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W.N. U, SERVICE
opyright by Wyndham Martyn
THE STORY
n Hant
was sold.’
that tt
i No
the allowable annoyance of
old and trusted employee,
>
ir g heen eons ult a
Ie
doubt
who
for so long Is
firm
property,
am criticizing AM;
nner went on “Oh
His manner was brisl
“What can 1 de
©
iy left out of the a conf
in the sale of a
i
cheerful again
vou, Mr, Pe
“Did you
enos"™
ever Miss Sel
“She occupied house for
her
despl wp)
three years i member
Poor lady, ithed und
your humble
evict her for
She had
well
she log
men, irticnlarly
nant, Ye had to
payment of rent,
warning, but we hs
in. May nsk how you
led on Mr
threatened him with all
vengeances if he did
her.”
here was no doubt
interest
quite
her
sald
the
wife
sSery
non
ample
iH the sherify
know her?
Hanby and
sorts of wild
not the
id to en
soll
place to
about Mr. Ap
pleton's
“1 ean
“1 remen
out
within
good
now,
believe
that when
that | should
year. | may say that my
was very muoch relieved
when the twelvemonth had passed, |
hear that she has nt last inherited the
great Selenos fortune, They were
land poor for many years.”
“You think she's not normal?”
“Insanity in the family,” sald Mr.
Appleton firmly. “The things she sala
to me were most Indelicate, and could
only be explained by madness of a
hereditary type.” The speaker hesl
tated for a moment. *1 suppose she
did not mention my name?”
“1 think not. 1 suppose you remem.
ber Mr. Seymour?”
“Now Sir Stanford Seymour, Oh.
dear we, yes! | ventured to call
upon bim when In England two years
ago. The tragedy had left its mark
it.”
we
he said
put her
she be dead
Stanford
erved type.”
tragedy
S TWO sons
on
a res
“What
“Hi
Sir but he wus always
were drowned
previous tenant?’
His wife
house A
to the funeral,
again.”
been a house
ented He did
Hanby fam
nuch as he hy
‘hrockinmorton
lovely
Very
Inke
r Sir Stanf
ubject to on
to Mr
itor
sald the other
unhappy
Mr. Hanby's
egard
manner nt
facts were
notice
No
noyed
them,
egarded her story on
“Appleton tapped
“the facts are all
own handwriting”
“I'm afrald wi I said would
ake him all the more determined to
He Is a skeptie, and opposition
inkesw him ready fo fight I don't
ing would make him give
that int
the ig ledge
daw hiere In
itever
anytl
done
skly
these
have my duty,
“No
deaths
have
then,” sald
douht he is
were due to
here a letter,
from a Pine
agreed to put
order, That
ileton bri
t, and
care i
fnclosed,
carpenter, who
rustic bridge in
Ap
with estimate
’inins
the
i
bridge
nt its
boys
gnve
Mr. Pelham, erossed the lake
deepest part. The Seymour
were fishing from it when ft
I rather think the Norton
found near there,
Appleton turned to the estimate
Mr, Pelham, these trag
have heen averted if the
owner had seen fit to expend sixty.
four dollars and elghteen cents It
was owing to my Influence that the
lnke was completely filled in, and the
stream feeding it wns diverted to the
lower Inke., Instead of five acres of
water tilled with stumps, which
fishing difficult, Mr, Hanby hus
a twenty-ncre lake with
and trout in It and a plickerel to
do damnge I have fished there ev
ery year, and 1 know, I wonder If
Mr. Hanby would extend the
tesy to me?
“I'l answer for him,” sald Pelham
“I'm a fisherman nyself Thank
for whnt told me”
“Well?” Douglas
hat you w
way.
children were too.’
“You see,
edies might
mate
now
good bass
not
cour:
you
you ve
nsked, a tittle Int
anted?
n. “The
atmosphers
king AD
for less
those lives
the oth
“Any cl
isked,
“Not 8
Junior
how it wonld be
“But there's a mighty
development. This fell
wasn't Kerr ot all. He
string of aliases We
him. and fitted the right name to
Your caretaker, Mr. Hanby
led Chapin, wanted ‘most
everything up to murder”
“That's Interesting.’
clul “A murderer
He not plea
stich a man had been In
engaged hy
references was
Spanish war
We'll find
Also he had
and a medal,
He
interesting
Kerr
hind a whole
fingerprinted
Ow
mm
was for
Hanby ex.
murdered 1
think that
nploy
med,
was sed to
his er
agent
stolen
veteran
ont all
Kerr's
although an
“His
some
Kerr,
sonn
papers
at him, sir?
“Not on your enid
who detested morbid things,
“T'd like tn.” Junior suggested.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
from
named
about It
discharge
Want to look
life 1
Hanby,
For ages even the most intelligent
men could count only to ten or
twenty, the number of their fingers
and toes, Then sticks and stone
counters were laid In rows to Indl
cate and compute numbers involved In
barter and trade. In the earliest civ.
ilizationas symbols were employed to
some extent, then in Egypt they had
the happy thought of drawing a ple
ture to represent each quantity. Thus,
a frog equaled 100000 and a man
with arins outstretched in admiration
signified 10000000. The Greek and
Roman systems of letiers for nu.
merals were considered a great ad
vance, but only the most learned
could do any adding or subtracting
with them, The decimal system was
brought by an ambassador from India
lato Arabia In 773 A. D, and Euro
pean countries got
from Arabia In the Twelfth century.
It proved popular right away and
teachers of the new system were In
great demand,
80 long dammed up by a lack of any
simple method of keeping accounts or
doing business with persons at a dis.
tance, sprang into life—and the Com-
mercial era was born. — Detroit
News,
thelr numerals
—————————
Pit Pony's Wisdom
in the old workings of a Rhondda
Valley mine, in Wales, a pony hauling
its con] wagon suddenly dug his heels
in and refused to budge, While the
miner with It was vainly trying to
conx It to go on, a big plece of roof
fell with a erash in front of them.
Dame Fashion
Smiles
By Grace Jewett Austin
Dame
how a
Fashion
bee
hus often wondered
feels in the summer time
when he happens
to light in the
very middle of a
ten-nere lot of
white clover, She
felt a good deal
like that the oth-
er day when she
had planned to
study the spring
styles in action
fa luncheon
given for fifty
women
dinner
'
Grace J. Austin.
the
he luncheon ce
for
ity-five later
that
+ color uling. ! autiful
were
the rai
if the
prove £0 go
various
nive
the
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» Dan
ng over
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Smart Tailored Frock
in Striped Rayon, Wool
This is a smart tailored frock in
black and gray sheer crepe of rayon
and wool. The two-tiered skirt sets
off the heavy stripes.
“Jack and Jill” Dresses
Are Made of Flour Bags
The old nursery
what kind of dres
wore on thelr famous
expedition, nor does it
they were twins, However,
brother and sister under
of age can safely be dre
whether or not they
The little “Jack
shown here are e
be done in
them
rhyme doesn't
Jack und Jill
water-carrying
that
ttle
years
nlike
are nctual twins,
and Jill” dresses
xamples of what ean
this way, without either of
their per
Bay
S08
specify
any
six
ged
sacrificing sonalities,
>
~
Empty Flour
Chil
Bags Are Suitable for
dren's Clothes.
Leather: Tulle, Tweed
Flowers, Adorn Frocks
ioe
the hin
and tt!
Wors
Is lowers have
Practic al
natural looking
Tweed flo
flecked, i
backed and stiffened by brown
ing a narow binding to the
Worth e in
suede form
petals, trimmed a ensembl
brown tweed.
Tulip
wires and
floral de
in the
stiffened with
gtrips, are used as
tulle evening
new collections of sum
mer models, A large cluster of vari.
colored morning glories made of tulle
and velvet trimmed a black evening
gown, Patou has a stunning black
tulle frock which has one shoulder
strap and one side of the docolietage
in the back outlined with large silk
roses in a brilliant shade of cerlse,
flowers, often
velvet
orations on
gOWnS
New Dinner Rings Add
to Evening Costumes
lly appropriate with the
striking new evening costumes of this
gpring is the latest model In hand
some dinner rings as was worn re-
cently at a supper dance held at one
of New York's famous Fifth avenue
hotels,
Costame colors range themselves in-
to high tones, pastel tints, halftones
of tan or gray and black or white,
and these rings are chosen as a dis.
tinet contrast for these gown color
schemes.
This ring holds a large marquise
diamond for the central gem with
three trapeze-shaped emeralds on either
side. These emeralds are slanted for
the ring shoulders, stepped down In
angles to reach from the high central
gem to the ring circle at the sides.
This use of baguettes or oddly.
shaped colored gems for the ring
bezels and a large marquise, oblong,
square or lozenge-<cut diamond for the
main stone, is a gesture toward the
modern in pew rings.
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What Will
When your
Children Cry
for It
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Soul's Dilemma
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