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"HE QSHAWA DAILY |IMES, "TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1928 -- nun LL LEEET Hi CHAPTER UI 1 heard the conductor shout be- hind me. I turned from her, even as her eyes were upon me. it was my station; and I did not stop to realize the screaming folly of leav- ing the train. en who have thrown away the wrong card in the biggest poker hand of their lives might have some inkling of the way 1 felt. For three minutes I stood fuming, watching the vanishing end of the train, It soon swept out of sight. "Is this Dr. Long?" spoke a voice behind me. The voice was deferential; yet it had neither the tone nor the rhythm of our Florida colored men. think that I expected to turn and see a white servitor--one of those gray-haired English butlers of an old and incomparable school. It was a low voice, with a rather peculiar purring quality, And so I was sur- rised to see the dusky face that looked into mine, It wasn't black, yet quite dark enough to be that of a mulatto, But in a glance I knew that the man had no African blood what- ever, The shape of his features was dis- Ginctly Aryan, He had a straight, finely chiseled nose that was almost classical, thin lips and rather high cheek-bones. He wore the snow- white turban of a Mussulman. But most of all I noticed his eyes, They were the eyes of a mystic, very black, and astoundingly deep. They gave no key to his thoughts, but suggested the somber mysticism of the East. Of course he was one oi Southley's servants, and a native of Hindustan, : "Yes, Im Long," I told him. "lI come from Southley Downs, sahib--and the car is waiting," he went on his in strange, purring voice, The great, black cyes fascin- ated me, He took my bag and led the way to the car. I am not usually pars ticularly observant of casual acguain- tances; but I found myself stlidying the dark, straight form in front of me, There was a quality in his car» riage that was particularly absorbing, I couldn't quite grasp what it was, [ rather "think it" was the somewhat stealthy way with which he placed his feet, a sinuousness and a grace that one might expect in a dancer, I couidn't hear his footfall on the gravel; and I fell to conjecturing 'what a successful hunter he would be in the Western mountains, It usually takes years of practise to learn to stalk. He seemed to know how intuitively, The man walked just like a cat, He placed his feet the same way. "The other must have missed the train," he told me in his correct but hesitant English, as he helped me in- to Southley's great touring car. Southley himself met me on the great verandah. The shadows were heavy there, and his face just a white blur. But when we went into the lighted hall, I saw that the months had changed him. The sight of his fine, old face in the soft candle light was, I think, the first real shock of my stay at Southley Downs, Hc greeted me with the finest hos- pitality. He couldn't live in a South- ern manor house and do any other thing. It's in the air and the atmos- phere, as all men know who have visited the South. It is a tradition, too. The voice itself was rather wa- vering and shrill, rather more aged than I remembered it. Then he turn: ed to the impassive Oriental behind him, : "Ahmad Das," he "didn't for 1 Joe come?" I didn't hear the answer, turned to shake hands with a tall straight youth that was Southley's son. He was about twenty-one, evi- dently an undergraduate at college. "My son Ernest," the old man told me. He tried to straighten up. "Al ready taller than his father." . We walked into the great drawing- room; and there two other men arose to greet us. "Mr. Hayward," my host he ex- lained. "And another Mr, Hayward, is son," It was wholly possible that his voice changed slightly when he in- troduced these two. But, of course, it was to be expected. An instant before he had just introduced his son, evidently the joy and pride of his life. But now it seemed to me asked, ETlG that the voice had an alien tone--a strain and a nervousness that was not readily explained. 1 bowed over the older man's hand. He was a huge creature--six feet tall and more than a little obese, and perhaps sixty-five years of age. He was closely shaven, and his white hair was clipped close. He had ra- ther peculiar, piercing gray eyes, a firm mouth, and he had the look of overflowing opulence. As 1 shook his hand, a bell jingled in the hall. For an instant the Hindu's face showed in the doorway, and Southley went to meet him, They talked together an instant, and the old man was be- side me again by the time I had turned to the younger Hayward. He was a man possibly my own age. He also was in the newest of dinner garb. He had a rather large, dark face--perhaps a trifle severe and forbidding. There was a dull light that might have been ambition and might have been a?® thousand other things in his eyes. "I've heard Southley speak of you," the younger man told me. "1 am Vilas Hayward. It may help you to keep us straight to know my given name, "I think that is Joe now." Then we all stood up. The whole world faded--the glittering table, the watchful faces of the men, the dark body of the Hindu servant-- and left only the slender form at the door. "She's been on a visit to the shore, and she was carried past her station --like the stupid that she is," heard Southley saying {from far away. "I had to send for her in the car, Josephine--come up and meet my friend, Doctor Long, Long my daughter, Miss Southley." The girl at the doorway was the same girl I had carried in my arms that afternoon; and she had not yet removed the intriguing little hat from the fine, brown hair, "I hope you don't mind candle. light," Southiey apologized during the excellent meal. "We have a pri- out of order, We're sending for new parts." "I prefer candles, and I'd have "em if I had enough servants to kecp them trimmed," I replied. "It's the most restful light on earth." in his place, "I fall all over the house with 'em," he said. "I like bright lights, and lots of 'em. And the worst of it is the plant broke three days ais ter I came. Spite work, I think." I looked at him, expecting to find hit in jest. There are men that joke like that sometimes, But his face gave no sign, And I was to learn before the night was done that such rcmarks were quite to he ex: pected from the elder Hayward, A long, tremulous call suddenly shivered out of the darkness--seem- ingly just below the verandah, It was a plaintive, haunting cry, but except to a naturalist not worth a moment's thought. I had heen cnough in the wilderness to rec (nize it as the cry of a certain ! ec species of owl--a night-hunter i.2t is often found in our Florida marshes, Those on the verandah with me must have heard the same sound dozens of times, But four of them started in their chairs, and one of the four ut- tered a half-smothercd gasp of dis- may: Something was radically wrong with the nerves of these occupants of Southley Downs. Evidently the swamp air had got into them and left its poison. The elderly Southley had evidently not heard the sound, At least, he gave no sign, His son, the nerves of whose handsome hody should have heen of steel, gave a scarcely perceptible start, Both of the Haywards turned with a nervous jerk, and the elder said something that sounded like an oath under his breath. Josephine had been the most affected" of all; and when I looked at her again 1 saw that lingering, haunting sorrow in her dark eyes, She uttered a little, nervous laugh --a sound that was joyously musi- cal in spite of her embarrassment, "Did you ever encounter just this atmosphere before?" she asked me, "It's these marshes, I think--the traditions of this old house." "All it needs is a ghost," I told her. "If you can present a ghost, it's going to be the biggest week of my life." "It's here already." "You don't mean ijt!" "The newest, most novel ghost in the world." She said it lightly; and I kept my eyes upon her. Then we heard the elder Hayward grunting from his chair, "Oh, don't tell that silly story again, Josephine," he muttered. "I've heard it till I'm tired." "Then take him into the library, vate lighting plant, but it's seriously | Then the elder Hayward grunted|' ER 1 Hayward Vilas Hayward, ........ CAST OF PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS IN THIS STORY OF MYSTERY AND ROMANCE DY, LOMB sesssseeravsssennsssss ees <THE Narrator Alexander Pierce...... «11444444... The Detective Josephine Southley....ccveceeeasseassses..The Girl ARMAR DAB. «scores irirvivrereronsee ssa Hindu Peter H, Southley..........Host at Southley Downs Brest Southey... cereetsssrrscsssseness His Son Mr. eesaseeesssGuest at Southley Downs --and THE TIGER! 1isvr ras «Hig Son Joe," her father suggested. "I do want him to hear it--and since it bores Mr, Hayward, you'd better not tell it here. I want him to see the house, anyway." Josephine and I went through the long hall, and into the library. There were other candles here, and the shadows were long and unwavering. I held a chair for her, and took one myself, "Of course I know you," she said at once, "I'm glad of that. I was sure you had forgotten." 1 was watching with immeasurable delight every change of expression in her face, every shadow in her eyes, the delicious rising and falling of the color in her cheeks. She was in the middle of a sentence, and all things else were forgotten. . Then, places--and long corridors and in- definite flights of stairs. I was amazed at the size of it. "And what traditions it must have!" I exclaimed. "You forgot, Miss Southley. You were going to tell me about the ghost." She paused and looked at "I've decided I hadn't better." "I'm so sorry. It would give an added zest to this visit--" "But you wouldn't believe it--" "And you wouldn't want me to! Ghost stories aren't meant to be be- lieved." "But this story is a little different, Dr. Long. It has one or two rather troublesome points--and it isn't to he laughed at, even if it isn't to be be- lieved. I hope you'll be able to laugh --but I'm afraid you won't. It's been a tradition in this house since my me, TARHM, *.,..The beast attacked my father then, and leaped through the window,,.."" slowly as water freezes, the life ut- terly died in her face, There is no other word. In a mo- ment, the witchery and mystery that men call life was sparkling in her eyes and dancing in her smile. Her color was at its height, and I was drinking it like wine, In the next it was wholly gone. Probably my first impression was that her color was fading, She was watching something just over my shoulder. Her gaze was almost trance-like, The light went out of her eyes, and they widened, too. And a no less perceptible change came in the set of her lips, Very slowly I turned, I don't know what I expected to see. But I cer- tainly expected nothing as common- place as I saw. Her eyes were fixed on the form of Ahmad Das, the ser- vant, who was doing some household task at the end of the long room, For an instant I also followed his motions with a senseless fascination, He was on his hands and feet on the rug, cvidently cleaning a soiled place on the carpet. And even in that awkard position he seemed to move with a strange, feline grace, a lithe sinuousness beyond all words, did not forget that this was natural in the man. But by some Satanic contriving of fate and cir- cumstance, his candle-light had found a reflection in his eyes. I am a cold- blooded, self-disciplined man, and it was not just imagination, not just delusion or moon-madness that re- vealed to me a strange, greenish glare, not unlike the light to be scen in the eyes of certain great beasts of prey in the black depths. Ahmad Das left the room, and I spoke in the deadly quiet that fol- lowed his departure, "What is it, Miss Southley?" I asked her as gently as I could, "What has frightened you?" "I must be ill," she said. "It was just Ahmad Das" "I know--and that wild light in his eyes was natural, It was just the glare from his candle." She smiled at me, took me through some of the great, downstairs rooms of the manor house. The place was almost Georgian. There were many little alcoves--the best of hiding- NIGHT COUGHS NO re ie SIZE ==" pen sornic VENO'S Syrup hildren Love BRONCHITIS ASTHMA | father came, foriy years ago. And it isn't nice--at all. - It's' just that Southley Downs necds a doctor--even morc than I do" "And may he I'm the one it needs." "Our ghost' isn't the ghost of a man," she said. "It isn't the ghost of a lovely girl who died for a swecthcart--or even a little child." "I'm glad it isn't a little child. I can't bear to think of their sleep being so uneasy that they would walk." "Our ghost--isn't at all" I couldn't laugh into her carnest face. I didn't feel like laughing. "It isn't very cheerful, is it, doc- tor?" she went on. "And it is vather embarrassing to sit here and tell you things I know you can't possibly believe. My father came from India forty years ago; and he brought a tiger cub with him, It was a pet-- a tawny little creature that played and romped and pulled at the cur- tains, He brought two servants, too --a Hindu man and my mother's ayah. Both these two servants are dead, Although you would hardly guess it, Ahmad Das was born after they came to this plantation, "The cub grew into a beautiful, tawny, full-grown tiger, seemingly as gentle as a collie, But one night when the wind blew it seemed to go mad, It attacked the Hindu woman, and she was badly torn before my father drove the creature off, In the condi- tion that she was, her wounds were even more dangerous than they other» wise would have been. It was un questionably the brute's intention to carry her off--and may be you know something about tigers, "They say that they will play for literally hours with their human prey --just as a cat plays with a mouse, with the most terrible cruelty that can be imagined. The beast attack- ed my father then, and leaped through the window and escaped into the marshes. "When morning came, all the ne- groes and my father and the Hindu a human being tracked the tiger down--and finally |or, killed him in the thickets. And when they got back Ahmad Das was horn, On the very day; and the same hour, that the tiger died, "Of course that's just a detail. The legend that has grown up deals with the stories that the colored people told--about something they saw thereafter." She paused, and 'in the little si- lence we heard some night bird give its sleepy call from the marsh. "At first the stories were rather vague, Now and again they would get a glimpse of something tawny and alive in the thickets. Everybody laughed at first. But as time went on it got increasingly hard to laugh, Too many people told the same story. And one night a traveler stop- ped at the house, simply speechless with fright. He said that a tiger, clear and tawny, in the moonlight hiad followed his horse. "The stories all agreed on point. The beast was always seen cither on or about this hill on which the house is built And then, one midnight, a negro came with a can- dle on some errand into the library, the room we arc now in. He told rather a straight story alterward. one' COMMERCE CHAMBER HAS BEEN ACTIVE IN THE CITY'S INTEREST Continued from Page 3) which would be interested in Cana- da and particularly in Oshawa, finding popularity wherever they were received. Industrial comcerns have made, it their business im many instances to request inform- ation of Oshawa in the view of establishing mex: or branch fac- tories in Canada, and in this in- stance alone has the Chamber of Commerce through its secretary L. Frazer acted thoroughly compi- tent to manage work which will add materially to the development of a growing city, and place it on a par with other municipalities not- ed for their industrial importance. A review of the activities in de- tailed form as compiled by Leon Frazer secretary of the C. of C. in Oshawa appears as follows: Six directors meetings, average attendance tem out of fifteen, Trade Commissioners' visits {in the interests of export trade: --Col, L. M. Cosgrove, China, A. S. Bleak- ney, Brazil, H. A. Scott, Liverpool: Representations at conventions: Canadian Chamber of Commerce, Quebec City, June 7 to 9th, Eastern Ont. Chamber of Commerce, Otta- wa, June 26 to 27th, Eastern Ont. Power Association, Cobourg, July 11th, Will be represented at con- vention of the Ontario Association Board of Trade and Chamber of it North Bay Oet, 10 and Entertained, in co-operation with General Motors of Canada Ltd., 250 delegates representing Boards of Trade and Chambers of Commerce of Quebec on August 31st. Se. cured the presence of Premier Jas. G. Gardiner of Saskatchewan. Received representations from J. W. Butler Co'y in reference to the Genosha Hotel and made necessary investigations. Considered representations from Board of Education in reference to the establishment of a Technical School. Assisted In 'securing suitable quarters for the Peerle:s Business College. Secured an amendment of main street parkinz regulations from ten to thirty minutes parking, Secured action of Board of Po- lice commiszfoners in erecting speed regulation signs on Simcoe St. South. Investigated the Inter-city tele- phone service, The Chamber has been assured of adequate service by the beginning of 1929, Co-operated with the Oshawa- Dally Times in the publishing of the special Progress Edition and mailing list. Secured a re-survey of the City by The Express Traffic As:ocla- tion to inercase delivery areas. Ad- ditions will be made within two months, Co-operated with the City of Kington and town of Whithy in formation of Chambers of Coms- ompleted organization of The Retail Merchants' Credit Bureau, Orzanized the Oshawa Motor Club. J Erected two illumineted sien boards advertising the city at the East end west approaches on No. 2 Highway, Secured aerial photographs the City for publicity purposes. Published 4000 hooklets "Manu- facturing data of Oshawa' and dis- tributed some to all Boards of Trade, Chambers of Commerce and Trade organizations in Great Bri- tain, United States and Canada. Presented special copy to Hon. R. B. Bennett on the occasion of his visit to Oshawa on July 21st, Placed complete information as to Manufacturing possibilties fn Oshawa, in the hands of the indus- trial departments of C,N.R., C.P.R,, Department of Interior, and Cana- dian Trade Commissioners abroad. Revised information concerning Oshawa in numerous handbooks, Trade papers, ete, Industrial development. This subject entails a considerable am- ount of time by the staff in mak- of oceur, approached the Chamber looking for buildings or sites for manufac- turing, Of these one has been se- cured, viz, The Budweiser Brewing Company of Canada, having agreed to purchase five acres of the city farm will construct its plant in the Spring of 1929; four have decided to locate elsewhere for various reasons and seven are yet undecid- He couldn't see at first, He just heard something bounding about in the shadows--playing with the cur- tains. His candle-light showed him something big as an enormous hound--and yellow and black in col- "That is substantially the legend Dr. Long. Of course i don't un you to think twice about it--if you do you would take your bag and go, For years and years the story was just told at intervals, and not even the negroes were afraid. But two years ago--But you've heard enough, Let's talk of something else." "If I'm to cure this house of its troubles, you'd better tell me all," I told her. She braced herself and continued, She was a sensible, cool-headed Am- erican girl; and I had no doubt but that the story was hard for her to tell. Already I was groping for some natural explanation for the legends, "Two years ago Sam, ope of our colored men, came wild-eyed inte the house and said that he had seen the thing just below our verandah--- and all of us laughed at him. Per- haps a month later one of the house- maids came with almost an identical storv "e and onc of the young col ored - i ad heen walking about the hillside, and it had suddenly emerged from the shrubbery. It makes such a story particularly disquieting, doc tor, to have two people verify it. (To be continued) distributed 1000 copies to a select | ed and still comsidering Oshawa. Heretofore, establishment of in- dustries has been dependent emtir- ely upom approaches from manu- facturers seeking locations and as a mew departure your Directors, In- dustrial and Publicity Committee have decided to approach manufac- turers in Great Britain and the United States who are manufac- turing products imported to Can- ada to the extent of $500,000 or more annuglly. From a list of 95 imported commodities representing $242,000,000 annually 22 have been selected for special consider ation as being suitable for ecom- omical production and distribution from Oshawa. We are pleased to mote that by resolution the City Council has ad- opted as its policy the encourage- ment of industrial development by agreeing om fair and reasonable terms to extend all facilities and convenience to industries in or lo- cating in the City of Oshawa. The Chamber can be only as ac- tive as the members make it and Board of Directors would there- fore appreciate at all times infor- mation and suggestions from the members which will enhance the value of the Chamber in its duties as the business organizations of the City interested in practically all subjects which are in the best in- terests of the City of Oshawa as a whole and its members generally. ANGLO-U.S.A. UNITY ON NAVAL REDUCTION URGED BY DANDURAND Paris, Oet. 8.--Useful results from the activities of the League of Nations' Preparatory Disarma- ment Commission cannot be hoped for unless Great Britain and the United States agree on a formula for making an appreciable reduc- tion in naval armaments, declared Senator Raoul Dandurand, Cov- ernment leader in the Canadian Senate, on Saturday. "Both have signed thes Kellogg treaty by whieh they forever re- nounce war between themselves," Senator Dandurand said. "We cannot understand why an agree ment should not bz Teached he- tween the two great English-speak- ing peoples allowing that their fleets, instead of being opnosed In joined, in the sole desire of assur- ing the peace of the world." Statesmen at (Geneva were | "looking with anxious eyes to Lone {don and Washington," sald Scna- tor Dandurand, who, with the an. proval of Premier Mackenzie King, explained the disarmament situa. tion at Geneva, Peaca Pact's TAmitation Stating that the Kellozs #ntl- war pact did not provide a method |of finally solviny grievances end differences hetween nat'ans, he sald the Preparatory Disarmament Commiesion had drafted a conven- tion to bind nations to settle their disputes by conciliation and arhi- trat'on. This eonvention will hn» presented to signatories of the Kel- Ingg treaty as well as other na- tiong, in the hope that, if gener- ing investigations and dealing with ! all enquiries individually as they Twelve concerns have directly | naval competition, should h> econ- | ally signed, it will bring about al ECONOMY RECOMMENDS OU will find Barrymore Ml. Guaranteed Rugsin Canada's finest homes, and in the homes of folks of modest means. See Barrymores . . . 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