New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 12, 1922, Page 5

e RED HOUSE MYSTERY. b AAMILNE BEGIN HTRE TODAY Who had shot and kllled the ne'er- do-well ROBERT ABLETT, within two min- utes after his arrival at the Red House, the country estate of his wealthy bachelor brother, MARK ABLETT? Robert's body + Waa on the floor of the locked office, Mark was missing and, in the opinion of Inspector Birch, it was clear that Mark, who had looked forward to Robert's return from Australia with annoyance, had shot him and disappeared But there were mysterious circum- stances, The shot was fired a few moments before ANTONY GILLINGHAM, adventurer and friend of BILL BEVERLEY, one of Mark's guests, had entered the hall where he found MATT CAYLEY, Mark's constant companion, pounding on the door and demanding admittance The two men enter the room through a window and find the body. Antony and Bill have decided that Cayley knows more of the crime than he will disclose. They discover a secret passage from the bowling green to the house and, in Cayley’'s ahsence, try to find an opening to it in the library. gentleman GO ON WITH THE STORY “We shall have to take every blessed book down,” Bill said, ‘‘before we can be certain that we haven't missed it.” Antony’'s pipe was now going satis- factorily ,and he got up and walked leisurely to the end of the wall op- posite the door. “Well, let's have a look,” he said, “and see if they are so very frightful. Hallo, here's your ‘Badminton.’ You often read that, you say?” “If 1 read anything.” “Yes” He looked down and up the shelf. “I like books of travel, don't you?’” hey're pretty dull as a rule.” “Well, anyhow, some people like them very much,” said Antony re- proachfully. He moved on to :the next row of shelves. “The drama. The Restoration dramatists. You can have most of them. Still, as you well remark, many people seem to love them. Shaw, Wilde, Robertson—I like reading plays, Bill. There are not many people whe do, but those who do ar eusually very keen. Let us pass on." . He went to the next shelf, and then ,ave a sudden whistle. “Hallo, nallo!" “Whats the rather peevishly. “‘Stand back there. crowd back, Bill We are getting amongst it. Sermons, as 1 live. Sermons. Was Mark’s father a clergyman, or does Mark take to them naturally?” , “His father was a parson, I lieve Oh, yes, I know he was' “Ah, then these are Father's books. ‘Half-Hours with the Infinite’—I must order that from the library when I get back. ‘The Lost Sheep,’ ‘Jones on the Trinity,’ ‘The Narrow Way, being Sermons by the Rev. Theodore Ussher'—hal-lo!" . “What is the matter!" “Willlam, I am inspired. by.” " He took down the Theodore Ussher's classic work, looked at it with a happy smile for & moment, and then gave it to bill. “Here, hold Ussher for a bit.” Bill took the book obediently. “No, give it me back. Just go out into the hall, and see if you can hear Cayley anywhere. Say ‘Hallo’ loudly, it you do.” Bill went out quickly, listéned, and came back. “It's all right.” “Good.” He took the book out of its shelf again. “Now then, you can hold Ussher. Hold him in the left Land--so. hand, grasp this shelf Now, when I say ‘Pull,’ Got that?"” Bill nodded, his face alight excitement. “Good.” Antony put his hand into the space left by the stout Ussher, and fingered the back of the shelf. ‘‘Pull,” he said. Bill pulled. “Now just go on pulling like that. 1 shall get it directly. Not hard, You know, but just keeping up . the strain.'” His fingers went at it again busily. .. , matter?” said Bill Keep the be- Stand firmly—so. pull gradually. with And then suddenly the whole row| of shelves, from top to bottom, swung sently open toward them. “Good Lord!" sald Bill, letting go of the shelf in his amazement. Antony pushed the shelves back, extracted Ussher from Bill's fingers, replaced him, and then, taking Bill by the arm led him to the sofa and deposited him in it Standing e front of him, he bowed gravely. “Child’s play, Watson,” he said; “child's play.” “How on earth--' “Oh, my dear Biil!” He smoked Reverend | With*the right or dexter, 1 ! disposal | | | i silently for a little, and then went on. | “This passage has been here for years, with an opeaing at one end into the | library, anC @t the other end into the shed. Then Mark discovered it, anil immediately he felt that everybody else must discover it. So he made the shed end more difficult by putting the croquet box there, and this end more difficult by—' he stopped and looked at the other—*'by what, Bill?" But Bill was being Watsonish. “What?" “Obviously by re-arranging his books He happened to take out ‘The Lite of Nelson' or ‘Three Men in a Boat,’ or whatever it was, and by the merebt chance discovered the secret. Naturally he felt that everybody else would be taking down ‘The Life of Nelson’ or ‘Three Men in a Boat.' Naturally he felt that the secret would be safer if nobody ever interfered with that shelf at all. When you said that the books had been re- | i | arranged a year ago—just ahout the time the croquet box came into exist- cnce—of course I guesses why. So 1 lesked about for the dullest books I cou!d find the books nobody ever read. Obvloualy the collection of mermorn-books of a mid-Victorian clergyman twas the shelf ‘ve wanted.” “Yes 1 mee. Dut why were you so certain of the particular place”” | | “'Weil, he had to mark the particu- lar place by some book. I thought that the joke of putting 'The Narrow ! Way' fust over the'entrance to the passage might appeal to him. Ap-| parently it did."” Bill nodded to himselt thoughtfully several times, “Yes, that's very neat,” he sald, “You're a clever devil, Tony." “‘Well, come on, then,” and he got up. “Gome on, where?" "To explore the passage, of course." | “‘Stppose we find Mark?” sald An- tony quietly. “1 say, do you really there?" ‘Suppose he 57" ‘“Well, then, there we are." Antony walked over to the fireplace, | knocked out the ashes of his pipe, and | turned back to Bill. He looked at' him gravely without speaking. “What are you going to say him?'" he said at last. “How do you mean?" | ‘‘Are you going to arrest him, or| help him to escape?" “I—I—well, of course, I—" began Bill, stammering, and then ended lamely, “Well, I dont’ know." “Exactly. We've got to make up our minds, haven't we?" | Bill didn’t answer. “You know, you sald B, | think he's | to can't just say, THE WHOLE ROW OF SHEL\'ES; SWUNG GENTLY OPEN TOWARD THEM. ‘Ah—er—hallo!’ to him,” sald Antony, breaking rather appropriately into| his thoughts. Bill looked up at him with a start. “Nor,” went on Antony, “can you say, ‘This is my friend Mr. Gillingham, who is staying with you. We were just going to have a game of bowls. " “Yes, it's dashed difficult. I don’t know what to say. I've been rather forgetting about Mark." He wan- | dered over to the window and then turned back to his friend. | “All the same,” he sald, “you wanted to find the passage, and now you've found it. Aren’t you going into it at all?” Antony took his arm. | “Let's go outside again,” he said. “We can't go into it now, anyhow.| It's too risky, with Cayley about Bill, 1 feel like you—just a little bit frightened. But what I'm frightened of I don't know. Anyway, you want| to go on with it, don’t you?" “Yes,” said Bill firmly. *“We must.” “Then we'll explore the passage this afternoon ,if we get the chance. And! if we don't get the chance, then we'll try it tonight.” “Do you really think we might find ! Mark hiding there?" asked Bill. ) ‘It's possible,” said Antony. "Either Mark or—" He pulled himself up quickly. “No,” he murmured to him- self, “I won't let myself think that— rot yet, anyway. It's too horrible.” CHAPTER XII. In the twenty hours or so ,at Inspector Birch had busy. The discovery of Mark was all that! ! pond might not help toward th NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SA. . mattered immediately. Dragging the but It would cerfhifly give the impression In court tomorrow that Inspector Birch was handling the case with zeal, He was feeling well satisfled with himself, therefore, as he walked to Wie pond, where his men were waft- fng for him, and quite In the mood for a little pleasant talk with Mr, Gil- lingham and his friend, Mr. Beverley, He gave them a cheerful “Good after- noon," and added with a smile, “Com- ing to help us?" “I wish you luck, Rut I don't think you'll find much at tthe pond. 1t's rather out of the way, isn't {t, for anybody running away?" “That's just what I told Mr, Cay- ley, when he called my attention to the pond, However, we shan't do any harm by looking. It's the un- expected that's the most likely in this sort of case'" “You're quite right, Inspector. Well, we mustn't keep you. Good afternoon,” and Antony smiled pleas- antly at him, "Good afternoon,'” said Bill Antony stood looking after the in- spector as he strode off, silent for so long that Bill shook him by the arm at last, and asked him rather crossly what was the matter, Antony shook his head slowly from le to side, . “I don’'t know; really 1 don’t know. It's too devilish what T keep think- ing. that.” “Who?" Without answering, Antony led the way back to the garden seat on which they had been sitting. with his head in his hands. “Oh, T hope they find something," he murmured. *“Oh, I hope they do."” “In the pond?" s T R “But what?" "Anything, Bill, anything."” Bill was annoyed. | “I say, Tony, this won't ‘do. You really mustn't be so damn mysterious. What's happened to you suddenly?” (Continued in Our Next Issue) Was—hington State sid Holbrook —won competitors in a at Seattle. Blanche Miidred over hundreds of tathing beauty contest his | Someone calied her “a dry land swim- tions which now have been mer” and just for that she jumped |jjshed between American and German |into Puget Sound and swam a mile | undertakings and to substitute and a half. He can't be as cold-blooded as | He sat there | START TOREBUILD ' BANK OF ENGLAND Long Projected Plans to Become a Reality in the Near Future London, Aug. 12.—The long pro-| jected rebullding of the Bank of England will start almost immediate. ly, the Dally Express understands. A meeting of the directors is to be held soon to make the necessary financial arrangements Baker's Plans It s understood that the plans to be adopted are those of Herbert | Baker, the architect who collabor- | ated with 8ir Edwin Lutyens for the new capitol at Lelhl. Mr. Baker was diso the designer of the South Afri- can government's administrative |bulldings at Pretoria, and of the | cathedrals at Capetown, Pretoria and Salisbury (Rhodesia) and the Cecil Rhodes memorial on Table Moun- tain, Staft is Doubled. The staff of the Bank of England | 18 now double what it was shortly he- |fore the war, largely owing to the | fast growth of the National debt, and |the existing accommodations are ut- terly inadequate, Sections of the smr{‘ have been working for a long time at various places in the vicinity of the bank. Schemes Considered. A speclal committee of the direc- | tors ,including Cecll Lubbock, has been considering alternative schemes for the rebullding. The idea of raz- ing the vthole of the existing one- |story building to the ground was, it is understood, abandoned, partly on sentimental grounds and partly be- cause of the difficulties of ohtaining accommodation for the staff during the reconstruction. The present pro- posal is to retain the outer wall, |which abuts on Threadneedle street, i 8t. Bartholomews Lane, Lothbury and Princess street. This wall, which es- | tirely surrounds the site of hetween three and four acres was erected | from the designs of Sir John Seames | about 130 years ago, shortly after the Gordon Riots, when the bank clerks, |sword and pistol in hand, defended the bank against a furious mob, Description The wall is in the classic Grecias style, and in some places is 40 feet high. Security demanded that it have no windows and the architect {achieved the difficult task of making | the wall look ornamental by maskin it with Corinthian columns and blank windows. The new building will rise within the wall to a height of 70 or 80 feet above it, and will thus be BRITISH PROPOSALS English Interests Have Failed in| Getting Aid in Great Air Route | | Berlin, Aug. 12.—English interests have fafled recently in efforts to en- list the aid of Germany's three largest |airship constructors in the establish- ment and maintenance of an aerial, service between England, Egypt, In-' |dia and Australia, under British aus- | pices, according to Director Johann Schuette of the Schuette-l.anz work: |Herr Schuette has recently returned from the United States after conclud- |ing negotiations for the founding of a German-American company to |conduct a European-American air illne. | Director Suspicious | The director intimated that the English project was launched in an attempt to divert the close connec- been estab- for them a British leadership in airship ! peatedly " New Jewett Prices 'Effective August 6th 1922 Despite the outstanding value of the Jewett, in which additional betterments have been made, we offer these improved Jewett Sixes at the following new prices that again set new standards of value. 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As- serting the English builders have re- failed to produce tory results, he declared the English now have at their disposal only serviceable Zeppelins built for use in the war and that the cell bodies of these are no longer trustworthy. These, he said, would not suffice even for a between England and ERypt Herr Schuette said that Americans have had their eyes opened by the fate of the R-3S, and that they will now force a way advan- tages to accrue from the German in- service v . Sotla ys. According to Herr Schuette, Brit-| satisfac- | two ', dustry which, despite the obstacles of Versailles treaty, has built 80 Itss Zeppelins and 20 Schuette- Lanz ships. ANNUAL TOURNAMENTS Professional Golfers' Association To Hold Yearly Event Over Difficult (‘uln'%‘m Oakmont Country Clab. Pittsburgh, Aug. 12.—The difficuit Oakmont Country club golf cour: from August 13 to August 30, of the annual tour- nament of the Prof; ciation Those in charge of ar- rangements for the championship event declare that about three of the national leading pros will come to Pittsburgh to play. The qualifyin €d on many courses before the real tournament gets un- der way at Oakmont. Only American | professionals will he permitted to enter. Pittsburgh will be allowed five reg- here will be the scene ional Golfers' score Y very ular players in the tournament, une der a recent ruling of the P. G. A. However, the Pittsburgh golfers will be called upon to fill the places of alified professionals from distant points who may be unable to make the t nationa several Oakmont course, scene of the amateur championship play rs ago, is considered one of the best courses in the United States. There is a severe penalty for misplay, hook or slice. Oak- mont is well trapped with tree, sand end bunker hazards. SOVIET JOKES Hall Singers Crack About Selves. Moscow, Aug. 12.—Muscovites have reached the stage where, after eight vears of war and revolution, they can iaugh at their own troubles. In recently opened summer gar- dens, where elaborate vaudeville pere tormances are given nightly, the ac- tors poke fun at the government and the audiences chuckle heartily over references to their worthless money nd the fact that it takes a million rubles to buy a “few carats of food.” Russian Music Wise Ones $ALESMAN $AM SAY SAM , THERE'S A GUY OUT HERE SORE. AS A BOIL:— SAYS YUH SO0LD HIM SOME. BUM GOODS YESTERDAN AT S RN GOOD NIGHT) SUZZ-DON'Y LET Hm FOR T LOVA MIKE, CLOSE ) THAT DOOR- WHWERE CAN |\ WIDE- TELL HIM \VE LEFT FOR AFRICA—D0O ANYTHING BUT DON'Y LET HIM SEE ME. Sam Is Game—Sometimes DONT GET HUM? SCARED SAM , HE'S ONWY A LITTLE BT OF A FELLOW AGAIN SAY THAT "BY SWAN SHOW TH' GENTLEMAN IN, MR GUZZLEM- IF HE. 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