New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 31, 1922, Page 5

% RED HOUSE MYSTERY b AAMILNE # w71 5P dution company CHAPTER 1. In the drowsy heat of the summer afternoon The Red House was taking its siesta. There was a lazy murmur of bees in the flower-borders, a gentle coolng of pigeons in the tops of the elms, From distant lawns came the Whir of a mowing machine, that most restful of all country sounds; making euse the sweeter in that it |s taken While others are working. It was the hour when'even those whose business it is to attend to the wants of others have a moment or two for themselves, In the house- keeper's room Audrey Stevens, the pretty parlormaid, re-trimmed her best hat, and talked Idly to her aunt, the cook-housekeeper of Mr. Mark Albett's bachelor's-home. “Funny thing. that about Mr Mark's brother, FFancy not seeing him for fifteen years." “As T told you all this morning," said her aunt, “I've been here five years, and never heard of a brother. I could say that before everybedy if I was doing to die tomorrow." “You could have knocked me down with a feather when he spoke about him at breakfast this morning. 1 didn’t hear what went before, natur- ally, but they was all talking about the brother when I went in. Mr. Mark turns to me, and says—you know his way—-‘Stevens,’ he says, ‘my Lrother is noming to see me this af- ternoon; I'm expecting him about three' he says. ‘Show him into the oftice,’ he says, just like that. ‘Yes, sir,’ 1 says quietly, but 1 was never 80 surprised in my life, not knowing he had a brother. ‘My brother from Australla he has his reasons. And ten that. From Australia.” “Well, he may have been in Aus- tralia,” said Mrs. Stevens, judicially. “But what I do say is he's never been here. that's five years.” “Well, but, auntie, here for fifteen years. I heard Mr. Mark telling Mr. Cayley. ‘Fifteen years,' he says. Mr. Cayley having arst him when his brother was last in England. Mr. Cayley knew of him, but didn’t know when he was last in England—see? So that's why he arst Mr Mark.” “I'm not saying anything about fifteen years, udrey T can only speak for what I know, and that's five years Whitsuntide. If he's been in Australia, as you say, well, I dare- say he's had his rasons” “What reasons?” lightiy. “Never mind what reasons. Being in the place of a mother to you, since your poor mother died, I say this, Audrey—when a gentleman goes to Australia he has his reaesons, And when he stays in Australla fifteen years, he has reasons. And a re- spectably brought-up girl doesn't ask what reasons.” “Got into trouble, I suppose,” said Andrey carelessly. “They were say- ing at breakfast he’d been a wild one.” The ringing of a bell brought Au- drey to her feet—no longer Audrey, but now Stevens. She arranged her cap in front of the glass. “There, that's the front door,” she gaid. “That's him. ‘Show him into the office,’ sald Mr. Mark. I suppose he doesn’'t want the other ladies and gentimen to see him. Well, they're all out at their golf, anyhow—Won- der if he's going to stay—P'raps he's trought back a lot of gold from Aus- tralia.” . “Now, now, get on, Andrey." “Just going, darling.” She went cut. . As Audrey came across the hall she.gave a little start as she saw Mr. Cayley suddenly, sitting unobtrusively in a seat beneath one of the front windows, reading. No reason why he sheuldn't be there; certainly a much cooler place than the golf-links on such a day; but somehow there was a deserted air about the house that afternoon. Mr. Cayley, the master's cousin, was a sur- prise; and, having given a little ex- lamation as she came suddenly upon glm. .she blushed, and said, "Oh, T beg your pardon sir, I didn’t see you at first,” and he looked up from his book and smiled at her. An attractive smile it was on that that big ugly face. ‘‘Such a gentle- man, Mr. Cayle she thought to her- said Audrey Hot Weather Headaches ‘When you cool off suddenly and ‘when you in a draft, you get a Cold. The natural result is Headaches, Neuralgia and Sore Muscles. To the Headache and Work ) off the Cold, Take THAT DEPRESSED FEELING caused by the heat is quickly relieved by ulm one dose of Lax- ative BROMO QUININE Tablets. Does not contain any harmful or habit-forming drugs. The box bears this signature Not while I've been here, and | he hasn't been | self as she went on, and wondcred what the master would do without kim, If this brother, for instance, had to be bundled back to Australia, it was Mr. Cayley who would do most of the bundling. “So this is Mr. Robert,' sald Au- drey to herself, as she came in sight of the visitor, She told her aunt afterwards that she would have known him anywhere for Mr. Mark's brother, but she would have sald that In any event, Actually she was surprised, Dapper little Mark, with his neat pointed beard and his carefully curled mustache with his quick darting eyes, always moving from one to the other of any com- pany he was in, to register one more smile to his credit when he had said a good thing, one more expecttant look when he was only waiting his turn to say it he was a very dlfferent man from his rough-looking, colonial, staring at her so loweringly. “l want to see Mr. Mark Ablett,” | he growled. It sounded almost like a threat. . “Yer, sir, He is expecting you, if you will come this way Audrey went to the second door on the left, and opened it. “Mr. Robert Ab—'" sh began, and then broke off The room was empty. “If you will sit down, sir, I will find | the master. I know he's in, because he told me that you were coming this afternoon.’” “Oh!" He looked round the room. “OPEN THE DOOR,” A VOICE WAS SHOUTING. MAN'S “What do you call this place, eh?" “The office, sir.” .“The office?"” “The room where the master works, sir.” “Works, eh? That's new. Didn't know he’d ever done a stroke of work in his life.” “Where he writes, sir,” said Au- drey, with dignity. The fact that Mr. Mark ‘“wrote,” though nobody knew what, was a matter of pride in the housekeeper's room. “Not well dressed drawing-réom, eh?" enough for the “I will tell the master you are here, | sir,” said Audrew decisively. She closed the door and there, Well! left him Here was something to tell auntie! Her mind was busy at once, golng over all the things which he had said to her and she had said to him-——quiet-like. “Directly I saw him I said to myself—" Why, you could tave knocked her over with a feather. Feathers indeed, were a perpetual menace to Audrey. Howver, the immediate business was to find the mastetr. She walked across the hall to the library, glanced in, came back a‘little uncertainly, and stood in front of Cayley. “If you please, sir,"” she said an a low ,respectful voice, “can you tell me where the master is? It's Mr. ill-dressed | ! quiem mass Tuesday morning at NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD. MONDAY, JULY 31, 1922, Robert called. "What?" sald Cayley, looking up trom his book, “Who?" Audrey repeated her question, “I don't know, He went up to the “Thank you, sir, I will go up to Temple after lunch,” Cayley returned to his book, The “Temple” was a brick summer hoyge, in the gardens at the back of the house, about three hundred yards away, Here Mark meditated some- | times hefore retiring to the “office'] to | put his thoughts upon paper, ';he |thoughts were not of any great value; | moreover, they were glven off at the |dinner table more often than they got |on to paper, and got on to paper |more often than they got into print. | But that did not prevent the master of The Ked House from being a little pained when a visitor treated the |Temple carelessly, as if {t had been |erected for the ordinary purposes of |fiirtation and cigarette smoking. | Audrey walked slowly up to the Temple, looked in and walked slowly |hnrk. All that walk for nothing. | Perhaps the master was upstairs in | his room, “Not well-dressed enough {for the drawing room.” Well, now, 3Aunnn. wonld you like anyone in your drawing room with a red handker- chief round his neck and great big dusty hoots, and—Ilisten! | One of the man shooting rabbits, | Auntie was partial to a nice rabbit, land onion sauce. She came into the house. As she | passed the housekeper's room on her way to the hall, the door opened sud- denly ,and a rather frightened face looked out. ‘‘Hallo, Aud,” said Elsie. “It's Au- drey,” she said ,turning into the room. “Come in, Audrey,” called Mrs, Stevens, “What's up,” sald Andrey, looking in at the door, “Oh, my dear, you gave be much a! turn. Where have you been?"” “Up to the temple.” “Did you hear anything?” “Hear what?" “Bangs and explosions and terrible: things.” “Oh!" sald Audrey, rather relieved. “One of the men shooting rabbits." “Rabbits!"” sald her aunt scornfully. “It was inside the house, my girl." “Stralght it was,”” said Elsle. She was one of the housemaids. “I said to Mrs. Stevens—didn't I, Mrs. Stev- ens?—'That was in thehouse,' I said.” Audrey looked at her aunt and then at Elsie. “Do you think he had a revolver with him?” she said in a hushed voice. “Who?" said Elsie excitedly. “That brother of his. From Aus- tralla. I said as soon as I set eyes on him, ‘You're a bad lot, my man!’ Rude!” She turned to her aunt. “Well, I give you my word."” “There!” criead Mrs. Stevens, sitting up with a start. I They listened anxlously, the two : girls instinctively coming closer to the older woman's chair. A door was being shaken, kicked, | rattled. *Listen!" Audrey and Elsie looked at other with frightened eyes. They heard a man's voice, angry. “Open the door!” it was shouting. “Open the door! I say, open the | door! “Don't open the door!" cried Mrs. | Stevens in a panic, as if it was her jdoor which was tthreatened. “Au- drey! Elsie! Don't let him in | “Damn it, open the door! the voice again. “We're all going to be murdered in | our beds,” she quavered. Terrified, the two girls huddled closer, and with an arm round each, Mrs. Stevens sat there, waiting. (Continued in Our Next Issue.) each loud, came MAKING PILGRIMAGE | Rev. John T. Winters and Party uf‘ Local People Offt To Canada. The Rev. John T. Winters, pastor of St. Mary's church, his sister, Miss Hannah Winters, and a party of ghout 115 local people will leave this city at 7:24 o'clock Wednesday morning to make the annual pilgrimage to the shrine of St. Anne de Beaupre in Canada. | There will re- be an anniversary IT RAINED KISSES ATMARY'S WEDDING Marilyn Miller Finally Wed to Jack Picklord Los Angeles, July ~Jack Plek- ford with his bride, Marilyn Miller, were on thelr honggmoon today after successfully evading the swarms of curlosity seekers who haunted the vicinity of the residence of Mary Pickford, the groom's sister, and Douglas Falrbanks, brother-in-law at Beverly Hills, where the wedding took place yesterday. | The departure of the newlyweds followed after the ceremony perform- ed by the Rev. Neal Lodd, rector of the Church of St. Mary of the Angels. Wedding Is Late The ceremony had heen set o'clock, but it was a few seconds he- fore 2:20 that Mr. Pickford, accom- panied by the groom's man Victor Hermann, motion pictdre director and the minister, entered the room where the wedding was to take place and made their way to the floral r Soon after, Miss Miller ent ac- companied by her sister, Mrs, John Steele Sweeney, who gave her away | by Mary Pickford, matron of honor | and by Mrs. Carrie Carter, mother of | Miss Miller's former husband | The minister began reading the| ceremony immediately. An orchestra | pilayed during the ceremony . | It Just Rained Kisses | The wedding ring was of flexible | platinum, with square set diamonds. | Immediately after Mr. Pickford, at the minister's bldding, had placed it | on the bride's finger, he kissed her. | Mary Pickford followed him with an- | other kiss for the bride, Douglas I"airbanks and Charlie Chaplin strug- | gled for third place. Fairbanks, more athletic than Chaplin, won. Others! pressed forward for the privilege, the minister being crowded out until al- | most the end. l Still More Kisses | While the ceremony was in progress | Lieut. C. H. Howe, an aviator from | Caristrom field, Fla., soared over the Fairbanks residence and vlroppt-r]1 more than 100 “bombs” made up of | roses and lilies of the valley., The| wedding party po8ed for pictures on| a veranda while private detectives | lattled at the four entrances to the | grounds to keep out hundreds of un- invited persaps. Noticing the eager- | ness of the cwowd outside the bridal party strolled about with words of | greeting. One woman spying Mary | Pickford cried out: | “Oh, Mary, kiss me,” and Mary did. The others begged for similar !rPaL} ment and she was extending it when Fairbanks dashed over and carried his wife away. The cawple received many wedding gifts. The bride's presents included ! solitaire pearls set in platinum and diamonds from Mr. Pickford, a string of pearls from her new mother-in-law | “Ma' Pickford, as Jack's nibther, Mrs, | Charlotte Pickford, is known among! motion picture people; a pearl and diamond pin from Mary Pickford and | Douglas Fairbanks, and a gold vanity case set with jewels from Jack's n'hr‘r‘ sister, Lottie Pickford Rupp Forest and her husband, Allan Forest. for 2 BROOKLYN BOY DROWNED Unable To Swim, Companions Cannot ; Rescue Him From, Catskill Creek | Catskill, N. Y., July 31.—Phillip Pillicono, 12 years old, 8f 200 Wilson | avenue, Brooklyn, was drowned in| Catskill Creek S¥nday afterngon | The boy was a guest with his fath- | er at the Glen Cliff. He was unable | to swim and when he waded into a deep hole he sank before his com- panions, who also could not swim, could obtain help. | TO FORM ITALIAN CABINET. | Rome, July 31. (By Associated Press)—Luigi Facta, who with his cabinet resignéd on July 19 today was | entrusted by King Victor Emmanuel with the task of forming a new min- | o'clock for Miss Elizabeth Moore. fstry. Changes in Business Policy Many and far-reaching changes are today taking place in the policies upon which business is conducted. Most of the policies that have been in force for the past twenty-five years were based on the cardinal fact of a steadily rising market. Fluctuations were accepted as incidental and temporary; but the as- surance of a general average tendency upward was the basis of every attitude that became formulated into a policy. Recent changes in business policy— changes coming ahout with the past year or more—are based on the final acceptance of the fact that we have en- tered a period of a non-rising—in all likelihood a falling—market. So long as it was possible to assume that the new price levels represented but a tem- porary depression the old policies were bravely and tenaciously adhered to; but when it became clear that in all human probability the market would continue downward, then an adjustment of basic policies became imperative, | Britain, Gee, Mr. and Mrs. E. Charles J. Symonds and Fred Thorn- soon MANY ATTEND BARBECUE Loving Cup Presented By George H. Dyson Fails To Return To New Britain. One first and two second prizes in athletic events at the outing and barbecue of the Fifth Masonic district were awarded to Centennial lodge, of New The silver loving cup pre- sented by George H. Dyson of this ;, was awarded to the Blooming- lodge for securing the greatest number of points. Between 350 and 400 Masons and their wives enjoyed a sheep bake dur- ing which address re delivered by a numbr of spea Rev. JoMn L. Davis, deputy grand chaplain and Sherwood Raymond, deputy grand master, were the speakers from this | city. Among those present Britain were Sherwood Raymond, and Mrs. John L. Davis, H. W Kinner, Mr. Mr., and Mrs. | and Mrs, at Lake Compounce Saturday from New Rev. and Mrs. R. B. Skinner, Marshall R. Cook, Mr. ton, What? You Herald Classified lost it! « Oh, well, a Ad will find it very skin eruption becomes Resinol Even in severe cases of eczema, or other like skin troubles, Resinol Ointment, aided by Resinol Soap usually brings quick relief and in a reasonable time, clears away the trouble completely. Chief among the policies that have necessarily been changed are those that relate to the creation of Demand. Under the old policies a certain De- mand was inevitable, and came to be accepted as a matter of course. It was the cardinal policy of almost every pro- ducer and distributor to attempt to cap- ture a generous share of the existing Demand. Not a great deal of thought was given to creating Demand itself. But now that the great Demand has relaxed until there is not enough to give everybody a liberal share, it has brought business to the imperative con- sideration of two things: One is how to get a full share of the Demand by tak- ing it away from others by force of competition, The other is how to cre- ate more Demand, so there will be enough for all. The great and imperative necessity of stimulating and creating Demand for the products of industry has at last given Advertising a position of import- ance in business policies far in excess of any that it has ever known. serious apply more, then, can this simple inexpen- sive treatment be relied upon to dis- pel skin troubles in their earliest stages. It is a standard skin treat- ment, prescribed for years. Don't How much wait—tryittoday. SoiddyaZdragrists. For Quick Returns Use Herald Classified Advts. — SALESMAN $AM D HERE COMES THAT, HAROLD SMITH, THE TIGHTWAD - ALL HE EVER SPENDS IS WELL AM, LET'S GO OUT AND e v % BACK TO GRERT SCOTT, SAMI! WE GOTTA GO To LOCK THE. SAFEII Sam anw; V}hen Not To Worry T’ OFFICE— | FORGOT NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT? WHY MAN | THERE'S $10,000 N THAT SAFE!! A /st OF \T-THERE'S NOTHING TO WE'RE BOMH HERE, AREN'T WE.? THE EVENING - | SUPPOSE HE’LL STOP AND TELL ME_WHAT A NICE DAY 1T 1S ! How Do You Do, MisS OLIVIAP A LOVELY DAY ISN'T \T'S ARE YOU DOING ANYTHING TONIGHT ,MR. SMITH?P FH;‘; CARELESS -YoUL ARE WITH YourR MME!