelve months' product and at about four- fifths the cost. Selecting heifer Calfs. Many dairymen make a practice of raising every heifer calf and fail to get results. Then they select the heifer calves from the best produc- ing cows and get nearer to what they want, but, still, there are many inferior cows raised by them. It is not until we begin carefully to examine every heifer calf that we can conduct any systematic plan of improving the quality of the dairy herds, for, unless the calves are good individuals and have stamina and strong, vigorous constitutions, no matter how liberally they are fed, some will fail to come up to the qualities of their dams. Every heifer calf should be care- fully examined and if they show signs of weakness they should not be raised, Open their mouths and if you find, after examining their teeth, that you can see but four of the milk teeth, you can make up your mind that such a calf is hard- le worth raising. Many raise their calves, but few turn out to be profitable cows. Next examine the navel and teats. If the teats are not placed in their right position do not waste your time and food trying to make a good cow out of such a Calf, When we find a heifer calf that comes up to our standard or re- quirements and when we decide to keep it we must not forget.t'hat its value as a cow will depend largely upon the treatment that it receives during the firsttwo.yoars of its life. Calves must be well cared for and fed in such a manner that they will never lose their calf flesh. After they are a few months old they should be turned out and al- lowed plenty of exercise and good e air o that they may build up. strong missies and good organs of raspir- atioll, Contagious. "Is insomnia a contagious dis- ease1" asked the boob. "No," replied the wise guy. "Why do you ask?" rrWhon my neighbor's dog can't sleep at night I can't either," re- plied the boob, Praelieal, "De ,you ever pray for your itis - band 1" asked Mrs, Meek, "No," replied Mrs. !Strong, i'but he never gets out at night unless, I go with him,"'