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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLfiORNE. ONT., THURSDAY, FEB. 17, 1927. All Grocers StocK If you want something better--try it. "a&fiSH® [MDK1 amwat TTT? AT^rvvr ttttt ubbi HEADON HILL BEGIN HERE TO-DAY. Samuel Honeybun, retired English countryman, finds blood in his rain-gauge on the morning of the death of Sir Francis Lathrop. Sir Francis' daughter, Margaret, had planned to Sir Guy Lathrop against her father's wish. Sir Guy is suspected of the murder by-- . Inspector Roake of Scotland Yard, while Adrian Klyne, private detective, employed by Margaret, succeeds in posing as Lord Bulpeter to Roake, but is nonplussed by the strange behavior of-- Adela Larkin, daughter of Rev."Sep-timus Larkin and niece of Silas Stam-page, who reported blood found in his ram gauge on two occasions. Silas Stampage writes to Rev. S. Larkin and exposes Lord Bulpeter as an impostor. Klyne, out for a stroll, meets Adela. She reveals her surmise of Klyne's disguise. Klyne attempts to bluff, although for the moment, less interested in sleuthing than in the fetching before him. Adela and Klyne agree to join forces. NOW GO ON WTTH THE STORY. "A letter from your Unci© Silas, be said, handing her the document and watching her as she read. "I think you told me that you had mat this Lord Bulpeter, whose Roake has commandeered," he said she passed the letter back. "What age should you say he is?" Adela screwed up her eyes, s though to fathom her father's intei tion in putting the question. "Unless he is made up to look younger than he is I should put him down at about thirty-five," she replied. "Then he is an imposter," declared Mr. Larkin. "You have seen what your Uncle Silas writes about his age. No ono would be so silly as to try to dteceive a Scotland Yard detective by disguising himself." "Why have you shown me this 1 ter? What is it that you want me do?" Adela inquired of her parent. "As Inspector Roake seems unable to help himself it is our duty as good citizens to help him," the Rector joined. "This false Lord ~ will be the undoing of him other --upset his plans for the ari-est of Sir Francis Lathrop's murderer. A hint might be dropped to--er-tioner--I mean Wilmot, the chauffeur --that Roake's understudy would make an ornamental addition to Kingdom Come." "Why not call a spade a spade, father?" said Adela. "Y chauffeur to dto the self-styled Lord Bulpeter in. I agree that he ' ger and I subscribe to the Uncle Silas that this man cannot bo his former patient. He is certainly not a fat, lethargic, little creature over fifty years of age. He is fairly tall, brisk, and he cannot be a day over thirty-five, if so much. If you will leave the matter to me I will undertake to clip this gentleman's claws." "You will set Wilmot on to him?" "In a case of this 'kind, father, even to you I had better not be more specific. If, later, you have to deny knowledge your denial will come more naturally if it is genuine." Adela, as sly -a little miss as ever chivied men, prepared for the fray by sallying forth in her smartest low- cut blouse and most bewitching hat. Her walk took her past the inn, and the only mistake she made was that when Lord Bulpeter overtook her she rather overdid her start of astonish- "You nearly mads me jump out of my skin!" she exclaimed. "That would have been rough on your skin," was the gallant -reply. "If my eyes do not deceive me I see a convenient hayrick in yonder meadow. Come, let us seek its friendly shelter for our conference. When you sailed past the inn just now I guessed that you wanted to confer." Ensconced in the fragrant hay, Adela commenced the "conference" by showing her companion Mr. Stam-piage's letter. He smiled during its perusal and handed it back with the remark: "Fairly' conclusive, isn't it? It will help me to draw the net a little closer. What worries me most at the moment is how to wind up without involving your father in the scandal. He do Adela commenced the confer mpe by showing her companioi Mr. Stampage's letter. awfully afraid that he would queer your pitch for good and all. Why on earth don't you choose characters that can't be turned up in books of refer- "A grave error on my part, I adL mit, but I had to appeal to Roake's innate snobbishness. What I chiefly blame myself for is not ascertaining that my prototype is in Canada. I do not so much mind the Inspector unmasking me, but it might spoil sport if the rain-gauge experts hereabouts gained an inkling of the truth. By the way, is your worthy Uncle Silas likely to communicate his suspicions to them direct?" "Not the ghost of a chance of it," replied Ad'ela. "He has always remained the 'power behind the throne,' personally unknown to them. That end of the thing has from the start been worked by my naughty old progenitor." "It would interest me much to learn who initiated the idea?" Lord Bul-peter's double inquired in gentle tones. "You will have to keep guessing," laughed Adela. "Anyhow I shall not tell you. Because," she added more soberly, "I really don^t know. One thing I oan swear to. Father didn't come into it till after the murder." "So I have always figured it," was the reply. "Now as to my murder by Wilmot. ^1 want you to connive at that. Nothing has occurred to make them think that you are now in the camp of their enemies?" "I believe they still regard me as my father's aide-de-camp." "Then I will sketch out a plan for my undoing for which you may take all the credit, unless you like to spare some of it for Mr. Larkin." The sketch of the plan for his own murder was concluded in five minutes, but the conference did not break up till half an hour later. But the last part of it was not concerned with the Lathrop case, or indeed with anything but the most intimate and private matters. Mr. Samuel and Mr. James Honey-bun sat smoking in the summer-house at the edge of the lawn at The Larches when the parlor maid announced that Miss Adela Larkin had called. "Bring her out here," said Mi Preceded by the parlormaid, Adel: came tripping up to the two gentlemei in the; summer-house. "No, I won't sit down, thanks," sin said as they politely made room for her on the bench. "Of course I shouldn't be so forward as to call on you, Mr. Honeybun, on my own. I am really a messenger, but the message is not for you. It is for the chauffeur you recently engaged. Wilmot, I think his name is. Used to be with Mr. Symes of Long Pastori That was all right. Both the Honey-buns jumped to the conclusion that the message came from th£ JJfiYerend.. Larkin. But, true to his 'forty years of "business" in the City of London, Mr. Samuel showed caution. His smile was friendly not to say " he said. "You id hand him the might give us i These day; paternal. "All right, missy shall see Wilmot message. But yi hint of what it is vants are treacherous beasts, have to keep tabs on 'em." Don't I know it! I spend all my e at the rectory screwing wretched maids up to the mark,' Adela's unveracious reply. "Y will let you a little way in behind the , but not very far. Dad told , because he thought it would be for the people running the show ir all the tWks. You had better read this letter, Mr. Honeybu She tendered the epistle from Uncle Silas. The grizzled head and the black one bent over it, the perusal, judging by frequent oaths, to much agitation. The elder Honeybun handed the letter ba(%ell?" he barked. (To be continued.) "Don't you worry about us," replied j jor Lovesight. Dante Gabriel Rossetti was a dual genius. He was one of England's greatest painters, and also a great poet. 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