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gaged to marry Mar Sir Franels, is suspected o He escapes arrest by 2 ie Meanwhile-- HE pl, working with Adela! on] has veh evidence against the Honeybuns and their chauffeur, "Wilmot, called Monkey Face. Monkey Face has hid do Trani, ] a cave back of the ning home, with intention of kid- napping Adela and bringing Klyne within distance through the Capture. Vie a has left the house to berries near the cave and Wil- Pick has been watching her through a £py-hole, . NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY. He had made other spy-holes than the one commanding the garden door, . and from one of these he watched his prospective' victim at her pleasant task. Never had she looked so de- sirable fo his satyr-like eyes, She was steadily filling her basket, but! now and agin 'she would neglect it to pop one of the ripe berries into the red, inviting lips through which had flowed the treacherous words that had Jured him to the horrors of the thizd degree. He tested the lashings which he had made ready, throwing his whole weight on them to see if they would stand the strain. Then he experi- mented with the noose and, finding all 'eormet, returned to the spy-hole and gleated over the luscious loveli- ress among the bushes, Presently a satanic smile crept over his hideous festures as an idea for possessing hirself of the Rector's daughter flashed across the mad riot of his brain. Once, on one of his prowlings, he had seen Miss Larkin release a scared rabbit from the spring. She was evidently full of pity for stricken ' animals, and he would play upon the gentle attribute which he considered & weakness, A toss of the dainty head and a shifting of the basket to the rook of her agm told the watcher that the basket was full and the girl was about to descend to the level of the shelter. A few moments later she came tripping down the precipitous path and as soon as she was oppo- site the shelter, heading for the door in the garden wall, Wilmot made his play. Once, twice, three timés he imitated the plaintive Mew of a kitten. It was all over In ten seconds. Adela set. down her basket and dart- «d into the shelter, Before she knew what had happened to her she was tied up in several knots and firmly secured to the upright, with Monkey- Face grinning at her. "Pretty little kitten, ain't I?" he mouthed. "You can stroke me if you like, but no endearing names will be. permitted, because I'm going to Btop yer yowling with this nice little gag." Adela was not going to pander to his sense of victory by struggling or raising cries. that would have been choked into silence. Though she was far from resigned to the fate that threatened, she submitted with a " guiet dignity that would have held a 'he note of warning for her cater bad Tad he known her better. ~A sunny, mis- chievous Adela op as harmless as a butterfly, but the dignified, re- strained variety was a personage to be afraid of. "Now, missy, said Wilmot when had settled the bonds and the gag to his liking, "I shan't hurt you if you act good and pretty. If you don't you'll be sorry as ever you| was born. You have got to write a letter to your pal what calls himself Bulpeter, asking him to .come and| rescue you. Cut out for the bold hero, ain't he?" Adela gave no sign, Im fact she couldn't. The gag prevented speech; the rope chained her limbs to the upright. "Nod your head if you mean yes; shake it if you mean no," he grinned at her. Adela nodded, her face expression- less. She was not averse from the proposal that she should communi- cate, even under supervision, with her new colleague who was now also her lover. It would go hard with her if she could not devise means for Never had she looked so desirable to his Satyr-like eyes. running a cryptogram into the com- munication 'which should inform her friend of the state of affairs, or at any rate warn him against falling into a trap. For she shewdly sus- pected that her gaoler was intending to use her as a decoy, after which, his main purpose achieved, Wilmot would break faith with her and work his wicked will. He produced a writing pad and fountain pen, eased the rope looped round her wrists, and, placing the pen in her hand, held the pad in front of her. "Write at my dictation," he/com- manded, then stopped and scratched his head. "How far have you got with him?" he leered. "Will -'dear- Examining Board Canada Essay 'Many Boys and Girls in Town and Country Districts Out to. Win Honor and Cash. . Professor Malcolm W., Wallace, B.A., PhD, Professor of English and head Department of English at the Talent of Toronto, will act as ; man of the Examining Board which will select the winners of the various prizes. Hesays should be sent in to the editor of this paper as ex- ed in the large smnouncement, and not to Professor Wallace direct. The ditor will see that all essays sent % Teach: ning Board. Professor Wallace Chairman 'the Exami: the preparation of an essay should do 80 at once so as to {ake full time before the contest expires in ordet that the essay 'y. bent effort of the contestant. 5 Formed Contest Parents and teachers are urged to encourage the boys and girls to enter this con- test so that this community will be well and woithily represented by the essays sent in to the editor. The winning of a place in this Province-wide contest is no mean honour to which to MADE JN.CANADA NO ALUM E.W. GILLETT CO.,LTD, TORONTO, CAN Most' do for a beginning--come nat- ural like?" Adela nodded emphatically. "Here goes then," p dictator. "Take it down word for word, and no tricks, mind. It will be read carefully before it goes to post: Dearest--I have been copped by You-Know Who. If you can't save me I am to suffer a fate worse than death. Don't fail me for God's sake. Come to the group of pines on Hang- man's Heath seven evening to-mor- row or it will be too late. Very urgent. Let all else go. Please in- terest Dad at Rectory. Tell him I am all right and you know where I am.--Yours, ADELA." "Do we put crosses for kisses after the name?" Wilmot concluded his literary effort. Adela modded again. She knew that her lover would not hold her guilty of any such vulgarify--that he would understand from the crosses that the letter had been written under duress. - When she had added a row of the ridiculous symbols after her signature Wilmot laburiously read over what she had written, Adela rejoicing at the sign of illit- eracy in the tardiness of his perusal. Clearly he was only concerned with the sense of the letter, not with the handwriting or formation of the characters. But not till he had torn the top sheet from the pad and placed it in an envelope did she per- mit herself a sigh of relief. He had not detected the hidden message she hoped she had managed to convey. There remained the fear that she had wrapped the message up so tightly that the recipient would pass it by, but she consoled herself with the reflection that the recipient was a clever man, used to looking below the surface of things. "Address that envelope!" the sharp order broke in Upon her reverie, and she obeyed it with a show of re- luctance which she hoped would neutralize the cunning little smile she was afraid might have been sur- prised on her face, registering satis- faction with her penmanship. Wilmot relieved her of the enve- lope and the fountain pen, and then he adjusted the rope which had been loosened for the performance. "There is a post box opposite the Rectory gates, ain't there?" he de- manded. "That's a bit of all right. Wouldn't suit me to go to the office in the village. I'll pop round and post this after dark. It'll prob'ly miss the last collection, but it should reach His Nibs in time to fix our merry meeting for to-morrow. I reckon he'll be there. Now I'm go- ing to cook a rashet and make some ten." This was of supreme interest to Adela. As a healthy and hungry girl, she wondered if she was to share in the repast. That would en- tail the 'removal of her gag, and if that was done should she scream for help?" The decision 'was in the negative, No one would be likely to hear, and she would only provoke the miscreant to premature violence, But the question never really arose, for having cooked his bacon Monkey-Face proceeded to devour it without offering any to his prisoner. Indeed he taunted her with enforced abstinence. "No grub for you to-day, missy, Aor yet anything - to drink," he aspire and the prizes are well worth earning. Any boy or girl who has not yet jeered. "Perhaps to'morrow if you behave. Nothing like a little star- vation to bring a woman to heel You'll be ready and proud to eat 'out of my hand when I'm ready to let you eat at all." # a oleally Adela resigned herself to p t night, though hunger and thirst were not "the greatest of her anxieties. It was a how she would get any sleep in the atti-| tude to she was in a sitting. Joature "with her bk is "| arsenal, for spent that bring me In solid evidences of that great truth, that the scripture grand fundamental, arms and weapons to defend this or that, or-parry, or to defeat its enemies, he but as a matchless temple, where I de- light to be, to contemplate the beauty, the symmetry, and the -magnificénce of the structure and to increase my awe and excite my devotion to the Deity there preached and adored. -- Robert Boyle (1627). been placed on the market. smokin' those wretched cigarettes, but 1 won't "ave it!" habit, then?" cob pipe was good enough mother, an' it's got to be good enotlgh Kill warts with Minard"s Liniment. | Hugh Quigley ios Rovew 4 of Reviews: In the early Eeisenth century Britain was converted, parently for all time, to the use - steam as an agent of An tag manufacture--without any -consclous | principle or policy. g involved; and now, a céntury laf a decision' 'bas been taken, on the basis of delibera Investigation and scientific and eco- nomito discussion, to go over to elec: tricity, Previous legislation, in 1919 | ness and 1922, aimed at improvement in or- ganization of electricity supply as one self-contained industry other in ries; the new legislation sets out specifically to create conditions favor- able to electrification of industry and transport throughout the whole coun- try. That, in itself, is a tremendous fact which we would do well to pon- 'Ider, since it may decide the future of our industrial" civilization. \ URSIN Fundamental. 1 can searcely think any pains mis- nine cases out of ton 1 discover that "over-mothering" is the cause of the trouble. aE Ars Sung Man . He'll do anything he's liance and Anitiative. .Over-mothered! If 'his mother gave him sixpence, oe retained control over the it. She still chooses his Ee never walked atone. motapherically, 1 mean. And that's why he is as he . Then there's B. He's a bundle of nerves. At a guess his mother--fath- er, too, perhaps, said "Don't" to him half a million or more times in' his . | childhood. ~The continual check has wrecked "his nerves--by suppression of natural instincte. C. has been so sheltered and over protected that he is a "Molly." He can't talk to men as a man. All these, and others, I do my best for. Some- times I cure them. But the moral is i and I wish parents would heed "Over"-mothering is almost as bad It handicaps the word of God which is indeed the And I use the scripture not as an to be resorted to only for. people have one Hs, which they seldom correct. They oly that people are al- ways so through their own fault. PRA SA MANY POOR TEAS NOW SOLD. A lot of very cheap tea has recently This tea |. mostly very inferior in quality. PRE La, Good Enough. Farmer--"My darter, she's all for 4 a Bae ay Fountains of Quicksilver. During the Spanish occupancy of the Arabs every rich home had at least one fountain filled with quicksilver, which rose in a stream and fell in drops of glass. The sound of the falling drops | was likened to fairy bells. PASCIRSHASIEY WISE Truth In Advertising. Prospective Tenant--'But your ad-|* vertisement stafed that you had a bed. sitting room." 'Landlord--"Well, this is it." "I gee the bed, but I fail to see any sitting room." "Oh, that's on the bed." it. as "under"-mothering. throughout life. a Thumb Portraits. Few people are aware of the fact that in the thumb lies a means of per- sonal 'identification that never [ails. The picture of the fourteéen-year-old lad or lassie hears but little Tesemb- lance to the man or woman at thirty. are enjoying Wrigley's, you are getting benefit as Visitor--"You don't agree with the i Farmer--"No, sir, I'don"t! A corn- for er rer!" eis re ie Wj on LL Features change, hair darkens, pain [~ ours, and to help the boys and girls of to-day, the citizens .essay in 1,000 words or less. Shows-hav to buld u dairy bors from B | their main characteristics they will be ' . ations) how the fleer levels; how tally unlike the thumb-lines the (Contest Closes April 16, 1927). te ke the. xribbing for Y dowd Eins next door, 9 the, and trouble mar its peachy smooth- ness, and Father Time 'snatches the roses from the chubby face, till, in after life, on being confronted with a pi taken in our-youth, we ¢ry in { astonishment; "Did I ever look like that?" 'But a thumb- parizait never changes. " Now, every one knows (hat the inner surface of the last thumb-joint is mark- ed by thread-llkeé concentric rings, {Round and round they cur}, and if we observe them through a good magni- ifier, we mee that they look very much {like miniature ranges of hills, parted by deep furrows. Regard both your \ ; fhoube and you wlll find that, though n the general arrangement of the spirals they are akin, yet are they not quite alike? You remember the prettily varie. gated Indian grass that ornaments our gardens, and how diligently but fruit lessly you have often searched for two blades similarly striped? Just so it is with the lines and curls, allowing for growth, they precisely resemble each , other, , | Further, the thumb-lines of diver gent races, of persons moviag in ai ferent social grades, and of people of diverse dispositions, vary greatly. But "individually tifese marks never alter, Provided the thumb is never muti lated, its tip will have exactly the 'same lines and curls, allowing "for growth, at five years old as al fifty. i In fact, what may be called the topo- hy of the thumb is as unchange as (he topography of the Sverlast: "ing hills. But while the marks on individual | thumbs are, so to speak, copyrighted, yet there is a strong similarity. in this - respect between the members of one § tamily. | Det impressions of the Sumbot 2 a group of brothers and sisters be "and a marked likeness will be f ., existing between all of them, $100.00 in Cash Prizes To Boys and Girls for Essays on Canada Boot for ou and OPEN TO SCHOLARS IN PUBLIC AND SEPARATE SCHOOLS AND COLLEGIATES --- NO EN- TRANCE FEE--NOTHING TO SELL--RULES OF CONTEST SIMPLE. " The publisher of this paper, in co-operation with a number of other publishers of weekly newspapers, will: distribute thirty-six (36) cash prizes to boys and girls for the best essays on Canada. 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