THE STORY
Hilton Hanby has purchased a
country place-—the Gray house,
near Pine Plains. Miss Selenos,
a former tenant, warns him that
the house (is under a curre,
Further alarming detalls are im«
pressed upon Adolf Smucker,
Hanby's secretary, by a man who
claims to have been chauffeur for
Sir Stanford Seymour, former oc»
cupant of the place. The: Hane
bys laugh off the warnings. But
they are shocked when they hear
that the caretaker of the Gray
house, a man named Kerr, has
been mysteriously murdered
Hanby consults his friend Pel-
ham. The family starts for the
new home. Appleton, a clerk of
Douglas and Smith, the agents
from whom Hanby bought the
Gray house, explains to Pelham,
that a dangerous pond near the
house, in which several children
have been drowned, has since
filled in, but he urges DPcl-
to dissuade Hanby from oc¢-
! the Gray house. Hanby
nior learn that the care-
known to police
: d had a bad
ers asking
8 iirer
» party.
she likes t}
the
to join the
vis family
Cray hou
ves mal
members of the
hold. A phone call
who declares
quaintance ¢ anbhy’ and
cerasted in
whom fHanby
urges him to pres \ a
the grounds as a
The idea appeals to
he makes the promise
bys take possession of
house,
ace
in-
RY. but
identify
part of
sancluary.
Hanby and
The Han
the Gray
CHAPTER V—Continued
—
“Bill” she sald,
of the Hunby clan to do
old Bill!" she m&rm
“Why poor?” he demanded.
“1 know,” she said wisely.
can’t fool me.”
“I'm not poor,” he retorted.
eich. 1 have a family without
labor of supporting it. I'm much
more sensible than you Imagine. 1
adore your mother, She married the
man she loved. Three things might
bave happened to me—I might have
married another made
her unhappy; | become
one of those sour, cynical devils
who poison this earth; have
drunk myself to death
doing all t!
id try drinking for
made me feel like a d—d coward. |
am now going to some of your
modern terms. 1 sublimated my love
into affection for everything that
Year to your mother. That's
bear your ior airs with
fulness. That's why 1 talk
scores with Tin
“Youn love baseball,” said Cella
“1 love you,” retorted Pelham.
“About four years ago—the summer
we had a Louse at Allenhurst—1 cher-
ished a hopeless passion for you,’
Celia confided. "It began wien you
used to do those fancy back dives at
the Allenhurst pool, and was fanned
to fury when you rescued that man
from the surf. Did you ever sus
pect Kn”
“Not a
open,
fond
Poor
softly.
“sou must he
this,
red
“You
*I'm
the
and
1ve
old
night
woman,
might hs
times. |
a year, but Dina
iree ot various
use
super cheer
baseball
bit," “Mine Is an
modest nature, shrinking and
slinple. You Interest strangely,
Celia. Why did you drip me?”
“1 went back to school,” she sald
“and there was an adorable being who
taught os music. 1 wanted to prac
tice Beethoven ten hours a day.”
“Why «did you drop him?”
“He was sent away for kissing a
tencher—or, rather, for being caught
kissing a teacher. After that Les
ther amused me. | was then an
y old woman of seventeen”
fond of Les? asked
he said
me
emotionn
“Are you really
Pelham,
“1 wish
“I thought one hw y new.”
“Not In these . said Celia
“One meets 80 ma sh Les 1s on
probation this summer, Vhat about
a swim before breakfast? There's a
gorgeous high dive into twenty feet
of water, want to beat Junior at
hack divi Bill, give me a
I knew!
Please,
} have to make It right with
Dinn,” he said. “I'm man in
chief, and | want to keep my job”
“Dina and dad will be there before
sou, if you don’t make haste”
‘What? Taking advantage of me
fike that? I'll be In my bathing suit
before you are!”
The two raced toward
The swimming party was not ready
for breakfast until half past nine.
The meal was hardly begun when a
package of mall was brought in
“I'm going to send a postboy on
horseback for It, when things ure in
running order,” Hanby commented,
sorting it out, “Tradesmen's invita
tions, mainly. Here's one from a
Poughkeepsie undertaker, with most
attractive iliustrations of the latest
in caskets.”
Next he held up a large square en
velope, lavender-colored, and adorned
with a black coat of arms.
“Budleigh Salterton,” he read. “1
didn’t tell you, Dina, that | wrote to
Myr. Seymour weeks ngo, asking If he
hat! a chauffeur like the one Smucker
described.” Hanby frowned a little.
“It's odd that bis reply should come
on our first breakfast here!”
“What does he say?” Dina asked
Hanby slit the envelope.
“In the center is a crest,” he com.
mented. “Underneath Is a simple
hoe
the house.
The Mystery of a
Haunted Mansion
- By —
Wyndham Martyn
W. N. U.
Copyright by
Service
Wyndham Martyn
English
Manor,
Mary,
address. Listen! ‘Seymour
Bovey-Tracey, Ottery St.
judleigh Salterton, Devon
shire!’ That makes the Gray house
fade Into nothing! On the top left
hand corner it says, ‘Telegraph, Ot
terton." On the top right-hand corner
It says, ‘Great \Vestern station, four
miles.'™
This was
read aloud:
the missive that Hanby
"HILTON HRANBY,
“My Dear Sir:
“Owing to a fishing trip
my answer to your letter
unavoidably delayed.
“During my stay In your country
my chauffeur was the one now in my
service, Richard DBetterton He Is five
feet nine in height, weighs one hun-
dred and forty pounds, is dark, pale
of face, with an aquiline nose-—in fact
a8 you see, In every res fering
fiom the Impostor who claimed to
huve held this position.
“l am, my dear sir,
“Faithfully yours,
STANFORD SEYMOUR
ESQ.
in N
has
orway
been
spect a
Bill Pel
house de
here and
hoe man.”
am the
report work
“1 resign as
ham said. “Il
tective, |
NOW
for
“If He's a Salesman,” Hanby Reflect.
ed, “i'm Gone.”
now, [ guessed wrong © Lout the big
hearted chauffeur who blew Sr
to a feed!”
Hanby was
most banished
nucker
worried tle had el
the affair from his
nd, Now everything came back to
him vividly, particularly the woman
who threatened him with death.
“Well, we're dug In here now,” he
“and It will take something
more than vague threats to turn us
CHAPTER VI
There was a letter for
in the package of mail,
“Who's been writing to you, Dina?
her hushand inquired.
“The Parkers. They've been want.
Ing to come here, but 1 told them we
weren't asking any one till we had
got used to the place, It would spoll
it to have any outsiders yet. [| shall
be finding new wonders every min
ule for a month, Jesides, we have
no saddle horses yet, and Julia f(s
mad about riding. That reminds me
that 1 must order a habit and a side
saddle™
Hanby was stil
mysterious warnings,
“It's funny,” he remarked present.
ly, “that any one should take the
trouble to feed Smucker for nothing.
There must be something behind It.”
“Junior and | will find sald
Bill. "It’s beneath the dignity of the
lord of the manor to sleuth™
“The first letter 1 opened,” contin
ued Hanby, pursning his train of
thought, “was from an undertaker
noted for the simplicity and dignity
of his funerals, lle Includes flowers.
That's thoughtful! The next wns
from Seymour. Perhaps I shall now
be called to the telephone to telk with
another unknown conversationnlist.”
“My motto 1s eternal vigilance”
sald Pelham. “Carry on your busi
ness as usunl-your falthfal hawk
Mrs. Hanby
thinking of the
out,”
shaw slumbers not nor sleeps. I'll
tell you what I will do, HILL" he sug
gested briskly, “I'll beat you three
sets out of four whenever you are
rendy, [I've been reading a book on
tennis tactics, and after committing
It to memory I've burned It, so you
can't read It. You haven't a chance!”
Hanby's mood was more cheerful
“1 wrote that book)” he declared
“Want to bet?”
“Go nnd get Into flannels,” Pelham
told him, *“Hil's worried,” he added,
to Dina, when Ilanby had left the
room,
“1 never saw him so hefore.
and make him laugh at it, Bill"
Hanby's mood of depression pnssed
very quickly. New daily Interests so
crowded one upon the other that
there was no room for gloom or In
trospection,
The Parkers d!d not come.
stomach, after many unheeded warn
Ings, had finally rebelled against its
owner's habit of taking three meat
meals a day, Julian Parker wrote that
her husband ./as about to be operated
upon,
One
Hanby met
Try
Parker's
day, drive
neatly
house
confi
suspl
walking dowu the
a small, florid,
dressed man approaching the
-~the sort of man to Inspire
dence even among the most
cious,
“If he's a salesman.” Hanhy reflect
ed, “I''n gone. A man like that
sell me anything !™
The stranger bowed politely,
“Mr. lianby, 1 believe?”
“Yes,” replied [lanby, wondering
what it was he was about to buy.
“My name 1s Appleton—Frederick
Appleton. You are probably unaware
of my existence.”
“On the contrary, you are expected
when the bass season opens. You
were kind enough to give my friend
Mr, Pelham some [nformation about
this house.”
“As | was In the Beighborhood I
took the Ilberty of co
improvements, | have always
much Interested in the Gray house.
could
been
”»
it and ask your advice. 1 find every
day that there are a lot of things
about country estates that they don't
teach boys on farms—these improve
ments, for Instance. ™
Mr. Appleton’s manner was almost
eager.
“May 1 ask what they are?
“A big swimming pool between the
tennis courts and the house,
garage for six cars, a Japanese
house, and a dozen smaller jobs.”
Nothing pleases the new
more than the opportunity to
Mr. Appl
He begged to be
fle had no
ated llilton [lan
tea
exhibit
his property.
nothing
everything
clams. He congrutul
by warmly.
- “Yon
“one of
lea. Yon have a genius
ng."
bored hy
shown eritd
mnke
the stately
wil} thie.” he declared
homes of Amer.
for this sort
of thir
Only in one matter was his
opposed to that of the owner, He
thought that the ground given over
to the bird sanctuary would do ad
mirably for ornamental glass houses
“My wife and 1 wonldn't think of
such a thing.” Hanby ssserted firmly
“We are for the conservation of bird
life, Yon may not know It, but our
rarer species of songsters are In serl.
ous danger of extermination. That
bird sanctuary ts a hobhy of ours
and it will not ba disturbed wl
we live”
Mr. Appleton wrung his host's
hand. Flanhy was sorprised at
emotion written on this cheery,
lined face.
“It does you credit,
claimed. “In my
given no thought
It wns criminal
not know,”
“As a matter of fact.” llanby con.
fessed, “1 wns Just as heedless as
sou until a month ago. Mr. Bayliss,
whom | met at the Metropolitan club,
told me all about It. 1 raiher think
ha Is president of the Ornithological
society.”
“The name seems famillar™
Appleton. “One of our national an
thorities, If 1 mistake not. 1 think
I have read n notice of one of his
books on the subject”
Appleton was sightseeing
luncheon, llanhy wonld not
refuse to stay to the meal,
fact that he had a neat
sandwiches and fruit.
The Interior of the house ehermed
him greatly. Ile was filled with ad
miration at the rules of the Sanetn
ary club. The critical family eclrcle
approved of him,
(TO BE CONTINUED)
view
ile
un
gir,” he ex
ignorance 1 have
to such matters
negligence, 1 did
sald
antl
let him
despite the
package of
South America tna a moaning
mountain. At certain seasons a deep
note booms from Mount El Bromador
in the Chilean Andes, in forme:
days the natives listened to It with
superstitions fear, while even a white
man, hearing it for the first time, 1s
startled at the mountain's “power”
Another curious mountaln exists In
Nevada, though this one usually gives
out a note resembling at frst the
Jingling of bells and ending with a
deep organ-like swell, In both eases
the sounds are due to a peculiar for
mation of the earth, which under cer.
tain conditions of weather allows the
separate particles to rub against each
other and so produce uncanny effects
Elgg isfand, off the Scottish coast,
has its “singing sands” where at
times each graln rubs against Its
neighbor, the whole making a «ing.
Ing nolse. Similar sands are found
In China, In England is a mountain
which howls In such a way that for
merly it was supposed to be the haunt
of demons. This is Cross fell, In
Westmoreland, where local conditions
produce a gale with several peculiar.
ities, Including an awe. Inspiring
screnm that at times can be heard
for miles,
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Difficult for Stout Sisters
A beauty expert says one should
walk In such a way that one seems to
float. Well, we saw one of the super
stout old girls in our neighborhood
trying to do It and she looked like a
barge making headway in a ground
swell.—New Oricans Sintes,
Dame Fashion
Smiles
By Grace Jewett Austin
When Sir Walter Scott named a fa-
vorite character In his novels “Friar
Tuck,” the word
probably sounded
us pleasant to him
as it does to most
women this year,
There Is some-
thing subtly pleas-
Ing about tucks
that cannot be ex-
plained right out
in black and white,
When one sees a
thoroughly well
made coat with
Grace J. Austin. many lines of tiny
pin-tucking radiating away from the
shoulders, or up from the bottom of
or along its side, It Is hard
to keep from murmuring right out
loud, “I that cont.” The matter
of « pon coats Is one that
ip
own fa
the coat,
like
“8 1 has its
mtion, but without quite the
universa of agreement that there
I "of tucks.
round pan-
one of nodern
words other
achievement of qauty and
¢
nme the
continent
article far
womun's 58, but
Y, referring to an
fron
different I |
Dame Fashion thought he
was
gave quite
dress discourse,
this
believe
text which
that
busties
leads a
great
monsirositic
humpy
offenses
never
against the will
return to po
“simple line
wer again,
y adornments which
general simplicity of
Queen Elizabeth's famous
her neck was de-
uid be
suggest
anything but a
¢ other hand,
i ns necklaces
shoulders of
COs
the
duz-
and
CV.
and
iterruption,
dinner or
wns
FT»
narr vertical
me Fashi
On the right side front
blouse
group of vertical
and with just a
was a gen-
wr adorning the dress.
gatin din
and here
became side skirt
white satin, and
ted] rows of windows pointed
The last of the
eggshell
uine skyscrag
’
“Midnight” was a bl
ner gown,
the skys
panels
heir ligh
out in rhinestones
three was of
rippling skyscraper of Point
qd Alenc lace going straight down
the fue There Seemed just one
proper name for this beautiful
tion, In Dame Fashion's mind. It
surely was “Dawn”
(Es 152%, Western Newapap
i avhe
ack
nlso sleeveless,
rapers
edged with
white
with a
On
od
13 fue
cren-
er Union.)
Stick Red Crepe With
Bangkok Hat, Same Shade
This charming frock of stick red
crepe with a bangkok hat of the same
thade makes a most attractive out.
fit worn by Mary Philbin, "movie"
star, in her latest picture, “Eric the
Great”
Empty Flour Bags Make
Three-Story Hat Case
Unless you're very different from
most women, only your best and new-
est hat is carefully put away in a hat
box. But here is a smart little three-
story apartment home for hats that
you will really enjoy using and not
find it a bit of trouble, either,
It is small, being especially designed
to take the close fitting felts and vis-
cas of today, but of course, there is
no reason why one could not be made
larger if one so desired, It is intend-
ed to be hung from the closet ceiling.
Being collapsible, it packs into a small
space and Is therefore a com-
panion to take with you for a long
visit,
The materials required are four
plain wire rings 12 inches in diameter.
good
ni
\
rd
Pe
4
for Hats Easily Made
Empty Flour Bags.
half empty
ape,
Ff Hing tar
i Dina af
then covery i» w
flap : y 36, bound into
and also all the
r is sewed at each
Sew
a loose the
top ring
A snap
ner of the bottom.
with the tape to
the case from a
wa nnd
Vay round.
fastens cor.
a strap bound
the top and suspend
hook in the ceiling of
the closet.
Dainty Collars, Cuffs
New summer neckwear is
for wear with dainty chiffon and satin
It emphasizes i
and comes with wide
plaited or plain and rounded
or Vshaped effects. The sunflower
collar, made with petals of organdie
and worn with petaled cuffs, adds a
note of daintiness to any frock. Geor-
gette and crepe de chine in white,
flesh, blond and lemon colors are also
favored,
Wide shapes are generally used.
Many of the collars slip over the head.
Others are finished with short self-
fabric ties to be slipped through bone
or pearl ornaments. Puritan collars
and Buster Brown collars have re
turned once more. One attractive Bus-
ter Brown collar of yellow is scalloped
and finished at each scallop point wit
Another coliar
of georg perte slips on over the head
and reaches almost to the waistline,
in a renee shape, in the back.
Clouds of chiffon and georgette In
pastel shades make attractive scarfs
for both the young and the older wom-
en. Chiffon and crepe de chine is
nlso a favorite combination for the
tailored scarf. A handkerchief of
matching color is often added to com-
plete the color ensemble.
Plaited georgette scarfs are also ree
ceiving considerable attention, One
tailored scarf of crepe de chine con
gists of two triangles Joined at the
narrow ends. The borders are trimmed
with bands In contrasting colors, A
smart cape scarf 8 made with scal-
loped edges and armholes, either in
solid colors or In two contrasting
colors, Another novelly in scarf de.
sign Is achieved by adding a braid of
strips of georgette of contrasting
colors, In some the ends are left free
on one side, in others braided Into the
strips to form an entire collar, which
is finished with a bow of georgette,
dresses, the very wi
collar,
match in
Slenderizing Features
Panels, scarfs and lengthened hem.
lines contribute slenderizing effects
to formal gowns,
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is For 28 years the medical
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or tonsilitis. Proven directions for
in every package.
tores have genuine Bayer
Aspirin which is readily identified
by the n on the box and the
Bayer cross on every tablet,
colds,
ame
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Give Cheerfully
should give 1g we would
} ’
cheeriu
DR. CALDWELL'S
THREE RULES
Dr. Caldwell watched the results of
eonstipation for 47 years, and believed
matter how careful people are
of their health, diet axd exercise, comn-
occur from time to tims.
it when it comes. Dr. Caldwell always
was in favor of getting as close to nature
es possible, hence his remedy for const.
not harm the most delicate system
is not habit forming.
The Doctor never did approve of dras-
they were good for human beings to put
into their system. Use Syrup Pepsin for
bad breath, no appetite, head-
howels
For a free trial bottle, just write
BB, Monticello,
open
“Syrup Pepsin,” Dept.
Illinois.
Growth of Human Hair
ie average rate of growth
air on the head ym half
to one inch a month, The
growth Is greater betwees
and thirty years, and dimin
of hu
varies fre
Weak After
Operation
“About five months
following oa ops on Sh
appendicitis 1
strength enough re up rr
about. My mother and sister
advised me to take Lydia BE
Panlcham’ s Vegetable Com-
pound. I have taken five
ttles and it has helped me to
5 Stang so Leah do wy own
sework now. I have recom
mended it to several friends
who have been weak and run.
down.”"—Mrs. Oscar Ottum,
Box 474, Thief River Falls, Minn,