wm WwW. N. U, Service Tr rrr rrr. YY yr YY YY —-_— Try r7TYYTYYTYYTYyYyYyYyYyYyyYyYY ehhh dh dh dh dh ddd CHAPTER X—Continued wn] Tn “This Is certainly rubbing it Into the house detective,” Pelham grinned. “What next, Junlor? Do 1 salute you hereafter?" “We begin our Investigation at day- break,” Junior continued. “If any people are there, we shall have a bet ter chance to surprise and overpower them.” “Does Dina know?" Pelham asked. “No. This is one of the few times I've had a secret from her. She would worry. You know, old man, there may be danger. You're a deputy. It will be up to you to arrest them. That's why we are taking you along. Junior wanted to do the stunt alone. Ob serve his sullen face, Ile thinks we are going to steal his stuff.” “That cheers me;” Pelham “I'm ready.” Ile put a large hunt ing-knife in his pocket, and some cord. “No trained house detective ever ventures on a man-hunting ex pedition without a small ax. Junior, forget the difference in our rank, and get me one.” When the boy had gone, he turned to Hanby. “Hi, old top,” he laughed, “I've been d—d gloomy the last few days, but | honestly believe you've Lit on something good I” “1 don't sald now thout good,” said the other slowly, “If the sanctuary holds the key to the mystery, | don't hin agine we shall see poor Burton alive again. You blundered riglit into the thick of things. If I'm right he ran into the bunch that killed Red Kerr. I think that pote was a for gery.” The long, creeper-clad front of the Gray house faced the south, The distance from the extreme boundary of the building and the wire that inclosed the thicket was not more than fifty feet. When dawn came slowly down the sk'es, it found Hanby cutting method {cally at the wire fence. When the others had passed in, te twisted the cut ends together, so that no passer by would notice that an entrance bad been Per ting impetuous youth to henr the brunt the pushed its way them tl heard eager to con: fo it. stood In by screen of leasven, see, he of the opposition offered by the expedition forward, Ahead of the und were undergrowth, ey brook Tne three soun an ares lighted n above the early filter'ng through a There was ] a fight eerie The the 'c¢ below it disappeare] lorotic, quality about mination, flowed and a into a “Can asked Junior ms: an examination, “It imp ssable. This place has been cleared out for some special reason—probab.y makes that to smooth It “Exactly, gibed. “Even Junior, In sireaan out of darkness we work upstream?” llanby ide see because the brook sharp turn, and they bad ort.” Sherlock,” I see that: answer, his father but why? clutched the other's arm. He pointed upstream to the tunnel] from which the water poured in unvarying volume, “What's that?" he demanded. Peering into the shadows, the others could see that the stream carried a burden—a large dark mass that came steadily toward them. Sometimes iit /as completely immersed, and then ft seemed to Iift itself from the water. as if it were a huge animal swim ining. “Gd!” cried Hanby. “ody.” “It's a man’s The thing was now almost at his feet, He nerved himself to stoon down for a closer Inspection, *It may be poor old Tom Burton!” little, he turned the corpse over so that its face could be sen The sightless eyes of Adolf Smucker stared ap at him, Death had not kind to that mean and evil Smucker had come to ha end In agony and fear, and those emotions were graven on the face at which the three stared His neck, in life thin and bony, was now black and swollen. On his nar. row forehand was a purple bruise stretching to the roots of the sparse balr, Instinetively Hilton Hanby released his held, and the stream again took up its burden. “Thank God It wasn't Tom!” Pel ham whispered, “Perhaps, If we walt long enough he'll come by,” Hanby sald gloomily He was depressed to think that he had allowed Junior to come with him There was no doubt now that danger lay ahead of them, He knew he could not expect his son cally to leave his father and his friend to face it alone ; and if anything should happen where. by not all of them returned, what would Dina do? Why had they murdered Smucker? And what was Smucker doing here? “Well,” he said aloud, answering his own question, “spec: lation is silly and time-wasting. We've got to fol- low the stream. We can't do it down here, but the channel Is easily seen from the outside.” : The three made thelr silent way along the narrow path, each with the conviction that at the end of it some- Shuddering na been {ace. thing of a vaguely dangerous char acter would be found. Pelham cautioned his companions to proceed more carefully. “‘D—n it,” he sald crossly, “why walk upright? For all you know, some one's looking along rifle sights at you this very moment, Crouch, man, crouch” “It's too early for anyone to be about yet,” Hanby said. “At that, 1 think your advice is good.” Suddenly he stopped and plcked up a fountain pen. On a sliver band around It were the initials “T. B.” “It's Tom's!” he whispered. “That letter was a forgery, after all. [le's somewhere here. God save him from Smucker's fate!" Hanby put the and pushed on, “Appleton led” later. “Look-—the in, after all!" The path led them suddenly, with a right-angled turn and a quick descent, to the stream level again, It ran through a hollow a hundred yards In length, The place was a natural amphitheater. Coarse-tueshed wire bad been stretched from side to and was so densely overgrown that the hollow, us observed from the roof of the Gray house, seemed but a nat ural part of the five acres that had been a like. The three shrank into the bushes at the edge. “Who “Why swered. “We're got to cross this, If we're to find out,” Hanby said. fle led the way, keeping to the edge of the leafy wall of this natural tent He stopped them with a gesture, The odor that floated toward them was unmistakable, “Coffee!” they whispered in unison Hanby went more warily than before. stopped. the pen In his pocket he minute filled gald a wasn't ial due glide Junior done?’ Pelbam did ni? was [It whispered aon on even When he Myini With a Roar of Anger, He Sprang at the Crouching Lad and Had Him by the Throat, two behind saw the reason. He was looking down a narrow tunnel pierce ing the solid earth, shored up with timbers, ns mine passages are pro tected from the caving in of rocks or earth. It was from this passage that the coffee odor came. No light was to be seen at its end. Hanby measured fifty paces before he stopped. Apparently he had run into solid ground. Then he saw that the passage bent sharply to the left; and when he turned his eves, he could see light coming from a doorway. It was not daylight, but came from some artificial source. The doorway amazed them, It was cut in a solid stone wall—masonry of the same sort as that of the Gray house, “Dad!” Junior whispered excitedly “This Is our house-—I1'm certain (™ The three Intruders passed through the entrance. It seemed odd that It had no door. The light which enabled them to dispense with the flashlight came from a low-powered electric bulb In the masonry ceiling of a large chamber. The insuflicient (llumina tion showed the room to be almost ten feet in height, and filled with piles of lumber, Now for the first time they heard volces, They drew back Into an un- lighted chamber, of whose dimen- slons they could not judge. Here they waited, having for the moment no set plan of actlon, Junior's guess seemed to be a correct one. For some reason which might soon be discovered, the owner of the Gray house was allowed to use only one-third of his cellar space. Unknowns occupled the rest, and had piled lumber In It, More than that—unknowns made thelr homes here and breakfasted here, When the distant volces ceased, Hanby turned on the flashlight and looked about him, They had strayed into a storerocm. On shelves were potatoes, onlons, carrots, pears, and apples. The floor was of concrete, and an electric light bulb was the source of Huminantion, “1 bet I'm paying for thelr juice!” Hanby whispered. He stopped suddenly. At last he heard footsteps, The three took what cover they could In the corners. Lulg! entered, nnd switched on the Hght., It was Junior whom first snw. With . roar of anger, he sprang at the crouching lad and bad him by the throat, tlanby remembered those dreadful bruises on Smucker's neck, He raised the heavy cane and hrought It down on the strangler's with all his strength, “Thanks, dad!™ sald Junlor, ing an effort at superb calm, Bill I'etham, with a yachisman's skill, trussed up Lulgl with knots that the ruffian could not break when he came to. The whole thing had occu pied only a few seconds, and asd made Httle sound, Luigi's cry of rage, apparently, had brought no one to in They left him to tie In a corner, covered with sacking The odds were growing more favor able, tianby wns amazed to see Bill el ham stop before another narrow door and slip a key Into the lock. He had noticed that his friend had taken a bundle of keys from man wns binding, Pelham wck made he bead mak vestigate His cause. not the he vorkedd aul no on either side of the dot it gound SWing Gin, the honed wf olin t “log !™ furtievd three, listenis intently fi Bound Alpe UnReen For wee 3 jhe 1 had Inoked only into the face of no and now Le 's father, Celins brother, am. His face was hlowd nd there was a but he sprang to his readily enough They that he was practically unhurt. - * . * * * . See Ine ruel jailer; ee Dt nt over feet one eve, could sce While the bird sanctuary was being violated, Mr, Appleton drank hisearly coffee and took his cereal and fruit in his unhurried way; but it humor sat on his florid face, and the eyes peering through his thick lenses no longer looked childlike and bland, Three people were in the room with him—the woman who had a dozen years ago supplanted his wife, Jim Delaney, and Luigi Bartoll, Jim had been a bully all his life, a man who had Innumerable times proved the fatulty of the axiom that every bully is a coward. By his side stood the big Sicilian, gesticulating wildly, and voluble beyond words, *You murdered a man sarily.” said Appleton coldly. Stripped of the exuberant verblage interspersed with parenthetical re. marks In his native tongue, Luigi's story was this: tle had gone Into the litle room that was Smucker's cell, there to sleep off some strong wine, and to escape from the observant eye of Joho Delaney. While slumbering. he had suddenly awakened to find that Smucker had stolen his knife and was about to slit his wensand. [lle had not murdered the man, He bad dove what be did to save his own life, In moments of vinous rage he did not properly estimate his own strength tie had been horrified to find Smucker lifeless, but Luigi contended that not a jwy In the lund would convict him of murder. (TO BE CONTINUED) customary unneces The basic iden of the explosive en giné was conceived long before the appearance of steam. In 1680 Huygens described an explosion motor which was to be operated by discharging a quantity of powder to drive the air out of a cylinder and raise the pis ton. To that point, his engine relied on a force somewhat similar to the working principle of those today, but the useful work was to be done by the piston being forced down by the pressure of the atmosphere against it, thus lifting a weight or doing some other task. There is no record that this engine ever was operated. The steam engine of 1700 functioned on about the same plan, that ls, steam was used to lft the weight of the piston, and after this was done, the atmospheric pressure was relied upon for the real work. After Huygens, al. most 100 years passed before inventors caught the vision of rotary motion from their engines. His Idea simply involved a piston and a cylinder. Supreme Victory A more glorious victory cannot be gained over another than this, that when the Injury began on his part, the kindness should begin on ours.— John Tillotson, Dame Fashion Smiles By Grace Jewett Austin Dame Fashion sniff first at the took’ a meditative back of her right hand and then at the back of her left hand. She was not doing it dra- matically like Lady Macbeth, but was registering much pleasure In the doing. The reason was that a pretty girl had put a dab of “perfume to wear when playing bridge” on the right hand, wear playing golf” the left hand. As Dame Fashion, in her own ordinary self, can play either, of course, had no bias, and could be an unprejudiced judge of what she liked. And she at once chose the “golf” fragrance; more de- cided,~more “peppy,” in short. They were both perfumes that had been the and secret vats of France, and the pretty girl went on to give an excellent re- sume of a recent French visitor's re- marks about women and perfume, It brought out that when a French wom. preparing for a social function her perfume before Grace J. Austin, and on “perfume to she distilled In mysterious an is ghee chooses she decides which gown she and to the ef- will wear, her appearance The Frend think Americans have a learn about perfumes, | harmonizes foot of her perfume! gcem to h peo- ut they shop which has OOBe8 one ing wom- of the per per and to live up to the beat counter surroundi are he women sure All this tal Paris, who declar omen take than do Europeans: dress Parisienne, for a compliment, the mos For, there ia one sort of gown that is ivel ure to he sports dress ! and positively the white sports frock. Some of the meekest ar, when taken back that might to a give a concert. back as that as well ns pretty EPOris wos off. reveal a “suntan” a bit ginger about to no the modest elireme even grand such had chosen. Khe was even going to take off a bit of the “bride” look, for travel, by wearing a navy blue hat and other navy-shaded accessories, (E1929. Western Newspaper Union.) Transparent Velvet for Cool Summer Evenings Showing a charming cape.wrap of orchid transparent velvet for cool summer covenings. The material Is also smart in black, white and all paste! shades, White Crepe de Chine Dress, Plaited Skirt Here is a lovely white crepe de chine dress with a plaited skirt. A colorful red and white scarf adds a bright touch to the outfit. It is de. signed for late summer wear. Flashes of Fashion of Interest to the Women Linen butchers’ dresses in apple green, blue and rose were supple- mented by Jackets of flowered ligen midseason bathing sult the walst- | at the Molyneux Shorts are and suits cut opening. the latest the back. Paris races, hats were wks, for sports wear, are pproves the cine shades, k, red mer evening frocks, Jlow for sum- Sleeveless frocks have cape yokes extending over the shoulder and other to make able for street ind egz-shell satins the sleeveless dress wear. are dresses, coats Lace Accessories Are Provided for Summer ¥s oie ff sistent th the yogue lor 4 ernoon the neck in fron floor at the fi . Chanel for ex lace by mkin of it to pink lace hown in use fan one lack were 8 the 'h ollections. Chanel al izing to finish the designed to eo employs lace « tops and hems | be worn under sheer frocks of chil fon and net. of slips | Black Is Popular for Summer Evening Gowns Black seems becoming to more women than nearly any of the light shades, It is not to be wondered at, therefore, that black is an outstand. ing favorite for evening dresses. Lace and tulle are extensively used in the construction and decoration of these frocks, Frequently they have very low neck lines and long tight sleeves of black lace. To balance these, some of the newest are accompanied by pantalettes of black lace which reach to the ankle and fit tightly, Still oth- er pantalettes come just below the knee, where they are fastened with a tight band. Frock Material Lines When buving the beautifully print. ed materials for summer, one cannot go wrong in choosing the flower de- signs which are both colorful and dainty. But one can easily go wrong by not buying enough. The reason {s that the coats worn when the winds blow chill with these costumes are nearly always lined with the same This lining vogue may extend even to the under brims of the hats and the flaps of the envelope bags of biack patent leather. Shirting Material Is No gowe think doubt you have wondered why clever blouse designer did not of using the soft shirting mate for simple wash frocks, now get these light, cool shirtings made up into exquisitely tailored new blouses which are perfect for the cur rent suit pode EE PO i CABINET | lesesassanss (©), 1925, Western Kewspaper Union.) Why In the CArry Things that annoy and harass and harry? Btop then day is Bqueeze a of a world do you want to and drop them, a new here, laugh Lear, from it instead Kaufmann. There are so many delicious fruits that make most alluring conserves, i preserves and relishes, that it is necessary, if we have a supply for the fruit closet, to be ready for each fruit as it comes, look up the old reliable and well. liked recipes and noth- ing will be missed. Fach year we like to try some recommended concoction, so a card index helps to keep them where we can find them quickly. Andover Conserve.—P'ut preserve kettle eight pears, two lemons, in a large pounds of bard orange and f preserved f i i hh the n Add 4 inds of Bu one S| gin. eat ar, set t he sugar orp! 1 grinder. 34 moderat i untii me ices flow, then cook, stir- ring ocecasiof ¥ until thick and clear, Now, with } addition pectin from the long cooking Is eliminat and the amount of fruit to can greatly Increased. of otlie, Fruit Conserve.—Tuke three pounds } pears, p and plums and boll the stones app fuls of water forty minutes, uit ; add one 1 chopped), the strained ‘ook, stirring » pectin may cooking. ten large red peppers and twelve the peppers coarsely, ater over and let rover again after Drain and add two cupfuls of or Bring ninutes, Harlequin Pickle.—~Take ereen and ten 4 al them then can in jars Meriton Pickle. Slice «1 green cucun Keen Thirst Quenchers. make ab ade is some- ost people think peed no However, if will use a ar sirup to sweeten the drink it will seem rich- and most £4 one the sirup 4 in water be- lemonade, Try doesn't make an im- provement ordinary way. Take the juice of half a dozen lem- ng, a cupful of sughr and six cup- fuls of water. Put the sugar and wa- ter together and when the sugar is well dissolved add the lemon juice. Serve at once well chilled. children fruit drinks during vacation time when they are hot and tired from their play. The fruit used in the drink furnishes much that is beneficial In lime, and other minerals and salts. The drink takes the place of the water lost by perspir- ation. The sugar used as sweetening gives zest to the fruits and it, of it- self, is a highly concentrated form of human energy. It helps provide vim, vigor and vitality to make rosy, bright- | eyed children the happy little beings | they are, The bottled drinks of pop and such kinds are not wholesome for children, and should be given them very spar ingly or not at all. Iced drinks of any kind should not be served, but the drink may be cool and just as refresh ing. A straw or two added to the glass will make even a cold drink of milk taste better. | Orangeade.—Doll together one-half cupful of sugar and fwo and one-half cupfuls of water with the rind of an orange, for five minutes, Chill, add two cupfuls of orange juice, three table they instruc- this ane the Give the young Ginger Ale Punch.—Pour one cupful of hot tea infusion over one cupful of sugar, add three-fourths of a cup- ful of orange juice, one-third cupfal of lemon Jjulece. One pint each of gin. with a few slices of orange and tea Fried Cheeses Toast—Arrange sand. between buttered slices of Beat two egps, add three fourths of a cuplful of milk, one half tengpoonful of salt; dip the sand wiches into this mixture and brown ing pan. Serve with Jeliy, Norese Morwere
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