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service with the son of the gentleman whose rain-gauge had contained hu- man blood on the morning after the murder, Mr. Symes agreed with Miss Larkin that the police ought to be BEGIN HERE TO-DAY. Samuel Honeybun, retired English countryman, finds blood in his rain- Fuge on the morning of the death of ir Francis Lathrop. Sir Francis' daughter, Margaret, had planned to informed of what must be either a marry-- fee or a striking coincidence, Sir Guy Lathrop against her fath-| Roake roared with laughter. "My er's wish. Sir Guy is suspected of the | word, but you have got a conscience, amurder by. Isir," he said. "Set your mind at rest, Inspector Roake of Scotland Yard, ! = while Adrian Klyne, private detective "1 beg of you. That rain-gauge stuff employed by Margaret, succeeds in i¢ all flapdcedie. Your late chauffeur non as Td Bulpeter to Roake, but! may have treated you badly, but he Nonplussed by the strange behavior | did not murder Sir Francis Lathrop. | Nor did either of the Messrs, Honey- eis Larkin, daughter of Rev. Ste- hun, So, young lady, you knew that phen Larkin, whose rain-gange was private sleuth fraud?" one of three found to contain human | Adela looked very pretty as she blood after the murder of Sir Lathrop. | ] . d icin voice, The two detectives are in conference | loud official voice, "I shrank from the at the Grange over the strange ab- C2" hazdly he said to have known gence of Margaret, "him," ghe made coy answer." "He call- led at tho Rectory to inquire about NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY. | yellow cory in the neighborhood, so 1 The butler: appeared at the library put two and two together." door, "Clever of you, miss, though he was| "Mr. Symes and Miss Larkin," he clean off the target. Well, I am! announced, in his loyal antipathy s---------rm-- Sa to Roake withholding the reason the visitors had given for their call and omitting to state upon whom they were calling. Naturally the presump- tion was that the call was intended for someone permanently inhabiting the Grange. That presumption was, however, promptly ruled out by Adela's sprite- ly greeting: "How do, Mr, Reake. We are lucky to have caught you, after drawing the inn blank. 1 have per-N suaded Mr, Symes that it is his duty fo bring you some information in the Lathrop murder case." Mr. Symes took up his parable. It would be wearisome to give it word for word, but the gist of it was that he Had discovered that his late chauf- feur, Steve Wilmot, had taken service with Mr. James Honeybun, the son of Mr. Samuel Honmeybun. On the night, or rather the late evening, of that lamented occurrence, Mr. Symes Rad gone out to dinner some miles away, and had sent the chauffeur home with the car, so that Wilmot would have it at his disposak}' -for several hours, The car was a yellow one, and it had only recently been brought to his notice by Migs Larkin that the La- throp's private investigator believed the murderer to have used a yellow one. Now that Wilmot had taken He prepared to pass on without being recognized, but he reckoned without his Adela. obliged to you and Mr. Symes for tak- ing so much trouble over a mare's nest. It isn't your fault that you haven't spotted a winner. Fault of that , damned interloper who misled you." The new day dawned with a change of tactics by Inspector Roake. He saw no practical utility in hanging about the village of Cheverel any longer. He would have to look far- ther afield to effect the arrest of Sir Guy Lathrop. Photographing Royalty. It must be very entertaining tobe a Court photographer. That, at least, Is theo conclusion one comes to after Yeading the "Memoirs" of Mr. Richard N. Speaight, fusing, and once, in a Spanish palace, Mr, Spealght became hopelessly lost. He had been commissioned to photo- graph the Spanish Royal Family in Madrid, - and the palace contained dozens of passages and hundreds of doors. Towards the end of the pro ceedings he had to escort the Queen back to her apartment, and 'after Jeav- ing her, he realized what the little children felt like in the wood. He floundered up this passage and down that, opened countless wrong doors, and was about to give up when he saw the Queen's brother, Prince Maurice of Battenberg, wandering along a pass- age away from him. Ho rushed after the Prince, and asked the way out. "What?" exclaimed the Prince, bursting into a laugh. "Are you lost, too? So am I!" They then joined forces, and, as Mr. Speeajght puts it, "escaped together." The Queen on Looking Natural. It was Mr. Speaight who took the last photograph of the late Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, and on this occasion he But it can also be con-|% Queen Mary saw comp] ture, she erpieed goa "lI am wo: pleased, you lave not eared ane to make mouth small, apd alzo that yow rr given a*natural color to my hair. In 80 many praintings that I have had, they have made my hair bright golden, and the whole thing moré lke a pic- of me. Bis One for Authors... Mr. J. 8. Fletcher is noted for two things: his splendid mystery and de- tective novels and his many Books on Yorkshire. Some time ago he went to live in a little village very remote from the busy world. One day a farm- er approached a friend of his and ask- ed who this Mr. Fletcher was, for he seemed to have nothing to do and plenty to do it on, "He's a well-known author," replied the man. "Aye, Just so," "but what is he?" "I tell you he's an author. sald the farmer, He writes same gauge has figured move than once. What's the catch in it?" Inspector Roake read the paragraph which, without any trimmings or edi- torial comment, related the bare fact that Mr. Stampage, in whose rain- gauge human blood had been found a few days ago, had again made a simi- lar discovery, though it differed in one important detail from the former one. Then, on. analysis, the red fluid had been pronounced to be human blood. This time the analyst could not speak so definitely. He was inclined to think that the blood_might have come from a sheep or a goat. "So it's up to you, Roake," smiled Lord Bulpeter, ""To my layman's mind it looks very much as if some- one was doing his level best to--what d'you call it--confuse the issue." "That's about the size of it," agreed the inspector. "Laying a false trail. 1 have known it done before in the also took "Little Joe" (Big Joe's | books." grandson), with whom he continued "Aye, aye!" replied the farmer, his friendship. One day Little Joe |testily. "I know he writes books! But burst into Mr. Speaight's studio and |what does he do for Xt living?" of Mr. Silas Stampage at Ruxton in| Mr. Stampage at Ruxton. Roake is Suffolk. This is the fourth of the ser- off to investigate." . ies, but it is the first time that the Adela's eyes snapped fire. "Then," she said, "Mr. Roake has begun to suspect the Honeybuns?" But Lord Bulpeter shook his head. "On the contrary," he replied, "Roake attributes the manipulation of Mr. Stampage's gauge to the evil machina- tions of Miss Margaret Lathrop in defence ct ber cousin." Adela burst into laughter. "How intensely funny!" she twittered, "And what do you think, Lord Bulpeter-- that Mies--<Lathrop operated on a skeen or a goat in order to provide the new sensation?" "I am sure the did nothing of the kind," was the answer. "As a matter of fact, 1 hove reason to be sure," Suddenly from an inquisitor Adela became her own sweet self--a co- quette with a touch of hoydenish mis- chief. She laid her gloved hand on her companions sleeve and pursed up her lips at him. "I really believe that we are on the course of my great experience. It's that Margaret woman for a fiver. Or it might be Lathrop himself. sniff round." "Spoken like a master of your craft," said Lord Bulpeter, "And,| while loth to be deprived of your ex- citing company, let me remark that if you want to reach Ruxton to-day you will have to catch the ten-fifty train. Which means that you must hustle." * After Roake had acted on the hint and started for the station in his lordship's car, placed at his disposal for "the good of the cause," Lord Bulpeter lit a most plebeian pipe and strolled through the village. At thes juncture of the straggling street with | the open country he met Miss Adela] Larkin, proclaimed 'by her basket to be on a shopping expedition. He pre- pared to-pass on without being recog- nized, but he reckoned without his Adela. "Good morning, Lord Bulpeter," she ted him brightly. "I am Miss Larkin, the Rector's daughter. I was introduced to you last night, you know, at the Grange, when I called <n Inspector Roake with Mr. Symes. Did you have the luck you expected?" "I didn't e nek badly for an ama- teur, but I mustn't tell tales out of school, Miss Larkin." "I am sure I don't want you to," with a pout. "A trifle off your beat, weren't you, foregathering with a bobby in pursuit of one of your own class? Guy Lathrop is one of the In all probability he had fled to London, and the Inspector would em-| combing the metropolis for him--con- | genial work in which he had great! experience. This was the gist of what he im: parted to Lord Bulpeter over their bacon and eggs. His lordship yawned elaborately. "Great news, Roake," he approvea the program. "The detective life is far | too strenuous for me. I feel as limp as chewed string this morning. If you hadn't sketched out this idea I should A ding the Chief Youreally enter sunny Cali + fornia the moment you 7 abd geoss-copfiuent mitten." "I am sorry your lordship takes it like that," said e. "Because, though-¥ see-no reason for remaining here myself, I had been going to ask you to maintain a general supervision. That infernal girl at the Grange may have a whole bag full of tricks up her sleeve yet. She might be tempted to join her cousin and then you could follow her if you were on the s; At this juncture the spopore seized the bark on a tampaign of scientifically | [ terest. bad," was the enigmatic reply. peter, avoiding the burning gaze -fo- cussed on him. Larkin's rude rejoinder. want to know is, was Sir Guy arrest- " « | have given you the cold and frosty | ed peter. before hands could be laid on hinf But Inspector Roake hopes things from a paragraph in to-day's Planet." It says that a second instance of 'red rain' has occurred in the gauge of best." Lord Bulpeter studied the cheeky face of his interlocutor with lazy in- "You are a judge of men, Miss Larkin?" he hazarded. "I can tell the good ones from the ou speak as if you were talking about rotten eggs," sighed Lord Bul- was Miss "What 1 "Most of you men are," "No, he was not," replied Lord Bul "He took alarm and ran off great Probably you have seen it. I guess thing else I don't believe. I'd better run down there and have a; same side," she said. "Anti-Honeybun and pro-Lathrop. Also there is some- I don't be- lieve that you are more entitled to mention Debrett's Peerage than you are in Croekford's Clergy List." Lord Bulpeter looked down at the upturned face, striving to plumb thé depths of the limpid eyes. He was sore put to it to restrain an impulse to kiss the ripe red lips. 78) be continued.) nr emir Next Door For Him. "Lady, 1 need the dough." next door--they make their own bread there!" BELA T----l Post:-Facto Postcards. 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