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By T. C H. JACOBS
"Doubtless you 'did," replied Molt,
who had been prepared fox thla, If
that is the reason.. for the maii"rier in
Which yon have been treating`ine, it
is easily explained, I went fiver to
assure my friend Moineau that no
harm had befallen me. You know how
quickly news carries .n this xirt of
the world, and the old man is in sueh
a nervous condition that it won d have
made him ill. I went so early because
I had a fearful headache an51 r could
not sleep." ;
This was precisely the; ansiO Bar-
nard had expected, and he nodded
grimly
"Very well, Mr, Holt, Iwill not de-
tain you any longer. I :apologize for
any rudeness to you."
"You have been rude, sir{," said
Holt, "but I suppose you hai`e your
ditty to do, and it is sometimes diffi-
cult."
Barnard walked slowly areess the
What New York
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BY ANNA.BELLE WORTHINGTON
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SYNOPSIS "You have something to tell me,
Henry Holt and hi at ara'�T� Muriel Mr�Me��t exclaimed Holt with well-
farm.
House and is desirous
Moineau's Hep yo
e aeries e disappearances Hard did not immediately reply,
eave neighborhood, but remained staring at .his visitor,
e the vicar's S as •
immovable
Another be spoke there was a coldmenace
with his valet Flack discover
House, an a physical chill.
Inspector Barnard visits KestreHouse l
ASainwaring are staying
Yarm. Holt has a friend, Moineau, living
at Kestrel us that simulated surprise. "What can I tell
Muriel marry hew, Hayden ?"
141 rcer whir she dislikes.
er us '
t been alarming the
room and held the door opens
"Yes, Mr. Holt, i have my1duty to
should
inst a
Illustrated Dressmaking Lesson Fur-
nished Tli'.'z P. very Pattern
aughter, haled
Vicon amovable as a statue and as free
ti e other boarderm. from outward emotion. When at Last
at the farm. Percival in
seer,
do, and I'm just wondering if
warn ou and your friend
certain man."
"Who is that?" asked Hui
thinking at once for some
Pyecroft.
"An Instow blacksmith ai4 a>a
time hobby, Mr Hoes.. H name
Rankin. Good day."•st the
Henry Holt lurched ag
stair rail outside, ani stump d, rath-
er than walked down;,for ale spare -
time hobby of the Instow 1'r teksn''iiith
was that of public hen;gmanj;
CHAPTER KIV,
Mona
ryecroft, w
a t underground passage to Kestrel
d locket belonging to Ni his voice that affected Holt as if with
Page. "I'veguessing
nothing.
and questions Moineau, but learns
nothing. Pyecroft and Flack deliberate- lately eMr beenHoltlnow Ilwant te truth.
Ey assault Holt on the moor and extract
a packet from his specimen case. Bar- no sing
Hard discovers the injured man. Pyecroft You mien from you. I amtpr paled
afterwards finds the stolen packet has
D stolen from him. Holt pays a see -
which
e of to make adequate allowances for theret
nen s
midnight visit to Kestrel House.
ic1Y,
on, of
, a►v NT I -8 of
iicektti ottiy
IZ,�ODog SCOTTI
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hat came before: Captain jimmy and
his dog Scottie have many strange ad-
ventures while flyin over China. After
escaping from bandits and enemy sol-
diers
ol-
militas'Yebaseafromnwhichrthey startedat the
and are greeted with an unexpected sur-
prise.
After escaping from the enemy's
soldiers, we pushed the plane to an
ltitude of several thousand feet,
C I.
accepted. To you anti I this would
be treason—inexcusable—but to Gen-
eral Lu war was simply a business
proposition. Why shouldn't one take
a job as General,—and after making
a success of it, sell out?
I must have looked shocked, which
seemed to hurt his feelings, but he
stifled his pride and continued with
and headed straight for Shanghai. his plan. He wanted to leave area
It was still early in the morning promptly, go to Japan,—and I was
when we sighted the Familiar flying to fly over with him. He offered
held, tpread out like a small green ' me a round cum of money, or practi•
handkerchief in the
the early nplane
down in a wide
spiral, we rolled
to a stop outside
the airdrome. ••
Then to our
amazement, a
Lieutenant and a
detachment of
soldiers drove up
and told us we were under arrest.
We were dumfounded. "By who's
orders are we under arrest?" I ask-
ed.
sked.
"General Lu's orders:," replied the
dapper little Chinese officer.
We were more surprised than ever.
General Lu had been our friend and
helper from the beginning of our
trip. Now he had placed us 'under
arrest. '
"On what charge are ' wee arrest-
ed?" I asked.
"Kidnapping Colonel Fong," re-
sponded the little officer.
• We' were -bundled into an army
truck and rushed through the streets
with the siren screaming. In no
Hine we arrived at the palace of
:General Lu.
General Lu welcomed me gravely,
shaking hands with himself in
Chinese fashion, and then dismissed
the orderly. Then he unfolded a
plan so amazing that I pinched my-
self' to see if I were really awake.
He had SOLD OUT—car, you beat
that? SOLD OUT—his office as a
General. Someone had paid him a
great stack of money to quit—and
being a business man. first, he had
which Pyecroft is aware. shock of your experience. That shock
has now passed; did you or did you
CHAPTER XIII.—(Cont'd,) not lose anything last night?"
Rapidly Pyecroft told him of the "Certainly not, sir," snapped Holt
lose of the parcel .and of Holt's Parly angrily. "I've already made that per -
morning visit to Kestrel House. Flack fectly plain. What are you now try -
swore blasphemously as he vigorously d forward,
the grey stubble which
crowned his head.
"Gosh, guv'nor," he exclaimed,
"some slick guy that! Maybe Bar-
nard's got a nark trailing wot we
Ain't spotted."
Pyecroft shook his head:
"No, he's nothing to do with the
police; but I 'wouldn't mind laying
good odds that he's the advance guard
of the Bergen crowd. If so, m'lad,
things will be decidedly hectic."
'Flack's little eyes sparkled with ex
eitement: .
"You've hit it, guv'nor. Darkey
Mullen has double crossed 'em and
they're out for blood. S'truth, and
they'll git it too ! • Wot we going to
do?"
"Let 'em all come," smiled Pyecroft,
shrugging his broad shoulders, "We'll
beat 'em, Flack, eh?"
"Sure, guv'nor," grinned Flack,
though the new menace left him un-
easy in his mind. Leon Bergen was
a very dangerous man. He considered
the matter from all angles as he walk-
ed back to his lodgings, but the more
he thought about it the less the pros-
pect appealed.
When Pyecroft arrived down to
breakfast he found that
d prolticand.
d.
Muriel Mainwa.'ing
completed their meal. The former im-
mediately arose and was on the point
of leaving the room when Maty Jane
announced Trotter. with both
Grasping his hat firmly
hands the detective sergeant stood
hesitating upon the threshold: „I "Yes," barked Holt. "Don't forget the tv:•itnr, sit:' Explained my
"Oh, goodmorning, sergeant, +•I don't think I'41, likely to, whir He took my word that that was so,
I can do for Barnard let go his hold on the
beamed Holt "anything are the worst that ever happened." My wife then tale.
other's and leaned back in his I ,'He's forty years toldoher t e. said,
y°u?�� rumbled Trotter, chair, his finger. tips pressed together, �� - "And thirty-five am I,
"Morning, sir," to and his head inclined toward the cell -"the chief sent be along to ask youing. Boit ran a finger round the in- Not long ago a see 1 company re- It's just ten years since we were wed,
step down and see him some time this side of his collar, and found it sticky.
if convenient. Little beads of perspiration damped 0e v dmt the
following
st - 'der: "seeds I cannot tell a lie."
morning
certainly, sergeant. I'll .. .
that hie forehead and his fingers twitched onesen. bee with hive nom te,. one dozen That Census Man was full of fun,
ex - . come right along now, as he brushed them over it. The action plum sends, ten scluar <,�ircls of grass But crafty as a fox,
o the inspector,,
suit you?" was not lost upon t and six wall flowers vath pieces of He saw that Jim, our stalwartson,
'•T$iank you, sir, it will:' though he was not looking at him. 1
et
Holt walked dawn the villageThe Census Man looked up at Jim,
r Holt got up from his chair and took fold the strawberry an Also send enough
clops, And baskets to dquite six ese esly smiled,
his socks.
'Henryt from the table, but Barnard1
to the Blue Board and endeavored en -
his h� i,#.and some back combs for the honey
thteade ty to pump the evasion
to but motioned him to be seated. Holt sat } The grass should be green in color and Said he: "You must be proud of him,
that adept at the art of evasion talked down again. the seeds a flavor neeanlar with the He's such a mstyn ssiette, Montreal.
a lot and told him nothing. They „Yost know that I saw you leaving chickens." "�"r —`
e
found Barnard •writing in his room, Kestrel House this morning?
and he dismissed his subordinate with
a curt nod. Mr.Holt,,, he inviter+,
"Sit down, so that while
indicating a chair placed
the inspector's face remained more or
Iess in shadow his visitor was blink-
ing in the strong sunlight,
For some moments lie went on writ-
ing, then looking up suddenly he said:
"I was out on the moor this mgrn-
;rig, Mr. Holt having a look over 'the
not where you were molested."
Holt smiled •and nodded:
"Early bird catching the worm, eh? i
Hid you ... er .. discover 'a clue':"
"Yes. I did, Mr. Holt," replied Bar-
nard with slow dobe atonnd�hing att
biro intently.
Oaring into the coldest eyes he. had
ever seen. Be still smiled, but it was
the fixed, mechanical smile bf a man
very much on his guard.
" on Barnard in his
r. � went
I pound, "that something hap-
pened
tones,
ened• last night of which I was t
p
lead, aware; was, in fact, deliberately
misinformed."
Molt raised`yni5,°eyebrowe in ned silent.lS-
tioning surpri'**e, tut reins
Barnard continued inane slowly and
impressively than before:
ilrtp.r -.
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ing to .. er . .
Barnard lean, his jaw that very morning, an
thrust out pugnaciously, one big finger noon Mercer had 'come
pointing accusingly: rows li'arm. His warns
"I reckon you're taking a
breaking into this niecewarrant; what'll happen i
Moineau spotsyou?"
Barnard shrugged hie s
"There'll be some strap
heaven ... ani one of tb'
mine. If I hadn't! 'lee,
time I'd still bave `'keen
pavement in Limehouse."
Chief Inspector Barnard,
well the risk he was takin
would result, at the least
reduction in rank, .at th`
death. But he wasearepa'
the chance, and judged
only way to bring the
swift conclusion. He ha,
•
"I'm telling you that no man ever
yet told me a lie that I couldn't recog-
nize immediately I had searched his
eyes, as I am searching yours."
Holt, secretly shaken and scarcely
knowing what he was doing,, P
d
his eyes off Barnard as if they had
been snapped away by steel springs.
The inspector nodded slowly, his
mouth set in a hard line.
"As;I thought," he reurm r d^Yr. • u own
Suddenly his eyes narrowed an lie n; tree and barely
changed his tone completely. Reach- ter, leaning against
ing over the table he grasped Holt plantation on a 1rrontess night. isible in the Mee, al darkness oftthe
chief,
t a
*au
plantation
Gamy'
a
ull'
ire
in�
to twice
to be the
Iter to ,a
d °lt
e" to B
o, Holthd
not been made without, ertaaderatio3
he had a double oi;jeat leview, al*
one of them was to stamaederthe Kea,.
trel House peoplea'iri,# 1d e,,0•, sort 'off
action.
The effect of his we •, olt had
m
been more startling -illi , ag inn
ticipated- and urged
quickly. He was de to ex-
plore the -inside of this
510" t. -.'-'v ('t 1$ Se"
1i
from the silk blouse.
cally anything I could ask within
reason for the trip. The arrest was
simply a bluff. If I said "Yes" all
would be well.
In a flash it occurred to me that
here was all the equipment and help
we needed to try to find Lieuten
ant Stone's brother, now held cap
tive by the mountain bandit tribe. I
accepted at once—with the under-
standing that Guy Stone would first
be found. From that moment, there
wasn't a thing we could ask for that
we didn't get immediately—from
de
ex-
tra heavy canvas phosphorous
paint.
Working secretly in a special ans
guard-
ed hangar, we fashioned our p
into the weirdest looking dragon you
ever saw. Trail-
ing out ban
was a long can-
vas tail, that
floated a'traight
out when we
were in the air:
In the day-
time it was a ��i�%�{I'
wild looking
plane, but at night it was positively
terrifying. So 'much so, that when
Fu Hsu, the interpreter entered the
hanger after dark one night, he near-
ly passed out entirely. Actually he
fainted, and 1 thought we would never
bring him around.
(To be continued.)
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The jacket is in the popular
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"Now, come straight, Holt; what
was it? You've told me a lie and we
both know it. I'm giving you a chance
to put matters square; take it."
Holt made a sudden movement, so
convulsive as almost to be epileptic,
but Barnard held him firmly in the
chair. - quietly.
"I'm waiting," he said, q y
"Then damn well wait," exploded
the infuriated Holt, "you try .your ,
third degree methods on me, and be.;
cause you so confuse me that I look;
away from your infernal eyes, you
•
call me a liar, and worse. This ...!
this is er ... outrageous, and I
shall report you to your Head Office."
Barnard continued to stare at him
unthinkingly.
"Is that your last word'?" he de-
mandea calmly. j
"You understand, • Trotter, if I in,
not out again,within the hour go back
and get on to Mr. Medway, or if you
can't get him, then Sergeant Drew."
"Sure, chief."
"Good, I'm going ori now."
(To be continued.)
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The Census Man
The Census Man came round to -day.
A diplomatic youth,
Said he: "Take heed to what you say,
I . Tell nothing but the truth."
' He asked my name and my address,
i. How much I earned per week,
What property did I possess,
What language did I speak?
,.I told him what he wished to know,
sex was male,
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Entering An Atoll
I_,
I had already seen several coral
reefs at Mangareva, but this was the
first time I had been near an atoll.
It was like fairyland! For about a
cable's length I followed the sub-
marine reef that surrounded the atoll,
and was only perceptib'e by the emer-
ald green color of the water. Every
now and then enormous blocks of tics.
f
dazzlingly white coral stood out of the I Don't ,,�roithliol ifcthei risk is a fair
need -
sea as though tossed up by some gig- 1 one. in America,
antic eruption. What struck me most
of all was the translucent blueness ( Don't withhold credit where need -
of the air, the marvelously delicate ed hi a foreign country,
if thehue of the sky above the lagoon, and • is a fair one.
the violent contrast of green tree- reciprocal lower trahep tarsff except for
tops and vivid blue sky.
The sea was breaking heavily on nations.
the coral. The coastline of the atoll I Don't overburden with taxes, the
was far from presenting the regular1 railroads, as they are necessary for
appearance shown in the charts; it, i our welfare.
was a succession of bays and little , Don't fear to increase taxes where
points, not continuous, but broken 1 better distribution is advisable.
into little islands separated from Don't discourage, oar - shipping in -
each other by miniature channels. terests. trade.
Toward noon I was oposite the I Don't hold back on foreign
Ngarue Channel. Now • was the but go out and get it.
•
time to verify some of mY • theories. i ` Don't btty 'stocks of questionable
Every skipper I had talked to had , value and merit.
advised me to enter at slack water i Don't
get all right panicky ---things will
of low tide when there was practi come
ally no current, but I resolved Rto I olInfuse the
a enfarn or Presidentatfon . with the s Wil 1
make my way in at the full strength
of the flood, thus profiting by its as Ham nf McKinley.'
on with the spirit
sistance, . .
The tide was rising when I got I. of nn man lilts former Seinator Henry
there, and the sea sweeping in with 1 Cabot Lodge. -
an ao i swell. There
When
expansion
begine
sign of buoy to mark -the channel,
'to well overtake depTeson,seethat
and I had to trust . entirely to the inflation Is avoided.
compass to get my bearings. fifty to a hundred
set he
Twenty -One "Don'ts"
To Better Conditions
Philadelphia William; Guggenheim,
New York financier and philarithro-
gist offered a 16 -rule plan "for the re-
turn of better times"
The 16 rule plan follows:
Don't produce commodities at a
loss.
Don't manufacture et a loss.
Don't discourage capital.
Don't interfere in European poll
1
"Russia is (ruin
'
breeze was light, bat when I
ly reached the entrance the current' behind the rest of•tho world in
raced me Dewar knowledge: It is
our job
cl' at a speed of eight years se Bolshevilti
' This was really most impressive. to make up arrears in these ten years,
The reefs seemed very close on because laggards always suffer."—
either side. The water boiled and
1 Joseph Stalin, dictator of Russia.
_-�,
swirled and the FirsCrest did not 1
answer to the helm. Ahead were'
several large lumps of sunk coral. 1
In the middle of the channel my boat
shunround trice on her own axis,
I .
and thought myself, in great dan-
ger, but by this time I had been
swept into the lagoon, where the 1
water was marvelously calm and so I
transparent that I could perceive
many dangerpt e reefs just below. the
surface. Navigation was now in-
creasingly difficult, and I had con-
stantly to leave the tiller to go for-
ward and make ant the various coral
builders cttlaly melodious names which the chart indicated
under pa
No matter how severe,
you`eali always have
immediate to relict:
. in always stops Pain quidkly. It
Temaril, Tem Aspvc Y Harmless
if cts
`Y'i.'. P" .. 'M h .4 • ,y�'�>':,> ..��.o �� t W, ,. iF I i! d.'ii•`o•R$4 u ik.:k ,-.w.,..-,.Rm,.:.�.�.�'_..__-_
Il 'YY K, .%'.Jfi� bAf • „r h'4''"'`k .?4. ..� ,.,. ... ... ... e- —:i�lapii°apsra, Qtil\ai a,
of the ndw giant Cuirarder now under con'Lr, stir Clyde- shine, Nelr0, Olin. Before long `I
t . ,ally bui c
The shave phat.tgraptt is of an 15 ;cot model model is shown floating in a specs 11 pro., east anchor off. the little village of .
I.
built, Scotland, in the yards of John Browne Co. The
Wind and n aura we :e t Y p Ngt aneli va, happy to have sur -
Melt Atlantic ocean conditions were reproduced re miniature.
The (lunarcler will he the la,nest 'ship.
hip
mounted such tlffiirtrtties and to have
tank i l > I _ .,
- • ,vires to subject the model to severe tests. t hi •1i it is said will
1 ill be 1018 feet long. Detail
She
endere,one an ttnrorgetteble, experi-
s of her raristi'ur,.init r
The picture above is the first to erste.•-••Hilae tlerbault, in In Rtlest
afloat, and will gross 78,000 tons
1 embody principles entirely new t
reach Canada ,of the model of the new Cttnarder.
H caiously gtraidecl,
o ship building, are beim, j et the Sun.
does it without and ill e f fe
to the heart; harmless to anyberly. But
it always brings'relief. Why suffer?
ACI, MARK RISS,
Made ilr Canada.