New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 29, 1922, Page 5

ol (Continued From Our Last Issue) “Marks, take Gray into the draw- ing room,” Miles ordered.—"Farrell, roll up the right sleeve of the man who calls himself Andrew Drake and take off the bandage.” A gasping cry came from Jerusha but Miss Hawks moaned: “That was what deceived me thoroughly when he was his coat out in the garden day I called!" The pseudo-Andrew set his teeth but he made no show of resistance when the bandage was removed and on the still inflamed surface of his arm appeared the blurred, inter- twined letters “H" and “0."” ‘“You thought they were your own initials, did you not, Miss Hawks?" Miles asked gently ''Forgiwe me for reopening an old wound, but that touch of sentiment for a time blinded 80 putting on the Afirst you to certain (inconsistencies which the Drake family themselves had failed to note?" She nodded dumbly in an oblivious effort to control her emotion and the detective went on: “In reality the initials are his own, as far as the police records of Aus- tralia show. His name is Hugh Os- borne, and he, too, is badly watned but not for the same crimes as his present accomplice. Will you tell Mr. Wells and your old friends here when the first doubt of his identity entered your mind?" “T called here yesterday, but as I grew reminiscent and he hetrayed an vtter ignorance of the incidents I mentioned, a wild suspicion came into my mind. I spoke of my initials on his arm and though he swore that he had had them tattoed there in re- membrance of me I was still uncon- vinced. I feit that T must be going mad and yet T had to make sure. I laid a deliberate trap for him and he| fell into it!” Miss Hawks rose. “Now may 1 go? T came as I promised, but I— I can endure no more. ‘Jerusha, for- give me ,but surely it is better that you know the truth! “The truth i{s always best, Ora.” Miss Drake e and a stern, Spartan gravity had robbed her set features of all other emotion. “Tonight shall see the end of more than one living liel” John Wells escorted the trembling woman to her waiting car and scarcely had the attorriey reappeared when the imposter broke out with an cath. “You're right it will, Miss Jerusha Drake! Lord, what a six months T've put in, in this pious, hypocritical household!—Why, you're all worse crooks than me, every one of you, and I've got the goods on vou! We could have fixed this little matter up friendly all ‘'round if you'd been sensible, but as it is I've my own story to-tell, and by G—d, I'll tell it!" Miles did not look at Scottie, ~but seated himself with a laugh. ' “Going to try to stick to that far- fetched blackmailing scheme you and that preefons partner of yours hatched when you found that Andrew Drake had left relatives here with money and a soctal position to lose he | asked easlly. “Farrell, you can join: Marks and his man tiil T call you. Mr. Wells, listen to this for the wildest | cock-and-buil yarn that two cheap crooks ever conceived! Mr. Hugh| Osborne, here, is wanted in Victoria for blackmail and forgery now. He won't be extradited until he has been tried and served his terms herc for fraud, attempted blackmail, attempted abduction of Miss Patricla and several other little items growing out of this case if Mr. Hobart Drake wishes to prefer the charges.. How the private papers and letters of the real Andrew Drake came into the possession of Hugh Osborne is a question which the next official cable will answer.” “Oh, you needn't wait for Osborne remarked sullenl and I were friends. He w7 down with the fever and 1 nursed him till the end, but before he died he left me everything. It was ali fixed up legal and proper by his own wish and I can prove it, though there was little enough to leave, for the sheep ranch was a wretched vailure, and he'd been too proud to write the truth home Before he died, too when the delirium was on him, he toid me how he and his brothers had flooded the country here with counter- feit bills long ago, but it's God's truth 1 never meant to make use of that then. When I fell in with Gray in Melbourne about a year and a halt ago, 1 remembered how much 1 looked like Andy, and Gray and I-— well, we saw there was a good thing in it “So Gray came on here ahead and for a year paved the way by getting in with Mr. Roger Drake and then you appeared as Andrew and a few weeks ago you began to work secretly with your accomplice to terrorize the family while yourself pretending to be a victim as well!” Miles declared “You knew you couldn't get away with that accusation of counterfeiting it it came to a showdown, for thlo ravings of a man in delirium wouldn't be taken seriously, but you and Gray knew too, that it you forced the men of the family by anonymous threats of notoriety to commit ridiculous public M NRS. NELLIE WOODSFORD that!" igrasp for you had learned SPEAKS T0 MOTHERS 23 Lamson St., Boston—At g A and her chil- Mrs. Nellle Woodstor - dren now “live happy and grateful to the kind neighbor who recommend- ed Dr. True's Elixir to them. 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Scottie puffed contentedly on his pipe, | “I think it was Andrew himself, Miles responded. “It struck me as odd in my first talk with Wells and little Miss Patricia that Hobart and Roger should both have made public exhibitions of themselves, but An- drew's fit of supposed insanity took place safe at home, for the benefit of one of the servants alone. “When I had made up my mind that insanity played no part in the strange events the only alternative to consider was blackmalil, and it must have been for some indiscretion or even crime committed in the far past. A GASPING CRY CAME FROM JERUSHA, in my that in their youth Roger had been interested in chemistry, dyeing and in photog- raphy ,that Hobart was a pen-and-ink artist and Andrew had worked for a time in a pulp manufacturing plant. The old chest of metal junk which we carted away from under the floor of the summer house and destroyed the morning after we wound up the case, Scottie, did not contain the re- mains of a printing press as you sur- mised, but the relic of a machine for making a replica of the silk threaded yaper the government uses for genu- ine greenbacks and had been an original invention of the real Andrew. ‘It didn't come to me even then Right then the solution was than the truth was staring me in the, face until you brought .me that twenty-dollar bill Rip got knifed over and I found it was counterfeit. It was scorcli=d at one end, and know- ing that Rip must have found it some- where I concluded that it had been on the dust heap where Miss Drake must Lave thrown it among the ashes which she cleaned out of the drawing room freplace after I had seen her burning something there at midnight. *1 recalled iier words: ‘Ashes, every one. If only the first had never been conceivd thiz horror would not have descended upon us.' She had known irom the siart what her brothers were doing. None of her brothers CATARRH OF THE BLADDER PLANC'C or BLACK | A CAPSULES “POPULAR FOR SENERATIONS COMPOUND COPAIBA AND CUBESS AT DRUGGISTS. on TRIAL BOX BY MAIL 80¢ FROM PLANTEN 93 Hi ST. BROOKLYN, N.Y: 93 HENRY <BEWARE OF IMITATIONS ~ knew until just before the explosion came that she had been wise all the [time they thought she belleved that | mythical tale of an inheritance and 1 could kick myself for accepting it without verification, but Wells had taken it for grantetd and so did I!" “It's no worse than me!"” Scottie remarked consolingly. “Why didn't | I see that tattoo mark on Andrew's arm when he took off his coat there |in the gardn fust before Miss Hawks leppeared” To be sure, my back was to him and everybody.—How did you first guess that the Hawks woman ‘knew Andrew for an imposter?" | "I happened to be in the hall when |she ran out of the house like a mad- | woman after a tete-a-tete with An- ‘drew and the next minute he upset i'h? table and scalded his arm, It |wasn't a bad burn and it occurred to |me that it was just an excuse for a |bandage!" Miles' face sobered. real brains of the scheme, who wrote that devilishly ‘ll-clur- and forced poor Roger by anonymous threats to deliver it; he who wrote the other anonymous let- ters, one of which he slipped into the house by means of a French window | which Andrew had left open for him and laft on the hall table the night of my arrival to be mixed with the mail next morning, when I concluded it was some member of the household. He disguised his volce for the tele- phone thrzats which so agitated the family, but he cannot figure out how Roger Drake penetrated his habitual | disguise.’ “Roger did, then?" asked the other. “Oh, yes, it was the shock of that | which cansed his stroke. ! “Gray h |back of his cottage and he was put- i tering about in it when Roger called. | Just as he approached, Gray removed his wig-—and Robert saw that the lelderly naturalist was reeally a young man in disguise The logical reason for it came over him with a rush and his only thought was to get home and warn his brothers, but he was stricken with the words unuttered upon his lips.” Miles rose curfous, wasnt | “It was an example of remarkably poor judgment on Roger's part, pic- no, if it was as you d of the way terfeit money,” “Gray was the It was he satirical “That was fa papyrus | ture writing or jsald a complete recor | they made their coun | remarked Scottie. “It was more than that; an example Drake conscience working over- replied Miles. “Roger had de- b f onfession signed it in the nature of a o e death to and meant to leave it on his | his intimate friend, Professor Master- son, though when Osborne ransacked the storeroom he hoped to find sgme- more tangible.” thl‘?‘l‘zhere is one thing that still is dark to me.” Seottie pulled at his pipe, and finding it dead laid it on th? mantel. “How did Osborne and hI‘! i confederate know that the paper- making machine was pburied under the summer honse,‘ 0y v only knew gnm?w‘:t:nr. for the real Andrew must have talked a bit more in his d_flng. ravings than Osborne told and I fancy they hoped to find the whole para- phernalla so that they could make isome more of the queer and shove it themselves.” !of the | {t was hidden THE END. - SCANDAL CASE IN COURT. Milwaukee, July 29.—First formal cenials of charges of Oscar (Happy) h, Charles (Swede) Risberg and Joe Jackson, former members of the Chicago White Sox baseball club in sults demanding back salary and ;:::en‘rxs alleged to be due them and | damages for an alleged conspiracy to | keep them out of major league base- | ball, were filed in circuit conrt here ‘\es(erday by the Chicago American .eague baseball club. l‘(:l;g the similar answer to the indi- { vidual players, the ¢ lost all rights to salari by alleged failure to play | the best of their abllities. The answers allege that the three men were in a conspiracy to “throw games during: the world = series '1919,” when the White Sox playe! Cincinnati National league Yelsch, Risberg and Jackson are ! !of the elght players discharg: 1 I Charles Comiskel, owner of the Wil Sox, fh 1920, on these chakges. Felsc es and bonuses ad a sort of half-labratory | SULPHUR IS BEST T0 CLEAR UP UGLY, BROKEN OUT SKIN Any breaking out or skin irritation on face, neck or hody is overcome quickest by applying Mentho-Sulphur, says a noted ekin specialist, Because of fts germ destroying nothing has ever been found to take the place of this sulphur preparation that instantly brings ease from tne itching, burning and irritation, Mentho-Sulphur heals eczema right up, leaving the skin clear and smooth. It seldom fails to relieve the torment or disfigurement. A little jar of Rowles Mentho-Sulphur may be ob- tained at any drug store. It is used like cold cream. ATTY. GEN. WORK FLAYS RADICALISM \ Pallor Painted Indian | Chicago, July 29.—What he termed | “a pageant or savagery, still unre- buked' was condemned in the opening address at the Pageant of Progress here today by Postmaster General Hu- bert Work. Declaring he wished *“as one who belfeve in the principles of unionism and collective bargaining” to warn ‘“all organized labor that canctions or commits violence,”” he sald, “The Pageant of Savagery that recently stalked abroad by day in this fair state, still unrebuked, would have pallored the painted Indian,” he said Higher Type of Citizenry. While expressing concern over in- dustrial relations, the postmaster gen- eral voiced approving optimism con- cerning the modern young person and concerning prevailing feminine modes. He said that the fashionable short skirt hung from the shoulders with unrestricted waist was something which physiclans have urged for a generation. “Some of the ‘Young people we see in public places may appear to be care-free and light-minded,” said Dr. Work, “but I know that the mothers Are You Ruptured? . Instant Relief | | | | MORRIS L. BATTALION. | From my twenty-five vears exper- fence as Rupture Specialist I have | tound many cases broke through after | the operation. And those who were lub says the MeN | operated on for Hernia, or any other | | abdominal operation should come at baseball t0| orice without delay, for free consul- | tation because these cases should not {be let go, without any protection. The above {s a True Fact. Headquarters 450 Asylum St. Hartford, Conn. R. R. Station. Phone 5-0253 properties, | Says Savagery in Illinois Would and schools of the United States have in the last generation produced & | higher type Of eitizenry than the coun- | try has ever before known Appeals from Exploftion, “I would make an appeal for the re- lief .of those who work with both head and hand, from those who work only with their hands and who are be | Ing exploited by leaders for their im mediate personal gain { “Those labor organizations w hich restrict the avallable employment in a4 community to its preferred mem- | bers, and prohibit other members | trom seeking employment where they may find {t,"have not in mind the prin- ciple of the greatest good in the | greatest number. They are blindly | bidding for the open shop; the com- petition of disorganization within their own ranks and a return to the old method of wage determined by effi- viency, governed by the law of sup- ¢ and demand, rather than to their own formulated rules, “One-half of organized labor {s con- servative, They are home owners and their children become good citizens. They must very soon break away from those in their own crafts who disre- gard the rights and necessities of oth- €rs, who do not approve or practice | creed, 'An honest day's work for an | honest day's pay,’ or who are willing to do murder to kill competition,” WELCOME FOR HOOVER Duluth Acclaims Its Famous Rowing Son On His Return To His Home Town Yesterday. Duluth, Minn., July 29.—Duluth ! yesterday acclaimed its hero of thP1 [ hour—Walter Hoover, winner of the | | Diamond Sculls at the English Hen- |16y regatta, emblematic of the world's | amateur rowing championship. Bu. | ness ceased entirely for one hour | while most of. the city followed brass | bands down to the station to wel- come the premier oarsman. Gov. J. A. O. Preus was in the welcoming throng., It was announced by the rowing committee of the Duluth Boat club | shortly after Hoover's arrival that the {world's sculling champion will take |pa*t in the golden jubilee regatta ’(-l the National Assoclation of Ama- |teur Oarsmen at Philadelphia next | week, but he will not defend the gold n il i || mother, but for the afternoon he was faced with a busy program that ran into the carnival activity of tonight, Tonight an illuminated parade took place, with Hoover giding in his own scull atop a float leading the process slon, When this ended, Superior street, the city's thoroughfare was given over to the carnival spirit, with blocks off for street dancing. 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