Daily British Whig (1850), 6 Oct 1922, p. 9

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 102, RE ---------- THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG. » In the Realm of Women---Some Interesting Features oy Lox is very simple and easy to use. Just make a bubbling lather from the thin white silky Lux flakes, which melt quickly, then press therich suds through and through your nice garments. Silk stockings, blouses, underwear, dainty frocks, anything you prize too much to trust to ordin- ary washing--they can be cleansed and look as good as new if you bath them in Luz. A few minutes in your room is all the time 'We are equipped to make any repairs to above pencils, We carry a supply of parts, Prompt service, J. R. C. Dobbs & Co. nized Yoast Stops Pimples! Blood Gets Yeast Vitsminegs be Then Black- Ty Ee en law of Nature, and you it. & never TO! BEGIN HERE TODAY Who had shot and killed the ne'er-do-well ROBERT ABLETT, within two min- utes after his arrival at The Red House, the country estate of his wealthy bachelor brother, office, Mark was missing and, in the opinion of I ector Bireh, it was clear that rk, who had looked forward with annoyance the return of his brother from Australia. bad shot Robert aad then disappeared. But there were mysterious oir- cumstances. The shot was fired a few moments before ANTONY GILLINGHAM, man adventurer and frien BILL BEVERLEY, one of guests, had entered the where he found MATT CAYLEY, Mark's constant companion, pounding on the door and demanding admittance. The through decided entle- rice hail two men enter the roo a window and find the Antony and Bill have that yley knows more of the crime than he will disclose. They discover a secret passage from the bowling Sreen to the house and, in Cayley's absence, try to find an opening to it in the library. GO ON WITH THE STORY "We. shall have to take every blessed book down," Bill said, "before we can be certain that we haven't missed it." s a Astopy's pipe was now going sat- istactofily, and he got up and walked leisurely to the end of the wall op- posite the door. "Well, let's have a look," he said, "and see if they are so very fright- ful. Hallo, here's your 'Badminton.' You often read that, you say?" "If I read anything." "Yes." He looked down and up the shelf. "I like books of travel, don't you?™ "They're pretty dull as a rule." "Well, anyhow, some people lke them very much," sald Antony re- proachfully. He moved on to the next row of shelves. "The Drama. The Restoration dramatists. You can have most of them, Still, as you well remark, many people seem to love them. Shaw, Wilde, Robert: son--I like reading plays, Bill There are not many people who do, but those who do are usually very keen. Let us pass on." He went to the next shelf, and then gave a sudden whistle. "Hallo, hallo™ / "What's the matter? sald Bill rather peevishly. "Stand back there. Keep the crowd back, Bill. Ws are getting amongst it. Sermons, as 1 live, Sermons. Was Mark's father S clergyman, or does Mark take them naturally?" be- | Boat.' "Ah these are Father's 'books. 'Half-Houra with the Infinite' =I must order that from the li brary when I get back. "The Lost Sheep," 'Jones on the Trinity,' "The Narrow Way, being Sermons' by the Rev. Theodore Ussher"--hal-lo!" "What is the matter?" "William, I am inspired. Stand by." He took down the Reverend Theodore Ussher's classic work, looked at it with a happy smile for & moment, anc then gave it to BIL "Here, hold Ussher for a bit." Bill took the book obediently. "No, give it me back. Just go out into the hall, and see If you can hear Cayley anywhere. Say 'Hallo' loudly, it you do." Bill went out quickly, listened, and came back. "It's all right." "Good." He took the book out of ita shel? again, "Now then, you' can hold Ussher. Hold him. tn the left band--so, With the right or dexter hand, grasp this shelf firmly ~s80. Now, when I say 'Pull,' pull gradually. Got that?" Bill nodded, his face alight with excitement, "Good." Antony put his hand tate the and Bill pulled. - "Now just.go on pulling like that. I shall get it directly. Not hard, you know, but just keeping up the strain." Lis fingers went at it again busily. , . . And then suddenly the whole row of shelves, from top to bottom, swung gunily open toward them. "Good Lord! sald Bill, letting go of the shelf in his amazement. Antony pushed the sheives back, extracted Usaber from Bill's fingers, replaced him, and then, taking Bil by the arm, led him to the sofa and deposited him in it Standing In front of him, he bowed gravely. "Child's play, Watson," he sald; "child's play." "How on earth" "Oh, my dear Bill" He smoked silently for a lttle, and then went on. "This passage has been here for years, with an. opening at one end into the library, and at the other end into the shed. Then Mark dis- covered it, and !mmediately he felt that everybody else must discover it. So he made the shed end more dif- THE WHOLE ROW OF SHELVES SWUNG GENTLY OPEN TOWARD THEM. : ficult by putting the croquet-box there, and this end more difficult by--" he stopped and looked at the other--*"by what, Bill?" But Bill was being Watsonish. "What?" "Obviously by rearranging his books. He happened to take out 'The Life of Nelson' or 'Three Men in a Boat,' or whatever it was, and by the merest chance discovered the secret. Natyrally he feit that every. body else woul. be taking down "The Life of Nelson' or "Three Men in a Naturally he feit that the secret would be safer if nobody ever interfered with that shelf at all When you sald that the books had been rearranged a year ago--just about the time the croquet-hox came into existence--of course 1 guessed why. So I looked about for the dull. est. books I could find, the boooks nobody ever read. Obviously the collection of sermon-beoks of a mid- Victorian clergyman was the shelf we wanted." "Yes, 1 see. But why were you so certain of the particular place" "Well, he bad to mark the par ticular place by some book. I thought that the joke of putting 'The Narrow Way' just over the em- trance to the passage might appeal to him. Apparently it did." Bill nodded to himself thoughttul- ly several times. "Yes, that's very neat," he sald. "You'rs a clever devil, Tony. "Well, come on, then," sald Bill, and he got up. "Come on where?" . "To explore the passage, of course." "Suppose we find Mark?" said Antony quietly. "I say, do you really think he's there?" "Bu; "Well, then, there we are." i. pa place, knocked 'Sut the ashes of his pipe, and turned back to Bill. He looked at him gravely without speaking. "What are you going to say to him?" he said at last "How do you mean?" "Are you golgg to arrest him, or help him to escape?" "I--I---well, of course, I--" began Bill, stammering, snd then ended lamely, "Well, I don't knov-." "Exmctly. We've got to make up our minds, haven't we?" Bill didn't answer. "You know, you can't just say, 'Oh--er--ballo' to him," said Anto- ny, breaking rather appropriately into his thoughts. Bill looked up at him with a start. "Nor," went on Antony, "can you my, 'This is my friend Mr. Gilling- ham, who is staying with you. We were just golng to have a game of "Yes, it's dashed difficult. I don't know what to say. I've been rather forgetting about Mark." He wan. dered over to the window and then turned back to his friend. "All the same," he sald, "you wanted to find the passage, and now you've found it. Aren't you going into it at al?" Antony took his arm. "let's go outside again," he sald. "We can't go into it now, anyhow, It's too risky, with Cayley about. Bill, I fee! llke you--just a little bit frightened. But what I'm frightened of I don't quite know. Anyway, you want to go on with it, don't you?™ "Yes," must." "Then we'll explore the passage this afternoon, if we get the chance. And if we don't get the chance, then we'll try it tonight." "Do you really think we might find Mark hiding there?" asked Bill "It's possible," said Antony. "Bither Mark or--" He pulled him- self up quickly. "No," he mur mured to himself, "I won't let my- self think that--not yet, anyway. It's too horrible." CHAPTER X71 2 the twenty hours or so at his disposal Inspectpr Birch had been busy. The discovery of Mark was all that mattered immediately. Drag- ging the pond might not help toward this, but it would certainly give the impression in court tomorrow that Inspector Birch was handling the case with zeal He was feeling wellsatisfied with hmiself, therefore, as he walked to the pond, where his men were walt- ing for him, and quite in the mood for a little pleasant talk with Mr. Gillingham and his friend, Mr. Bever. ley. He gave them a cheerful "Good afternoon," and added with a smile, "Coming to help ust "I wish you luck. But I don't think you'll ind much at the pond. It's rather out of the way, isn't it, for anybody running away?' "That's just what I told Mr. Cay- ley, when he called my attention to the popd. However, we shan't do any havin by looking. It's the un- "You're quite right, Inspector. Well, we mustn't keep you. Good said Bill firmly. "We Antony stood looking after the in- spector as he strode off, silent for #0 long tbat Bill shook him by the arm at last, and asked him rather crossly what wa. the matter. Antony shook his head slowly from side to side. "1 don't know; really I don't know. It's too devilish what I keep think. ing. He can't be as cold-blooded as that." > "Whe?" : Without answering, Antony led the way back to the garden-seat on which they had been sitting. He eat there with his head in his hands. home this only on the Columbia. advantages ; the record is finished. today or tomorrow. Ste: and hear this Model You'll be passing a Columbia store A Columbia Grafonola for $97.50 4 superb Model X, Grafonola, fully equipped with the modern improvements to be found Fr $97.50 you can place in your For less money than you would pay for an ordinary instrument, you obtain with the Model X all these exclusive Streamline cabinet; Straight Tone Arm, scientifically cor- rect acoustic design; and "the Non- Set Automatic Stop,"the only Non-Set device which stops'the machine when inside. See Grafonola. Made in walgut, mahogany, fumed and golden oak. COLUMBIA GRAPHOPHONE COMPANY, TORONTO. Columbia Grafonola $97.50 (In fumed or golden oak, $95) Made in Canada 121 Princess St. C. W. LINDSAY Limited, You Can Buy a Columbia Grafonola (Table Model) for $37.50. Kingston, Ont. Treadgold's Sporting Goods Co. Agents for Columbia Records "Oh, I bope they find hing," be murmured. "Oh, I hope Au "In 'the pond?* + Tar "Yea." » "But what?" "Anything, Bill; anything.® Bill was annoyed. "I say, Tony, this won't do. You really mustn't be so damn mys terious. What's happened to you suddenly ™ Antony walked over to the fire (Continued in Our Next Issue) loops ran through a large wooden bead (which was placed about half- way up the loop.) "vetalan Design Card-Table Cloth: linen thread. sels.) Tomorrow--Five Danish Recipes, (There were no tas- TO-DAY'S FASHION By Vera Winston. red lines. The blouse portion made so that the lines are on the in white organdie. ped turban, To-morrow's HOROSCOPE By Genevieve Kemble . SATURDAY, OCT. 7TH. 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