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Salada Orange Pekoe hac a most fascinating flavour A" 'Fresh from the gardens' SYNOPSIS. Jimmy Rand's father, Henry Rand, is found murdersd in a cheap hotel at | Grafion. Jimmy traces a theatre' ticket stub to Olga Maynard, a cabaret | singer, in Buffalo, who says it was taken from her purse by a man she danced with bul did not know. She and Jimmy see this man, and a hunt in the '»gue's gallery at pclice head- quarters reveals him as Ike Jensen. Jimny recrives threatening letters and is attacked on the street. He falls in love with Mary Lowesll. Mary is en- gaged to Samuel Church, a rich lawyer, but owing to Church's cruelty to a lit- tle dog she breaks er engagement. Bar: Colvin, ergaged to Jimmy's sister, visits Jimmy in his room' in Buffalo They are shot at and a win dow broken. Neither is hit. CHAPTER XXXV. A round hole was in the pane, a hole fringed with splintering glasz. Jimmy threw the window up with a bang, for the tight shining from be- hiud them prevented them from secing a thing outside. (rlass came tumbling out of the sash and fell about them. . . Up the street, in the darkness, a fleeing figure. . . "There he goes'" 'ry grabbed Jimmy's arm in his excitement, "Climb down the porch." Jimmy Jed the way and they clambered over the railing, hung by their hands and dropped to the ground. They ran up the street, but whoever had fired the shot had vanished. Barry said, as t "He i I don't relish the idea of having him take another chot at us." But Jimmy had no such fears. x nerete danger -- something they gers on, 50 to speak d put their fir as not half so troublesome, he ex- plained, as the vague premonitions he had been experien "In a way, Barr s comforting to know that, after all, it's a human be- ing we're dealing with, There's some- "0 thing supernatural about this watch- j and the letter:." front of the house, ironically en h, they encountered a police: , the one O'Day had stationed as ay r nce the night a sort of body ) had fol Jensen and lowed Jimmy home. He was just back explained, from ringing in at 1 box N 2, he had heard no shot, h - R32. ho The polic y were returning: | -| them W STUB man seemed trounled. "I'll have to make a report. Sorry I wasn't here at the time. I'm sort of responsible, yon know." : "Not your fault," Jimmy assured him. "I'll explain it." Mre. King met them at the door, ail a-fluttei. The shot, it seemed, had awakened her. She insisted on all the details from Jimmy before she agreed to go back to bed. "He must have hidden on the porch, Jim," said Barry. He and Jimmy had climbed out of the window and were looking in the room. "That explains the open window that I saw when 1 came in the room." "But he couldn't have been out here all the time you were here. You said you had been in the room here nearly all evening." "No. Chunces are he waited' out- side nntil I lit the light. Then whea he saw who it was he jumped down an: came back later. ... I guess you'll admit now that I was right." "Right about what?" "I told you this fellow who has been writing the notes meant business. He meant to kill you, Jim. No question about it. Why don't you listen to rea. son and come home?" "Barry, let me ask you 2 question. If you were in my place would you let a thing like this scare you off? You| know why I came here. Would you; pack up and leav: after getting as far as I have?" "I don't know how to answer you, Jim. All I know is that I have a very wholesome respect for my scalp. That very likely woull be my first consid: eration." "That's just talk. You know very well you'd stick it out. This sort of an't go on indefinitely. We'll those fellows sooner or later." x * Sleep was out of the question. . . . Police came later to ply them with more questions and to survey 'the porch and the broken window, And so the two of them sat and talked far into the night. * * * * At the in the libr 1oment Samuel Church sat ry of his magnificent home, bus ¢ himself with a pile of legal yape . . There was an important damage su't against the Q. and . Rail- road whick he would have to defend. He scanned the documents--some of formidable looking affairs-- briefs. depositions and notes on testi- mony he would Lave to bring out, And yet it was hard for him to con- centrate on his task. A frown knit book. his brow. He stared dreamily at the "No, Just a glimpse of him rur-| ceiling, nressing the tip of his pencil ning ay in the ness. Couldn't| against his lips. even ell you how big he was." He ced at his watch. Two o'clock "I'll ring in for some help and we'll] in the morning. Again he sat back search the neighborhood." The police-!in his chair, studying the ceiling. . . . -- HEAD HURT ? ORK won't wait for a headache to wear off. Don't look for sympathy at such tifiics, but get some Aspirin. It never fails. Don't be a chronic sufferer from headaches, or any other pain. See a doctor and get at the cause. Meantime, don't play martyr. There's always quick comfort in Aspirin. It never does any harm. Isn't it foolish to suffer any needless n? It may be only a simple ache, or it may be neu- gia or neuritis, Rheumatism, = always to be relied on for umbago. Aspirin is still the breaking up colds. sensible thing to take, There Buy the box that says is hardly any ache or pain these i and has Genuine © tablets can't relieve; they are a printed in red. Genuine Aspirin great comfort to women who tablets do not depress. the suffer periodically; they are heart. All druggists. Then, fired with a sudden resolution, ' he rose and opened a drawer. Taking | out some stationery, he uncapped his fountain pen' and slowly composed a letter. He addressed it to Mrs. F. C.' Lowell. It was a very well written letter. . .' He loved Mary Lowell, and she had promised to marry him. . . . Now, be-! cause of a sudden whim, she had b oken off with him. Wasn't there some way of getting her to realize the mistake she had made? Of course, it had been rather heart- less of him--that affair about the dog. Yet he wa: a busy man, a preoccupied man. Important business engaged his thoughts most of the time. He wa sorry it had happened and quite hon- estly admitted he had been wrong. Mary must not condemn him on the strength of that one little thing. . . . An honest man, a good name, wealth . all these things she was turning down. He had been hasty and wanted to apologize, but Mary hadn't given him the chance. He needed an ally. . This letter he ~ead over. Then, ap- parently satisfied, he stamped it and left it where the butler could find it and mail it the first thing in the mern- ing. Again he leaned back in his chair, and again that worried frown between his eyes. . . . . He stood before his safe, twirling the dial. Presently he swung the heavy door open and drew forth a wallet, held together with a heavy rubber bi: nd. From this he extracted a folded paper and a letter. With a quick glance around the room, as if to assure himself that he was unobserved, he opened them and read them. . . . But he read them mechanically, unseeingly, as if their contents already were fa- miliar to» him. The worried frown on his brow deepened. From time to time he glanced up from his reading. He seemed '» be waiting for something. He looked at his watch again, mutter ed an imprecation and then very care- fully replaced the papers in the wallet and put them back in the safe. The butler entered the room quietly. "A gentleman to see you, Mr. Church." He nodded, comprehendingly. "Show him in." Then he settled back in his chair and waited. * * * * 3 "I suppose,' said Jimmy, as he and Barry were dressing the next morn- ing, "I ought to go out and look far a job. But what's the use? I can't seem to hold them after I get them." "The whole thing looks pretty suz- picious '0 me," Barry remarked. "It looks as if your friend of the letters is conspiring to keep you out of work. Probably he realizes that if you go hungry you'll be forced to go home." "It does look that way," agreed Jimmy. He was thoughtful for a mo- ment, "Still, we might be dead wrong entirely. There are such things as coincidences." "Why don't you have the police question this man Porter? If some- one did approach him, maybe the po- lice can get him to admit it." "No use. He could easily say, if it came to a showdown, that he was sat- isfied that I wasn't going to fill the bill--or that I wasn't the kind that would stick." "Well, give up the idea of working while you're here, Jim. I've got enough to tide you over a while, if you'll ac- cept a loan." "Nothing doing, Barry. Thanks just the same." And nothing Barry could say would make him change his mind. * * » * There was a letter for Jimmy down- stairs. When Mrs. King handed it to him he introduced Barry. "You won't mind if he stays with me while he's in town?" he asked. And she told him she would be glad to have any of his friends. Jimmy broke away before she could inquire further into the affair of the previous night. "She's a good old soul, Barry, but, like all women, inquisitive. And I don't like explanations, though Lord knows she deserves one." He tore open the letter as they walked downtown. It was from Olga Maynard, asking him to meet her at noon. * Na *. He did, in front of the Mayfair Hotel, and he thought she had never looked prettier. "You won't mind if I treat you to lunch, will you?" she asked. "It was my idea, meeting you, and it's my in- vitation." He demurred, but she was insistent, "All right," he laughed. "You said," she began when the head waiter had shown them to a table, "that you'd come to see me, You haven't. Are you mad with me?" "Mad with you? Heavens, no!" He looked at her seriously. "Y've been £5 busy. So many things have happen- ed." She was toying with her silverware. "You're sure you're not sorry you made that promise?" She did not look up. "Try me," he fenced. it be?" She raised her head to see if he was serious. As she did so she started violently. She was looking past Jim- my, toward the entrance. Her eyes narrowed in hate, blazed wickedly. "There's 2a man I could cheerfully' kill," she said. (To be continued.) stein A critic says you can tell a girl's character by her clothes. We refuse "When shall SP ASPIRI TRADC- [32% NEG. Maude la Canada & ~ What New York Is Wearing BY ANNABELLE WORTHINGTON Illustrated Dressmaking Lesson Fur- nished With Every Paticin Spring's gift is the lovely crepe printed silks, so smart, so fascinating and wearable for all-day occasions. To-day's dress delights in a plain crepe cowl yoked neckline. And it's amazing how charming and flattering this addition can be. The little floune- ed sleeve frills repeat the plain crepe in their lining. This model is decidedly slimming and therefore suitable for many fig- ures. The curved outline of the skirt seaming that tapers to the centre front waistline conceals hip breadth. Style No. 2985 may be had in sizes 16, 18 years, 36, 38, 40 and 42 inches bust. 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Old Man and Wife The youthful years, like revelers long gone, Grow faint upon the senses. they know The recompense that comes when young hearts go: The gift of 'lence on a sun-flecked lawn, Now They spend an hour when the tall Gaunt cedars yield their shadows, lean and gray, And rise to meet the sun who comes to call Each morning, like a friend across the way. with evening They who Lave grown too wise for any speech, 'Who feel a peace too deep or joy or pain, Know there is nothing more the world can 'each ™ Than what is learned wind and rain. in shadow, And so, where lilacs brood and roses ci.ah Over a m ss-green roof, they sit and wait A dark remembered hand gate As for an old friend gone a long, long time upon the --Anderson M. Scruggs. |, simone Water Marks From Flood Found in Old Perisian City Oxford, Eng. --'A city so ancient that its ruins show watermarks left by the Biblical flood has been dis- covered a few miles east of Babylon by the Oxford University Field Mus- eum Expedition in Mesopotamia. On top of It is the Arst well preserved palace .of the Sassanian dynasty of Persian kings ever found, and the discovery of the 'palace was largely accidental. Prof. Stephen Langdon, the United States director of the expedition ex- plained how the discovery was made. The Field Director, waiting to begin excavation of the Mail Hill over the site of the ancient city, set his Arab workmen to levelling the mounds of earth nearby, They had not been at work for a week before one wall and two gateways of the Royal Persian Palace had been laid bare. 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Enclose 20c¢ in | 2 Well, boys and girls, so many queer things have happened to us while ly- ing about the Xo during ths last few months, that ave to tell you the story of" . /adventures, Some day, perhaps yo@'ll fly over strange countries, too; countries filled with savage tribes and wild animals, and a thousand in- teresting things one never dreams of while sitting at home, Perhaps you'll fly above the clouds at times and look down on them bil . lowing "and rolling beneath the wings of your plane, just like a big sea of gold and silver in the sunrise; and away down below you'll see great fleets of warships in their harbors, so far down that they look like toy boats floating on the rim of a bathtub At other times you'll fly over black tropical forests and follow the white track of unknown rivers under the light of a huge bright moon--wonder- ful, dangerous forests where croco- diles lurk in the swamps and tigers and bears hunt through the livelong night, while blue faced monkeys swing and jabber in the trees. You'll see these things, and a thous- and more, and of course you'll want to tell the boys and girls you know all about your adventures, just like I am going to tell you mine. Most of the boys and girls I know call me Captain Jimmy. While my real name is Captain James Harworth Newberry, only the grown-ups call me that. We fly a Vickers plane. By we, I mean Scottie and myself. Scottie is one of those plain known as Scotoh Terriers. He looks like an animated bath brush, and he has never won a blue ribbon or a prize; yet, for sheer personality, he's a dog show all by himself. Scottie is the 'first mate and the crew--and what a crew he makes. Anyway, I found Scottie when he was only just about six weeks old, and he and I just took to each other. You know how it is, Sometimes a dog just adopts you. You don't buy him; he picks you. Scottie just got used to riding around with me so I couldn't keep him out of the plane. From the day of my first ride he has gone every- where with me--all over Canada, Eur- ope and even Africa. * » It was a fine bright morning when we pulled the old Vickers out of her hangar, at the Calgary flying field, and whiskery dogs! beaded her 'out into the wind, Per! tures we were going to meet we would never have made the trip at all. For you know, while it's lots of fun to read of adventures, actually having them sometimes is not all its' cracked up to be--and you often--yes, very often-- wish that you were in some nice safe place instead. ! Once in the air, a plane is not hard, to drive. In front of the pilot's seat | is the chief control lever known as the "stick." It is not a very hard, name to remember, but it is a sure; enough important piece of the plane. When I pull the stick toward me, it lifts the horizontal fins on the tail of the plane, and causes the nose to push up into the air. When I push 'the stick from me, it pulls the fins down, and of course pulls the plane down too. Tae foot levers work the rudders 'at the extreme tail of the plane. When | push the one to the right, the plane turns to the right--when I push to the left, the plane goes to the left. It's exatly like steering a car, only you do it with your feet instead. A round clock on the instrument board tells me how fast I am going--another tells me how high up I am in the air. So you see it's all easy enough when you get used to it--Ilike lots of things that look hard at first. | As we flew over the foot: hills, the scen-| ery became more beautiful. Wooded slopes, cool ravines, and here and there an open valley where the lonely cabin of some homesteader or pros- . pector showed half in the cover of the | woods. Then shadows began to make 'patches on th» sunlit country below-- the shadows of gathering clouds. Scottie seemed to sense something | wrong and pawed at my flying suit-- 1as dogs do when trying to draw your {attention. Then suddenly "puff" a gust of wind struck us--then another and another. Then a rain squall hit us--and in a moment we were in the j center of the meanest storm you ever saw, the old shin rocking and tossing ilike a boat in an any sea--the sky | growing darker ever, uie>--and the (rain' coming down in -heets amid the blinding stab of blue htning. Then the right wing d ily and the plane began to slip = S. (To be continued next Thursday) ups. Borden's Chocolate Malted Mlk The health-giving, delicious drink for children and grown- Pound and Half Pound tins at your grocers. AR | Name. Address. Sr IAAT A Ry TA clip this coupon 'This famous Recipe Book contains nearly 200 prize recipes chosen from 75,000 received from all parts of Canada. They are endorsed by one of Canada's foremost food experts. 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For the past two years the Street Cleaning Department, entrusted with the making of the island, bas been pumping water into the rubbish heap there through a series of pipe lines at the rate of 1,500 gallons a minute, but as yet the fire shows no signs of dying out. And some: people go SO far as to wonder if such a consuma- tion is to be desired. For when the atmosphere of Manhattan is frigid and forbidding, Riker's Island basks in the semi-tropical warmth that comes up through the soil; and twice a year egetable crops of unusual luxuriance are brought forth from the tepid earth. City Fires Usually Short Besides, a fire with such a record is something to boast of in itself. Not many cities are so distinguished; Rome burned in a night; the Great Fire of 1666 consumed London in three days ,and no longer did it take the conflagration started by Mrs, O'Leary's cow to wipe out Chicago. City fires are mostly like that. Con- trol methods brought immediately .in-" to play scon have them in check, or at worst they quickly burn themselves out for want of something else to con- sume. Away from congested centres, however, neglected fires of seemingly little importance often get a hold that enables them to last indefinitely. Forest and prairie fires sometimes go on for weeks and weekd, and certain types of industrial fires also have a name for longevity. An ignited oil well, for example, has limitless pos- sibilities, Not long ago Oklahoma City was treated to such a fire, which con- sumed 35,000 cubic feet of gas a min- ute and flared so brilliantly that news- papers could bo read by its light three miles away. The fire lasted for four days; it might have gone for much longer had not experts blasted it with dynamite and so diluted the flame area with carbon dioxide to shut off oxidation. A few years ago Los Angeles ex- tinguished a fire in its neighborhood that had been going on for two years. It was a peat bog fire like the one that burned for a week two Summers ago between Flushing and Jamaica. In the latter instance firemen began immedi- ately to pump water into the waste, but in fhe Los Angeles case months were lost while the municipality -in- structed the owners to quench the "burning eartl," and the owners denied their responsibility in the face of an "act of God." Finally, by the time the fire, burning from fifteen to thirty feet beneath the surface, had spread to six times its original di- mensions, the city appropriated $14, 000 to fight it. A huge ditch was cut from a storm drain and pumps were installed, and the first big rain was diverted into,the smoldering area. The bog proceeded to hiss, steam and throw mud geysers, but all in vain, Fire hose was attached to the pipe lines and streams of water forced in- to every fissure until the last ember died out. The coal fields present perhaps-the longest fire records of all. Compared with some of them Rikers' Island seems no more enduringly ignited than a flue. Recently theer was another outhreak of a Hocking Valley fire that has lasted almost half a century. A group of disgruntled strikers set fire to the old I'lummer mine near Straits- ville, Ohio, in 1884, then went on to seven others, and the end of their in- cendiarism is not yet seen. A healthful food. > Made by the makers of Knit Saled Dressing and Vilveets Toronto.--An educaticnal institute) will be sponsored here this spring by| There 1s nothing good in man, but the Victorian Order of Nurses with|his young feelings and his old 'a view to promoting a better under-| thoughts.--Joubart. : Mine fires are usually put out by closing the mouth of the mine and al- lowing the flames to smother, but in this district there are too many open- ings; and so the flames continue to eat their way through the underground passages, fed by an accumulation of natural gases. A Kentucky coal mine fire went on for more than 100 years and was quenched only when a near-by river was turned into the shaft. KRAFT Cheese is rich in cal- cium, phosphorus , . . and body-building vit- amins. It is the most highly concentrated > , No Trace of Gypsies At the conclusion of the season's scouting operations in Quebec ento- mologists of the Dominion Depa:tment of Agricuiture report "throughout the season's work no trace of the gypsy moth was found." In this im. / | portant fleld work special attention , was paid to highways leading frem the international boundary to tour- ist centres in Quebec province. Close examination was made of trees along the highway, orchards, tourist camps, . . and in and about centres of popula- OLD THOUGHTS tion, , emi Adversity fs not the worst thing is life. Adversity is the turn in the road. (It is not the end of the trail unlets-- unless you give up.--~Van Amburgh. ISSUE No. 9--'31 . -