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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBGlRNE, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25th, 1937 is delicious Star Ruby By Louise Jerrold Albertine Tevans, shopgirl, falls love with Dennis Maxwell, jewellery salesman, but is bothered by his i terious actions. He speaks ono being on the lookout for a man with a drooping eyelid. Albertine's righ great-aunt Celia Tevans invites he for a visit. Before she leaves, Denni gives her a star ruby to keep for hin At her aunt's estate are two other guests--Countess Yelena Loupakoff and her brother, Count Michael. Then, Dennis arrives to show some rubies to Aunt Celia. He makes Alberti pretend they are strangers to each other, and pays ardent attention to the Countess. The houseman, Bates, who always wears dark glasses, gets drunk one evening, and Albertine catches him without his glasses on. He has a drooping eyelid! In the middle of that night, she hears a scuffle in Denny's room. CHAPTER IX A light suddenly showed from beneath Denny's closed door. Then Albertine heard his voice. "Sorry, old man," he was saying, "but you'll agree that it was the' natural thing for me to do when I found id, and Count Mich-to the hall. He Jatighed The door opei ael backed out : "Last week in New on a hotel fire-escape, ruefully. "This sleep-walking habit will be the death of me yet." Dennis appeared in the doorway. "It might easily have been that tonight. I pack a wallop." Michael nursed his cheek. "What is it you Americans say--you're tell- Albertine stole back to her room unnoticed. When, at last, she was in bed, a thought struck her. With rubies worth a fortune in his keeping, Yelena's low mocking laugh, out in the hall, awakened her next morning. Then she heard Dennis' deep voice, heard the two pass along the hall. Albertine jumped out of bed, and began to dress feverishly. She decided to visit her aunt's room before going down to breakfast. Bates, sober but pallid, was adjusting Aunt Celia's breakfast rack as she entered tiie room. "Bates," the old lady was saying, "I shall be very much interested in your explanation for not answering my bell last night." * The Countess asked me to take her driving for an hour.'* "It was for longer than an hour, wasn't it, Bates?" Albertine inquired, from just inside the doorway. He turned his head quickly, but made no answer. He bent over Aunt Celia's tray and deftly poured cream into her coffee. "Bates," Aunt Celia said irritably, "take off those dark glasses! I can't stand them when you're fussing over things this close to me!" He dropped two lumps of sugar into her cup. "Will there be anything else, madam?" he inquired. "You heard my aunt," Albertine ike off those closed on him before she whispered, "That was to confuse him in case he heard you telling me the combination. My numbers would drive yours out of his head." "Poppycock! Eates is a houseman, not a burglar. Eat your breakfast, and then see if you can remember how to open the safe." But when Albertine later pushed aside the old tapestry piece that concealed the safe, it was already open! How careless of Aunt Celia, or--she caught her breath--someone else. Aunt Celia mustn't know, was her instant thought. With her back to her aunt, she went through the motions of spinning the dial, then swung the little door wide open. "Very good," Aunt Celia approved. "Now, take away my tray, and put the jewels here on the breakfast rack.'" Albertine saw the long black jew case still in the safe. But were tl jewels still there? She brought the case to the bed, and had a tense moment of suspense while Aunt Celia's thin old fingers fumbled for the "My pretties." murmured Aunt Celia, and Albertfne breathed again. "Aren't they lovely, my dear? I want you to find that Mr. Maxwell and send him up here. Tell him to bring the rubies with him." Albertine found Dennis with Yelena in the rose garden. Good morning!" she called gaily. Too gaily, she realized. 'I'm sorry to interrupt, but Aunt Celia wants to see Mr. Maxwell." Yelena lifted her eyebrows, then started toward the house with Dennis. But he paused beside Albertine, letting Y'elena go on alone. "I must see you, Blue Eyes," he hispered urgently. "Walk as far as the fountain with me." out the'housr "Alber ) something els --something yc glasses, I will!" She reached out and snatched the glasses from his eyes. Bates blinked. "Poppycock!" Aunt Celia exclaimed, squinting up at him. "I can't see a thing wrong with y But Albertine did. "I shouldn't have done that," she s; "That is quite all righ All ■ning, "Better. Better. Well enough for drive this afternoon. Would you e to come along?" •I'd--I'd love to," Albertine stamped, remembering the request Den-had made of her. been thinking," Aunt Celia an-ounced, sipping her orange juice, that you should know the combina-on of that safe of mine. Just in case Dmething sho-:!ci happen to me soon-r than we expect." "!' •Please--" Alberti] Listen carefully-ee to the right, s begatt. must do if I'm to put this deal across with your aunt. I want the combination of her safe." Albertin shrank away from him. "Denny!" she gasped. He put a finger silently beneath her chin and lifted her face. "Don't you trust me?" he asked. "But--there is so much that I do not understand. It--it isn't just a matter of trusting you. It's like breaking faith with Aunt Celia. As a mat-of fact, she did tell me the combin->n of the safe not more than thirty He gripped her shoulder excitedly. Think it over, darling! I respect our reason--but think it over! And s I asked you last night, get her out of the house tot- an hour or more today--" are going driving--this after-Albertine said slowly. "Oh, Denny, can't you tell me what all this stery is about?" 'It isn't a mystery--it's a game, game that I'm out to win!" he replied and was gone. (To be continued) Another's Misfortune, Another's Gc$n How one industry sometimes'■j fits from the difficulties of anffl has been demonstrated recentiq Southern California in intelj^^" fashion, observes the Gait Repor :er. The orange-growing areas of C ali f ornia have experienced danger* us-ly low temperatures this winter i nd, in the efforts to keep frost away from the blossoms, the owners] of plantations have restored to m my kinds of artificial heat-throwjers. But the most convenient and effective contraption is the oil pot. During 20 days of dangerous weather a total of four million barrels of oil were used to heat the orchards. That is more than twice the total oil production in Canada in a year. It is not impressive as regards production in the United States. It would mean about one and one-third day's production in the States but it all helps in the total output. The assumption seems to be that oranges are going to pensive as a result of these winter costs in the producing It is said that the prices have advanced ten cents However, the regions oranges can be grown nearer to Canada than ei because of the rapid transpot presently available. While S] gone into eclipse as supply, such .countries rica and Palestine are potent porters to Canada. I that price increases, becaus California frost difficultie; come so serious as to great the supply. Says Job Sordid For Girl Typists Head Policewoman Doesn't Think Police Jcb Just The Thing DETROIT.--Six sweet young typists supplied by the National Youth Administration to work jn the Police Department Women's Division are getting experience, as is the intention of the National Youth Act, but Miss eanore Hutzel, head policewom feels that it isn't the right kind. "These young women have been tremely helpful," she said recently, "but they are all under 25 and that makes it difficult. Some of the ports on crime that have to be typed in the Women's Division are rather sordid. Naturally, with girls so young, we have to pick assignments for them and this makes it difficult." Miss Hutzel has asked the Mayor for an appropriation for one ma stenographer to take the places of the City Boy to Farm Even in such a young country Canada urban development has in apace and already there is a g< er'ation which does not know much about farm life. Kitchener school pupils have been started on interesting tours, parties of them being taken to farms and dairies as part of their school work. Thus they will discover really where milk and eggs conic from and not as one city bdy figured from egg plants and bottles.--Niagara Falls Review. Stunning Monogram imple To Do From Laura Wheeler Alphabet ! ALPHABET PATTERN 1413 It's easy as A B C--this embroidering hankies, blouses and scarfs, as well as your household linens, with graceful initials. Work out your own stunning monogram from the three, different-sized alphabets. Only lazy-daisy and outline stitch are used, plus a bit of silk or cotton floss. Pattern 1413 contains a transfer pattern of an alphabet 33,i inches high, one 2% inches high and on 1% inches high; information for placing initials and mcnograms; illustrations of all stitches used. Send 20 cents in coin for this pattern to Needlecraft Dept., Wilson Publishing Co., 73 Adelaide West, Toronto, Ont. Write plainly PATTERN NUMBER, your NAME and ADDRESS. Yellow Journalism Writes the Manchester Guardi For the second time this week the Home Secretary was asked in Parliament whether he could take any steps to end the increasing intru of the press on the private affair citizens and the frequent exph tion of the grief of the bereave the interests of a "story." It is miliating to English -journalism that such questions should have to be asked. When Colonel Lindbergh and his family were driven from the United States by the pestering of the "tabloid" press, English journalism promised him immunity from such attentions here, and, after the first excite-eift of his arrival, gave it him. To-ly a section of it is falling ever farther into the habit of sensationaising of its own citi- --the obscure inent, if only son xtracted from lousness as great a journalism o s well 3 "sob stuff" can them--with a cal-any that the "yel-any other coun- The Japanese have the strongest hearts in the world, reports a committee established to study national health conditions after the army comas deteriorating physically. Only one Japanese in 100,000 dies tntially of heart disease, the com-ittee says, as compared to eight America, England and Italy and Writing Book On Keeping War Gas From Houses LONDON-- A detailed handbook on how to protect private houses against gas attacks "is in an advanced state of preparation," Geoffrey Lloyd, Parliamentary Under Secretary for the Home Office, told the Houseof Commons recently. In response to questions concerning the protection of citizens from gas, Lloyd declared :--§jM[ "The adaption of rooms and, other places as air raid shelters would for the most part, be carried out when the risk of an air attack appeared "Information on steps to be taken is contained, as regards industrial purposes, in a handbook for factories and business purposes already published by the Air Raid Precautions Department. "In regard to private dv.eliit,»s. a certain amount of information has already been given in a handbook REUNION of1 BRITISH FAMILIES We are prepared to advance terest or other^charges) to British people desiring to bring out to Canada their wives, families, relatives or Apply for particulars to nearjft britTsTFominionjs emigration society t Fia . Protection Against called " Gas." Lloyd revealed that two regional stations capable of storing 4,000,-000 gas masks had already been createi in London and Manchester as part of the Government's campaign to equip all citizens with gas masks. Eleven similar stations will be built elsewhere, in addition to a series of local stations capable of storing 35,000 masks. A bill to raise the re-enlistment period of array volunteers from one years to five was laid before the House. Woman's World By Mair M. Morgan Famous in a Famous Hotel The exiled Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia has decided to enter his 8-year-old son, Prince Makonnen, in King's College at Taunton, Devonshire, England. Issue No. 9 -- '37 Don't misunderstand--its the upper crust of society we were talking about and Coconut Carmel Pie is right at home in one of New York's most famous hotels where smart people meet amid beautiful surroundings. It is a very populat dessert among cosmopolitan people who know and love good food and it will be just as popular in your own Here is the recipe as given by the paftry chief of this well-known hotel and you can't go wrong if y follow his rules. However, there one point on which he insists--that you use the right kind of coconut. It .'an be either southern style or premium s'lied coconut, but it must be well ; ackaged and come to you tender and moist. Picture it, crisp, pastry, russet-gold caramel custard, fluffy whipped cream and cool, tender shreds of coconut to top it off! Coconut Caramel Pie % cup sugar 5 tablespoons flour XA teaspoon salt 2 cups milk 3 egg yolks, slightly beaten 1-3 cup sugar, caramelized 1 tablespoon butter % teaspoon vanilla 1 baked 9-inch pie shell Vz cup cream, whipped and sweetened % cup coconut. Combine" sugar, flour, and 'salt in top of double boiler; add milk and egg yolks, mixing thoroughly. Place over rapidly boiling water and cook 10 minutes, stirring constantly. Remove from fire, but allow to remain over hot water. Caramelize sugar by placing 1-3 cup sugar in iron skillet over a medium flame and stirring constantly until melted and straw-colored. Add at once to thickened mixture, stirring until blended; add butter and vanilla. Cool. Turn into pie shell. Garnish with a ring of whipped cream and sprinkle cream with coconut. Helpful Hints To keep chamois gloves nice and soft after washing them, add a tea-spoonful of olive oil to the water when washing them. To sew a button on a garment, when it is subjected to excessive FREE! 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They are easy to remove, and will keep their shape much better than if co.ried z\ose together in a baking tin-To take proper care jf the window sash cords, to make tiem wear longer, and also to maxe the window raise and lower easier, dust, the cords occasionally, then nib with a well-greased cloth. To protect the forefinger from stains, as well as cuts, when necessary to pare a large quantity of fruit or vegetables, wrap a strip of j adhesive tape around the forefinger.; The best kjnd of duster to use for' plush and mohair furniture is a-chamois wrung out of cold water. Testimonial :h was giwng a dinner-party to MM$ i'ij celebrate the occa-- e bought a duck from an old l who was famed for the birds' ared on her farm, the next day Smith was round farm to complain. :}'," protested the old woman. thing wrong with' :ried Smit "It v Well, it ought to have been good," : the other. 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