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THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1928 TIN NY IN 2 HE TIGER TRAIL =i p CHAPTER XI It was after nine when faa of a lantern across in clouds were in the ky, the moon had not yet whole wilderness world was blotted out by the shadow, and the soft © light over the water brought a { a queer flood of thoughts, 1 its proach, At the moment it ¢H 3 the only reminder that life still existed about this great, k estate of the Southleys, Wit out it, it might have seemed a realm of death, where human beings never came. And besides, the great Alexander Pierce was returning from his e ition, and I did not know but that this gleam across the wastes was the reaking of the light of truth in' the darkness: I heard a step behind me. Inspector Freeman. : "I see he's coming just at the time he promised," he said with a note of wonder, The boat drew up to the shore, and the colored men got out to make it fast. The lantern light was dim, and I could not see plainly. It seem- ed to me that something was huddled in the bottom of the boat---some- thing rather large--but I couldn't see what it was because a rubber tar- aulin had been thrown over it, But did see Alexander's face. He held the lantern up to look at us, and it showed his features plainly, He seemed curiously intent, We walked up the path, and three shadows made black, streaks across the light that the lantern threw, They were of the three Southleys, who had come out of the house to meet us, They also seemed grave, determined, Something gleamed in the old man's hand. 1 Alexander held the_ lantern high saw what it was. It was a high, 1 "What's this?" I tie asked. "Vila's pistol," Southley replied, "You told me to get it." "How did you do it without arous- ing suspicion?" "Took it from the drawer in the library table, He keeps it there in the daytime, Usually carries it at night, Ernest and 1 left him with the excuse that we had to talk some of the colored laborers at their cottages. Josephine just slipped away." Alexander turned to Ernest, "How about the candles?' "Two burning in the library, All the others have been misplaced, as you :directed," "And the servants?" It was 339] jou prom "No one in the house but Ahmad." The tor suddenly gasped. "But I t on that isn't safe," he "He el get away. Alexander, ised to keep a watch out He'll be get to i WY house." hy | promised I'd see that he didn't run away," Alexander answered wearily, "He'll be there when we come. Don't fear, inspector." He turned to the others. "Then every- thing is ready. Miss Southley--if vou will go with Inspector Freeman, His arm 1s strong and his aim sure. Southley, you and Ernest can take the south windows. You, Long will be an unprejudiced witness. But you've got to know how to walk sil- ently." "I know how. in the West." I've stalked deer be gone when we | slo "Maybe you can understand after this," she whispered. Perhaps you won't condemn me so." . Then like a squad deploying in battle holy statted climbing up the of the h We soon left the others in the darkness, Alexander and J crept to the postern door. "One sound will spoil the play," he whispered to me in the instant that we waited at its threshold. "Keep your ears and eyes open." Then we crept through into the little hall. The door into the library was open, but scarcely any light came through. So deep was the shadow that Alexander was at once invisible. We lay down on the opposite sides of the hall, so that we could look through into the library. But : . Just as the Shadows fell a hand touched mine , . , "Good, Then you'll come with me. And now--out goes the light." He lifted the lantern and turned down the wick. Then he blew out the flame, Of course I understood. In our present position at the base of the hill, it would not be visible from the windows of the house, It would be visible as we approached the house. And just as the shadows hand touched mine, It was a warm hand, and soft, and the fingers rested a single fluttering instant in my palm. It was a little hand, too, and I had in a single instant of never-to-be-for- gotten knowledge of its power to soothe and hold, and a tenderness be- And I knew fell a yond all reckoning. whose hand it was. we left the passage open, as Alex- ander had instructed. The reason was simply that he thought the man we had come to watch might want to make an escape through the doorway, and it would have spoiled the plan for him to see us on the way out. Lying close to the walls, it was likely he would pass us by, But after one glance through the doorway I felt sure that no such attempt would he made. The dark- ness of the hillside where Hayward had died would, in this man's mind, seem' more terrible thar the room itself. The library at Southley Downs was tremendously long. It had rows of windows at one end, and the other opened into the hall. 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The wind was blow- now, We could feel it, damp strange irom the marsh, against og fas hat Vilas Hayward en that Vilas sat alone 1 yl not mean that there were no other occupants in the room. There was one other, and it is true that at first 1 didn't see im at all. He kept at the very edge of the candlelight, and he moved so softly, so unobtrusively that it was very easy to vere his presence. It was Ahmad Da A white tage is always compara- tively visible in dim light. That is why solders going on to No Man's Land at night darkened their faces with lamp-black. But Ahmad's face was naturally dark, and it blurred in our sight. Sometimes I saw the whites of his eyes when the candle- light shone on them. Vilas Hayward was not trying to read; and the fact that the light was too dim for easy reading had nothing really to do with it. He was watching Ahmad Das out of the corner of his eyes. The lighting effect was one in which a great artist would have re- joiced. It was yellow and dim, of course; and perhaps it had a quality of unreality, The atmosphere of candles at any time is distinctly me- dieval. Then there was the grada- tion of shadows--dusky close to the fireplace, but shading off to a deep, intense black. The light from the two candles met at the very extremi- ties, leaving a dusky path between. Vila's head and shoulders cast a dis- tinct shadow on the wall, blurred, however, by the effect of a candle across the room. The shadow thrown by Ahmad was something gliding and dusky and dim against the curtains of the windows. (To be continued) PRINCE GREETED BY NATIVES OF UGANDA Squadrons of Barbaric Can. oes Escort the Royal * Steamer Yampala, Uganda, Africa, Oct. 19.--The war canoes of the Uganda navy, which have not changed in character for 1.000 years and man- ned by Sese Islanders, sailed out into Lake Victoria, Nayansea, Monday to welcome the Prince of Wales to their shores. The steamer Clement Hill, on which the heir to the British Throne travelled the last two miles of his voyage to Entebhet, the capital of Uganda, from Kenya Colony, was escorted by squadrons of harbaric canoes in which sat natives who sang, beat drums, brandished spears, and roared out a tumultuous welcome, More than 1,600 warriors from the eight inhabited Islands formea the crews of 250 canoes of all siz- es, The welcome took the form of a sham attack, But instead of act. ual conflict of battle came a vocif- erous shout of welcome from the crews, adding to the noise hy beat- ing their paddles against the sides of their craft and blowing native horns, The men took their regular stations for battle and when the Clement Hill came abreast of them darted out with deafening clamor to intercept her. In a moment they had surrounded the Prince's ship and were singing the traditional war songs in swarms about the steamer as the Prince interestedly watohed their manoeuvers. Then the escort settled down to paddle along with the steamer, Greeted By Governor, Bir William Gowers, Governor of Uganda, went aboard the Cle- ment Hill to greet the Prince, who after preliminary words of greet- ing stepped ashore amid a din of shouting and horn blasts. On land- ing several presentations were made, among them being Kabaka I, King of Uganda. The Prince in- spected a party of world war yeter- ans and reviewed the guard of hon- or darwn from the fourth battalion of the King's African Rifles, Many presents were given the Prince as signs of loyalty and good will, These included photographs of the local potenates. The natives bestowed upon the Prince the title of "Toto Ya Georgia," the son of George. All through the journey through Entebbet to the Govern- ment House, the Prince was enthus- iasticaly cheered by gaily dressed natives. N, F. WOMAN RESCUES BIRD Boston, Oct. 19.--Mrs., Evelyn Woodbine, of St. John, N. F. has attracted considerable attention by her action in rescuing a carrier pigeon from the torture of a crowd of heedless boys. The pigeon, be- lieved to have been worn out by a long journey, wore bands bearing the following identification: AU28 and LGS180. Unable to locste the owner, Mrs. Woodbine shaoun- ced she will take her Sathered guest to St. Johns, when site for that city in the near hitb She is at present visiting her broth- er here. The boys, according to Mrs, Woodbine, had the pigeon on a piece of string. The harried bird would fly to the end of the cord and then tumble to. the ground. Since 'Mrs. Woodbine has become its keeper the bird has become 2a willing prisoner. SAYS NOMEN HAVE A PREFERENCE FOR THE PROFESSIONS Females Don't Like Farm- ing or Housework, But Like Clerical Work Best Winipes, Man., Oct. 19.-- Ken- of "Women's place on the Pay Roll" says: At the Pacific Women's conference of recent date Mary Anderson, direc- tor of the Federal Women's Bur- eau of the United States, save an address in which she surveyed the trend of women into gainful occu pations, "When the census was tak- en in 1920 we found, contrary to all expectations, that there had been only a small increase since 1910 in the number of women gainfully employed," she disclosed, "The significance of this period lay, instead in the trend of women's employment. Women had declined materfally in the agricultural pursuits, The decline in domes- tic and personal service was about 14 per cent women in professions had increased about 39 per cent, women in trade about 43 per cent. and women in clerical work 140 per cent. It is perhaps mot surprising to note that almost an identical devel- opment went on on this side of the line during those years. The Cana- da year hook 1927-28, sets out that in 1921 15 per cent of the female population over 10 years of age was gainfully employed. It was found that the tendency of women to attach themselves to pay envel- opes was increasing, "though the increase in percentage between 1911-1921 1s not so great as be- tween 1901-1911." During the last named decade women in domestic service had decreased from 38 per cent. of the total employed, to 27 per cent. and in professions had in- creased from 13 per cent to 20 per cent. The proportional percentage of those engaged in agriculture had declined from 4 per cent. to 3 per cent and in manufacturing from 26 per cent, to 21 per cent, Good Savers Women, the American report showed, spend 85 per cent of the annual payroll across the line and influence the spending of 10 per cent. more 85 per cent. of all sav- ings bank accounts are in women's names. There is no survey of which we know of women as cheque writers in Canada, except that afforded by observation and by the testimony ut the stores that the overwhelming majority of their customers are wo- men, But the statistics tables do in- dicate that women here are finding their way to the banks and the oth- er financial houses as employees, the proportional percentage thus engaged having increased from 0.75 per cent, in 19811, to 3.08 per cent, in 1021, DEFT WIELDER OF THE SHEARS WILL LIVE IN TORONTO Famous Viennese Artist Will Shortly Marry To- ronto Professor Toronto, Ont., Oct. 19.--A pair of scissors and a sheet of black pap- er has made a young woman inter- nationally famous, and this city has welcomed the news that the Vien- nese artist, Lisl Hummel, deft wiel- der of the shears, is to live here in future, She is at present visiting her sister, Mrs. L, Simon, and will be nmarried hefore very long to Dr. Henry Borsook, Ph. D.,, a member of the Medical Faculty of Toronto University. He is engaged in re- search work in biochemistry, but is also known In dramatic circles for his plays. One of them, a very realistic sketoh of Jewish Life, was put on at Hart House Theatre: The Three Weddings of a Hunch Back", Toronto has another inter- est In Miss Hummel's work, for it was she who illustrated "Toy Ships", child poems by Florence Steiner, a well known member of the Canadian Women's Press Club, Toronto Branch. The development of the selssor- cutsilhouette, which has won uni- versal acelaim for Miss Hummel, hag been exemplified in such hooks as "The Heart of London", (H. V. Morton) and in "The Rose Fyle- man Calendar," Letty", and "A Little Christmas Book" hy the lat- ter puthor, 'The Good Natured Bear", (Home), "The Little Pagan Taun" (Chalmers), and many Eng- lish, American and Continental magazines bear her illustrations, Miss Hummel is at present work- ing on a book to be published in the United States this season: "Poems about Peter", by Lvsheth Boyse Borie, The New York Forum re- cently arranged a competition for the best poems written around her silhouettes, this being won by Tris- tram Coffitt: the book is to be fs- sued shortly. CANCER RESPONDS T0 NEW RADIUM Insertion of Radium Needles Gives Some En- couraging Results London, g Oct. 19.-- A new technique for the application of ra- dium for the oben of cancer was reported at the Quarterly court of the governora of the lomdon Honpitag 3 recently, The committee wished to emphasize that in rve- porting that to the governors thay were not announcing a eure for the dread disease. The radium for this particular method of treatment is mounted in the form of needles, The needles in appearance are sim- flar to gramaphone needles. They are of platinum and hollow and contain from two to six milligram. mes of radium each, The new technique which has been in use on the continent, at Brussels in particular for some time past, consists in inserting a number of needles containing rad- funy all round the cancerous growth The needles remmin there for vary- ing times, general five days, and in favorable cases the growth is not only destroyed, but {is prevented from spreading to the surrounding tissues. A large number of needles are required in fact a¥ many as 40 are used in treating a case of cancer of the hreast.. The commit- tee said it could be stated that in many cases the results were most encouraging. 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