New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 24, 1922, Page 14

| by MeLvTLLE DAvissOoN POST .© 1992 NEA Service, THE WOMAN ON THE TERRACE Begin Here Today The strange woman in the invalid ehair had been talking angrily with her companion when % M, JONQUELLF, greatest of French detectives, entered the beautiful Italtan terrace. The woman introduced her panions as MARTIN DILLARD, an The American greeted ungraciously, Jonquelle explained that he had | eome to inquire why the house in Paris, owned by Dillard and to which | the woman had a key, burned to the | ground, Go On With the Story. CHAPTER 1I1. | The American broke in. His voice Was no longer restrained. “I don't msee what you've got to do with it,” he said. Monsieur Jonquelle did not at once reply. He looked at his cigarette as though it were somehow unsatisfac- $orgr puffed it a moment until the tip &lo%___ then he tossed it over the ®dge of the terrace into the bushes. Almost immediately the bushes parted and two persons came up onto the terrace. They were footmen in & rather conspicuous foreign livery, They paid no attention to either Mon- sleur Jonquelle or the American. They addressed themselves with apolegetic diffidence to the woman in the chair, They explained that a parrot be- longing to the Princess Kitzenzof, who occupied the great villa above, had escaped and was concealed somewhere in the thick shrubbery of madame’s garden. Would they be permitted to search for it The woman in the chair moved her head slowly in as- sent, Then she dismissed them with & gesture, They went down off the terrace and toward the rear of the villa in their search, and the woman 1o the chair addreased the American. " *You must believe,” she said, “that Monateur Jonquelle is an old ac- quaintance and that this explanation 18 not to be denied him. Neither are you to be denied it. You came here for it precise.y as he has come for You have followed me here, t ing out my flight, as he has followed. The two of you arrived nearly on the moment ,and 1 shall be pleased to in- lude the two of you in my explana- lon. You were demanding it as Mon- sleur Jonquelle arrived—with some Beat ,if I correctly remember.” The American replied in his abrupt manner: “1 don't understand this thing,” he said. “But I do want to know how this house happened to burn while I Wwas absent. You are the only person who had a key to it, and you must have burned it or you would not have “run away and hid yourself—now ‘what's-the story?” The woman had a bit of delicate lace in her fingers. She put it up a moment to her lips . Then she spol:e, addressing her two guests. Her voice was slow, serene ,and detached, like one who speaks without interest, without any concern for effect. It was like a voice from a mechanical appliance, having intellligence, but no will to feel, “I have been attache to Monsieur Dillard,” she said. “There was a fortune before us, an immense, in- credible fortune, The anticipation of it bounid me to him, and so the burn- ing of this house must have been an accident. The lure of a fortune is the only influence that does not loosen as one advances into life, in a world where presently every emotion fails. Therefore Monsieur Dillard had a . right to feel that he could trustime, com- American, the caller since my interest in- this fortune was fdentical with his own. She paused, and seemed to address Monsieur Jonquelle directly. “You will be concerned, monsieur, about the mystery of this fortune. It was no dream, and depended upon no (RS Lift Off with Fingers Doesn’'t hurt a bit! Drop a littie *Freezone’” on an aching corn, in stantly that corn stops hurting, then shortly you lift it right off with fin- gers. Truly! Your druggist sells a tiny bottle of “Freezone” for a few cents, suffi elent to remove cvery hard corn, soft corn, or corn between the toes, and the calluses, without sorencss or irri tation. Thanksgiving Specials “Good Things To Eat" Classification 62 {mhlel that removes the cause. Money Inc y uncertain hazard of chance, Mon- sieur Dillard is an artist—an artist with a genius for turning art to a practical use, There have ben great- er artists tha Mnonsieur Dillard iIn production, but not in methods by which art can be made to serve a practical purpose; that is to say can be made to produce a fortune. It is the life-work of Monsieur Dillard not to produce art ,but to bring the artis- tic skill of the masters of art to his practical purposes . And, in this de- partment, he has no superior in any country. The house in the Faubourg St. Germain was in fact a storeroom. It was, at the time of its destruction by fire, literally packed with master- pleces-—beautiful works of art of an incredible value." She did not move the position of her body in the chair. But she again vaguely touched her lips with the handkerchief in her fingers, a bit of filmy lace. “Monsieur,” she said, ‘“there have been in the world three men who are supreme in what is perhaps the high- THE FLAME OF THE CANDLE CAME IN CONTACT WITH THE SPIDER-WEBS. est of all artistic production. ' I.shall name them to you; Monsieur Whist- | ler, the American; Mansieur Helleu of Paris, and Wagenheim of Munich.” , She moved a trifle in the chair. Then she went on. “The misfortune of masterpiece in oil or in Wwater-color is that one copy only of this master- piece exists, and if by any misfortune it is destroyed, every adequate evi- dence of its beauty has disappeared forever. This is the unfortunate feature attached to the work of all the great masters. “But it is a misfortune that does not attend ‘the etchings of Monsieur ‘Whistler, Monsieur Helleu, and Herr Wagenheim. The beautiful face of the lovely Americans preserved by the etchings of Monsieur Helleu can be reproduced in any number. That beauty does not depend upon the jeopardy of a single picture.” Her voice seemed to advance, but not with the stimulus of any emotion. “It is not commonly known,” she said, “that af extreme skill is re- quired to obtain in the prints all the beauties of these etchings. The prints Have You Piles? Dr. Tieonhardt's HEM-ROID will relieve any form of Pil uick ac- tion in even old nubmms. No cutting-—no greasy salves—a harmiess back if not satisfied—Clark & Brain- producing a|s B R A I Sk A b oo NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, Why Women Get Despondent, Are not women naturally as light- hearted, brave and hopeful as men? Yes, certainly; but a woman's organ- fsm is essentially different from a man's—more delicate, more sensitive and more exacting, Women in deli- cate health are more ‘eprndeu(. morg nervous, more irritetf and more des- pondent. When a woman develops nervousness, sleeplessness, backaches, headaches, dragging-down pains and melancholia she should lose no time in giving Lydla E. Pinkham's Veg- stable Compound a fair trial, as it will quickly dispel such troubles. This root and herb medicine contains no drugs and has been the standby of American womanhood for nearly fifty years, e e ——— are commonly made by persons hav- ing only the usual workman's skill, “But it was always realized by the masters of this art that the extreme and delicate beauties of their etch. | ings could be produced only by an adequate skill, by a skill almost equal to their own, in the printing of the pleture . This skill constitutes the peculiar genius of M ieur Dillard— a 8skill which he has sfriven to perfect, and which he has finally brought to the highest excellence “He labored in the house in the Faubourg St. Germain for a long time and with an incredible patience, until he became the superior of any man living, and the house, as I have said, was literally packed with the most beautiful and most valuable reproduc- tions of this character in the world. | This accumulated treasure repre- sented the incredible fortune which was before Monsieur Dillard and my- | seit. It was on the night that he had goe to Bordeaux in order to make some arrangement for the removal of the treasure that the unfortnnate fire occurred that wiped out our fortune in an hour, leaving monsieur penni- less and myself with but the ruin of another illusion. And it happened, monsieur, in the simplest fashion." There was absolute silence on the terrace before the villa. The vaguely blue sea seemed to underlie a world of amethyst, Heavy odors were in the air. A little beyond fthe terrace the leaves of a flowering vine moved where the footmen of the Frincess Kitzenzof searched as noiselessly as ghosts for the lost parrot. The sha- dowy figures of the two footmen were outlined to the woman in the chair, and perhaps to Monsieur Jonquelle, but they were not visible to the American, He sat like a tense figure in some organic medium, grim, rigid; always in that immobility which seemed to await the next word before it flashed into violent life as though madame's words were the delicate implement of a vivisectionist moving about a nerve which it never touched, but which it constantly menaced. “It was the simplest accident,” the woman repeated in her placid voice. | “The original etchings of an immor- g /Hl a rash wont heal™it Attempts to. conceal - complexion blemishes usually fail, and only serve to draw attention to the defects. Underneath most unattractive skins is a clear, pleasing complexion—all that is needed is the propertreatment! It is surprising how often a brief use of Resinol Ointment and Resinol Soaj will clear away blotches, redness an roughness and give the skin its natural freshness and charm, Ask your droggist for Resinol. Resinol erd Company, tal like one of the three which I have already named are priceless—they cannot be replaced, “Out of the fear that the house might be entered, after the repro- ductions had been made, there origi- nals were placed under some rubbish In the basement of the house. ‘“This basement had not been en- tered for a long time, and when these originals were congealed there, care was taken not to disturb the appear- ance which this room presented of not e — FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1922. having been opened for an Incredible “It was low, with an earth floor, The celling was of wooden heams dried out and beginning to decay and as Inflammable as tinder. The whole of this celling was hung with cobwebs, laced over them, hanging llke vells in shreds, “On the night of the diwaster, be- fore leaving the house, I went Into this basement to make sure that the originals stored there remained as we had placed them, It was late, and 1 took a candle, This was a fattal in- discretion, ’ “When I arose from an examination of the place where the etchings were concealed, the flame of the candle | came in contact with the spider-webs, and Iimmediately the whole celling flashed into flame, In an instant it seemed to me the entire celling of the room was on fire, I had barely time to escape before the room was a furnaoe, hanging 'RYZON j BAKING POWDER you use /es (The'final instaliment of “The Wa- man on the Terrace" will appear in our next issue.) 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