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pRoz.foo UR
Mystery. detective . love sioryt
all in one, and each of the three
good -that's , "The Secret' t;,)
Lonesome Cove."- There's mora
•in this book; there's et very in-
teresting example of the effect
of the study of hertfcriffy on g
man's mind. •
if you, are romantic, read itt;
for the pretty love story; if you'r4;
fond of mystery. detectiv
otories,„ find out how Chester
Keen tte clever, learned scientist
•
and- investigator, searched. out
the°:secret.'t If psyclAo(ogy-'s in
your tine, here's a caSe. of the
influence of the pasf on the
prefent thet il_wolth tiohnillatoi
From the time Of.the-findin1
of the handcuffed- body of :the.
dead woman on -the beach until
..
Chester Kent clears _up the mys-
tery and the patient artist -toyer
has his reward this tale is
worth reading, , It is one of the
cleverest books of its well knoim
author, Samdel Hopkine--Adants,
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• CHAPTERL-..
-Te Body en the Beath.
tONE$O)1111, MYR, is: -one of the
lettet frementen stretches On
the New Etigiattn seaboard.
From the land side, the, sheer
hundredfoot drop of Hawk -tit cliffs
sbuts It off. Th-ero 45 pe.,settlernent
near the eoveJ The emiiher- repute
suggested by its name has served to
keep cottagers front - building . nue the ,
wildly beautiful uplands that over-,
A . •
brood the beadle The straggling pathe
evays .along tbe edge afford the only
suggestion of •hunitto traffic Within
half a mile of the spot A sharp cut
ravine ihadts ,down to the sea_ by a
ritther treacherous deiderit. --
Nene the notuth of this opening BB
considerable gathering hat, folk pack;
led the usually' :deserted beaeht
neon of July G. They centered on
dark object' a . few • yards within tlile
flood tide limit. S61116 scouted about,
peering at the saod. Others Pointed
nest to -the sea, then to the cliffs.
From -some distance away a lone
man of a markedly' different type from
the others observed them with an ex-
pression of displeasure. One of the
group presently oietaebted himself .and
ambled over to khe nevveonier.
"Swanny," he 'ejaculated, "If it abet
Perfesdor Kent'. Didn't know you :at
•drst under them • whiskers. You re-
member tne; don't yon? 1 used t�
&nee you arblinci when son was tiere
'before' ,
t "line just come out of the ,woods
Jarvis. And as yon here some very
interesting see currents ittSt here;
thentent I'd hate ti look at them. No .
body really knows anything _About
coast; eurrents, yon, know. Now my
opportunity is spoiled." •
• "Speiit? I guess- dot. Yoe coindn't
have Come at a better time." said the
local ro a n eagerly,
"0, but you sece°1 had planned to
swtniout to the eddy and make some
• personal obsereatioas."- `•••
`'You Was going to Swim into:bead.
Man's eddy?" asked the ether, wettest.
"Why, perfessor, you 'mist have turn-
ed foolish. They ain't•ti men on this
coast would take a cbance likentint."
"Superstition," reterted • the other
curtly. "On a still- claY sect aShtnts
there would be no clanger to ep.
perienced swimmer. The condlth*
are ideal except for this crowd. - Whitt
Is It? Has' the village gone pieniek-
ing?" . •
di'dot sca'celyi Attt't you heard? An-
other. one's e0M6..1n tbrough the eddy-.
Lies over yonder." • ,
.211111WMINE,31....1111,11.1.
By SAMUEL HOPKINS ADAMS
Copyright,1912; by the Sebba-kerrill
Coterpsey
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Still frowning, Professor Kent suf..-
f red ‘hiniself to be led -to, the spot.
e or three of the .group, as it part -
before him„ greeted him.' He found
. himself looking 'down on.a.corpse clad '
in a dark silk dress and stretched on
a wooden grating,. to which it was
lashed with a small rope. Everything
- about the body indicated wealth. The ,.
.dress . was expensively. 'made. The,
- shoes were of the best type, and tile
stockings were ilk..sThe head„: was
marred by a frightful ' bruise which
bad crushed in the right.side and ex-
tended &found .behinds the- ear. , Blood
had clotted thickly in the short close
curled hal,r. The -left side was me-
onarked. The eyes were closed and
the amfdith Was elightlY Opanieshottiag
a -stint of gold timid nery• wnite, aoti ,
regular teeth.. An :•expression ?of_ dead -
1. teeror.dIfibarteddhe face, • Professor
Kent bent closely o'er it. --', :
.s%hat's ,strange -very strange,1! be.
miiinured.- "It should he peaceful.",
"But look at' the handl" cried -Jar-
vis. . ' -
Here, ,, indeed; 'wad- tbe astounding
feature of the tragedy; the ButOct that
broiled Kent to his knees, t.he more'
!closely • to -observe.- The. body lay
• twisted.- slightly to the right, with the
left arm extended. The left Wristwas
:Oudot-Bed in it light rusted handcuff. to
Whith a chain was fastened. At the
:end, of the chain was itJae ' companion •
tuff, shattered; evidently by i pewer-
"-fultblow; andenelftbutied In the sand.-
. 10 Kent leaned over -tbe corpse a 'fat,
powerfult grizzled- man with .4 Metal,
badge On his srt front pushed for-
ward, - - - - '.-
- tThende. oast- iron cuffed!' he an;
*ounce& "That kind ain't been used
-
these forty vets."' :
f"didhat kind of a ship did be carry -
In' ottxt nowadayte?", asked Some one
in- the crowd. • • , • •
"tin'. what kind of a Seaman'd be
- putting of tem on a lady's what?"
growled a formidable voice'which.
Kent, looking • up, perceived to have
Come from 'amid a growth of betriy .
white whiskers, sprouting - from a
weather furrowed dace. , --:- , '
-"Seafaring men, aren't you?' in-
quiredtKent ,- -, , •''
"No more; • Fifty ,denr etf it, man.,
andboy, bas put rue Jr harbor."
"That's Sailor 'Smith," explained -Jar.
s. . ' - . . 1 - . •
"Mr. Smith, will you take a look at
hose lashings and tell ;me whether
your -opinion they are the work of a
'
Isiailor?" asked Kept. • • '
i: The old hands' fumbled expertly.
t *
tiThe old face puckered. - judgrnept
t
?came forth presently.
"The knots Is well enough. The
lashin's a passable job. What gits me
Is the rope." . .. „.
Ealitttnited BYPerfect Physi.
ad
Theeirperience of Motherhood is a try-
ins one to most Women and marks dis-
Sadly an epoch in their lives,. Not one
woman in a hundred Is prepared or un-
derstands how to properly care for her.
self. Of course nearly everydvoman
nowadayip has medical toeatment at such
timellebut many alwr000li the exPeti-
ence wfth an organism unfitted for the
Vial of strength, and when it is over
her system has received sishock from
which itis herd to recover. Following
right upcm tisk comes the nervous strain
of oaring for the child,Auid a distinct
change hi the Mother results.
• There is
a OM? and heal
t and indeed
conditionstieetibe no
more charming than
other of children,
under the right
sard tehealth or
tr. • thing te
that; -with-all the evidence of shattered
nerves and-brOltetthealtirreaultingfrom
an unprepared alonditlen, end With ain-
pie this; hi 'Wldids' to: itopirev, women
will persist in-gehlettlhidly to the trial.
Every-woriosiit WO: *SO ib�uld rely
upon Iordiss 11; Aroitotoble
c and
inviV4*.atigef -**1
In ninny
are n
ow*.
eatUNO
thlitt-VY
banea V iit4i
CorOPoviOd -**11 -11,1
eme n-notinti
isialthY and stiol
"Well, what's wrong with the rope?"
• "Nothitir in perticner. Only I don't
know what -just that style of rope
• weetid be done' on shipboard unless
it was to hang the old men's wash
-
(``Suppose wedift this grating," Kent
suggested, "to, see 'whether a ship's
name Is stamped somewhere on it?'
He heaved the woodwork up on edge .
andheld deo, while eager eyed scan-
ned the under part. Murrhurs of (Ind
• appointment-folic:hoed. In these Kent
did not join. '11. He had inserted a finger
in a Orevice of the splintered wood and
had extracted some small -object which
• he held In the paled:of his nand, ex -
ambling it thoughtfully.
"Wof ye got there?" demanded tile
• sheriff. *
• Professor- Kent stretched out his
hand, disclosing a email grayigh ob-
ject. , •• • .
"I should- take it to' be the coceon.of
ephesitla kuehnielia," he announced.
"Ire a species of grain moth."
- ' "Ont" grunted Schlagen "You're
bug collector, eh?" .
answered the *other; trans-
ferring his trove to his pocket.
Thereafter he seemed to lose inter-
est in. the 'center of mystery.. With-
drawing to some,distance be paced up
and down the shore
Nearer and meter to 'high water
spot; then gathered In 'a froWnmark his pacing took him: Presently
"Not washed up there, surely?" he he :Was scanning the tangled debris
said. • -tote- - • , • t at the highest tide of the year bad
,-•
"Some time early °this -morning" • h aped pp almost against the -cliff's
- dItshawl" said the 'other, turning to oot When he rejoined the crowd.it
look at Ole curving bulwark of rocks had sulffered the loss of one of its.
over which the soft 'dlow Emelt was • component parts, the sberiff. Conjec-
barely breaking._ "If it were the other tura 'wee buzzing from mouth to mouth
end of the cove, now, I. could under- as to the official's sudden defection.
stand it." "Whttever it was he got from the
"Yes 'agreed Jarvis 'they mostly 'pocket," Kent heard one of the men
come in at the other end on this tide' says "it started him gnicic".
"''MostlY? Always" The professerhi. "tooled 13 me like a're envelope,"
tone was positive. "13ziless. my chute hazarded some one.
are wrong.. But this -well; it spoilat • •I'Nodl 'contradicted Sailor , Smith;
least one nthatet tof My theory."e - "Vapor, would lire been all pulped up
"Theery I" !exclaimed -Eh; 1rVerymai1, by the water." -
his pale e'Yes alight. "You got a "Marked handierchief, natenie," sug-
theery? But 1 'thought you •didn't gested another. • - • e
know- anythlng about ehe , body till I 414.1re as noti' said Jarvis. "You bet'
told- you Piet now." • • thot Len Schlager figured it Out there
to the currents," sighedtthe other. ¶t I could see the money gleam in -hie
s.a4e5Oht.,,, m,,y. ruined. theory has referenne was.sometiiin' • in It for him .allYwatrs.
has llothhig to do with dead men its eye." ,
"That's right, too," confirmed the old
"This Is e dead woman. Collie and Bailor. "He looked. just like that when
Atte fon yetirself." • he brought in that half wit peddler,
• euo-tner il1ts 14
"'Who, then?"
• " lder lry •Dennett.. *Didn't none of
yi,y btar about' hls meetin' up with, s
Strange woman .yestleldteeventn'?" -
e"Sbucks: This -couldn't be that wo-
Man," said -lair's,. "Elow'd she Mune
to be: washed ashore twine vrteek h»
. tween last tight, and this morning?"
..° "How'd she come to be washed .
ashore from a Wreck tanyway?" route
tered Sailor Smith. "The' ain't been
- -§
no storm for a week, an' this boa"
ain't been dead tvventy-four bouts."
• "it plumb beats Me," admitted Jar
-via- 1 '•' - - •
'"Who is this Dennett?" staked Pro -
lessor Kent.
• ,,, just now hes
up to Cadystb*h. . Took the 10. o'clock
trains last night?'
the hill beyond the Nook -that's Sedg
wick's place. e
dale Center. Does a little'plunibitt an'
tinkerin' onethe side
"Then It was early when liti tad this
"tittle after aundown. Be was rift'
she come out . of the shrubbery-popl
the painter feller -when
"lry?He's the town gsb'of M'art.l:n.-
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Professor, Kent's eyebrows 'went pp ,
the counties as he glanced toward the indicated
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C. P. R. Time Table
Guelph and 0 OderriCh Branch
• TO .TORONTO
Ooderich.. - - .... ....Lv. 7.05 a m
Ariburn .. - ot 7.30 4,
Myth •
It 7.40 14
Walton .... . . . .. " 7.52 "
Milverton ... . . '" 8.25 "
Linwood .1 ... . • . " 8.15 '
9.05 '
Guelph . • 9.33 "
Guelph Jet- - .. ° " 10.16 "
. oronto kr.- 10.29
'L.60 p
2.5 "
2.35 I
2.17
3.20 "
3.40 "
4.00 "
4.33 "
5.05 "
6.45
FROM TORONTO
Toronto Lv. 7.20n. m. 4.39 n
4lue1pi. .te Ar9.40 " 5.10 '
Guelph.. . " I:, 10.20 " 6.5C
staOra. " 10.59 7.22 ".
" 11.23 " . •7.43 "
s *overtop, • •' e 11.42 " ` 8.02 "
Walton. ... . ... " 12.16 8.36 "
Myth. ' 12.28 Le 3.48 •
•Ioderieh: •3 1 00 p.m. 9.26' "
Coannotions at Linwood for Lietowei„ Con
veto* at Guelph Jot. with main line. for Galt
ifoodstook, London, Deal)! nd Mow* an al
ntOrmediate Mee.
Linwood Jot
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ASTORIA
Fot Infanta and Children
In Use For Over 30 Ye#s
Always bears '
-the
Signature of
thietkin' he was the thousan' dollar rt
• ward thief lastyear." • •
• Professor. Kent advanced and benf
over the mana.eted corpse,
"Have to ask you to stand -back, per
fessor," said Jarvis. "Len's appointee
me special _deptty till be comes beat."
"Wonder it Len knowed the corpser
suggested ionaehody in the crowd.
"Tell yeti who did if he didn't,"•said
ti
ati.r&
"How'd come to
aehore74loountered Sai or
Ele quizzed her. Trust t
that, But be didn't get
her nntil he mentioned the Nook. Then
she allowed She guessed she'd go there.
An' he watched berego." ,
•l!'You pay :a man' named Sedgwick
lives at the Nook: Is that Francis
' Sedgwick thesrtistr asked Kent
"Thet's !said: Sailor Smith.
"Paints ' right purty pietures. •Lives
there' all alone with it Chinese cook."
• "Well, the lady went downthe
cotinued Jarvis, lust ae Sedgwick
• come Out to make a pipe on -this stone
'wall.- Iry thoughthe seemed su'prised
when she bespoke him:. They passed
a few remarks, an' then they had some
wofcle an' the lady latighed loud an' •
kinder Scorn:fill. Ue. kiented to be
Pointin' at a necitla6e of queer, fiery
pink stone ti Met she were and •tryin'
to get sornethin" out .of her. She turn-
ed away an' -he.stertento follow, when
washed
mfth.
•eider for
nch out of
all of fl. sudden sne gramma up a rocs
tin' let him bees it -blip! Keeled him
clean -over. Then she ran_ avvey up the
read toward Hawkill cliffs."
"Weil, tb1.1 eorpse ain't got no pink
,becklace." suggested somebody.
"Bodies sdnietimes get robbed," said
, Sailor -Smith. - -
-Chester Kent stooped over the writhe
en4tieee_again %melt:Jae-doge. Inien he
straightened Up and began, pulung
thetightfnily at the lobe of his ear,
"Say,!' said Sailor Smith, "What's
them queer little marks on the neck
under the ear?" "
Beek. 'came. Kent's eyes "Timed?"
belied& smiling. "Why, thee* aee, one
"might tsuppose, such indentationse as
wouldbo made in °flesh, by forcing a
jewel setting violently eked:10dt by a
blow or strong impact" '
•
"Then yen think it was the womt.--
•begaa the old seamen when ,several
voices -brake in:
• ."There goes Len now!" •
he asherifits heavy figure appeared
on the brow of the:cliff, Moving to-
ward the Tillage.
"Who Is it witb him?4.inquireallent.
answered Jarvie.
•
d‘IG`Ana".Inettalatlifi •
• 44Gositt Yon, got good eyesi" said
Jarvis.- "He's more ludian than any -
tieing else. comes from - down Ana-
gansett way r and gets his Ilaple
• frora it."
11401 When did be arrive?"
"While you was, trapesini around up
yonder."
t "Did he 'see the body?"
"Yep. Just after the siteriffiget
whatever ft was from -the pocket Gan -
sett Jine heee in sight . Len went over
to''himoquiele, an' sold somethin' to
him; tfecome.and•give a 'leek at the
body. But he didn't say ° totthing.•
Only; gritted., The sheriff tette me to
watch the body. Then he says.
need -somebody to help rue.
take' you, Jim,' Se he au' the ibdian
goes away together." .
Professor Kent nOdded. - fie "coked
seaward Where the 'reefs- were norr
hiring their teeth more Plaini,rthrough-
the racing currents, and. he sighed.
Then he bade the group *farewell and
set off up the beach.
"He's a sort of a harmless scientific
crank" explainedJarvis; "comes front
Washington; something to 'do with the
• gov,ernment work."
"Kinder loony, I think." conjectured
!a little, thin, piping 'manthluseas
and moves around., like it"
"Is that so" said Sailer Striith, who
still had,his eyes fixed on the scarified
neck. "Weil, 1 Mel and too dunt sure
thet he's as big a, fool as some folks
I know thet tbinks likelier of their
-
selves, - Be seen there was somethin'
queer about filet rope, an' he ast me
about the knots, rigbt °ff.". '
Possibly the one aupporter of the
absent would have wavered In his loy-
alty bad he seen' the trove that Pro-
fessor Chester • Kent had -earthed un-
ostentatiously from the' beach, in btu
pocket, after picking it from the grab
Ing.. It was the fuziy cocoon of a
small and 'quite ueimpertant insect
The Washingtehescientist, seated on a
bowider openettup the cocoon with ab•
sorbed interest:: . pricked it until the
impotent inmate wriggledIn protest,
and. then cast it aside to perith. - •
Between the roadway and the broad
. front lawn of the Nook a four foot,'
ronsii stone wall loterposes. Looking
up from his painting, Francis Sedg-
wick beheld In theglareof the after-
noon sup h .spare figure rise alertly
• upon the wall, descend tollie road and
rise again. He stepped to the open
• window and watched a cuitious kprog•
yes!. A scrubby- bearded man clad in
serviceable lautki was performing a
• stunt, with the wall tie a basis. He
was. walking from east to weet quite
fast and every third pace stepping
upon ,the wall; •stepping, Sedgwick
duly noted, not jumping, the change of
level being made without visible ef-
fort.
Leaning out of the Window he called.:
"Hello, -there!" . • •
"Good afternoon," said the stranger,
in a quiet, 'cultivated. volbe.
"Would- you mind telling me what
you are doing on thy /wall?"
• "Not in the letist," keplied .the beard-
ed man, rising blietyantly into full view
and -subsiding again -with the rhythro
-of a wave. , - •
• "Well,, what are you doing?"
"Taking a little exereLse."
By this, time, having reached the end
of the wall, he,turned and came back,
• making the step with his right leg in-
stead of his left. Sedgwick .hurried
downstairs and out into the roadway.
The stranger continued his perform-.
sive silently.
"Do you do, that often?" he asked
presentl"
The gymnast paused;.Lloisid like a
s .
Mercury oni the high eoPing. "Yes,"
said he, '"otherwise I shouldn't be able
to daft at till. It Is, in vursuance of a
theory of setfelefense." .
"What in the world had wall hopping
to do with self defense?" .
shall expound," seld the stranger
in ptofessiotal tones, taking a Seat by
• the unusual method of letting himself
down on one leg while holding the
_other at right angles to his body. "Do
you know anything of jujutiu?"
•"_yeg little."•
"In common with Most Americans.
fitir that reason alone the Japanese
system 1.8 highly effective here, not so
• effective in Japan. ltdu perceive there
the basis of my theory."
"No; I don't perceive- it at arid'
• "A eYstem of defense is effective in
proportion to its unfamiliarity. • Tkhat
Is all."
• "Then your system consists In step-
ping up on a wall and diving into
,obscurity on the farther gide' perhepe,"
suggested Sedswith ironically. •
"Defense, I said, not escape. its-•
cape is perhaps preferable to Wets- e,
but not always so !practicable. No;
the wall merely served as a teniporaro
seumaelum while I was waiting for
you." . - .
• - "You have distinctly the advantage
• of me," geld Sedgwick, with' a frown,
• for be was in no mod tie welcome
strange visitors.
•4"T0 return to my theory •of self' de-
fenite," said the other imperturbably.
"My' wall exercise serves , to keep
Umber and active certain muscles that
Bad Blood
is the direct and hievitable result of
irregular or constipated bowels and
clogged -up kidneys and skin. The
undjaested food and other waste inat-
ter which ••is olloweda to =maniac
poisons the blood and the whole
system. Dr. Morse's Indian kent
act directly oil the bowelstyhoidateng
theme -on the kidneys, givinx them
easeu nd streggth to properly 5.1*
'blood --and on the. sitheep
. the poses. For pure 'd
health.take •
• Dr. Horses-
Ipditan 'toot Pills
•
The right way to began
he week - with Coin
fort Soap
OSITIMYtKLARGESISALEEn CANADA
flith average man are half atro-
Oiled," • •
Iea rose on one fOot with an ease.
thit made the artist stare, descended,
s ected from the roadway a stone of
orUnary gobble size and handed it to
Sedgwick.
"Let that lie on the palm or yotir •
hand," said he, "and hold it out eyaist
high."
As he spoke he was standing two
feet fromtheother to his right. 'Sedg-
wick did as he was requested. As his
hand took position therewas a twist
of the bearded man' i ,lithe body, a
sharp click, and -the stone. ilYing In a
curve, -swished throngh the leaf-
age of a lilac fifty feet away. et'
"Hew de you do -that?" cried the
artist.
The other showed a , slight Indenta-
tion on the Inside a his right boot
heel and 'then gyrate his right foot
slowiy and steadily up. behind his left
knee and let It lapse Into position
again. "At shoulder' height," he _ex,
Veined. 41eouldhave done the
-a1ne, but It Would have broken your
hand., 1 thorities by proving the typhoid
, "I see," said the other, adding with demi° /Mutt ,tagalnet a forgotten
itstaste, "but'to kick an opponent! feet in tine stivter system.- It -
Why, even as a boy 1 was taught!'- -cost me my diploma, burit helped
1 nese • to natteemoseir tnat UiOM
snitis scienttfic.
-"Pursttit/ W at do yoo Pursue
"Men and Motives."
Sedigwick's 10411104 eyes 'widen
"Welt." he grad; itomethiug--ennetrn tot
Me, an article in a !Frenth journal'
about et, wonderful new Axaerleart
pert in ,.eriminology, who knows-
there is to know and tikes only
most abstruse -cases. I rete, II now
the article called him de Pro
Chetria Kennet?, That worda be abo
as near as they *mild ome-
your name. The `Ftetietrattn --
you out a most superior speeleee
highfalutin detective, :working•a a
lines peculiarly your Own" -
"Rote" interjected Kent 'The
Ines a detective can work along
cessfally are the lines laid down
hiin_by the man he is after?'
- "Sounds more reasonable than
mantic,' adititted the artist "COM,
now, Kent, open up and tell me sem,
king about yourself.tt
"You remember .1 Sot into fronbi
my senior year *with the college. a
"We were not speaking of chIld's
elated said .the visitor coolly, "nor am
( concerned with the rules of the prise -
dna as applied to my theory. When
me is 18 &tiger one tines knife or gun,
al at band I prefer a less deadly, suid
xiire effective weapon. &eking side-
wise, efthee to the front or to the rear,
iteanf disarm •a man, break his leg or
*ay bim sehseless. It ,ia the - special
development of such muscles tut , the
eirtoritis and plantar& I owe Tett of the natural sciencest,
this explanation. -I hoe you wetdt. "(Mee in the department I found my...,
)rosecute for trespass, Long -Lean- self With a°' sort- roving ttemnitselondl
Leggy Sedgwick." I worked under ouch Men es
Howard and Merriam and learn
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CHAPTER 11,-- from them something of the Infini
• Proteiotor Kent Makes 8. Caste
ictdeventent d
and scrupulous scientific patence that
EGGYi" The artist (tied- ,whiried original
mends. At fleet my dttOer were turf.
ly note a minor reset -Via . Then, -by•
aecidept -largely, I chanced. uPaa. UHL
plot to -bull thecottoni‘JM.rifet by Inn
troducing the boll weitil into the tiidd-
infeeted eaten area and Checked that;
Soon afterward 1 was put on the 4�1
odorized meat enterp
geed dikievering
too, latel., ter scientist in the depart;
ment of agriculture at W
learned of it andsent ter me
graduation. Be mapped out for me
three yearePoargailaate
I had jnst about• enange
take. While I specialized on
entomology and bacteriOlogy, I picked
up ...a working knowledge " of othedl
"brancheseechetietstry, toxiatiVe
ogy, tnineralogy, physiology, uzi
atthe name. "Nebody's
ed me 'that, for ten_ years."
telust ten fears ago that
you. gra-dilated. wnsu't
"Yea.' Then 1 knew you in 'college,
fou must have been before my elassd"
, The bearded 'one nodded. "Senior to
yohr freshman.- said he. •
The younger man scrutinized him.
!Chester Keutl" said- he softly. 4 -what
on earth are you doing:behind that
bush?" '
• Kent caressed the maligned whisk -
Bre. "Utility," be explained. "patent,
• impenetrable mosquito screen. rye
been off in the' wilds and am -or was
-going back presently."
• "Not until • you've stopped . long
enough to 'get reaequaintedd'a declared
Sedgwiek. "Just at _present you're go-
ing to stet, t •
o Oinner."
44 -
and -IRO%
the sihemi
e spoiled(
devoted
othaticl
tion ti
itlierebY it was, hoped
meat for stet& !
"What -spare' time -X bad
to eiperlinentlits" along_
lilies and iatenteel v
has been profitablei e'Sometime Ago tlic
• department ofinitinetberrowed nee old
a few COO with alticientific bearingn.
and more receAtly offered me ineklend
tat work veith. them on sueh favotablid
terms that resigned My Other Post.; :
tion. The terms include liberal -vabsei
"Very good.. Just now ye,u happen -tions, one of whicie Lam new takinge;
to be in my immediate line of interest And bike I ami Is thl sufficient?"
t
It is a fortunate eiremnstance for me "What about Your fo ty horsepowei,
You don't practice that tot
to find you here-Hpossitily for you too." Ida?
Old intereets sprang to We end
drawing room exhibitious, Ir take it?",
-
3peeel? between.them. Presently Fran-fse'dattiletlosseeletinuth341
,"Soemetifraoeusn,d" cmon7fseesi
ns jedgwiek was telling his friend "1
ise
tere with Persons of dubious chitradi
the story Of his feverish and thwarted
tat. The idiet Is, that, an ingeniout
ten years. in the world-. Within a year
of his graduation his only surviving plot to get rid of a very old. friend, D -
Lucius Carter, the botanist, drew int
relative had died, willing to him a
into the criminal line, and since thet
considerable forttme, , the Ipeome ot
which" he used in furtherance of a
hitherto suppressed ambition td study
art. Paris,' hie •Mecett, viols first a
taskinistTess, then a temptress,' nally
a. vamptre. "*.Before succumbing be had
gone far in it few years toward: the
development ofa curious technique of
his own. Followed then two years of
dissipation, a year of travel to recu-
• perate and the return to Paris, which
was to be once more the taskuilstress.
But, to his terror and self loathing,
found the petver of application gone.
.The muscles of his mind had become
flabby. .
"All by virtue of a Woman's lapin;
the laugh of a Woman without virtue,"
he told Kent "It. was at the Monlin
de la Gillette -perhaps you know the
dance hall on the slope of Montmortre
-and she was one of the dancers,! the
wreck of what had once been 'beauty
and,yeine must Suppose, ifinocenca
Probably she thouglit me- too much
absinth soaked to hear or understAnd
as I eat half asleep at my table- At
all events she answered, full voiced,
her companion's question, 'Who is tho
drunken foreigner?' by saying: 'Be
• was. an artist The -studios talked et
'him Ave years ago. Look at him notti
That is what life does to us, Mon ami
I'm the' Woman of it. That's the man,
of it" I staggered up, made her a
bow land a promise and left her laugh-
ing; Last month I redeemed the prom-
• ise; sent her the dist thousand doh
lars 1 made by my own work and ilet
elated my debt discharged.a How.aboui
• yourself?" . .
'"Poittgraduate science. t Agricultur.
al department job Lectures. Inven-
tion, dud:Mary- department expert -
Signed, Chester Kent" Ten words -
worn 'them -ten."
•"Interesting, but unsatisfying," re-
torted his friend. "Can't yon expand
a bit? I suppose you haven't any dark
secret in your Wet"
"No secret, dark or light," sighed the
other. "The newspapers won't let -me
have." •,
"Eh? Won't let yea? Am I to infer
that you've beeome a famous person}
What are you, anyway?'
"What I told you,s an expert in the
service of the department Of Jim
that phase elnvestiga
fairly to obtrude its&
daily and unoffielitily.
where I. hoped to enjoy
-do you knew," he; sal
"that you have a Mcist
a ocean currents Korea
d(df coursed Loneso
kindly finish that 'even up here.' 1 reef
.ollect your saying that
Ing for me. Haven't tr
'title crime to my- door,
"Let rne 'forget ray
-while," pleaded his visttor, "and loo
at yOUrn,t',
Sedgwielt rose "Come upstairs"
said:mud led the way to the big, bare*
bright atudio. •
Prim the threshold Chester' Rent din
livered an opinion' eftet one Unmoving
survey. "Yen really work, I see," 4
"I really do. Virbere do you see Iti
though?,
over the place, NO draperiali
es �f -art henV
more Worle
7 )
on bee seemed
on me, •Oil
Even up berj
a month's r
, breaking dill
tereeting
outeir
e Cove Bet
you were wait-,
ted ttnY sale*
ave yon?"
otit for a fifth"
or fripperies or foppe
The barer the roOm.
done in it." :
He walked over to h merlons oonttle
vance resembling a small hand pre
he eznpty easel
anIngJace in *
of a size an
hem over, nt
examined it surveyed
against WWII:were
number of pictures
turned half a dozen
Ins them and stepping back for ati
amination.
eettlood work," pronounced Ke
quietly, and in Berne subtle way tI
commonplace words.eonveyed to thet
bearer the fact that the man who spo
them knew. ' •
"It's the best there Is In me al
least," said Sedgwick.
Kent went slowly around the it
keenly examining, silently appraising'
There were landscepes; genre
studies of the ocean In its va
moods, all the Waled dabjeols
With a deftness of truth and draw
and colored with a clear softness
Continued Nett Week. e,
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