The evening world. Newspaper, October 2, 1915, Page 9

tober 2. 1915 eee - oe Stowmarket Mystery Seren may | BORROW NO, Taxe 7 oFF NEED snow ) | PEN 'S HATS ARE - HAT To WEAR 1YSELF. TAKE S Siuc UST LiKE , A New Type of Detective & 3% oFIA iy SIS HAT Hi * a’) ___ uthor of “The Wings of the ing” — — = — ? ko Gut Tetan” i = ied. By Louis Tracy > S <2 . L > pied whan be ql The detective 4i@ hot trouble te es. | iis peilew ‘ahis 1 . rect tue ( mening from thie — 2 remark = He joratocd thet Mrett angie oe think of entering the = bane vines &@ Theat eae ee ene wom te the F care | Me centinnsd, with ot . atom - Ave vite certain,” he eahed, fee wtee une ennety ie he 7S . vwlee Goma wil be arrested os ff gh 4 ; A tuned , today? wurde we . . ‘ Guiie cerialn, if we can accom ee Seen “4 : ' , ; treuded another reiw , and @ ob ’ that highly desirable tark 1 he = Winter pounded the door | alaste ene wo owe beneow wih ous, it oak servant, ° ruse him up eo ss nena 4 > s war 1 meres CHAPTER XXI. they all made = ge quent, 1 nape suited Dawe : rie Irom teekee’ set pee tee| | WHO TOOK MY ) | LOANED IT PING Gusr IT! CALM YouRSELF JOHN, teu" ania 0 mat soine / 18s oppertun eh all the Husband and Wite. sieaty hours uni mowmarket wae | SILK HAT 2 Toa My | + Or AM | oING ( / YOU_CAN WEAR My word beim ovldones needs rouanty acqu ARGAWET had not uitered a “There ob tbe platform atéod. the | . —_ / SISTER e a74 WINE 7 | ( HAT — UL STAY iN sim The obly 2 vt onapel ato c the Seal oune “a x He approached ret | _ _ \ Go T 4 SILK HAT ammenaets on the woman | yusiu's desi. ily prive consultedien Sas one tw waleperess = white _cutl , . ster oe wit “ ‘ at ” } rakes ale “ = 8 who came bere by the pre- PARTY ary: hie sister wae with the “ —< veri did Det MAO coding train told me that you and bo wpe a - o- yeak to her, Mow eould other genuemen might poesibly be 4 rs he to Mis Capella ‘ he off ' 4 woman whose w * f Le oe gear to telegraph whet a en) it would cortem ‘ bee tender t iad been ao " tu, but he 4 me, im care you! hem there ‘ hing to agreed Ihas - T ceieh satinaee : WAP" turned up, to tell you that the Jap- | ‘ great anger, that be posses vow of ihe hak tae an ae « ‘ . nene has one on foot to Beecheroft, | prot that he was not his sister . ta | n Soa! last, “he and that Mr. Capelia bas pot ar-! 1 war cooler than he A eae the Hats burnt those Heastly papers 1 epoke of getir ew. 1 4 of tints exion. | pretended = He pointed vering eshes | he can this by Hulian jaw sume Fed Mh) cried Brett He| away, by rg eg Petre he ar ft the drawing + for Biaeuia ¢ be i (urned to Molden, "Can you have and aw Dim hbrary uptod the library. it th cane” he said calmly, "you “There can be no error, wir,” put in! [the hotine if an opportunity presented YOOme slalalinees of lie tinal Qnd 1 will wo and live in Maly.” the station master, “Mr, Capella s Irnining to my appear What!" cried I De you seen Hho paced he snde before her ¥ came by the train, and aasured | a badroom, if he chink to way that you lentroyed the face and burs 'o «@ tempest of me that he left London with his mas. thes afd went ow! Hut he umenia deposited by the Japanese Mi teats ter, Besides, the carriage te here [helped me wy 5 ere eH Lee writitig demk ie Now, my dear girl” be murmured, from the Mall, It was ordered by tel- the drawer wie Not exactly ail,” wan t try and forme! that pitiful raseaiand egraph. There ts the valet himself, Jopen. 1 naw him imect ply. "We pleked wut 4 his threais, You one well rid of him, He imagines that Mr, Capella quitted foobly pointed to Robert io Maryaret, and ie J 80) leove you now for a little while, the train on the way, and will arriv “L naw you arrive in the carriage,” them. We b In hell ar hour we will Ko and listen by thin one, Iut there ts no eign of jand he indicated David, "Then f mame with regard to the band until dinner, Really, we him.” termined to walt until the might, ered on Capella » had most enjoyable afters The mention of the earriage brough y Btowimarkel, where T anes. | Eiko hoon, a look of decision into the barrister’s He went out if are be pointed and smiling, fa ARTY. NOBODY WILL KNow ST Uke {lott a. porisuan eat Ate ele a tack © PAR (TON AND Go To Your. YQMEN 'S HATS Ii"went b ll pack Hed up, nl Margaret “sobbed plentifully— “One more question,” he sald to t ‘ * Me him, but he ignored the fact—“and POMMK ON the mantelpiece Jit beeame necesmary to go to her oficial, “Did'you aoe the parson dee S A WOMAN'S HAT MEN'S HATS changed my In Kngland, at | “You have done a sumewhat sert~ oom and remove the traces of her scribed as the Japanese?” THiS YEAR. night, a man in evening dres® can OuM thing — sabi, T thovene IU wae comme ce, enter almost any house ows, 10m care a cont About that . fact, L thought it was somebody else, . eturned | carried my bag Wwhrne te v Cs CHAPTER XXII. It was not until the stranger whe whee 1 setae anor] hat Margaret has she keeps. There with me, as Lt did not know how I might wish to get away subsequently, 11 naw the proparations for the ball, They helped me. David Hume's un- expected appearance at midnight up- prove of what I have dona” wot my plans, Waiting near the gate Hrett shook bis head. No lawyer {1 witnesned Alana meoting with & could approve of these rough-and girl in a white dress, Whilst Y ready wettiements of important | were talking, 1 ran up to the how affairs, por family \ and found David asleep in the library. “Has any one telegraphed to I rawolved to act boldly. Kven he Capella?” he inquired, ae would not know what to do if he sud- es," aid Robert, “I did. 1 just jdenly discovered another, Mrazer in #ald ‘Ooma dead; Della, ‘the room, ait a i, Remain in Whitby, 1 “To force open the Grawer picked n you to-morrow evening.’ lup the Japanese sword, and know it That, I thought, was enough for a arrived by the train used that nam: To Beechcroft. to distinguish him that I understood HENCEFORTH, as the | bid mistakes ene i 5 he station master looked into heey a events marched. preti's eyes that which he did not | ober zer faithfully like to say in the presence of the recounted Margaret's atate- Fragors, Of course, he had fallen ment to the barrister and {nto the game error as most ped‘pic the detective. ‘The “documenta” W7"g,only obtained @ casual glimpse copies of which Ooma sent to the Brett hurried his companions out- fN-fated woman whose sudden ao- side the station. There they found cession to wealth had proved so un- the Beechcroft carriage, and a puz- lucky for her, wore evidently those Soathiaan and toner Dene brctee on from the drawer in the writ- authority was sufficient to secure the , In the course of time, be very reason for thie action Any- how, I have acted to please myself, and my father will, | am sure, ap- . by the de- start. ing-desk at Heechcroft. we of the viele, and Brett made |e on tie handle of the Ku-Katana, If certainly was. Here, at last, was the motive of the the position easier for the men. b: ‘The th " obtained nm there came excl: me o> tai bare . saying that, in all probability, they \phe thing inspired me, L Soo. naayon H t when fom both Margaret and Helen de- Lig Me f was Mmanding more details, whereupon cur, and the Brett, who knew that suspense would find fresh insrructt it. @he Japanese, by some incrutable ing them at the Halk Awa means, becain that the young Before the party drove off Winter! and wi the pape 1 mot Alw ing. He called me ase ‘ more unbearable than full know! baron © papers, and noticed a docal sergeant of police roekglgiong eee Net at sent a fairly complete account of oc- held them in terrorem over his re- standing near, tered that way. You both under- the semblance of a carnivorous ani- with @ quiet contempt in his tone. "I They can watch me die, and tell you rd ‘nite, and left it resting in hig CUrFences, puted sister, In the hands of a third “Shall l ask him to come with us, stand mal. He bounded sideways toward shall be dead in twenty minutes, learnedly why tho blood curdies and je SM BMG BN A Ue il vag | During the next few days there Peraon, an outsider, they were en- sir? he sald to Brett. They nodded and walked off, cling- the wall of the library, picked up the That syringe contained snake poison, the heart refuses to act, but not all "eart " was the usual commotion in the Press dowed with double powers for mi: The barrister considered the point ing to the line of the t The writing desk, and burricaded himself the undiluted venom of the ,karait. their science can beat the venom of *S¥: Th ye Had that follows the opening up of the chief. He could threaten the woman for an instant before replying: others closed up. Timing their ap- behind it. In the same second Put away your pistols, They @re not the little karalt. It is an Indian ‘No one knew t ose Who Tad wecret records of a great and mysteri- with exposure, the man with the erhaps {t would be better, as we Preach with perfect Judgment, they Produced a small, shining artic! n me thought that I was either oug crime. 1 or Kobert Hume-Frazer, I de Tt came as a tremendous . surpriaa to I meant to use that «yringe on the pended on the police and the servants David Hume-Frager to psoas A wanted.’ snake, more deadly than the cobra, 8 . not got a warrant." crept over the gravelled road at the from hig waistcoat pocket, and — Quite nonchalantly he leaned back with mightier tooth than the timer. wecret wy ter grinned broadly again bend and gained the turf in front of Shouted, in a voice now cracked WIth against the bookcase that Mned the ‘d He visited the library in order to h, yea, wo have,” he cried. “Mr, the window. rage: - , Wall, He turned his eyes to Robert, whole cursed brood of Frazers in thia to comnts the mystery. They did. many people were convinced of his commit the theft, probably acting Oooma's warrant has been in my Ooma’s back was toward the ‘Stand back, all of you. You may You have the luck of your ” country. No one would have known | saw David meet the same irl in & innocence “all the time Being the with greater daring because he mis- breast pocket for three days.” They could hear his vu. a ait ! LT will not be arrested! he said. “If that point had reached what happened to them. But look white dress near the lodge, xo 1 sent contral figure in the affair, he was dook the siceping David for his cousin. “What a thoughtful fellow you high pitched, yet strident vole swearing, scrambled from your skin no human skill could have you, Fate is too powerful. The karalt the pont card which I made Jiro write compelled to remain at Beechcroft 4 Having auccesstuily wrenched open are,” murmured Brett. “In that cass while he questioned a eome the floor. Rubert, tov, threw off the waved you. As it is, you are spared, stored his polson for me only. { for me. He wrote it badly, which until Capella and Ooma were it. the drawer and socured the papers, we can dispense with local nasist. scared footman ax to the W yelling servant, and rove to his feet, and I must go, The sume blood flows killed only one of the race, and him [ Was all the better fur my purpose. L terred, and the coroner's jury, a @till holding in his hand the instru- ance. We five can surely tackle any abouts of his mistress. Alarmed not only by the curious en- jn our veins, yet you are my enemy. «tabbed with a Ko-Katana of my own meant David to be hanged by the lw: deferred inquest, had recorded thelr ment used for slipping back the tiny man living.” Tho man had evidently perceived HY Made by David Hume and Holden, { wish 1 could once get my fingers house then 1 would marry Margaret, That vordiet. that the wretched Japanese lock, he turned to loave the room by vhat can have become of Capel- the remarkable resemblance borne Ut also by the racket in the Uibrary, yound your throat before My — Holden left the room to send a mes Give me some brandy. 1am descendant of the Scottish Jacoblie the open window, and was suddenly ja?” said David Hume, when they by this uncanny strug the gee. seettad deen fae Holden haa stfensth falls.” aenger post-haste for the village doc- 1 ean see curling was not only doubly a murderer: be gonfrouted by the real Sir Alan, who wore all seated and bowling along Frazer family, His replies were re- St the locked door, for Holden revelation of « discreditable family ha h t , Some from behind that table and Ali guilty of the heino recognized him and guessed his ob- the road to Beechcroft. spectful but’ stuttering. He was t band behing Him and was the quick rejoinder, Lr Capella?” persisted Brett gulped down half a tumborful of de ae, adiadiuetbbies 2 fect in being present at that hour. “It is Impoasible to say what such alarmed by those flerce eyes, more the window. eathiae Ooma made to accept the challenge, raw spirits hastily procured by Brett, They were five to one, “Ah, Capella, He sought hie own Brett, in the Interim, saw to the but the one semed to defy th ° c hake off the ; th, He looked at me so oddly Asin he attempted to si * despatch of the Italian witnesses “That be blowed for a tale!” roarea _ “If You are telling the truth,” be cor 1 thought him a spy. Tow foreta Srate aie tre Mag tae back to Naples. These good people the infuriated detective, whose blood S4id, “you can spend your brief re- alone in a carriage when, halfway that tace, an his face contorted it, 20t Know why they had been they heard was fired by the manner in which he Malning span of life to better purpose here, he ran along the platform at aj 1) imhestly. orll brought to England, but they re- in his tone. jad been floored, “Ll arrest you in than In a mad combat with one who gmail station and joined me, He be. IDA HAN Y MUN iy wavy turned to their sunny land fully per. rd, from “her the King’s name for the murder of has done you no harm, Where i# jan to question me. TI looked out of $ axed, suaded that the English were bot Brett had gone thus far in his a mad ass would he up to,” spoken commentary on the affair as mented his cousin. “He has pro! give satisfactory information seemed it now presented itself to his mind gone back to London from some way- {o anger the newcom when Winter asked: side station, and failed to find his «you are not a chil hy do you say ‘recognized’ him, servant to tell bim before the train Com, eit soph Mr, Brett?” We hav: no evidence moved on.” Mena take awe te that Sir Alan had over seen Ooma?” — “What fo you think, Mr. Brett?” especially because his inability to \ but Brett intervened. ¢ : , 7 Killed you! You carried my stick Very rich and ad ove \ maid or some other source, where Sir Ali i, Capella? 0 window and saw that we were my ots rich and very foolish, “What, none? Searen | through inquired Winter : + omy Mem. Capella has gone tot Bir Alan Hume-Frager, and 1 warn vey ted him,” was the cool reply Toe ee ee wy Viaduct over @ atrenm SN Re a ee cnn aaae Winter, in noone ih Brett's | ep aeepdey pay Bia ely atic s ia aes Sorat ne Open. Pikes “ sir.” stammered the man, Kobert Hume-Frazer waited for ne The foounan, who had slowly re- between deep cliffs, so f took the Mt. the girl from the hotel? 1 wus @ fool, Lda ge secured a fresh holiday to- ¥ Sarit lon teat day WHER che Moves Winter Te nerreciain tha atrengtn oF SE really, aven't.| 1 tt thought pretiminary explanation of an viflelat Falned his ennses, uttered & groan of tle man and cracktd Wi de. "tt was L tried to ntop the Inquiry vy wetting the euprer o foy. ot chatting meanre (erate of only two are Known ( Ve. your hanécumng polly, Pehutior anys We are ail to ave a Mats ones crack under his grasp, alone house servants, but Rardeners, a mistake. He should have teft mo Tid of David Hume-Teazor. Aw if bY well-stocked Scotch moor. ‘What beoane of thie third personage toltday next week." Tle had the strong iuan's ambition grooms and others, had gathered on alone.” teil) About that girl! She believes yt, st, one day in’ September, Pied Ree ete otemet Way ait CHAPTER XXIII. “Ig there no way in which I can t@ close with an opponent worthy of the lawn, He described this cold-blooded mur- rett was summoned to Whitby to in me, She does not know anything Send away that slave," cried Ooma der of the unfortunate Itallan with of iy pant. Do not tell her, Try to “sist at @ family conclave, : : the 6 ; Ho found that Margare this moment? I must see her, My Wsrning, he made for the Japanese, impatiently, “and tell those others to the weary air of one who recites © joy her. Bho in coarsa one of the Margaret was firm T was almost dark by the Pew is inportanty It, cannot Who seemed to await his oncoming goto the kennels, ‘Thie Is no place tedious episode, The Mda drooped Hedoie ua you say here but she has Heatherette me Meee £0 live at time they reached the lodge wait, It is of the utmost importance With | singular eae thous gor such. heavily over hia eyes. courage und js faithful, Help her!" ad'to get married’ Robert intend- ? otherwise quivering with bulked hate. “irett knew that the Japanese was “I am tired,” ho said, “That was His head drooped, ‘The action of early in the New ett had see v "7 Year and ) Ce eee en eee taee in LM" in truth about to die. Afterwards @ good littl snake. Ho knew bis the brandy, whilst momentarily stim- fall forthwith for ¢ Sir Alan leave documents of suci The Fight. find out where your mistress ts at bis thews and sinews, Without 4 @rave important in #o insecure @ Miding place?” ee. Just then Holden entered. Holden's news was important, Ca- gates. Brett, moved by im- to he! pelia had left Liverpool Street balf pulse, stopped the carriage Brett, straining without like Ar- , gentine, where, with the help of a o wecheroft, and in apg HOU in the leash, could note tice had the Japanese looked 4. Winter and Holden confessed that business, Ife could make the bes} ulating the heart, helped the stupe- wite’s money, f Pp of bis Fee eee ee vole, Oona. in the main road., The others iene ntuation “in ths perfect ymalk gilning thige tn hie hed. as thoy thought the pretence of Injeetine of poison faction of the brain, It was a ques- Conia’ dnvelon si mee iauet see “Quick,” shouted the barriater, AUshted after him. Mra. Crowe, the Jnglish spoken by Ooma. The though to make sure it was there. Snake polkon wax a mero ruse to gal “Surely,” said tho barister solemaly, tion of a minute, perhaps two, | “"Heocheret would pasa inte the ae swe must. JF catch che next train to lodge-keeper's wife, opened the gates, Just u suspicion of the liquid “4” 80 Mo the barrister was just In time to tle, | Robert and David Intultively you are aot a0 Biterty iahuae come here to-day?” wersion of David, and Heleo wegece, your i y we e - strongly remarked in Jiro's utter- grasp Robert's shoulder and hold him @greed with the barrister. was in t at the very point o math who were be Stow ie guitare bane you Your ane exon oor a why the care ieee “What un uncanny thing la back. % their breed to know when etemity still maintain the atttude of a dis- Margaret, She would give would Muin own hie Se eeeeee: Recded, Smith, run and call two "AE® 1 ia heredity! It even alters the shape — no," he eried, “you must not touch YaWned for one of them. The very appointed avenger, What wrong had ino money. I was cing away. t thelr honeymoon, ter all . "Good evening, Mrs, Crowe," sald of the roof of the mouth, The Jap- 1 command it. ke cannot es- calmness of the criminal, his magni- all these people done you to demand man—I threw from the train—waa “ut on one point tha? were an He rushed to a bureau and pro- Brett, advancing. “Have you seen a anese of English descent could neces- ficent apathy, his dislike of vulgar your murderous bate?” her husband? Po was hots | ata emphatic. That ill-fated Mbrary wine duced a couple of revoivers, He telegraph messenger recently?” sarily pronounce English better than en let me have a go at him witnesses, foreboded a tragedy. Goma seemed for a moment to rouse Maton Or & Pee ev oliiere We (°W Should pass into the limbo of handed one to Holden. “Lawk, alr,” she cried, “I didn't ‘¢,pure-born native, owied Frazer, Whose face Brett motioned to Holden to open himself from lethargy. Once aguin A 5 To the Frazers he handed the heav- possessed, He himself ‘Dhe servant within seemed to rack was’ pale with pass 5 th the door and the footman gladly the black eyes sparkled with thelr know—how to die. Four of ua—foll. hing# that have been, Already slr, his brains for a favorable reply, builders were converting ¢ “No, no, Leave hin tome, Winter, made his escape, In respanas to a menacing gleam, What a pity! ‘he Ubr; you in the gloom! Nc feat sticks ry 1 into an entrance hall, and the revolve! i v yi ane “You might ask Mr, Capella, si y 4 e? back, I say.” wave “It ig you," ha erted, “you, the His head sank lower, His breath (00). ~ main cketed the second revolver and there's been no messenger, on! “" do you hear me? Stand back, I say.” wave of the barris arm the other D ‘ door would occupy its natu: r Picked up the peculiar walkingstic, ‘Then pho uttered @ startled ex- he sald at length, with some degree dreti's impenative tone brooked no servants disappeared from view, thinker, who question me. [never Brew fain Be voles se. away ip in the front of the house ve! plage which Ooma dropped in Northumber’ ciamation, Aepdatel tints. te thea tule Wat disobedience, ‘Thus, in a anginent of though they probably only retreated Raye & ShOUsHS to you oF ft wou sieve he enous egalt Let us hope that the return of the nd Avenue piece ‘ + ae, Ompected he a » DUL A Cipaie, the five enclosed the one to a greater distance, and could ace HOt now be slowly sinking into death, silence D0 ; young. couple after thar wVinige and he entered the sume 2 jul there'a Mr, David on Me foes [oy London 1e against the wall—Ooma barricaded Well enough all that happened Tmaight havo guessed that a higher — ‘The words he used were Japanese. marked a now ara for an abe Te bana fobert! I could ha’ sworn one 0} c by the table, the others ready to defeat any stratagem he might en- ” ” intollige 4 Was at work than that In his weakened consciousness ail he Y \° tell you, if yo a to Ww Yes," continued Ooma, “I killud “ ‘0 7 e "Why are you so anxious to Pre; gentiemen walked up to the house eet ait Onin Usavor to put In force, Capella, It wow a mistake, Fivery- movie, "avg ‘yer falled to read. ita fournt from, hin, Japanese moter XSked the detective, ne their vehicle S¥¢ Gunutes ago, an’ 1 wunnered you What is he like?’ “Now Maten to me, Ooma," said the ‘hing ix a mistake, It was foollah on gtory,’ You ask my motives. Can a the mother he despised when he be- aed along Victoria Street ai’ the strange things’? mes » you mean in appearance, str? parrister sternly "You tust drop MY part to Kill Alan Humo-Fraser, man explain heredity? Here"—-and came a man and knew Me history. a P . eo ‘a I do not ce whether they mest Nik wan Ao naiurel raletake, He ie e small dark-complexioned that thing you have in your right ®Y@n though he was my enemy. J he threw w pucket of papers on the Winter and Brett were now hold- erto singled out for traged: start Was auspictous enongh: torte 4 love, in their case, neither ra smoothly nor yielded to the pressure of terrible events. : Mr. and Mrs. Jiro went to Jay * was the empha 5 with’ wavy black hair and hand, Your must. hold both your *20Uld have let him lve, and tortured writing deak—-ure the proofs of my inc him, The others drew apart. wiih them they te ° Japan Pr how jmperatively, ni that the barrister auledy. nan to-walt © LOY pale face, He" —— no Hands high above your head. If you Him by fear. You English dread these identity. It is not long ago, only one They afterwards confomwed that the tow, and tho tept boar ot ihitia wee the Japynese should he placed where he Aieg tit onal ey But Goma turned away from the move either of them again [will mangas than de t © hundred and fifty years, since David death of this murderer, this User iuat the trio were running a boardin he can do no further harm, ‘The man ware, LAeiyl be he mesea, eu man, and leoken through the window shoot you, If you do not obey me . panese fear palther, For am 4 Hume waa robbed of his birthright, cub of their race, affected them #reMt- house in Yeddo, where Mra, Jiro ade faa human tiger, He must be caged, Wim from the house, || with the lambent glare of a wild ant: Lefore I count five 1 will shoot you, Japanese, and I am proud of tt al- ang what ts suah a period to the old ly. He was feariess to the oni. The vortinnd the excellence of the food Mall mous well, Winter, this came will) He did. Tot vane ee TCONe ee denne tnnlece Ree aro, One! ‘Twol Th — though my ancestor was David Hume famities of England and Japan? There way in which he quitted life became jhe supplied, and Miss Dew sterete pass ou! of iny hands into yours Visitor who, bad caused, Mrs roe ea ete eth The Japanese, gasping a horrible of Glen Tochan, who fought and killed are men living In Japan to-day who Im more than the manner in which pepressed auy attempt on tho part within the next three hours, ra eee oa ee Mater ann ao vcrward. Robert wae wort of aod, throe times plunged the the man who robhed his father, w his son in the flesh. I am his he lived. of the lodgers to obtain credit \ The detective amiled Aly. in sending the carriage back to Stow- hoy ABTRNS fore Bre. Rol 2" Ingtrument ‘he held into his left arm. “But how and why did you kill Ca- jawryl descendant. 1 came to Eng- There was a bustle without, and “mie jast entry in Brett's note baat “By Jove.” he eur " will be market. Somehow, he feit that ra guisne ' ue reaeng ee oy ins Then he flung it straight at Robert, pella?" asked Brett land and resolved to be an English- the local doctor entered, He looked jinder the heading of the * stowmar. the cus of the year, nella would not come to Beeeheroft dow firs). The Japenese Jumped Pack One would have thought his Venge- ‘I saw him in the station at Lon- man, But 1 needed money. Do you Wise, profound, even ventured on a Mystery,” 1# dated six montha The barrister (het night. , : ee Reece cant aria Mitered the Ghee Would be directed against Brett, don. He followed me. | puzzled Lim, remember out motto, ‘A new field sceptical remark when the barrister of the dopariuse of Wr, and hse “T suppose, continued he five men went Fapldly and In his: fas Me David omtered Ine whom he muet have credited by this Tsuppese. He 5 6d the iikeuess yives a small crop’? The first Japan- S=p@ined that Voma had injected ober: Hume-lraser fot the Argon. Winter, ‘wien, well aiiecim {policy proached the lighted library, they made no of the fact that be “me with his capture between me and my dear cousing. we Hume did not prosper, He was snake-polson into his arm. But he “you will follow your usua d , 5 * tine. Tt reads: ae valve No; he singled out a Hume-Frazer We are like one another, are we not, . Lifted the eyelide of the fiure in the "Nh, | connection could see @ servant parley with the Saeed 8 EeaIvers astounded man- for bis last-attack, ‘The inatrument we Hume-Frazera?” & Kood fighter, but be saved mo yen. "To-day Japanese. 8 c Mitel hin ha steuck @ button on Robert's coat and — He laughed mirthlessly, and stared and decile to ke h the affair h ri "i ” Ae and you. will follow your A motion of Brett's hand brought servant by the waist, the anniversary of ‘ckms chair and glanced at the pupils, , Bo I applied to my family, I eame SMewhatever the cause of death may Devid Huaies first visit to my ¢ chambers, This morning I discovered actly, fn A BS aati fell to the floor, where It lay twisted at David and Robert | alternately. “4 ie be, he is undoubtedly dead!” was his unt pulley of claiming all the credit. the party into the shade ef the sombre {HOuKn he were a truss of atran, and Oi Oe" ehape by the force of the Winter broke in with a huaty ques. [it Alen Hume fraxey saw te wale Voi dey Gomes walmnn eiiee. “i renin under the magic of the words ‘from yews. ” and Winter, bringing both to the iipdct. tion through that window to mest me. He tae tha nenle hak wea Wibotnaiaeal information received.’ You and Holden, to sound by this singular weapon, It was a hypodermic syringe. Tf ho is speaking the truth about {hFoush tie’ winthw te carence and = XIV. mo} pave it to @mith, and told wie Winte yuld afford to be generous, Hume, “go round to n en It Was a fatal mistake to attack the Again Ooma uttered that welrd the snake poison, shouldn't we send ; ht 1 waa hia cousin, Robert, CHAPTER X. " to light the kitchen fire with ft, Then eM. Bre he cried, "there Is no trance, proceod at once to the brary seugiest means of exit, Hatt ory a for a doctor nt aniat . pe yl ily ey ye WB The Last Note. \ielepmapned to old bir Davta iieaee man would be so pleared as T to see enter the room and lock the nis human battering ram ‘This is the end.” he said, You No one had thought of thin pre hp had not pean fay Youre” Laolamraphed to old Bir Davis aeee 4 yon come out of your shell, and tel behind you, Be ready wit! golden and David he might have eg- lave not beaten ine, It ly Bate,” viously. Brett reproached himself for bil Sea re Nee teaa tnonea INTER and Holden Were ine eee eee eine 13th, thy by the ‘)yow have done, Youde- your stlek, and do not hesitate to caped. But now he looked into the He folded his ar and looked at his forgetfulness. So strange are our four lateners chielly conrirned ti valuable during the trying jt weema, cannot go North, as he dees | ner would be proudest Junge Tard ff Ooma attacks you. muzzie of another revolver, and heard them, A men Bree Ot cede” cana ite a onder to BADe pointes tthe tame fi ie oere hours that followed, Act- not wish to leave his wife during the % ne yur life." You, Holden, keep the revolver Brett's stern demand He was no longer put RAVE. tb v's life in order to ha de ® f ; c a Ac ah to bg ave ue loughed. Nay. dt must only be used to wave as ee ‘ip, Comat If you move a human being © al- him by due process at law repeating themselves in a whostly ing in conjunction with the Rext ad oF ae ei swaeee 1 #you have krown me. for life, ‘The AMEN you APLIAN at a dead man? most impressiv® orn ie waa Game Wile spared int Cer ernl adi Nhed toleNele Resa local police, they caused & gate,” y a wald, “yet y the door we will rush to the window theless, he did move, He arrest. ye egan Winter. "Doetor!" he cried q : 0 that. Go tot frog are incorrigible! which is open, Ooma must have en- seemed to have the agility as well as ‘ou fool!" 4 the Japanese, Bring the whole College of Surgeons, ment, He staggered unsteadily to a aearch to be made for Capelia's body, (THE END) Bi a ae tee ea aoe - . sitihbiamaataa te itt - cee -