The Seaforth News, 1927-10-27, Page 2Tao
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CHAPTER X.—(Coned.)
When, presently, the cobbler emerg-
ed from the elevator, below, he paused
beetle leaving the hotel to mop his
opened, it weenot Mr. Parker who
crossed the book -lined study within
and walked through the the private
office where mines was seated writing.
perspiring brow with a large, soiled It was Mr. Paul Harley:
handiterchief. The perfume of hya-
cinths seemed to have pursued him,
bringing with it a memory of the
handeon'e effeminate ivory face of the
CI-IAPTER XI.
THE PURPLE .STAIN.
nein Move. He was recalled to his For mese than an hour Harley sat
senr'iws by the voice of the impudent, alone smoking, neglectful of the reu-
Page tine duties which should have claimed
"Peen kicked out, gov'nor? the his attention. His lacy was sot and,
youth uxluized "You're the third grim, and his expression one of total
this morning abstraction. In spirit he stood again
"Who
that so?" s ?" answered Parker. in that superheated 1'00111 at the
the other two, lad. He rang the bell communicating
"The I irl wot comes to do his nails with the outer alike. Innes came in.
A stn train' bird, too. She came down „Innes;" he said,rapidly, "is there
cryfn• a few minutes ago. Then—p y'
import -
"Shut anything of really first-rate import
an, Chivers!" cried the hall
porter. "You're seekingseeking for the sack, ance with which i should deal person -
and Iee the man to get it for you.» ally°'
Chivers did not appear to be vastly; IVe1I, replied the secretary,
pertu•r ix:•d t y this prospect, and he
glancing at some papers which he car-
gr}1 t e:i suably at Parker made his vied, "there it; nothing that could not
wad ere !r to the courtyard, wait until tri-mctrow at a pinch."
Any u, e sufficiently interested to „ "The pirf in hat curie," said Barley.
have cit ria e t might have found mat- : , I am gcircr to interview the two most
ter is t z iso had ho followed that important witnesses in the Abingdon
canaria et bootmaker as he left the The speaker's face grew ,nil
hotel. lie ,ed not prcceod to the shop !p' y
of MTttrvis, hut, creasing the serious. "Innes if I ant right, I shall
Strand t eeeted a city -bound' motor probably prceced to one of two places:
bus nue TOT seed eastward open it the apartments of Ormuz Khan or
as far ,ns 't, Law Coun•Lw. Here he
distt.e.r, t, r end plunged into that
reeve .:f 1,,;1 dies lines which dissects
the te.oree nettled by Chancery Lane
and ] r , ' n,
He step wee lelaorely, and once he
teemed to Peet his pipe, peering with
lett e t into the shop window of a law
otatortr. 1 ;tally he carie to another
little shop vt h'ch had once formed
part of a l:ri'ate house It was of
the leek -up variety, and upon the
gauze blind which concealed the inter-
ior appeared the words: "The Chan-
cery Agency,"
Whether the Chancery Agency was
a preen agent•,, a literary or a dra,-
mat c aJercc'y, wee net specified, but
illy, Parker was evidently well nc-
qusinted with the establishment, for
he unlocked the door with a keywhich
he carried ied an 1, entering n tiny shop,
closed and kylee the door behind him of
again
Th 1! c ' vc s rot more than ten 1;e turned sharply and there was
yaele .q,i.tte ant the ceiling was Mrs. Hewett.
very lee. It e e Steely furnished as
an office, bat. eeidcntly Mr. Parker's i
the chambers oP Nicol Brien. I
Seeley s was net. of a nature to detain Listen.
him here. e. There was a second door Remain here until I phone—whatever
to be unktrk i end beyond it appear- the
eca eight or stairs—at some
"Shall I advise 'Wessex to stand
time the rerf,_tt'< stair of the par- hp?"
tally delnoliahtal house which had of Harley nodded. "'fess—.do so. You
cupied that site in former days. Re understand, Innes, I ant engaged and
locking this door in turn, Mr. Parker not to be disturbed on any account?"
mounted the stair and presently "I understand, You are going out
found himself in the spaciona and by the private exit?"
Exactly.
As Innes retired, quietly closing the
door, Harley took up the telephone
and called Sir Charles Abingdon's
number. ITe was ansyered by a voice
li
well -furnished hedreore.
This hedreem contained an extra-
ordinary number of wardrobes, and a
big dressing table with wing mirrors
'crinis theatrical Lenth to the apart which he recognized,
ie w This s still ft rther enhanced "This is PaulHarte speaking," he
by the presence of all sorts of wigs, said "Is that Harie T"
Loxes of false hair, and other items
of make -ug At the table Mr. Parker Yes, sir," answered the butler.
seated himself, and when, half an "Good morning, sir."
hour later, the bedroom door was "Good morning, Benton, I have
one or two questions to ask you and
s a profitable companion.
Itrcmeer Tee' Tee:4 ef •
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breath, soothes tbe mouth
and tongue, allays thirst
and aid's appetite and
digestion.
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there is something I want you to do
for ,net Miss Abingdon is out, I sume " ,George M. Williamson, one of the
Xes, sir,"replied Benson sadly.
"At the funeral, sir."
"Is Mrs. Hewett in?"
"She is, sir.".
"I shall be around in about a quar-
ter of an hour, Benson. In the mean-
time, will you bo good enough to lay
the dining table exactly as it was laid
on the night of Sir Charles' death?"
Denson could be heard nervously
clearing his throat, then: "Perhaps,
site," he said, diffidently, "I didn't
quite understand you. Lay the table,
the, for `limner?"
"k'o1 d'inne'r— +xactly. I want tee experiment is to be made, he
everyteing to �,e there that Wee pros- sent,
ent on the night of the tragedy;
everything, Naturally you wilI havo With the returnto the city of nue
to place different flowers in the vases, summer vacatian}sts, farm relief now
but I want to see the sante vanes. seems an assured tact in many rural
From the soup tureen to the serviette oommuanetea .
rings, Henson, I wish you to duplicate
the dinnex izpble as I rereern er 'ire
paying particular attention to the i AR
exact position of each article. Mrs. 4y%A
a bunch of keys from Ms. pocket, and, i
crossing the 'office, locked the door. 1
Be then retired to his private apart -i
"rents send also locked the communi-�
eating doer. if few moments later he
came out of "The Chancery Agency",
and proceeded in the direetion of the
Strand.
As he alighted from a eah before
the house of the. late Sir Charles,
Benson opened the deer,' "We "have
just finished, sir," he said, as Ilavley
ran up the steps, "But Mrs. Hewett
would like to 'see you, sit•."
"Very good, Bon on," replied ]az- A ,
ley, handing his hat and cane tit'th �;1,4,K,r� fff see
butler. "I will .see her in the dining
froom; please." •
Benson throwing open the door,
Paul Harley' walked into the room
which ro ooften figured in his vain`
imagiuizgts,
Brows contracted, Harley stood
just itzaido the roor,z, looking slowly
about hien. And, as he stood so, an
inten.•rogatory cough drew •his gaze to
the doorway. He turned sharply, and
there was Mrs. Hewett, a pathetic' lit-
tle figure in black.
"Ah, Mfrs. Hewett," said Harley,
kindly, "please try to forgive me for
this unpleasant farce with its painful
memories. 'But I have a good reason.
I think you know this. Now, as I
am naturally anxious to . havo every-
thing clear before Miss. Abingdon re-
turns, will you be good enough to teal
mo if the table is at present set exact-
ly as on the night that Sir Charles
and I came in to dinner?"
"No, Mr. Harley," was the answer,
"that was watt I was anxious to
explain. The <table is naw laid as
Benson left it on that dreadful night,"
"Ah, I see, Then you, personally,
made some neodificat:ons?"
"I rearranged the flowers and mov-
ed the centre vase—so." The method-
ical old lady illustrated her words.
"I also had the dessert spoons chang-
ed. You remember, Benson?"
Benson inclined his head; From a
sideboard he took out two silver
spoome which he substituted for those
already set upon the table.
"Anything else, Mr. Hewett?"
"Tho table is no was I left it, sir,
a few minutes before your arrival.
Just after your arrival I found Jones,
tate parlormadd--a most incompetent,
impudent girl --altering the position
of the serviettes, At least, such was
my impression."
"Of the serviettes?" murmured
Harley.
"She denied it," continued the
housekeeper, speaking with great ani-
mation; "but she could give no ex-
planation. It was the last straw.
Site took too many liberties alto-
gothet ;"
As Harley remained silent, the old
lady ran on animatedly, but Harley
was no longer listening.
"This is not the same table linen?"
he asked, suddenly.
"Why, no, sir," replied Benson.
"`Last week's linen will be at the
laundry."
"It has not gone yet," interrupted
Mrs. Hewett. I was making up the
list when you brought me Mr. Har-
ley's message."
Paul Harley turned to her.
"May I ask you to bring the actual
linen used at table on that occasion,
Mrs. Hewett?" ho said. "My request
must appear singuluar, I know, -but I
assure you it is no idle one."
Benson looked positively stupid,
Mrs. Hewett, who had conceived a
sort of reverence for Paul Harley,
hurried away excitedly.
(To be continued.)
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the party of scientists who will per-
form the researches will sail from
San Francisco within sixty days for
the west coast of Mexico, where the
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Four Different Pitchers Won
For Yanks, Setting Series
lark
The quartet of Yankee hurlers who
beat the Pirates four games in a row
set a series marls. Though three
other series also saw four pitchers
work, in no case did each of the four
win a game on consecutive days. In
1907 Chicago tied Detroit in the first,
using Overall and Reulbach. Pfeis-
ter won the second, Reulbaclt the
third, Overall the fourth and Brown
the fifth, In 1914 the Braves beat the
Athletics four stralgbt. Rudolph pitch.
ing the first and fourth, Jaynes the sec-
ond and Tyler and James the third. In
1922 the Giants beat the Yanks four
games to none, but the second was a
tie.. Neltf pitched the first, Barnes
the tie, Scott the third game, Mc -
Quillen the fourth and i'iehf the fifth.
Hoyt, Pipgras, Pennock and Moore
burled victories in order. The only
one appearing twice was Moore, who
relieved Hoyt In the eighth inning,
Cariboo Road Toll is To .Be
Abolished
Victoria, B,C.—Abolition of tolls on
the Cariboo Road, the only toll road
In British Columbia, was forecast at
the public works department hero. It
is expected the Legislature at its next
session will arrange for the elimina-
tion of the present charges in the
spring. This will affect thousands of
American as well as Canadian motor-
ists who are planning to cover the
new route along the Fraser river can-
yon in 1928.
Some 7000 cars traveled the .road
during the present year, a total up to
the expectations of the Government,
but considerably below the estimates
of automobile and tourist organiza-
tions. Tolls will be lifted from the
road on Nov, 1 for the winter, but no
attempt will be made to steep the road
open during the entire winter season,
when gravel slides are sure to block ;wtce.etode,
it in places. In the spring the high -
Way 'will be made ready for use well
in advance of the tourist season.
Girl Midshipman
T Adventures
Served for More Than a Year
on Small Trading Ships
in the South Seas
Cannibal Sought her Hand
Says She Refused Chief, But
That He Gave ;Heir a Coral
Island in the Fijis
After an adventurous trip', of more
than a year Webb South Seas, spent
mostly oe entail trailing steamships
as• a midshipman, Miss Viola Irene
Copper has' just returned • to New
York. Last week at her home, 65
West Sixtyeiglrth Street, Miss Cooper,
who is still in the twenties, told of
her adventures in far corners of the
earth and the rough-and-titnrble life
at sea as a "middy," the only woman
in the crew.'•
One of her most thrilling experi-
ences, she said, was a proposal of
marriage from a former cannibal
chief. This happened at the island
of Malelculo during a two months'
cruising trip among the islands of the
New Hebrides. The chief she des-
cribed as about 45 and very good-
looking.
";He proposed to met" said Miss
Cooper, "just like an American would
buy a good piece of roast beef, But
I. smilingly refused his offer. and he
seemed very much surprised and dis-
appointed. To show ' ma how much
he admired me, I guess, tine chief pre-
sented an island in the Fels, five:
.miles square, having coral and cocoa-
nut palms to me. When I asked him
what I- should send him in return,
when I got back home, he asked for
a Prince Albert coat, a silk hat and a'
pair of yellow spats. I suppose ho
had seen a photograph of one of the
European monarchs."
Tired of Routine Here.
Miss Cooper explained she had
made the trip purely in the spirit of
adventure after becoming tired out
with the routine in New York of type-
writing and stenography and other
secretarial work, and being of a liter-
ary turn of mind, she was putting her
experiences in manuscript form, and.
was hoping some day to havethem
published under the title of "Wind-
pamming fn Fiji."
She sailed from Vancouver in 1926.
with a fellow -voyager, Mise Jean
Schoen, on the French bark Bougain-
ville, 'first christened Himalaya, later
known as the Star of Peru, a three -
muted vessel that has been sailing
the high seas for sixty-three years,
and known as a "jinxless ship."
The two girls were signed as mid -
our faces. Once the French .traders
in the port sought refuge on our strip,
"I have eaten most everything in a
crew's diet. I ate shark's fins, analis,
sea snakes, flying fox, germ of bat,
which' is delicibua, and in the Fijis I
' enjoyed the wonderful fruits, There
We had mangoes, pawpaws, yams and
taro,'
Miss Cooper said that Miss Schoen
left her in the Net Hebrides for a
trip to New oaland and was returning
to New. York by way of Europe. On
the .island of Male}cute, she. said, she
visited a Mrs. Boyd, a Presbyterian
missionary, who had been there twee-
-ty-six years, and her husband, who
had been there thirty-two years.. Mrs.
Boyd said she had not seen a white
woman, before tho arrival of herself
and Miss Schoen, for a year. •
Not Always Parted
"A fool and hit money are soon
parted."
"No—soon united—to some gold
digger.
Mlnard's Liniment ror Asthma.
Knew l9]s Nightingale.
One time on the Texas frontier a
mart came into a camp riding an old
mule.
"How much for tho mule?" asked a
bystander.
"Jist a hundred dollars," auswered
the rider.
"I'll give you five dollars," said the
other.
The rider stopped short, as if in
amazement, and then slowly die-
.
"Stranger," said he, "I ain't a -got t'
to let a little matter of ninety-five dol-
lars stand between me and a mule
trade, The mule's j'ourn,"
siipmen, studying navigation, and the
rest of the Brew was made of French-
men and South Sea Islanders,. Cap-
tain 'Lem Chateanvieu was in com-
mand of the bark, which watt on her
last voyage to a port in New Cale-
donia, there to rust away her last
clays as a warehouse barge,
Crews Always Courteous.
"Miss Schoen and I spent sixty
days on the windjammer, and when
she was turned into a warehouse in
the Now I7ebrides that slid not end
our careers as seamen. My succeed-
ing months of set vice wet o 011 a small
trading steamer in the New Jiehrides,
the St. Michel, then on the St, .Andre,
another small French steamer, on a
trip to Australia, when I was the only
woman an hoard with a crow of flee
persons of many nationalities, and,
lastly, on the Commandant Destro-
mean, that brought ino to San Fran-
cisco.
"I was never troubled while at sea
by at.; of the crew.. They were al-
ways most courteous to me. I car-
ried just ono small trunkful of clothes
and when I arrived in New I3ebrides
I. cast my dresses aside, bought goods
from the traders and made my own;
T also carried a typewriter and a re-
voi.ver,
While we were anchored in the St.
Michel In the South Sea Islands, dur-
ing our two Months' stay there, 1411ss.
.Schoen slept• On a mattress on the
dining table, an account of the rats
in the cabin, "While in the New IIe-
brides we liacl about fifteen earth-
quakes a day, and we could feel the
ship shaking and the ashes Prom the
two active volcanos on the islands in
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Late Novelist
Told "eason
He Levt-.d Animals
Giant Bear Curwood Wound-
ed Refused to Kill the
Late Author
Lansing, Mich.—Wild life has had
few inore fervent and militant'defen.
dors than James Oliver Curwood,
noted author wixo died recently at his
Owosso, Mich., home,
Curwood was in the midst of a bit-
ter fight with fellow members of the r'd ,
Michigan conservation commission to
force further curtailment of hunters'
privileges before be last illness.
The author's 'personal arraignment
of others who could not see conserva-
tion as he did caused many tensa- o•
menta at the monthly meetings of t
commission, of whichhe, had .bete
member tilt six months,
Curwood's conviction was so deep-
rooted that he would not eat meat and 1"
,hiring an at -gamont over his attempt
to prevent shooting of spike horned
deer declared he would not stop fight.
int until it was against the law to
shoot any deer,
How. Curwood became converted to
his principles reads like one of hie
wild life stories. It happened while
be was hunting in his early years
among the Rockies for big game—
grizzlies, wild goat, and the like.
Sights Gigantic Bear
While on the trait Curwood sighted
from a distance a giant sleek bear,
nine feet tall and known, to hunters in
Che distritt as Thor; king of the ween-
laius,
He became consumed with a desire
to bag Thor. Nights he dreamed of
It and days lie trailed for the kill,
Three times in three weeks he dune
upon the giant and three, times he sent
bullets into the mass 0f fur, but each
limo Thor `salted,.
0110 quiet Sunday,when the sun, the
air, and all nature combined to make a
perfect day. Curwood climbed to a
certain spot 00 a mountainside to
muse upon the roiling ages, A pre-
historic skeleton he had dtsenvered
was near his favorite spot and the
author sat picturing the monster
sporting in the sea lar bolo-;: in tho
sunshine of a million years ago, berure
ilio earths crust thrust tip the levle,-
then's fossil skyware.
;Gloving for a better view, Curwood
Flipped and in reeoverIng his balance
broke'Itis gun. Putting the useless
w•eitgrtn aside he leaned rl bee( again to
muse.
leie Enemy 'Thor Appears
Suddenly an ornineus scratching
along the narrow ledge above where'
he it startled the thinker out of bis
reverie. Fie glanced and rounding a
curve in the rocky walla few steps --
away, ambling directly toward him,
was Thor.
"The .great grizzly no longer was the
fat, sleep animal," Curwood toll in
reciting his story, "The slash of my
bullets were in his side. Ile had fol-
lowed me by smell along Lhat ]edge
and he was stere lighting for ills Iife.
"That beast knew me. lee ]chew
that here, Int his power, was that dead.
Hest of all his enemies. Diu eyes
blazed and his great head swung trent ee,
silo to side.
"Thor reared to his haunches—six
feet away. I was back as far as I
could go without falling over a preci-
pice. One sweep of that Loreeeer
and it would all be over.
"Then, slowly, he cauls down upon
all fours again. Even more slowly,
it seemed, he limped away, back along
the -ledge he had come, leaving be-
hind bis enemy to live!"
Feeling thus forgiven, Curwoocl re-
turned never to 'write of slayings, but
to champion the cause of every wild
thing.
Old Ship Figureheads Now
Adorn a Garden
Down on the New Jersey coast in
a little village close to the sea there
is a garden that--Inste•td of the con-
evntional sundial, bird -bath and etatue
--boasts figureheads from ships 010'
long ago. These picturesque relics are
set with careful consideration and
Pride where they may be seen to the
best advantage.
Among them are a Norse goddess in
gold, blue and red, a majestic ligere
of Neptune with trident intact, and
a swarthy king or prince. The man
who owus this unusual garden was at,40
one time the captain of a sailing Ship
,that visited manly a far-off port,
0----•—^
Royal; Music.
Ono of the English shoe factories
reports that it has had to adopt spe-
cial processes to insure squeakiness
in new shoos 1n order to satisfy the
Indian trade, It seems that a chief
of the Chudasama tribe in India, ,vho
orders hie shoes from London, by ,
chance received a pair of the squeaky
kind. His barefooted subjects were
very much . impressed by the chlees
loud footwear, and now all the onkel
Indian buyers are demanding shoes
with a squeak, the squeakier the bee
ter.
Marshal Chafing Kai-sltek and Miser
Mei Ling Soong are to be married. 11
looks as if tlo war in 'China will
never end.
The millennium will be here soon
after nations become as horrified 19
their own sins es they are by the
other fe}low's. —_
Be they ever sr ltunii'te, them'• no
body Maya homes