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1 (® CHAPTER XXVL THE HEROISM OF MR. COLNE. We parted from Inspector Wragge and Mr. Stephen Colne as they start ed from Colnbrook Towers to walk through the woods to the clearing, where the statesman had promisad the detective evidence of Sir Dudley‘s guilt, and it has been shown that these two men, each eminent in his own calling, reached their destination mt the critical moment when Mr. Faâ€" bian Wommersley‘s electric apparatus had been turned on. The pedestrians halted at the unâ€" expected sight, Wragge casting a sideâ€" long glance at his companion as if to make sure that it was as great a surâ€" prise to Mr. Colne as it was to himâ€" "He‘s done us!" said Aif. "My fault for being soft hearted. I ought to have put him right out and not been so bally kind." "Anyhow," _ remarked _ Kathleen ealmly, "it will be plain proof that he murdered George. 1 told Hinkley what he had threatened to do. If he isn‘t hanged for that murder he will be for this." A fierce exaltation shone in the girl‘s face. The two men looked at her with awe. In the hour of her own extremity, whils a furnace raged in the one exit from the mill and death was very near to her, she could only think of the vengeance she had l.rtriven so hard to win and yet hoped might fall "I‘m glad you feel like that, Miss," said Alf, with a note of restrained admiration blended with pity. "It‘ll make what‘s coming to you come easier." "A queer thoughtfully brought me briskly Then he ran out on to the landing and peered over the rotting balusâ€" trade down the well of the staircase. The pungent fumes nearly choked him. "The only chance," he coughed and ran back into the room. Sir Dudley Glenister, accused of murdering his cousin, James Glenisâ€" ter, arranges with a moving picture company to burn an old mill on his| estate, in which he is holding Norman| Slater, an enemy, a prisoner. He vis-; its Slater, just prior to setting fire to the building, with the intention of | using a horseâ€"whip on the captive, but | Alf, a friend as Slater, .n«f Slater‘s | sweetheart, Kathleen Glenister, also a‘ risoner in the mill, breaks into Dudâ€" Key's plans and rescues the prisonert.i But before she had accomplished the feat Alf, growling like an angry mastiff, spring to the door and Norâ€" man uttered a cry of dismay. For a waft of acrid smoke had drifted into the room and from below there reached them the crackle of flames. NOW GO ON wITH THE STORY I‘ll pin my hat on," said Kathleen CHAPTER XXV.â€"(C PUWWABGGe TY OR UJ _ _ 6 B ote unechnne M the brew when poured into your cup before creamt is added. The paler the colour the finer the Green Tea. Compare any other Green Tcea with «SALADA" â€"None can equal it in flavour, point, or clearness. Onily 385 per }â€"lb. Judge the quality of Green Tea by the colour of "CALADA" BEGIN I$SUE No. 17â€"‘28 go," said the inspector "Is this what you along for, sir?" GRBEEN TEA â€"~ HERE TODAY ont C The astonished cry brought back Mr. Wommersley‘s leading lady from shadowland. The longâ€"lashed eyes, which had been such an asset in many a film, Auttered open. But it was not upon the rugged face bending over "Miss Maud Blair" had fainted, and John Grimes, clumsily trying to restore her to consciousness, only recognized her as the cabinet minister and the detective drew near. "My God! it‘s our Sally," broke from the big man in velveteen. scombe Road, Brixton. At the instant of his own recognition he was conâ€" scious that Mr, ‘Colne convulsively grippeo his arm. Wragge was at pains to conceal the thrill of exciteâ€" ment that was nearly destroying his composure "You know the woman, sir?" he asked, tuning his voice to an incurious note. "I know her?" queried Mr. Colne as if in defence of his dignity. He laughed a little, as if it was a case for amusement rather than resentâ€" ment. "I am afraid that I have negâ€" lected my opportunities, Wragge, for cultivating cinema professionalsâ€"if I ever had any." "It scemed not impossible that you might know hor, sir, for if I am not mistaken she is a native of these parts," said Wragge, "the daughter of Sir Dudley‘s keeperâ€"the man who has just brought her to the bank." _ "Picture artists faking a film," said | Wragge, and for once his tone lacked , the deference he habitually used toâ€"| ward the cabinet minister. And heI added with a still more marked ab| sence of respect: "Looks a bit mcky,,' sir, for this wonderful evidence of’ yours that‘s going to dish the Beech-’ wood baronet. This show couldn'ti have been started without his sancâ€"| tion, and murderers don‘t squirt elecâ€" tricity on their guilty secrets." "What had we better do?" said Mr. Colne feebly. So it was that they advanced into the beam projected by the Amphibian Syndicate‘s apparatus, incidentally so frightening "Miss Maud Blair" that in her sudden start she canted over the millwheel on which she was posed and got herself jammed by it against the masonry of the dam. Unconscious of the part they had played in causing the catastrophe, they stood on the bank watching Mr. Wommersley‘s curious antics. It was only when the tall man rushed out on to the dam that the inspector grasped that there had been an accident, and when John Grimes brought his daughter to the bank and laid her down Wragge stiffened in all his fibres as he recognized the injured actress as Mrs. Simon Trickey of Lipâ€" "Why, join the crowd and probe the mystery," said Wragge. The inspector‘s hand stole gently under his companion‘s arm, as though to guide him nearer the casualty. "He‘s done us," said Alf,. "My fau for being softâ€"hearted." "Noâ€"o+o," was the longâ€"drawn re ply, "What do you make of it?" _ 3 BEST FOR ALL YOUR BAKING = Pies, Cakes, Buns and Bread â€" DOES ALL YOUR BAKING BEST Mr. Hangoffâ€""Why, no. Whatever put such an idea in your head?" Bobâ€" byâ€""Pa did. I heard his say to Ma a little while ago, ‘I guess LiIl‘ll get his scalp toâ€"night. She‘s gone up t‘put her war paint on‘." "I should say. Everywhere he goes he takes his wife on his arm." Masterâ€""I am sorry to say, Jones, that your composition is unworthy of you. The information is faulty and the style crude." Jonesâ€""My father will be angry when he hears that." Masterâ€""Well, you must tell . him you‘ll do much better next time." Jonesâ€"‘"Do better, sir? Dad can‘t do better than that." Approximately 28,000 men and woâ€" men turned their backs on the farm in South Dakots to attend agriculâ€" tural short courses and then turned back to the farm better equipped to face their problems. "He‘s a eh?" Wragge stooped down and put his questionsâ€"only a few words to each. The first was answered at once with a nod and an impudent smile. The second required longer reflection and a painfully whispered sentence or her that they settlied. Their puzzled gaze passed John Grimes and fixed the right honorable gentleman who was so very, very gently being comâ€" pelled by Inspector Wragge to toe the mark two. "Thank you, madam," said the deâ€" tective, rising. "You have greatly aided the cause of justice." "If you will wait here, sir, I won‘t keep you a minute," he said. "Then we will resume the matter of procuring evidence against Sir Dudley Glenâ€" ister." Wragge pushed his way through Wommersley‘s men and, passing into the cottage, entered the living room, where "Miss Blair" had been laid on a horseâ€"hair couch. The great Fabian was incoherently trying to explain himself and his doings to the girl‘s parents, who were bending ocer her and paying no heed to him. Her eyes were shinging feverishly, but there was a glint of mischief in them as they rested on the inspector. "I am sorry to intrude," said Wragge, addressing the keeper and his wife. "I am a detective officer from Scotland Yard and I want to ask your daughter two questions, 1 have nothing whatever against her personally." _ John and Judith Grimes whispered to each other and stood aside "It‘ll ease her conscience maybe, if she‘s dying." said the keeper. l Wragge appeared to hesitate for a moment and then, without referring to the queer words uttered by the inâ€" jured woman to his illustrious comâ€" panion, he steered the latter toward the cottage. Mr. Colne‘s lips were twitching, but he also ignored the faâ€" miliar mode of address adopted toâ€" ward him by one with whom he had just disavowed a previous acquainâ€" tance. It may be that he held it beâ€" neath his dignity to notice seriously what might have been only the babble of delitium. Wragge halted on the fringe of the cinema people clustered at the cotâ€" tage door Again a brief indecision seemed to master him, and it was with an air of reluctance that he at last released the statesamn‘s arm. "Hullo, here‘s the ‘tec!" she shrillâ€" ed. "The ‘tec that come mouching after Simon. What have you done with the real villain of the piece, old sonâ€"the blighter you were with outâ€" gide? Don‘t let him slip you, for you‘ll never catch him again. He knows the game is up, now that I‘m knocked out, and I‘m jolly glad it is." "Hullo, Steve!" she sighed. "How are you, old boy? It‘s nice of you to come and see me die. Sympathy‘s better than money when you‘ve got to take your last call. Oh, my poor side!" For the fraction of a second the pressure of Inspector Wragge‘s hand on Mr. Colne‘s arm was not quite so gentle, but it relaxed immediately. "The lady ought not to lie out here," said the detective with authority. "How about taking her to that cotâ€" tage?" "Seeing as she‘s my darter that‘s where I‘m going to take her," said John Grimes through his clenched teeth, and picking up the limp form as though it were a feather, he bore it in his strong arms toward the red blind at the other side of the clearing. Mr. Fablan Wommersley and his sateâ€" lites trailed behind. (To be continued.) A Strong Man. marvelously strong man, ONTARIO ARCHIVES TORONTO "I have put together beauties that have been broken into bits, to say nothing of providing new noses for old Venuses by the score,‘ he said, "and making ears and feet and arms and legs for all sorts and conditions of nymphs, ancient heroes and Vicâ€" torian statesman. The most difficult task is fingers. But I have made so many hundreds of them now that I merely take one lock where the missâ€" ing finger was and go straight away and make another that will fit on corâ€" rectly. Joseph Cheek, superintendent, nurse and surgeon for all statues, busts and models in the palace, admits that the classification might be improved, but explains that he has had a big job the last seven years getting them all to light again and repairing the damage done when they were hustled out to make room for warâ€"time occupation of the palace. "Don‘t worry about the classifica tion,. We‘ll get them all placed right in time." London.â€"The 2,000 statuary casts of the famous folk of history and mythology which were vanished from the rystal Palace during the war are back on exhibition again, but they are not quite the same as they used to be and as classified now â€" they make strange company. In a room supposed to be sacred to Grecian statuary, Queen Victoria is found turning, perhaps for sympaihy to Cleopatra. 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Spurck, an engineer of the new switchgear plant of the General Elecâ€" tric Company at Philadelphia, in charge of the high voltage testing of circuit breakers, where ares of artiâ€" ficlal lightning &t from fifteen to twenâ€" ty feet are played over apparatus to make sure there gre no defects and that it will withstand conditions when put into service, out in the open in natural lightning areas. *"Shooting a million volts into circuit breakers to thoroughly thest them before leaving the factory is not mere guess work. The fundamentals are based on studies made in the compary‘s laboratories, feld observations and the classic work of the late Dr. Steinmetx," Mr, Spurck eald. Nothing to Fear From Lightning And if you chance to be at your desk in some downtown skyscraper, the lightning cannot reach you. Perhaps the questio . of the eficacy of lightning rods has rever been fully settled in the public mind. Lightning rods are now to be seen chiefly in the country. There is a lightning rod on nearly every bouse in the ¢ities, The next time the lightning fashes and baby criecs and mother shivers and you swallow hard and tell Johnny pooh, pooh, there is nothing to be afraid of, and then duck your own bead under the bedclothesâ€"don‘t. You are right. There is nothing to be afraid of, The chance of a person being struck in bis home is one in several million. The safest place in yrour house 1|| anywhere except where these lightâ€" ning conductors are centered. Most plumbing and heating pipes run up and down in the middle of the house.‘ Keep away from the walls in whlc-h; they run. Do not stind between two metal objects, such as a heating radiaâ€"| tor and the plumbing pipes, ‘There is | nothing wrong with the superstition that bed is a safe place. In the modern steel office building, lightning can‘t even ge‘ the roo!,. Most roofs of such buildings are metal and are purposely brought in contact at some point with the steel framework and this circuit absorbs and carries off any lightning that may chance to shoot down. Chance of Being Struck in Your Home is One in Several Million, He Estimates If you reside on the top of a hill with no trees about, you Are in & comparatively perilous position. Such a house is likely to be struck once every 100 years. But if you live in the average city home, with houses of equal height about you, lightning is apt to single you out about once every 1,000 years. As for the residents in the house perched upon the hill, the chance is one in several million that they will be struck by the boit that comes once every 100 years, The bo!t might tear up the roof, or even set it afire, but likely would get no closer to you. _ It would encounter the electric house wiring and would be carried, impotent, to the ground. Or it would hop onto the plumbing system and docllely speed off into the earth. CITY DWELLERS SAFE THERE Is nothing that has ever taken Aspirin‘s place as an antidote for pain. It is safe, or physicians wouldn‘t use it, and endorse its use by others. Sure, or several million users would have turned to something else. But get the real Aspirin (at any drugstore) with Bayer on the box, and the word genuine printed in red; Says Engineer | That lowa man who eleven years ago knew nothing of farming and who hea jusi retired from the so!l with a |competence #ays he did it by using ‘ diligence and economy, Digging right ; down to it still pays. 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OF CANADA LIMITED Wirestone Builds the Only Gumâ€"Dipped Tirce used in Canada the of all other bran combined MADE IN CANADA NO ALUM i, e.w.citcert co.10, MOST MILES PER DOLLAR Are Trained and iquipped to Save You Money and €Serve You Better Tirestone hy tog ada >th:r bran‘:lg mbined The cause of the women students has been taken up by the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizen: ship which has decided to advise its supporters to subscribe only to hoeâ€" pitals whose schools are open to hboth sexes. The union also declares that, far from women being unable to sucâ€" ceed as doctore, there is now a bigger demand for their services than ew. before. OMcials of the Charing Cross Hosp! tal, one of those which is shutting it« doors on the young women, say that the number of applicants has so greatâ€" ly dwindled in the last two years that, as far as this particular hospital is concerned, the question is solving itâ€" self. But anyway, these officers #ay, the profession is overcrowded. To this the women reply that they have proved themselves as capable as men in imany branches both of medicine and seurgery, so why not divide the openings between men and women. But other women who aspire to medical honors are fAnding their paths harder than ever, for some of the hos pitals are refusing to admit and train any more students, and it seems that goon there will be only three hospitals in London open to girls for the pur pose of training, one being the Royal Free Hospital for Women, where the students are all women. But before long it became matter of common report that some of these women doctors found themselves unâ€" able to get enough patients to make a living and had to turn to some other occupation. As an example of what women can do in the field of medicine, the career of Dr. Mary Scharlieb, who at eightyâ€" three years old is a prominent Harley Street physician, is being cited. Dr. Scharlieb, who is a Dame of the Briâ€" tish Empire, keeps regular offlice hours and has a large practice. She is the leading woman doctor in the British Empire. It is known that four Chinese e=m ployees in the maritime customs sorâ€" vice had been appointed deputy com missionere, from which rank they preâ€" viously had been debarred. . This marks a breakdown of the rigid foreizn dead!line in the customs service that endured for more than forty years and is an entering wedge to Chinese con trol of China‘s fiscal affaire, Equally Given Chinese At a meeting of foreign ratepayers in the British concession at Tientsin there was unanimously adopted a : golution conferring mbsolute equal! on Chinese residents and giving the Chinese equal membership in the Municipal Council, The succeseful ones went out into the world with their diplomas and many set up as private practitioners People took some time to get used to "Miss Ethel Jones, M.D.," but the novâ€" elty wore off and the woman practiâ€" tioner came to be taken for granted. John Chinaman Gets More Privileges Ehangbaiâ€"That a new era in tho relations between foreignere in China and the Chinese actually has begun, in which the Chinese are being ad mitted to participation in functions from which they Githerto have becn excluded, was shown by several re cent events. During the World War several of the big London hospitals opened their classes freely to young women and the opportunity â€" was quickly seized hy many girls looking for a new career London.â€"London hospitals are clos ing their doors to women who wish :. become physicians. New Jobs Are Given To Naâ€" tives in Shanghai From Which Formerly They Were Debarred Another innovation will be {h: Chinese wil be permitted to attend the annual ratepayers‘ meeting this year as spectators, one section of the Town Hall being resorved for them The principal resolution before the meeting will be to admit the Chinese to admission to the public parks in the international settlement on the same conditions as those on which foreign ers are admitted. Will Relieve Grlievance ‘This resolution, which is certain to be adopted, will remove a Ionz-sv,nns ing grievance. The foreign clase ho seems to realize that the bour bas struck for the oldâ€"time privileges The northern militery situation is uncertain, although no reliable new# Is avallable. The best information in dicates that only minor clashes have eccurred, the expected general offon sive not having been started Gold filling keeps teeth from hurtâ€" ing, especially the teeth of the crin> inal code. Number of Applicants Dwinâ€" dles as Reports of Poor Practice Are Circuâ€" lated In Shanghai the Chinese ratepo: bave elected three members o‘ Municipal Council of the internacc seittlement and six members of a « mittoe who will take office on A 19, the day following the annual eign ratepayers‘ meeting, Bar Women From A NEW ERA ed Next t Australi; Australis ATea and already are being ma Government prom United was mar Downing bered in From Wildern Is We those empio7®6 7 tries, and after th ahead on a firm b ago it did not pro to feed its own T next year i wil celebra her existenc brati All n Fortu that its useful â€" by me! is to be biggest oming Centenary Growth in T« Empire‘s niP eT h offs a Te 1y wheat 1 n Scen