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"Carlo," he laughed, "are you doing?! Outstanding T E A ~ Quality ay 707 F resh from . the: Gardens [Em by ALLYN SLOAN ABSENCE SYNOPSIS, Jean Graham and her brother Euan fay on the Riviera with Geoffrey Win- on and his wife Doreen, who leads Euan im to gamble at the Casino, Jean coaxes sim to go to Paris. On the road to "aris Jean inde a string of pearls in BEuan's pocké He snatches the case from her and the car crashes. The accident is discovered by Jerry Grant whom Jean had met. Jerry takes her back to his hostess, Helen Gorst. Upon learning of Buan's disappearance Doreen behaves in uw strange manner. M. Rivaux, French inspector, investigates the case. Geoffrey Winton tells Helen that his wife's pearls are muesing. Rivaux confronts Jean with this as the reason for Fuan's dig- appearance. Jean visits Kuan's friend, de Laurier, whom she dislikes, and learns that 'Euan was in debt to hint, CHAPTER XII. So dazed as scarcely to know what she was doing, the girl moved away from de -Laurier and not looking where she was going, fell into a young man who was passing. «I beg your--Jean!" he broke oft and stared in amazement. "Jerry!" She laughed unsteadily and for an instant leaned jgainst him, "You--you startled me. "I didn't expect to see you here." . "No, I--" She broke off, then offer- ed rather lamely: "I'm "just going home." "But, ny dear, you're as white as a sheet." His voice was tense with con- "et me get you a cocktail." cern. "No thank you, Jerry. .I--I'm go- ing home." "Well, let me take you, I've got my car. 'He ol her thrcugh the swing Joor and out: irto the sunshine, but not until they were in.the car did they speak. "Jean, I thought you were going to rest this afternoon?" He watched her curiously as rather nervously she locked away. "41-1 was. But I had to see Baron de Laurier about something." "Oh?" His tone was coldly sur- prised, and jealousy gave him a pain- ful jab. Instead of uttering the words of comfort he had intended to, he remarked: "You don't Jook as if he has done you much good.' But Jean was too upset and en- grossed with her own fear to be aware of Grant's very marked criti- cism, and murmured vaguely: "I'm all right, thanks." Meanwhile Dan Washburn wag waiting for Grant at the Hotel de Paris. "Oh shucks!" he grumbled, going over to a « ~hair and sitting down, "Jerry's never on time now that he's fallen for that giri." He began to gaze at the people pass- ing in and out of the doors. Women in lovely light dresses, ahd men in grey or white flannels, all of them on pleasure bent, - Then his eyes came to yest. on an elderly man who sat drink- jng come horrible looking yellow syrop at a table not far from the door. In appearance he was a mild little man with a drooping grey moustache end one remaining lock of hair, which he wore draped to the best advantage over the shiny dome of his otherwise bald head. One would have suspected him of being a father, perhaps a grandfather of many children, but not "a detective, famous in his day and --uirdil recently a member of the Paris Surcte. With a smile of recognition © Washburn got up and went over to him, "Say, Mr. Perichon, T didn't expect to see you in a wicked place like Monte holding out his hand, Peeichon glanced up and chuckled, "Um. So you know the old fellow again?' "Of course I know you. erican latighed and sat down. The Am- "Gee, 3) I'll never forget the story you told me that night at the Tribunte diner, in Paris. lv. 'MS Perichon vodded. "It was a good one! And you, what W HEN N YOU FEEL take a bracing, ah fase "At the moment I am waiting for a friend, Jerry Grant, He was. to have met me here--" "Ah, the tall young man with blue eyes?" Perichon waved his hand at the door. "He is gone with a lady. You will have'a long wait." "He left me a message, but say-- Washburn looked: at him curiously. "How did you know it was Jerry and that he'd gone with a girl?" The Frenchman settled back into his chair with a little wriggle of satis- faction, ; "All my life I have watched. Now I miss nothing. 1 see a pretty girl, une Anglaise, she is talking with a Frenchman, They say goodbye, she turns and tumbles into a tall young man with blue eyes who is in love with her, She is toute a fait emue, he is delighted but curious, They go out together. Aha, I say to myself there is a story. It is perhaps only a pretty story, but I think--not!" The last word came sharply with a snap, and looking up, Washburn saw a keen but distant look in the French- man's eye as if he was 'thinking of something a long' way off. Suddenly the younger man leaned forward and asked: "M. Perichon, are you here on business or for a holiday?" "Neither. I no longer have any business, so how can I have holiday?" "Oh? You've retire?" "Retired?" The Frenchman smiled. "From the Surete, yes. Now I seek for another occupation." He glanced humorously out of the corner of his eyes at Washburn, "Ah, you think I am too old to begin again? You say to yourself 'Papa Perichon'--or per- haps you call me Grandpere--has one foot in the grave!" The American laughed embarrassed- ly. He had forgotten the detective's almost / uncanny ability to read thought. "Why, no--" he began. * . The Frenchman interrupted him, however. . "Yes, yes, I know. You say to your- self Papa Perichon has retired, he is on the shelf. - Pah! I tell you--Ah, here is your friend." It was charactéristic-that-- Por ichon saw Grant first, but Washburn leaped up and caught his arm, "Jerry! I'd like to have you meet Mr. Perichon of the Paris Surete." The men bowed and Grant sat down, He wanted to get Washburn alone but could not immediately detach him. "I was telling Mr. 'Americain that in life it is never well to retire.- One leaves one's work, but gne takes up another or else one dies. You remem- ber that Moses was over eighty when he began his career; had he retired at seventy he would never have liad one. It is never time to stop thinking." Suddenly he addressed Grant: "You are worrying about something, Mon- sieur?" Grant -half smiled and fried un- comfortably. "About the English young lady?" A slight pause. "You do not like it that she speaks with the Baron de Laurier?" "Gee, that's lightning deduction for you," exclaimed Washburn admiringly. Grant also was astounded, but did not quite know what to say. He had heard of Perichon of the Surete of course, but he wondered what he was doing in Monte Carlo. Had he by any chance been calleC in by the Winténs? "You do not trust me?" asked Peri- chon. "You do not like what I say to you?' You are afraid of me?" He chuckled. "Well, I will put you out of your micery, I fm here to amuse my- gelf, to find some new work." Relieved, Grant thought rapidly. Supposing that Perichon would help him to find Euan Graham? He could not discover less than the local Surete, and Grant was becoming terribly anxious about this new business of the pearls. : "M, Perichon," he began, "I suppose vou read about the disappearance of Euan Graham?" "The Frenchman nodded: "My col- ieague, M, Rivaux, has told me much about it." This put Grant out and he said rather sharply: "I don't think he has 1 ch to tell" Perichon glanced at him amusedly and sighed: "Ah, la pauvre policel" "But, seriously gir, what's your idea about the business?" Washburn broke in. The ex-detective shrugged his shoul- | ders and sipped his yellow drink with | evident enjoyment. ~ "This syrop is excellent," he eaid, : HE moustache very thoroughly with his handkerchief, EN Then Jerry Grant came to a deci- sion, "Look here, M, Perichon, won't yeu help us?" he asked very earnestly, The whole expression of the French- n.an's face changed, lighting up and becoming alert, but he said: "Me, I have retired." ; : "Oh, I know. But v.e're in the devil of a mess and it would be jolly ogod of you if you'd come in and help." Perichon's green-brown eyes scanned the Englishman's face a moment be- fore he remarked: "You are very fond of Mlle, Graham, eh?" Grant's ears became scarlet and hz moved uncomfortably, stammering: "1 ie Jea?? "Sure he is," Washburn interrupted. "He thinks of her all day and talks of her in his sleep." "Oho! It's serious," the older man smiled. "Well, sir, I hope that Miss Graham will become my wife some day, so you see I--I do care rather. Of course no one in their senses could connect her with it, even if she did see the pearls last, or her brother for a--" Perichon's eyes flashed. That is new." Grant explained, and gave an out- line of the inquisition Jean had been obliged to undergo that morning, add- ing that it was his opinion that M. Rivaux suspected hex of being connect- ed with the theft. : Perichon nodded his head ard took several short sips of his canary colored syrop. Grant and Washburn watched him hopefully, vondering what all his deliberations were about. It was some while before he spoke, then he sat up suddenly and put his glass down. "Bien, I will help: you." Grant thanked him. "Pearls? posing I say that I think Mlle. Graham is guilty or implicated?" "I'll say she's not. Why, you've only got to look at her!" Perichon smiled, "Yes, I.did look at her. When I have spoken to Mees Graham I will tell you. There are so many reasons why people do things, Monsieur; not always because they are evil, Sometimes for love, for honor, Who knows?" took their departure, (To be continued.) nb oh i Gems from Life's Scrap-book : Doubt "Never do anything concerning the rectitude of which you have a doubt." -- Pliny, Junior. "Human knowledge is the parent of doubt."--Lord Grenville, - : "When you doubt, abstain."--Zoro- Laster, "Lét neither fear nor doubt over- shadow your clear sense and cdlm trust."--Mary Baker Eddy. ized."--F. R. Havergal. - : "Doubt is the accomplice of tyran- ny. --Amiel. "Doubt is hell in the human soul. Ye Mme. de Gasparin, a i lbraiiimimiogt Tt Society is well governed when the people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates the laws.--Solon. RE a AN Truth never dodges, no matter who throws mud at it. = not kiss you good night?" "You ask me to help you, but sup-}- Shrtly after Grant. and Washburn, "Doubt indulged becomes doubt real-] Mrs. Nestor Noel Have you ever heard mothers say: "As you were naughty today I will Some mothers do say this, The lit- tle child who probably has forgotten how she was naughty may cry herself to sleep and thus lose much of the good which a night's Test 'bring. - Why keep up an anpléasantess with a child over night? The child, ight have been suffering from some child- ish indisposition, There is always a reason for a child's naughtiness. Per- haps we have been feeding her too highly concentrated food. Perhaps we have upset her during a meal. Per- haps some playmate annoyed her, There are so many possible reasons. Were we feeling our best? Some days we overlook a great deal more than we do on other days. - Whosesoever 'the fault, bedtime should he a-time of peace, a time when Mother forgets the little hurts and grievances of the day. Quickly the child who feels your loving confi. dence will resolve never to offend again, This is a chance to show your understanding, that wonderful under: standing about which mothers boast! To dwell on an injury inflicted by a friend is bad enough; to harbor ill will because of the peccadilloes of a little child is cruel. It is-bad for the child's health, had or its temper, bal for its character. ~~ Mothers should forgive and forget, I have heard some say: "Of course I have forgiven my little girl, but she must be taught to remember,' If 0, try some other time than bedtime for reminding her. =f To-morrow will be a new beginning, You do not want your child to be bur- dened with the Wrongs of yesterday or to-day. Do we like to sleep under a heavy cloud, ourselves? 'Do you remember ever crying yourself to sleep? If so, never subject your child to the same misery. It is a real tragedy to a child to have to go to sleep without a moth- er's good-night kiss,--Issued by the National Kindergarten Association, 8 West 40th Street, New York City; These articles are appearing weekly in our columns. tn. G8 mre Evening Make Up Should be Flattering Evenng make-up should be flatten- ing. A light, inconspicuous, easy-to- apply make-up is perfectly all right for the street, but it will look like nothing at all under artificial lights. Then you need a little more color and a bit of eye make-up which you wouldn't ordinarily use on the street or in the office, Ex Have a good light over your dress- ing table and stand so that it shines on your face while you are' making up. Clean your face and neck with cleansing cream and skin tonic be- fore you get into your bath. If your skin feels at all dry, put on a nour- ishing cream and leave it on until you step out of the tub, Be sure and re- move every trace of it before you use a foundation lotion. + 5 A: good foundation lotion is a ne- day. which matches the tone of your skin and be sure and put it on your neck as well as your face, - ° After the foundation, either liquid or cream rouge, See that there are no rough edges and -that it is not placed too low on your cheeks. Powder follows the rouge and then an eye-shadow, Be careful. not to get powder on your eye-lids, Brush your brows and lashes after you have powdered. Eye shadow 'should thot extend out on the cheek bones, Mascara and eyebrow pencil, if you use them, are the next to the last steps. Lipstick is the final one. blend on -- Wedding Dells and. Chris polls played a eho Cortez, popular with the filcker fans, took the plunge aga with Mrs. Christine Connift Tes, New. York k weiiety hat) on, Another Hollywood Romance should | - We, ourselves, may be one of them! | cessity both at night and during the It's a good idea to have one| --~7atd other wodds .can also be used. .| rope, etc, in the 'manufacture "of market 18) ose vvianiinrss Canadiai ¥ Se. 7 c-Securitles iher t p Canads Securties ich a Del ei ture 'market where tha of interest) after making full provision ul debts frees arasesss errant Real Estate other than Bank Pr i Mor er on Real Estate hold E Bank Liabilities of Customers onder £ of France to conduct the business of the Ban H. S. HOLT, President with the books of the Bank's fiscal year, and during. at several of the important branches. 'We have obtained all the information and e wers of the the Bank after giving effect to the transfer by th: quate for future contingencies. [Profits for 'the year ended 30th November, - APPROPRIATED AS FOLLOWS: Dividend No, 182 at 10% pér annum, Dividend No. 183 at 8% per annum Divi No. 184 at 8% per annum Dividend No. 185 at 8% per annum ,, Appropriation for Bank Premises. ........ Reserve for Dominion Government Taxes Balance of Profit and Loss carried forward, H. 8. HOLT, President Montréal, 23rd December, 1933. LIABILITIES : 35 asi Bush Feld vp. voir 420, v0 115:000,00000 Batance li ete Lo Ai nat itd Bienen 4 ia Cr rolled vis ait interest verses $126,829,694.46 Pole ating inte re. i, melding interes accrued to ni thi : ; BEA das Halil BR iii bl Ya ; : elsewh: tassassannanasssasssers 30,313,902:13 600.448 we a Notes of the k in elrculatio PTL Tr Toy = Fi $0) 4 y : Advances Vides the \Slrcolation racers ve. i! '080.000.08 Bll Fable Ihara i me RI Rs OF Crit Datta nding cr egoing. savsrisrsses 22,082,888'91 : 29,260,476 ASSETS i Subsidiary Colnon band... .eivsersisrare hand. a.m 334.75. iH ate ftv other Porelgn Cu Currencies; nesses 31,713,830.99 87.754,026.11 > ch So ee BANKS, ...uiiiesseisasdesnes -$1,811,091.42 ! eques on other Banks. , ........ccc.oivuennsensnss 18,384,822, due by by 5 Barika and Ba Canada. id 2,814, Balances due: ks an nking Correspondents Clicwiicre than tn CARAGR +51 ore. or respondents 0 ai019 Dominion and Provincial Government Securities (not ties and British, Foreign han a g 23 £2 188 HH a 2 8 LE Call' and Short not {eiceeaing thirty' dare) Loans in t RE EERE ET) Call 'and She Short {not siceeding thirty days) Loans else- : Cana n Bonds, Debentures and » . Current Loans and Discounts in Canada (less rebate d Discounts elsewhere than in Bank Premises at not more than n coats less aniotnts written off, ,.sse 17,0159 NOTE--The Royal Bank of Canada (France) has been {useiporated 'under the laws The Royal Bank of Canada (France) are included In the above General Statement. AUDITORS' 'CERTIFICATE To THR SHAREHOLDERS, THE ROYAL BANK OF CANADA: - We have examined the above Statement of Liabilities and Assets at 30th November, 198 and accounts of The Royal Bank of Canads-at Head Office and with the certifi returns from the branches. We have Jerified the eaah and and Secutitiey at Head Office at the close e year we counted oplaion the transactions of the Bank, which haye come under our notice, have been wi Bank. The above statement is in our opinion proper! e true condition of the Bank as at 30th November, 1933, Rnd 1 it to reimburse the inner reserves of the Bank and to provide reserves which A.B. BRODIE, C.A., ; of Price, Waterhouse & Co. K - S. G. ROSS, C.A | Auditors. Montreal, Canada, 28rd Deceraber, 1938. of P. 8. ROSS + SONS. - PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT : : . Balance of Profit and Loss Account, 30th November, ERE EE ER EE ER TE EN NT) Sree sa nine Contribution to Officers' Pension Fund. ,,. i SR, ee 0 12,006, 349.93 457,096,349. 93 69,945,189.10 106,850,615.53 sas iarasse Cana. 24,198,073.99 11,970,905,82 "ee tessaaans ocks and able value 28,771,273.71 32,981,561.77 $362,471,645.44 for all bad > Wabaran veo $216,849,534.86 95,237,013.78 4,032,843.75 316,113.292.3% vasrerse ersriareriaseseass » 1809. 22,052, 88531 6,328 2,639 a 1,500,000.00 - "464,635. 5 gm 260,476.44 4 ILS RUE esas Crests ansatiaaats aaa Cree rasett ese rataneratte k in Paris, and the assets and liabilities of M. W. WILSON, General Manager the cash and examined the securities xplanations that we have required, and in our thin the drawn up so as to disclose s as shown by the books of * e Directors of $15,000.00 from Reserve Fund ey consider ade- - $1,166,954.95 3,901 1649. 23 1933.00 ca i - $5,064,604.18 BE vue] 1573.00.00 Toma Ceevieesss 1,383,604 $5,068.604.18 FR ---- M. W. WILSON, General Manager { 8 Claims Newsprint Production Had Origin at Phelpston That the flrst newsprint manufac- tured from pulpwood had its origin at Phelpston, Simcoe County, is the claim of a correspondent writing on the Homemakers' Page of a recent issug of The Globe, "You all know that. Sevenent is manufactured from pulpwood (spruce), but this is not an old' process, In the early part of 1875, A. J. Phelps of the N. & A. J. Phelps Lumber Company, 'operating a large mill at Phelpston, Flos Township, County of Simcoe, received from John Riordan, who owned and operated the Lincoln Paper Mills at Merritton, an order for one carload (8,000 feet) of spruce for experimental purposes, The late Matthew Lawson Jr. and William J. Patton, who now resides in Hamilton, felled thg trees and cut them nto logs. As the G.T.R. would not carry round timber," the logs were taken to the mill, where slabs" were sawed off, after which they were hauled to Barrie, loaded and shipped on the old Northern Railway to Tor onto. and transhipped from there to Merritton on the Grand Trunk, "Experiments proved that spruce could he bleached and, manufactured into newsprint, and that wag the first carioad cf gpryce (or any wooa) usnl for the purpose. Since then it has been found that poplar, basswood Prior to 1875, pine (sawdust and shavings) were used with rags, felt, wrapping paper, which was not like the fine quality papers used for this purpose nowadays. "In the book", "Pioneers of Simcoe County", "you may read of A, J. Phelps, but you'll not rea of the car- load of spruce, I got the story from "Ricardo , this. time SAF {.: {my father, W: J. Patton, who is still _{ hale and hearty, although November 20 marked the geventy-eighth mile-{ tone of his life's journey." | sitrnss 1s SHYNESS 1S EXCUSABLE. fo Tost: Female, black head, long black ears, bluish body; speckled legs; Ivery shy. Name Hel nis Spokane dt ash.) pare. : A : Heating Plant - Mad summers of a million years ago Guests Recor Diary. Wein One Hun- halted to make of Dunstable (Eng.) a hundred years ago would turn in their graves if they {saw the contents of an account book which has just been found at a hos- telry in that town, ture of coaching days on the London- . | Holyhead highway as viewed from be- hind the scenes at the Old Sugar Loaf Hotel, one of the oldest and most fa- mous of Bedfordshire inns. . A mapiservant = came across this unique record while turning out the contents of a forgotten drawer. It might have been thrown away, but a waiter chanced to peep inside its an- open the book for a hundred years. Who' the innkeeper was who kept it is something of a mystery, but his cynical comments on arrival and de- partures at the' hostelry. make the book a gem of a.tiquity., Almost every page provides a laugh, Some of the allusiohs are unprintable, "A CROSS OLD LADY." Little did a certain Mrs, Stanley-- who paid £56 14s 1d for one night's stay in the hotel on December 2nd, sion she left behind her. In putting ords: ~~ =~ "A cross old lady. She scolded my wife terribly, I should have liked to have kicked her," 2 Here is another tell-tale reference dated June 20, 1831: "Gentlemen be- longing to the Bishop of Lincoln iVs- itation; 27 dined with the "Bishop; dinner enough for 40," The" bill 'came to £16'13s 11d. On June 4, 1834, it is' recorded in black and white that "the Bishop of Lincoln's Visitation" again called at the hotel, "32 dined upstairs and two below, Bill, £16 10s," and underneath is written, "A great deal too much dinner job." Draw your own conclu- sions! : TIMES HAVE CHANGED, stable and Woburn Bible students: of th-=2 days is provided by the follow-- fig Dunstable and Woburn Bible Meet-* ing; 24 dined; 27 bottles of wine; fillet of veal; ham; quarter of lamb; '| three couples of ducks; pigeon pie; sandwiches; bread and butter; bottle of port and one of sherry; ale. Times have certainly changed. A heartless man this innkeeper. Under December 7, 1828, he writes: _. "Mr. and Mrs, Fulton _and son, Hope Lodge, Newcastle, Staffordshire, were detained here on account of the one. Bill £8 11s 9d." ; SECRET PASSAGE, Towards the end a few sombre pages are devoted to details of not- able funeral processions that rested the night in'the Qld Sugar Loaf. This is how one stay is described: "March 11, 1833. To a. room for the corpse, 10s 6d; Refreshments to sitters-up, bs 6d; Fire and lights all night, 23 Are bringing me the mildness of of this 6d; > Dinners, 14s; Ale, 1s; Brandy, room; I tend the radiator as a greom Might watch a dinosaur, immense and slow, : At work. In flame-lit chambers far below Black oil and coal from some earth- hidden tomb Are giving up the sun-strength locked in gloom, From lost and splendid summers none . 'may know, The wind and rain are battering out- side While here I sit, securely walled and glassed, And warmed by long: gone summers golden-skied And dead. The buried years are dim and vast, v And though I hunt. the future in my pride Both brain and body feed upon the past, --Qerald Raftery in the New York 'Sun, : "Does your dog ever growl?" "No. He knows that my husband has him hopelessly outclassed." Road Accidents in Britain In the first nine months of the past year, the number of persons killed in road accidents in England and Wales was 4,688; the number of-persons in- jured was 161,396; During the whole of the Boer War our total loss "killed 9d; Sherry, 12s; Oranges afid bis. cuits, 1s 6d; Teas, 6s; Beds, 8s; Fires, C. J. Holt, the genial landlord of the Old Sugar Loaf, said that archi. tects had declaced the inn to be than 500 years old, In the gathering dusk he led the way down into an eeri¢ underground 'passage running to- wards Dunstable's famous old Priory Church. The passage became obstruct. ed with fallen earth long ago, but the story goes that it once yinected, the inn with the church, The Guest Here's a Ben Franklin story with a chuckle in it: It is told by the Mar: quis de Barbe-Marbois, first French consul general to the United States, in his 160-year-old diary. From Balti- more the marquis 'wrote: "It is at the inn where we now are that Dr. Franklin arrived one Win. ter's day, eovered with snow and. halt dead with cold. The family and sev- eral guests surrounded the fire, and no one inconvenienced himself for the stranger. "Franklin sat down near a win. dow as if 'to rest, and after several moments addressed the innkeeper and asked him if he had oysters, . "Yes, excellent ones. " 'Open them and take a dozen te my horse. "Does he eat them? ¥ Just take them out and you will "Everybody got up to go and 'sed the horse eat oysters. The children, the strangers, ths servants went td the stable to witness such a novelty, Franklin, in their absence, established that the horse. would not een look: at the oysters, "In that case, Franklin replied, oats.' 2 in. action' was, tie total wounded, | NHL ¥ 3 ed Years Ago - Many the. lords. und Jadite whe 'merry or sleep the | night at the stately old country towns The book reveals an intimate pics cient pages. He was the first man to 1833--realize what a shocking impres- "paid" on her account mine host rec- - A real show-down for the Dun-" lady's leg being hurt, It is an ill wind - :| that blows that does not benefit some- 6s ad; Breakfasts, 95; Cigars, 1s 4d." mory himself, near the fire, in the best place, Very soon they came back to tell hing' 'bring them 1 me i give him some Light 1s the' task when many s share i the toll mHonigr. RET 4 = aan