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!r Hope Ranger is held prionrer in a saiitarium conducted by a group of eriminti: called the "Combine." Aldâ€" erman i?ins is head of the organâ€" ization and Dr. Bristow is superinâ€" tendent of the hospital. Anita Copâ€" ley, nurse, is in ‘.ve with Bristow.. t "Â¥Yes; and im i gain," Hope answe well as she couid 4 and mannerisms. Without stopping, Through the wide the drenched lawn, unsubstantial in th was driving in fror keaven! The car w Her e sight, she "Wait‘" bade a heavy cracked voice. She looked up startled to see the tall, bowed figur of Higgins. "Not so fast, my dear." He gripped her arm, and slipped his own through it. Then leaning heavily on her shoulder, he forced her to step with him as he hobbled across the porch. the An What she s gins‘. the ho« sine the to He picked up the speakingâ€"tube and gave an order. Immediately they started. The gates were opened to them, and they rolled through. Hope leaned back. A deadly faintâ€" ness had come over her, when she heard that order. They were not going to town. The road he had mentioned led off through the sand and scrubâ€" oak, across the island. Uncertain what to do, she l00oKkcd through the window and saw that they were approaching one of the loneliest spots on the island. Higgins lifted the speakingâ€"ture again, and ordered the chauffeur to turn down a road even more unfreâ€" quented than the one they were travelâ€" ing. Dr. i'l(@isgry, another prisoner, be e But instead of complying, the car was stopped; there was a word or tw» between the valet and the chautâ€" feur, and then the valet jumped down and came around to the side. Higgins grunted and swore. "Can‘t you damn fools understan« The subtle delicacy in everything Japanese apâ€" pears also in the captivating flavour of her incomâ€" parable firstâ€"crop teas. Oniy firstâ€"crop leaves are used in this new Japan green tea. k ie plair English?" he rita," she said. u‘ve picked to go ou wiin & the driv ie. Hig 1 â€" oo lal Dt u\w \__aâ€"@| pe A W BEGIN HEi _ TODAY rNC The cool, comforting flavor of WRIGLEY‘S Spearmint is a lasting pleasuré, _ sweet breath. It is refreshing and H eves It cleanses the mouth after rrimg_â€"ziveso a clean taste and illed down a firm ste iveway an < JFJAPANX TEA was ISSULE No. »wn the steps now What made you noled an uninteiligib glanced wildly abou efore her now* Th as not Bristow‘s but hauffeuar and valet s BWALLOWED UP nxe sweret d Mis: a on (mS WweEicoi the parquetted floo a heavy cracke ;mt m?ucm their oilskins, the over their hoeads. » she walked down 1 entered the limouâ€" owed. and slammed h asked as the valet y or she saw s gray and y mist tha‘ the I 28 sa W du ie SE C sR Esn c m 1. Copâ€"| And as if to eonfirm the dreamâ€"like character of the affair, on top of the RY |valet‘s abrupt transformation into you.ll\'elsey. the chauffeur at the door disâ€" night closed the lean, darl: face and spoke i\\ ith the devilâ€"mayâ€"care drawl of the barâ€"| motorâ€"cyclist Hope had sent for a doeâ€" ig as|tor the night before. voice | Higgins seemed unable to compreâ€" Ihend. "Adolf! ‘Bennet!" He called Mas Wiason Woonrow car Hig re he nto d Hands up!" Hope gave a cry, and stretched out her trembling arms. The man in the valet‘s oilskins was Kelsey. opened the door. ‘"What the stoppin‘ for'.’f" l vd "You‘ve said it!" The valet pushed the muzzle of an automatic against the old man‘s chest. ~"It‘s hell, and going to be for you from now on. CHAPTER XXIX. Calling to the chauffeur, who had also swung down and was now at his elbow, to keep his gun on Higgins, Kelsey sprang into the car and gathâ€" ered Hope in his arms. C U2 is o oT Snd "Nobody in particuiar, Diil. J°S5 Fuarez Charlie and George Kelsey." "Hold on there!" he interrupted the little flourish of this announceâ€" ment as Higgins involuntarily dropâ€" ped his hands. "Keep those hooks up above your head. Kelsey, frisk him." He waited to see that the search was thoroughly made. . No weapun was found on Higgins‘ person; but «till not content, Charlie himself careâ€" The valet pushed an automatic against the old man‘s chest. fully invesigated thy lining and cushâ€" ions of the car, and as an added preâ€" caution made the old man change places with Hope. 3 Higgins, slumped down in his corner of the car, seemed grimly to have acâ€" cepted the situation. Hope‘s breath was coming in long, bhroken sobs; she was trembling violently from head to was foot "Don‘t try to be calm," Kelsey urgâ€" ed. "Let yourself go, dearest. Cry, if you can. Everything‘s all right now. Juarez Charlie‘s driving, and I am here with you." "But how? How?" She clung to him. "He told me that you were at the old house." "Who told you that? The old man here? "No, no. It was Dr. Bristowâ€"beâ€" fore he was killed." "Killed?" Kelsey cried. That clear, practical brain of hers was once more proving itself superior to the weakness of the flesh. With marvelous steadied ~oise, and with searcely a quaver in her voice, she went into all the cCetails, the quickly shifting scenes of that crowded halfâ€" hour. wflimng leaning forward, his ear bent to catch every Word, neither inâ€" terrupted nor made my“_comment. Charlie, driving steadily ahead, was turning over the information in his mind, wondering what effect if ary this might have on their program; f0f Kelsey had lowered the sash bet!een Hove‘s storv ‘Aucky f):faq. Juarez," Kelsey turnâ€" ed his head and spoke to Charlie, "that we decided to play your huncb;.’: WO WERRMAeR TT RDCW E02000 Charlie nodded, looking straight beâ€" fore him; to drive through a thick uiUstRATED By a RWSa:reaAtItLD. q99 eemed unable to compreâ€" if! ‘Bennet!" He called f his valet and chauffeur. sold you out, oldâ€"timer. ; usual, deserced the sinkâ€" that he might overhear I who are you?" He to the other with his The valet pushed hell you L. cpvvmr mt yercccaniopmery ramnReie Just he : â€"dangle immunity from arrest and a bunch of jack before his eyes, and see what happens. Hang it! I can‘t feel sure in my bones of this Morton pasâ€" I w.a;:edâ€" to know what sort of a felâ€" tow this Bennett was. â€" ‘Can you trust him? I asked. f ‘.‘."S\;r;: B&fio. All we‘ve got to do with Slim is to convince him that ole Marse has lost out.‘ y "‘But how can you get in touch with him? I asked. ‘Are you going to take the risk of telephoning again?‘ "‘No; I can beat that,‘ he told me. "There‘s a kid fooling around down there in the woods; I‘ve seen him sevâ€" erai times from; the window. I‘ll get hoid of him, and have him carry a message. Here, give me a penc‘l end gome pa'per.' » @Jt struck me as a rather risky think to dj. A note might so easily fall into the wrong hands. But when I pointed this out to him, he only laughed. "‘Nobody‘s going to read this, he said, ‘except the man it‘s intended for, unless it might be Higgins himâ€" self and we‘ll have to run that risk.‘ "I saw what he meant, when he showed me what he had written. One could hardly call it writing at all; it EAVPRNP PVR ECCOYC E: tj was just a few crissâ€"cros$ lines, with & rude drawing of a combination safe below them. "Juarez elucidated the cryptogram for me. ‘That‘s hobo language,‘ he said, ‘and it telts Slim that his brother Ed is waiting to meet him along this road. Ed is a yegg petermanâ€"that‘s £GPd . AZC OHs B OB M CC.0, a safeâ€"blowerâ€"and that picture of a safe down there is his moniker. It‘s a pitch that will bring Slim sure." "He sneaked out then, and found the boy, gave him a dollar to carry the note, and came back to weit. It wasn‘t more than an hour afterward that we saw Bennett coming down the road. Charlie let him pass, and then by making a quick detour through the woods intercepted him. "He came back as shining as a May 3 morning. "‘Hoot, laddie!" he cried. ‘That‘s the brawest little hunch I ever kenâ€" ned. Slim fell on my neck and wept happy tears, when I crossed his palm with a bond. The valet, Ado!lf, he says, is suffering from a bad case of the shakes. Adolf, it seems, was all of a twitter this afternoon, and tipped | Slim off that there was a big ruckus ;on between the three heads. . From rwhat he gatheretf by the keyhole route, the bottom is dropping out of all their "plans. Also, Adolf learns that Higâ€" gins is fixing to stage a final autofhoâ€" !bi]e accident tonight, which of course \ would have to be handled by himself land Slim; and the prespect of taking ‘a chance on the chair doesn‘t appeal violently to either of them‘ "Then, without any warning of what was coming, Charlie shot at me: ‘I‘ve arranged for you and me to take their places tonight.‘ "Nothing could have suited me betâ€" ter. We were going to do something at last." "I agreed to that," Kelsey said, "but ers‘ Leap"? She: Because men who are disapâ€" pointed in love jump over it. He: Well, ain‘t they all disappointâ€" Wifeâ€""Remember now, meet me at the Biltmore for lunceo at twelve." He: Well, ain‘t t! ed sooner or later? Lawyer â€" "Very well, dear, but please be there by one, @8 I bhavy: an appointment with a woman client at three and can‘t wait any longer than two, if I am to meet her at four.‘"â€" Judge. f Enmmmmmme, â€" ppmmmemeand i Minard‘s Liniment for Grippe. 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It has a body resembling a ball of wool, with black hairs on its body and red ones on its legs. Its eyes are black and quick moving, with a most malevolent exâ€" iprovsiun. It is very active and jumps about two feet at a single bound. The palo santo ant, a fire ant, which lives in hollowâ€"stemmed trees, is comâ€" mon here. A touch on this tree brings down a shower of the ants, whose bites feel like redâ€"hot coals, the sting lasting for hours. Other plagues are the zaputama, an almost invisible insect which lies in the grass, bites the legs of men and causes an almost intolerable itching; the guanaco, a bug which lives in the sand and whose bite is usually fatal; the baregui, a sand fly with a painful sting; sweat bees, which suck the perspiration from the hair; the anoâ€" pheles or malariaâ€"carrying mosquito, and wasps, ticks and. jiggers. "Offisher, you‘d better lock me up. Jush hit my wife over the head wish a club." "Did you kill her?" 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Trampâ€""Ob, I know ‘im. ‘E‘s the little feller who told me to go away yesterday or ‘e‘d call ‘is wife."â€"Epâ€" worth Herald, can be made ect by the daily use of RECHI}Rc!Er:)osuwu "For Ladies who care.‘ ~ One 2â€"ounce Jar of Vanishing Cream ard 1 Box of Face Powder mailed to any address in Ontario for $1.00. 288 YTonge Street. & * 28 2 Annoying Bugs TAILORED SIMPLICITY L3 YOUR SKIN TORONTO Mutual Protection Safety First MAMTUVNLTH Y Lo away or In the threeâ€"cornered struggle be tween French antiquaiians, the Minisâ€" try of Justice, and humanitarians and hygienists the last Lave won, and the Ministry having failed to suUE: gest improvements to thei1 satisfacâ€" tion it has reluctantly consented to he demoliion of the notorious woOmâ€" en‘s prison of St. Lazare at the Jâ€"1n¢ tion of the Rue de Faubourg and the Boulevard de Mag>nta, Paris. The old prison, some buildings of which date back to the twelfth cenâ€" tury, was first used as A leper hospiâ€" tal,, then as an abbey, and then as a seminaryâ€"all before the French Reâ€" volution. During the Revolution it| was used to house debtors and poli ticar prisonersâ€"some quite famous. It became a woman‘s prison in 1868, and at one time rc fewer than 7,822 women crowded in its tiny cells and stuffy dormitories. Within recent years it guarded, while awaiting trial, the beautiful Mme. Steinheil alleged to have been perpetratur of th "studio > crime"; Mme. Caillaux, wife of the© former Premier, ~who slew Gaston, Calmette in the office of Le Figaro, | and the Anarchist girl, Germaine Berton, who shot down Mariue Platâ€" eau in the office of Leon Daudet. The principal defenders of the old prison have been the antiquarians; its principal enemies, the hygienists.| Some months ago the latter succeed-i ed in having the Ministry remove all the prisoners to other places of deâ€" tention. Now M. Paul Fleurot, President of the Conseil General of the Seine Department, has submitted se uen ( To Raze St. Lazare Prison In the three-cornergd struggle be a proposal that the site of St. Lazare should be used for a new boys‘ school. This the Government has acâ€" cepted, transferring the historie ediâ€" fice to the Ministry of Education, which will immediately begin its deâ€" molition. Reading that tigers can climb trees makes us nore firmly resolved than ever never to do any tigerhunting.â€" Albany Knickerbocker Press. Straddling the Issue What is needed now worse than anytning else is a warm dry rain.â€" New York Daily News Record. Croscâ€"eut. 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Physicians prescribe Aspirin; it does NOT affect the heart NIGHT COUGHS ""*Z BRONCHITIS __ MAGIC BAKING POWDER used in Canada than That blacksmith who has ford and anvil rigged on a truck and who tours the country side shoeing horses seems to bave excellent claim to the honored title "journeyman blacksmith." It doesn‘t always pay to be kind and charitable. Try wrapping your scart about a poor paked knee you see on the street. Many a motorist knows that the roughest way around is often the shortest way home. "Airplane goods, submarine prices," reads the sign in the upâ€"toâ€"date mer chant‘s window. TORONTO HOTELS Elliott ana Victoria Church & Shuter Sts. 56 Yonge St In the Shopping District used in Canada than of all other brands combined | ASTHMA MADE 1N CANADA NO ALUM E.W.GILLETT CO.LTDO & _ TORONTO, CAM _4 12 ‘ Huge Guns Guard z= Singapore Port Britain to Mount Largest Weapons in World at Strategic Naval Singapore. â€" Three eighteeninch guns, on the way here from Engâ€" land, will make this great British naval base in the Pacific Ocean one of the most heavily fortified spits in the world. These gigantic weaporns, which are mbout sixty feet long, weigh nearly 150 tons each and fire projectiles which weigh 3,333 pounds, are the bigâ€" gest guns in existence. Their immense range and destructive power will be arble to keep any warship now afioat at a respectable distance. There is n? battleship in the world with guns of more than 16â€"inch calibre, The guns, which are being shipped here by ordinary cargo steamer, were consiructed experimentally during the World War. One of the guns was mounted on the 19,000â€"ton cruiser Furious, one of the warships designed by Lord Fisher for his projected naval campaign in the Baltic Sea. Originally, the Furious was to carry | two of these guns, mounted fore and aft, but an airplare deck was conâ€" istructed in place of the forward turâ€" ret. _ , When the ship was completed and ! the aft gun was fired a few times the | concussion was found to have been so ggmz that it had badly damaged the | ship. The British Admiralty then deâ€" ‘cided to mount the guns on the moniâ€" ; tors Lord Clive, General Wolfe and :Prince Eugene for use in bombarding \the German positions on the Belgian ‘coast. The war ended, however, beâ€" | fare they could be thus employed. ] The monitors were thereupon disâ€" |carded, and the War Office still had \the monsters on its hands. Only reâ€" cently did the British naval authorâ€" |ities decide to use them for the de fence of Singapore. As the guns have seldom been fired, there still exists a large reserve of ammunition on hand for them. New Sugar Is Discovered | In Residue of Dahlia Tubers | Washington.â€"Discovery of a new sugar in the juice of dahila tubers is ‘mnounced by the United States \Bureau of Standards. Also on the way here is the largest foating dry dock in the world, large enough to dry dock any British warâ€" ship. It weighs 20,000 tons and conâ€" tains 20,000 tons of steel. It is being fowed here from England. Recently it passed through the Suez Canal. Singapore is an important spot on the maps of the general staff of the British navy. Standing â€" between Japan and Australia and just opposite the Philippine Islands, in effect it guards the eastern trado routes of the British Empire and provides a potent base from which British fleets could operate, take on supplies of fuel and food and effect repairs in time of war, l This residual eubstance was sub | jected while in syrup form to a ‘ight | polarization â€" test. _ Fructose when given a similar test rotates the polarâ€" ized light to the left, but this unknown syrup rotated it to the right. Other tests reduced it to crystaNine form, which the announcement says is a sugar that has "mever hitherto been isolated." It was discovered during tests io find out the structure of insulin, whico is a starchlike substance found in the dahlia juice. . About 92 per cent. of this juice was resolved into the al ready known sugar called levulose or fructose, but the remaining 8 per cont. was a mystery. Cape Argus: The relations between Labor and Capital are better than they bhave been for years past and hold out the promise of more effe« tive coâ€"operation in the future. Nor should it be forgotten that that in domitable spirit which enabled Britain to see the war through to a triumphâ€" ant issue still survives; and that th« potential resources at her command are unequalled by those of any other nation with the possible exception of America. One does not hear over much about the steps which have been taken by the British Government to develop the resources of the Crown Colonies and dependencies. But they are none the less of farâ€"reaching imâ€" portance, and if they bear the fruit which is to be reasonably expected, the British people will discover that once more a new world has been cal} ed into existence to redress the ba! ance of the old. SAFE DOG Hobo: Say, madam, is that dog safe? Lady: My dog‘s in no danger, |‘m sure; but I cen‘t say the same for Britain Recovers l1 mil the th Of flu A. MachNeil Times Tel th n ng the Oper: . LJ1 i1 it M Mlade an Giving cessal H #a