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THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1928 . Miss Edith Brown, pretty sten- ographer, is lifted from her. dull life of routine into a lana of adven- ture and romance by a chance bit of dictation which she takes down from the lips of a man who says he ia dying--Colonel Dessiiter, renow- med explorer. The next morning, when she starts to the bank to place her motes and other docu- ments with which she had been in- trusted in a safe-deposit hox as In- structed, she is attacked by ruff- lans and saves her bag only because ihe had strapped It to har wrist, and by the timely intervention of a stranger, She safely deposits her papers and then successfully rebuffs an impostor reporter wha comes to worm out information. She finds her acquaintance eagerly sought after by people of all sorts. One, a prominent Communist, Noel Frankland, she likes least, although her chum, Frances Austin, does not snub his uncouth advances. How- ever, Frances finds a rea! admirer and Edith a partial confident 'n a young Russian, who describes him- sel merely as "Paul' and Invites the girls to the resturant where he and his parents eke out a bare liv- fng to which he adds a pittance earned as a professional dancer. Then comes a mysterious invita. tion for Frances to a party from the Princess Strepaff with espec- fal instructions to "hring Miss Brown along," Arrived there, the reason for her Invitation is soon ap- parent, She meets Mr. Pennington, WM. P,, who takes pains to argue Miss Brown into disclosing her sec- ret for the best interests of the country. But she realizes that it's really the Communist Party for which he's pleading and remains obdurate. Finally she recognizes a personal ad in the Times as her summons again to meet Desuiter's agent in one of the government buildings where a certain John Glyde, cousin and executnr of Des- sitor, produces her untes, which she had instructed the bank to de- liver to mo one but herself, and pids her transcribe them. When, to her amazement, she finds the notebook pages blank, Loth realize that her documents have been tampered with, Then it dawns on Miss Brown that John Glyda is none other than Dessiter himself. His death had been announced to his enemies off the track, throw and jmmediately he enlisis her help to thwart any scheme to get her notes into the opponents' hands. It is disclosed that the enemy has an accomplice who exchanged her book in the bask vaults for a bogus .. one, Dessiter gives her instructions to get the real documents as soon as the bank opens next morning, but a mysterious warning from Bri} Breatson, supposed to be in the op- ponents' camp, and an unusurl ac- eideqt delay her arrival and as she approaches the bank a great explos- spreads However, fon wrecks the building and havoe in all directions. types," Frances observed, grimace. sense of humor more than my affee are, aren't we, Edith?"* the stove. not--but you have too sensitive esting presents itself, laugh at it or despise it." "What about Mr. Franklan then?" Frances demanded. his work, that is. any one--the lowest. And he di his dissipated eyes. ting what he wanted, and like wanted, appealed to He has gone now, but if he'd known how to lower h given the least sign of any his cocksure, him again as long ag [ live, behaved like the worst beast, When he found he couldn fools they are, these men, Edit what they want in this world learn how." Miss Brown's face under pathetic, almost severe, ens is agreeing with you," "Well, I've got to go on with it was the somewhat despendent repl 've somehow or other become romantic figure in some keep his eyes off you, new employer like?" Cllliss BROWN 6 with a "When a young man as serious as Mr, Greatson starts to make love to me he appeas to my tions, and the whole thing seems so ridiculous. Funny creatures we Miss Brown prought her friends a cup of tea, made one for herself, slipped off her own gown in decor- ous fashion and wrapped herself in a dressing-gown. Thus attired she sat in an easy chair ia front of "Yes, I suppose we are funny, Frances," she reflected--'you espe- clally. I wouldn't call you clever-- 1 don't know whether you are or brain for everyday things of life. Directly anything simple or inter- you either "He's as simple as an idiot--apart from Ther2's only one way he could possibly appeal to appeal to me for a time, I wonder- ed all sorts of things. I liked his look of strength--even the smell of cigars about him, I didn't dislike He wag force- ful and irritable and used to get- child in letting you know what he "It was only one side of ne he 80 I can thing of him dispassionately, voice just a little now and then, real sentiment, if he'd lost for 4 moment bullying manner-- well, I don't know, He might; as some idiot of a novelist said, "have just caught the tide of opportunity, "He didn't anyway, He isn't cap- able of it, and I never want to see He's %ind of have his own way and wis never likely to, he just abused me, What They could get so much more of they'd only take the trouble to the shaded light was absolutely unsym- "My dear Frances," she said, ' don't think that life with the chick- "Every boh I have is sun in those rotten little huts and al! the mach- inery for making them pay, It's you who has all the luck, Edith, You've got a job you're crazy about, You- sort of an intrigue, and you've got a young man who, whenever he's near, can't What's your * E.Phillips Kd Oppenheim dently turning into the alley, Miss Brown tapped at the window and threw it open a few inches. "Wait a moment," sha called out, "1 shall let you in." «Please don't," he cried "They are all desperate, I am off." Frances was out of the ;oom in a flash. She unfastened the latch and lopened the green-painted froat door, Paul was already on his way down the street. She summoned him im- periously. "Come back, Mr. Paul--at once!" "Don't be an idiot!" Frances in- sisted, stamping her foot. "Quick- 1y! Quickly, or I shall come out and fetch you!" "I didn't mean," he begaa, turn- ing around--*I had no idea-----" She caught him by the coat and dragged him in just as two or three men appeared through the opening of the entry, In a momen: she had the door closed and chained, She looked at him in horror as she half pushed, half supported him iuto the room. "Heavens, what has happened to you?" she exclaimed, He staggered Into a chair and drew one or two long breaths, Frances, who had been a nurse dur- ing the war, saw that he was on the point of fainting, She held her cup of hot tea to his lips, "I ought not," he faltered. Then he proke off and said some- thing in Russian, Tue footsteps came to a pause outside, There was a confused murmur of voices, Miss Brown, who had already fastened the window, turned out the lights, The electric bell pealed through the silence of the house. followed by a clamorous knocking at the door, Frances, who was bending over Paul, looked up inquiringly. "There's no one else in the house," Miss Brown whispered. "Morton went down tn Nrighton foday for the week-end, and the two men who share the rooms above went away this afternoon for three days, "What are you go'ng to do?" Frances asked, Miss Brown opened the drawer of bers still loaded, Then she consid- out her revolver with its five cham. bers shtill loaded. Then she consld- ered for a moment, "If I open the door," she sald, a da a is ®t h. it my family. Be 35 "J had warned Bretskopt that it he stayed twenty-four hours in Fug land he risked his life. I met bim face to face. He had been drinking He was wearing--actually wearing --as he stepped out onto the pave- ment, the black pearls he :tole from my grandmother's house, and as 1 saw him there--I remembered the rest. I took him by the collar, I had a malacca cane and 1 peat hm. 1 beat him everywhere. They came rushing out from the hou his friends, Two or three of them tried to rescue him. They couldn't, He was mine. "When I had finished with him, 1 threw him into the gutter. Then| they all came for me and one of them hit me from behind, There! were others siseaming out of the house--six or seven of them--- they'd been having a dzbauch there, 1 suppose--so I ran, 1 didn't mean to come to you, 1 never thought of it at all. I turned dowa the entry to put them off the scent, and then 1 passed your window." Miss Brown, very practical, was thinking hard. | "Do you think you killed him?" she asked. "No," Paul answered, "I am afraid not. Two of them carried him back into the house, He was groaning, but he was alive. No, I did not kill him. I broke his arm, I think, and perhaps his leg, but I do not think that he 1s dead. I had not time." He began to mumble incoherent- ly. Frances fetched water and towels and together the two girls bound up his wounds, He had fallen into a semicomatose atate, hair asleep and half unconscious, "Perhaps you'll tell me aow,"| Frances demanded, when they had placed a pillow under his head;| "exactly what you are going to do about this young man?" "We are going to sleep In ou dressing gowns," Miss Brown sug- gested, "and he can stay where he' is. There is nothing els2 tor it, We can't turn him out into the streets. "I should think not, indeed! I wonder if he's quite comfortable." Frances rested her hand gently upon his forehead, adjusted a hand- age and moved the pillow a little, Reassured by his regular breathing, she presently slipped off the re- mainder of her clothes and wrap- ped herself in her dressing gown, an example which Miss Brown, after a moment's hesitation and with more eircumspection, followed, Once more they turned out the light, Paul, stretched at full length, seemed huge, almost colossal, in the gloom of the room, To Be Continued Tomorrow A ---------- dow they'll do the sama thing, TI! we ring up the police we may ind it's Mr. Paul we're getting Into trouble," "It T stamp on the floor, ring up Marlborough Street Police Sta- tion," Miss Brown enjoined, She stole out of the room, ran lightly up the stairs, entered the vacant apartment above and threw open the window. Below, five men were standing. She saw them only indistinctly in the light 'rom the distant street lamp, but they ob- viously had no kinship with the ordinary order of midnight maraud- ers, | " y. a "they'll rush in, If I open this win-| | WOLFE MEMORIAL hold Approval of Site in Greenwich Park London, Aug. 21,--Canadian circles express disappointment at the with- | ERECTION DELAYED | | London Authorities With- SILENT ARPLANE SOUGHT BY NAITONS Britain, France, Germany and Russia Working on Invention er ---- Lon . 21.--The "silent, in- visible ra death" which writers of fict have depicted as char- acterizing future aerial warfare may be far nearer than the world at large realizes, Four nations -- Great Britain, France, Germany 'and Russia -- it is now known, are bending every effort to be first to create a new type of airplane which shall be both invisible and inaudible 3t even moderate alti- tudes, and some of the experiments now in progress give evidence of promising results, It has long been known that where weight is not the first consideration it is possible to develop a muffler for airplane engines, comparable in effec- tiveness with that now in use on automobiles. The reason they have not been used is because even though the sound of the engine is effectively silenced the roar of the propellor whistling through the air would be- tray the presence of the airplane as far or even farther away than would an unmuffled engine alone. Recent research, however, has shown that by shortening the dia- meter of the propellor and using six or more blades instead of two, dis- tinct progress has been possible to- ward the development of a "silent" propellor. Working along this line, the air ministries of the four nations are now hard at work on the develop- ment of a new type of steel or alloy blade which shall cut its way through the air in complete silence. Simultaneously other designers are busy developing the so-called "silent wing." In this direction rapid pro- gress also is being made, especially in Germany, where the monoplane Uae dhe SCOTTISH THRILLING f programme of Highland Dancing. Highland M +) Hi + - PY - AA Nose and Trabant oT uct mpi of Apne Can You Toss the Caber? The Alberta Amateur Athletic Championship Meet will form part of the programme. Concerts of Scottish Music in the evenings at the Banff Hotel which will include a revival of Burns' add Cantata "T Jolly Beggars." Famous concert si including J Dusseau, Campbell hap bell, John Moncriefl, Ernest Morgan, Gaelic folk play with folk singers. MUSIC FESTIVAL patronage of H.R.H. Tus Panic or Wars A n ol Melnnes, Fi Mar ion Kopp Make your reservations now at the BANFF SPRINGS HOTEL or at any Canadian Pacific Office. CANADIAN PACIFIC. tances. When one sees an arplane overhead, it is not so much the air- plane that one sees as the dark; all- revealing shadows which are formed and held by lower curved surfaces of the wings. In developing ways to break up these shadows so that they no longer reveal the shape and size of the wing, much progress is said to have been made both in German and Russian laboratories. Night experiments with wings thus camouflaged have demonstrated that pilots gliding down from great heights with motors throttled so as to ap- has long been favored over the bi- plane with its numrous struts and cross bracing wires. By "cleaning up" the lines af the monoplane wing and fuselage and the elimination of bracing wires and fittings, remarkable progress in this direction is said al- ready to have been made. New Science Out of the crude efforts at camou- flage developed during the war has cone a new science of treating lights and' shadows through which it is said a close approximation of invisibility is attained at even moderate dis- proximae the silent engine and silent propellor of the future, have been able to approach within a thousand feet of their objective before observ- ers on the ground were aware of their presence. With these results already accom- plished in this early stage of the de- velopment of the silent and invisible airplane, the sudden havoc and terror which periected airplanes in the future will be able to inflict upon unsuspecting cities may exceed in horror the wildest picture that have yet been drawn in fiction. New Model 4-70 $165 or with Electric Drive $205 holding of complete approval, in prin- ciple, by the Office of Works, at the site in Greenwich Park for the Wolfe Memorial, which the people of Can- ada subscribed as a gift to the British nation in memory of the famous general, who won Canada for the Empire, the vaults are not damaged, and presently Miss Brown's notes are returned to her and transcribed, Then Dessiter offers her a place in his *X, ¥, 0." a newly organized secret department of the Govern- ment, That night Miss Brown and "I told you before," Miss Brown replied. "He is rather elderly and fe to hig profession, T am just Three of them were in evening dress, and one of them, whose finger was still pressing the bell, seemed to her, with his pointed black beard and sallow complexion, vaguely familiar, He was wearing a silk hat and a long coat with an he sort of secretary to suit him-- he mechanical instrument keeping a record of all the things he need- ed recorded," Frances dine where Paul dances, land and Greatson enter, at the restaurant Soon Frank- "Yes," Frances reflected, stretc in you the makings of a Now Read Today's Installinent of This Intriguing Oppenheim Story Frances, half an hour later, her evening gown thrown carelessly over a chair, lay flat upon the hed, the rest of her costume entirely negligible, She was smoking A cigarette, her hands clasped behind her head, watching Miss Brown, who was boiling a kettle, "Absurd idea of mine tn want tea," she murmured, "I often have tea myself bifore { go to bed," Miss Brown eonfided. "We old maids need something," Frances sighed, "and, alas, I have begun to feel that I am going to be an old'mald, Seems a pity." Miss Brown knew better than to ask questions, She maintained an attitude of sympathetfe inquiry, I let him take me into ihe dark- est corner of the lounge on pur- pose," Frances continued, "I was pretty well disgusted with him be- fore, but I thought--I wanted t2 feel what it would be like to be kissed by him." "You let him kiss Brown asked severely. "I meant to," Frances confessed, 'In the end he was so horrid about it that I escaped with just a touch »n the corner of my cheek. Do vou Edith?" Miss Brown turned around. "No man has ever kissed me on the lips in my life," she declared, | Frances looked at her for a mom- - ent apd nodded, "Well, I might have guessed it," she said, "You are telling the truth, too, which makes it more awful Well, no man has kissed me for a long time, and I know nue thing for certain now--Mr. Frankland never will." : "How you could have conc2ived the possibility----"" Miss Brown be- gan sternly, "Oh shut up, you little fool!" Frances interrupted. "You're made difterently, You don't understand. There's only half of me alive like this, and the other half is turning me around and twisting me about Inside. I'd@ escape all right it I could, but I know now that it can't through Mr, Frankland." "I should hope not!" Miss Brown )xclaimed emphatically, "Of the two men, wiry on earth don't you take little motice of Mr, Greatson? ven if he doesn't dance, he's most interesting to talk to." you?" Miss fectly under control, one ever kiss you at all, Edith?" ces." "Must talk according to moods, child, I've been in this sor to me always means amazing anti ment, I shall take up a hobby n't a hobby the first sign of Is ac that? I shall probably "Listen!" Miss Brown interrupt ed, sitting upright with a stare, house at the corner, most fearsomely broken, or other reminded the two girls window, bling footsteps of a man running. had been sufficient whispered Frances shook her head. impulse possessed her she She touched the spring which ment and stared in, of frank amazement, It was Paul who stood there, supporting himself wita his hand against the wall, his dinner coat buttoned up to the throat, one side of his face covered with blood, hatless, and with a glare jn his eyes almost of savagery. He stood sway- ing a little on his fee!, speechless. The clamor of voices hehind seem- ed to grow nearer, His pursuers, "You seem to choose such seriovs whoever they might be, were evi- ing herself out. "I suppose you have perfect secretary, Temperament, {f any, per. Amecrions-- yes, you probably have affections-- entirely self-supporting, Does any "No one, And I dn wish you'd leave off this habit of talk, Fran- my of mood for a month now, I think when I get back to the country, though, I shall stay there. London cipation and crushing disappoint- cepted spinsterhood--sketching or fine needlework or something like It was past 2 o'clock, aud the little street had been deserted ever since the closing time of the puplic The silence outside, however, was suddenly al- From somewhere in the direction of Curzon street came a confused clamor of voices--voices ghrill and yet raucous, yoices which somehow listening now side by side at the of a pack of wild animals in full cry----and in the nearer dis- tance, along the pavement, closer at every moment, came the stum- Mies Brown shivered. She had a momentary accession of weakness. Surely the tragedy of the morning "Put out the light, Frances," she What 8 never knew, then or at any future time, re- leased the /lind and stood at the window, and glmost as she did so, the tall form came stumbling by, paused at the unexpected flash of light streamed out across the pave- Miss Brown's little cry was hal? of terror, half left h- | astrakan collar turned up, At the sound of the opening of the window he raised his head, and Miss Brown immediately recognized him, It Was MARKO, "What do you want?" Brown demanded "I want the man whom you let into this house just now," was the prompt reply, f "Why?" | There was a confused murmur of voices, The faces of all five men, were upturned, and Miss Brown was thankful for the obscurity in which! she stood, "He's murdered a man in Clarges street," Malakoff declared, "You're not the police," Brown rejoined, } One of the men, who was swing- ing a ghort, heavy stick, pushed his way into the middle of the pave- ment, "Look here," he called out, "the police can deal with this later on, We want that man and we're going to have him, We're coming through your window down here if you don't open the door" Miss Brown leaned a. little further out into the might and they sa | | Miss t what she was holding in her right hand, They all scrambled pack in- to the roadway, H , "The first one who comes mear the window," she warned them *'f shall shoot, whoever it is, My friend below ig ringing vp Marlhor- ough street at the present moment, If you say the man below is a mur- derer, the police can have him, It seems to me from the state he's in that it's you they'll want," There was 8 momentary silence, Then they all began to talk to one another, and though not a single! word was intelligible to Miss; Brown, she was conscious of an &t-; mosphere of blasphemy, They drew gradually farther away, end lights, began to flash out from the houses' opposite, As soon as they had turned the corner, Miss Brown des- cended the stairs to find Paul, now fully conscious, sitting up with his back to the wall. "They've gone," ghe announced, It was significant of her that she asked for mo explanation. Paul, however, promptly provided ft. "I am very sorry indeed." he be- gan, "awfully sorry. You see, I went home from the Cosicopolitan with some friends wh» live nese here. I stayed with them all the time and then when I left them just near, the door of a house apen- ed, and out came Bretskopf, the man I spoke to you about. the ma» who hag been the evil genius of The dignified design, bold in its simplicity, which was prepared, has since been modified at the suggestion of the British authorities, in the hope that it would be placed on the site overlooking the Royal Naval Hospital and College with the Thames in the background, particularly as Wolfe's remains lie buried at St, Alfrege's Church, Greenwich, The difficulty is understood to be based on the objection of Parliament to placing any further memorials to individuals in the Royal parks and also the fact that the site is one of the finest in London. The monument dseigned by Dr, Tait McKenzie, a Canadian, at present Professor of Physical Education at Pennsylyania University, depicts Wolfe gazing across the St. Lawrence to Quebec, The figure is nine feet high with a 40-fqot obelisk in rear with wing walls to balance. No further action will be taken until the amended design is ap- proved by the Wolfe committee, after which the site will be definitely chosen, It is hoped that the Marquise de Montcalm, a descendant of Wolfe's, adversary, will unveil the statue, HOOVER. NEARING OLD BIRTHPLACE Republican Nominee Con- tinues Conferences With Leaders in Campaign -- Kansas City, Aug, 21.--Haying put behind him the admittedly debatable ground of Arizona and New Mexico, Herbert Hoover went yesterday to rock-ribbed Republican Kansas to continue conferences with Republican leaders as his train moves on to his old birth-place at West Branch, Iowa. 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