New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 14, 1922, Page 10

-~ T T R IR UST 14, 1022, "Ohe RED HOUSE MYSTERY ) AAMILNE @ %1 89 Dution conpamy | for?" said Bill seen him, anyhow “No. 8o it follows he was going + do something which he didn't want to hear." ‘Ry Jove, ! eagerly “Yes; but what?" Bl frowned hopefully to but no inspiration came. | “Well, let's have some air, anyway." |torpedoes, | he #id at last, exhausted by the gunfire, effort, and he went to the window,! ° opened 1t, and looked out. Then,| wiped out a considerable , shouts the porter and the DBritish navy The |Old Alaska has vanished, the great were not of a 'wholly|land of mystery along the Yukon be- | but part of a series comes but a banal echo of something constructive 1-xl<||'lx—|ll|ul has been, but is no more, | been scarried out for | Hard for Old Timoers, | some time, It is not true that fhe| The change has been so sudden and | alrplanes threw out smoke screens, /so complete that the old-timers are The torpedo-carrying airplanes were |finding it hard to readjust their lives sighted 15 minutes before firing their [to the new conditions, The rallroad They were under dummy has wiped away the dog teams a means of transportatien to the In- |terior, the horse-drawn sleight over There Is great difference be-|the Richardson highway from Val. struck an iden, he turned back to An-tween the effect of dummy gun-fire dez Is but a tourlst adventure auto- tony and said: “Do you think T had|on the morale and the Ateraluusd 6P mobiles ‘take! Lira’ pisca’ ortthe stage | Letter Ko up to the pnn..d to make nurfm fiyer when at a low altitude at the [In summer and the rallroad now ‘}:’:'I :::;: r':"':::'mn""ll". e ".::":‘"";'é” moment of discharging torpedoed,” [serves a country extending to none on | L K ) Ll the speaker continued, “They were the northwest and the Arctit slope | Autony's face, W rledLAttacked by gun-fire in dummy from to the north, down the Tanana from ey n‘mu{t ;’:.'w:'r_“”””'m“nn’"{".m‘!;: ight.crulaers and destroyers. The at- Fairbanka to the Yukon and up the | 'vou lamb, you blessing! O, Gil- |tk developed under favorable condi- | Yukon to Dawson-—a veritable ad- | ham, you Incomparable nss!" tions. We could not use real coun- | venture for the tourist who has ab- ‘\\'hn; a0 e Rthat |ter-measures, The attack thus de- '!orhed the romance of the days of “The window, the window!" cried |Vé1oped its full offensive effect, and|'08. ; Antony, pointing to-it A number of hits were recorded un- Hard to Convince. Rill turned back to the Mndm\n,"” the most favorable conditions. l1 The old-timer says the expecting It to say something. As it 10 not know the exact number of days will come again; where, he is "said nothing, he looked at Antony 'MMts, but I am informed that from gnnhle lo”nmle; but the lure or the ogain 'the admiralty staff point of view {t|"shovel-in" ground beckons and as “'He was window!" |was not considered to be at all large, [the rallroad threaded north the proa-; cried Antony, or in anyway beyond what was ex- pector broke new tralls, What the fu- | “Who?" pected,” ;lurr holds for the dreamer is as| “Ca of course Very gravely {problematic as the first venture Into| and slowly he expounded. “He came the forbidding country that has so = {suddenly been transformed into a re-|something first hand about selling in here in order to open the window, ! He shut the door so that I shouldn't| !glon wherein the mo#t delicate may|8spirits.on the high seas. Mive and prosper. Organized Business. for a’ smuggler,” he said, “'or boot- legger out for business heyond the the German navy. 1 do no business which cannot bear examination, and . . . . M |T am in international waters, and am Legislation Agains*Drumkofiness ! s » smesons vates s e Causes Rise in Alcohol hear him open the window He | The captain was & young German | le RUNNINEIN [law, but you are quite mistaken. My would not for anything in the world wish with anybody who wants to do ou couldn't have | completely " 'portion. of maneuvers novel character,” of valuable. and es which have that's it!" gaid Bill himself, ASSORTED D PURE SUGAR CANDY An assortment of delicious’ sweetness selected to suit your - taste ROPS « re Difference, Rill looked eyes,' Ry «(Continued From Our l.ast lésue) him Antony looked up at Bill prise “Didn't you hear what “What, particularly” “That it was Cayley's idea to drag the pond “Oh! Oh, I say!" Bill was rather excited again. ~“You mean that he's Ridden something there? Some false clue which he wants the to find?" “I hope s0,” said *put I'm afraid short “Well ‘What's the safest place in which to hide anything very important?” “Fomewhere where nobody will look “Thére's a better place than that," “What?" “Somewhere where already looked “By Jove! You mean that as soon as the pond has been dragged, Cayley will hide something there " ““Yes, I'm afraid so." “But why afraid?" had happened “Because I think that it must be| ~That was it something very important, something absolute convictlon. hat was just which couldn't easily be hidden any.| What I saw vesterday.” He came where else.” ° ' out of the office, and joined Bill in “What?" asked Bill eagerly. the little room Antony shook his head. "And now." he sald, “lefsytry and ‘(Continued in Our Next Issue.) (Ner ¥mniotigoin gt tostalK TaBol tlilh | eyttt sote ey e = yet, We can walt and see what the| {nspector finds. He may find some- thing that Cayley has put there for | Bim to find. But if he doesn't, then ‘BRITISH EXPERTS it will be because Cayley is going to | i hide something there tonight.” | AN “What? asked Bill again. s v - “'You will see what, Bill,¥ said An- ! gony; “because we shall be there.” | | | | ‘Are we going to watch him?" - / | | “‘Yes, if the inspector finds nothing." | ! . Say That Aerial Strength Willi ““That's good,” said Bill ! | ' If it were a question of Cayley or | Replace Wal‘ Vessels at with startled in sur- Jove You mean that ley closed the door afterward afterthought—and very that you «ouldn't hear?" Antony nodded | “Yes That explains why 1 was surprised afterward when I went into the room to find the door open be- | hind me. You know how those doors with springs on them close?" | ‘The sort which ald gentlemen have to keep out draughts?” ‘Yes, Just at first they hardly move at all, and then very, very slowly they swing to--well, that was the way the shadow moved, and sub- consciously I mygt have associated it with the movement of that sort of door. By Jove!" He got up, and dusted his knees “Now, RIll, just to make sure, # in and close the door like that As an afterthought, you know; and very quietly, so that don’t hear the click of it." Bill pulled open a drawer in the put his head out cagerly to hear what Cay- -a8 an quietly, eo he said?" police Dawson Antony He earnestly, stoppad opening’ the A. H. Barber, will bring its activities to a close this summer, A This commission was: formed ' in 1919 to advise the Polish government on transportation problems. Now that the Polish railroads are prac- tically restored, the work of the com-' mission {8 at an end. The help of Colonel Barber has been fully appre. ciated. In proof of this he was the first American to receive the order of "Polonia Restituta,” established by the Polish government as a mark of honor to those who have served with distinction in the reconstruction of the new republic. everybody has and found the window open. I said,| “This window is open My amazing powers of analysis tell me that the murderer must have escaped by this| window.! ‘Oh,’ said Cayley, raising his eyebrows. ‘Well,' sald he, ‘T sup- pose you must be right’ Said T v, ‘1 am For. the window is| 1 said. Oh you incomparable AUASHAN CHANGES Lines Are Now Laid to Innermost Sections of Country saild Antony, with Aug. 14 (By “All aboard, interior.” Thus coated porter, Anchorage, Alaska, the Associated Press) through gtrain for the sings out the white standinggwith hand at the| jrear of Tthe limited. | gto0kholm, Aug. 14.—Legislation | {'{)‘_":::‘"m‘a:‘:“lfp‘:: :;’;'r"”:l a‘:’]mt:’“':lln Sweden against drunkenness and ER€, barday coach, pullman sleeper | aas ent, neavy taxatlon ot Vator , day and beer has resulted in very high and yan observation chair car. | prices for alcohol of every kind. So e A vt Tl £0 o amugeing o arini ino 8 8 Sweden has developed all "along the ‘r‘r‘l:ir}:’::rnlln;! Ar‘m".‘ Y]':M‘lfi»‘r':n;h:?‘"fi:;mm. and it is asserted that about aska J ,000 gallons the banks of the Tanana river, that fande,,‘“d ",0,,','?,',"s;f‘ei,,n":\‘.§‘,"‘. ,,:,e_ mighty stream whose nfere name con- Recently a German ship was said (Jufed up visions of argonauts., dog |ty bhe anchored outside territortal wa- | London, Aug. 14—"The navy of teams, myriads of caribou and the|terg with a cargo of spirits for sale. the future must take to the . airifold days when only strong meh |In grder to establish the truth of this otherwise it will be at a hopeless dis- reached the Tanana alleged rum-running, the correspond- said Captain Viscount! On July 13 the through ]'relght‘,m of the Associated Press dgcided d”“:“ jnsgwrv- !het pron ro;du; hls house of commons took the place of the mixed train ypon a personal investigation. * With | nearly 5 percent."” e adde e gard to Mark, he did not hesitate to ! estimates came uploperated heretofore and a regular bi- ap,,,;n,,phe embarked Zn a six ton|expected to get rid of his present place 'himself on the side of the law ! for discussion. He pointed out that!weekly passenger and freight service cutter for this German boat, which |Cargo within a week and return for . against Cayley. Mark after all, had according to the latest figures the has been installed. was expected off Sandham, and after | Tore. He made ten trips last vear done him no harm, but Cayley had navy had only nine fighting airpianes Two Years Ago. a pleasant sail in the moonlight came | 1o Norway, and with the same num- committed an unforgivable offense. lin contrast with the 86 possessed by| Travelers recall two trips over yp with the vessel which was riding | ber to Sweden this year he Sxpscty Cayley had listened secretly to a pri- find out what it was that Mr. Cayley the United States navy. |this route two years ago. 1In entailed |at anchor with the usual lights show- | t¢ clean up enough for a five-years vate conversatfon between himself and | Was doing in here, and why he had| To offset the allegation o mixed train that began to crawl|ing, ' rest. Tony. Let Cayley hang, if the law to be tery careful that his friend Mr. ' tain Curzon, the Air Ministry has f3- along as it entered the Broad Pass| On hailing the vessel we were re- demanded it. Gillingham didn’t overhear him." sued a statement declaring the Brit-|country, wheke operation extended al- | quested to go aboard and were receiv- Antony looked at CHAPTER XIII. |ish navy to be better equipped ®itw|[most to the last rall laid. Then ed cordially by the captain. ‘“Jus stood up. Antony’'s first thought was rhm‘fl‘rnlanfl than that of .any other came the horse-drawn sgleigh or dog|waiting for somebody else,” he said, | Come along,” he said Cayley had hidden something—but | power and claiming no fewer®than flSiwam to the next roadhouse at Sum- ‘“but you are very welcome anyhow."; for, that job I spoke about,"” that was absurd. | In the time at his| fighting air machines in commitsion, mit, a bleak, desolate spot in winter, | Asked down to the cabin, the visitors “The passage?” said Bill eagerly. A dosposal, he conld have done no more with a large number of reserves. {hemmed in by icy mountains and|explained they were neither buyers| Warsaw, Aug. 14.— The American “Xo; the thing which 1 said that I|than put it away in a drawer, where Need Aircrafts. swept by wintry blasts. Overnight at|of alcohol nor in the service of the |technical commission to Poland, Pad to do this afternoon.” it would be much more open to dis- George Lambert, a former civil the crude roadhouse and the trip was|customs, but only wanted to learn | working under the direction of Col. Without saving anything, Antony covery by Antony than if he had kept|Lord of the admiralty, expressed the continued to Nenana, on the banks of ! & opened the window. I came in here L Sapdi R INRAE Gergie) | SWEI]EN IN[;REASES | ame is Ludwig Wolft, formerly of.| infringe on the privileges of Sweden, business with me. I can offer you S PAPER IN JERUSALEM American Woman Wil Soon Edit Daily Edition in That Country. Jerusalem, Aug. 14. — Jerusalem soon is to have a daily newspaper published in English. It will be own- ed and edited by an American woman, Mrs. Gatling, of New York, who has spent several months in Palestine studying local conditions, ' Mrs. Gat- ling has paid $250,000 for a building to be used for her venture. The presges and other mechanical equip- ment for the paper are now on their way out from the United States. the purest and best whiskies, English and American at about $1.25 a quart. I have the best Danish schnaps for 3 krone a bottle, and many thousand bottles of German brandy. Wolff, referring to himself, ex- plained that he had been paid off from the navy when -the armistice was declared, and: on hearing of the liguor trade with Norway, he decided to join in. “I am not dealing for my own account,”,he sald; ‘ this busi- ness is organized in Hamburg by big capitalists. Liquor in Germany is very cheap and Scandinavian cur- rency very high, so although we sell much cheaper than do registered the law, he was quite decided as to which side he was taking. Previous %o the tragedy of vesterday he had got on well enough with both of the | cousins, without being in the least in. timate with either. Yet, though he had hesitated to |advantage.” define his position that morning in re- ‘Curzon in the when the naval ARCTIC POSTOFFICE Edmonton, Adta., Aug. 14.—Postof- fice regulations, stamps and a new imprint bearing the name “Aklavick” are now on their way to the Arctie Circle, where the dominion govern- ment soon will open the most north- erly postoffice in Canada. Aklavick is a trading post onthe delta at the mouth of the Mackenzie river. Two malils will leave the new postoffice by steamer during the sea- son of open water and one malil by dog team during the winter, the lat- ter being the longest and most lonely postal route on the continent. HE TRIED DESPERATELY HARD TO SEE IT AGAIN. ¢ Cap- a RESTORE POLISH R. R. his watch and American Ratiroad Experts Complete ‘It's time Transportation For. Stricken Land j | led the way indoors to the office. It was three o'clock, and at three e'clock vesterday Antony and Cayley bhad found the body. At a minutes after three, he had been look- ing out of the window of the adjoin- ing room, and had been surprised sud- denly to find the door open and C ley behind him. He had vaguely ‘®ondered at the time why he had expected the door to be shut, but he /had no time then to worry the thing out, and he had promised himself to look into it at his leisure afterward e had. decided that three o'clock that “afternoon should find him once few | it in his pocket. Bil Ipulled open a drawer chest, and lookgd inside Why did he keep clothes here at all?” Antony asked. “Did he ever change down here?" “My dear Tony, he had more clothes than anybody im the world. He just kept them here in case they might be useful, T expect.” | I see. Yes' He was walking around the room as he answered, and he lifted the top of the linen basket which stood near the wash basin and glanced in. He seems to have come in here for a collar lately.” in the opinion that the British navy very inadequately equipped craft. the defensive point of view the money | br of the taxpayer is being spent to the hest advantage?’’ he asked. “You are going to spend 16,000,000 pounds on two new hattieships, but it is useless to spend money on capital ships un- less you have sufficient aireraft for the ehips you already possess.” Lieiitenant-Commander Kenworthy emphasized the great need of strengthening the air fleet. “‘We arg exposed to two great dangers from the air,” he said, “massed attacks by L bu fol ake. Today ded 1n platform of I ffet “Can the navy say that from |beetling cliffs by the Maybe it was ilow zero and only the compelled to take the Pullmans Now. this same scenic grandeur from window :of the Pullman or the rear the observation or mayhap while dining in the car ahead. mountains are bathed in the myster- ! lious light 'spectrum and parades it before that was|the Tanana, down a dangerous can- with air-| yon where the dogsled clung to the teeth of 4 h t The arrays country the | 0 degrees - ardy or those rip braved it. | is. un- the parlor bleak, lcy entire | the | the American Girls In Last Practic For Olymvnic Game ] vision; little rivulets rush down from ! the mountains to join noble Susitna | | carrying its turbulent flood into Cook ' inlet | more in-the office. ‘“As he went into the room, followed By ‘Bill, he felt it almost a shock that thera ‘was now no body of Robert lying there between the two. doors. But there was a ‘dark stain which showed where the dead man's head bad been, and Antony knelt down over it, as he had: knelt twenty-four hours before “I' want to go through it Besaid. “You must be Cayley fey said he would get some water. Now. then, 'Bill, just pretend you're Cayley. You've just said something about water, and you get up." Feeling that it was all a little un- eanny, Bill, who had!been kneeling bestde his friend, got up and walked out. Antony, as he had done on the previous day, ooked up after him as he, went Bill turned into the room on the right, and came back “Well?" he said wonderingly. Antony shook his head “It's all different,” he said. “For ene thing, you made a devil of a noise in there and Cayley didn’t.” | “Perhaps vau weren't listening ! when’ Cayley went in?" ““1"'wasn't. But T should have Yeard him, and I should have remem- bered afterword.” "Perhap'ayley shut the door after | Bim.” ‘Wait!” "He pressed his hand over his eyes and ‘thought. It wasn't anything| which ‘he had heard, but something which he had ®een He tried des- + peratefy hard to see it -again + He saw Cayley getting up, opening the dobr from the officé, leaving it open and walking into the passage, turning to the door on the right, opening it, going in, and then—What did his his eyes see after that? If they would only tell him again | “Suddenly he jumped up, his face ! dlight. “Bill, I've got it!" he cried. “What " - ““The ‘shadow on the wall! I was ... looking at the shadow on the wall Oh, ass, and ten times ass!” | Bill looked uncomprehendingly at him. Antony took his arm and pointéd to the wall of the passage “Look at the sunlight on it," he said. “That's because you've left the z.- door of that room open. The sun . -.gomes straight in through the win- “.dows. Now, I'm. going to shut the | door. Look! D'you see how the shadow moves across? That's what T sajt—tHe shadow moving across as the door shut behind him. Bill, go | {n and shut the door behind you- quite naturally. Quick!"” * Bl went out and Antony ehing eagerly. T thought so!"” he cried souldn’t have been than."” ‘What happened?” said Bill, frig back. Jifst what you would expect. The guhlight came, and the shadow moved o “again—all in one movement.” ' ““aAna what happened yesterday?” | * wThe ‘sunlii stayed tnere; and| ‘i gyen ‘the shadow came very slowly | Jek, and there was no nolse of the Bill peered in. There was one col- lar at the hottom of the basket. “Yes. 1 daresay he would,” he agreed “If he ddenly found that the one he was wearing was uncom- fortable or a little bit dirty, or some- thing. He was very finicking." Antony leaned over and picked out “It must this time," carefully. cleaner.” But what did Cayley sational reports, secretly 2" were completely “What did he want to shut the door made in real warfare fleets of airplanes fiying by*nmight and scattering poison and disease germs on our cities, and having our food supplies cut off by attacks on the trade routes. The two capital ships would be of little use warding off such raiders.” Mr. Amer: Py '?n Build Bridge. The system of crossing the Tanana | winter on rails laid upon the lce; be supplemented by a 700 the admiralty, answered some ques- foot single steel span bridge with tions about recent experimental at- approaches well aboye the flood of | : Z Y < R 5 7 - < by airplanes on warships in the the stream, the narrow-gauge Tanana The all-American girls track team seems ail sct to ¢asn-to victory in the “woman’s Olympic” Ciannel, According 1o published sen- Valles _“dinky” line will retreat be-| t5 he held at Paris. This photo taken on the eve of their sailing shows the young athletes limber- the attacks fore the oncoming of the mogul en- |0y ot Weequakic Park in Newark, N. J. From left to right: Elizabeth Stine, Mabet Gilliland, and f and its serpent-like string of % A 7 J whmr‘ 2::::.‘ r-/(nmmc:!. Camelie Sabie, Florieda Batson, Jgnet Snow and Esther Green. o z - | BY SWAN in it 5 | e seeretary to'soon will financial have been uncomfortable he said. after examining it “It couldn't very well he He dropped it back again. come in for so again," Cay- he said successful, would Sam Is The Hitch Today HI SAM , RUSH THIS RIGHT OVER TO MRS, SEE ODEE — SHE 'WANTS TA USE~ PART OF \T TO MAKE A DRES) THIS AFTERNOON-YA BETTER TAKE. TH' WAGON SALESMAN $AM | ot ! HELLO? YES— | SPOOL WHITE. THREAD- Y2 YD BLUE SATIN , A % VD. LACE., AND %2 DOZ PEARL BUTTONS— ALL RIGHT - WE'LL SEND [T RIGHT OVER HITCH UP THIS DARN SONE- YET? /' ORSE.~GUESS I'LL fims 1S PRETTY S ’LL HAVE To STEP OUNTRY ’'LONG SOME IF | WANT K*ro CATCH THAT HURRY ,TOM, OINNER |3 ALL ON THE TABLE! knelt, “T knew ! com-