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Zurich Herald, 1931-08-20, Page 2Salads Green tea drinkers drink the best green tea !t GREEN TEA 'Freak from the gardens' trick of speech which Minitel h„ cop charm to his courteot tees •, "�► a New YOk'j and old-world manner; but tie o-•` Y '�`�" ing it irritated her. earing In that mysterious way in news travels on Dartmeer, be et' e `iY ANNEBEIILB WORTHINGTON secret, she had learned from atJ 1 Jane the object of Rarnaid's 'titer• Ztlust'atesl Dressmaking Lesson Pur- view with Pyecroft. She itnel ;that etis1 eci With Ever?/ Pattern the man who had won her so eoi,et '.,t_ ly was a fugitive from justice, a:tlrt against whom every honesty i1: i hand would be turned. But the inoe•.i 9x, edge roused in her no revulsio • feeling, no horror of the je crime, her only fear'ewas safety. She had penetrated the mask WI cloaked the true man. White .,'`be _ was, whatever he might have, Oen, \\ \\ \\ \:0:0,„"a \` \,\\ \\ \ \ \` \ � %., \ v She loved hili, with all the st e i ll rat ;,,s .a�ti�.e�: �a aa�w �:a��.., \:e . es. �: . .�� `:. of her warm, loyal nature N•beee . the most fleeting moment did sh:be; i' lieve him guilty of this foul muGlerel,; however strangely he niay bawl Alt when charged by the police :seer.; Hers was the faith that is'tteatast. and true against overwhelming:.ease, With a little gesture of iliipa nee she 'turned to Holt, watch*iii er• somewhat curiously, seeking her thoughts. "Why are you so tremendously; l� By T. C. H. JACOBS on me marrying Hayden Mercer •-t '., demanded. I don't even hke°tyherig THE KESTREL HOUSE MYSTERY 0: vV ,- * ee —he frightens me." Henry Holt's rou.id, pieasan nee "Here you are,Chief, this is the p'"'' assumed an expression of hurbisiir- way he went, out of this window on prise, and he raised one plump iaeed to the stable roof." in protest. "All right, Trotter, get some clothes "Tut,tut, niy dearer he expestu4ted on and follow hie mildly, "that is nt s very Bice, e'ng But Trotter contented himself with to say about Hayden.aForx-1,11. a wealthy young man'.I'thinlf that ' cis :n SYNOPSIS Henry Holt and his ward, Muriel Mainwaring, are staying at a DartmoJr farm. Holt's friend, Moineau, living at Kestrel House, desires that Muriel marry his nephew, Hayden Mercer, whom she dislikes. A series of mysterious disappearances has been alarming the neighborhood. MS boots and was with his chief be - Another boarder at the farm, Percival Pyecroft, and his valet, Flack, discover fore he had opened the big door below. a secret underground passage to Kestrel House. Pyecroft and flack sandbag Holt and extract a parcel from his specimen case. Pyecroft afterwards finds the 1 -0 - len parcel has disappeared. Inspector Barnard steals into Kestrel House and runs into a crook, Slick Samuels, who gives them some interesting information. Ten hours later Samuels is found stab- bed to death. Barnard arrests Pyecroft, who effects an escape. When Barnar_ retires that night he is assaulted ty a Barnard and Trotter sprinted across masked man. As they came out into the yard the landlord's gun crashed above their heads and for a fleeting second they caught sight of a movement by the gate. "There he goes, sir," shouted the ex- cited landlord, "I winged him." CHAPTER XVI.— (Cont'd.) Clinging grimly to his opponent's the yard like a couple of hounds hot on the scent, but they saw not a sign of any living creature. A grey felt singularly free from the vice fads ,f the modern youths. Hey: of the most industrious, honest; know, and—and—my dear, yoil,- seek a very long while to in equal. In marriage love is not: thing... " (To be continued.) The Dump -Cart Driv` The dump -cart driver settles I tend 'roue en I ould his ery- ,''his seat, hat lay in the road, but its owner had 1 q',.a, gold buttons accentingthe blue yoke. wrist he tried time and again to drive vanished. His rounded shoulders hot beneali the A cute little dress is this little one- piece affair for that important girl of the family. It's a model too that 'will provide a basis for many variations. For instance, there's the original model in red and white printed ba- tiste with plain white yoke and c'.}ffs with 'red button trim. Then too, Jane must have a frock of nautical influence. This one is fetching in white linen with yoke and cuffs in yacht blue linen, with tiny in a blow which would settle the mat- "Goway," sun; For real honest -to -goodness hardy that ordered Barnard, I Anil now the old gray head isiop th ' gt gh •p r'' wcar, there's n em checks, poplins, ter, but every effort was countered snatching up the hat and throwing it. l > pique and percales. ing deep,— with amazing swiftness. Vainly he into the yard before he set off in the Printed dimity and shantung also Still deeper, till the noisy wore, bas strove to rip the mask which covered ,opposite direction. , suitable. the other's face, but his fingers could 4 An hour later, weary and worn, he gone x, get no grip on the taut silk. Except for their heavy breathing, no sound broke the tense silence. Once Barnard bac, it in mind to shout for Trotter, sleeping in the next room, but in- stantly suppressed it. No man had ever yet beaten him in physical com- bat. Slowly his fingers worked round to the back of his opponent's hand and, exerting all his strength, he forced it inwards with a steady pressure im- possible to resist. Desperately the other strove to break free but he was in the grip of a stronger man than himself. He writhed and rolled, lath- ing savagely with his feet, but the terrible pressure increased .until,,,at last, with a stifled sob of agony, his numbed fingers loosed their hold upon the haft. Barnard was a split sec- ond too late in twisting his head aside. The knife fell point downwards, its razor edge slashed his temple, pierced his ear and stuck quivering in the boards. His attention momentarily detract- ed, he let go the other's wrist. With lightning speed the man shot back- wards along the floor, crashed into the ancient washstani, somehow slipped around it as it toppled over and, still on his hands and knees, slid like a shadow from the room. With a bellow of ?liingied pain and chagrin Barnard wrenched the knife from the boards, leaped to hie feet, sprang ever the washstand and, roar- ing for Trotter, ran swifting down the stairs Scarcely had be d'sappeared when the masked figure stepped from the shadow, of an alcove. sped lightly along the corridor, opened the door of a bedroom which he knew to be un- occupied, slipped across the room, noiselessly threw up the window and dropped silently upon the stable roof. Detective Sergeant Trotter, roused from a dreamless slumber by the crash of the washstand, sat up in his bed wondering what had awakened Lim. Suddenly Barnard's bellows shattered the peace of the night and Trotter was instantly wide awake, "Coming, Chief!" he yelled, crossing the room in two leaps. He met his senior officer at the bottom of the stairs, wildly dishevel. led, blood upon his face and pyjama coat. "After him, Trotter, he's gone the other way. Search the rooms while 1 get some clothes on." Anxious faces 'were peering from several of the bedrooms and the land- lord came forward, a double-barrelled sporting gun in his hands. "What's the matter, sir?" he ex- claimed, in consternation, at the sight of Barnard. "Burglars," snapped the inspector, "stand by your window, landlord, and if you see a single thing move hi the yard, shoot it" The landlord was a true son of t'ae moor, where passions are primitive. He had none of the scruples which might have checked a city man, and CHAPTER XVII, he knew that he was within his rights , to shoot at a burglar. Such an oppor- "Hayden niay be coming over thi= tunity was not to be missed, and 'ne morning, my dear, and I hope that you hastened eagerly to obey the inspec- will be mere—et—kind and=gracious tor's command. Ito him. He is passionately fond of Barnard crammed on his clothes you. Henry Holt had a way of shoos- Photograph shows Mete. I@len Wills Moody being preseute�l, would best by o p g returned to the Blue Boar, where he The nodding nag with steady stHling: Style No. 3191 is designed for tiny y feet, tots of 2, 4 and 6 years. found an equally weary Trotter, stili, The 4 -year size requires 1% yards cladThe rhythmic jingle of the hat ess only in pyjamas, awaiting him. "Well?" he demanded. rings, e- of 39 -inch material with 3's yard of "Nothing doing, chief, he got Have faded now and merged ,.,,wan- 39inch contrasting. Bering dreams HOW TO ORDER PATTERN; away."Of far-off homeland, long forgttten Write your name and address plain - Barnard sank into a chair and lit a cigarette, a sure sign of his feel- things. a y, giving number and size of such w He's just a lad with happy la'. 1 atte�rns as you want. Enclose 20c in Ings, for the chief inspector rarely l smoked except under the most trying lip r 'camps or coin (coin preferred: wrap circumstances, And no concern that down a city lereeL • -carefully) for each number, and "Where's the hat?" he demanded A lumbering wagon, loose in 61 its address your order to Wilson Pattern presently. Trotter lifted the grey felt from the floor beside him and passed it across. Barnard set it upon the table and regarded it fixedly for several minutes.. ,...' "You know, Trotter," he said at last, "there's something very distinc- tive about hats," The detective sergeant nodded; he had already formed his own opinion about the owner of this particular specimen. "Even a bowler hat may have some very distinctive characteristics, hard as it is, but a soft hat like that is comparatively easy to identify—if you know the owner." Trotter nodded again and grinned. "Which we do, eh?" Barnard glanced up sharply. "Whose is it?" he demanded. "Mr. Percival Pyecroft's, I'd say, Chief." "Quite, it is," replied Barnard. "And he's a very lucky man. Two shots went clean through and lifted it off his head, If he himself was hit it was not sufficiently serious to stop him. Good shooting in the dark. Trot- ter!" "Yes, but pity it wasn't better," g owled the weary sergeant. "Talk- ing about that, it's time you had that ear of ycurs dressed. How did it hap- pen, Chief?" In a few short sentences Barnard retailed the story of his fight. "Pity you didn't give me the wire," commented Trotter. "By the way, there's a useful finger print on the guard of that knife. The handle is all criss-cross lines, but on the steel guard above the blade there's a clear print. Serve to identify Pyecroft, I reckon." "I'll get that off to H.Q. first thing in the morning." "What about getting a few more blokes down, too?" asked Trotter, and a second later wished he hadn't asked the question. His senior officer gave him such a look of withering scorn that even the thick-skinned sergeant was temporarily embarrassed. "Get that knife packed up and don't ask fool questions," snapped Barnard. "When I feel incapable of dealing with a few miserable crooks myself I'll bear in mind your suggestion" But for all his confident words the chief inspector was a very perplexed man. He was destined to be more puzzled than ever when he received. the Record Office's report on the finger print upon the knife hilt. seams, Service, 73 West Adelaide St.,Toronto. Bears on its swinging seat, head ban? ing low, An old day -laborer driving in'his?Sieep With reins wound round the : long since useless whip, ' ire wind"Cleo faithful horse gee ding slow. • —Elizabeth Challis Ad Bg,.1n "The! Street car and the,; e se ed- ar Golden Deeds'' Golden love may leave tli:e -=heart; Golden dreams mitt swift depart; Golden hair will turn to grey; Golden summer pass away; Golden sunset silent wane; Golden youth ne'er conte again Golden riches •leave no trace; Golden thoughts to black give - ., c While these vanish day by day, Golden deeds shall live for aye;'?` And through them for all await Entrance at the Golden Gates. —Alfred St'the. Wearing a monocle or eyeglass Is stated to be a great help in acquiring a "poker face," as the effort of lold.•� ing it in position masks the expres- sion tfikt�] /0 ,�V�N�"�R�-� a rig? ,y4tAMY R+�ZGih4iDog SCQTT E- What came before: Captain Jimmy is dying to Japan with the Chinese General Lu. They run out of gasoline and are forced to land rn a deserted island in the Chinese Sea. After our adventure with the shark, we climbed up on the high rook that stood in the centre of the little des- erted island. Here we lit a roar- ing big fire, in hope that some pass- ing ship would see us' from the sea. I grabbed ChungAll night we kept Itsn glazing bute and shook him and he jumped to his moaning b r o k e feet with a yell. Then the deep without a sign of twice, rumbling sound same again. Once— smoke or sail on daylight, weA steamer horn! the boxPilpileded' Sure enough. It was the deep• toned horn" of a freighter, Frantic - on wet wood un ally, of White we piled wood on the fire. 1 til a great �t.oke I figured that some steamer was out ote smoke to the there in the fog, not daring to move clouds but never a went sign otipf life did until the air cleared. Hour after we see on the still, glassy ocean, hour, we fed the fire with armsful of Great smooth swells came In from wood and brush, Up and down we the open water, rose and crashed tracked until we almost dropped with a dull boom against the rocks from weariness. Lu forgot that he but apart from the sound of the was a General and worked like a waves, our island seemed to be the 1 Trojan. If only the blaze could be most silent, deserted spot in the made bright enough to penetrate world. Sometimes we'd find our- the fog— selves whispering—why 'I , don't Then morning canis again, and a know—for we couI3 have shouted all day at the top of our voices and no one would have heard us. Day after day we kept the smoke pillar rising into the sky—night after night we kindled a huge yel- low blaze on the summit rock. We almost gave up hope of being rescu- ed. ' No doubt we were far from the regular steamer channels. curtain of the fog. When we weren't gathering wood Chung, .to my surprise, lay . down for the fire, we were hunting eggs ey and prepared to go peacefully to the sand—and believe me—they sleep. were certainly terrible. We caught "Sloop we know—velly good—welly a few fish but they were very bad—no can tell," said the tranquil small and felt like pin cushions, little Chinese. "Sleep always good— they were so full of bones. Being all men samee when sleep. No left on a desert island isn't half as mucase worry." much fun as we were taught to be- (To be continued,) ' lieve when we were boys. On the fifth night a dense cold fog came in from the sea. It smelled like sea -weed and salt water and was so thick that you could scarce- signed photo free. ly see your hand when you held it out straight. The branches dripped with moisture and we huddled close to the camp fire. Even General Lu shivered through his six suits of elotlies. Scottie sneezed in.e disgust and hid himself In the woodpile. Suddenly, I woke up with a start. .A. deep rumbling sound drifteu in "If Irate told you her age, you can secretly figure out when she was born." "Judging from what she told me her age was, I should say she was born on her fourteenth birthday." America's famous prison, Sing -Sing, is so overcrowded that it may be necessary for short-term prisoners to camp in tents within the walled yard. Helen Wills Moody Again Victor his feet into a pair of slip- ing his words, hesitating for the exact ped thrust . as th 6 "resident of Seabri.�hteClub, with cup won at the classic Sea. pers. Trotter shouted to atm he expression whr�h he felt won came out of his rooni. convey hie Meaning. It WAS St tittle bright singles over Miss Helenracobs by 6•0,' G-0. strong wind blew up from the East. Soon the air would clear. I paced impatiently sup and down try- ing to peer through t h e thick white Note: Any of our young readers writing to "Captain Jimmy", 2010 Star Bldg., Toronto, will receive his 730thefed Chocolate MaI1 MUk The health -giving, delicious drink for children and grown- ups. - - Pound and Half Pound tins at your grocers. Portrait of a Gentleman "Bruce, conte here. HERE!" Too sanguine perhaps, our hope of bring- ing a water -loving spaniel home with a dry skin. Cunningly had -we lured him 'by pond, and. ditch, much as one might a woman past a smart milliner's shop. Yet, as usually happened, there he was at the last, only his little black head visible above the surface of some slime -covered pond. More, to disobedi- ence he was adding dissemblance. "You SAID ,.ave a swim, master, sward. didn't you? Of course its dreadfully Be that as ic, may, coming upon a• cold and wet, but you DID say—" Park Keeper on our way out, we could What other reply is possible at -that not resist enquiring: "What would you stage, I ask you, than in indulgent: do if you were to cath my dog cans- "Well, I suppose I did," and the fur- ing your deer?" then weakness of a ball thrown into "Well, begging your pardon, Sir—" the middle- for an eager, expectant he commenced, but I cut him short, little body to dash gratefully after, "Exactly, w some of your deer This queton of dashing after have been chasing my little dog and things, though. For him who will the I lI trouble You to take the name and panopy and expense of—well, what we address o'-1 that little fellow over there,, mean to say is that we achieve all the please. Bruce, where are you? fun of the fair without anyone being BRUCE!" But too late. a penny the worse. "Here I am,' comes anxiously back For instance, "Chirp, chirp," from from the middle of an adjacent`', end. the top of yonder tree. "Wnf, wnf," "You did say—"—By a writer in replies I3rihce, clashing excitedly off "The Christian Science Manitor" in a totally opposite direction. "Come down and have a game, you rascal," in answer to which a minute thing on wings emerges from yet elsewhere, Bruce in wild pursuit, they arrive at a large twisted thorn. tree, his gallant attempts to climb which are attended with such alarming success as to de- mand precarious and immediate res- cue. On which a large blackbird files off scolding and the game recom-' menses. All this has the advantage of a maximum of, may we say, slim -mak- ing exercise on Bruce's part, a mini- mum of effort on that of his owner, and an afternoon's free fun for our feathered friends and others who, I hold, enter as joyously into the spirit of it all as anyone. So much so that, returning from our .afternoon ramble in Richmond Park, we once perpetrated the following: persisted in following Bruce inquisir' tively around. Happily, he was in one of his angelic moods. "What, chase deer? Oh, dear no! Such lovely creatures, aren't' they?" And, when we later passed a large buck, standing 3totionless and erect, the fuzz still on his beautiful new ant- lers, one felt that even Bruce must concede to such nobility and grace the happy freedom of brake and All the rabbits in Richmond Paris Wiggle their ears when they hear him bark, Wriggle their noses and say "Hurray, Bruce is coming to play to -day.» All the squirerls and all the deer Gather together from far and near; 'Fellows, what do you think?" the; say, "Bruce Is coming our way to -day," Somewhere or other, his head hunt far Out of'the window, there speeds a car. "Step on it, master," his brief remark. "I'Ve a date with the squirrels in Rich- mond Park," Love Love is the purification of the heart from self; it strengthens and ennobles the character, gives a high- er motive and a nobler -aim to every action of life, and makes both man and' woman strong,' pitiful, and courageous. The power to love nobly and devotedly is the finest gift with which a human being can be endowed.—Anon. always morning somewhere in the world.—Richard Hoene. Much to my anxiety, this somewhat optiii`iistic point -of -view seemed borne out one day when a shall herd of deer, HkADACH E? Why suffer when relief is prompt and harmless: Ra ■ Millions of people have learned to depend on Aspirin tablets to relieve a sudden headache. They know it eases the pain so quickly. And that it is se harmless. Genuine Aspirin tablets never harm the heart. Read directions in pack- age for headacheneuralgia, summer colds, pain of all kinds. ASPItlitIAT TRADE MARK REO. Made in Canada. ISSUE No. 33--='31 {