New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 17, 1923, Page 10

X By, EDEN PHILPOTTS e 3 REDMAYY ILLUSTRATED By R.W, SATTERFIELD » COPYRIGH T 1922 THE MEMILLAN COMPANY RELEASED BY NEA SERVICE [NC.,, ARRGT,MET. NEWSP, 3V8, BEGIN HERE TODAY . 'Mark Brendon, criminal investiga- tor, is engaged by Jenny Pendean to solve the mystery of the disappear- ance of her husband, Michaeal. Pen- dean is last seen in the company of Jenny's. uncle, Robert Redmayne. Rdbert goes into hiding and sends for his brother Bendigo to meet him in & .secret cave. Both men disappear and the cave shows evidence of a terrible struggle. Jenny marries Giuseppe Doria, who ‘works for her uncle, Bendigo. They 80 to live in Italy where Jenny's uncle, Albert Redmayne lives. Peter Ganns, famous American detective, assists Brendon in the investigation. When Dorla is arrested Jenny is killed by the bullet intended for her hus- band when she throws herself in front of him to save his life, NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY Her grandfatner still lived, when first I met her, and the extent or dis- position of his wealth seldom en- tered our calculations, But a year passed; Jenny was ready to wed me and begin life as my twin star; while I longed for her with a great longing. The situation cleared; her grandfather died; she would pres- ently be the possessor of ample means and I already enjoyed an income from the business of Pendean and Trecar- row. Then came the war and the sen- tences of death incidentally pro- nounced by that event .upon the brothers Redmayne . Their own folly and lack of vision were alone re- sponsible. I did not argue with them; it was enough that Jenny swiftly awakened to even a bitterer and a deeper fury of resentment than myself. They had roused the sleep- ing tempest and our lightning now be- came only a question of time, I evaded active service with a heart drug, as did some thousands of other intelligent men. I kept a whole .skin, stopped at home and received for my share the Order of the British Empire instead of a nameless grave. It was easy enough. Meantime we volunteered and our record of service at Princetown Moss ‘Depot is not to be assailed. Already my future intention was coloring my life. I grew a beard, wore glasses and pretended delicacy of constitution; for after the war was done I intended murdering three men, and I proposed to do so in such a manner that society would find it im- possible to associate me with the crimes. ‘We pretended an affection for Dart- moor. As an example of our far- reaching methods I may relate how we' returned to the wilderness after the war was done and actually began 1o build a bungalow upon it, which, reedless to say, we never had the least intention of occupying. 1 had designed first to destroy Ben- digo and Albert Redmayne, who had pever seen me, and finally deal with my old friend, Robert; but it was he who came at the critical moment as & lamb to the slaughter and so in- spired the superb conception now familiar to the civilized world. The time was ripe to pluck these men who had insulted and outraged .me; and when Bendigo Redmayne advertised for a motor boatman, the challenge was accepted. 1 forced certain foreign letters of commenda- tion. - He llked Italians, from experi- ence of them aboard ship, and he ap- preciated my letter and my Iimag- inary war record. What was the next step? An en- treaty from Jenny that I should shave my. beard! She begged again and again and appealed to Robert, who supported her. I withstood them vntil the day of -his destruction. Upon that morning I appeared with- out it and they congratulated me. Other trifilng preliminaries there were. On one occasion, when my wife rode down to Plymouth with her uncle on his motor- bicycle, she left him to do some shopping and, visiting Burnell's the theatrical cos- tumer, she purchased a red wig for a woman. At home again she trans- ferred it into a red wig for a man. Meantime I had made a pair of large mustaches, helping myself when Mrs. TAKE SALTS IF STOMACH ISNT ACTING RIGHT Bays Indigestion Results from an Ex- cess of Hydrochloric Acid. Undigested food delayed in the stomach, decays, or rather ferments, the same as food left in the open air, says a noted authority. He also tells us that Indigestion is caused by Hy- peracidity meaning there is an excess of -hydrochloric acid in the stomach | which prevents complete digestion and starts food fermentation Thus everything eaten sours in the stomach | much like garbage sours in a can, forming acrid fluids and gases which friflate the stomach like a toy bal- loon. Then we feel a heavy, lumpy misery in the chest: we belch up gas; we eructate sour food or have heart- burn, flatulence, water-brash or nau- sea. He tells us to lay aside all digestive alds and instead get from any phar- | macy four ounces of Jad Balts and take a tablespoonful in a glass of water before breakfast and drink it while it is effervescing, and further- more to continue this for a week. ‘While relief often follows the first | dose, it is important to heip neutral- i2¢ the acidity, remove the gas-mak- ing mass, start the liver, &Hmulate‘ the kidneys and thus promote a free | flow of pure digestive juices. | Jad Salts is inexpensive, and is! made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice, combined with lithia and sodium phosphate. This harmiess #alts is used for many stomach dis- @olers with exccllemt results. Gerry, our landlady, was out of the way to hair from the brush of one of her stuffed foxes, whose color exactly resembled the rufous adornments of Robert Redmayne. When we started on his. motor bicycle, after tea, to do some work at the bungalow, I took a handbag con- taining gmy costume as Gluseppe Doria—a plain, blue serge suit, coat, waistcoat and trousers and yachts- man's cap. I also carried a tool— the little instrument with which 1 murdered the three Redmaynes, 1t 1esembled the head of a butcher's poleaxe, of great weight with the working end sharpened. I made it in WITH ONE FORMIDABLE “I DROPPED HIM BLOW OF MY WEAPON."” a forge at Southampton and it lies to- day under the waters of Como. My Lag I had taken on previous occa- sions to the quarry, with a bottle of whiskey and glasses, so Robert thought it not strange that I should do so again. We started for Fogginter and it was still broad daylight when we got there. I had already studied the yuarry and determined on Robert Redmayne’s resting place. You will find him—and the suit of clothes I was wearing that evening—in the moraine, where it opens fanwise from tke cliff above the spreads into the CUTICURA ForChildren’sBaths Cuticura Soap is ideal for children because it is 8o pure and cleansing, and so soothing when the skin is bot, irritated or rashy. Cuticura Tal- cum also is excellent, for children. ‘Bowp 25c. Ois e Taleu 256, B e e b ' NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, JULY - Tomorrow Alrvight MR JUNIORS~— Little NRs For children and adults. Sold by Noveck'’s Drug sStore. L e ——— sottom beneath. Arrived at the bungalow, Robert's first demand was a bath in the quarry pool. To this I had accustomed him and we stripped and swam for ten minutes. When we returned from the pool into the shelter of the bunga- low it was a naked man I smote and dropped with one blow of my for- midable weapon. His back was turned and the pole-axe head went through his skull like butter. The gloaming had long thickened to darkness when I went my way and lald the trail through Two Bridges, Postbridge and Ashburton to Brix- ham. Once only was I bothered—at the gate across the road by Brixham coast-guard station; but I lifted the motor bicycle over it and presently ascended to the cliffs of Berry Head. I'ate favored me in detalls, for, de- spite the hour, there were witnesses to every step of the route, On the cliff I emptied my sack, cast its stuffing to the winds, fast- ened my handbag to the bicycle, thrust the blood-stained sack into a rabbit hole, where it could not fail to be discovered, and then returned to Robert Redmayne’s lodging at Paign- ton. There a telegram had already been sent informing the landlady of his return that night. I changed into the serge suit, cap and brown shoes of Doria and packed Redmayne's clothes, tweeds and showy waistcoat, boots and stockings into my handbag with the wig and mustaches and my weapon. I walked to Newton Abbot and reached that town before 6 o'clock. At the railway station I breakfasted and presently took a train to Dart- mooth. Before noon I reached “Crow's Nest” and made acquaint- ance with Bendigo Redmayne. But he had little leisure for me at this moment, for there had already come news from his niece of the mysterious fatality on Dartmoor. Needless to say that my thoughts were now entirely devoted to my wife and I longed for the first communi- cation. Our briefest separation caused me pain, for our souls were as one and we had not been parted, save for my visit to Southampton, since our marriage day. It was her exquisite thought to in- volve the man from Scotland Yard. ‘When I sought to destroy him on Griante and believed that I had done so, the man displayed an ingenuity for which I did not give him credit and unconsciously laid the founda- tions of subsequent disaster. The letter which Bendigo Red- mayne received, and supposed had come from his brother at Plymouth, was posted by Jenny on her journey to “Crow's Nest.”” We had written it together a week earlier and studied her uncle’s indifferent penmanship very carefully before doing so. We proposed to let six months pass before the death of Bendigo Red- mayne, and we were already contem- plating details and considering how Lest to bring his brother back upon the stage for the purpose of Ben's destruction, when Mark Brendon Llundered {n upon us once again. 1 swiftly brought Robert Red- mayne to life; and though, with more leisure for refinements, I should not have clothed him in his old attire, yeot that crude detall possessed a value of its own and certainly served to de- celve Brendon, Of subsequent events, most are so famillar that there is no need to re- trace them, § My tears fall when I. think of my. Incomparable Jenny and her astound- ing mastery of minutiae at “Crow's Nest""—her finesse and . exquisite touch, her kittenlike delicacy, her cat-like swiftness and sureness. The two beings Involved were as children in her hands, = Oh, precious phoenix of a woman, you and 1 were of the same spirit, kneaded into our clay! 1 say that accident made a radical alteration of design vital, for I had intended, on the night when Robert Redmayne would come and see Ben- digo, to murder the old sailor in his tower room and remove him before; morning with my wife's assistance. But the vietim postponed his own de- struction for upon the night when his death was intended, during my previous . conversation with him touching Jenny, I had perceived, by his clumsy glances and evidence of anxiety, that somebody else was in the tower room-—unseen. There was but one.hiding place and but one man likely to occupy it. 1 did not indicate that I had discovered the secret and it was not the detec- tive who gave himself away; but, once alive o his presence, I swiftly marked a flash of light at one of the little ventilation holes in the cub- board and pergeived that our sleuth stood hid within it. Having conveyed the old sailor to the cave, where, on my recent run up the coast after dropping Brendon, I had already looked in and lighted the Jamp, 1 landed behind him and, as his foot touched the shore, the pole- axe fell. He was dead in an instant and five minutes later his blood ran upon the sand. Once more my amazing wife and I parted for a brief period and then I bad the joy of introducing her to Italy, where the remainder of our task awaited ‘us. And now for Italy. It is true that in my early manhood I had suffered a sad accident at Naples, the secret of which was known to my mother and myself alone. I therefore enter- tained some grudge against her coun- try; but the fact at no time lessened my love for the south. (Continued in Our Next Issue) France and Spain to Be In Final Tennis Match Paris July 17.—The finals of the European zone in the tennis play for the Davis cup between France and Spain will be held at Deauville July 28-39-30, The French team will be picked from Henri Cochet, M. LaCos- ta, Jean Samazeullh and Blanchy, while Spain wil rely upon Count de Gomar and Eduardo Flacquer, who unaided have carried Spain into the final round. CHILDREN CRY FOR “CASTORIA” Especially Prepared for Infants and Children of All Ages Mother! Fletcher's Castoria has been in use for:over 30 years to re- lieve babies and children of Consti- pation, Flatulency, Wind Colic and Diarrhea; allaying Feverishness aris- ing therefromy and, by regulating the Stomach and Bowels, alds the assim- flation of Food; giving natural sleep without oplates. 7 BRI DOINGS OF THE DUFFS BADU WOMAN RULED. ISLE OF CONTENT Is Near Australia. and Is Noted . lor Its Prosperity . Washington, D. C, July 17.—"The tiny island of Badu, which has re- cently come into prominence because it has. been reported that the lone white ‘'woman who for nine years has been, teacher, preacher, governor, po- cer has made her domain a model of usefulness, . cleanliness and temper- ance, lMes just beyond the tip of Cape York peninsula, which sticks out like a sore thumb farther north than any other portion of the Australian con- tinent,”’: says a bulletin of the Na- tional. Geographic society from its ‘Washington, D. C., headquarters. “Badu, more commonly known as Mulgrave Island, has for some time been. noted for the prosperity of its native inhabitants. They have adopt- ed the English folk dances, and when they have finished their pearl fishing for the day they gambol on the green as Englishmen did' in Shakespeare's day. And its women in their hours of ease make a lace which is fine in texture and beautiful in pattern. Near Wild New Guinea. “The island itself belongs to that group known as the Torres Straits Island, directly north of Queensland, volcanic fragments whose reefs and shoals stud the 90 miles of sea stretching from Cape York to New Guinea. Both the. Strait and the islands took their name from the dar- ing old Portuguese seaman, Torres, who first threaded his way through the dangerous labyrinth in 1606. “In recent years valuable - pearls have been found along the western and northern coasts of Australla, as well as mother-of-pearl shells, and the Torres Strait has come in for its share of the fame. The shells are tound in‘ water from four to six fa- thoms deep, and usually are brought to the surface by Malay and Papuan divers, though modern dredging methods have been put into operation at certain places. “Many of the islands are mere patches of sand and coral, the tops of the Australian Cordillera which have been weathered down, while others are up to 50 square miles in area. Only the larger ones are inhabited, the smaller being used for garden spots or pearling or filshing stations Connolsseurs have estimated that some of the pearls found in the vicin- ity of these islands are among the clearest the gems we have and consequently are very valuable. “Yankee Ned” a Real Live O’Shea” “As the result of wise legislation of the industry by the Australian gov- ernment, the natives have become highly industrious, and are among the most thriving of Pacific island races. Both the men and women have ex- cellent physiques, and regular, well- formed features. York, Darnley, Mur- ray, Mabuag and Badu are among the most important of the lands, each being noted for some paFticular feature. “Mabuag has a famous native fes- tival each year; York treasures the stories of the Spanish galleons which hundreds of years ago were wrecked on its coral-strewn shores, and the fabulous tales of ‘Yanke# Ned,’ an American sallor who escaped from a battleship, made a fortune in pearls and married eighty native women and left the traces of his blood in the veins of hundreds of the present inhabi- tants; Darnley is noted for its fish traps; and Murray for its breeding beds of the coral insect, which prove a lure to scientists from all over the world.” “Jim WAR ON DRUG PEDDLERS Mexicali, I.ower Californio, July 17. —The Mexican govérnment has as- signed 60 men to patrol ‘the 50 mile strip of border between Lower Cali- fornia and the United States, drug runners are active. Tom Fouled a Fast One THAT WAS A HIT e AW HECK) -1 AT HAUN NO FUN HERE-ILL TAKE TH NEXT gl v o b norer v v | || No Lo I i N Wl i N “\ min Y " (i TAAWN OUT FOR NIAGRRR FALLS FOLL BALL THAT ME, WASN? T )T 'DANNY P IT MUST HAVE HURT WHATEVER IT WAS A HARD KNOCK, I'M i8 A -BONE BROKEN 9NT 1T LWONDERFUL HOW THAT WKTER KEEPS GOWNG lice magistrate, and prohibition offi-| where | AR You HAD AFRAID- THERE / BETTER SEE A DOCTOR. RIGHT AWAY, AUSTRIAN ROYAL PLATE 10 BE PLACED ON SALE Rarest and Most Valuable Collection of Silver Plate in Europe to Go on Market, Vienna, July 17.—What is probably the rarest and most valuable collec- tlon of silver plate in Furope, the famous silver treasure of the Cum- berland family, is reported to be coming into the market. It was kept in the Cumberland royal villa at Pen- zig, just outside Vienna, until the death of the old king of Hanover in 1878. Afterwards it was removed to the Cumberland county seat at Gmunden in Salzkammergut. The collection Includes priceless specimens of the work of the first sil- versmiths in England, France, Augs- burg, Hanover and Osnabruck, dur- ing the three centuries between 1560 and 1850, The only ‘other collection which approaches it in extent and completeness is that in Windsor castle, The total weight of the Gmunden treasure s about 130,000 ounces and its value in Austrian 'crowns must amount to several hundred milliards. But it 1s understood that the purchas- er, or purchasers, will have to pay in some foreign money of normal ex- change, and not in depreciated Aus- trian crowns. is not lacking from the thrilling ad- venture tale of “The Yellow Seven™ — by — Edmund Snell of the desperate struggle waged 'y the white man, “Chinese” Penni T ton, to save British North Bor from the clutch of Chai-Hung, arch-criminal, and his " terrible ganization of oriental robbers :ad assassins. The conflict furnishes a continucus thrill from start to finish, but the novel would not be complete without THE ROMANTIC TOUCH of Pennington’s wooing of the beautiful Viney. o widow, Monica The story’s divided into 12 episodes of three install- ments each. You can't afford to miss one of them. Beginning in the Herald July 19 Summer Reading Par Excellence [ s AN R e e g e A e R R e BY ALLMAN DOCTOR,THIS IS MR, TOM DUFF SPEAKING - WAS HIT ON THE NOSE WITH A BASBALL TODAY AND I'M AFRAID | HAVE A BONE BROKEN IN IT - ( SAY DOCTOR, | YoUu'D BETTER COME TO THE OFFICE IN THE MORNING AND LET ME LooK BY SWAN WHAT GET5 ME 15 HOW ™ T EVER GET SAM HILL DID