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ye By R. R. on, in Cuba will be nullified. It ts the confessed aim of the ad-| herents ‘of the proposed measures (@ortminating against Cuban sugar to, protect the beet sugar interests of arket Sidelights Batson. After examining the earnings state- ments of various large dry goods stand the recent sharp forward move- ment in market for their shares. Tho Associated Dry Goods Company the country. Large financial inter- ‘ests proclaim it one of the most vio- jeces of legislation yet proposed it it will not only jeopardize the of Cuba and American in- Sérests in Cuba, but will most assur- ily increase the price of sugar and PFoducts into which sugar enters to sAmerican consumers. "A group of American bankers has Peat foaned $5,000,000 to the Cuban Governinent to be used, according to J. P. Morgan & Co., “for the press- ing immediate needs of the Re- Public.” It is the view of bankers sugar Interests, which best know the true situation in Cuba, thet if *Wongtess adopts the proposals which the Administration ts sald to advo- fate, the damage to follow will be a great many times the $5,000,000 which just been loaned the island. reason for the recent rise in the value of sugar stocks is not because a merger several of the relatively unimpor- ugar producers and refiners has discussed in official quarters, “because for the first time in months Cuban raw sugar has been finding a ready market and ‘Prices have been advancing under the stimulus of renewed demand. This has enabled the larger compantes to long tied up and i z 5 : I 3 e E ETESEE I ai ‘worry. Investors in sugar securities will do | well to watch developments in Wash- | ‘ington in connection with the sugar { Situation, for Washington develop- ments to have a very impor- pent inf in shaping the market Price of their securities. ‘Necessity is truly the mother of in- During these slack times in One of the largest and best known ‘@peratorrs of the Street will not go on tis, mary January visit to Flor- ida year, according to his asso- lates, for they assert that the in- ? Ho $05 Fifth Ave. Tel. Mur. Hull 7120 ©-225 Pitch Awe. Tel. Mad. Sq. 1377 Board of Directors of thts a ym mination than 500 rubles, stock wae 2, to stockholders yuery 27, 1992. tion, $1,000,000 of supplies in Latvia, is a case in point. The annual report of this company will soon be Issued and according to Wall Street information, on which it seems safe to place reliance, it will show earnings equivalent to at least $10 @ share on the common stock. With the exception of 1918 this was the best year the company has ex- perienced since incorporation in 1916. In 1920 profits were equal to only 44.14 a share, What js true of Associated Dry Goods is largely true of other dry goods companies whose securities are listed on the New York Stock Ex- change. DELI TO QUI GRIMINAL BAL BONDING FEL Line Brought Company Unde- sirable Class of Custom- | ers, Says President. Declaring that the officials of the Fidelity and Casualty Company ol New York had become completely disgusted with the bail bond busi- ness, Robert J. Hillas, President of the company, announced yesterday its withdrawal from that line. He said that two other large casualty com~- pantes would soon follow its lead. “We couldn't tell down here whether the money was tainted or not,” he Hiluttertok Co. companies, it is not difficult to under- | 4™ Am Writ P pf... Anaconda A Butte & Superior. Hf Packing. Canadian tte. Central L 2 Cerre De Pasco. Chandler Motors. Ghes & Ohio. . Chic & Alton Ry OM & 6 P RR. CO M & Bt P pt. Chic RI & Pac ORI & P 6 pe pt © & Northw Ry. Chile Copper Chino Copper Ol Ol Ch @ Bt L Cova-Oola ...... Col Gee & Elec. Columbia Grapho.. Comp Tab & Reo Cont Can Cosden Ol! ...... Corn Products .. Cructble Steel | Del Lack & West 1 Tume Mines ..... Endicott Johnson Famous Players . General Asphalt . General Electric . Genera} Motor 97.52, off $d, 97.76, up .08; 4th, 97.22, off .0: Victory 4%s, 100.12. Sterling, demand, 4.22 4.21%; up %. French francs demand, cables, .0816%, up .0003%. Lire, demand, .0438%; cables, .0439, un- changed. Belgium franc, demand, -0781%; cables, .0782, up .0003. Mark: demand and cables, .0049, up .0001\. Greek drach., demand, .0440; cables, 0445, ap .0002. Swiss francs, -1942; cables, ers, demand, .3650; cables, .3655, up 3 Pesetas, 1498, off .0002, +2497; cables, .3502, off .0001. wegian kr., demand, .1570; cab! -1672, off .0003. Denmark’ kr., de- mand, .2003; cables, .2008, up .0002. plbraiaie Radha, ALL THEY CAN PRINT. IN HOUR IS DAY’S PAY Strike in Bolshevist Money Plant Settled With Limit of Bills to 500 Rubles Each, ‘Witam B. Lipphard, Assoctate Seo- retary of the American Baptists For- eign Mission Society, who has just ré- turned from Europe, told this story of @ Bolshevist labor dispute: Some printers, turning out paper money for the Government, strack for higher wages. The strike was finally settled by an agreement that each printer should be entitled to the the amount of money he could tarn ‘out in one hour each day, printing the notes for himself not higher in deno- Nor- tes, Manati Sugar . Martin Parry ... McIntyre P. Mines FOREIGN EXCHANGE OPENING. |Mex Petroleum... 112) cables, | Mis ra Middle States Oi. Midvale Bteel ... Mo, Kan @ Texas Mo Pacific .. New York Dock.. Norfolk Southern. Norfolk & Weat.. Northern Pacific. Nova Scotia Steel Pan-Am Petrol . Pan-Am Petrol B Penn RR. Penn S’board Steet People's Gee . Pieree Arrow . Repiogic Gtest Rep Iron & Bteel. Royal Dutch NY. €t L & Ben Fran. Bente Coo Suger. Buvage Arms ... Seaboard Air Line Geare-Roebuck pt Seneca Copper . Sinclair Ol . Mr. Lipphard distributed, with the help of the American Reliet Associa- Esthonia, Poland, Russia, Lithuania, esc ——|Austia, Ceccho-Slovakia, Germany| gtromvers . and France. —_—___.. CHNTRAL SYNAGOGUM TO oOmLE- BRATE 75TH ANNIVERSARY. ‘The congregation of the Central Syna- gosue will celebrate the 75th anne versary of the founding of the temple at exercises to be held Friday evening and Saturday and Sunday morning a} the synagogue, No. 652 Lexington A: The celebration will be closed wi banquet and dance at the Actor esa Blose-Sheff Bteel.. fo Porto Rico Sug Bouthern Pacific... Southern Ry . Southern Ry pf... Stand Ol of NJ Studebaker ‘Submarine ‘Texas Quit & Texes Company Tobaceo Products. Transcon Ot Union Ot Union Pactfic ‘)Pumt at the time when the enger) justice ho belives was recently done promises to begin to recuper-| him in tho market needs to be at- from months of depression, dur- tended to; that a squaring of @0-/ Ajax mubber 13% counts is in order. Which the financial tategrity of|“Tt"inay bo of some consolation to| WE Maer Mo ‘amy large corporations has been the| this operator to know that the house| Al Ones Lh am A nm au ©€ grave and justified sus-| which he beteves did not treat him dine ma {he Government threatens to|Mauarcly has since endeavored to] A” Nova wtenic. 31% action which the largest sugar| ("ter into a new deal with another! 4m Brake Shoe, S84 > ae sangre house whose business ethics arc)am Can ....... 96% Gatererts ay vow wn- | everywhere regarded as of the high-/Am Cr & Fery.. 146% @omovaled alarm. According to ad-/est order, but that its Invitation 20% ‘Wide received from Washington the | wns properly declined without thanks.|Am Drug Byrd. 4 Aan ints on pro: to ask Con- | i . ees Am Hé @ laner, 13% §ress to limit the importation of bo Blasco dabperrrmih dons = pi hacen’ ‘Port tariff thereon.. Foven the railroads are taking it up.| Am Locomotive. 106% Tt ts the view of some of the fore-|The Southern Pacific Company has|Am Bafety Rawor 4 most decided to offer to purchase in the|Am Ship & Com. 9% Geest trade atithorities that if such market stock for empl nd | Am Smelt & Ref 46% open et stoc loyees, ai ie cece ogy large Corpora~ |i vormit the employees to pay for the an Steel Fary.. 82 @ons ill again be placed in a very | «tock in instalmenta which are to be Perilous position. Not only that, but| deducted from pay checks, The offer Mf ts asperted that all measures taken | becomes offective Feb, 1 , @© relieve tho critical financial situa- me 18% 4 30% % Ye * He 178 bad 4 1% ou 8% 1TH eM 2™% mm oy ug o% 2% THE EVENING WORLD Open. High. Lew. Lam. | 8% 1% 8% 2% 80% BOK 30% 60% «GOK GOH 124% 32% said, “whether it was honest or dis- | {eke & Barker St BAK honest, Furthermore, it threw OUT} fupp Motors . 13% organization into contact with a class | minois Central.. 100% 101% of customers that were not desirable.” | Insptration Cop.. 40% 40% Mr. Hillas denied that any publicity [heed Cons ge 2% 8% campaign had been in any way re- | Inter Congo ™ % sponsible for the decision of the com- | "tr Gd Corp. fH 8% pany, He said it was the result of a|iner f#" Op Bf. 3 384 % growing conviction of the officers and | inter Motor 31% directors that the bail bond business | inter Paper .. 40% could not be handled, under present | Inter Mer Marine 14 4% conditions, without some abuses Lave ae ve brid omy t Nickel... 12% Giimeere de 4 Invinobte OW... 14% 15 Island OU .. 2% 3 Iron Products 28 2B Jones Tea . OR 3% Kelly Bpringticlé. 37% 87% Kennecott Copper 29% 29% Keystone Tire... 17 17 fi 16% 116% 1% 58% 1% 2% Un 39 108% 113 1% 7 79% oi% 143 8% 69) a7 16h 13) 14 | Service, Brooklyn Girl War Vamp Honor' Helen Drexler, Indicted, Ad- mits Wedding 16 Service Men and Drawing Allotments. CHICAGO, Jan. 25.—Helen Ferguson Drexler, an attractive girl of twenty- two, champion war ‘‘vamp,"’ has been indicted by the Federal Grand Jury for a series of frauds, whereby she drew the allotment from ten sol- | diers and satlors during the war and for some time afterward. The Gov- ernment officials have traced eight marriages, She has admitted that Wins Champion | she married sixteen, Miss Drexler was raised In Brooklyn. | “The first man I married was an{ auto salesman in Boston in 1918,"" she told Capt. Porter, head of the Secret “He was drafted and killed | in France. I received his allotment. | His name was Wilfred Taylor. Then I married John Kelly of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and got the second allot- ment. Then I married another sailor. “Dear me, I can't remember them all. Then I came to Chicago and soon after to Waukegan, near the) Great Lukes Station. There I mar-| ried three sailors in succession and | received allotments. They were Thomas J. Means, Patrick Moeller! and Paul Grayson. Albert Dresler. a soldier, was the last one. That was last ‘August. I think he was the six- teenth.” She said she received $400 morthly for almost three years. ‘I forgot that I had one daughter and told the Government that she was the daach- ter of each husband, and I got § month on cach name for her," pte oe GIRLS, LOOK OUT FOR | FURFURAL; IT’LL GET YOU. It’s in Cigarettes and Has a Kick ‘Like, Two Ounces of Whiskey, | Says Miss Gaston, CHICAGO, Jan. 25.--"Fuctural is| getting the girls,” is the way Lucy | Page Gaston, that ancient enemy of | cigarettes, puts it. * “The furfural poison in one ciga- rette has as much kick as two oynces ot whiskey,” declared Lucy to-day. “Young girls don't seem to realize this and are smoking as they never smoked before—especially the young girls of small towns. It is worse than any time in twenty years, A year ago there wes no smoking among small-town girls." The new element which smokers say may explain their passion for the new fad is defined in the Century Dictionary as ‘a colorless, aromatic, volatile, ofly compound’ gradually darkening, which 1s formed by distill- ing bran, starch, sugar, &c., with ‘ sulphuric acid."" OPen, High. Low. Un Retail Btores.. 55% 50% 545 UBS CI Pipe. St 20K USC Pipe pf. 0% 60% Ay U & In@ Alcohol 49% 42% 424 UB Realty &imp 0 6) BOK U 8 Rubber. 5K Edition of The Evening World.) Wins Original More than $10,000 was realized from the sale of tickets, programmes, boxes and concession booths at the annual Mozart-Clinic Pageant Bal Masque and Carnival at the Hotel Astor last night. This money will help to sup- port the Rast Side Clinic for Children at No. 325 East 84th Street, where the poor kiddies of the east side ob- tain free medical advice and medi- cines. The grand ballroom of the Astor was a riot of multi-colored miniature balloons, The booths—from sweet cider to laces and graces—were dec- orated in cubistic patterns. Pretty maidens flitted hither and yon, per- suading willing men to buy ticklers, paper streamers and confetti. There were 2,000 persons on the dance floor when ‘Nick’? Orlando's Orchestra softly luted “Home, Sweet Home" this morning at 3 o'clock. Everybody was in gay costume. The Three Musketeers vied with Napo- leon; harem girls haughtily scanned the raiment of modern jazz queens, At 11 o'clock the grand march be- gan. Mrs. Noble McConnell, founder and President of the Mozart Soclety, Striking Costumes Feature Bal Masque Held by Mozart Clinic at Hotel Astor 2,000 DANCE AT MASQUE BALL IN ASTOR FOR EAST SIDE CLINIC Mrs. Catherine Thompson, as Chinese Coolie, Costume Prize. vich jr., Mr. and Mrs. Corvan, M.. and Mrs. F. J. Bryson, and W. Hurd. They had room No. 218, where they trundling a toy choo-choo. Andres Pennen Brander was in hip boots an’ cockade hat—for Napoleon was hv. With him and smiling into his face was Mrs. I. F. Omiston in Chinese raiment. Mrs. Omiston, by the way, did not recognize her own brother-i law, Sammy Estabrook, because of his comica) garb. ‘Tis to snicker! And speaking of the Estabrooke, there was charming Evelyn, who danced prettily with Harold Lanchav tin. Mr. L. is her fiance. He admit- ted such to The Evening World’s ball reporter. Two little girls selling’ paper ticklers were the Misses May Moran and Eleanore Boerum. Ia white satin, with pastel shadeo stitched In gold, they were. Thoy worked at the Frivolity Booth. And there was Mrs. Charles Wheeler sc\'- led the procession. The Indies of the court—Mrs, Benjamin Adriance, Mrs. Owen Jane McWilliams, Mrs. Emma Seaman, Mrs. Herman Ganss, Mrs. Philip C. Boerum, Mrs. A. J. Powers, Mrs. Millie Ryan and Mrs. Adelaide L. McNamara—followed in her wake. They proceeded to the stage, wher> they reviewed the laughing lads and lasstes in pantalettes, ruffles, bodices and tights. “Sammy” Estabrook, husband of the chairman of the ball, won firs. prize for the funniest costum Garbed as a village bumpkin in blac and white check suit, with straw hat and huge red wig, Sammie was a scream. Mrs. Catherine Thompso.y in her Chinese coolie raiment, romped away with the most original prize money. “Pop'? Thompson, in grass neckpiece and huge peaked hat, hélped her put it over. The most beautiful costume pric was handed to Mme. Bozena Briil- lova with her Orfental dancing panta- ings. "Twas of gold gauzo panto lettes, gold Turkish hat, two snake Yraveleta On her right arm. Oh, boy The most picturesque costume (+: women was won by Mrs. Evelyn Cur- Her attire was black and whi Utah Copper “ og js Utah Securities... 10% 10% 104 |Check hoop silk skirt, short, tighi- Vanadium Steel. 35% 8% ggup (fitting jacket with fringo; a wh te Va Caro Chem... 20% 20 Wateau hat and a smal) muff wh ea f aro Chem pf 60% Oy she affected. Wadeah >.> iu 6% ‘The Throe Muuketeers, who acted as ‘ 4 suard of honor to Mrs, McConnait West Maryland, 8% 8% 8k A Taw Comp pt. 53% sé S%land her ladies of the court, wore mm Union .. 91% t1m big |soseph Root, J. Walter Hobertscn ana inghouse OL 1g |Krancis Schwoerer. Their huge coary Wheel @ LE 6% 4%, ay Of overcloth were embroidered with Motor 38% si ggig {gold maltese crosses on breast ong on sh 3% : y wore black velvet panta hb ~ sl baek: they wor et panta ‘Wittye-Overtan 5% my syiloons with a red stripe and kneo Woolwort 18% UK Lad ast |Loots f | One of the merriest’ groups was (Complete Stock Exchange | that composed of Lieut Harry Mier, and Curb Quotations Appear sf the Marine Recruiting Burau Daily in Wall Street Final and Mrs. Miller; Mrs. Emmi hn, Mrs, Jennie Hawkins, Mrs, McWilliams, Mrs. Fraay Baa pitock ing balloons. If you didn't buy a balloon you didn’t dance. So there! Fred Link and his five-year-old daughter, Helen, won first prise for an original bit of military pageantry. De- picting the dying soldier, Freddie put over apme good acting and had many persons looking serious. Garbed as a prospector, Watson J. Edwards, pick, bucket and staff, got a good hand when he appeared, And there were the Misses Muriel Cook and Julia Mader. Muriel as « Pierrotte, in white tulle pompoms and Copla hat. Julia as a Spanish senorita in red brocaded gown with jet mantilla. Pretty sixteen-year-old Dorothy Weir’ danced a solo number on her toes. Her nimble limbs pranced here and there. The booths and their hostesses were: Gold Bond, Mrs, Henry C. Hawkins; Eat, Drink and Be Merry, Mrs. Nel- lie B. Clabby; Putting Green, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar O, Challenger; Ye Olde Cider Mill, Mrs. Christine Hale Nick- erson. Shoot the Smokes, Mr. and Mrs, Josoph F, Martin; A Bit of Handiwork, Miss Kegina Dufft; A Bit of France, Mrs. George Albert Scha- dell; Laces and Grace, Mra. George W. Renn; Aladdin's Lamp, Mrs. ry Brethorst; Advertisin Mrs. Wil- iam Maynard Haradon; Marti Gras Shope, Mrs. Robert H. Davis; Buy a Bon Bon Shop, Mrs. Louis C. Frese and Mrs. Frank Netscher; Roman Dance, Mrs. S. Gardner Estabrook and Mrs, Kiehard A. Corroon. alienate HERO DIES AFTER SAVING CADDIE IN GOLF LINKS PONT ST. LOUIS, Jan —The herolam + A. G. Block, « golfer, was to-dsy made known when it was ‘earned ho died of Pneumonia which he contracted as the jresult of his plunge into the icy waters of 4 lagoon here, Jan. 8, to rewue Don on the thin ice to retrieve was buried to-day 1p practiced special dances and re- leased wise cracks about this «nJ} that. Undet the heading of “At the Eall,"’ the following persons might well be mentioned: Maude Jones, bobbed hair and Spahish costume Balloon, Mrs, Horace W. du Moulin; | ald Mana, nine, a caddie who ee Eeteage. | | Hil ree of tect tavesrigacions, R. SMEATON had the letters spread out on his desk when we went in, and Mt, Lind- sey looked them over, There were no more than half a dozen al- together, and they were mere scraps, os he had said—usually a few lines on half sheets of paper. Mr. Lindsey appeared to take no great notice of any of them but the last—the ore that Smeaton had quoted to us in the morning. But over that he bent for some time, examining it clonely, >a | sitence “1 wish you'd lend me this for a day or two,” he said at last. “I'll take the greatest cure of it; it shan't go out of my own personal possession, and Vil return it by registered post. ‘The fact is, Mr, Smeaton, T want to compare that writing with some other writing.” “Certainly,”’ agreed Smeaton, hand- ing the letter over.’ “I'll do anything 1 can to help you. I'm beginning, you know, Mr. Lindsey, to tear I'm mixed up in this, You'll keep me in- formed?" ‘We presently left Mr. Gavin Smea- ton, with a promise to keep him post- ed up, and a promise on his part that he’a come to Berwick, if that seemed necessary; and then we set out on our journey. The afternoon was wearing well into evening when we reached Largo, and found the police official who had wired to Berwick. There was not much that he could tell us, of his own knowledge. The cht, he said, was now lying in the harbor at Lower Largo, where it had been brought in by a fisherman named Andrew Robertson. | of course, went aboard, Mr. Lindsey, after being assured by me that this really was Sir Gilbert Carstairs’ yacht, remarking that ho didn't know we could do much good by doing 50. But I speedily made a (discovery of sin- gular and significant importance. Small as she was, the yacht possessed a cabin—there was no great amount of head-room in it, it’s true, and a tall man could not stand upright in it, but it was spacious for a craft of that size, and amply furnished with shelving and lockers. And on these lockers lay the clothe: Norfolk suit of grey tweed —in which Sir Gilbert Carstairs had set out with me from Berwick. I let out a fine exclamation when I saw that, and the other three turned and stared at me. “Mr, Lindsey,” said I, “look here! Those are the clothes he was wearing when I saw the last of him. And there's the shirt he had on, too, and the shoes. Wherever he is, and what- ever happened to him, he made a com- plete change of linen and clothing be- fore he quitted the yacht! That's a plain fact, Mr. Lindsey!"" ‘We all looked at each other, and Mr. Lindsey's gaze finally fastened it- self on Andrew Robertson, the fisher- mdf who had found the yacht and towed it In. “I suppose you don’t know any- thing about this, my friend?” he asked, “What should I know?” answered Robertson, a bit surlily. ‘The yacht’a just as I found it—not a thing's been touched.” “Supposing a man landed about the coast here,” asked Mr. Lindsey—“I'm just putting a case to you—and didn't go into the town, but walked along the beach—where would he strike a railway station now?” : A police official who had adcom- panied us replied that there were rail- way stations to the right and left of the bay—a man could easily make Edinburgh in one direction and St Andrews in the other; and then, not unnaturally, he was wanting to know if Mr. Lindsey wan suggesting that Sir Gilbert Carstairs had sailed his yacht ashore, left it, and that It had drifted out to sea again? “I'm not suggesting anything,” an- swered Mr, Lindsey, “I'm only spec- ulating on possibilities. And that's about as idle work as standing here talking. “And I am not certain, my Ind, that I belteve yon man Robertson's tale,"’ he remarked, as we were discussing matters from every imaginable point of view just before going to bed. ‘He may have brought the yacht in, but we don’t know that he didn't bring Carstairs aboard her. Why was that change of clothes made? Probably because he knew that he'd be de- scribed as wearing certain things, and he wanted to come ashore in other things. For aught we know, he came safely ashore, boarded a train some. where in the neighborhood, or at Largo itself-—-why not?--and went off, likely here, to Edinburgh—where he'd mingle with a few thousand folic, un noticed." We were in Berwick Pepys hour next morning, went straight to the police station and inro ithe superintendent's oMce. Chisholry | was with Mr. Murray when we walker Nin, and both men turned to us with werne: Here's more mystery about this ‘affair, Mr. Lindsey!" exctaimed Mur- at and en we We went off to the yacht then and | sj . During the oor he isa ona learn ier or bis mother, Dut that he kes Rad severel from fether, CHAPTER VIIlL. * - CComttvues.) |ray. “It's enough to make a men’s wits go wool-gathering. There's no news of Sir Gilbert, and Lady Car- stairs has been missing since 13 o'clock noon yesterday !"" ling nature, and now, In- stead of breaking out into exclamations, he just nodded his head, and dropped into the nearest chair. “Aye?” he remarked quietly. “So her ladyship's disappeared, too, has she? And when did you get to hear that, now?” “Half an hour ago,” replied Mur ray. “The butler at Hathercieugh House has just been in—driven over in @ hurry—to tell us. What do you make of it all?” “Now, here's an important ques- tion.” put In Mr. Lindsey, a bit har- | riediy, aa (f something had just atruok him. “Did you communicate the news @bout finding the empty yacht at Largo to Hathercleugh?” “We aM, at once.” answered Mur ray. “I telephoned immediately to Lady Carstaire—I spoke to her over the wire myvwelf. telling her what the Largo police reported.” “What time would that be?” asked Mr. Lindsey, sharply. “Half-past eleven,” replied Murray. “Then, accoming to what you tell me, she left Hathercleugh soon after vou telephoned to her?” said Mr. Lindsey. “According to what the butler told us this morning,” answered Murray “Lady Carstairs went out on her bi- cycle at exactly noon yesterday—and she’s never been seen or heard of ince.” “She left no message at house?’ asked Mr. Lindsey. None! And,’’ added the superin- tendent, significantly, ‘“‘she didn: mention to the butler that I’@ just telephoned her. It’s a queer business, this, I'm thinking. Mr. Lindsey.” “There's one thing must be done st once, Murray,’”’ he said; “and I'l) take the responsibility of doing it my- self, We must communicate with the Carstairs family solicitors."” “Write out this message: ‘Holm. shaw and Portlethorpe, Newcastle: Sir Gilbert and Lady Carstairs are both missing from Hathercleugh un ‘der strange circumstances; please send some authorized person here at once.’ Sign that with my name | Hugh—and take it to the Post Office and come back here."’ ‘When I got back, Mr. Lindsey had evidently told Murray and Chisholm a'l about my adventures with Sir Gt) bert, and the two men regarded me with a new Intereet as if J had sud denly become a person of the first importance. “Well, now that things have come to this pass,"’ sald Mr. Lindsey, “‘and after Sir Gilbert's deliberate attempt to get rid of Moneylaws—to murder him, in fact—I don’t mind telling you the truth. I do suspéct Sir Gilbert of the murder of Crone—and that’s why I produce that ice-axe. He knew ther I suspected him, and that's why he took Moneylaws out with him, intend ing to rid himself of a man that could give evidence against him. If Vd known that Moneylaws was goink with him, I'd have likely charged Sir Gilbert there and then!—anyway, | wouldn't have let Moneylaws go.” you snow something exclaimeq Murray. “You're in possession of some evidence that w+ know nothing about?’ “I know this--and I'll make you » present of it, now,'’ answered Mr Lindsey. “‘As you're aware, I'm a ti of a mountaineer—you know that I've spent @ good many of my holidays 1 Switzerland, climbing. Consequently T know what alpenstocks and fee axes are, And when I came to ré flect on the circumstances of Crone’s murder I remember that not so long since, happening to be out along the river side, IT chanced across Sir Gi! bert Carstairs using a very late type of ice-axe as a walking-stick—as he well could do, and might have pleke! up in his hall as some men'll pick up a golfstick to go walking with, and I've done thet myself hundreds of times. And I knew that I bad ao ice-axe of that very pattern at home —and so I fust shoved It under the doctor’s nose in court and asked hin if that nole in Crone’s head couldn't have been made by the spike of ii | Why? Because I knew that Carstairs would be present in court, and 1 wanted to see If he would catch wha: I was after!” *“*And—you think he did?” asked fhe superintendent, eagerry, “I kept the corner of an 4 him," answered Mr. Lindsey, know. \ingly. ‘‘He saw what I was after He's a clever fellow, that—but he took the mask of his face for the CHAPTER IX. LINDSEY was always one Of the coolest of hands at receiving news of a start- the thousandth part of a second. T'saw! The two hateners were & amaped by this that they sat in silence ¢ a while, staring at Mr. Lindsey with |9e8 ino ithed amazement, Do Net Miss To-Morrow’s Inte: instatment, —e