New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 31, 1922, Page 10

Balmer ; ‘ b [en the water Little, Tvown and. Campany ~ BEGIN HERE TODAY A mile from the sohre of | Huron was the mysterious and ghost- great wrong done the past, whic now became ected with a super ETHEL CAREW That morning tather, old LUCAR CULLEN, SENIOR won 1 s i folent str for t r 18 nort er grand who 1 g0 feit tl mystery and of } news of Cullen i A fit of rage and he tries to bribe E ' what she | knows of GO ON WITH THF STORY CHAPTER V It was fast becomi BwWift, midwinter eve With the night came the wind returned gaunt outline of the Rock withdrew to dimmer and dimmer distances until Ethel at her wondow could see it no more Suddenly a bright dot glowed ! through the dark —a light upon Resurrection Rock, ight yellow | with distance illumi a window, | Ethel thought It went out as s 1171‘ denly a sit appeared; then it g ed | again and once more went dark he watched steadily for some time longer; but no light appeared again She heard a soft tap, tap, tap at her door; and she went over and| opened it to find the collies, T.ad and | Lass, who had been out with Kin- cheloe when she arrived The dogs, wet from the snow melting in their long hair, turned Ethel's thought to Miss Platt's husband He had -always affected the man-| rers of a gallant and always before had made it a particular point to be on hand to greet Ethel wher rived at St. Florentin. She had been | too excited *to attribute any signifi- | cance to his absence this time; but now the fact stirred disquiet, As he had taken the dogs with him, he probably had been on the lake, for the dogs would not have been able to run except on the ice where the | wind had cleared the snow. Now what had kept Miss Plat's lazy, com- fort-loving husband out so late this evening in the dark and cold? | Every one was at supper when Asa Redbird returned with a telegram which—Ilike all Cullen business tele- grams—was in code <ucas at once left the tahle and, Platt, went into his office the brief communication on When he returned to the table, it was so plain that he had exciting news that his wife could not | repress her question ‘Something has happened in Chi- cagn. Tucts?" “Nothing,” he denied, and he gulped half a cup of tea, hot Ethel watched Kincheloe as Miss Platt re- turned to her seat. He was trying to catch his wife's glance; but Miss Platt avoided look- ing at him “Asa saw several foxes ahout,” she sald casually to Ethel; “I they're after our chickens." Lucas was taking another cup of tea, and Ethel was watching his hand | reach: for the sugar howl, miss it and reach again. He was drinking when | suddenly he dropped his cup, and jerked up and away from the table: Kincheloe and Ethel herself started also as the report of a rifle rang | sharp and clear, outside the house. | The gun fired again. | Miss Platt and Ethel's grandmother altke had revealed no alarm. “Asa said he would get his gun, Miss Platt volunteered quietly, “and come back for the foxes.” | “Of course,” her husband said, dropping back into his seat Lucas remained at the table only a moment before he proceeded to the suppose started to descend the all right!" | They had lit the office stairs, she [out to the Rock, As |heard teh office door open and her | Boing there; come after me quick as|ting the |grandfather say distinctly, “All right;|you can, 8he turned away and lamp, and|rectly for the Rock You understand ?" started di- [the ex-German liner s ready for her Kincheloe was{next voyage she will be the best pas- | W Leviathan for service, |the beam of light from theé door ahead of her now and hurrying, with- (senger ship afloat showed Ethel her grandfather stand- out apparent regard for her and with- ing while Kincheloe went past"him |cut looking back (To RBe Continued) |toward the kitchen where he turned Her grandfather s\m\,)' turned ‘nhml(. and the light fro mthe office working on the vessel when he w |shone upon his face, inclined down-|Benson Says Refitting Wil Make Her ing most efficiently, ward a little, strained and with mus- excopt Kincheloe, had gone to hed,' cles at the jaw drawn tight, She rebuilt the fire in her stove and had only a glimpse before he stepped chair by her window room on the 1t her left she could hear sounds|hard at the stair rail for an instant which told her that her grandfather!to steady herseif before she crept was still restless; she heard him open back to her room and shut herself in is door and go out into the hall and [to think come to her door and stand there Kincheice. and her - s =~ were planning some deed-—some wrong, secret act of violence. In no other way coull she acconnt for what |she had witnessed in that glimpse of |her grandfather's face —vindictive- ness, triumph, fear. She heard a whine at her door and the pat of a dog's paw at the panel and, opening the door, she let in l.ad and stroked his head, Something matted the white hair under his neck --something which seemed to have frozen and dried there When she realized this was blood, she set her fingers to feeling for a cut from which it might have flowed; and when she could find no wound, she clung to Lad, demanding of him: “It was the fcx, Lad! You caught Ithe fox! Lad, tell me—tell me, you caught the fox!" But her own terrors denied her; yer own terrors snatched at her heart and overwhelmed her struggles |for calm thought. The dried, brown {mat in the dog's hair was not about his jaws where it must have been had he caaght and killed the fox; it was under his neck where it would have ———— |come if_Lad had sniffed over some He was listening, she knew; but he|one who lay hleeding. probably supposed her to be in bed( That deed, secret and violent, nd asleep. At any rate, he moved | Wwhich Kincheloe and her grandfather away and went down stairs had considered—was it already done? In her stocking feet, she moved|What sort of deed? oiseless door which!| "Ah, j'y etais mousquetair She crept half-| The voice, Barney Loutrelle's voice, way down the stairs, Something |seemed to float to her from far away clicked: she recognized that her|over the snow; and she seemed to see grandfather was loading a repeating[him, when she shut her eves, lying rifle; and a few moments later his|stretched out, with Lad sniffing over great figure came dimly into view |him. when he halted before a window. “They've done it—they've done it,” She could see that he was holding|she repeated again and again to her. his rifle ready but lowered; and her|self, without yet daring to allow any muscles went taut all through her. | closer defining of “it.” But what- If he raised his rifle to fire, she would |ever it was, “it" was done. rush down upon him. But he did| She waited until dawn was spread- not; he only moved from one window fing over the eastern sky before she to another, looking out; and then he|went downstairs, carrying her shoes; came toward the stairs (she put them on and found her skis. She regained her room without!|The dogs roused and danced about alarming him; and he went back to her; she took them out with her and his room made for the lake. Close to midnight, she made out| The light had strengthened suffi- a man's figure moving under the|ciently to show her the gaunt outlines trees; dogs floundered heside him— |of Resurrection Rock, white and life- Lad and Lass undoubtedly. So sheless above the lake ice. knew the man must be Kincheloe, re- When she glanced back toward St. turning. Florentin, she saw that some one was He carried the gun which he had |following her from her grandfather's taken to aid Asa in killing the fox;|house, & man who must be Kincheloe. and as he neared the house, Ethel Suddenly Ethel changed her plan and heard the office door open and her | swung from the direct line to the Then went together to the ‘‘office’ shore and cut into the woods to the and locked themselves in For a little clearing where Asa Redbird minute Ethel stood in the cold hall, lived. held by numbing dread; just as she “I want you to come right away grandfather SUDDENLY SHE AROSE SLIPPED INTO THE HALL. AND v across to h opened carefully, The same in flavor yesterday and tomorrow ~ —always Good to the last drop" REG. U.S. PAT. OFF. From |into the room and turned out the|miral other side of thellight; but, having seen, she gripped|the progress made by the Newport|she was before. 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The Rock lay lost in obscurity Bhe gazen frequently for the re appearance of the light had seen the hour earlier sence filled her with dread She turned back to St. Florentir and soon heard a shout whic recognized to be Sam Green ky's voice When she replied, Sam has- 2 3 ¥ MONEN ! — tened up, reporting friendly ‘/biki SAM,TH NTFA \'E\-\N‘) r'\YF_ATDF\g; “Old man send me after you, aw- | TOLD ME TURT OUR SHE'LL FALL | which she $SALESMAN $AM she / 2 WHY CBN'T PR 1 DO 80 WANT MIS5 SEEON - MAY ‘ | HAVE. THE. PLEASORE OF | GUZZLEM GOME YOO TO MRET ALONG AN' WE'LL NYOUR COMPRNN TONIGHT ? WELL TAKE IN A 600D / pRRE T8 MY MOTHER g = SHOW ARND HAUE. /_:ED:‘ESO?/ TRIS 1S 'NOEED AN NORA — MRS 510 Wkt you to bome [ STENDD GOT LOADS b MISS SEEDY right home and stay there.” { OF COIN- WHY DON'T RocH 0 GO AFTER %UVDEK Te Ethel found her grandfather to he p "awful mad” indeed; he met her at | AFTERWRRD S the door and ordered her to go to | her room and to hed and stay there What did she meaen by going out in the dark to see a stranger whom she had met on the train? She wa granddaughter and at his own h and he would be obeyed At 11 o'clock when the, household 727 PALACE Starting Next Sunday RUDOLPH VALENTINO Gloria Swanson in “BEYOND THE ROCKS” 7