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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., JULY 28, 1938 Of Special Interest to Women Readers THE AVENGER by Walter Forder CHAPTER XXIII The Unseen Speaker The silence that fell as Benson faced the deserted door after his fusillade of sTiots became at last unbearable. Whimpering and slobbering with fear, the ex-gangster, now a picture cf abject funk, shuffled from his cover afforded by the various articles of furniture, he wormed his way to the door. Finally, and with the last ebbing of his courage, he leapt into the passage. "D'yer hear? -- come out!" His bellowing evoked no response and the silence frightened him now more than some possible apparition. Now he took a lighted table-lamp and, holding it high above his head his pistol ready in the other hand, he passed slowly down the corri- He approached a closed door, one giving admission to the drawing room. Pressing the door with his foot, he opened it and let the light of,the lamp flood within. Everything was normal; nothing to give him the slightest alarm, he began to tell himself that the footsteps he had heard were tricks of his disordered imagination. When ............ o Start ying The lamp almost fell frc grasp, and his heart gave a great leap. The old grand piano, which he had installed for appearances, was playing! He leaned against the wall, neither daring to move forward nor back -- held spellbound by the sound of an old cracked and rattling piano. From where he stood he looked over the end, but the keyboard, although away from him, had no figure or person visible. He knew that tune -- what was it? Queer, flamboyant chords, some-think like a march. He racked his brain for a time without result. Then suddenly he recognised the refrain. The music was that which had ushered in and closed a popular ericai iville ago. He could never forget that; it was impressed upon his brain for ever. He had last listened to it as he crouched with two other gangsters in a dressing-room of a music hall in Syracuse. He knew it now, the strange medley of pompous march and gloomy despair which was queerly imparted to the air. The piano was playing it. He laughed -- a cracked noise as the melody rose and died away He Lived For One Object There came a soft thul behind the piano, and a lean, c.isshapen figure reared from out of the shad- "You!" Benson gasped. "Yes, I. Years ago, Bei son, and your cut-throats ki'let my ther, wantonly, for.yor.r own i dering ends of gangdom. You me, too, and left me for dead. I lived! I lived for one object o: to hound you, the infernal th to your graves. I swore by graveside of my brothe ■ tha would exact life for life. The vith i cuse, in- that dead, and now to-nigb join them." "Then you're real -- man, and not a spirit! piano; that playing -- "Merely one of my hall tricks, Benson. I ng-r the i and p;aj reversed keybt evoked the applause cf i theatres, but never did I better effect than to-night ' "Ha, ha, ha." The Scaract laughing with fiendish glee. "You've beer., breaking i u down with your fool tricks,' music beneath i, it has 'rowded play to YOUR I BABY at Teething Time? %2££«/w, POWDERS ^M*/or the double EE symbol on ra.b Hactage. ed Benson. "You music hall mountebank, you paltry mime; it is you that's been potting at us in the dark. Well, clown, you have missed the final throw." Tongues of Fire Two reports rang out, two tongues of fire split the dusky light. Benson turned slightly on one side with a queer twist. High pitched laughter rang out and the Scarecrow seemed to tower in his shoes, his bones cracked and cracked, visibly he grew. The old-time antics asserted themselves. Strangely quiet, Benson stood swaying ever s.o slightly. i'Who are you?" he muttered. "What are you?" "I was a peaceful man, but your thoughtless creed of gangdom has made of me what you see, one who lives for vengeance, one who can count three victims upon his hands. I have lived for this moment, Benson, I have dreamed of this mom- "We left you for dead," Benson clutched at a chair back and stared at the awful figure before him. "Are you human?" huskily demanded Benson. "So human that I needed this," he flourished his revolver, "to bal- and steady, The voice was i certainly not the shot. His eyes in the flickering lamp-light appeared to Benson to blaze with an uncanny illumination. His face was thrust forward and his neck tecame unnaturally long. No Ordinary Weapon Benson's nerveless hand let the revolver fall. It fell to the ground unheeded "Listen, Benson," the sibilant voice continued. "I kill with no ordinary weapons, I shoot with no ordinary ; 1 it. I have studied the craft of my calling -- magic. Even now the bullet which slightly has scratched your body as I intended, is doing the work I planned. Already the tcxin is coursing through your blood. The price will be paid before the night has passed, a long account n pay. Benson, and a big price is exacted. Cranston stared at his withering victim. Upon that man a change had fallen. Once again the dogged self-assertiveness had gone, the pugnacious jaw had dropped and it was chattering. He whimpered again in mortal fear as the poison sown in his own blood by the doped bullet broke down resistance and reason. "Listen, Mysticus -- listen. I've gotta pile, a good pile -- I'll let you in. Call it quits. After all your brother was a yellow dog. He left us in funk, our price for quittin' was death. He had to go. You stepped in and tried to stall us -- so you -- died too." Too Late His words cloyed upon his lips as he spoke, their enormity became for the moment apparent and he faltered. To his maddened brain the man before him was a ghoul and he was powerless, helpless to avert his coming doom. Then mercifully the brain snapped beneath the strain, and blackness swooping down, the virtual end of the gangster came like a blissful dream after the torture of Over the floor a wicked stream of flame crept from the lamp which fell from his hand, the oil, like a tongue of living flame parted outward and licked dry draperies and Underwood furniture. It was a lurid scene through which the gaunt form of The Avenger stooped and picked up the fallen man. Striding over the flames, he bore aloft the bulky figure of the gangster with ease. Only just in time did he quit the room, for the silence which followed was broken by the crashing of a door and the splintering of woodwork. The sergeant, with Hunter closely at his heels, darted into the corridor. "Quick, there's fire somewhere." He detected a shadowy figure at the far end of the passage and he darted ahead, only to meet the blankness of a panelled wall. "He's beaten us. The Avenger late." i gotte Hell On Earth There are 1,465 people in Hell and they have a dance every Saturday night. Hell never gets much above 86 degrees Fahrenheit, and it freezes every winter. It's a town in Norway. n of Yugoslavia are wear-: silk than they did last Intelligent Care Preserves Pearls They Can Be Kept Lovely For Generations--Heat or Grease Ruins Them Pearls must be given intelligent care. Heat and perspiration, grease and acids quickly ruin valuable gems. Pearls should be strung with knots between them as the edges of the holes should not touch each other. Pearls should not be dropped or thrown carelessly on the dressing table. They should be re-strung every three months if worn frequently and the string upon which they are strung should never be allowed to become wet. When not worn, pearls should be kept in a closed jewel box and they should be wiped to remove dust and perspiration after use. With care, pearls will retain their lovely lustre for many generations. All great families have their family necklaces. The peculiar beauty of the pearl has great charm for the woman of culture, and although many clever and even beautiful imitations have been made during the last two thousand years, not one has approached the beauty of the true PEACHES At Their Best PEACH JAM AND JELLY likes standing < No hot stove for hours waiting for jelly and jam to boil to the stage where it will be of the right texture to set properly. And yet used to do this every ,-ith practically all the fruits. It was because these fruits lacked the jellying substance, pectin, so they didn't have any other way of doing the job. The modern cook just adds the right amount of bottled fruit pectin and in no time has a delicious batch of jam or jelly with a marvelous flavor and color. This boon to housekeepers is the result of the work of two brothers named Douglas. And it was a red letter day in the life of all cooks when these two men learned how to extract pectin from fruits which had plenty of it and prepare it for use with fruits that lacked it. Here are the recipes for ripe peach jam and jelly, using the bottled pectin "short boil" method. You can use the ripest'peaches, peaches at the height of their perfection, and still be sure of A Laura Wheeler Jiffy Knit Square Even Beginners Will Love KNITTED SQUARE PATTERN 1820 -a priceless gem! Here's one of squares, so Done on 2 large needles with 2 strands of rg or decreasing. You'll be pleased with it! A hand-knit spr easy, anyone can kn string, there's no int Pattern 1820 contains directions for making the square; illustrations of it and of stitches; materials required; photograph of square. Send 20 cents in coins (stamps cannot be accepted) for this pattern to Wilson Needlecraft Dept., 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto. Write plainly pattern number, your name and address. Household Hints A warmed-up roast often loses its moisture. If you wrap it in grease-proof paper that has been greased heavily before you put the roast in the oven, it will re-heat a better flavor and be juicier than if heated in the ordinary way. Milk won't boil over if you smear some butter on the edge of the pot or saucepan in which you are boiling the milk. It will rise only to the rim of butter, and no further. Keep a piece of sandpaper by you; it is useful for smoothing the surface of chipped china or glass ornaments. These can then be handled safely without risk of cutting the fingers on rough edges. Sandpaper will also smooth down chipped wood on a shelf or a piece of furniture, and so prevent damage from splinters. Sprinkle the damp leaves from your teapot over the bottom of the pan in which fish has been cooked, cover with cold water and stand in a cool place for half an hour. When the saucepan is rinsed out there will be no smell left behind. Cleaning utensils used for making pastry and cakes is always considerable work, but it won't be if you take this tip: Rinse bowls as soon as you're finished with them in cold water to remove flour, dough or batter, then plunge into hot, soapy water and wash in usual way. If you want to make a lightning job of damping down the clothes before ironing, try this scheme. Light the gas in your oven and place a piedish of warm water in it. Roughly roll all the garments to be damped and place them on the shelf above the piedish. In a few minutes the gentle steaming heat will have done the job. Mint jelly goes well with lamb, spiced peaches with beef, pickled apples or apricots with baked ham, apple sauce with pork, preserved melon rinds with chicken and currant or plum jelly with A round whisk broom is a handy agent for dampening clothes evenly and quickly. When making ice cream at home, try adding a drop of peppermint flavoring to chocolate or pineapple ice cream. To utilize small soap scraps, put in a jar of warm water and allow to dissolve into a soft soap or, if dry, grate them into soap granules on a coarse cheese grater. Fasten a piece of felt to the underside of the tray you use for serving on the dining table. This will save those disfiguring scratches that will appear frem time to time, however careful you are. The idea also makes serving much quieter. The best way to fasten the felt is either with brass headed carpet tacks or brass drawing One of the most annoying accidents one can have is to upset scent on the dressing-table. If it does happen rub stains with methylated spirit and then immediately polish with linseed oil, the stains --even those of quite long standing--can be removed by this method. If you've a bad headache just as you're making tea, lean over the pot of a freshly-made tea and inhale the fumes through your nose. Your headache should go. Dumpling Divorce In St. Louis, Mo., a man wanted a divorce because his wife's dumplings struck to the roof of his mouth. getting jam and jelly of the right consistency. RIPE PEACH JAM 3% cups (1% lbs.) prepared fruit IV* cups (SVi lbs.) sugar 1 bottle fruit pectin. To prepare fruit, peel about IVz lbs. fully ripe fruit. Grind or chop very fine. If desired, about 3 teaspoons spice may be added. Measure sugar and prepared fruit, tightly packed, into large kettle, mix well, and bring to a full rolling boil over hottest fire. Stir constantly before and while boiling. Boil hard 1 minute. Remove kettle from fire and stir in bottled pectin. Then stir and skim by turns for just 5 minutes to cool jam slightly, to prevent floating fruit. Pour quickly. Paraffin at once. Makes about ten glasses (6 fluid ounces each). Peach Jelly 3 cups {IVz lbs.) juice 6% cups (2% lbs.) sugar 1 bottle fruit pectin. To prepare juice, remove pits from about 3% pounds peaches. Do not peel. Crush peaches thoroughly. Add % cup water, bring to a boil, cover and simmer five minutes. Place fruit in jelly cloth or bag and squeeze out juice. Measure sugar and juice into large saucepan and mix. Bring to a boil over hottest fire and at once add pectin, stirring constantly. Then bring to a full rolling boil and boil hard Vz minute. Remove from fire, skim, pour quickly. Paraffin and cover. Makes about 9 glasses (6 fluid ounches each). NUT COOKIES % cup butter Vz cup white sugar % cup milk 2 eggs % cup Bee Hive White Corn syrup lVz tsps. baking powder Vz tsp. salt Grated rind one lemon 2 cups flour Chopped nuts. Cream : butter, add sugar, beat, add one whole egg and one yolk (saving one white for top) add syrup, beat, add milk and rind then add dry ingredients sifted together and mix thoroughly. A little more flour may be needed. Drop on buttered tins and brush tops with slightly beaten egg white and sprinkle with chopped nuts. Bake at 350 degrees 10 to 15 minutes. Makes approximately three dozen. Matriarchies Seen Arising Absence of Father-Influence In Many Homes Tends Too Much to Rule by Women Exclusively. Families in which the father commutes to work often develop into matriarchies which threaten the children's "healthy emotional maturity," a feminine educationist said last week at New York. Dr. Caroline B. Zachry, director of research for the Progressive Education Association, said the absence of the father-influence in many such homes subjected grow-, ing children to too much feminine dominance. Undue Feminine Influence "Girls frequently find it difficult to adjust to masculine relationships and boys show submissive attitudes due to the dominance of mothers and woman teachers," Dr. Zachry Mystery Letter Linguistic experts in Imperial Airways' foreign correspondence department were baffled by a letter received by the air line. It was in a strange foreign dialect with which none of them were acquainted. Thinking it was from a prospective passenger, Imperial Airways had it translated, at a cost of $25, by a firm specializing in little-known languages. Written in an obscure Slavian dialect"it said: "I beg to apply for a position w^ith your company as a laborer." WHEN IN TORONTO lto. Hour's tour thro' Castle. ____ •, tunnel, stables, art galleries, and ironation room special exhibits and luvenirs. See "The Fall of Nine- Issue No. 31--'38 Use MEMBA-SEALS Clear as glass. Beautify your Jams and Jellies. Packetof 25 Seals complete 10c, at al I grocers, d rugg ists and 10c stores. IE Expert Advice On Eyebrows Pluck Only Hairs That Are Definitely Out of Line Too many girls look as if they hadn't Jiked their eyebrows and did the wrong things about them. If you don't like yours, here is some expert advice from the August issue of McCall's on what to do, and what not to do: too light? amp brush. Then brush hairs traight up, and shape to a better ine. Pencil ends lightly; Don't eyebrow pencil alone t artificial line on your brows. Don't pluck any hairs except those that are definitely out of line. Don't use black mascara when your brows demand a brown shade to blend. Apply Antiseptic "Are your eyebrows too heavy? Pluck them carefully--or have it done expertly--at least once a week. First, hold cotton wet with hot water against eyebrows. Tweeze grows. Apply antiseptic. Brush smooth. Don't pluck your eyebrows non- pull 1 :i in bunches, or against the dir which the hair gro' scraggly hairs grow Round Faces Look Longer If Proper Placing of Powder, Rouge, Lipstick and Eye-Shadow Is Done. mp; you have a good s feeling I This s long as you width at the breadth of yoi carefully into . sudden edges i fairly high on y Mir hair up and off ist within the lip Ii Oh Boy! * Mom lets me sweeten my / cereal 1 with BEE HIVE I Syrup, TRY IT TOMORROW