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Phantom of the Opcra Th After E\;ery Meal * ~ A Fla‘vor fOf Em Tm It doesn‘t take much to keep you in trim. Nature only asks a little help. Wrigley‘s, after every Wrigley‘s, after every meal, benefits teeth, breath, appetite and The I§§UE No. 7â€"‘26. w BY GASTON LEROUX fle s is not at all :umed, "whereas ou can take my fieent! You must TORONTO h ted rht ol "Who has come bothering now . Wait for me here. . ."/I am going to A ; A sinister chuckle 1 HQ 1 am dreaming!" it said. Christine, Christine, it is "Yas, with a lock. "Mademoiselle," I lutely necessary that that door to us!" _ _ "But how*" asked the poor girl tearfully. _ [ . KD:. "In the next room, near the organ, with another little bronze key, which 'he also forbade me to touch. They are both in a little leather bag which he calls the bag of life and death.. . . . 'Rloul! Raou!! Fly! Everything is *mystflious and terrible here, and Evic | will seon have gone quite mad, and | you are in the tortureâ€"chamber! . . . . |\ Go back the way you came. There mus{ |be a reason why the room is called uy Aihat mame?‘ â€"*_~* .A ] "Chrictine,"*~ said the young man | *we will go from Rere together ortd:c 'fl;)'aeth(r!" \ x: «* 4 1 "We mu:st‘ keep coolk" I whiâ€"pated "Why has he fastened you, ma-‘i-;-- _ We heard hercstraining, trying (to free herse‘f from the bonds that gue'.q hamber !" "Christi "I know where the key is," she said, in a voice that seemed exhausted by the effort she had made. "But I am fastered zo tight. . . Oh, the wretch!" And she gave a sob. ~ a W "We mu:t‘ keep cool" I whiâ€"parcd. "Why has he fastened you, madeâ€" moiselle? You can‘t escape from his house; and he knows it!" "! tried to commit suicide‘ The monster_ went out last night, after carrying me here fainting and half chloroformed. He was going to his was disturbed by the ringing 1 P IH, 8NLI MLA ric bell. There was a bounrd fault! Why did » other‘ side ‘of the wall and %eople’ who pass voice of thunder: | He will lmaul'; t inging! Walk d again!> It is t m-ody ringing a u.‘ Snother Sigh, â€" siren to open the door.‘ s moved away, a door closed. I o time to think of the fresh that was preparing; I forgot he monster@was ‘only going out s to per‘peg:v:te a fresh crime; rstood but one thing: Christine l.ence \nd she gave a son. Where is the key?" I asked, signâ€" to M. de Chagny not to speak and leave the businéss to me, fgr we i not a moment to lose. 7 ine! Christine!" could hear what was said in room, there was no reason companion should not be his turn. Nevertheless, the had to repeat, his cry time behind the wall! omte de Chagny was already ha stine, that is where we are." are in the tortureâ€"chamber?" but we can not see the door." if 1 could ouly drag myself so would knock at the door @and u‘ld tell you where it is." t a door with a lock to it?" 1 faint voice reached us rbed by the It ar th rk ‘rik comes and goes, ton, the veteran . AJMMITAA *" h he has never OT'“' €h» recently completed a walking which he has forbidâ€"‘ of 1644 miles through Scotlaed ) through, because be pnmytand. :‘“ (‘,‘;‘"fi?ufw‘;‘u‘:“:'_ Bad weather has checked Miss ards‘s tour, but sbhe will resume it t is where we are!" spring. When she sold her co fE KW Wnet? TCO TTILatt! home in 1923 â€"shetook us walki Christine opened was only on this uld hope to help wyen know where hree only two doors iisâ€"Phillipe room u, Raoul: a d voice whispefed I shid, "it is absoâ€" at vou should open d f movement in the next e ringing of M 1. Raoul!" de Chagny Our safety, s, depended it« uried!" ce perâ€" terrible readfn 1 Chri le In eft banker, <o he said turned he found i ered with blood . . myself by stril agrinst the wa «. "Christine‘" gr becanm to sob. . "Then. he bousd me. alowerl ;o dic until e« morrow: evening." ~, © _ he loves you!:" * "A‘as!" we heard But Christine Dagme said: 4 "Hush! . . Ihear something in the wail an the Iake!. . . It is bet.. >3 Go away! Go away! Go away!" "Wa could not go away, even if‘we wanted to," 1 said,‘as impressivey as 1 could. "We can not leave this! And we are in the tortureâ€"chamber !"‘ "Hush!" whispered Christine lg:lin. Heavy steps sounded slowly ind the wa‘il, then stopped and made the floor creak once more.© Next came a tremerdous sj(gl). followed by a cry of horror from Christine, and we heard Erik‘s voice: l wall en the lake! . Go away! Go away "Wa could not go wanted to," 1 said us 1 could. . ‘"We c d in mast INE C RA . C * â€"The â€"Awo: L * lair tint. U EROmeme OWP RRRTPTCCO DCOmCOCCME C The footsteps dragged along the floor again. "After all, as we are to die together . .‘. and I am just as eager as you .. . yes, I have had enough of this life, yow know. . . . You have only one word*to say: ‘No!‘ And it will at once be over with eyerybody! . . You are right, you are right; why wai‘t’ You are right, you are right ; why wait till eleven o‘clock toâ€"morrow evening? Trus, it would have been grander, finer. . . . But that is childish nonâ€" sense. . . . We should only think of ourse.ves in this life, of our own death . . . the. .rest doesn‘t matter. . . .. You‘re looking at me because I am all wet? . .. On, my dear, At‘s raiming cuts and dogs outsid=! . . Apart from that, Christine,‘ I thidk 1 am subject to hallucinations: .. You k?lo"t the man Who.rang at ghe jren‘s door just n Cw â€"g#go and kmk‘lfl‘pfie's ringing at the bottom of the ‘lakeâ€"well, he was rather like. . . There, turn round are you glad? You‘re free now Oh, my poor Christine, lqok_at of death, I must sing his requiem!" _ |material for jabot ana sieeves, Frice Hearing these terrible remarks, 1 20 cents. received an awful presentiment . . . .)__ Our Fa%biéh Book, iEustrating the I too had orlce rung at tl;‘e '."‘3"5"9".: newest and most practical styles, will door . . . ‘“_‘"" ‘“‘th"“‘ nowin®" 10 be of interest to every home dress must have set somg warning current $ . . in motion. . .. And.I remembered the | maker, â€" Price of the }-fof?k 10 cents the two arms that had emerged from the copy. e j inky watere. . . . What poor wretch) _ HOW TO ORDER PATTER®S had strayed to that shore this time? | * i 2 s Who was ‘the other one,‘ the one whoses Write your n#me and address plainâ€" requiem we now heard sung" | Iy, giving number‘and size & such Erik sang like the god of thunder,‘ patterns as you want. Enclose 20¢ in sang a Dies Irae that developed us &s stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap in a storm. The elements seem A.’lrtf) it carefuily) for each number, and rage arownd us. and the voice ce M. de Chagny other side of th And the voice, formed metalli "I started at 14 for York at the but 1 went by I and not by the m "I started at Land‘s End and set out we uw‘ + P for York at the beginning of mf tour, "Yes, but it washes off every night." but 1 went by highways and byways sooeties 4 ::(llsn:;:&:l:;‘mn“i‘n ::,‘:s;ofi;s:‘g::hthilnard's Liniment for sore throat.. Cornish coast, Exeter, Bath; Glouces | "N* cfpuise k enc afige L ccacmouee ter Warwick, Rugby, Oakham, Grantâ€"| 6 08 + ham, Urn‘coln and Doncaster, studying | Ehg‘ble Peer De”m Socnety. flora and fauna. In 1924 .1 went to Inâ€"| London society has lost one of its verness, by way of ECinburgh, and | most elgible young bachelors ‘by the this summer I reached John o‘ tiroat‘s, | gecision of Lord Hobart, oniy son of putting in 186 days of actual walking." ‘ the Earl and Countess of Buckinghamâ€" Miss Rickards always lunched on | hire, to desert England for the great cheese and biscuits while on her tour | open space sof Austtali®" This youthâ€" and badâ€"her other meals in inns. She-tful peer, not yet 20. is riding in the gays she never experienced the slightâ€" | bush as a cowboy in Queenn!and, while est loneliness, and always knitted or | London mothers and debntantes with ;emhmiders-d while slte was resting by | designs on 2 distinguished title areâ€"reâ€" \the roadside atâ€"lunch time. | gretting bis ‘defection from Mayfair. 1" . _3 tahart loft Fton a little while at the . SV highest Alps. 1 .nglish>W¢;man Walker, 70, Seeks Pedestrian Laurels. in Ar Another Alps Railway. electric rallway is to be :ummit Tof the ZngspHze «t mountain in the 1B 1d e said! . . . When he rs! Em y â€" _ xTsti) m with my face cov#i ) n und me with my face c .F s ‘ I] "') s T L.3 sutad ta ki',l' iÂ¥ fi‘ «2 NA on =~ ~» elRe . 11, as we are to die together I am just as eager as you 1 have had enough of this know. . . . You have on}‘y" P ; INECTO ~ RAPID * The Aworld‘s best * Rair tint. ~Will reâ€" store gray hairâ€"to its natural color in 15 minutes. §mail size, $3.30 by mail Double size, $5.50 by mail The W. T. Pember Stores 4 Limited Ge 129 Yonge St. vetera groansd Ra FI€MM ude Richards, #eventy challenging the pedesâ€" f Edward Payeon Wesâ€" ran _ Amertcan walker. ompleted a walking tour s through Scotlapd and vou vith my face coyâ€" i bad tried to kill ontnuc R anged and grated ou 1 hutt the 1: and he orehead Toronto not tra country king to thes Rickâ€" next F.* \9‘7"\,1_} &o 0!3»_;.@{& y se ez es } §XA 4. *FAsHIONS my LV _ to the FLARING SILHOUETTE RETAINS * PRESTIGE. . Printed silk offergy a pleasing diâ€" versity in this longâ€"sleeved frock, with graceful jabot and slegve extension of plain crepe. _A soft flare is Obtainâ€" ed through extra fulness being gut| into the side fronts and shirred before| being joined to the bodice at the hip..] The back is in one piece and extends over the shoulders, where it joins the’ front which is also shirred. The jabotI is in one piece and gathered .into two rows of shirrings before being‘tacked in it carefully) for each number, and address your order to Pattern Dept., Wileson Publishing Co., T3 West Ade laide St., Toronto. ~Patterns sont by return mail , "Tk faced the Earl and Countess of Buckinghamâ€" shire, to desert England for the great open space sof Austtali®® This youthâ€" tul peer, not yet 20. is riding in the : bush as a cowboy in Queenstand, while London mothers and debntantes with designs on 2 distinguished title areâ€"reâ€". gretting bis ‘defection from Mayfair, Lord Hobart left Eton a little while ago with the intention of going into business, but a short period in a countâ€" ing house convinced him he was meant for come other career, so he embarked on a freighter ‘bound for Australia. Thora he became a cowboy and now looks forward to a career in the cattle business. His family owns thousands of acres of coal land in Fife and had hoped to induce the heir to take np a ~onvéentiemral life in England. * Age. oi'_Umbic;"el'la: 2 The umbreHa is undoubtediy,af high auticuigy. appeating in various forms npon the scuiptured monuments of Egypt, . Assyria. Greece and Rome; .and in hot countries it has been used shice the dawn of histofy asia sunshadeâ€" a use tignified by. its name, dérived from yhe atin umbra, a ghade. â€" 2 Not Serious u think she‘: S ob ither * The Count of Monte Cristo lived, in ‘doth : take their money .from {! the midet of luxuries and wonders, on | which is not only a great hindran an island®of his own in the Meqditer [Door mb that were woonle to Ki ?mefim Like Alexander Selkirk h'e'w wayse, but also an infryng'mg K D8 oup liberties, whereof we think Have You Tasted AGp & & ied Pm ie N C C e N Those whoâ€" have used Japan, Young ‘Hyson or Gunpowder Tea will nprre-' * ciate the superiority of this delicious blend,. always so pure and rich. Try it. wasâ€"mounarch of all he eurveyed, his right there was none to dispute, snd| since his day every reader of the imâ€" . mortal romance in which his advenâ€" tures are described have envied him, not indeed Jyie solitary grandear, but. his island kIngdom." * ; It is not given to all.of us to become a king in the sense that the King of England or theWing of Italy is, but given a sifficiently large bank account, wnd not very large at that; there is ng_reason why kingship on a minor scale cannot be attained.‘A few weeks ISLAND KINGDOMS FOR SALE ago Lundy, in the Brigtol Channel, was | l sold for £16,000 to a London business f man ;who for this mere bagatelle acâ€" |. quired complete sway over . an a | tive island,. with absolute !rx: from Imperial taxation or> county Or | municipal rates. *s1 ~»Brownsea Island Castle. > { ‘ Now the news eomes to hand uut‘; Brownsea (or Branksea) Island aud‘l Castle are in the market, with anâ€"| other opportunity for someone of play-! ing the role of island king. Brownsgea | ‘Island is situated, at the entrafite"to | Poole Harbor in the heart ° of the:‘ beautiful Derset lakeland. ~The fian’d } itself consists 0f.500, acres of . soifte of i { the most beautifal scenery in the| south of England, and apart from ‘the | Castle would offer many inducements . to quit the busy world for a Tlife ‘of | ‘ quiel" commnnion with *nature. . But | to anyone who‘ iswhot given to ‘Thor ‘eau‘s habits there is the Castle, which | was built in the time of Henty VIH ' Lundy, in the Bristo! Channel, Free From All Taxation, " _ Recently Sold to London Business Man. ® as a defense for all shipping g£o harbor. This some. if we mi dated 1581, â€"wi that: "the Goov molegte the in} mide‘wm not Northaveff Poi them to shoote ©pini( vallue what freely ing: as a pleasure, pursued as etuddied as an art, it has and the affection of the v of the human"®race. Amo forms of music which i minds and hearty of men cand chilren, the music is nerhaps the most valu U Music Championed by Memâ€" * ber of Parliament. the h« ter g« gree | LV "It will be agreed by all that the . home, the life of the home, she spirit | of the family, &re. above nrost things | e‘se, of crucial importance to the wel fare of the State; and if that be so, if | the life of the family is the m‘inaprln(} of the life of the nation, it follows that ; every influence which can benefit flle' family life, which can help to unite the members of the famby in rea} (-mn-'{ panionship, which een give. them ni common | interest, . which can muke their life togother more pléeatant by! making it inore enjoyableâ€"any ln_-; ‘fuence which can do this e an Influ« ence of preet national value. â€"It draws the family more clesely together. It eazes the clash of competing individual 1g cases Amer U U Why Buy a Battery Radio Set When You Can Own a ROGER‘S BATTERYLESS SET h+ . ,vl.',(l_!cquirinq no * Opérates from your light so Eliminates all=the "Fuss & net THE QR.S. MUSIC CO., LTD eqp.e Wal take no | small m sts of th« eration, y the apty veq i PS Nov in men the for | n Mmb GREEN TEA vI ufféer them t, but ‘doth it them, and ig in A surveill believ 114 of Bronkseveé ity wh« of Pa it th iring no "A" or 48B" Batteriesâ€"No° Aorial) ur light socket. Costs tes§ than b¢ iA week to-o}nnte. e "Fuss andâ€" Muse" of batteries. 10084 power â€"ALL °_ the time. on a "Roger¢®~ ~ °C _ ; Askâ€"your local Radto Dealer, of write C L ince n IN ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND n i it, but they mpared with reneration afâ€" commerciad given high finesce ind out wini womeé { <he hon ble=and . t} ment n w some deâ€" Enjoyed hobby, or e interest majority the many thre as recor f¢ m n the irkâ€" n : doth °: take their morney from them, n'whk:h is not orly a great hindranc to r__lx)oo'r mn that were woonte to gayne . | that wayse, but also an infrynginge of sae'-‘minionm ol wWoous anda J ten ‘is hamily possible to becom tly | king much cheaper than the xt H ut d lver.v necessarye to be remedyd." * Bought for a Shilling. ‘ Present possession, it goes without |saying, does not ‘tnclude the privilege ‘ of molesting the sturdy inhabitants of |Poole. *Since the Civil War the | Castle has been used simply as a dwellâ€" ing house, and m beautiful one it is, fit \for @ny island mobarch who may wish to reside there. â€" Given a sufficient figure, and Sir Arthur Wheeler, its ipresem. possessor, ~will vacate his *mrone immediately and voluntarily #£o 1uuo exile.on the mainland of England. In the latter part of the sixteeth cenâ€" {gury the rental of the whole island stood at 88.; but you will have to pay | more now a < 1¢ paid Unit Is desire® withfn the family circle. 1 sests up an interest appealing to al It doss that inesttmabje good to famil lifeâ€"# Imcresses the family‘s powe to hang to:iher for mutual advan agC ib« life, hone br bre may be _of lMiclong beneft to them Soon enough, and inevitably, valueles and injurious influences will be play ing upon them. Give them musicâ€" have imusic played ard sung to themâ€" bave them taught to sing and pila music for themselvesâ€"and you wi bave done something to counteract th canger of unwholesome influences t which they are certain to be exposed Minard‘s Liniment relleves headache The Earl of Birkenhead, Secretary of State for India, started ont early in life go. be a stenographer, but he did not get,. very far, He made this reveâ€" lation in an address to the graduating vlase of a commerclal college. "I thought Â¥ would rather be a shorthand freporter than anuything in the world and ! worked like a beaver," he salid. "I was a wonder. 1 broke all speed records. My teachers bad never seen any one . who developed such speed. Bul there was a rude awakening, Nobody else could read my notes, and i couldn‘t read them Proba}‘y the smullest amount ever id for an island off the coast of the nited Kingdom was one shilling, in nsideration of which eum an ielet in ugh Erne, County Fermanagh, was, out 20 years ago, «old by the Comâ€" isxsioners of Woods and Porests. It WR L M n World‘s Best "Stenog." L6 §90 KING ST. w., TORONTO wWi t0 be t th« rt t It he 1a of T plays the t improve . the emo; n vou hay rest i V uca UG row Cl p ly an influence that mg benefit to them. 1 inevitably, valucless Auences will be. playâ€" n them musicâ€" sung to themâ€" sing and play ~â€"and you will ) counteract the e influences to me an island n lt ne spird m you mom« that ]To BLAST ICEBERSS wITH HEAT MMNES nt PLANS OF MeQILL CON LEGE PROPESSOR. Scientistv Will GCâ€") to Green landâ€"to Blow*Up M“p_l'dng Pinacles With Thermit. Taking with his severa chemical for disiniegrating Dr. Howard T. Barness,, )6« &pecialist and profe«sor of McGill University, wil sail land in June to study the e mines on the breaking up of .060 ht their souree. PFor thirty. yean authority on jce research, be bel. North Atiantic shipping lines c# kept clear of tee, and formation committee to consider putting int fect his plan for extending the na tion season of the St. Lawrence I bas just been suggested to the | ping Federation of Canada by lea commercial jinterests. Dr. Barnes is being eccompani« the expedition by Mr. W. H. H \professor of geology at the Univ« .of Michigan, geologist and mete:« gist, who intends to egtablish in interlor â€" of" Greenland two me! ;-!oglcal stations and make a geolc |\survey of Greenland. As his per \assistant., Dr. Barnes will take D n lnke with him and : hisâ€"heat mines is « does not explode, is ous in itsel{ and ca out a permit It w without damage an any dangerous effe( contact with iee do gerous. Used in c« 4t develops intense him Geor partment yersity, a Douglag. © of ph}'fixfi' geologist expeditior D6 second expfode with great viole! has time to melt. Dr. used higâ€"heat mines on many. previou®s ocvcasions turés fs"considered the, world. * & quarl uated e «td howing iceberg ng. Hmfld‘flgxl of ic Eq | _ The frash young traveling salesms | put on his moet seductive smile as ; the pretty waitress glided up to hi Ltable in the botel diningâ€"room to get his order and remarked : ‘_"Nice day, little one." j "Yes, it is," she replied," and so was yesterday, and my name is Ella, and l I know I‘m a lovely girl and have pretâ€" ‘l(y blue eyes, and I‘ve been here quite ‘a while, and I like the place, and don‘t | think I‘m too nice a girl to be workâ€" ‘ing here. My wages are satisfactory ‘and J don‘ think there‘s a show or \ dance in town toâ€"night .and if there ;wu I wouldn‘t go with you. I‘m from ; the country and I‘m a respectable gir‘, and my brother is the cook in this 1hotel, and he was a college footbali player and weighs three hundred The.; '.hst week he pretty nearly ruined a | $2%5â€"aâ€"week traveling man who tried ‘to make a date with me; now what‘A | you have, roast beef, roast pork, Iriwh | stew, hamburger or fried lver?" routes would | Dr. Barnes ¢ the news that the news the treasurer of Skipping Federation the matter formation of a means of putti Barnes plan for extending the : tion seagon of the 8t. Lawrence into effect,. If the navigation c« extended even two weeks in | tumn is might mean millions of to the port of Montreal, No wation is stopped at the time ng b gation out war the por the Ch: The € Bittern Wandered to Death, . A fipe zittern, a margh bird closey related to the heron, has been shot at Perrot‘s Brook, â€" near Cirencester, Gloucestershire, a somewhat rare 00 currence outside Norfolk. "Run your work or your work will run you." gist to Shackleton on the lition to the Antarctic. To ExplSde Bergs by Heat s chemical whica Dr: Barne with him and which he us rgs. Little Ones from Cig O phasizing the value of «1 I & bout the This is th xpedition at" Gotth rt y ind the > Vibert Douglas, of ‘th« { peoâ€"physics, Harvard brother: of Miss A. Vi the staff of the depart! Lt McGill.â€" Mr. Douglas McGill. Shackle in# von in will: make thaven, Gree e middle of the spot whe . their borgs x the ice from e greatly less« xpressed satisf G. A. Morris, s h:u?fllvle Flc ® taken up Warned is in no way otherwise bene raffic to Europ« 11 B with n th thert ) ~ xT bergk Q )w n wl Or The ande eafi inhore will gre it miuzht wayfanc brought the man do and W1 ed DG YOU UNDERSTAN +} fir