The evening world. Newspaper, May 27, 1908, Page 19

The Evening World Daily Magazine, Wednesday, May 27, 1908. ON OLA i i Tae SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. Dorothy Clatr (daughter of Francis Clair. a gentleman in reduced ‘circumstances. ly ne In a inanor house won the 1 cards with an ab! nis ald, The card ce of spades. kne it still Hes on a According to trad he Clair family, who change the family and Hallon go to turn this carl fox that the lookout could not nenetrate | they enter theraecret zoom they. tind |S than a ship's length ahead. |iving dead on tte floor, m rdered, It ze with the pilot, | ho's twin brother and rec I was on the bridge with the pilot. | jionerd Newby, is also misting. Ina grove anxious as every captain ts in thick }are found Sir John'a hat and © katte, Wile 1 7 hun- | having seen the knife In wea with the lives of half a hun erane recent thes eelte passengers possibly depending om She also In- his skill or judgment. per Mr with the ory of i “Something ah I made out the black Ml of a) CH: PTER Vil. vereutine: a ttle to port and headed) ae i how The Motive? i ee ROU SS | at the s instant thers was HE verdict was only what could Pee ieee neces (ne last from her, the first we | he expected, since there was no 1 for hours) tad heard evidence obtainable likely to even or, The Manor Mystery j BY FERGUS HUME, enter the Cuckoo's Grove somewhere [gee the hour of seven, and that w98| Halion we up to town with Mr. [ipetneee ta cLemtog eee verted) elle Clatr for the funeral, but the next day Down at Beltan excitement waned he returned to the Minters’ cottage. He with the giving of the ver ond the was an intimate friend of the young) removal of the corpse {t# resting couple, and came and went at will. In- place in Kensal Green. Pe. deed, Billy had once or twice fokingly ) talked more or less, and sugges | proposed that Willy should marry him; sons why the millionaire should have! but the girl sternly refused. She was been murdered, but gradually begay determined to remain a apinster; and, look upon the crime as one of thoss moreover, knew that Percy loved Doro- mysterfes which would never be solved! thy, which put any marriage with her until the Day of Judgment. Yet the | out of the question. When Billy learned | Cuckoo's Grove was invested with e| that his friend was an accepted lover) round Abbot Hurley's Tower at odd times, by night and by day. Mr. Clair! consented unwillingly to this arrange-| ment, and the inmates of the Manor | j still felt the influence of the crime hanging over the house, since the pr Author of “The Mystery of a Hansom Cab.” ence of Hobson constantly reminded | |them that such a tragedy had taken | (Copyright 1908, by the National Press )Melal brains to unravel. | place, Agency.) Sir John had been seen to | “1 Wish You Luck!” Sinister reputation by reason of the of the pretty Dorothy he congratulated | murder, and lovers who formerly used | '!m with marked envy. | “Of course, I wish you luck and all to haunt it on summer nights no longer | went there, that sort of thing,” said Billy, over his i tm iio cont) G coo Perea after-five-o'clock-tea pipe. “But I wish T was the lucky man.” ain, and the key wan restored to the)’ JO {Oks Zest compliment to my he. Tmuak pointed out to Mr. Clalr| sasie gaia Halon, gravely. “But 1 that this should be done, as the pres-| 140"; know that you were in the feld,”" ence of the key misht prove a trap for)“. nave been for a long time,” wala the assassin. It might be that the! gity, with a huge sigh. “But Willy ob- murderer, knowing the way to the| jectoea to my taking @ partner. he vault, would return there again, and,| wants us to be bachelors all our days,” finding the key, might re-enter, in| «Oh, nonsense, my dear chap! Willy which case he would certainly fall into| 1s sure to meet the right man sooner or the hands of the police. To provide} jater, and then you will be free to make against this contingenay, ‘Trusk di-jsome delightful girl Mrs. Minter. “I'l rected the rural constable to hover! dance at your wedding some day.” | hana. “Huh! It seems that I'll have to dance at yours first. Mighty hard lines, soctng I'm In love with the bride.” | Hallion laughed. Billy's affection as but skin deep, and ho was one of | * inflammable young men who fell month, with | in love regularly, any protty girl who happened to be at | “Tl trust you," he said, smil- “Come to the wedding by all once a ing. menni “Love Won't Run Smooth!” “Tf it ever takes place,” said Billy, shaking his young head. “Love won't run smooth in your case, you know. Old Clair wants Dolly to marry | money.” “T have enough for us to live on, | Billy.” “I dare say, and you're a rattling good sportsman Into the bargain; but Mr. Clair wanted thousands." “He may get them—from Sir John Newby's estate." Billy started. + “What think that, Perey?’ “Oh, T have no reason to think #0. It is simply a guess on my part.” “Your guess may prove to be truth,” | makes you | sald Bly, thoughtfully, ‘Arter an, | Newby and Clair were very thick; so/ out of his millions that poor chap) might leave Clair a good income, T'm| sure I hope so, aa {t's hard ines on| an old family to come down In the! world. And ff Mr. Clair does get| money,” ended Billy, screwing up his| face, “I hope he'll give us better din-| ners. Oh, my soul, how I have starved at thono foasts!” | I si “full speed astern.’ Al-y;hint at the name of the assassin. A AEInBICE uch we were crawling along at &/‘Trusk and Swanson had done their reports bs speed of not more than five knots an|phest, but the mystery was too deep for exciting n pace|hour, our vessel could not possibly ages the poop and smoke his pipe as he | come to a full stop inside of two min- watches the men ‘“forrid’ dash under | titeg the weather raj to keep from being! 1 had hoped for a brief second that| we might cross her stern, but we did not loose momentum quickly enough, and in less than qa minute from the time I gave the first signal we were rashing into the stranger. The sharp prow of the Preussen | struck her a little abaft the bea: © mizzen-mast and sank into | hull to a depth of fully ten feet. | It was a moment for me to do some quick thinking so that my next order might be for the beneft of both of us I knew the other vessel must be rammed below the water line and pretty deep. If I drew away from her | the action must leave the gap open and in all probaiility she would go to the om before I could save a man The dest plan was to keep the hole in her hull calked as long as posstole. My own boat must be the plug. Even before we had lost headway entirely, I had signalled again “full speed ahead,” and as the propellers |were reversed the Preussen gained more headway and was soon pushing the unfortunate ateamer along, virtual- ly clinging to our bow. Ag she was a smaller vessel. than oure, her deck was several feet below sur rafl, so I shouted to my men for- | ward to get as many lines as possible wer to her The first one to land on our deck from the other vessel was a woman, 1 JUST BET MY LAST CENT ON Royal, HAM! near) 1 BET HALF Iron Now, BOY, HERE'S & TIP FOR you! you RIDE MY NEW HOSS BUT DoN'T LET HIM win! SEE ? AH Yo The Million Dollar Kid YESSAH, MR.MONK HELLO, JAKES VLL GE ‘ov $10,000 FOR OLD RoyYAL HAM! witit you SELL Him ? VLE FIX LOOIE,Now! "LL BUY THAT HOSS AND Won'T LET Him win! He WILt HAVE To WALK Home | RACE MEETING ARE YOU GOING To RIDE RoyaL Ham? PLEASE MAKE HIM WIN — ALL OUR MONEY I$ BET ON Him {] UNDERSTANDS. (Xn PUFFICKLY ! who proved to be the stewardess. Then uhe men came swarming over the pow on the lincs we had hove to them. I counted forty ell told and then shouted to ther first ofloer: Have we got all hands?" He answered in the affirmative, and then I backed off. From the time that wo sighted the vessel until the two hulls separated had occuplea a space of just seven minutes, We then stood by, waiting to take her in tow if there was a possibility of her red overboird by an unusually Yieavy bea that strikes the bow. floating, but In less then ten mimutes of course, there |She had filled and, careening, plunged hat stands out | down { AH SHO'IS GoINt | Then we learned that we had rammed { MAKE DIS Hoss aw B PuzzLe o relate |the Russian steamer Peter the Great ‘ curious passen. {bound from a German port to America COULDN'T DISAPPOINT be xea story | We were off Beachy Head at the time DAT LADY NoHow! e few gray hairs you see up here but after ab: examination found 1 think were started one fogey after-|that the Preussen had been damaged so nol ju before dusk during the! slightly that only a plate was plerced wretche mon of Mar I was above the water line, so we proceeded then in command of the ? man |to Antwerp. | Ldovad steamship Pretssen, running out | ea court of inquiry was held, but of Bremen to Chinese ports. |1 was exonerated from all blame and| Woe were feeling our way through the |complimented by the court for excellent English Channel homeward bound in a | seamanship, TO WIN! = eee SUREST THING OU KNOW, MONK! SLIP ME THE Coin! By R. W. Taylor) | SUTTINLY WOULD HOORAY! RoYAL HAM wins | Now FoR A SWELL DINNER AND AN AUTO Ripe! on people HINTS FOR THE HOMF ping The Ineffable Joys of a Visit to Friends in the Country! List How the Jarrs Enjoyed Their Trip to East Malaria, wi —e them!" ! excuse me from living in the country!’ sald = And it way almost stepped on Mr. Jenkins getting out which he vainly tried to change into a smiling one. “Well, it's bad enough the way it is now, in to separate, 2 + your geting home at all hours, and you are not When they arrived at East Malana Mrs. Jarr was By Roy L. McCardell, going to stick me out in a lonesome suburb, where in a smuuldering rage. ‘That man who sat w HE Jenkinses want us]f couldn't get a servant to stay, and where you'd me had mackerel in one package and a Camem °°t ¢ | to come out to East | come home." cheese tn another!” she cried. “I know my dress Malarta,” said Mr. Jarre | ‘Dhe next afternoon the Jarrs wont to the railroad ‘ruined! I know it ts! Don't you smell the mackerel? VHD when he came home the other |statton to catch the 5.02 for East Malaria. Don't you smell the cheese? He put them right in i evening. “There ain't no 5.02," sald the gateman. “There's my lap while he leaned over the seat In tront and “idk “And I suppose you said we'd|n 5.57, but it don’t stop at East Malaria. You'll have talked to a red-nosed man who was carrying tomato come!" said Mrs, Jarr with the}to walt for the 6.13. plants and ganlen hose about tne whist games at AID tho pedagogue: ‘Since A minus B equals 4, and A divided by B also equals air of a martyr, “Oh, dear me, | why hore it tm on this time tablet” sald Mr. Jarr the fireengine house. I thought Mr. Jenkins would 4, who can tell me the values of A and B?” those people who live out of |notly, be out with us town till they are nearly dead | -yjat's a morning train,” said the gateman. “You; “I forgot to ask him what train ne went out on,” of lonesameness and will insist ake that if you stick around for twelve hours.” sald Mr. Jarr, “but I think {t was this one.” As they allghted from the train they of the had a most rueful countenan: greeted the Jarrs, however, and then whispered aside to Mr. Jarr, “I know “It must be mice. out there Tarr’ = ' ow," sald Mr. Jarr, "I lke ne, after an hour's wait, the gates were smoker. Jenkins spoonful soda, yinch of salt. Stir now ” reel To Renevate Pillows, ieee eeae: eeepaceaenle 6G 20) 6 the country in the summer.” | thrown open for the 6.13 In the face of a chafing, © reuevate your feather villows| Then, while stew {8 cooking rapidly. | “It must have been nice last | pundie-laden crowd of commuters The front ranks He eftusively M4 a boiler half full of water,| drop into stew kettle by spoonfuls.) week when it rained so," sald Mrs. Jarr. “\Will yoU)made a rush and filled up the two passenger coaches seemed embarrassed, (ring to a boll, place a feather | Cover lightly and let alone for ten min- ever forget that time we Went out to see the Jen-|inat were open, and then the Jarrs stood in the train “Gee! he pilgew on as a cover, turning occasion-| Utes. kinses last winter? I nearly froze to death in thelr|/sheg with a pushing, perspiring, patient, ever-grow- Mrs. Jenk will be house. I had to go out in the open air t “Well, will you go out?” asked Mr. J “Oh, I suppose 80," said Mrs. Jarr don't you let those lovely house that and steaming thoroughly, Hang i} . . . nthe wind to-drs, beating ana anaicng | Chinese Fried Rice. yey 1 | fa.they ary. Your pillows will come a OLL one oup rice in large kettle of i water till finkes are done through Good Dumplings. Drain. After frying one good ‘ jk making a stew ffke either lamb or yr sized slice of ham, chop tine with one beef, chioken. or any kind, in fact, |? Dotied ews. Piace in skillet with dumplings are the hardest. part. {fice and @ little of the ham drippings cash they'll give it to you at your own eople take us out to show us a vacant next door, that can be «ot at a bargain for $5,000 cash, or if you haven't got your own terms if you'll pay $200 @own and sign a 0 get warm.” arr, ing larger throng, waiting till the Mrakeman at his the smoker letsure would open another car. weartly, “but! These East Malaria people are go sweli and ex- Jarr. clusive every single passenger wants a seat for him-, “put there self and hie bundles,” said Mr. Jarr. ‘If they didn’t gaid Mr. Je keep cars locked till the open ones had two pas- ‘tables! We price and on |sengers to a seat with thelr packages on thelr laps, Arriving by it would take twice as many cars as are necessary.” ‘Thie is the way I make mine, and 1/894 & few mushrooms cut fine. Heat mortgage tor $10,000. “Huh! said Mrs. Jarr. "I don't see what com- want some of the other «| to try |Snd salt to taste. Cut fine a few green “Jt isn’t me that's always wishing we lived in the |muters have to be exclusive about But when they was better t hem: Ong pint of pastry four, one ten POlone or mnelaneiee, ana a. count said Mr, Jarre, “Every mmmer you want|got in the last car the found all the seats t@ go (p account of the children® taken except & few single ane they were forced it! foeenius'@f cream of carter, bait tea and forgot about my bundl “Pretend you forgot to buy made his exc was #0 delightful being in the country, the fresh alr sore. I got to playing whist in the stuff,’ sald Mr, won't be anything to eat for supp kins dismally. “It was fresh voge live in the country, you know." trolley at the Jenkins house, Jenkin uses, but Mrs. Jarr said not to mind: it an fresh vegetables. “And positively.” she added, “if I could get a house Itke this I'd take 2 think East Malaria’s lovely!” | not I never there." ‘Recause you lived on lov And still ive on it,” said Hallion, | rising and stretching himself “Well, T'm off to the Manor. While the cat's away the mice may play.” “Can't I come and play aleo?’ asked | Ailly ruefully, “Certainly not! Much as [ esteem| you, T prefer to be alone with Dorothy. Two's company and three's a nulsance.'* A Suspicion. bothered about the food Ww said Billy, sighing, “you're a fucky bargee. I'll take out the car tor spin, And, T say, bring Willy back a in time for dinner. he's always late, She's at the Manor with Dolly.” “Oh, Willy is discreet enough to make herself scarce,” said Hallon ight! and strolled to the gate, looking very smart In his white flannels and Panama h: t. Billy followed rapldly. “I say, Percy, one moment,” he sald, letting his friend out and then leaning over the gate, “do you think any one {n the Manor murdered that poor chap?” “No! Why do you think so?” asked Percy quickly. “Well, the plan of the catacombs under the tower was torn out of the book, you know,” said Billy thought- fully. ‘'Some.one in the house must have done that." “I don’t seo it, A visitor may have committed the vandalism. Clair often has archacological people down to sce the house and the tower; and those gentry are not scrupulous in annexing anything of that sort. They are as bad as stamp collectors. I wouldn't leave @ stamp maniac alone with a collection for worlds. He'd steal for sure.” “Daresay,” sald Billy, lacontcally, he wouldn't steal a plan without an object—the catacomb plan, I mean. I'll bet you what you Ike, Percy, that the chap who annexed that plan mur-| dered Newby.” “Perhaps,” said Hallon, thoughtfully. “It 1s certainly strange that the plan whould be missing; yet Mr. Cla think who could have stolen “Oh, a pompous old ass, such as Clair 1s, never thinks of possibilities, Percy,” {d Billy, irreverently. “I wonder If Willy knows anything about that miss- ing plan?” ‘What the Deuce Do You Mean? “Why, what the deuce do you mean?” asked Hallon, wheeling suddenly tee her “Well, Willy has something on mind connected with the murder, and) she won't tell me what it Is. Remem- ber she found the knife and the hat in the Grove. Why should she?” “1 don't know !f you're off your head Billy,” said Perey, sternly, “but jou] seem to infer that your sister is mixed up in the matter.” “Nothing of the sort,” furiously; “how you do up. I only say that Willy's such sharp girl, that she may have on some evidence likely to show stole the plan. If she has, probat is what took her to the € koo's ¢ | She knows something.” said Billy, de-/| cisively, ‘I'm certain. I've asked her again and again, but she always tells | me to shut up.” “Then I'll ask her,” said Hallon, firm-| ly. “If Willy knows anything likely to elucidate this mystery, she must speak. | Hullo, here she comes!" | It was indeed Miss Minter who walked | rapidly down the lane where the cottage | was situated. She looked healthy and | pretty, and came on with her vsual| firm stride; yet Hallon noted, as sho} drew near, that her brows were eal cried Billy. atch a chap a kled with thought, and that she ap- peared worried. “T may.’ he remarked, when sho reached the «ate, “here's Billy saying that you know something about this murder."” “ Pernaps You Accuse Me?” “Billy's an ass, sald Miss Minter, briefly, and removing her straw hat to fan her hot fac “Yes, vou do," insisted her brother. “TI believe you know who took that plan of the catacomb *Perha ; Hallion, slowly. | nounced, scorafully, Huh! Who's the ass now? But you do know something. Tell it to Percy, here, and help him to marry Doroth: “How would my telling him of my suspicions help?” Dh,” said Hallon, all on the alert, “then you do suspect some one?’ Miss Minter looked from one young | man to the other, and then at the pret- ty cottage, where the climbing red roses blushed in the sunshine. “Billy,” she aid, suddenly, “swear you'll hold your tongue.”” “T swear!” sald Billy, gruffly; “what's up? “And swear,” added his sister, turn- ing to Hallon, “that you will not %e angry with what I am about to say.” “I swear!" said Hallon, promptly and uneasily. She seemed to be so much in earnest that he felt nervous. “I don't know if my telling you ef my suspicions will help,” said Willy, deliberately, “but I have an {dea that Mr. Clair knows the"— The Mystery Deepens, “Oh,” Hallon interrupted her flereely, “that's absurd.’ “Perhaps it 1s," sald Willy, come posedly, and related the grounds upon vhich she suspected Clair. “And that was why T went to the Greve,” she added, triumphantly. “It's all bosh!"’ cried her brother, vee hemently; “and it doesn't explain whe stole the plan.” ‘Mr. Clair may have torn it out him- self,’ said Willy quickly, “in order te prevent any discovery of the vault where he hid the body. Percy, what do you think?" “I can't give an opinion yet,” sald “Of course, Clair wae absent from the Manor about the time of the murder, and he was near the Grove by his own confession. But there {s no apparent reason why he should murder Sir John. Also, It 1s ridiculous to think that a gentleman like Mr. Clair would condescend to vulgar mure der." “And then, of course, he could not have brought the bady to the vault alone,” said Billy, disdainfully, “I thought of that myself,” cried Willy, sharply. “I dare say that I am making a mountain out of a motehill, All the same, Mr. Clair's movements on that night are mysterfous. And then, again, Lady Panwin ts very nervous About ft." “I remember that,” said Hallon sud- denly. as he recollected the behavior of the old lady when the murder was an- and also the collapse of Mr. air. “She looked at that picture over the plano—that Georgian soldier—an an- cestor, I suppose. “What has that to do with what. we are talking about?" asked Billy, crossly, “Nothing, T suppose, and yet it seems all of a plece. I'll have a talk with | Tady Panwin when IT go up, and ask some lending questions.”” put what?"* hardly know as yet,” said Hallon, somewhat puzzled. Love's tangle “Ask her why she does not want you to marry Dorothy," sald Willy, point~ realy, “What?” cried Percy angrily, an@ with great amazement. “Yes, Dorothy told me, She doesn’t: want Dorothy to marry any one."* “Oh!” Hallon clinched his hands, and thought. Then suddenly, and without @ Worl of farewell, he wheeled and fatrly. ran up the lane. “What's up now?" asked Billy, star- tled by this move. “There's going to be trouble at the Manor," said Willy, wearily, “T wish I hadn't spoken now, but I have, so there's nothing left for it but to allow Perey to do what he Ikes. And, mind you, hold your tongue, Billy. I don't wi the detectives down here.” “But do you really belleve that Mr. Clair murdered Sir John?” asked the young man, tn an awed yoice, “Oh, don't bother me! You know al that f know, ‘Think for yoursele >” (To Be Continued.) MAN Call or send by mail to THE EVENING WORLD MAY TON FASHION BURDAU, No. 182 Eest Twenty-third street,,.Nev York. 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