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e Alair Al ts | ACRES®Bm Douglas Raynor is found shot through the heart in the early evening on th floor of the sun room of Flower Acres, his Long Island home. Standâ€" ing over the dead man, pistol im hand, is alcolm inley, former sweetheart of Raynor‘s wife, Nancy. Eva Turner, Raynor‘s nurse, stands by the light switei.. ‘Then Nancy; her brother, Orville Kent; Ezra Goddard, friend of Finley; Miss Mattie, Raynor‘ sister, and others, enter the room. Penningâ€" ton Wise, a celebrated detective, and Lizi, his girl assistant, are called to tae the case out of the han‘s of Detecâ€" tive Dobbins. The print of an overâ€" shoe on the floor of the sun room heightens the mystery, Now Zizi and Dolly Fay, a neighbor‘s girl, go to the house of Grim Gannon, a servant, on the pretense of looking at his colâ€" lection of butterflies. NOW GO on wWITH THE STORY But Zizi was after something other than butterflies. After a cautionary glance outside at the old man, she shook a warning forefinger at Dolly and began to look arotnd among the litter that was piled in corners or an tables ind settees. s mate, and . yubbish back int ed up her find 1 "The rubbers, very ones!" Then she opened the cupboard door, und with a look of disgust on her face, grabbed an umbrella and poked amâ€" eng the shoes and slippers that were flung in there in an untidy heap. i With he umbrella she dragged out ene old shoe after another, and, at Jt was a man‘s rubber, and a new eneâ€"of the type called stipâ€"ons. That is, it had almost no upper,. it way little more than a sole, with a narrow rim o‘ rubber to hold it on the foot. A A fittle more poking brought ferth is mate, and Zizi kicked the other last, with a suppressed cry of triumph, she pulled out a shiny evershoe. ‘fi/ o revieans ~#Zans i /)\( S:r; Month c Â¥f * * s 2 (, c; .’ (A®)*,»:** Rnd J ‘agfj ob s A ‘ _ Per Year "THEN OLD GANNON Is THE MURDERER AFTER ALL I‘M SO SORRY t & 4 | GORCY EMBROIDERY JOURNAL §72â€"H . St. Cathorine St., E., Montreal Sixteen inforestingâ€"mages showing 100 now nn‘lanl-::.ho '.-Dn" idery® designe for g~ transfer pat« terns and stamped goods. The most valuable paper of it« kind for all the latest ideas on Embroidâ€" ery and other kinds of Fancy Work, and other instructive informat most intertstmg to the practical house wife. There are many sabsable things for the gift season. " 10 women alt ovcr Canada are m their capies cegularly, why not you? Remember it costs only l2¢ year to get your copy cach nu-tr a "CALADA" BEGIN HERE TODAY Cut your coupon and send in your 12¢ toâ€"day! No other tea has thisâ€" same delicate flavour :k into the closet, and pick find with eagerness. °_ < JAPAXK TEA ; ‘Fresh from the gardens‘ °~ e whispered, "Thé ‘*29 (CGREEN) .« "I~do," Gannon returned, and his glance at her was equally sharp, "He ‘was a lifeâ€"long friend; almostâ€"" "Yes, an uncertain friend." _ "Uncertain is the ‘word, ma‘am," and Gannon looked reminiscent. "Now, Raynor‘d be as nice and friendly as }one gould wish, and then again he‘d be ;the very dickens and allâ€"yes, ma‘am, the. very dickens and all!" I "Was he uzly to youâ€"as well as to his wife?" Zizi went on. Dolly looked at him, open mouthed. How could this man, who bad killed his benefactor, sper so casually of getting away. with the money he had so feartully come by?" "You must miss Mr. Raynor," Zizi said. s Â¥ ig ~ Ak get off as soon as 1 can get my money from those lawyers." ° to his wife? "Was he the things T She didn‘t especially want Dolly‘s company, but still less did she dare leave her there whers she might diâ€" wulge the secret of Zizi‘s find, and which Zizi was determined should reâ€" main a secret until she could tell Wise about it. The finding of the rubbers was merely the last resort of a long hunt. Zizi had looked everywhere. They must be proved up by the print on the sun room floorâ€"and thenâ€" > Lizi easily concealed the rubbers in her capacious coat pockets, and beckâ€" oning Dolly they left the roon.. She paused on the porch to speak to Gannen, with intent to learn if he had amy suspicion of herreal errand to his room. ‘Yes," Zizi retarned, "and they‘re wonderful." Shall you collect more, or is your stock complete?" "I‘ll get more from South America when 1 go down there. I‘m going to from any wouldn‘t! very well the deadâ€" a good we "Oh, my!" Dolly said, clasping her little kands in dismay. "Then old Gannon is the murderer after all! I‘m so sorry"â€"and the child broke into tears. "Hush up," said Zizi, shaking her, "don‘t let him bear. We must take these to Mr. \wise at onee, Come along." Apparently he had not, for he only sart® "Well, girls, see the butterflies?" Lizi "Not 1! He: was my benefactor, some say. â€" Well, he gave me this house, he gave me a«um of money in his willâ€"but, what did I do for him?". "What did you?" Zizi prompted him. "I kept his secrets for himâ€"that‘s what I didt When he married that lovely !adyâ€"when he persuaded her to marry him, he did it by a lie! "He made her think her father a blgck> guanl. when he was that Blackgnar; imgel?â€"* s . 2 * "And what. were you?" etied Zizip her eyes blazing. "What do you call rself to stand by and see the lovely soidâ€"and sold by. ftaud to a blackguard and & brute! What excus6 do you give for your conduct?" â€" . "Only that Raynor made me." : ; "Ahb, he had a hold on you, then?" "That he did! A strangleâ€"hold> ’u he Lad on many others, And â€"when he lied to the lagly,"when ho protendé that she mtst marry hik.Or di her father, her brother and hersgelfs my handsâ€"weretiedâ€"Iâ€"could do noâ€". mentally, thing> , it l6 | 6. eR ig thing* You‘ye i said. nd d any word «h Doughns ne to m other mc He was to say s but that ‘a. even notâ€"sor Well me, 1 wou mortal ma as a bad m y speak or 1at man e n in death wry he‘s g + he was! Raynor has : , I wouldn‘t rtal man! a bad manâ€" peak only m man don‘t d gone Why, : said to ‘t stand That 1 â€"it‘s all good of deserve then 99 "I should say you wouldn‘t!" exâ€" claimed Dolly, unable to keep silent another instant. * Whereupon Zizi dragged her away. "You go home, Dolly," she said, "and tlon‘t you méention one word of all this to a«single soul. If you do you‘ll make more ‘trouble‘ than even Pennington Wiseâ€"can clear up. Do you promise?" «. > , "Yes, I promise,Zizi. Oh, whoever thought that old curmudgeon did it? Just to get his moncy to go to South America!" â€" "Never mind all that now, Dolly. You just run home, andâ€" go about your own affairs..And if you love Mrs. Raynor, you keep stillâ€"for herâ€"sake." "I will, oh, Zizi, I will," and Dolly obeyed orders. * * Zizi went slowly on to the Raynor house. She found Pennington Wise with Mrs. Raynor and Finley, allin Nan‘s sitting room. Very grave talk was in progress and as Zizi entered Nan was saying: "I must stand by my confession, Mr. .Wise. I muyst insist that I shot ‘sliped into a #eat mext to â€"Nan, ant _took her white hand in her, own tw« [little brown ones. ."«You‘re ull’flfi mentally, morally ~and physica "Penny, here are "the Svershoos." >« Very grave talk was in progress and as Zizi entered Nan was saying: "I must stand. by my confession, Mr..Wise. I myst insist that I shot my husband. I hoe a jury will not deal with me too severely, for 1 asâ€" sure you I was tortured beyond thc‘ lot of most women. I never loved Mr. Raynor; I was tricked into mnrriage‘ with him; 1 consented to it to: save my fathor‘s honor and reputation and, too, to save my brother from knowk edge of our father‘s guiltâ€"as I supâ€" posed, Then, when I learned that my father had never,been guilty at all, but that my bhusband had lied to can you wonder at my hatred of him? Also, remember that hewas a drug addictâ€"and that when denied the morâ€" phine he craved, he became a teritable lfiend. I felt I must try to save him ;from the inevitable fate of. such inâ€" dulgence, so I honest‘ly tried. But it was all too much for me. I almost lost my. mindâ€"perhaps J did lose my mindâ€"" The sad face looked suddenâ€" ly brighter, as if in.hope that @a menâ€" | tal unbalance would help to exonerate "Yes," Gannon reeated, "she never knew about it till a month or so ago. Her brother now, he never knew of it â€"I should say, until after Raynor was dead. You see, Mrs. Raynor she‘d suffer anything and everything rather than any sorrow or trouble should touch her brother. They‘re a devoted pair." ‘"And you think Mrs. Raynor killed hor husband?" Zizi said; Gannon shifted uneasily. "I ain‘t got no opinionâ€"for publicaâ€" tion, miss," he said. "I‘d rather not tell what I think." "When did Mrs,. Raynor learn of her husband‘s deceit?" . . ZLizi looked at him curion.ly. Dolly stood staring, her face the picture of perplexity. She wanted to speak, but Zizi‘s warning looks restrained her. "Yes." Gannon reeated. "she never HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. Write your name and address plainâ€" ly, giving number and size of such patterns as you want. Enclose 20¢ in "Only a few weeks before she shot him." ® ;‘No,_ll_xs. Raynor, iou hivep’t lost YVHAT Jllustrated Dressmaking Lesson Furnished â€" with Every Pattern By Annebelle Worthington +a. 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He bought them about a week before he died. They are a new modelâ€"he had never worn them." g But the effect on Nancy Rgynor was as disastrous as it was unexpected. She turned perfectly white, she tremâ€" bled like a leaf, and had Zizi not flung an assisting arm round her, she would have fallen from her chair. From her coat pocket Zizi produced the rubbers and handed them over to Wise. * The detective took them, and withâ€" out a word, turned them over to look at the soles. A single nod of his head showed Zizi that he now knew all, that whatever was the story th: rubbers told, it was final and complete. FC tcA® e FRO_ _ 0 Christies Biscuits I/ WEARING "This," and Wise held up the right TORONTO dunt ROYAL JmoTELl // / , The popularity of this hostelry is evidenced in the fact that guests inâ€" variably return to ‘the Mount Royal, . A._ courteous welcome and . cheery hospitality awaits. you. 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Women Senators Detro:t.â€"Digging from 45 to 60 feet under city streets, tiolley lines, d rzilroad tracks, engineers are riving toward the completion of a novel watr tannel 2% miles long and costing between $2,000,000 i1d $3,â€" 000,000. â€"It is intnd d to.supply the enormous River Rour»s plant of the Ford Motor Company with an adeâ€" qi ate source of water. The tube will be about 15 feet im diameter, built of brick «nc concrete, with a teel shell. The chain of events that led to the need fc this engineerin,, work started five years ago. Ford‘s Highland Park plant v as then considered the largest automobile plant in the world in proâ€" duction. . When the company moved more than 7000 macines and thouâ€" sands of employees from the Highland Park plant to the River Rouge plant without interrupting production of the new model A car it comprised one of 4th0 most fascinating chapters of Ford history. _ . ie | Bu; ‘ue to this expansion a greatly }'increuul volume "of water had to be obtained and it is this problem that ‘the timzel leading to the plant from the Detroit River through in inlet near Zug Island, at the mouth of the River Rouge, is to solve. Scme idea of its enormity may be disserned â€"y , the eigineers‘ figures, which show it will divert 500,000 gallons of fresh |wnter a minutc, or 750,000,000 gallons a day. * The bedutiful ocellated native Amâ€" erican‘ turkey can frequently be heard here in the early morning. . . . These magnth@®Aht birds are becoming rarer and rarer, every year in Central Amâ€" €rica, and these vast, uninhabited forâ€" ests of the Peten district of Guateâ€" mala are probably their last strongâ€" hold. We owe this generous bird a debt of gratitude, for he is the ancesâ€" tor of our domesiic turkey, an unâ€" worthy descendant who has lost in flavor and westhetic qualities more than h has gained in weight and size. They are, I fear, like the Mayaâ€"themselves, unfitted to cope with modern condiâ€" tions, and are consequently on the road to rapid extinction. Little birds, living chiefly on pulpy fruits, require but a small amount of water, and this they can always obtain Twom the reservoirs between the leaves of the gigantic cacti, found n almost :even tree, a source inaccessible, as a rule, to animals.â€"Thomas Gann, in ‘"Maya Cities." In this remote part of the bush the birds are extraordingrily tame. In the great trees within fifty yards of the house a number of beautiful orioles had started a colony, and clusâ€" ters of their wonderful hanging nests where to be seen in every stage, from the First few straws to the comleted structureâ€"rainproof, snakeproof, and lizardâ€"proof. Their exquisite, clear, fluteâ€"like notes awoke one at daybreak, and their comical antics and nestâ€" building mhltectulg_ were a constant source Of interest and amusement at any period of the day. In a hole about halfâ€"way up the trunk of the same tree a brace of siall green parrots had started housckeeping, and apparently resented very much, with loud squawkings, the near approach of'their neighbors in the top flat. Pairs of great wacho parrots perched fearlessly in the great where water is more plentiful, assthe few scattered waterholes, many miles apart, are now surrounded by the huts of chiclaros. trees all around, though usually it is impossible to get within gunshot of these wary birds. I passed a convoy of bush hens feeding in the ruins, and they let me come within a few feet before «cuttling off into the bush, not even taking wing. Curiously enough, one comes across hardly any of the larger mammals; deer, wild hog, tapir, jaguar, and ama are conspicuous by their absence, even the bignut and the armadillo are rare, the reason probably being that during the dry season they are comâ€" pelled to migrate to other regions The only solution was :o procure a new water supply. Engineers went to worl. on the problem, and finally decided that a gravity tunnel from the Detroit River was the only step trat would prove satisfactory. When this tunnel‘is comploted, enough water will be availabl, to the Ford plant to meet all existing needs and to take care of a large expansion vprogram.â€" Christign Science Monitor. Under the old syrtem, the water flowed from an intake in the Ford Canal slip directly into the plant and emptied into the River Rouge below the intake. 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