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gy J. S, Fletcher
There' presently came into view a
house and ° stables which until then
had beea econcealed bythe thick co -
i c
vert to which she had just pointed,
NeVer having seen a training estab-
lishment before I was astonished at
the size and range of both, and at the
almost palatial character of the pri-
vate residence into which I was pre-
sently conducted. And on the. thres-
hold I paused,
Your- servants," ". said I; will think
you've brought some tramp or other
to breakfast."
good
d
"Not when you've had a _t,00
wash, she retorted with a laugh.
"That seems to be all you need—at a
Pinch. But first, comae into the din-
ing -room."
Y a
She was clearly girl of under-
standing and resource. She took me
into a fine: dining -room, led me up to
the sideboard, and from a cellaret
produced a small bottle of champagne,
which she proceeded to open very
deftly with her slim fingers.
"You drink that!" she commanded.,
pouring out the creamy liquid. "And
you'.11 feel a new pian.. Then I'll turn
you loose in the bath -room, and by
breakfast time -eh?"
'
She laughed merrily as she handed
me; the glass, and I laughed, too, cat
-
chine- the infection.
`Bless' you!" 'I said. "You're a
good sort, anyhow! Long life and
every happiness to you!"
I did; feel a new man an hour later
—she had had razors and things laid
out for me in the bath -room, and
when, washed and cleaned, I went
down to breakfast I scarcely realised
that two hours before I had been
found lying like an outcast onthe op-
en heath. I saw, too, that she looked
at me with approval as I entered the
room where she was waitingwith a
pleasant -faced oldish lady whom she
introduced as her aunt, Miss Millie
Hepple,
!.rough last night, I think I'na entit_'.
ed to
it."
,`St
ick
10it, ana ," said she,
"Bu.
t'
is to 'toiling the police,:' I think 1"
should await develo p rnents. •' Wait
p
foi the next news, You. never know
Even as she spoke, the next news,
the next development, was at hand. A
maid came in hto tell her that Brad-
gett
inthelandi
was hall, . to see
her, She
left the breakfast table
hr
re
-
redly. could see that she wasal-
ready alarmed and wondering if any-
thing had befallen any of 'her preci-
ous
-
ous char es But within two minutes
she looked in at the open door of the
room and nodded at Inc.
Tv1r. v Cranage,"
she said, "will • you.
come out here?"
I went out. Bradgett was standing
wide little way down the w de hall ; , she
drew me in the opposite direction.
"Have you any idea asto what sort
of car it was' that you were driven.
away night?" last ni ht?" she asked in a
whisper.
"What sort? Do you mean make?"
I; replied. • "No—no idea whatever. It
was dark pitch dark, in the yard we
started from. All:I know is that it was
a car—a very second-hand sort of car,
I should say—why?"
...Wait' a minute," she answered
Then she turned to Bradgett. "All
right, Bradgett," she called, "I'll go
Upper
there myself. Did you say the; U r
Y Y PP
Chalk -Pit?"
"That's it, miss—the Upper :Chalk
�s
Pat," replied Bradgett.. "At the bot-
tom, of course."`
"Very we11-I'll goao ,"
shesaid.
"Better? she asked as we sat
down to breakfast.
m
"I should be more ungrateful—and
more graceless—than I ani if I were-
n't !" I" said. "Yes, thank you, I'll
tell you the : story of my adventures
yesterday and last night."
"I won't deny that I've got a truly
feminine:curiositY about it," she lau-
ghed as she began to carve a fine
ham that stood before her. "Tell me,
by all means --if you want to."
"I do want]a, I answered firmly. T
thinkY g
Youn a ou're lady of judg-
ment and common sense, and I
should just like to know what -you've
g
got to say about the whole thing. For
its absolutely beyond me, and'I don't
know whether I ought not to go ba-
ck to Portsmouth and get in touch'
with the police. However; , .
Over that breakfast table I told the
two ladies the whole story, from niy
tweeting with Quartervayne on the
Clarence Pier to my finding myself
on the top of Chilverton Downs. I
spared no detail, telling then by word
of mouth what'I have here set out in
veriting. The telling produced differ-
ent effects in each listened. : • Miss
Hepple, who, lateron, admitted: to me
that she loved sensational fi tion, was
.amazed to, find that things ac iiallly
happen in real life which are at Ieast.
as strange as :those imagined by the
professional sidry-teller;; she took the
whole in with zest and appetite ?tut
Miss Martson's interest wag of a prac
tical sort; I saw that she was putt -
ire two and two together, reel -oiling
shances, spectilratieg on probabilities;
the more I told, the more teoughtfal
she became.
"And that's the end," I concluded
abruptly.
She gave vie a straight glance;
"You mean—that's the beginning',"
she said. "Or, if it's the end, it's
merely' the end of the first chapter.,
Of course, the thing has only begun.
Curtain on Act One—that's where
you've got to. Next—Act two."
"Not with nae in it!" said I, determ-
inedly,
"How do you know?" she question-
ed, "Yoe may be dragged—forced—
into it. Anyway, as I say, it's only
the beginning."
"Whet I want to know," observed.
Miss Hepple from .behind her tea-
tray, "is— what does it all mean? You.
don't know, of course, sir?"
"I've no, More idea; ma'am," I re-
plied,. "titan I have of the merits of
the Bacofa-5liakespearc controversy.
All I know is --what I've: told you. Up
to stow -'-the whole thing is a my-
stery."
"I -lave. you eoetted that motley?"
asked Miss Mal
on suddenly.
have! There's hundred ootids
Ia u p
rn soy'ereigns," Ianswered.
F, "t
rSG
"Miele- money, ;ofcou , she e ob.
served.
"Something of the sort, rio doubt,"
said I, "Still, considering what I went
Manson,' he wen's oil, pointingto the
brow of : the chalk -pit high :'above
we stood. Y eta
where
es l went u
there as soon as I set eyes on this
mess, .thottgla, of course, I made sure
fo begin with that there wasn't no
dead' body nor parts o' one ; lying
down here. And I took a careful look'
round, miss, not only iit what's Jt
t
above, but at the road. beyond. Of
course, a trained eye, like mine, seen
what --well, what other people don't
see, You'll understand me?"
"Perfectly, Roberts,"' replied' Miss
Manson. "And you. :saw --what?"
"This here, miss," answered the po-
liceman with proud assurance. "That
there car came along the road that
nuns behind your place, across the
shoulder of the hill, and from the, sou-
th—it didn't come t'other way. 'Cause
'why? Before ever going up there I
took a careful look at them tyres—'
'you'll see they're of a peculiar make.
.and therefore have a peculiar impress-
ion
,
Now then, you'll, find that impress-
ion
ress-
ion
coming up the road from near
our piece, not .down the road, and if
you and: this gentlemali'll go upthere,
you'll find that right above this chalk -
pit thein impressions in the road sur-
face stop -sharp! I'll tell you what
happened, miss—the fellow ,.as had
this car pulled up there. Then he
probably took a look -round -and over,
this here formidable cavity, though it's'
likely he knew of it before. Then he
'got his car on, to the turf above that
edge, jumped off himself while she
was moving, and let her -rip! He
stood up there -safe, and she went ov-
'er the •. edge—smash! How's that—
miss?"
I"It does credit toyour powers of
observation and deduction, Roberts,"
said Miss Manson. "If I ,were you,
as you're still youngish, I should go
in for the detective service.
"Well, and I'veht of that thou g
be-
fore .now, mise." remarked the grati-
Then, as -.the man left the hall, she fied policeman. "However, there's
turned to me again. "One of our one thing beatsme about this job,
boys has just, come in with news that 'and it's this—What object could any
a motor -car, hopelessly e
P l Y wrecked , of man have' in`wrecking:'a car like this..
course, has been found this morning:—deliberate?: 'Taint whatY ou'd call
at the bottom of a chalk -pit, half a a first-class nor yet a second-class
Gone clear over the
mile away. edgecar, and it ain't even middle-aged, mei-
-a drop of, oli, perhaps seventy or :they by its looks, but still, 'twas ser
Thursday, March 4ti!., 19;0
"That's ' Reliardsmere House,' Lady
Renardsmere lives there -when she
isn't in town, Perhaps' you don't re-
cognise; her under that name. She
tirne ago—a Well-
known
once—some g ell-
ti
known acts?ess—Helena Reading. You
know that name, of course. Now
he's dead and she's got all his lands
and his money—no end of it. And
r s she's gone
for ilielast yearsfive'io q g
in for racing, and I'.ve:got her, Derby
candidate in: my stable -Rippling
[tttb y.
,1.:
Rthpling Ruby!". I exclaimed.
"Why, of course I know her name!
She's high u in the betting, , isn't
P
she?"
"Three to oneat present,":s'
he an-
swered,
a -swered; alm st indifferently. But
she'll start at odds on, or my name
isn't Peggie Manson! Rippling Ruby
will win the Derby as certain as that's
andthose are my sta-
bles.house that
bles. and that this is my land! I-Iow-
ever, that's neither here or there. The
real thing just now—for you -is that
eighty feet!" viceable and 'twas property. You'd
"With anybody in it?" I exclaimed. think 'twas the act of a madman, this
"Seventy or eighty feeti. Why, then here, now wouldn't you, miss?''
Miss
rr al .; ie that she rjvla so replied t at s e was„
"But that's the q thin said
queerg, quite in agreement with the ..'police-
'slie. "There isn't a trace ofan' bod :.
Y Y man's sentiments, and then she and I:
Of course,if there had been anybody
returned to the to of the - chalk -pit
,pP
it, a tunof eighty feet—eh?” in p ge e g y and verified his statement about the
stood for- a moment 'in silence,: '
Welinlfi•essioris on the light surface- of.
staring at, each other. Then she turn- the hillside road. There was no doubt
ed to stand, close by, picked out an whatever that the' car had come to
ashplant walking -stick, and motioning: this point from near 'that at which 1
me to take another moved off towardsh<d a duringitnight,'
been deposited the t
the hall door. I nor that the running of it ever the ed
-
"Come Came along! she said. We've bo- ge of the chalk -pit 'had been'a •dello-.
th finished breakfaste'llgo'` to look
w crate act, for on examinint?
the edges
at it. For I'm already wondering—is of the roadway morecarefully we saw
this the car that brought you to theturned
y the place whereat it had'been to ned
top of Downs?" off at almost right angles and anoth-
"And
g
"And if it is," said l; "where's Hol- er place where it had evidently rested
liment? For Hollirnent certainly on, the turf before being re -started
drove it. And if it is his car, and he and.sent to destruction.
went over with it—" j "That's the' car in which you were
"That's utterly impossible," she de- brought from Portsmouth,"` declared
Glared. "No man could go over the ny companion, with firm conviction,
edge' of that chalk -pit and fall 'eighty 'That's certain."
feet and then get away alive. But : "Yes," I directed. "But where's its
it's no use speculating—let' s get driver? And what did he do this for?
there." Aad don't you think Id better go back
She led me out of the ' grounds, to Portsmouth and tell the •police all
along the hillside, and up a sort of I know?'
mountain road for half a mile.' Sud- I "No, I don't think I should if I
denly turning off this and -crossing a were you," she answered. "You've
bit of wiry turf she brought me up done nothing -you merely fell into a
sharp on the very lip of the chalk -pit curious con`i6ination of circumstances.`
unfenced, unprotected in any way. If I were in your place I should. just
And looking down we saw the car, a 'wait to see what happens."
good eighty feet below. It seemed to "And stick .to This money?" 'I ask
Mie that is was smashed into as many ed, tapping my pocket, where the gold
fragments its there are seas in - the felt, unpleasantly heavy',
world. There were people, shepherds 1"Why: not? It was put there," she
farm lads, gapers from a village close said. "Certainly I should stick to it!
by, gathered about it, and we went But you'll hear something -sooner or
down the hillside by a sheep -track later, There's some 'mystery' behind
and joined them. There was 'a po- all this. Arid -what ,are you going to
licernan there,' too; lie told its that the do, now?"
matter must have occurred during the "Go on to London, I suppose," I
early hours of the morning, for he -answered. "Where's the nearest 1 sta-
laimself had been in the chalk -pit with tion?
a game watcher at midnight, andel , "That's five or six miles away," she
there was then nothing' to notice; he replied, "But —I'd an idea for you.
said too that the lad who had first 1 "An idea?—for the? I'exclaimed,
found the wreckage, at seven o'clock, looking my surprise, "What?"
had seen nothing of any htufian being "Do you want another seer'etary
irk connection' with it, , And theft he ship?" she asked,
drew our attention to a signficant "I want any good and decent job—
fact—there was nothing 'amongst the of that sort," I:answered. "To tell
,
yr cltag e by'which the `car could be lie truth, r mu a
7 e g you_t c I wasn t very ch of <
identified -all that sort of thing had success on the stage—I think I'm bet
been removed.' ter fitted for the other sort of thing.
"And there's only one conclusion to
Why,do you know of 'anybody who
come to,Miss Manson," " he wound u . ! •ants a: secretary?"
I , p v,Y
" "
i� men .desert
:flus here car, lzas b ed by Have you references and testimon-
1
'' e`: u tit` top there andthen 1 .r -1'
its tlrty a p �o t p_ ra s. she enquired in osis! cess rkc
started and made to leap the: edge! ,fashion. "Real goad ones?"
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Now, why?" 1?0r answer I polled out my pocket-
CHAPTER V book, extracted certain letters and pa-
The Old Stage Queen r handed em totQ pe s from it, and lit sledth na bee
That.That� itostionobvi.ous enouli, i
• an silence. �In silence she read. them
q ;3
was
doubtless agitating the rnizds of the
jell through, then, handieg then back,
twelve Or twenty country folk who
' she pointed across the valley to, a
°iig
stood aroun d, dividing stares b y'aoilse, half hidden amongst trees, that
tweets the wrecked car arid ourselves, 'stood above the little village which ;I
Bdt the policeman had marc to say,; had noticed whets we were at The
and was eager to say it 'chalk -lit,
"I've been up on top : there, Miss "Yon s'ee that place?" slim said,
ine the equivalent, in the horse world,,
of a very beautiful wornan'inour own
—an•exgnisitely modelled thing of life
and fire, wlaose b3ight bay
coat, , b
r
rl
l-
tans eyes, delicate nostrils, and per-
fectly
moulded limbs suggested all
sorts :of ,things beyond my. :imagina
tion. And when Miss Manson with, a
hand: on the creature's neck, and a
couple of stable boys looking on re -
ver nt,
:: asked me' if this wasn't- a
e Y
beauty, all I ,could do was ---metaphor.,
ically-to 'fall down and worship.
"Has—has she ever run in a race?"
I asked, timidly.
Tile attendants—for.one hor •3ified
second -turned their faces on me and
their mouths in sheer,
opened h , incred-
ulous astonishment; the next, they
sighed gently and once more relapsed
into stolid respectfulness. Miss Man-
son laughed,
gess •she wood half to quit becuz she.'
! all ways got her mouth full of hares -
when she tryed to lick the kitten and.
once. the darned beest skraGlaed her
!
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e
all'la£f d to.
hwfa• And rve
Saterday-'-today when .pa went
down to the store he got madat the
Clerk, He wanted to 'Jiy sun under
How 'on
r• e:.
rad the clerk Ho
d.
s long
Ware a
do you waut`it and pa
got huffie rite
itI want
off
Why confound
and sed. W Y
to keep it, do you think
wantt to
rent it.
••
Sunday—I and
pa overherd re
d the min-
ister of are eliirch balling out a cer,
tan man'here ira town witch isvery
lazy. lie sed to him. How cum you
set around all day an read detectiff
tectiff
storys wile yure wife talks
les 'in warsh-
in ''. And he replyed and sed. Well
you see my wife cant read
none diets
why.
y
"Oh, yes, she's run in a race!" she Munday-I,, got a lickin ,for conic
• mf
answered. "She's 'viva twice? She g home frurn skool today bere it o
won the Champagne Stakes at Don- was .out, but even at that 1 ain bette
• r :rinse le tell.
caster last .year, as a two-year old, by off. I overheld the 1 P
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Lady Renardsmere,' who' loathes writ- three; lengths; and she carried off the teeeher to take me apart and tails k to•
ing even a note and hates 'accounts, One Thousand Guineas at Newmat Get
wants -a secretary, I should say only last week, by four. That's her
that you, withyour references and little record! Yes -she's run, , a
Y , „
"
testimonials, and especially that letter bit!" ;
from Barrett Oliver, 'are just the.nian` "I told ori I knew nothing about
J Y g
• said "Well—
'"It's
for her! n•acrng, I `, humbly. Well—
•" ,
t s a full. good ofyou to think mybestrespects and. good wig
I awfully • here's P
of it-!" I said. ."You're a true Sam- shes to Icer!, And I'll go to Epsom
aritan, Miss Manson."
"Oh, '• I don't know!" she laughed.
"Always willing to. do a good .turn,
though. Now look here -there's no-
thingdoing g
thin :'like things at once. My
dear old father always said-thethree
finest words in the world were—Do it
now! ' I'll go across with you •to La-
dy Renardsmere—I want to see her
this morning, so we shall lull two
birds with one' stone: But: first come
to the stables; and I'll show you the
little lady that'sgoing to win the Der-
by."Y
She led me through the gardens
surrounding her house to the training
quarters close by. To me, who had
never 'seen any, establishment of •this
sort before, and who had no idea
whatever of the conditions under whi-
ch thoroughbreds= are trained, the
whoie_place was a marvel; what .seem-
ed still more marvellous was that a
mere girl could manage it. But I
soon saw that Miss Margaret Manson
was not merely mistress but absolute
autocrat; the whole army of men and
boys while we passed under review
evidently trembled at her nod and
hung on her lightest word—no` com-
manding officer crossing his barracks
yard _could possibly have been receiv-
ed with mgr respect and 'obedience
than-, she was as she queened it
through her little empire. '
lessqueen seemed Ripp-
ling
of ai PP -
ling Ruby in the Jealously : guarded
and specially watched domain to whi-
ch her trainer led ine. I Icnow noth-
ing of horseflesh then and was awful-
ly ignorant of the various paints of a
thoroughbred; all I knew was that I
was invited to look at what seemed. to
eto see her win the Derby."
"h don't think,. there's much doubt
that you'll go there,': remarked Miss
,Manson, a moment ment later as she •and 'I'
left the box, "that's pretty certain!"
"Why?" 'I asked, looking at her in
surprise.
"Because 'I`think Lady
Renardsmere
will. give you the " she `replied J ,
re-
adily.: "She's a great affection for
anybody or anything that has fo do
or has to do with her old profession,,
land the main fact that you've trodden
the boards and been connected with
Barrett' Oliver will be an: enormous
recommendation. But come along!
—we'll
i`r
t Renatdsn e e
'1 o across o . rel. g
House."
Continued next week)
SLATS' DIARY
se By Ross .Farquhar
Friday—Ma had. '`a`good laff ,today
when she was a telling us, all about
P ll s : little - girl
Mrs. ey
witch has got a little
orfant kitten down at
there house. Wile ma
this .there after-
noon ".why Mrs. Pelly
she tells the little girl
that her Kitten needs a
good bath and for her
to take the enamel and
give it a good warshing
on ac. it, hassent got no,
muther to do it for it.
She sed now see if 'you
cantdo better than its
muther cud do. and af-
ter wile the, kid. she
cums:back in the room and sed she
'
rneSerious. So I'' beet it wile r was
all tog ather.
Teusday—Pa was telling about a
ole widdow woman witch la P ut
a ad
in
3G°
the . noosepaper today. It .went like
this. .Wanted, a boy, to tailscare of a, i
cow who wears rubber Boots.
—Jane today T told 'that
if I diddent kwit studying so hard
why. T belayed T wood lose my mind
an all
she sed was. Aw dont flatter
er hard to self so. She. isvery yore
of lately.
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MORRIS
Minutes of meeting • held in the
Township Hall, Morris on. Monday,
February 15 th.
Y
'ruar : 1926. Members all,.:,
present. Reeve presiding.
Minutes ' of last meeting read and
approved on motion of Henderson
and Brown.
The following accounts were paid:
::.
Municipal World, supplies, $24.8o;
James Fox, fumigators .to.o5; Walton
McKibbon, fumigators 2.25; Blyth
.;,
Telephone :85; John Roger, account
15c;
297oo; L. E. 'Cardiff; 'Telephone
Board of Health, Dr. Stewart, 25.00;
R. H. Shortreed 3.00; Peter McNab„
;i,00; A. McEwen, 3.00; Stewart Proc
tor, 5.06 patrolman; Wm. McMurray,..
patrolman, M03; Chas. Workman, orkman, pa--
trolman 8.38; Russel ' Sundercock pa -
"lm n: .2 Wm. Craig, patrolman '
tro a 44 5,. P
4.55; John Craig, patrolman 2.14; Ric- •
hard Johnston, audit i5.00; Peter Mc
Nab, Audit i5.00, Robert Golley, pa-
trolman 4.00 Lew, Jewitt, patrolman,.
12.20; Jos. Bewley, fumigating, 1.85;;
R. H. Shortreed, train fare, i.5o.
Next Council meeting, Monday;
March 22nd., 1926.
A. MacEwen, clerk,
SNOWSHOES
FETED AT
E
tinder--snoeseeerenne'ttlinethrouge streets of Quebec. Glover
• tit. ya7d-sot1d
L tramp; tramn, tramp, of four thousand
snow -T
shoes as they fell with regular thud over the soft,
wasfalling in he•nig t was cc'm-
tiew Snow which 1 t g'h s a o
r�
palliest by glaring torchlightsand withall the pomp'
and splendour which Quebec had to offer the two
thnusand'snowahoers who had come front, the tuf•ther-
ti o - rtici-.
a andthe C7nittd St. test a
most parts of Canada p
pate in the International:Snowshoers union Convention
which was held at the AnalentCapital recently.
Arriving on special trains the snowshoers `were
ci Pro-tvta r Duquette.
warmly rvelcomeil to the tY by . Yn q
In true 1i'renoh-Canadian style the' were given the
later ter were entertained at luno .
freedom of the city and a h
concert a s ectal clxureh
In addition to a , molting li
service . was held at which huridredc of snowshoers,
reptesenting forty -seen, clubs,- Were present, r
Tn'the afternoon of the first 'day six snowshoe races,
involving three world championships and three. Cmt-
q.cl tri ciaatYapionsl fps, were held. The Ameriean anow-
shoere, not having gent In their entries by !'Phrriary 1,
�a required aceor Ping to the International Rules, were
--Police escort on C,tand"Atka, Inset -n, McKrchnid'whiner ot
championship
ineligible � e to compete for the titles which all went t o•
.
Montreal clubs.
1
nh
tee
evening the e snowshoers were at the • gigaaatfio
smoking concertwhichwas held in the' Drill Hall 1 a 1 ori
Grand ad Allee. The he next afternoon they took part in
n
'various
attractions. 'them and departed in
special trains at night after attending the hockey.
match between St, Valier, of the Quebee. City League,
and the Lewiston Hockey . team; •
B. McKechnio, M,A.A,A., Montreal, won the 100 -yard
Canadian Snowshoe Championship, and the g20 -Yard -
World Championship, at the races; M. Martin, National
Club, Montreal, won the 440 -yard Canadian Snowshoe-
Championship. W. Sthith, a/AAA., Montreal, won the
mile Canadian Championship. G. A, dates,
Montree '
l, wasfirst int t',9 880 -Yard World S1Xirifrsllo9f-
Chatnploniship. 'W, Montahoire,. M.A.A.A., Montreal,
Won the 120 -yard httrdlete, World Chatnplonship,
Among the vialtors were three clubs trona Lewiston,,
and knottier from Aubifril, Main..
in