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# &> 44 «8 4 Y 5Te t ig: . ® ut *# §] _ The Coleman Lamp & Stove Co. Ltd. As we walked slowly toward the Dillard house it was decided that imâ€" mediate inquiries should be made reâ€" garding the whereabout the night beâ€" The fullowing people are associated with the case: Prof. Dillard, his niece Belle, and his protege, slfurd Arnesson, w professor of mathematics; John Parâ€" dee, a neighbor with a passion for chess: Mrs#. Drukker and her son Adoiph. Mrs. Drukker is mentally unbalanced and her #oi. is a Cripple with a superâ€"brain. Mrs. Drukke,. tells how the murderer paid ber a viazit the nrevious night and léft a chese Nsht:r as a memento. Vance learns that Adolph Drukker has lied as 110006 SURL AOO°PN Urukker has lied as to «_ whereabouts on the morning of Cock Robin‘s death. An insane genius in New York comâ€" mits hideous crimes based on nursery rhymes. A man knewn as Cock Robin is 1 und with an arrow in his heart, and one, John smgh- is shot through the head with a bullet. 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"Our midâ€" night bishopâ€"bearer did not intend that we should learn of his call. He beâ€" lieved that the poor lady would be too frightened to tell us." fore of every person connected in any way with this gruesome drama. "Is it generally known you have a key to the Drukkers‘?" ‘"Whyâ€"I suppose so." She was obâ€" viously perplexed. "I‘ve never made "But that‘s impgssiblé. â€"I‘ve yever lent it to any one. And I always keep it in my handbaz." "Our only interest in the key is that it might have been used by some one who had no right to it." "You‘re quite right.‘" Vance smiled with goodâ€"ratured admiration at the other‘s dogged thoroughness. "Forgive me for try ag to damp your zeal." He turned to Belle Dillard. "We came here primarily to see *he professor and Mr. Arnesson. But tkere‘s also a matter we‘d like to speak about to you. We understand you have a key to the rear door of the Drukker house." She gave him a puzzled nod. ‘Yes; I‘ve had one for years. I run back and forth so much; and it‘ saves Lady Mae a lot of bother. . . ."| "Really now, Sergeant," said Vance banteringly ; "do you imagine that the gentleman we‘re looking for would wipe a bow and arsow clean and then leave his digital monogram on a reâ€" volver?" Mr. Vance," returned Heathasx;lrl;.y "So I‘m going ahead doing the things that oughta be done." Easy pleasant work in selling our wonderful new patented allâ€"Canadian :onvenience for women. Big profits can be made in your own district, Write J. W. Bridger & Co., 146 King St, W., Toronto. _ _ "One empty chamber," he announcâ€" ed, with satisfaction. "And it‘s been shot off recently. . . . This oughta zet us somewhere." He wrapped the reâ€" volver tenderly in a handkerchief and placed it in his coat pocket. ‘"I‘ll get Dubois busy on this for fingerprints; and I‘ll have Cap Hagedorn check up on the bullets." Every Lady â€" Attention! "Did you touch it?" he asked exâ€" citedly, "Whyâ€"no. . . ." He brushed past her unceremonâ€" iously and, going to the toolâ€"chest, yanked open the drawer. There, beside the larger automatic that we had seen the day before, lay a small pearlâ€" handled .32. The Sergeant‘s eyes glistened as he ran his pencil through{ the triggerâ€"guard and lifted it ginger-l ly. He held it to the light and sniffed at the end of the barrel. | This information acted electrically on Heath. "I saw you coming down the range," she said, with troubled eagerness, adâ€" dressing her words to Markham. "For over an hour I‘ve peen waiting to get in touch with youâ€"phoning your office. . . . Her manner became agiâ€" tated. "Something strange has hapâ€" pened. Oh, it may not mean anyâ€" thing . .. but when I came through the archeryroom here this morning, intending to call on Lady Mae, some impulse made me go to the toolâ€"chest again and look in the drawerâ€"â€"it seemed so queer that the little revolâ€" ver should have been stolen. . . . And there it layâ€"in plain sightâ€"beside the other pistol!" She caught her breath. "Mr. Markham, some one returned it to the drawer last night!" as we passed the urchery-room' the basement door opened, and Belle Dilâ€" lard confronted us anxiously. In silence we moved on. It was our intention to pass through the wall gate into 75th Street and present ourâ€" selves at the Diilards‘ front door; hut Get That Extra Money You Needâ€"Quicklyâ€" Hallowe‘en prank, but the desperato' act of a desperate man. It was meant‘ as a warning." ""You think she knows something?" "I think she saw Robin‘s body placâ€" ed on the range. And I think she saw something elseâ€"something she would give her life not to have seen." ' haven‘t got your imagination CANADA FOUNDRIES & FORGINGS LIMITED James Smert Plant Brockville â€"â€" C fm Mower is twenty pounds lighter than any iron mower and far more durable . . . Runs easier . . . Cuts with razorâ€"like keenness . . . . The finest mower purchase you can make . . . Ask your hardware man. ENDURAN(E aluminum NWOE IEHertertas ce c it There is this good thing about woâ€" menâ€"they share your riches just as cheerfully as they do your poverty.â€" Charles Dudley Warner, We are smiling optimists, Our course is straight and clear; We think and act constructively, For us good times are here. We are hopeful optimists, No time for gloom or doubt; If old depression calls on us We swiftly turn him out. We are genial optimists, Our hearts are light and free; In times of storm or sunshine We work on cheerfully. great physicists," on rare occasions. I tell him he should }take more port; but he imagines i‘s bad for him, and points to my gout. But there‘s no connection between gout and portâ€"the notion is sheer superstition. Sound port is the most wholesome of wines. Gout is unknown in Oporto. A little physical stimulaâ€" tion of the right kind would be good for Drukker. If he had sufficient bodily energy to keep pace with his brain, he‘d be one of the world‘s "Drukker should be here," he reâ€" marked. "He has a fondness for my ‘Ninetyâ€"six,‘ though }:e'_ll_ drink it only "For once, Markham, you‘ve choser. an hour for your visit when I am not absorbed in work. More questions, 1 suppose. Well, come along to the library for the inquisition. It‘ll be more comfortable there." He led t>e way upstairs, and when we were seatâ€" ed he insisted that we join him in a glass of port which he himself served from the sideboard. Five minutes later Professor D.!â€" lard came in. Though surprised to see us, he gre‘e_ted‘ us amiably. u'ul‘ Heath at once went in search of "Living ’Beedle and Pyne and brought them to are applie« ' the drawingâ€"room, where Vance ques. stone in its tioned them about the preceding as ‘contrast night. No information, however, was which has obtained from them. They had both of Luzerne gone to bed at ten o‘clock. Their rooms more Mem« were on the fourth floor at the side of the Confed the house; and they had not even Mountain i heard Miss Dillard when she returned from ving from the theatre. Vance asked them & about noises on the range, and inti-! Our idena mated that the screenâ€"porch door of | pur dectist the Drukkers might have slammeG} i e iasdats s shut at about midnight. But apparâ€", i eaay en o ently both of them had been asleep B at that hour. Finally they were dis | est fo missed with a warning not to mention ‘ “r'm‘ ( to any one the questions that had just } been asked them. Fooviemh "In the meantime, then, we‘ll conâ€" fer with Beedle and the admirable Pyne. And I might suggest that it would do Mrs. Drukker no end of gond if you‘d pay her a visit." With a troubled smile and a litc.e nod the girl passed out through tke basement door. "No; but he‘ll be here for lunch. He has no classes Tuesday afterâ€" noons." "And Mr. Arnesson, I suppose, has not yet returned from the univerâ€" sity." "Well," he said lightly, "so ends the romance of the key. And now we‘re goirg to bother your ancle again. Do you think you‘d better act as onr avantâ€"courier; or shall we storm the citadel unannounced?" "Uncle is out," she informed us, "He went for a walk along the Drive," Vance ;e'gardédm"‘tâ€"l-l-(;“-'hand-bag thoughtfully. "You made use of the key after dinner," he recapitulated, "and kept it with you in your handâ€"bag the rest of the evening, without letting it onee go out of your sight. Is that right, Miss Dillard?" The girl nodded. "I even held the bag in my lap durâ€" ing the play," she amplified. â€" Vance frowned slightly. 1 could see that this information did not square with some theory he had formed. "After dinner last night. I ran over to see how Lady Mae was and to say goodâ€"night." "When did the key?" "It‘s very important that we know who had access to the Drukker house," Vance told her. Ihen, before she could question him further, he asked: "Could the key possibly have left your possession last nightâ€"that is, could it have been extracted from your bag without your knowledge?" \ A look of fright came into her face. _ _"Oh, what has happenedâ€"?" she began; but Vance interrupted her. ‘‘Please, Miss Dillard! There‘s noâ€" thing for you to worry about. We‘re merely striving to eliminate certain remote possibilities in connection with our investigation. Tell me: could auy one have taken your key last night?" "No one," she answered uneasily. "I went to the theatre at eight o‘clock and had my bag with me the entire time." Song of the Optimists "Yes!" she announced, with relief. "It‘s where I always keep it. . . Why do you ask me about it?" She gave Vance ~ startled look, and without a word picked up a small lizardâ€"skin handâ€"bag which lay on the wicker table. _ Opening it she felt swiftly in one of its inner compartâ€" ments. "Yesâ€"though I can‘t recall any speâ€" cific instance." a secret of it. The family certainly know about it." "And you may perhaps have menâ€" tioned or reveamled the fact when there were outsiders present?" ?" (To be continued.) you sure you have the key â€"Grenville Kleiser. you last make use of TORONTO The Veneered in Oak Ifi Solid Pir;câ€"e Gum and Walnut DOOI'S Fir and Chestnut Qtd. and Plain Oaks + Side and Endmatched Maple Birch and Beech Floormg Kiln Dried SEE YOUR DEALER OR WRITE DIRECT "Living stone" and "living rock" are applied in sculpture to rock or stone in its native or original position as contrasted with marble or granite which has beer quarried. 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"Aw Fortunately for me, no one came near my hiding place Whenever a bandit‘s torch went Out, he would make a dash for camp, so as not to be eft alone in the darkness. Probâ€" ably he was afraid of a dragon jump ing on his back, and fiying away with him to its den. Anyhow, the torches weat out one by one, and the search ended for the time. § o o n the camp quietâ€" { ed down, Senâ€" P ." tries paced to ty A and tro, but as C the night wore! My arms were so numb that I was almost as helpless as a baby. Up and down the valley bobbed the torchesâ€"and each torch was carried by a manâ€"hunter. I edged close into the cliff, while the feeling gradually came back into my hands. Up the valley, I found a clif with sharp edged rocks. Working close to it, 1 began to rub the ropes which bound my wrists, on the rough surâ€" face. Then lights began to twinkle here and there in the valley, as the bandits set out to hunt for me with torches, â€" Five minutes, ten, fifteen, I rubbed those touzh ropes, while the lights came nearer, then, just as I had given up hopeâ€"they snapped and 1 was free! w ug, and the children pelted us with soft mud. But Aually my turn came. Suddenly I dug my toes into that Wurro and charged the mob, He bowled several over, and in a momâ€" ent the camp was in an uproar, One fat fellow stood in my way, but that donkey just butted him in the belt, and he landed kerplunk on the side Of a tent. _ After that we galloped off into the night before anyone could saddle a 2orse. [ e good advice, GOLDS Summer Maue in cCanada i{To be continued.) Expensive furs such as beaver ond seal can be imitated in rabhbit«}‘n cter, but he must supply the repsia tion for himself. 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Th« button form makes them more +o isfactory . as wellâ€"designed | decora tions for the new dressesâ€"once sew ed in place, they are always in corâ€" rect position, yet a few gestures w !| detach them from any frock. clothes Paris.â€"Buttons have become ; of the fashion world in Parisâ€" buttons set with jewels are 0% value, Jewel buttons form a !: part of the decoration on dres suits and coats shown by dressn ing designers of the French cap! in their advance celleetions of ®p Paris Wears Gem Buttons As Distinctive Trimming Nature gives every man a chara are the species of »Stegomyia * in endemic . regions. Particul. the species of Stegomyia found Northern Africa is capable of b the vector of the virue. These ‘ are important for . hygienists know at this time, when . airs may transport a yellow fever pot who is still infectious to a c0% as yet exempt." w "It cecided, therefore, that the In ternational Burear of Public Hygiene | in advising the governments and th« organizations interested of the con clusions reached with refereace : the â€"question of international sari tary regulation of merial navigation, should call their attention to th« principles adopted by the committe« at its session last May; that is to say, (a) established landing fields; (b) medical examination on artivg!; (c) sanitary ‘survelllance‘ of persons coming from infected regions; (d) in special and exceptional cases renâ€" dering such measures necessary, strict isolation during the port call« »‘"‘To these it would be well to add two others; 1. The buildings, the occupants, and in general, the vhole area of the airports, should be mainâ€" tained in an absolutely sanitary conâ€" dition, and the precautions, in the yellow fever regions, should include mosquito proofing and measures for the destruction of mosquitos, 2 Wherever the need is felt, special arrangements should be made for the creation of a system of comâ€" munication between the physicans of the airports located on the same route concerning infectious discases It should be emphasized that thes« recommendations do not include h« institution of a system of clearance papers such as is employed in marâ€" time navigatioa; mor do they proâ€" vide for the ‘observation‘ o ase sengers, "The committe emphasized aga‘n the danger of patterning regulations of sanitary defense, as affecting aerial trafic, after the regulations governing maritime navigation, . The point was stressed that the risk of dissemination of disease by airships is relatively slight, by reason of ths class of passengers and the conditions existing in the landing ports, "Several countries | have | regulaâ€" tions on this subject, some of which are rigorous," he continues. "‘The committee expressed the view that it would be well to present a typical set of regulations that might serve as a model for all countries, in order that uniformity might | characterize their administration. A â€" subcomâ€" mittee was appointed and authorized to appeal for aid to the Commission Internationale de la Navigation Aerlâ€" enne. The subcommittee concluded that, under present conditions, ‘whic» are subject to change from day :o day, it would be premature to try to establish a set of regulations or even general principles, and that the veâ€" gulations adopted, such as they are, will necessarily, at the start, be subâ€" ject to more or less complete reviâ€" slons. 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