What the
Gray House
Hid
The Mystery of a
Haunted Mansion
- oo
by Wyndham Martyn
W. N. U. Bervice
Copyright by Wyndham Martyn
CHAPTER X-—Continued
—
“But these other two men?” Burton
asked anxiously.
“They will find that they have an
opportunity to get away. It's cloud
ing over for rain. I'm willing to match
my giant huckleberry hawk against
your fighting fuchsia moth that we
shall never see Jim or Luigl again!”
Jim and Luigi could hardly holieve
thelr eyes when they saw th” j the
men with automatics had becolne neg
lectful. The two miscreants merged
into the shadows, and faded from
sight by some secret and unknown
path,
There remained Appleton and his
iady. Their problem was not so
simple, Appleton must be held.
When the cell door was unlocked
the lady was voluble and angry. When
Appleton’s door was tlung open, he
iny on the floor,
“You've killed him!” she said, and
flung herself at his side.
There was no doubt that she lovea
him. Presently he sat up and smiled
at her. His face was white,
“My heart is not strong”
mitted. “Men with high color
owe It less to good health than to
heart trouble I have had mueh to
worry me today. With your permis:
sion, 1 will get some mecCicine before
we resume our conference.”
Appleton seemed shrunken and
feeble, It was the woman sup
ported him. Slowly they walked ahead
of their captors toward th large liv-
ing room. Appleton was courteous to
the last.
“It is your house,” he sald, smil
ing feehly. “After you, genitemen!"™
Jurton was the last to enter, \When
he was well in the room, the door was
suddenly shut and locked behind him
Five men stared at another
helplessly. The sick man had tricked
them.
he ad
often
who
one
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CHAPTER XI
It was ten minutes before they had
smashed the door down. Outside there
was nothing but darkness and pelting
torrents of rain. With fashlights
they searched the sanctuary until,
about midnight, torn by thorn spikes
and drenched to the skin, they had to
confess that they were beaten. Ap
pleton ang his lady oad escaped.
The five made thelr way to the
wire edge of the bird sanctuary and
came, exhausted, to the Gray house
Dina, Celia, and Florence Burton were
aiting. Their alarm would have
been grenter had not Hanby left a
note, saying that he and Bill and
Junior were going on a long hiking
trip.
*[lere,” sald
hrenking in on
ones! Florence,
Cella, behold the
Hanby dramatically
them, “are the lost
here is your Tom
captor of the wild
faun. 1 baven't a moment for ex
planations,” he added. “Junlor and |
have to go out again.” He turned to
his son. “Get scur car around to the
front door as soon a: you can.”
Hurrledly ue picked up the tele
phone and called the chief of
police, whom he had met In the Red
Chapin murder affair,
“Mr. Hanby talking,” he began
*U've Just comc In. | met a whole
train of big trucks passing along
south, [ wouldn't be surprised if they
were running a eargo ~f booze, 1d
look into It, If | were you."
He hung up the instrument.
“1 did that,” he cxplained to his
family, “because | want the seizure
made somewhere not on my property.
Joyle happens to be one of the ten
ants whose repairs Appleton has al
ways supervised.”
“What seizure?” Dina ered.
“Bilt will have to tell you all about
it"
Hanby picked up the telephone In
strument that connected with the ga.
rage, the stables, and the gardeners’
quarters, The listeners heard him
give what seemed an extraordinary
order, He instructed the three men
in the stables to ride around the bird
sanctuary until he ordered them to
cense patrolling, and to hold any tres.
passers who tried to break away from
it
“Bilt will explain” he sald. “We'll
be back In half an hour”
It was almost an hour before he
came In,
“We've been checking up things”
he said. “Now for something to eat!”
Again he took up the local tele
phone, This time he Instructed a
chauffeur to tell the men riding about
the bird sanctuary that their task
was done.
By this time Dina knew the whole
story, She was particularly incensed
at the part played by Appleton's com.
panion, the lady with the pleasing
voice,
“You don't mean to say those dread
ful people have escaped?”
local
“Impossible !” Pelham cried. “low
do you know?”
“Some three hours ago,” Hanby told
them, “Doctor Grant was coming from
a case, and saw a plump gentleman
and a good leohing womnn at our
upper entrunce gates. They were
sonked through—from the rain, he
supposed—nnd had a reasonable story
to tell, Thelr motor had stalled some
where, and they were on thelr way
to get gas. Do~tor Grant believed it,
and took them as .ar as Stanford.
ville, where they bought a five gal
lon ean and hired a car to tnke them
back to their machine, The driver
was told to go to the nearest rallroad
station. He did so, and -ecelved good
pay and the can of gas. They took
the ten thirty-five train to New York.
I don't have to he a house detective
or a Yale sophomore to guess who
that drenched couple was.”
“How did they get out of the sanc
tuary and make the upper road?”
“They went up the stream. We
know there's a clear way, because Jim
used to float the cases down. While
we were losing our flesh and clothes
in that d—d thicket, they were wad
ing In three feet of water to safety.
Another thing—while they delayed us,
the crowd at Boyle's made Its get.
away. Such a night as this—foggy.
rainy, and moonless—was a godsend
to them. The tracks were plain
enough in Doyle's yard when we got
there, but .he rain has washed all
marks from the paved roads"
“Tien It wou't he easy to
them?" the professor hazarded,
“It won't be hard to trace forty
ten-ton trucks making a convoy for
Manhattan, They can't make more
than twenty-five miles an hour, at the
outside. They'll get them, and they'll
get Appleton, ’
Here the telephone rang sharply
It was the local chief of police. He
was angry and disappointed. He In.
formed Hanby that, with his own men
and prohibition enforcement officials,
he had overtaken, held up, and
searched a fleet of big trucks pro
ceeding southward. They were laden
only with building material, which
had been carefully examined. in
every instance they e driven bY
men whose allbls were genuine,
“Wow !" said Hanby, hanging up
“That was a hot one! [It certainiy
proves that the amateur
business is not as simple as It seems
What Appl. on or Jim did was to
alter the destination of the
ships. [nsrecd of toward Man
hattan, they hiding.”
Dina sensed depression In
him Her husband man who
always played to win
“Never mind!” she sald putting her
arm about his shoulders, affectionate
ly. “I'm proud of you all, You've
given a hushund back to Florence
and but for you | might have lost my
son-in-law.” She smiled at Leslie and
Celin. “You've cleared up
mystery!”
“Something Is
tory,” Pelham him
Again the telephone disturbed them
Hanbhy, right
hand, enloining silence and attention
he whispered
trace
ton.”
detective
Doze
going
into
deep
went
was a
the great
lost In every vic
reminded
answering, ral ed his
“Long distance ” “Lis
ten, all of you!"
They crowded about the instru
ment. A distant central Informed some
one as yet unknown that bere
his party.
“This Is M.. Hanby speaking.”
the man at the instrument.
There floated out Into the room the
very clear articulation of Mr. Apple
ton.
“We
pleton,
was
sald
thank youn” sald Ap
“for our opportunity to es
cape. Everything turned out ns
desired. Jim reports the perfect suc
of his operations, Mrs
ton and 1 are now in New York She
was very much attracted hy your per
sonality. We both feel that
an great deal to you Fortunately
can repay.”
Hanby's face
furiated him to
ing at him long distance
He was commencing to tell Mr Ap
pleton what he thought of him when
Dina tapped bim on the arm
“Listen” commanded
“1 am not Iying when | say we cnn
repay,” Mr. Appleton remarked. when
Hanby's recriminations cut
short. “Oh, dear me, no! As you wil
not see any of us again, | bequeath
to you the contents of your
cellar. Even the law cannot take it
away from you!”
[THE END)
“Jocko” Something of
wish to
we
Coss Apple
We Oe
we
red It in
Appleton
turned
have
the
joer
aver
she
were
own
A putty nose and a tail a yard long
are among the attractions possessed
by a monkey newly placed in the fa
mous London zoo. It comes from the
African Gold These monkeys
have weak circulations in their talkie
for the blood has to be pumped so
far by the heart. A touch of
weather, and the tall wills
dahlia in a frost After
blasts In the bay of Biscay the aver
age length of the decoration when
ihe creature reaches this country Is
from six inches to a foot,
const,
cold
like a
stormy
blighted and fades away In the zoo.
Many putty-nosed monkeys ent
their cold-stornged tall. They nre
quite given to this habit until the zoo
uses a certain red ointment, which
spoils the flavor.
The new putty-nose wns brought to
England In wonderful condition by
the donor, a Mr. Woodward, who is
a laboratory expert at the Medical
Research Institute at Sekondi, where
the yellow fever scourge is tackled. —
London Times,
Cleans Eyeglasses
If a drop or two of mmmonin fis
placed on a clean cloth and the clnth
rubbed over eyeglasses they will shine,
Variety of Colors Featured
for New Seasons by the
Paris Makers.
The important fabric for the com-
Ing season Is velvet, so important that
one of the largest silk manufacturers
of Lyons is showing it in over 200
tones, says a Parls fashion corres-
pondent in the New York World.
Bianchinl is also offering panne, A
material which to the lay mind is vel-
aud the surface brilliant. It Is fea-
tured in black, also with colored and
tinsel figures on a brilliant back-
on a delightful mixture of velvet
figures, These tinsel patterns
This house is presenting much bro-
cgded taffetas and moires, and as these
Wrap of Dull Gray Velvet Trimmed
with Platinum Fox.
'
certainly
new ver
frock,
velvets show
blige bril-
lavender
shades
many
Paris couturieres,
the coming
gion of the “style”
The winter silks and
many green tones a
lant than
blue, and
that blend
red tones,
Turbans of velvet, which look pre.
cisely like the
a EYpsy, are
things to
we shall
winter a
evening
more
navy blue and a
many light brown
well
together, also
colorful headdress of
chosen by smart young
wear with sports coats of
Blonde and Red Fox in
Autumn Fashion Picture
A huge plle of gorgeous red fox
at a met-
ropolitan furrier's place indicates that
this beautifully colored fur will again
be prominent in the mode, observes a
fashion writer in the Cleveland News.
light-colored
fashion able
Numerous ensembles
seen at places
consisted of a cloth coat trimmed with
either blonde or red fox and a
of the same color af the coat.
Jade green chosen for a coat
trimmed with red fox, ag one instance
of this favoritism for the fur, and the
coat was worn with a lade green felt
skulleap. smartly garbed
maid appeared in bright blue coat
with trimming of blonde fox. This
game tint of fox was stunning when
used with a very light green cloth
cont, the hat of this costume matching
the fur rather than the shade. of
green,
lunching
dress
was
Another
Year Round Material
A new kind of silk, called “spun
silk,” Is being put forward which may
simplify the problem of wearing silks
the year round, It has been tested by
committee of the Silk as
found to behave un-
usually well in laundering, retaining
both its color and its shape without
requiring especially expert care, It
is now to be with gay printed
designs, in dainty pastels or woven
shantungs, pongees or soft
seen
The spun silk weaves, while soft
and pliable, have a certain rugged-
ness of surface, it Is explained, and
hold their lines and subdued lustre.
Capelets Are Liked as
Covering for Bare Arms
The capelet is a becoming style.
Especially becoming when, very often,
one longs for a bit of covering for
bare arms.
The frock with a capelet, of course,
is sleeveless—but the cape covers the
bare arms, in a most alluring and at.
tractive fashion,
Sometimes the cape goes all across
the back and meets at the center
front, Sometimes it is In the back
only. Sometimes It goes over each
arm. but not across back or front,
ON REARING
CHILDREN from
CRIB TO COLLEGE
Compiled by the Editors of "CHILDREN,
THE PARENTS’ MAGAZINE"
Vacations by motor for the whole
family are becowing more and more
popular. They have a fascinating
flavor of out-of-door adventure about
them, and camping never falls to ap-
peal to grown-ups and children alike,
This may also be an Inexpensive way
to take a hollday., If there are small
children in the party, motor eamping
is rather strenuous work for their el-
ders, but it has its compensations in
the children’s frequent expressions of
delight over sights on the way and
the novel manner of. living.
phases of the experience may be al-
most entirely eliminated if proper
preparations have been made before.
hand and If adults will adapt their
plans to meet the needs of the chil-
dren,
What is education? It Is the ab-
sorption of facts concerning how
things work. It is the observation of
cause and effect. It ig the
and mastering them. Take a young-
ster who lives on a farm and see how
his experiences—his everyday life—
measure up to these definitions. In
the early spring he sees his father get
out the machinery, the plows, the
planters, the drills, nowadays the trac.
tor as well. When the frost has left
the soll he sees the plows rip it up,
leave it black and fertile
and rich-smelling In the April sun.
light, He sees It harrowed and
smoothed, sees the corn and the wheat
sown In {ts warm,
the first shoots and watches the blades
grow lush stems, He sees
reapers go into the fields. He
the life cycle of the grain from which
his bread is made. This is just
example of all that the country
sees and learns. The city boy’
tion seems superficial In comparison.
gleaming,
black loam.
nto
goes
one
boy
sg eduen-
he Infant
mort:
twenty i NR arted high, deaths
mont!
in
fire
lisenses, our
CRUSeS were 3
{except the automobile),
ferent story now, The n
starts fairly high at bi
school
accident time,
age snd automobile
One of the best
your ym
kind with a
light
ightfully when waved in the air and
the floor,
fin-
the
ana
Ester is
wooden
weight rubber gwatter v
del
makes a Joyous “smack” on
An aluminun
ished, but not
baby's collection of
serves ag a drum in the day, while a
shoe-bag fastened on the his
kiddie-coop makes a welcome recepta-
cle for toys, both the pan and the bag
him the lesson of taking ob
of sowething and putting
dishpan,
enameled, bolds
toys at night
smoothly
side of
teaching
out
them back,
Detachable Cape With
Plaited Skirt Outfit
This is regarded as a charming out.
a detachable cape.
——————————
Ribbon Choker Collars
Among Paris Novelties
Little dog collars of metal ribbon
with jeweled fastenings are shown
among recent P'aris novelties. They
are not meant for dowagers but are
suggested as accessories with sults
and ensembles, particularly with satin
costumes,
Another new neck ornament Is a
double row of beads with a heavy tas.
sel of the beads fastening nt the side,
There ia a short sliver or gold chain
connecting the tasrel and loose end of
the heads,
ARTIE
His Adventures
in Love,Life and the Pursuit
of Happiness
By GEORGE ADE
Artie Tells the Stranger What
Is What and Why
8 ARTIE came In he saw a
stranger seated near Miller's
desk, The stranger was rather
well his
were latest cut.
dressed, although
not of the
garments
He had
could not have explained to himself,
Artie knew that the stranger was
merely a visitor to Chicago.
“Oh, Artie,” sald Miller, “I want you
to meet my cousin, Walter Miller. He
lives in my old town, Walter, this is
“He was just speaking about you”
“Did he gi’ me the worst of it? in.
“I s'pose he did. He's
“No,” sald Miller, “1 was just tell-
ing him that If he wanted to know
man that could tell him.
“Well, that's a good send-off. What
Passin' me off as one
the town? 1 g'pose
¢' the sxights o'
cago ought to see Lincoln park, the
“Sure you do. 1 ain't roasting no
man he's from the country.
You go along the Drive and see all
o' them swell joints where the fat
boys with rosy complexions hang ont,
Well, them boys all come in from the
country, but they had sense enough to
saw wood and plant a little coin when
it begin to come easy. 1'm tellin’ yc
the worst suckers you'll
0' these city people that know It all
to begin with, You can make book
that them boys’ll be workin’ on bum
salaries when they're gray-headed, a
what's more, they'll be working for,
some Reub that come Into town wear-
in’ hand-me-downs.”
“Well, I suppose folks out in the
country do give the city people too
much credit for being smart,” sald
the visitor.
“Oh, we've got ‘em smart enough, all
right, all right, but I'm tellin’ you
about the cheap ones. You're a stran-
ger here and you see some guy goin’
along State street puttin’ on a hor-
rible front, tryin’ to kill women right
and left, and you say, ‘Hully gee, I
wonder who that case o' swell Is,
young Marshall Field or one o' the
MceCormicks? Well, say, it's a ten to
one shot that all that that fellow's
got in the world he's got right with
him, and at that it ain't no cinch he's
wearin’ underclothes. You don't know
—mebbe that guy can’t spell through
the first reader. Any old farmer with
one ¢o them bunches on his chin could
buy him up and a hundred more like
him. Well, he's just the kind of a
counterfeit that'd go out in the coun-
try and play himself off as the real
boy because he lives in the city. Now,
don't you fool yourself for a minute,
'enlse
buy a box ¢
"
home.
Blanchard, and then
candy for the loved ones at
“No, but I told him you were just
as good as a gulde-book.”
“Better. | can put him next to
things that ain't in the gulde-books.
over here next to the window
there's a draft, Mr. Miller,
night as well take the air freely.
thing in Chicago that
1 get for nothin”
believe you're a
marked the cousin,
Come
the only
hou
right,” re
ns he moved over
“Coming
this morni I wanted
and 1 finally had to
to a place near the window,
up the street i
glass of walter,
and i"
“Is this first t
up against town?
“No, 1 was
of the
his part
“Well, whet do
far as you've got?
“Yes, indeed; wonderful
feel rather lost when 1 get in
crowds.”
“1 s'pose It is that way for a day
or two, but you'd soon get used to it."
“1 don't believe I would. There are
too many people here. I'm afraid I'd
pever get along in Chicago.”
“You want to get over that In a
hurry. Of course there's an awful
push in the streets here any day, and
I spose when you first get in you
kind o' feel that you're up against a
lot © wise city mugs and that they
must be purty fly because they live
right here in town. [I've had people
tell me that's the way they felt at
first, but it didn't take ‘em long to
find out there's just as many pin:
heads on State street as you'll find
anywhére out in the woods”
“Oh, 1 suppose a man would learn
gee
buy
the
the
ime you've been
here a week the time
circus, but | Int get into
of town much™
you think of it ns
Warm town, eh?”
I always
the
“Cert. It ain't where n man’s born
or where he was raised that puts him
in any class. It's whether he's got
anything under his hat. 1 seen too
many ©' these boys kind »' jump in
from the country and make a lot o'
city boys look like rabbits, But if he
comes canterin’ into town to be a
dead game sport and set a pace for ail
the boys, w'y, he don’t last. It's a
small town, but it's too big for any
one boy to come in from the country
and scare it. Them sporty boys don’t
Inst. They get in with a lot o' cheap
skates and chase around at nights and
think they're the real thing, and then
in a couple 0° moons they go buck
home und leave all their stuff in hook,
They think they're fly, but they ain't.”
“1 know some that have done that
very thing.”
Take my tip. We've got
Just as many suckers up here as
you've got down your way.”
“l think you're right about that™
sald Miller, who had been listening.
“You know it. Take them mashers
along State street. Can you beat ‘em
anywhere? Then a little farther south
you'll see them stranded boys, goin’
around on thelr uppers and livin’ on
frosted chocolates, They'd sooner
stand around in town and starve to
death than ot somewhere and
make a stand fi
o' them
get out
r the coin. Any one
vags thinks he's too good to
go out in the country or to some little
towa and live decent”
“It's tough down that way. I
there this morn-
Miller.
any kind of a game
here, but you're safe
if you huntin’ for trouble.
Any man that Keeps hot-footin' right
along and says nothin’ to nobody is
all right, Of course, when one of these
new boys comes In and hunts up a
speak-easy and says he's got money
to burn, there's always some handy
man right there to give him a match,
When that kind of a mark comes In
they out the bottle o' knockout
drops and get ready to do business.
A man like you, Mr, Miller, won't have
no trouble here. And for goodness
sake, don’t think you're up against
anything great when you're minglin®
with Chicago people. When you come
to know the town it's as common as
plowed ground. I know a good show
I'll take you to tonight"
{© by George Ade)
Odd Structure Built
by California Woman
What is probably America’s queer
est house stands in the Santa Clara
valley, California. Spread out like a
whole village, it has 144 rooms no
12 on the same level, connected by
miles of rambling passageways and
corridors. The house was built by a
woman of unlimited wealth who be.
lieved, =o the story goes, that as long
ns she kept adding to it, she would
not die. So, for 38 years, carpenters
were kept busy increasing the size.
Its interior suggests a setting for a
mystery thriller. There are entrances
walled up behind, closet doors opening
upon blank wails, trapdoors and weind
steps of only two and half Inch tread,
and balconies over stairs with no en
trance to them, says Popular Selence
Monthly, Some of the rooms contain
elaborate gold plate and silcer fix.
tures amd stained glass windoas vals
ued at $5,000 apiece.
through
ing,” sald the visiting
“You
walked up
can get
down
don't go
rat
gel
*%