New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 18, 1922, Page 14

"% RED HOUSE | MYSTERY {5 Y AAMILNE © W2 & P butlon Company I'rom Our Last Issue) | ning Antony had coming and h For, If M seemed such Say! Was Cg (Continued From the | seen this a wer drawn back from it had bheen killed, it cold-blooded ) equal to it? Bill would have Bill wouldn't have cold hlood himself took it behaved pre Antony ders w rk ey anybody because in he ple | !‘.ur‘ ind becaus 1 that other peo ¥ did had w for g M act another been in the office at all | The only evidence hich obvious Disie w ard ly cold-blooded g, after @ oy 1d a qu they were both wooing vley had killed Mark, either| purposely, in sudden passion, or ac accidentally, meaning : to knock him down. Suppose happened in the 2 o'clock Suppces a pose . say about ey there, with | Piles Can't Be Cured From the Outside External treatments seldom cure Piles. Nor do surgical operations. | The cause is inside—bad circulation The blood is stagnant, the veins flabby. The bowel wall are weak, the parts almost dead. To qui y and safely rid yourself piles you must free the circula- tion—send a fresh current through the stagnant pools. Internal treatment | is the one safe method. J. 8 n D., set at work some ye ago to find a real internal Pile remedy. He succeeded. He named his prescription HEM-ROID, and it in 1000 cases before he was | d. Now HEM-ROID is sold by | sts everywhere under guaran- | tee. It's easy to take and can always| be found at the Clark and Brainerd |but plenty of time now. body rope larting the the round his this way and carch for a way o fescape pose that suddenly an he remembers that Ro to the house at 1.0 automatically he watch—in half an hour Antony pictured to in the passage EE ANYTHING? TONY AT LAST at his feet, neck; 3 o'clock that standing feeling already his mipd that in frantle a d irrelevantly bert is coming after- looks at his r's time § himself Cayley x over the dead SAID AN- 1 sup- | The first taste tells you why LIPTON'S TEA has the largest sale in the facts as they knew them; but then, so did that other theory which he had | suggested to Bill in the morning. ‘Which one?” sald Bill. They were sitting in the copse above {the pond, from which the Inspector |and his fishermen had now with- drawn, Dill had listencd with open {mouth to Antony's theory, and save | for an occasional “By Jove!" had lis- |tened in silence. *Smart man, Cay- |ley,”” had been his only comment at | the end | “Which other theory?"” “That Mark had killed Rohert ac- body of his cousin, and working it |cidentally and had gone to Cayley for out, seem the murderer, it alive to deny it? Robert were dead, too? He twenty-five minutes n Robert were dead, too? in the office, and Mark dead in the say anything.” | passage—how does that help? But if the bodies were brought | You meant that Cayley deliberately be- ness! together somehow . | death looked like suicide? . it possible? Madness again twe. minutes now.) . |to arrange in twenty minutes Too difficult . . . arrange a suicide. How could Robert be made to Robert were But suppose looks at his watch again. (Only; ow.) Suppose Robert dead Mad- | help, and that Cayley ,having hidden [him 'in the passage, locked the office door from the outside and hammered en it “Yes, but you were so dashed mys- terious about that. I asked you what the point of it was, and you wouldn't He thought for a ;nme, and then went on, “I suppose And Robert's| trayed Mark, and tried to make him Too difficult Can't Only nineteen minutes. . . And then the sudden inspiration! Robert ad in the office, Mark’s body hidden in the passage—impossible to make Robert seem the murderer, but how casy to make Mark! Robert dead and Mark missing; the eye at once. Robert accidentall be more H away. Sudden panic at his watch again. F Co., who will gladly refund the pur-|arranges itself.) Was that the solution, Antony won- chase price to any dissatisfied custo- Lean Cottage Hams It seemed to fit in with the That makes a difference, why, it jumped to Mark had Kkilled ves, —and then that would had run . (He looks ifteen minutes, The thing Was | look llke a murderer?” | “I wanted to warn you that we Too difficult. (Only |should probably find Mark in the pass- | age, alive or dead.” “And now yvou don't think so?" “Now I think that his dead body is there.” ® & ““Meaning that Cayley went down and killed him afterward—after you {had come, after the police had come?"” | “Well, that's what I shrink from, {Bill. It's so horribly cold-blooded. Cayley may be capable of it, but I ‘ha(e to think of it."” “But, dash it all, your other way is cold-blooded enough. Accordthg to :you he goes up to the office and de- liberately $hoots a man with whom |he has no quarre!l, whom he hasn't seen for fifteen years!” “Yes, but to save his own neck. And I think Armours’ Smoked Shoulders 15¢™ MORNING SPECIALS 7TO 12 A. M. STEAKS | ROUND = SIRLOIN 18¢c Ib Short Porterhouse TEAKS! LEGS OF LAMB FRESH GROUND HAMBURG .......... LAMB FOR n12¢ ATIVE POTATOES 15 1b Peck . it 'EVAPORATED MI 3Ih25c | Large Can ........... PURE LARD - 27c¢ — ALL DAY SPECIALS — TOP ROUND ROASTS OF BEEF 20c ® | BEST CUTS SHOULDER STEAK 15¢ ™ PRIME RIB ROASTS OF BEEF 25¢ ® BONELESS POT ROASTS OF BEEF 15¢ ™ SUGAR CURED CORNED BEEF, Cabbage Free » 8¢ LEAN CHUCK ROAST! OF BEE w126 BOILING BEEF ROASTS OF VEAL . VEAL FOR STEW ™ 18c » 12¢ » 34c SPERRY & BAR BACON PRIME LAMB CHOPS . 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Antony laughed. “Good Lord, of course it 18" he sald. “And tonight we shall know if it's a good guess or a bad one.'" Bl brightened up suddenly, “Tonlght,” he sald, I say, night's going to be rather fun, do we work {t?" Antony was stlent for a little, “Let's put ourselves in Cayley's place,” sald Antony, puffing slowly at his pipe. “He's got the body, or whatever it {s, in the passage. What Wwill he do next?" “Come out again,” sald Bill help- fully. “'Yes; but which end?" Bill sat up with a*start. “By Jove, you mean that he will go out at the far end by the bowling- green?” “Don't you think g0 Just imagine him walking across the lawn in full view of thq hiouse ,at midnight, with a body in his arms. He can get out by the bowling green, and then come to the pond without ever being in sight of the house at all.” “You're right. Now, next thing?" “The next thing is to mark exact place in the pond where drops—whatever he drops.” “‘So that we can fish it out again,” “If we can see what it is, we shan't want to. The police can have a go at it tomorrow. But if {t's something we can't identify from a distance, then we must try and get it out. To see whether it's worth telling the police about.” “Y-—yes,” said Bill, wrinkling his forehead. “"Of course, the troubhle with water is that one bit of it looks pretty much like the next bit, 1 don't know if that had occurred to you.” “It had,” smiled Antony. come and have a look at it.” They walked to the edge of the copee, and lay down there in. silence, looking at the pond beneath them. “See anything?” sald Antény at last. “What?" “The fence on the other “What about it?" “Well, it's rather useful, that's all.” “Sald Sherlock Holmes enigmati- cally,” added Bill. “A moment later, his friend Watson had hurled him into the pord.” Antony laughed. “I love being Sherlocky,” he said. “It's very unfair of you not to play up to me.” “Why is that fence useful, my dear Holmes?” said Bill obedient! “Because you ¢an take a bearing on You see—" “Yes, you needn't stop to explain to me what a bearing is.” “I wasn't going to. lying here”—he looked neath this pire-tree. Cayley comes out in the old boat and drops his parcel in You take a line from here cn to the boat, and mark it off on the fence there. Say it's the fifth post from the end Well, then I take a line from my tree—we'll find one for me directly—and it comes on to the twentieth post, ay., And where the two lines meet, there shall the eaglées be gathered together. Q. E. D. And there, I almost forgot to remark, will the taller eagle, Beverley by name, o his famous diving act. As performed nightly at the Hippodrome.” Bill looked at him uneasily. ‘1 say, really? It's beastly dirty water you know “I'm afraid so, Bill. So it is writ- ten in the book of Jasher.” “0Of course I know that one of us on the to- How what's the the he “Let's side."” it. But you're up—*"under- f | would have to, but I hoped—oh, well, it’s a warm night.” “Just the night for a bathe’” agreed Antony, getting up. “Well now let's have a look for my tree.” d down to the margin of the pond d then looked back. Blll's tree stood up and took the evening, tall and unmistakable, fifty fcet nearer to heaven than its neigh- bors. But it had its fellow at the othe rend of the copse, not quite so tall ,perhaps, but equally conspicuous. “That's where I shall be,’ 'sald An- tony, pointing to it. “Now, for the Lord's sake, count your posts aceur- ately.” “Thanks very much, but I shall do it for my own sake said Bill with feeling. T don’t want to spend the whole night dlving.” x on the post in a straight line with you and the splash, and ther count backward to the beginning of the fence.” “Right, old boy. Leave it to me, I can .do this on my head"” “Well, that's how you will have to 46 the last part of it said Antony with a smile He looked at his watch. nearly time t6 change for They started to walk back house together. . It was dianer. to the . . At midnight the pond was waiting fér them, more solemn in the moon- ight The trees which crowned the sloping bank on the far side of it were mysteriously silent. It seemed that they had the world very much to themselves. Almost unconsciously spoke in a whisper. “There's your tree, there’'s mine. As long as you don't move, there's no chanee of his seeing. you After he's gone, don’t come out till I do He won't be here for a quarter of an hour or so, so don't be impatient.” ‘Righto,” whispered PBill Antony gave him a no@ and a smile, Antony land they walked off to their posts. (Continued in Our Next Issue) plsisie s LR, The wedding cake, cut by the bride, is one of the oldest marriage cus- toms. —————————————— [ Socret of a Good Disposition. A woman who carefully safeguards her h:alth benefits her disposition. 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