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stototoioioietod jeisioieisisioie} nd 'Rogers, fvestigating 8, faced each other in some dis- 'murder case," remurked Harley "That's rather out of our line, . becamse: no one has brought 'our deor We've taken every- dn sight so far," grinned Rogers. i we won't let this ono get by, ood thing it's vacation time tell me what Dr. Hibbert had to about the matter." ¢ im waiting in the office "this morning. He said ® story to fell me. been attending had money or was n to be a miser, but his houseAp- poverty stricken. He ays d the doctor with grumbling reluc- ince por and said that his employer | aconscious. The doctor found fustrong had been dead for several 4 Investigation showed that the man had been shot through the heart as he lay in bed. "The shot had penetrated bedcloth- ing and all, and yet there were no powder marks from a gun p against the bedding. "Lindquist appeared stupefied when } told that his employer was dead. He | admitted that be had been away all | Bight and had just returned. Hibbert | 'tame' directly to us and has now gone | fo notify the police authorities." ; Where is Lindquist?' asked Harley. _ "Oh, Hibbert left the man alone there, Rather an odd thing to do un- der the circumstauces." # Of course Ilibbert's reputation is ~ Impeccable," remarked Harley, rack "dog for his hat "Coming with me?' F A¥ed. I'd like to beat the police to gt. My car is below." Thé young lawyers went down to the wmtreet and entered Rogers' low swung spacing car. In fifteen minutes they were turning into the neglected grounds surrounding the Armstrong ' fiouse. They were quite extensive, and the masses of shrubbery furnished ex- © eellent hiding places for any one prowl fng around bent on mischief. The house itself, once a lofty colonial There was no sign of life around the _ place, and Rogers could not help a sud- den tighténing of heartstrings when He recollected that the murderer might Be concealed where he could pick them oft one at a time as they entered the House. The same thought occurred to Uar- ! Jey, and he was glad they were both | srmed with automatic weapons. | + Rogers lifted tbe ancient brass knock- 1 er and rapped gently. * If Lindquist was on guard be would | answer at once. The knock reverberated as though | through empty rooms. | "What was that sound?" asked Nog- | ers. "It sounded like a laugh!" "Harley bad heard it too. "Perhaps the Swede has gope In- | sane," he suggested and turned the | . "doorknob. The door opened halfway and then-| The two men entered and almost fell | over the squat form of a man huddled | 'on thé fidor ina pool of blood | "It is Lindquist--shot in td back muttered Rogers as he got up from his | knees, | has just happened" Marcy! hed his companion's arm. "The murderer may still be here," he 'Weapous in hand, they searched the Jower rooms, finding only dust and de- 'éay, except in the kitchen, which bore ce of being in daily use. On the second floor only one room habitable. This was the one in the dend man lay. is was a lofty chamber furnished | x the black walnut "period" of forty ago. There was every evidence run- well "Yes, 'There's a woman somewhere around the place. Why? She bas been down and made 'Some tea. Th® pot is still warm. There aré the dregs in a cop, Armstrong i§ dead, and Lindquist probably. not make the "Where 1s she?" asked Harley, "Alt the doors are bolted on the inside, even the door leading to the cellar." "We might try the attic.' hese back stairs will take us up Rogers led the way dusty flight of stairs, and searched the treads & Plainly visible in the imprints of a small sto "We are on : "Row they walked'ca + guns fn hand. Under the low roof divided into several rooms. Harley and his companions had not taken ten steps before they heard once more that wild laugh. They peered through a half open door. The room was directly over Arm- strong's sleeping apartment. In the middle of the floor & board had been removed, and beside the hole knelt a woman. She was a small crea- ture, bent with years and fllness. Gray hair bung in tangled locks about her wrinkled face, and her, large, dark eyes were wild and glittering as she lifted her 'head and regarded the two men. Then, without comment on their in- trusion, she bent over the bole and ap- peared to look down. Rogers silently placed himself where he could lean over and look down also. He saw the lath and plaster of the bedroom celling and a white point of light that streamed up through a small hole. Below that hole was the bed where the body of Armstrong was found with a bullet In his heart, and the hoié in the celllng was right above his heart! Suddenly the hole was obscured, and, to Rogers' horror, he saw that the wo- man had covered it with the muzzle of a revolver. With a signal to Harley, they both leaped for her and tore her away from the hole. She fought like a tigress, and again and again her wild, insane laughter echoed through the house. The men below came tearing upstairs and secured the raving woman. It was Dr. Hibbert who identified ber. "It is Armstrong's maniac wife," said the physician. "For years she has been confined in the Leets asylum. I did not know she had escaped, and 1.-did not connect her with the erime. "It is plain to be seen now how she accomplished her deed. She concealed herself here and made a-gmall hole in the ceiling closé to the -hook in the middle of the plaster centerpiece, From this hook thedamp was spspended. "As for Lindquist, she probably sur- prised him and killed-him as he tried to escape. If our friends, Harley and Rogers, had not traced the laugh it is very likely that she would have got one or more of us." As the mad woman was led scream- rg to the patrol wagon in which the officers had arrived Dr. Hibbert turned to the detective in charge. t your promise, Smith?" y friends here traced the 'the attic laug Y The detective shook hands with Mar ley and Rogers. $ "The next case you have, my friends," he d, "will have the backing of the ¢ bureau." : Not if I know it," grinned Rogers as they left the house. "But I'll tell you one thing--I don't want anotber murder case." "Well turn down the next ome," agreed Harley as tne ear sped toward the city. 7 But it was to happen that the next case they handled' tbuehed them so in- timately that they could fot help being mvelved in the most mysterious crime of the decane. ; THE COMING FUR SEASON. Trappers Expect to Find It Better Than in Years Past. Canadian trappers, the experts say, will find the coming fur season a lit- tle better, if anythimg, than for a number of years pasts It is true that the vailing high uring the last | be predicted that another year or two | e for the most rapping 'ever RL RE I< a RE 160 pages of valuable building informatdon--£2. vscful plans--complete details on how to make improvements on the farm that ere fire-proof, Canada Cement Company Limited, MONTREAL. Don. FILL IN COUPON AN CANADA CEXENT CCHPANY LIMITED Herald Boiling, 1 OHIREAL tlemen: Ploass send me a free hat he Former Can Do With Goer eX he LLATER, seen LO Dave surerea wanton and excessive trapp. . The high price of this f& for several years has had its effect. Coons also have diminished considerably, al- thought not so much as mink. Skunks and opossums seem to be holding their own, but it can safely VUL COWILLY UPOd TOOLe LROAUIMY Ca vas homes, culine--mostly very young masc | form costume of dust-color, and it clamantly eheerful. It grouses, course--grouses thereby clairas its share of the I of high prices will result in reduced perial heritage. catches. Muskrat bavé suffered in some localities wheer they are trap- ped for several months each year, but in many sections they are plentiful. Foxes are apparently neither in- éréasing nor diminishing very much in numbers. Martens and lynx wiil be fewer, except in the extreme north, Beavers, where protected, creased rapidly. Otters are gradually becoming re- duced and the catch this season will no doubt be rather light. 'Wolves, except in a few localities where they are hunted relentlessly, have not de- creased. to day's end--and all the time he infinitely better capable--I know, fi he told me so himself--of comman have in- | ing a battalion. He is much mo] * | capable of commanding his own pa ticular battalion than is the presof colonel. He told me that, too, and | is every other individual private 'his acquaintance. Meanwhile, cleans his water-carts excellen | dence shall send him a coloneley. Canadian Immigration. Since Canada has flung itself so en- thusiastically into the European war the position of thousands of Ameri- cans who migrated hither in the past few years must be embarrassing. They moved across the border, not from any preference for the political | i bounds at the approprisie mo institutions oF ideas of Canada; but FOU Would, simply because they thought they saw | ly fgainst a better chance to make money. ! While their Canadian neighbors are volunteering "for King and country' these expatriates must feel curiously out of it. | In {53 year é¢nding March, 1914, \ Americans immigrated The war and Canada's 3 ipation has wrought a remark- able change. In the year ending March, 1915, the American emigra- tion to the Dominjon had shrunk to 59,779, although the first four months were before the declaration of war and included the period of heaviest immigration, "ITH THE CANADIANS" LONDON WRITER DESCRIBES LIFE IN A MILITARY CAMP, kind that used to send back repo lum days, you would certainly repo to the All-High that Canade was in | state of open mutiny. If you gat | the bar of any public-house that wi tion. Yeu would hear, for in | more often than not that Can been charged 2s. 6d. for a pla eggs and bacon, and deoés not | .8t all. You would bear aga the habit of saluting comm . officers is carried to absurd + in this durned old-fashioned: ¢ You would hear that the muniel of, shall I say Helicarnassug serves to be shot for insultin eda by reserving its bathing: for civilians at certain times day. You might get together dossier of such complaints ;& port to the War Lord that Ci may be confidently expected | into opex.mutiny the first time ! eyes or feet on the tremchesy you would be wiser thereafte! quite a number of miles aw those same. trenches--what 8 young Canada gets busy. 2 Perhaps 1 am inexact, as cial bulletins have it, to much upon the youth of Quite a large percentage of ulation wears the South Af ribbon--and you cannot be © above young if you wear iba Canada has the shoulders | step and the eye of the man | seen service--quite a large § tion of her--and you cana vise that in six months' train Quite the most' remarkable learned during my vieit to was that such a thing as dian accent hardly 'exists.. ¥ | sionally you bear somethin t New England twang; it Everybody Lives in Canvas Tents and to Fvery External Appear: ance the Camp is in a State of Mutiny, but Really the Men Are Intensely and Whole-heartedly Loyal. NDER the above title, one of the regular contributors te London "Truth" blithely describes one of the train- ing camps for Canadian bat- talions in England: 1t has just been my good fortune, says he, to spend some pleasant days fn: the heart of Canada. Canada {8 | you win find, by a Young: quite a big place--there must be hails trom Massachuset something like twenty miles of it-- Sometimes, again, and it is agreeably situated in--well, Young Canada talking y in a part of England the where: Sa pases A abouts whereof everybody knows and _ jt will prove to be spofie which 'aceprdingly we are forbidden gian--one of the uany % yer 5 ize 0 "Sofne- ~ Bians who 'dro all . suse 3 themsélves to Canad ul Cunuda 13 entirely ma i line; it dresses entirely in one un continualy -- an There was & youn gi. man whose itamediate purpose in lif} is to clean out water-carts--sgo. car fully spocialized is life in Canada, HE cleans out wgter-carts from day's end well, waiting until what time Prov If you were a German spy, of th of the state of England in ante-bel warning by immedi: piying Attention to diet. , MATCHED MABEL. Then She Appeared to Be Rather ; Dende at Chess. one with half 'an eye couid see be was madly in love with her, 'fie bad-not courage enough to put 'te to the test. 'But she was a lady who knew her'way about, the suying goes, and one night sbe ted a game of chéss. He, poor , eagerly swallowed the halt. "If as a novice at lovemaking hie was inly no novice at. chess, and he n had the fair maid hopelessly. e t Ah!" he exclaimed as he put het in peless corner, "You're in # tight omer now, Miss Mabel." e looked at him with those beauti- eyes of hers and then said: badn't noticed any compression, jeorpe. Have I no escape? Z "None whatever," sald the guiléless jorge. "I have got you now, and, natter what you do, I am going to ité you, and I am going to mate you once." "0h, George!" said she, with a be ly. | toming blush. "Er--badn't you better father first?" They are married now, and George bi en wonders if she is as dense at Li as she would make him believe. A Funny Thing. i in't a frog a funny thing? He aint 2 Got no tail a' tall--almost bardly. 'When he run, he jump; v Ite jump, he run, and when 15 He sets on his tail, which be =' i t ye Pa's Opinion. gota" tall-almost hardly. "Pa, what is a cannibal?" ® | "A savage who eats buman beings, 4 son," . > iL | "Would a cannibal eat mamma if he | could?" § "He might. son, but she would b¢ gure to disagree with him. =. ----i nies A Stair Case. It was a stair case, For, you see, He proposed on the stairs To sweet Marie. . Ringing the Belle, Thia rather clever little thought ? '8 captured on the wing: od A pretty = ri girl is called a belle Because she's made to ring. The, 3 very rapid pulse and. respiration. Broncho-pneumonia. > Broncho-pnenwonia ip infants and young children is a very se- riots matter. It may be uncoti- plicated with any other disorder, but often' it appears during an attack of mensles, whooping cough or scarlet fever. It does not often aftack a petfectly well child. Fever, which Is very sel dom preceded by a chill, is one of the first symptoms. The fe- ver rises and. falls for days and sometimes for' weeks and reach- es its highest point daily in the afternopn or eveiiing. There are usnally a dfy, backing cough, a uickened. In severe attacks