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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
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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
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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
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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™