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Albertine Tevans, shopgirl, falls in love with Dennis Maxwell, jewellery salesman, but is bothered by his mysâ€" tsrious actions. He speaks once of being on the lookout for a man with a drooping eyelid. Albertine‘s righ greatâ€"aunt Celia Tevans invites her for a visit. Before she leaves, Dennis gives her a star ruby to keep for him. At her aunt‘s estate are two other guestsâ€"Countess Yelena Loupakoff and her brother, Count Michael!. Then, Dennis arrives to show some rubies to Aunt Celia He makes Albertine pretend they are strangers to each other, and pays ardent attention to the Countess. The houseman, Bates, who always wears dark glasses, gets drunk one evening, and Albertine catches him without his glasses on. He has a drooping eyelid! In the middle of that night, she hears a scufâ€" fls in Denny" room. CHAPTER IX A light suddenly showed from beâ€" neath Denny‘s closed door. Then Al bertine heard his voice. "Sorry, old man," he was "but you‘ll agree that it was tural thing for me to do when you in here." The dooropened, and Com ae} backed out into the hall. th Albertin unnoticed bed, a th bies wort W n "Bates," Aunt Celia said irritably. "take off those dark glasses! I can‘t stand them when you‘re fussing over things this close to me!" ie dropped two lumps of sugar inâ€" to her eup. "Will there be anything else, madâ€" am*"* he inquired. "You heard my aunt," Albertine said. "If you won‘t take off those glasses, 1 will!" She reached out and snatched the glasses from his eyes. Bates blinked. o "Poppycock!" Aunt Celia exclaimâ€" ed. squinting up at him, "I can‘t see a thing wrong with your eyes." But Albertine did. "L shouldn‘t hbave done that," she said. "I‘m sorâ€" ty." "That is quite all right, Miss," Bates repiied, putting on his glasses again. He left, with his curious, catâ€"like tread. "How are you this morning, Aunt Celia?" Albertine inquired. "Bring Miss Albertine‘s breakfast here, too, At once, Bates," said Aunt Celia. "Better. Better. Well enough fotr a drive this afternoon. Would you like to come along?" "I‘ve been thinking," Aunt Celia an-‘ nounced, sipping her orange juice, "that you should know the co'mbina-j tion of that safe of mine. Just in case something shovuld happen to me soonâ€" er than we expecu." ‘ *"Pleaseâ€"‘** Albertine began, _ "Listen carefullyâ€"Six to theâ€" left, thrée to the right, seven to the left, then four to the right. See if you can open it. No, waitâ€"here‘s Bates with your tray." *Sevenâ€"nineâ€"sixâ€"four." "Whatever are you mumbling, Alâ€" bertine?" Aunt Celia asked sharply. "That will be all, Bates." s Albertine waited until the door had "I‘dâ€"I‘d love to," Albertine stam mered, remembering the request Den ny had made of her. H ‘s tray a her coffee explanation 11 last night e Countess 2 it , Bates?" Albertine inquired, t inside the doorway. rmed his head quickly, but answer. He bent over Aunt rav and deftly poured cream Star RUBY ie stole back to her room . When, at last, she was in ought struck her. With ruâ€" h a fortune in his keeping. ‘t Dennis locked his door? s Jow mockin@ laugh, out in awakened her next morning. heard Dennis‘ deep voice, two pass along the ball. Al mood out of bed. and began in hour." or longer than an hour, ites?" Albertine inquired, ed out of bed, and began rishly. d to visit her aunt‘s room down to breakfast. Bates, lid, was adjusting Aunt fast rack as she entered sked me to take ‘her 1 lady was saying, much interested in for not answering By Louise Jerrold York, I awoke He laughed walking habit T C AL _ doorway n that to ou Te int Mict saying, the naâ€" I found What + tellâ€" closed on him before she whispered, "That was to confuse him in case he heard you telling me the combination. My â€"numbers would drive yours out of his head." "Poppycock! Bates is a houseman, not a burglar. Eat your breakfast, and then see if you can remember how to open the safe." But when Albertine later pushed aside the old tapestry piece that conâ€" cealed the safe, it was already open! How careless of Aunt Celia, orâ€"she caught her breathâ€"someone else. Aunt Celia mustn‘t know, was her inâ€" stant thought. With her back to her aunt, she went through the motions of spinning the dial, then swung the little door wide open. \P;y good," Aunt Celia approved. "Now, take away my tray, and put the jewels here on the breakfast rack." "My pretties," murmured Aunt Ceâ€" lia, and Albertine breathed again. "Aren‘t they lovely, my dear? I want you to find that Mr. Maxwell and send him up here. Tell him to bring the rubjies with him." Albertine found Dennis with Yelena in the rose garden. "Good morning!" she called gaily Too gaily, she realized. "I‘m sorry to interrupt, but Aunt Celia wants to see Mr. Maxwell." Yelena lifted her eyebrows, then started toward the house with Dennis. But he paused beside Albertine, letâ€" ting Yelena go on alone. Albertine saw the long black jewel case still in the safe. But were the jewels still there? She brought the case to the bed, and had a tense moâ€" ment of suspense while Aunt Celia‘s thin old fingers fumbled for the spring. _ "I must see you, Blue Eyes," he whispered urgently. "Walk as far as the fountain with me." es "We are going drivingâ€"this afterâ€" noon," Albertine said slowly. "Oh, Denny, can‘t you tell me what all this mystery is about?" -‘lt isn‘t a mysteryâ€"it‘s a game. A game that I‘m out to win!" he replied and was gone. Writes the Manchester Guardianâ€" For the second time this week the Home Secretary was asked in Tarlia ment whether hbe could take any steps to end the increasing intrusion of the press on the private affairs of citizens and the frequent exploitaâ€" tion of the grief of the bereaved in the interests of a "story." It is huâ€" miliating to English fournalism that such questions should have to be askâ€" ed, When Colonel Lindbergh and his family were driven from the United States by the pestering of the "tabâ€" loid" press, Euglish journalisin promâ€" ised him immunity from such attenâ€" tions here, and, after the first exciteâ€" ment of his arrival, gave it him. Toâ€" day a section of it is falling ever farâ€" ther into the habit of sensationalsing the private sorrows of its own citiâ€" zensâ€"the obscure as well as the emâ€" inent, if only some "sob stuff" can be extracted from themâ€"with a calâ€" lousness as great as any that the "yelâ€" low‘" journalism of any other counâ€" try can show. The Japanese have the strongest hearts in the world, reports a comâ€" mittee established to study national health conditions after the army comâ€" plained the race was deteriorating physically. Only one Japanese in 100,000 dies annually of heart disease, the comâ€" mittee says, as compared to eight in America, England and Italy and 15.3 in France. YÂ¥ellow Journalism (To be continued) Another‘s Misfortune, Another‘s Gain How one industry sometimes beneâ€" fits from the difficulties of another has been demonstrated recently in Southern California in interesting fashion, observes the Galt Reporter. The orangeâ€"growing areas of Caliâ€" fornia have experienced dangerousâ€" ly low temperatures this winter and, in the efforts to keep frost away from the blossoms, the owners of plantations have restored to many kinds of artificial â€" heatâ€"throwers. But the most convenient and effecâ€" tive contraption is the oil pot. Durâ€" ing 20 days of dangerous weather a total of four million barrels of oil were used to heat the orchards. That is more than twice the total oil production in Canada in a year. It is not impressive as regards proâ€" duction in the United States. _ It would mean about one and oneâ€"third day‘s production in the States but it all helps in the total output. The assumption seems to be that oranges are going to be more exâ€" pensive as a result of these extra winter costs in the producing areas. It is said that the prices in Canada have advanced ten cents a dozen. However, the regions in which oranges can be grown are now nearer to Canada than ever before because of the rapid transportation presently available. While Spain has gone into eclipse as a source of supply, such countries as South Afâ€" rica and Palestine are potential exâ€" porters to Canad It is not likely that price increa;s, because of the California frost difficulties, will beâ€" come so serious as to greatly curtail the supply. Writing Book On Keeping War Gas From â€" Houses LONDONâ€" A detailed handbook on how to protect private houses against gas attacks "is in an adâ€" vanced state of preparation," Geofâ€" frey Lloyd, Parliamentary Under Secretary for the Home Office, told the Houseof Commons recently. In response to questions conâ€" cerning the protection of citizens from gas, Lloyd declared:â€" J ‘‘The adaption of rooms and other places as air raid shelters would for the most part, be carried out when the risk of an air attack appeared imminent. "Information on steps to be taken is contained, as regards industrial purposes, in a handbook for factorâ€" ies and business purposes already published by the Air Raid Precauâ€" tions Department. "In regard to private dwellings, a certain amount of information has already been given in a handbook Stunning Monogram Simple '_'l'o It‘s easy as A B Câ€"this embroidering hankies, blouses and scarfs, as well as your household linens, with graceful initials, Work out your own stunning monogram from the three, differentâ€"sized alphabets. Only lazyâ€"daisy and outline stitch are used, plus a bit of silk or cotton floss. Pattern 1413 contains a transfer pattern of an alphabet 3% inches high, one 2% inches high and on 1% inches high; information for placing initials and menograms; illustrations of all stitches used. Send 20 cents in coin for this pattern to Neediecraft Dept., Wilson Publishing Co., 73 Adelaide West, Toronto, Ont. Write plainly PATTERN NUMBER, your NAME and ADDRESS. R SE + _ friends. ; Apply for particulars to nearest Steamship agent or to We are prepared to advance passage money (without inâ€" terest or other charges) to British people desiring to bring out to Canada their wives, families, relatives or BRITISH DOMINIONS EMIGRATION SOCIETY ALPHABET REUNION of BRITISH FAMILIES (Established 1882) 217 Bay Street Toronto (Head Office: Londan, Eng.) From Lavura Wheeler Says Job Sordid _ | For Girl Typists Head Police Miss Hutzel has asked the Mayor for an appropriation for one mature stenographer to take the places of the six tender ones. Even in such a young country as Canada urban development has set in apace and already there is a genâ€" eration which does not know much about farm life. Kitchener school pupils have been started on interâ€" esting tours, parties of them being taken to farms and dairies as part of their school work. _ Thus they will discover really where milk and eggs come from and not as one city boy figured from egg plants and bottles.â€"Niagara Falls Review. called "Personal Protection Against Gas." Lloyd revealed that two regional stations capable of storing 4,000,â€" 000 gas masks had already been created in London and Manchester as part of the Government‘s camâ€" paign to equip all citizens with gas masks. Eleven similar stations will be built elsewhere, in addition to a series of local stations capable of storing 85,000 masks. A bill to raise the reâ€"enlistment period of army volunteers from one years to five was laid before the House. The exiled Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia has decided to enter his 8â€"yearâ€"old son, Prince Makonnen, in King‘s College at Taunton, Devâ€" onshire, England. Police Job Just The Thing * Dept. WP2, P.O. 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Here is the recipe as given by the pasiry chief of this wellâ€"known hote‘ and you can‘t go wrong if you follow his rules. However, there is one point on which he insistsâ€"that you use the right kind of coconut. It <an be either southern style or preiaium sared coconut, but it must be well packaged and come to you tender and moist. Picture it, crisp, pastry, russetâ€"gold caramel custard, fluffy whipped cream and gool, tenâ€" der shreds of coconut to top it off! Coconcut Caramel Pic % cup sugar 5 tablespoons flour 4 teaspoon salt 2 eups milk 3 egg yolks, slightly beaten 1â€"3 cup sugar, caramelized 1 tablespoon butter % teaspoon vanilla 1 baked 9â€"inch pie shell %4 cup cream, whipped and sweetâ€" ened Â¥% cup coconut. Combine sugar, flour, and salt in top of double boiler; add milk and egg yolks, mixing thoroughly. Place over rapidly boiling water and cook 10 minutes, stirring constantly. Reâ€" move from fire, but allow to remain over hot water. Caramelize sugar by placing 1â€"3 cup sugar in iron skillet over a medium flame and stirring constantâ€" ly until melted and strawâ€"colored. Add at once to thickened mixture, stirring until blended; add butter and vanilla. Cool. _ Turn into pie shell.. Garnish with a ring of whipâ€" ped cream and sprinkle cream with coconut. To keep chamois gloves nice and soft after washing them, add a teaâ€" spoonful of olive oil to the water when washing them. « To sew a button on a garment, when it is subjected to excessive CROWN BRAND CERN SYRUP THE FAMOUS ENERGY FOoOp The CANADA STARCH COMPANY Limited A Great Book "How to Beâ€" come a Hockey Star‘‘ by T. 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To clean a tall, slender vase that has become discolored on the inside and is too narrow in diameter to get a cloth down into it, soak a few tea leaves in vinegar, put this in the vase, and keep shaking it until the discoloration has disappeared. j The best utensil to use for baking green peppers, apples, or tomatoes, is the muffin pan. They are easy to remove, and will keep their shape much better than if cooked close toâ€" gether in a baking tin. To take proper care of the winâ€" dow sash cords, to make them wear longer, and also to make the winâ€" dow raise and lower easier, dust the cords occasionally, then rub with a wellâ€"greased cloth. To protect the forefinger from stains, as well as cuts, when necesâ€" sary to pare a large quantity of fruit or vegcetables, wrap a strip of adhesive tape around the forefinger. Smit.. was giving a dinnerâ€"party to his boss, and to celebrate the occaâ€" sion he bought a duck from an old woman who was famed for the birds she reared on her farm. The best kind of duster to use for plush and mohair furniture is a chamois wrung out of cold water. But the next day Smith was round at the farm to complain, "Why," protested the ‘"there wasn‘t anything the bird, was there?" "Wrong!" cried Smith good at all." "Well, it ought to have been good," said the other. "That duck won first prize at the local poultry show for ten years in succession." Instead of buying costly medicines for a cold, try the way almost any doctor you ask will approve as the modern way â€" "ASPIRIN." The way you use it is this: Two "Aspirin‘" tablets the moment you feel a cold coming on, taken with a full glass of water. Repeat, if necesâ€" sary, according to directions in packâ€" age. If throat is sore, gargle with three "Aspirin‘"‘ tablets in 14 glass of water for almost instant relie{, The *"Aspirin‘ acts to fight fever, aches and pains of a cold and the cold itâ€" self. Relief comes quickly and you have wonderful comfort. ® "Aspirin‘" tablets are made in Canada by t(l;:oBayer Company, Limâ€" ited, of Windsor, Ontario. /‘m A S P I R i N How to EASE a COLD TWO SIMPLE RULES T estimonial old woman, wrong with "It was no A Great Wrong To Be Righted When Ontario‘s lieutenantâ€"governor refers to the necessity of state health insurance, hbe speaks as a physician who has seen what its absence inâ€" volves. He knows the result of failâ€" ure to call in a doctor while the disâ€" ease is in its early stages, a failure often duve to the patient‘s dread of doctor‘s bills He knows that these financial worries not only postpone the calling of a cortor when the disease might be quickly curable, but handiâ€" cap the patient after he is actually unâ€" der treatment. impressed by the plight of *"great masses of the people living in daily fear of the economic cost of illâ€"health," Pr. Bruce said: "One has only to think of men and women on relief; the hesitations and fears of the underpaid who need mediâ€" eal or dental care; one has only to realize that in Canada there are hunâ€" dreds of thousands who for economic reasons dread a doctor‘s visit when rightly they should welcome him, and one will be conscious that by adequate social legislation and national health insurance a great injustice would be banished from this great democracy of ours and a great wrong righted." In Canada only one province has zo far attempted to right this wrong: British Columbia, where state health insurance becomes effective March 1, Ontario Civil servarts also have a scheme in mind for their own protecâ€" tion. Noting these two projeets, a Toronto doctor said the other day. "We should wait until we see how the British Columbia and Ontario civil service measures will work before jumping in‘~ such an important venâ€" ture." _ But »mo such delay is necesâ€" sary. There are plenty of state health insurance schemes to be studied, and out of these Ontario should fashion one suited to her own particular needs if the Dominion is not going to take action for Canada as a whole, There will, of course, be objections to any scheme which is proposed, provincial or national, but, as Dr. Bruce points out, there â€" as also a storm of critiâ€" cism when Llioyd George inaugurated state health insurance in England. The lieutenantâ€"governor is right when he says that it would give greater ceâ€" curity not only to the sick, but to those who minister to the sick.â€"To ronton Star. Sausage Gets Up In The World Writes the Manchester Guardjanâ€"it has been estimated that there are, in the various countries of the world concerned, 400 (or is it 4,000%) kinds of sausage, a prodigious fine prospoct which speaks well for the ingonuity of man and for the extent of his availâ€" able viands and spices. It may be that not many of the individual items on the Sausage Front are of British nationality, but at least we can now claim one insular touch of distinction; the Great Western Railway Company has just equipped itsolf with special vans for sausageâ€"carrying, wherein those important passengers are kept constantly fanned by gently wafted currents of cooled air,. There may be warm days in summer when some overâ€"heated and overcrowded thirdâ€" class fares will long to join the les: sultry sausages, but it is doubtful whether that would be permitted. Huâ€" mans may not travel in horseâ€"boxes (except in wartime, when, as soldiâ€" ers, they often must), so why should they hope to ride in sausage vans? One point which remains to be disâ€" covered is whether the new type of rollingâ€"stock will allow the character of the accommodation to be varied in order to suit the almost infinite variâ€" ety of passenger. Will the sausage of Cambridge travel in exactly the same type of chariot as the sausage of Cumâ€" berland? Will the Frankfurter lie down with the Brunswick, the lives sausage with the salame? Will the portly and rubjcund bolony be expectâ€" ed, as passenger, to fit into the same compartment as the pallid and attenâ€" uate chipolata? And fortunate it is that the Great Western does not run into Scotland, for otherwise most challenging point for precedence might arise over the haggis which, beâ€" sides being an object of national rev erence, might also claim to be sup>: i sausage or head of the whole clan. Britain Builds Nine Aircraft Factsriss LONDONâ€"Sir Philip Sassoon, Au Under Secretary, told the House of Commons that nine new a@ircraft factories are being built or will soon be constructed in line with Britain‘s rearmament program. To prove the theory that Tristan da Cunba is part of an enormous continent, which once connected South America, Africa and Ausâ€" tralia, a Norweigian scientific exâ€" pedition will visit "the world‘s loneliest island." He said an airplaneâ€"body factory was being constructed at Birmingâ€" ham and that the site for a second was being sought in Lancashire. A propelier factory will be erected near Bolton. Of the six airâ€"engine factorics in construction, three are at Coventry, two are at Birmingham and one is at Bristol. %4 * y