+ v 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 curse 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 onc- cupant of the place. The Han- boys 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 fcr the new home. Appleton, a clerk cf Douglas and Smith, the agents from whom Hanby bought the Gray house, urges Pelham to dis- sunde Hanby from occupying the Gray house. Pelham becomes a member of the household A call from a man who de- clares he Is an old acquaintance of Hannbv's, urges him to pre. serve a part of the grounds ae a bird sanctuary, The Hanbhys take possession of the Gray house A stranger introducing himself as Frederick Appleton, calls at the Gray house and is welcomed be. cause of his Interest in bird life Hanby engages Appleton as his agent T'he Selenos mystery Is explained Smucker, of a job after the loses of his position with Handy, emhittered against him as the author of his misfortunes, and pl revenge phone out hecomesn ans “HAPTER VII—Continued — Fe He turned away and made for the | tired The wire netting rthout nimhbly, nnd then and hrambles, he hunted thing wns center, sanctuary. it eeding he climbed ' ani spt like thorns the he black into falling. Suddenly he Ile felt an hlow to irs stepped himself and Le was Then no more and sp - * . * Ww Tim {ng vhite owl Ce. Hanbhy, Intent to his en it «t ] 3 hat codjection, had carefully aimed his twenty-two at the ns it an elm hranch not been prepared for the ex that saved finger caressed the bloadeurdling creature ft on he } traordinary Intervention its life As his there came na and some large from the hase of the tree. Tim felt that it was no disgrace to flee im hae trigoer, scream, animal had sprung medintely, ® » » * » ® . had not been nenr his office An ctation enrrespondence, and Hardw for Hanby for cleared he two months hour's di up his went the club fo are funcheon, “Hello, Douglas!” he sald the table where an man was siting. this morning, but stopping gray called were elderly, “1 sou nt fhiaired fom Oop busy.” “ind to see yon," Douglas repiled heartily: “I've you What's it like to he a landed proprietor? “The best life in the world.” tianby declared! “but a darned sight more to than | thought. Why did yoo recommend me to buy those farms? “A investment, They'll be wanted for a country club some day How are your Improvements coming along? “They are finished, thanks to your Appleton, Dongins, how could yon let a jewel of a man that go?” There wns a curious smile on the heavily lined face of the real estate | man, “So Appleton has been ap there again, has he?” inquired Douglas. “Again? What do you mean? “The Gray house holds some singn. far fascination for him-—that's what f mean, You ask why | let him go You call him a Jewel. 1 did that for more than thirty senrs.™ “And yet you refused to ralse hls pay, and stuck some jackanapes over him, I thought son were a better business man than that” “Tell me just what he sald,” Doug ins returned He listened to Hanby In silence “Now hear me,” he resumed. *] fired Appleton. | didn’t refuse to raise his pay, and | put nobody over fim." “You fired Appleton? Dougins. yon must have been ernzy! What for?” “Ostensibly hecause he was drunk and Linpertinent.” “Appleton? Why, he never drinks !™ “Another reason wns because he hand deliberately misled me as to his family life. Yet a third wns because he had manipulated accounts. | don't mean that he took money from me. I mean that he had robbed Peter to pay Paul. | mean specifically that for years he had heen charging other cilents for the money he used to ef. fect repairs on the Gray house.” “On my house? Dongias nodded, “For years he has been Interested In your house-for the last ten years, anywny, Another thing— Southard called] me up 8 month or so ngo, to nsk why | allowed a man like you, with a lovely family, to buy a house where people died from bad drains, For the last few years Appleton has kept clients from buying that house. You ask why, | ean’t expinin. Ask Appleton. | did, and was told to go to h-L" “The Appleton | mean Is a man of sixty, plump, smiling, and married to on Invalid to whom he fs devoted, He calls himself Darby and his wife Joan” “That's my Appleton, too, ft upon myself to see her. There was another Illusion gone, She Is an Invalid, but as to being devoted, missed do sound admirable like I took he tells her openly he wishes she The Mystery of a Haunted Mansion Wyndham Martyn w. Copyright N. U, Service by Wyndham Martyn were dead, so that the younger woman with.” Hanbhy put his hands to his head. “This 8 too much!™ he murmured. “Remember, | bud Lim In my house for a month" “1 had him for more than thirty sears. Up to the time he met this musical comedy person-—she myst he forty now—he wns a good husband Now he tnkes the woman out to dance halls tle has money saved but he's spending it. | have never been so utterly deceived In any one His wire, who Is religious, thinks he's pussessed of a devil, and maybe she's right. She says he has any amount money, | had his books exam Ind, and he hasn't embezzled one cent, All he has done Is to divert money from other houses to the up keep and repair of the one vou're In You've no kick coming. {le saved you money. What was he doling for you? he could marry be runs around Hanby explained. He told Douglas what his (mprovements had been their cost, and the time in which they were executed. The made culeulations on card Fortunately llanby had to dimensions puzzle! suid Douglas. the work in that have worked many more men than you paid for. {| know in New York this— he went job you Search me renlesinte the back of nn man menu exact particulars “Here's us another “To time he must complete lubor scales to the pressed Why? Hanhy—sgenrch me! Another for extra pocket, so prices and stnte, It amounts to on him. yon get Very thing— have paid work- of his that get the work done hy a cer Agnin you ray he must men out own he econld tain me!” Hanby “He may have wanted the workmen off the premises {or some his own." “What purpose ”™ ime, search frowned purpose of Dougins asked “How should | know? Uy the way did you permission to na former to back and dig something up from garden?” “1 denied her right to do some ex. carat} ever deny tenant, a Miss Selenos, zo the on told me she Aa mani wanted to tb place. | turned it over to him. thing in what he sald?” Hanby told him of the Aliss Selenos and her pets “1 don’t mind admitting that Apple ton has destroyed a lot of my faith in mankind.” Douglas sald presently “He wag the man | would have wagered my soul on as being square and white” “Ever see the woman? “That was how It all came out. | ran out of gns near Mineola, and hag to go to a very third-rate roadhouse There was Appleton, In a neat tux. edo. doing fancy steps with a good looking ex-actress. | looked at him very hard. | counldn’t believe it was he." Dougine inughed a little “He had the d—d Insolence to say that {f I annoyed his lady friend by making baby eyes at her, he'd knock ay block off. Next morning he didn't try to make excuses, te had a hang over, and he told me much of what he had concealed since 1800 or there. abguts, [It appeared that he had al ways hated me and envied me my good luck.” Douglas grew almost ir ritable. “No more about Appleton, or I'tl change my table!” ® * * . * » * Hanby did not get back to the Gray house until late. [lle sald a few words to the younger people and then asked Dins and Bill to come to the fibrary. “I've had a great day,” he an nounced. “Incidentally | have dis covered that my Judgment of charae ter is no better, let's say, than Bill's” “And me a house detective!” Bl cried. “Your reason totters|™ “We've all been deceived but Les” “Les?* eried Dina. “Oh, Hil, you're Joking! That boy?" “Dina. light of my life,” sald Han by, “if there Is a more thoroughgoing old hellion than Mr. Frederick Darby Pickwick Appleton, let me learn his dishonored name. [I've seen his Joan this afternoon, and | know what I'm talking about. Listen! I''t begin with what Douglas told me and then come to my Interview with that poor crippled old woman.” Annleton was 1c who minh the Any affair of one The failure of many artistes who remnin anknown comes from the fact that they do not know in what direc. tion their power lies, The fallures of great artistes nearly always come from their lack of knowledge of their own limitations. Few can, indeed, go on for long years with a record like that of Madame Adelina Pattl, of whom It 1s suid that she had but one real fallure In her artistic life. She was over fifty years old and had been a leading opera singer for over thir ty years when, attracted by the op portunities which the role of Carmen gives, she undertook to sing it at Covent Garden, London. With her voice still beautiful, her stage tech pique at Its strongest and ber im “It seems Impossible!” commented Dina, at the end of her husband's narrative, “l begin to suspect murmured. “Appleton!” “It took me that way when | first heard it, but It cannot be doubted, He came here to get the opportunity to be In and near this house, and to gee whnt was going on. He has al ways been coming and going. [I've heard something that many hear on It a little, [I got It from Mrs. Appleton, tier brother was a very rich man, but he speculated and died In pover- ty. There were a few years myself,” Ril his heiress; and Appleton was going to use the legney to buy the Gray house and make it a fashlonnble road house. Ile sald there was a fortune in It Fishing, golf, swimming—evy erything that was needed for a dential hotel, Perhinps ‘rondhonse’ Isn't just what he meant, but that was Mrs. Appleton's term.” “Bur if her brother died erty, where would he get the to buy this place?" Bll asked. “1 don't know, I admit that It doesn’t solve the question why he should still he Interested In It. There Is no solution, as far as | see, nnd yet we know that something Is going on here, or something Is planned to £0 on, and that we stand in the and they want to remove ns | der If we ought consult licet™ “And get Oh, Hil, res! in money pov wily won to the po kinds think of all don’t of notoriety! It! Nothing “D=—n IL" sald Hanby, “I'm a8 sim ple type. If | like people, 1 trust them absolutely, | go the IImit for them, and have eversthing Ive got. This gives me panse—what ever that He put his Land his wife's arm. “Come and od with Dellinh, ere | conmnthat in the world ™ inter, they ean means on fie ‘hallenre Ci Henge me, mortal Not » Celin, n parcotls Les “Why swered. fou have any “Life “1 talked to care little and tal snid watch king intermittently to have ?™ should “Come they to that, cares ™ hie an why should bores me,” the gin that In ning of my sophomore year. mnke quite = hit, ten to ask what is (ife that™ “Lesa” she snapped, Your apperceptions “That's said my “To othe yawned lke the begin it You've forg Il always dig j ned 1) unt to wy you! are nehnious”* one, | admit” pe hate u fiew use iv" rm sirie? “Why net? If sop won't © fiw I must try ny luck “You have an Les” “Feed It with pand.™ “The malin trouble with ron sou couldn't surprise me In I know all your mental reactions You never jump off the road. | surprise you, les, and [ve a good mind to.” Celia paused. “Perhaps | ought to tell you the whole romantic affalr.™ Lesile Barron looked at her. frowr- Ing. The word “romantic” danger, “Let the clutch In," he commanded “You are not the only man she sald. “last night, when you were plaging pool with Bll, | went to the swimming pool. It was midpight { went out to pick some asphodel.’ “What's that?" “A romantic blossom to be found in most gardens of verse, Les | a most adorable, godilke man. looked at me like a wild faun and then disappeared In a cloud of star dust.” There was something harder and more resolute about Leslie than Celln had ever seen before. She had an uneasy impression that there were depths In his nature as yet on somewhere attenuated soul © l8e sub affection, It will ex ‘ 3 in t at any ¥ wa cnuld spe. led here” ont tell him so. “Don't be rough” she sald. took her hand away from his. “Don’t scowl at me so” { i i Interest me” like to break his in star dust slowly. “I'd neck I" “But “He Is are.” “Yon admit talking to him?" The young tans tone annoyed Celia. *1 admit nothing.” *l1 accuse you of talking to him)” persisted Les, whose volce was husky, “Of course, If you listened,” she sald alrily, “why should | deny 117" (TO BE CONTINUED.) d—a you couldn't,” she answered much more splendid than yon mense popularity, even she could not adapt herself to a role that was con ceived for a different type of volce and a different type of person. She, the greatest singer of the century, falled to do what scores of lesser artistes were doing well, and what had proved the Inspiration of some of those who were nearest to her in greatness. ———————— Treating Kodak Prints The burensu of standards snys that glossy kodak prints are obtained by placing the wet prints, face down, on ferrotype pinte, and peeling them off when dry. A plece of plate glnss will sometimes answer for the ferrotype plate, YOUNG HEIFER'S VISIT T WAS late In the summer and the young heifer had wandered off for adventures, The young heifer thought she was baby calf, Ah yes, she was big now and she of herself. fun! wander de- nke would such then to be very, It was a good old of interests, so much how to adventures care be To and would wander more very lightful. world, ful much to KO {Oo see, discover. Now the young helfer belonged to a farmer who owned a good many He was very fond of all He had cows and he he had pigs and he roosters. Oh, there mals, of had had animals, and and sheep hens The Heifer Wandered and Wandered and Felt Very Tired. where the his large place. not which away from ! and even nearest to any there were towns were ha fn them but Any towns hose few peo there { ple t ; wry far north, It wa We ooming hilly. jut the } ’ pred and tired anid Yes, ad but when It became ight « wns of friends fon { ame along It a nice lot and And ES ily about. the heifer began to feel quite sad heard familiar to derstood, which which she sounds-—sounds her, were talk un- S By Viola Brothers Shore FOR THE GOOSE-— KE VERY - you're tion. And you're stren'thenin' feel He your fealonsy own posi. show time you weakening every time yon somebody else's. Maybe to marry the men the reason women that Aare so crazy deceive them is outa revenge. The way to be happiest In mar riage nin't always to do what'll make you the most happy: or him the most happy: but what'll make the both of you the least unhappy. The reason women stand for so much from bad men and impose on good ones is because it's much easier for a woman to be generous than just, FOR THE GANDER Every place where you got a latch- key ain't home. But no place is home where you ain't got a latchkey. It's better to be the hest member of a poor family than the worst mem- ber of a good one. Bat it's better to be the dumbest In a smart family than the smartest in a dumb one, because then at least you ain't bored to death, 1Vprsant) (8 by LeUiure Newaps we Ryndiostes S000 0eeRRe 7), SH [1S And she thought that she would go In the direction of those sounds and listen, This silence about her was beginning to make her quite nervous. So she went In the direction of the sounds, even though she was tired, and even though she hated to walk any more. But extra walk and the extra ing If she could be where there would be companions, 4 PIPPI PIPIRE IHEP IRRIIPIY. young heifer that she w And last she came to another farm. There were none of her family but thelr were animals of her kind and friends could home with, and {t there. Everyone welcomed her, a little shyly at first, but she was wel- ns, own about, she feel he comed, It w welcomed, ns for I ieifer be to had never seen before, but 100, was nice to her, He seeme prised at first to see treated her as { of 1" no time at all she he, one Day after day she stayed upon this farm, an ns days have a which selves, i the days went weeks habit of doin; into they've never broken And weeks w Yes, two months had the heifer had tures. But hat her own en months, by since and zive her a ing to give he ers real ma she og belonge thon to her old home. and while away. was fun to feel such an 1 It was good to be back yet she been well oh. it treated jut . unusus! heifer --t0 have been away on a two months’ No other heifer She visit, much care to go but was glad she had had su an unusual experience. (Coprright) could say nas fi Am" “in giant ag 3, she 9000000000000 00000000000800 Why We Do What | We Do by M. K. THOMSON, Ph. D. 00000000000000000000000000 WHY WE HAVE CONCEPTS VW EX I use the word “book” yon know what I mean. Yet. it does not have quite the same mea all. To the small child a book something with leaves in it makes an agreeable noise when he pulls and tears. Later he learns that a book has colored pictures of all kinds funny looking animals. By and by it dawns on him that some books have queer characters under each animal that tell what to call the outlandish creature, It Is a moo-moo, a ba-ba, or a bow.wow, When a child is ready for school he learns that books are to be read and studied. There are large books and small books, thick books with no pictures. Perhaps some day he works in a book store or a library. That is still another approach. His expert- ence with books Increases his Inter est in them. It may be that he writes a book himself. This gives him a pe- cullar relation to the name book, which is not unlike the father and son relationship. Perhaps he owns a private library and goes in for collect. ing rare and valuable books. By this time he has become a connoisseur in books, a book lover. This Is merely an fllustration of how our concept grows with experience. The same principle holds regarding all the objects to which we give names, Hence the difference in our taste and comprehension. We do not like the same things because our experiences are different. We dislike certain ob- Jects for the same reason, We have concepts in order to think and talk intelligently. A concept is made up of memory Images of things we once experienced through one or more sense organs. The meaning of any concept is determined by the rich. ness of our experience regarding that particular situation or thing. (® by MeClure Neowapa per Byndicate.) 0 Gone Wrong "Jones!" sald the schoolmaster sternly. “You have again been caught in the act of flagrant dJdisohedience. Your example to others is most in. Jurions. In short, slr, yon are going to the devil, Come with me!" Yorkshire Post. a 10 means that of “She Goes to War”-—meaning EI eanor Boardman does—has been brought to the films. Miss Boardman will be remembered as the star of “The Crowd” which her husband, King Vidor, directed. The picture shows Miss Boardman as she appears in the war feature. wi iomrmsiestes For Meditation week's work In the crowd Pe rhaps 1 may 3 interested spectator that a 'n, intent on » cted 8 time r n iw £) g in a he tents indi. walters - of hav the eangested centers wen this meth summer months resorts or to seaside last few years summer consid- nded per received perious it mi ’ : has fro who has ve benevoler a SONS made it possible for many of the dependent cially cb to fits of a few weeks spent In classes, espe the bene. the out has th an hildren receive not only few weeks same time like na- dramat- iren, receive of doors. Summer camping be. con noroug! extent that ne in simost the of camp life, but at the every physical benef] are taught many of the arts ture study weaving, ics, ete. y however, require support but and instruction, former may be furnished liberally mi » cf the iat. are pro h the serv. ces of many of t gifted and young people from our col- universities, hese splen- give about two months summer vacations to this work, receiving as their chief re. | ward the rare privilege of having had a share in the work of making pos- | sible a few weeks of real pleasure to underprivileged children ns well as the opportunity of instilling into their minds thoughts which may effect their future character and life. Summer camping is making a definite contribn- tion to a better citizenship and should receive most hearty support. (©, 1925, Western Newspaper Union.) nancial also lon dershin 0a jershis i he tlwan {i DF {iZens, er alented leges and did young people of their “A girl who Jumps at conclusions is always startled when the boy friend gives a hoep™
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