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There was one sentence of story, he read over two or' three times. Hull and his wifé agreed that it was about 920 'when he had knocked st their door, unless it was a ter's error or the reporter mi a mistake] fishy knew this was wrong. He had looked at hi watch just ore he had i Tt Someday treet on the hook. the West could produce. had been greatly wrought up from anxiety, pain, fever, and lack of sleep. accidentally pushed aside a book. Be- neath it was a slip of paper on which Paradox Apartments. He stayed to had been penciled a note. He read it,| answer no questions, but hung up at without any interest. once. From a side door of the store he stepped out to Welton Street and| "What are you afraid of?" ing of a rattlesnake close to his head. Some one was at the outer door ring- ission. It wi a Fh rR A an Eo mission. Fou sok he was there without implicating Rose A :¢+ |and her sister. He would not betray the table beside which she stbod. Her 0 trained to swith them. That of course. But he had | thoughts were of herself 'and the | plight in which she had become involv- thought reactions. Quickly but noise- lessly he stepped to the door and re- whole desire now was to be gone from * the building as soon as fot 7 The | Was the proper end of so cruel a murd- bedroom also he darkened before he|erer. Now he not only intended to TELA. trial package today. : ~~ Economical! ---- for a oT angled Trails --BY WILLIAM MACLEOD RAINE (Copyright, Thomas Allen.) CHAPTER VIII. | BY MEANS OF THE FIRE ESCAPE. four and started to go. Kirby Lane stood with fascinated! (Just a me'" the newspaperman es looking down at the glove, mus- said, striking a light. "Do you always" es and brain alike paralyzed. The --uff, puff-- "leave your rooms receiver was in his hand, close to his Puff, puff, puff--*"by the fire escape? ear. | Kirby looked at him in silence, A voice from the other end of the thinking furiously. He had wire drifted to him, "Number, please." caught, after all. Ther were witness- Automatically he hung the receiver © to prove he had gone up to his All his life he had lived the ad-! "Never mind, friend," the newspa- venture of the outdoors. For twelve Perman went on. "You don't look like months he had served at the front, 8 second-storey worker to yours part of the time with the forces in truly." He broke into a little amused the Argonne, He had ridden stam- chuckle. "I reckon friend husband, edes and fought through blizzards, Who never comes home till Saturday © had tamed the worst outlaw horses Right, happened around unexpectedly Lane was sick with fear. It ran'Lothario, while the beating's good." through him and sapped his supple The last sentence and the gesture that strength like an illness. It was not accompanied the words were humorous sible that Rose could have done this exaggerations of old-time melodrama. | n her right mind. But he had heard| Lane took his advice without delay. a doctor say once that under stress PTET of great emotion people sometimes CHAPTER IX. went momentarily insane. His friend THE STORY IN THE NEWS. _~Jn-replacing the telephone he had police that James Cunningham iad {been murdered at his home in the Mr. Hull he come see you. He sorry | walked to his hotel. you not here. He say maybe perhaps Se re i make honorable call some other time. He passed a wretched night. The The cattleman handed him three or Dazed though he was, uncle's rooms. Here was another to the rough rider knew that the police testify he had left by the fire escape. were the last people in the world he The best he could say was that he joc than an hour before? ' wanted to see just now. was very unlucky, pon t oe a 55. » globe, an was: 9.56. : Hod the Hulls Qeliberately shifted 'time back thirty-five m so, why? He how star! terror had stared out, of both: their faces, Did know more about the j murder than they pretended? When the had mentioned his uncle's name the woman had been ¢lose to collapse, though, of course, he could not be sure 'there flashed the memory of the note he had seen on the table. The man (had called on Cunningham and left | word he might call again. Was it i possible the Hulls had just come down had knocked on their door? If so, how did the presence of Rose fit into the schedule? Lane pounced on the fear and the Wild Rose. It was only a morsel of hope, but he made the most of it. | The newspaper'was inclined to bring | up-stage -the' mysterious man who had on called up the police at 10.25 to tell {them that Cunningham had been * murdered in his rooms. was this (man? Could he be the murderer? If 80, why should he telephone the police and start immediately the hunt after him? If not the killer, how did he know that a crime had been committed ! As soon as he had eaten breakfast, Kirby walked round to the boarding- house on Cherokee Street where Wild Rose was staying with her sister. Rose was out, he learned from the land- lady. He asked if he might see her sister. His anxiety was so great he | could not leave without a word of her, But he had and the fire escape looked good to you." pl.contly Esther never been so shock-shaken as he was Am I right?" ; y gr game dowy to the now. A fact impossibly but dread-! The Wyoming man managed a grin. fully true confronted him. Wild Rose It was not a mirthful one, but had been alone with hig uncle in these served. . = Rp J " rooms, had listened with breathless! "You're a wizard," he said admir-| horror while Kirby climbed the stairs, ingly. had beén trapped by his arrival, and | The reporter had met a bootlegger had fought like a wolf to make her earlier in the evening and had two or escape. He remembered the wild cry three drinks. He was mellow. "Oh, of her outraged heart, "Nothing's too I'm wise," he said with a wink. "Chuc bad for a man like that." | Ellis isn't anybody's fool." Beat it, a friend of Rose. He was worried about her, he said. Sheseemed to him in a highly wrought-up, nervous state, He wondered if it would not be well | to get her out of Denver. | Esther swallowed a lump in her throat. She had never seen Rose so jumpy, she agreed. Last night she had gone out for an hour alone. The (look in her eyes when she had come back had frightened Esther. She had gone at once to her bedroom and lock- ed the door, but her sister had heard her moving about for hours. Then, suddenly, Esther's throat swelled and she began to sob. She knew well enough that she was at the From a booth in a drug store on Bottom of Wild Rose's worries. | Sixteenth Street Kirby telephoned the "Where is she now?" asked Kirby gently. Y. "I don't know. She didn't tell me where she was going. There's-- there's something queer about her. I --DI'm afraid." "She's so--so kinda fierce," Esther 1 wailed. | distress that flooded his mind was due| It was impossible to explain, even S. Horikawa. less to his own danger than to his to this big brown friend of Rose who An electric bell buzzed through the | anxiety for Rose. His course of ac-|looked as though his quiet strength apartment. The sound of it startled, tion was not at all clear to him in case he should be identified as the man jrby as though it had heen the warn who had been seen goiag to and coma He had told his -cousing why he was going. the catch of the Yale lock so| Would their story not start a hunt for 1d not f the woman in the case? ie 2 ou a Man is an illogical biped. 'Before not see them. What she did see was dis- | grace, the shipwreck of the young life light and passed through the liv- Kirby had seen the glove on the table = land associated it with the crime, his Joon into the bedehamber.~ Hs feelings had been that the gallows Hh to the window and crept protect Rose, but his heart was filled thro ugh it to the platform of the fire with pity for her. He understood her © sca better than he did any other woman, / he Jove was still in his hand. He her loyalty and love and swift, up- rust 5 into his pocket as he began blazing anger. Even if her hand had descent. "The iron ladder ran fired the shot, he told himself, it was do buildi ; _ not Wild Rose who had done it--not down the building jo she alley. ge the little friend he had come to know lowe himself and dropped. He turn- ed to the right down the alley toward Glanarm Street. and like so well, but a tortured woman beside herself with grief for the sister to whom she had always been a mother "A man was standing at the corner e . the alley trying to light a cigar.| He slept little, and that brokenly. 3 was a reporter on the "Times," | With the dawn he was out on the returning from the Press Clu Street, to bu = copy of the "News "where he been i The story of the murder ha e two ; he had en playing in a pool columns on the right-hand side of the stopped Lane. "Can you lend me front page and broke over to the third. teh, friend?" +, He hurried back to his room to read "it behind a locked door. The story was of a kind in which newspapers revel. Cunningham was a well-known character, several times a millionaire. His death even by illness would have been worth a column. But the horrible and grewsome way of his taking off, the mystery surrounding it, the absence of any apparent motive unless it were revenge, all whetted the appetite of the editors. It was a big "story," one that would run for many As Kirby had expected, he was se- lected as the probable assassin. A re- porter had interviewed Mr. and Mrs. Cass Hull, who occupied the apart- ment just below that of the murdered man. They had told him that a 'man, a stranger to them, power- , built and dressed like a prosper- ous ranchman, had knocked on their about 9.20 to ask the way to the ; t of Cunningham. Hull ex- feel Lifebuoy's healthiness Lifebuoy -- yon feel. ularly because he happened to chan you have ever felt be winding the clock at the moment. aoa? Jay waa pre and comfort. of a two-column "box. e rea w ; ; no amusement.. It was too deadly ac- oy; are famous | curate for comfort. en : | Besides, every Thstinet in her drove | eep hidden the secret that some ing from the apartment of the murd-{day of AR 3 ho ered man. He could not explain why| Her eyes fell. They rested on the | "News" some boarder had tossed on could move mountains. He was a man, ed. She looked at the big headlines [of the paper and for the moment did {she loved so much. | Her pupils dilated. The words of {the headline penetrated to the brain. !A hand clutched at her heart. She read again hazily-- 2 JAMES CUNNINGHAM MURDERED --then eofiapac fainting into a chair. (To be continued.) The flavor of tea deteriorates rapid- ly it the tea is exposed to the air, You ghould never, therefore, accept bulk tea when you can buy "SALADA," which is sealed in air-tight aluminum to preserve its delicious freshness. Evidence Too Strong. "So they convicted your friend of selling bad butter? Was there no way fy ny . Minard's Liniment Heals Cuts. days, and the "News" played it strong. | : | apartmen wi into the pores. |plained that he remembered the time gil] years ago. for him to get out of it?" "No; the evidencs was too strong." Sam Sr To make grape gelatine for lunch dissolve one-half box of gelatine in' tank of water; or at least a pitcher, af ed out of Pi h one cup of cold grape juice, let soften for five minutes. Put three cups of! the grape juice in a saucepan and add one cup of sugar, bring to a boil, pour over the softened gelatine. Cool and serve with whipped cream. Any fruit juice may be used. ' On Lake Superior, the largest ex- panse of fresh water in the world, which has an area of 31,800 square miles, splendidly appointed passenger steamers of nearly 4,000 tons: ply, where only Indian canoes sailed 800 Corruzatel Gavan {teal Roofing Direc: from Malti aciuiers to Cs WRITE FOR PRICES : w. E. LiLLON CO 9 . 191 George St. + inutes? If 'stark that had been the reason. To his mind from the apartment above when he! evasion of the Hulls as an out for! sion, and the full effect of the | works undertaken this year Ww Pe Co insiavw A VIEW FROM AUSTRALIA Humanity--"See, she is sinking! Are you not going to help?" Uncle Sam--"Don't fuss, sis--the body will drift to the shore." = --From thé Sydney Bulletin. a humiliating. oie. eh | Alma, at to put down all RED APPLES WITH PORK. To my way of thinking there is no food platter quite so tempting to the 'then take a brisk rpb with one of the A - h Jour the yosng and nsymer | pork done to just the right degree of | parlor where the young man waited crispy brownness and encircled by a for her. Lane introduced himself as! Ty bo y row of deep-red apples. Because red | apples such as these do not grow on trees and because the manner in which { they become so delicately tinted is something of a secret, I want to tell you how they are made. First make a thick syrup of two parts of sugar to one of water and add to it little red cinnamon candies till you have colored it a deep red. Then drop in the: apples, which have been previously peeled and cored, and cook till done through thoroughly. The | combination of the spice, cinnamon, and the color is delightful. The syrup in which you have cooked the apples is almost a jelly and with the addition of a very small quantity of one of the commercial pectins can be made' into a perfect jelly that is delectable served with meats. Jelly roll with cinnamon "jelly filling is a new invention 'that our family thinks is great. Cinnamon rolls with the centre roll removed part way down and filled with cinnamon jelly are an- other favorite.--J. W. THE SATURDAY BATH. All children love to bathe, if they can do it in their own way, but very few of them love to "take a bath" in the old-fashioned style, which entails assuming a cramped position in a gal- vanized wash tub placed in the middle of a draughty kitchen floor. You can't really blame them. None: of us ever enjoyed it, even though it is a fact that the baths of our child hood days were mostly taken in that way, long after mother's supervision had been indignantly spurned. Saturday night and the cleansing scrub are still pretty closely associat- ed in most homes, but the relationship is neither so arbitrary nor so painful as of old. The youngster who enjoys the comfort of a modern bathroom learns to scrub his skin after every earth-stained adventure, so there is not such a tremendous accretion for Saturday night. Furthermore, he no longer has to be driven since the func- tion gives him the luxurious possibil- ity of stretching full length in a bath that is almost big enough to allow of _ | swimming, and in' a tub with such smooth and shiny surfaces that the! tenderest skin can enjoy their tontact. "What did he tell you that made you A youngster brought up in this way go angry ; never loses his appreciation of the] bath. Cleanliness becomes with him aphsolutely sound and that the troubles a habit. It influences all phases of his' were entirely nervous and mental, Hel said that I had a good enough mind, clean clothes, clean houses, clean peo-, but that I had been too lazy to use it." "He didn't dare!" Get a bathtub in the home as quick- "pq certainly like to tell him what I ly as possible and while you are wait- {hink of him!" ing for the days of sanitary plumbing ~ Anne laughed. "I. try a substitote. Select one room in think that I shall the house that can be readily and thoughts of him life. It makes him love a clean skin, ple and clean habits. ; quickly warmed. 'Install therein a basin and a receptacle for waste. up a towel rack and see that it is al- ways filled with substantial towels, Make this do for a bathroom. Use it} every day. if you can; once a week is not sufficient. If you have the room warm, the temperature of the water is not so impottant;: better cool than warm. Sponge the body quickly and heavy towels. It is the best tonic in 'the world; Very young or very oldi persons should take the chill off the! water before applying, but cold water t will help you eis | help the lovely things people have done for me! Poor busy Mrs. Case on laundering And the flowess, fo the great boxes of them down to the handful of limp violets Danny Day The doctor suggested that it wasn't playing fair with God to take things and give no gladness in return. To tell me I wasn't honest when honesty is a tradition in our. family! You see, I had a great deal And it seems that he was right and that I was wrong." "I don't believe it--about you," Al-| ma replied stoutly, "but I've a great mind to start a calendar myself." "Do!" said Anne. "For--this is my final admission--I am learning to like loveliest negligee! healthy or the latent appetite as roast - mae cena | Minard's Liniment for Dandruff. re Pert Clerk. Customer--"I'd like to try on that pair of shoes in the shoecase." Clerk--'Better try 'em on out here, lady; 'taint big enough." "And how is your little baby sister, asked the Vicar, who was "Oh, she's only fairly well, thanks. : You see, she's just hatching her anticipate that this development wi 4484. Hero is a "éorset" style that affords ease and comfort to the wear- It may be made of jean, muslin, linen, brocaded silk or mercerized ma- terials, satin or d#ill. at the sides give freedom in movement. ESE RE TT RD Grease spots on wall paper can be removed by rubbing it with camphor- Marry the woman whom you would for a friend if she were a man. These may be of g The Pattern is cut in 4 Sizes: Small, + 84-36; Medium, 88-40; Large, 42-44; Extra Large, 46-48 inches bust meas- ure. A Medium size requires 13% yards of 86-inch material, elastic or webbing % yard 9 inches wide or wider is required. Pattern' mailed to any address on receipt of 16¢ in silver or stamps, by the Wilson Publishing Co., 73 West Adelaide St.,, Toronto. Allow two weeks for receipt of pattern. THE FREEMASON, Toronto, Forty- third year of publication. Sample Cbpies 10c. & Co., Publishers. You look the way you used to--eager | told you béfore, but that was the thing | that almost broke my heart to have you lose. I just couldn't bear it." "You are a dear, Alma," replied Anne, "and I've been very selfish, Yes, i I've found a doctor who 'understands | my case.' There's no doubt about that! He understood so _well that at first I was furious 'and vowed I'd never go Then when I got a little bit cooler I realized that to leave him would be acknowledging that he) was right, and what I wanted to do} was #0 prove him wrong." "But what did he do?" asked Alma. near him again. "He told me that organically I was many respects in Canc¢jla the mining situation is gratifying. Not only is there every indication that the end of the present vear will show outputs of nest minerals with substantial incre- _wents over the Immediately preced ing years, but developments are tak- ing place and expansions being under 'Canatian mining industry, be experienced until 1924 and sul quently. . Never before has foreigr capital exhibited such an interest - Not only is in their way to Canada sgain are directed to new mining areas, y's insisting ne mining report for the first quar ter of the year in Ontario shows a very encouraging increase, though there is a decrease in the production of gold and silver. Substantial in: creases are reported in the production of nickel and copper, cobalt, cobalt: oxide, nickel.oxide and nickel-cobalt, Important interests have taken up op- tions in Goudreau, a comparatively new field, and development work on this claim fs proceeding. Favorable Conditions Extend Into Quebec. : It has noe been definitely proven that the geological conditions that have produced the important mines of the - Porcupine and - Kirkland Lakes" areas in Ontario extend over the pro- vincial boundary Into Quebec on a belt some hundred miles in length and several miles in width in the country of Temiskaming. In consequence, a de- cided rush of prospectors has taken place and upwands of 90,000 acres of claims have been recorded, as many as 300 having been staked within six weeks. On several of these properties important development work, backed by both United States and British eapi- tal, will be carried out this se . There is every reason to con will disclose possibilities of important = productive mines on some of these properties, Assays of samples from this area are remarkable for the gold values which they have disclosed. In Nova Scotia some interest still attaches to gold prospects and exam- ! {nation is being conducted by Govern- ment authorities. Coal mining which was at brisk. activity, -s- temporarily disorganized from labor trowbles. Ship- ments of iron ore from Newfoundland to Germany, temporarily discontinued, have been resumed, and create bright- er conditions in that area. are partl ly rosy in the Province of British Columbia, where an unusual amount of new de: velopment work is taking place. Mines long closed down are befng reopened, 'and fresh areas being opened up. The | amount of American and British cap § | tal entering into the mining develop: | ment: of this provinee is particularly heavy. : Activity in Prairle Provinces. A greater diversity of activity than usual prevails in the Prairie Provinces, which are receiving a larger share of attention than in prior years. A spe- cial investigation of the whiteware clay deposits of Southern Saskatche- wan Is being made for the benefit of a British syndicate which contem- plates establishing a pottery in the province, In Alberta, experimental work is being continued, taking place on the biturhinous sands north of Bd 'monton, a campany being engaged at the present time in testing the output 2 of erude products of bitumen 4 2 street-paving and road-making poses. y In a year that is outstanding in taken which will have th The Ones Wrno Suffered. (newly mirried)---"Yor mcholy, George