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i ‘sense of victory, Surette “him. -wanted you to come.” _‘again, < while I talked about her. . everybody, and I wWas willing to hear 'all that he had .to say about it. I 1 “I don't know what God Almighty running the world—unless He counted # of chuc { the table to me. . with the face cut out. . scribable charm in the pose of the girl . yemained even in the mutilated pic- ¢ ture, 4% I cut out the face,” he added, : khe wouldn’t come into the case if vou| ' haye beén slaughtered at the loss of umphs of # MJonq,uel le ¥ by Merviiie DavissoN PosT 3 © 1090 NEA Service, Inc THE GIRL IN THE 1 advanced to meet the man with a The Service de In had ‘searched the world for Heghad been: long. concealed, Bt my sgnse of victory ' vanished when I gaw him, He sat in a great chair on the long terrace that overlooked the sweep of | lawn and the dark, rapid river, He had been, he time, under our very noses, ~ We' had thought of cvery other place except an English coun- try house within a jump of London, | And he had been sitting here in every comfort that money could assemble. He did not rise when I was hrought to him. He leaned back in the chair, his heavy face, and laughed! ‘““And so, Monsieur Jonquelle,” he sald, “you finally wormed it -out of her.” 1 could not keep my volce level— ‘80 effectively was the man escaping ug after all this search. And 1 did not know what the huge creature meant. On_ the night he- fore, some one had called up the Service de la Surete and sald our man was here. The long distance call from some shop in Regent street, Liondon, could not be traced—so it had been .a - woman! 1. replied . as though I weré in his secret. ; “She knew you were safe.” He laughed again. "Bure. knew it!"" He pointed to a rhnlr a few feet be- yond him across a table. s USit down,” he safd. “I want to |4 tl.lk about her—that's the reason 1[ He laughed “You: thought you'd sleuthed it out, eh? Not by a jugful. I sent her word to put you wise. I wanted to clear some things up before I cashed in, : But it was a clean ¢lie. ‘What { wanted was somebody to listen Sit down.” But [ ric RI ha tr th ci lifted she It was 4 strange introductory. it was a mystery that had puzzled took theichair béyond him. He shot his head forward suddenly in a tense gesture. ‘She’'s a heavenly nngt-l"' he said. meant by sétting ‘her in the game with the bunch of crooks that He's got The laugh became a sort in his#big throat—"Ain't she a heaVenly angel?” He whipped a worn photograph out of his pocket and reached it across on me.” i 1t was the photograph of a ggirl It had been taken from a painting, one could tell from the flat surface, and the strange background of beauty and an inde 8o caught me; your little Westridge must ae jolt. yotu found me, e you over on this case; “I don't know," I answered' uthfully, "“Well, T know," ¢ notlon that omin' to you! " he went on, you'll git He Jooked at me with a big, cyni- I leer, hat's what happened to your lit- IT WAS THE. PHOTOGRAPH OF % CUT QUT. GIRL WITH THE FAC! tle Westridge—and the next time you see him_he's agoin’' 'to get o He will be blamed sorry that He couldn’t squeal, any place along the line, but T'll bet a nngor he didn’t let yau forget about me.” And again I saw an lncldent of this long search, for the man before me, \from another, angle. ——e e Headaches Are Usually Due to Gonstipation . When you are constipated, no# enough of Nnnru lubricating liquid is d:cet}_ ol:d the' Imve:otfn . tl waste 't an n\;vi Doctors preseribe ' Nniol because it uu like this natural lubricant and thus replaces it Nujol is & lubricant—not .a medicine or now ‘an- swer me a question—What's the big- best notion in the Christian ehurch " what's tv w Lohlal troubles, | e e———— 'pauise. | even if she ‘didn‘t know, it. harm-rests, another The Blackacre .|and the dark, swift, silent water, and ‘| settled in the chair. ;| m@ybe it was God Almighty. + | hotel, ' | days pass. “N1 My Children Have Bencfted From Father John's Medicine” "“Two years ago our whole family was sick With Influenza and it left us all with very distressing coughs, We tried Father John's Medicine and soon we were all_entirely well agaly. We have roun$ Father John's Medicine vy BOOU 100 Luvuut wika bron- My three children always take If for a cold. It has bullt them up so thag they seldom have a cold now."” (8ignéd) Mra. J. ?vlddr'“' 3811 Lemp Ave, 8t. Lquis, Mo, "ather John's Mediciime Tnourishes those who are run-down back to mpr- mal health. It is a pure food tonic and is safe for all to take hecnun it s guaranteed. to be free from” alco- hql or dangerous drugs. Start taking it today. Bank had kept the .search hot for him, pretending. the public welfare, T SAW it now; -that was Westridge's money-box-—that would be little Westridge in.the background. He eyed me curiously in a moment's “He kept slippin’ you, the. word, eh? Well, she blocked him at that, There came a sudden pnerxy into his voice. “An'if the plague hn.dnt zot me 1'd 'a’ saved her that erouble; I'd ‘a’ played ring-asround-rosy « with you." He Jifted himself in the chair with the strength of his hands on the broad’| And T realized more fully what a ‘physical wreck “he ' was—the lewer part of his body was motionless, “I wvant. to- tell you about this thing,” he said, © “And then: you can go ahead with your warrant.” “If ! 1. replied, “that a some- what higher authority has got in be- four your King's writ."” He chuckled as though the deadly fact were‘a sort .of-pleasantry. “Bure,"* he said, “the big Judge has beat yoy'to it.” He ldoked out,a moment, ‘at the woolly ‘highland cattle i’ the distant meadow, at the age-old" beech-trees then the upper part of his hlg body “I thought it was a slick trick, but Anyway grandmother that read smoked clgareties~-and was a And right there is where bunch has got the goods! let down because they do some things that fingers on the other set.” her, and it. made me cold all The devil was on the job, right ‘here | just as he was in the Tenderloin.! was working, on a higher-class Nne, but it was only a different sort of road to his same olg all the people I'd ever seen were only pretending, T soon figured Jt.out,” That was the difference, He flung lxn Wiy hand in a curious, expressive gos “I'm a crook, keep that fn' your head, and gne thing was like a thea- ter'to.me, acto ridge. hy wateh: the ‘and - West- 1 began to then I saw her He moved his chair. “She was there with anMold, faded novels @and lady, this real They don't crosg. your would make you He leaned back in the chair, . "Well! I got to watching her and your. EnghHshman, dancing in the hotel, playing tennls at never seen any people like tfem. 1 watched them and riding, and the Casino—1'd ‘*And pretty soon I got onto some- thing; this Westridge gentleman: was trying to buy the girl, want to pay for her. ting out the bait, but he had a amm: on 1t. but he didn't He was put- “I got on to his dope. “If he could dazzle her intormarry- | Ing him she’d get' clothes. to his hide was his moriey. me,’ her board and The real thing that was next ‘Al for that was the notion.” He went on with no break in his words, “I got to thlnkmg about it, s little Westridge was forty; hed never change; and ‘the girl was at the age when the things hg was danglingfwere all ‘mixed up ‘With moonshine. might win, . and if he did headed for hell. " He she was “1 saw-it.all clean out to the end.' He moved in the chair. “I used to set about, and- fook at oyer. He hell, “It would be & heavenly - angel flung to a wolf no matter how you dressed - the situation up; an' to myself, ‘Yourcan't beat him. devil's got a set of traps for Wny kimj of a layout!"” T said The this " un- (Another installment of usual mystery story will uppenr in our next issue.) 7,000 WORKERS DISMISSED, Employes in Naval Arsenals Are Out of Work in Toklo Yards. Toklo, Nov. 27. — Approximately 7,000 workers in the maval arsefials were ' dismissed in- October Jack of work following:the:naval. re- duction agreed upon at the Washing- ton conference, due :-to Retiring ajlowances when the thing was pulled off I slid!granted these men by the government ‘ ‘up:to Jeir Harbor and set down in a i totatled 3,600,000 yen. sal will be followed by the retirement of at least a thousand warrant offi- cefs. 1 figured it out like this—you look for a crook in .the places that crooks go, and you look for a gentle- man, in'.the places where gentlemen go. I'll switch it. “I gotime some quiet clothes. I limped a little to show that I wasn't golf-fit and I didn't talk. I just set about with the New York Times and the Financial Register.and let ‘the . When' there was doings in the hotel T was there in my: all- right evening clothes, in" a’ chair " against the wall, and I limped along the sea-path in’the afternoon for a/ little exercise, “T looked some: bored' to’ keep the The dismis- To find re- employment for these nen is a prob]em facing 'the govern- ment. absorbing-as many as they can by starting work on street and other im- provements. All workers by’ the navy and army w|ll recgive bonuses. * The municipal authorities are dismissed HILDREN'S COLDS ' NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MOUNDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1923, At adsd HEAD STUFFED FROM ' CAYARRH OR A COLD Slyl Cream App“od in Nostrils Opens Air Passages Right Up. | - v Inatant relief—no waliting— Yoir clogged nostrils open right up; the alr passages of yotr head clear and you can breathe Treely, No more hawking, snuifling, blowing, head: ache dryness. No struggling for breath at night; your cold or catarrh difappears, Get o small bottle of Bly's Cream Balm from your druggist now. ‘Ap- ply, & little of this fragrant, anti- p!(c, healing cream in your nos- trnl It penetrates through every air passage of thé' head, soothes the in- flained or ®wollen mucous membrane and reltef comes instantly. It's just fine, Wwith a-cold or nasty catarrh, VOICES IN THE AIR Mondny, No¥. 27, wu KDKA (Westinghouse—East Pittsburgh). 7:00 P, of business conditions, 7:30 P. M,—Bedtime story for the children. 8:00 P, M.—Special prominent business men, 8:30 P. M.—Congert by KDKA th- tle Symphony ‘orchestra. A WIZ (Westinghouse—Newark.) 7:00 P, M.“~Storles from St.'Nicho- las mngnzlne 8:30 P. M.--“Forecasting HBusiness Conditions,” by the Alexander Ham- fiton Institute. 8:45 P. M.—Recital by Hilda Good- win, soprano. 9:15 'P. M.—'"Money and Other Commodities,” by:R. Keisler. \ 9:30 P.' M.—The 540th’ Mayor Hy: land’s concert by the polige band, City of New Yor¥ under u:e baton ‘of ‘Pdul Heningberg. WGI (American Radio & Research Corp., Medford Hillside, Mass.) #$:00 P. M.—Market report, 6:15 P. M.—Boston’ police reportu Late news flashes. Early sport news. Don't stay stuffed-pu|® ‘| old days, M.—News. Weekly, nurvey- address - by | World mark Gids P, M. Fred Dayton Lambert, 7:000P, M,—8ilent night, WGY (Gen, Blec, Co., Schenectady, N, Y,) 4:00 P, M.~Produce market d stock market reporgs and ||Iloluw .. hown bulletins, 746 P M ‘he Work of a Leaf, Musical. program. : HEAVY OATTLE LOSSES L s . |Cattle Dealers of Western Asin Aro Seeing Herds Reduced Daily Orsk, Ryssia, Nov. 2 ifforts are belng :made here to'revive the West- ern_Asia cattle trade of*the days be- fore the war, 'Then there were cat- tle kings among the nomodic tribes who possessed as high as 30,000 head of stock, cows, steers, horses and wheep, and the entire country was giv- over to tattle raising and the pro- duction of grain. But today these herds have been so reduced that the owner who has even a hundred: head’ cohsiders himself for- tynate. -The Orsk tanneries, in the of .thousands .of hides annually, but this industry today I8 at a standstill because of, the slump In cattle raising. As a result there is much \memploy- ment . in the district; 'and ‘mcarcely iénough grain on hand to last the peo- ,p\e half_through the winter: FI\.!‘ CENTS A DAY PAY ¢ Teachiers Are Objecting To “Cut In Saluries in Germany Cologne, Nov. 27.—Objecting to:a wage of twenty-threée marks. an hour, the teachers in Cologne's continuation 1schools "have struck for more Similar agtion already had been tak- en; by ‘the faculties of " vocatiofial ‘in- stitutions at Duisburg and " Hgsen. The Cologhe staffs include ‘teach- iers from the public grade ' schools, engineers, and expert handworkers: jsixty-three marks an hour, but their union ‘alleges no - actual payments {were made at this rate, . At the prevailing rate of exchange, twenty-thyee marks hourly means a elght-hour day. ) INTERESTED IN RUSSIA Leaders of Mexico Have Turned Attention . To That ‘Country Mexco City, Nov. 27.—Felipe Car- rillo‘Puerto,/governor of Yucatan and an avowed radfeal, has just beon granted a l2ave of absence by hig leg- islature to permit him to visit Russia { Radical ysed to turn out hundreds, pay. | Some time ago’ they were concedéd | wage. 'of. less than fiye cents for an' DONT FUSS WITH MUSTARD PLASTERS! Musterole Works Without the Blister —Easier, Quicker There's no sense in mixing a mess of mustard, flour and water when you can easily relieve pain, soreness or stiffness with a little clean, white Musterole. Musterole is made of oil of mustard and other helpful ingredients, combined in the form of the present white ointment, It takes the place of mustard plawm, and will not blister. 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