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BEGINHERE TODAY, Iv' :,.sw 1 i;, and threw open the heavy
S r Charles Abingdon engages Paul ' leaves.
Harley, criminal investigator, to, solve A. narrow, terraee was revealed with
the mystery of constant surveillance a, shrubbery beyond;. alltl standing on
of Sir Charles. While Harley is dining • the terrace was a tall, t In :an wear -
et the Abingdon home Sir :.Charles ing a light coat over t, i,* dress,
tails from his chair in a dying condi-
lien. Dr. Mc1lurdoclip ronounees deathI e, looked pale, gaunt lin . c c.slttvverr,'
due to heazf failure. Barley insists Sir i and althougilt the regard. ofhis light
t'harlee was poisoned. The last words eyes Was almost dreamy, there was
t"tiered by Abingdon are"Nicol Brinn"i something very tense in hie nosy
t,nd !"Fire -Tongue." Barley asks Brinn "I am Nicol Brinn," said the stran-
to. explain /the meaning of "Fire- ger. "I lniew your father. You have
Tongue," Brinn refuses to divulge the walked into a trap. I am here to get
eeeret. Ormuz Khan; Qrieutal, 1s n you out of it. Crur you drive?"
r "fend of Phil Abingdon, daughter of „Yes ,,,
Sir Charles. While Hailey is shadow,
ing the home of Ormuz Khan he is dis-'Conte right out."
•
crvered by the Oriental and imprison- It was wildly'bizarre, almost unbe-
ed in the house, Lovable. Phil Abingdon had experi-
Nt) W' GO ON WITH THE STORY. enced in her own person the insidious
power of Ormuz Khan. She now found
CHAPTER XXVII,—(Cont'd.) herself under the spell of a person -
Phil laughed, and accepting the arm ality at least as forceful, although in
of Ormuz Khan, walked into a very a' totally different way. She Found
English. -looking library, followed by
tiara a Dass and Mrs. McMurdoeh.
Rama Dan bad taken dharge of the
Indies' cloaks in the hall, and in spite
al the typical English environment in
which she found herself; Phil satvery
neo;' to Mrs. McMurdoch on a settee,
scarcely listening to the conversation,
and taking no part in it.
Then a gong sounded and the party
went in to -lunch.
A white -robed Hindu waited at
table. and Phil discovered his move-
meeats to be unpleasantly silent. This
waitingpresently grew unendurable,
and:
"1 hope Mr. Harley is safe," she
said, in a rather unnatural tone.
"Surely he should have returned by
now?"
Ornuaz Khan shrugged his slight
shoulders and glanced at a diamond,
studded wrist watch which he wore.
Nevertheless, luncheon terminated,
and Harley had not appeared.
"You have sometimes expreeeed a
desire" said Ormuz Khan, "to see the
interior of a Persian house. Permit
me to el.eve you the only really char-
acteristic room which I allow myself
in my English home."
Endeavoring to conceal her great
anxiety, Phil allowed herself to be
conducted by the Persian to an apart-
ment which realized her dreams of
that Orient which she had never
visited.
Ormuz Khan conducted hex to a
wonderful earven chair over which a
leopard's skin was draped and there
she seated herself.
She became aware of a heavy per-
fume of hyacinths and presently ob-
served that there were many bowls
of those flowers set upon little tables,
ar-d in n: hes in the -wall.
She wanted- to look away but found
bereelf Ieoking steadily into the coal -
black eyes. of Ormuz Khan.
Pitt became aware that a sort. of
dreamy abetraetion was creeping over
her, when in. upon this mood came a
Bound a hieh stimulated her weaken -
17,1, of resistance.
' llimly, for all the windows of the
room wee closed, she heard a car
rn'ne up and stop before the hoose.
It aroused he- from the curious con-
dition of letl••areyinto which she
was falling. She turned her head
sharply aside. the physical reflection
of a mental egore to remove her gaze
from the long, magnetic eyes of Ormuz
Kiran. And:
"Do you thick that is Mr. Harley?"
she ailed, and failed to recognize her
own voice.
"Possibly." returned the Persian,
speaking very gently.
With one ivory hand he touched his
knee for a moment, the only expres-
sion of disappointment which he al-
lowed himself.
"'May I ask you to go and enquire?"
continued Phil, new wholly mistress
ef herself- again. "1 ane wondering,
too, 'what can have become of. Mrs.
Mcltatirdorh."
"I will find out,"',aid Ormuz Khan,
He rose, hie eve -y movement pes-
sessing a sort ef feline 'grace. He
bowed and wanted nut of the room.
Phil Abingdon heard in 'the distance valley below. Here Nicol Brinn pull-
s motor restarted and the car being,
herself running through a windin
path amid bushes, piloted by thi
eta:lege, unshaven- man, to whomon
sight she had given her trust ungues
tioningly 1
"When we reach the car," he said
over•his. shoulder, "ask no question
--head for home, and don't stop fo
anything -on two legs or on fou
That's the .first thing—most import
ant; then, when you know you're safe
telephone Scotland Yard to send a
raid squad down by road, and do it
quick."
s90 -mile event with dog sleds to run off in connection with t1ie whiter earn Sa
in the Rooky Mountains National Pant at Banff.
Pi:en de Sp¢ t
re.:ir»w,
J pp"M sealed hi aAr 'i$ht metal Is the mod-.
M4�,�i1 ea da. #4'Qe--pliet ,'r a ll-4'dQl1e10111s. Solo
h al $r'Ocor'sni 7Sc to �tQ"� �i C„ !Sulk tea, with
dist weigher.' hi„ is a 11'e6I6 of the old( days—new
; etbod s Iia�t'arlii pia .edl
tion his bad habit of lying abed, his Wilson Publishing Company
failure to give up snuff by indulging
his "snub nose with 'a, sniff; (at an
empty box)," hie geemo1s with his
wife, and how he cured a smoking
chimney.
There is a charming selection from
the journal of Marjorie :Flaming, who
died hi 1811, when s11e' was seven
years old, the only child author men-
tioned in the "Dictionary of National
Biography," Pet Marjor•le, or
"Maidie," as her great friend, Sir
. Walter Scott, used to sail her, began
IKE MILLS, winner of last year's dog derby at La Pas, has : entered for the 11ar. iournal when she was six,
" 1 ' "Grenduro reagns in London and in
he should be compelled to descend if
he continue to pursue his present
s route to the town. He could think of
r no large house
r• e Manor
I Park excepted, ,whichcorresponded to
P
- the one which he sought. But that in
, taking the high road he had acted
even more wisely than he knew, he
was now firmly convinced.
He determined to proceed as far
as the park gates as speedily as 'pos-
sible. Therefore, returning to the
wheel, he sent the car along the now
level road at top speed, so that the
CHAPTER XXVIII.
The events which led to the pres-
enee of Mr. Nicol Brinn at so oppor-
tune a moment were—consistent with
the character of that remarkable man
--of a sensational nature.
Having commandeered the car from
the door of the Cavalry Club, Ise had
immediately, by a mental process'
which many perils had perfected, dis-
missed the question of rightful owner-
sbip from his mind.
Jamming his hat tightly upon his
head, he settled dow'rr at the wheel,
drawing up rather closer to the lim-
ousine as the chase lay through
I ani Nicol Brinn," said the
stranger.
crowded thoroughfares and keeping
his quarry comfortably in sight across
Westminster Bridge and through the
outskirts of London.
Presently at a fork in the roan? he
saw that the driver of the -limousine
had swing to the left, taking the low
road, that to the right offering a
steep gradient. The high road was the
direct road to Lower Claybury, the
lout road a detour to, the same.
Nicol Brinn mentally reviewed the
intervening countryside, and taking a
gambler's chance, took the road up the
hill. Ile knew exactly what he was
about, ved he knew that the powerful
engine would eitt up the slope with
ease.
lts behavior exceeded his expecta-
tions, and he found himself mounting
the acclivity at racing speed. At its
highest point, the road, skirting a hill-
top, offered an extensive view of the
eel up and, descending, watched and
driven away from alsdde. She stood listened.•
up restlessly. IlIn the stillness he could plainly hear
Someone was rapping upon one of the other automobile humming stead -
the long, masked windows! Phil
Abingdon started back with a smoth-
ered exclamation.
"Quick!" came a high, cool voice,
."open this window- You are In dan-
ger."
The voice was odd, peculiar, but of
one thing she was certain. It was not
the voice of an Oriental. Further-
more, it held a roto of command, And
something, too, which inspired trust.
She looked quickly about her to
sake sure that she was alone..And
then, running swiftly to the window
from which the sound had come, she
moved a heavy gilded fastening which
ily along the lowland road below. He
concentrated his mind upon the latter
part of that strange journey, striving
to recall any details which had mark-
ed it immediately preceding: the time
when he had detected the rustlingof
leaves and knew that they had enter-
ed a carriage drive,
Yes, there' had been a short but
steep ill; and immediatelybefore this
the car had passed over a deeply rut-
ted road, or—he had a sudden •inspira-
tion—over a level crossing.
He knew of just such a hilly road
immediately behind Lower-Claybury
station. Indeed, it was that by which Minsrd's
The Art of Memory
•
An M.P.'s Discoveries Among
the Manuscripts •
Edinburgh," writes Marjorie from the
country, "there are a'great many balls
and routs but none here. The childish -
distempers, are very frequent just
now. Tomson is a beautiful ,author
and Pope butinothiieg is like Shake -
spear of which, I have a little knowl-
edge.of." Again, "Irr the'lovenovels
all the heroins are very desperate
Mr. Arthur Ponsonby, M.P., is an Isabella will not iillow me ,to speak
epicure, if not a glutton, among the about lovers and reroines and is too
diarists. He tell use in his •two newest refined for my taste, a lodestone is
selections from the diaries,"More a curious - ;thing ludeed it is true
English Diaries" and ,Scottish, and Herolok love doth never win disgrace
Irish -Diaries" that he may "with this is my maxim and I will follow it.
some certainty claim to have read
more-- diaries" than any of his con- for ever."
railings of the Manor Park, when temporal -lee Ile tells us of diaries Christmas Belts and Sunshine'
presently he found himself skirting that during the last few years "I have How many admirers of Gilbert
the grounds, had the semblance of a kept one in my pooket, I have put one White el Selborlre,tllat iuostt fascinat
continuous iron fence wherever the in my bag when travelling and I have ing oP all' writers about birds,- were
moonlight touched them. ; had one ready in any house or library_ aware, one wonders, that white lead
He passed the head of the road'dip where I was likely to find myself for
ping down to Lower Claybury, but- any length of time,"' a brother Henry, who, was rector' of
are," he declares, "better Fyfield in Hampshire, and who rept
"They a diary which; strews him to have
than .novels, � more accurate than 'bda- assessed a t e e as keen'as his Sam
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forty yards beyond pulled up and' de-
scended. Again he stood listening,
and:
"Good!" he muttered.
Ho could hear the other car labor-
ing up the slope. He ran along to
the corner of the lane, and, crouching
close under the bushes, waited for its
appearance. As' he had supposed, the
chauffeur turned the car to the right.
"Good!" muttered Nicol Brinn
tories, and even at tines more dram- p
otic than plaeg," Enthusiasm could ous brother's, Here is'a vivid pie-
us
go further. tura. of the frosty Chslstma.s. of 1784:
Where Obscurity is Best "Christmas Day. Very bright morn.
W e y
The search for diaries o•E veal merit Tress beautifully powdered • ' with
must have been an exciting one; few Rime, more severity
sportsmen could effer better thrills. any since theefirstt Freezing than
beginning 'Vele, lit:-
eg
Sometimes Mr. Ponsonby's sharp .eye tlo wind ye Air amazinlly_keen,
would be oaught by suoh'a phrase as Sound of Bells heard from all eyen il-
again., lazes on every eid'e.:'Sacrament at
There was a baggage -rack immedi-this .Prom the 'diary of Thoivas Fytleld. Riding not unpleasant over
ately above the number plate. Upon, Ischeme. "Father hat a cough and ye open Fields' and Downs. Trees
this Nicol Brinn sprang with the agil- gone.: We attacked the fifth propose- powdered most amazingly by 10 Rime
ity of a wildcat, settling himself upon tion 01 1luclid:" 'And Cheri the chase make a very picturesgtte appear-
hie perilous perch before the engine, would commence, relentlessly, until ante at Tidworth. Pump f gzen in ye
had had time to gather speed. 'the' last page of Thomas Ischam had Wash House: so that ye Frost thong
When presently the car turned .into been. run to earth. Such entries as not quite so cold as ye 2 first days
the drive of Hillside, Nicol Brinn' "the dear Duchess of Gloucester is at yet 'operates more strongly within
dropped ori and dived into the bushes death's door," or "better news from,
doors. Winter reigns in ell its
on the right of the path. From this Siam,' be tells us, did not whet his i rigour and yet ye Sun shines unus-
hiding place he saw the automobile appetite. Mr. Ponsonby confesses, to ually warn-, p.m, every day which
driven around the front of the house a' preference for old diaries over the seems to destroy every sort of broad
to the garage, which was .built out more modern, for the diaries' -of ob-
,loved evergreen. Holl and Ivy ]eaves
from the east wing. Not daring to scure People over the diaries of cele- j brt. to decorate the churches and
pursue his investigations until the .britios, There are plenty of cele- houses semi scorched and blasted.
chauffeur had retired, he sought a bribes here; almost as many as there
more comfortable spot near a corner
of the lawn and there,behind a bank
of neglected flowers, lay down, watch-
ing the man's shadowy figure moving
about in the garage
were !u• pads' delig¢rtul "Fingldsh .A winter scene as clraeming as
aup painted by Breughei_,
Diaries," first published four years
ago; celebrities such as Sir Walter
Scott,' and hie e,hild prodigy diarist;
Worries of the Pre-Rephaelite.
Over half a century later we come:
Marjorie Fleming; Wordsworth's cis- on the remarkable diary of Ford.
Although he was some distance ter Dorothy; Swift, Wolfe Tone, John Madox Brown,. the Pre-Raphaelite
from the doors, he could see that Mitchell, .the seventh Earl of Shaftes- painter, whose: most famous canvas is
ery
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The Vic ill Is1ai:t.is
Colonial 'Pr tr.h1em
there was a second car in the place— bury, and the late Wilfrid Scavren probably "Jesus washing Peter's
Freud Bel&evez
Religion k DDylhg
No Longer Able to Guide Man
Toward Moral Perfection,
' Says Psyalhaanal;rst
Worried About America
Bediiu—In his now hpolt, "The
Future of an Illusion," Sigmund
p'neud, founder et psychoaual}'ele,' at
tempts to show that the days of reli-
gius education - are numbered and.,
that religion Is eo longer able to guide
mankind toward moral perfection.
Religioer, eecordirrg to Freud,
mere illusion. Gods, are suis, Were
created by 'man. Psychoanalysis, he
aet3erts, has spread the knowledge ot
this in widening circles, Neverthe-
less, he declares, this knowledge is
dangerous.
'As long as the oppressed masses
coivld be maintained in the belief,' Ire
says, "dhat'one still believes in God,
everything was all right, But they
certainly will lean that one does no
more. An outburst of anti -social pas....
Bions will be they donsequenoe,
man -refrained from Milling his neigh-
bor for the sole reason that God has
forbidden lolling and will avenge it,
he undoubtedly will kill hire as soon
as he loarns that there is no God and
that his putllshment is not to be
feared,,,
Tho remedy to this, Freud thinks, is
a. new system of education which will
teach morals without: referring .bo di•
vine justice, punishment 01' reword.
The child must be taught, he says, not
to fear God, but' to regard the web
fare of society as the supreme end al
individual life,
Two countries seem to eaptivato
the old scholar's attention as ho sets
forth hie ratber casual ideas about reli-
gion: One •is Russia, and the .other
America,
In Russia, sums of Freud's theories
have already been put into practice,
All public education there is irrelig-
ious, and attempts have been made in
Moscow and'elsewhero to apply pry-
chonalysis as 'a rnethod of educating
norma] youth. Freud admires Rus-
sia's effort to reform education but 1To
does not think that Russialr me_ ode
could be applied in ober European
countries:
Freud is aware that the future of
mankind largely depends on Anrerlca,
but he seems somewhat alarmed by
America's attitude toward "science,"
in Freud's opinion, ,This attitude, is
embodied by the Dayton lr•!al. Freud
is ironical about "God's Own country"
and he deploree the predominance of
religion in American public life.
IIo trios to give an explanation of
it in hie own manner and finds that re-
ligion in America is playing the role.
of a nareotic. Prohibition, he says,
deprived the American masses of.
means to escape the monotony of
daily life and to seek oblivion In
drunkenness. The new -impetus of
religious propaganda shows that tbero
is demand for a new narcotic, Re-
ligion is being offered as a substitute
for stimulants, lie says. "We need
not be 011110us to know the results of
this oxpeilment/' he observes sar-
cas tically .
On t11e other hand, he admits that
America's religious attitude is sincere.
"Pious America," Ile says, "pretends
being God's own country. This Is
doubtless trues as one of the ways in
which man venerates divinity."
Patin 'i1 Crop�
Return
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.Iiti.�rn •
a low torpedo bodied racer painted Blunt but it !s however, the little Feet" Brown struggled against its a goad thing our 001181112 to the fl,141, i67,10p
battleship' gray. This sight turned nonenntities, the parish -pump no- tremendous odds of; poverty, "though south have not an Extensive Colonial l
his thoughts in another direction.
(To be continued.)
French Canada
Quebec Soleil (Lib,): It seems cer-
tain that the French-Canadian race,
which has ben supple enough • to learn
Anglo-Saxon and 'American business
methods, has sufficiently retained its
own character, to be guaranteed of
its permanence. Its civil, religious,
educational and social institutions are
sol dly placed in the present, with
the r roots deep down in the past..
If Oban acquire intellectual superior-
ity at the 'same time as it achieves
ma erial solidity, it will attain its
ideal of a French nation within the
Canadian state.
WELL, WELLI
Eraser: How dld• you find the
Ink/
Blotter: 1 found the Ink" woad
Liniment for sore throat.
b
such as James Woodforde and Wil- his dairy he records the .trivial and.
Ilam Jones, of Broxbourne, who ap- the momentous side by side, : but
peal to us and held our -interest long- everytthing• he writes .conjures up a
est, with an unconsciously immortal .Picture of the man and, his times. We
phrase.'
Records of Self -Reproach
One aright generalize and declare
that the qualities that go to make the
good man or woman are the opposite
to those which maks thegreat diarist.
Tile diarist, more often than not, is a
nran to whom diary -writing is a sort
of.Coue-ism; 1f he repeats, like Zine:
Hall, "yesterday l drank porter 101 1
became ;ashamed of myself," often en-
ough, he has hopes of curing himself
of the bar habit of intemperance.
Mr. Ponsonby does not hesitate to
describe- William Jones as a "great
diarist," Jones was an obscure per-
son. and was vicar of Broxbourne,
from 17$1 to 1821. His diary covers of anything else but that; romped
2;902 pages, and was used as a "sate. with ,with Kitty, A pitiable' day."
ty-valve for eels matrimonial woee.find Here indeed, in spite of its appar-
domestic grievances." In his study ent baldness and triviality is a magni-
ficent portrait of a famous artist as
death, and by his bed -side he -kept a young man, -Arthur .Macnamara.
slate: " • . when I wake •at:perhaps
far too early an hour to rise/ I sorib- Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan—Shattee-
ble' down any thoughts or reflexion• ing all previous records since pre-war
which present themselves to my mind. days, buti.ding permits in thio city for
the past ten" months reached a total
of 176 and a vaiue of $3,194,644. They
included two ,hotels, one warehouse,
school additions, n'partment blocks,
modern residences and garages. r
odie•s, tare obsmire country Parsons, he was to win fortune in the 'end, .In
get, for instance, in the, following ex-
tracts, a full-length self-portrait that
is more, vivid than anything in paint
or canvas:
"Wasted one and a half hour's clean-
ing a damned pipe.
"Cleaned the clog and :shaved :his
head and paws..
"Tooter all day.
"lean:tad lilac leaves till four
o'clock dinner, then toothache'on the
sofa till six, then work till seven, and
toothache drove me in.
"A complete blank. Have, done no-
thing all day but sit by. the fire with
Einma and try to think of ways to-
wards means, ineffectual. Could' think
Often do I in the dark by means of
holes in the frames of my slates and
moveable. pegs ecribb1e'my dawning
morning -thoughts."'
Diarists, 'we array conclude, are born
and not made, and Jones was a born
demist, recording with equal .anima- For frostbite use Minard's Liniment.
development. Imagine Britain hav- Ottawa, Canada—The total value of
'ing an article such as the following
appear in one of its foremost maga-
zines
"Our smallest colonial possessions,
the Virgin. Islands with a total land
area of 132 square miles, hi spite of
(their seeming insignificance are caus-
ing economic problemsof consider -
magnitude," states Thomas IL, Dickin-
sou', author and economist, in Decem-
ber "Current history." "Nowhere.
under the American flag Is the 'syr•
tem of 'feudalism : so strongly en-
trenched as it is in these islands, and
nowhere is the price for maintaining
it being enacted•. so inevorably. On
the one hand, there is a body of negro
labor but a few years removed from
actual slavery -lazy, :ignorant, 'pre-
dacious and undependable; preferring
to live op starvation subsistence
rather than work. On the other, a
small group of hereditary landown-
ers, twenty-one families owning 80
per cent. of the largest island.. . Un-
used Saud is not taxed, pasture land
is, taxed 13 cents an acre, but culti-
vated land is taxed 70 cents an acre.
Therefore two•thirds sl the land lies -
idle. . Since large contributions
from the United States Treasury are
necessary each year to maintain 'the
colonial government --+$70,1.80 in 1920
—and since a large proportion of the
population is migrating: from the is-
lands each year, 11 is obvious that
a stringent program of reeonstrtic-
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the principal field crops of Canada 1,1
1927 is estimated at 81,141,307,100,
an increase of $36,839,100' compared
(with the value in 1920, according to a
recent report issued by the -Canadian
Government 13m•eeu oP Statistles
The total for 1927 is made up of the
following items: wheat, $452,602,000;
oats, $281,295,000;' bailey, 802,005,000;
rye, , 812,608,500,; flaxseed, :$7;379,000;
'other grains (peas, beans, buelcwbeat,
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$47,752,000; potatoes, 860,279,000;, hon
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root and fodder crops (turnips, etc.,
grain 1ra}-, fodder corn and sugar
beets) $68;608,000. -
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Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta
—the total value of the five principal
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adverse effect upon longevity, but, on
the other hand, experience shows that
tobacco smoke temporarily but con-
sider'aly handicaps a: competitor in
the nitro strenuous athletic pursuits.
For example, even if a. man is in
good training, a.moriling pipe affects
his "wind" if he wants to go "all .out".
in a game of rugby football or a hard
face in the afternoon. This means
extra strain upon the heart.
Many youngsters impair their
health and athletic careers by smirk-
ing pipe after pipe every day, Later
in life, however, moderate smoking
seems to do most men little, if arty,
11ar•111. The effect of tobacco upon wo-
menin particular is not yet known,
Same fanillies go right on spending
looney for beefsteak and Solar when
ihcy gaven't a 6411 coate11 the pre-
rniseo---North Adams (Mase, Herald