THE TURNER TRIBUNE VOL. m c N K ir , X. C L O S E TIA JUANA S A L O O N S TAX COMPROMISE F Work of Mexican Courts Speeded - Village Sleepy Again. Tin Juana, Mexico llolorii Ihn days <> iu c OF I P CURRENT WEEK $381,000,,000 Decrease This Year DT/iûed. C0EFEREES AGREED HatiAration by Both Houses Kxprrtrd Soon: Administration Re ported Satisfied. Washington, I). C. amounting lo Tax reduction $381 uuo.ooo this year and $343 000.000 thereafter finally was agreed upon Saturday by snnatn and housn conforms on th « revenue hill. Thin romproinlsn. whlrh must hr ratified by both branrhns of runxrrsa before lhr bill heroines law, represent* an IncroMe of about $50.000.0110 over the total written Into the blit by the house, hut Is I75.IHKI.000 less than was voted by the senate It was described at arrepiah l« to the administration as within the limits thn treasury ran sf ford. House conferees forced the restore tton lo the bill, with some modifies lions, o f taxes on Inheritances, auto mobile passenger cars, admlssiona and dues, which the sensln had voted to repeal Senate ronfereea on the other hand, obtained greater reductions In tome of the surtax rules than were voted by the house. While considerable dlasaltsfarllun was apparent on both sides as a re sult of the Inheritance tax compromise, which Involves allowance of a retro art I vo cut In this tax. leaders expect ed Immedlated ratification. The conference agreement on the points In dispute follows: Itestorallon of Iho modified Inheri tance tax ratea voted by the houso. In cluding the provision allowing 50 per rent credit on account of stale Inheri tance tax payments. itetroarllve cut In the inheritance tax whereby the lnrreaeed ratea voted In 1934 would be elemlnated In favur of the lower rates In the 1921 art. Allowance of the Increased reduc tions In the surtax rates applying on Incomes between $2(000 and $100,000 St voted by the senate. This Involves a saving of $23.000.000 annually to tux payers In this class. Repeal of the capital stork tax as voted liy the senate. Increase of the Incorporation tax. now l i l t per rent, to 13 per cent there after. Itestorallon of the to per cent tax on admissions and dues, but with un Increase In the exemptions to apply on tickets coaling 75 cent* nnd less, rather than 50 cents mid less, as voted by the house Itestorallon of the automobile pas senger car tax. with the rate reduc ed from 5 to 3 per cent. Retroactive reduction In the gift tax to make the lower rates In effect on Inheritances In the 1921 law effective. This tax. as far as the future la con cerned. Is repealed by the hill. Increase from $50,000 to $100.000 the exemption from the Inheritance tax. Increased reductions voted by the senate on cigar tnxca were accepted, but Its amendment to base discovery depletion allowances for oil nnd gas wells on 30 per rent of the gross In- rome was chnnged to make the rate 27 H per cent. The senate amendment lim iting the trensury lo two years In which to make assessments on tax returns was chang ed to three years. Four years Is now allowed. Constitution To Travsl. Washington, I). C. The frlgnte Con stitutlon "Old Ironsides.'* will again sail the seas under plans the navy de partment In making, this time along thn Atlantic nnd (lu lf coasts nnd pos sibly up the Mississippi river ns far as navigation will permit so that many of the school children nnd patriotic so cieties who are contributing to the fund for the restoration may see her. It will ho the first cruise o f the fnmous frigate nlnco 1579 when she carried the United States exhibit to the Parts exposition. She Is now at Iho Boston navy yard. Indiana to Get $122.(00. Washington, 1». C. Klnmnth Indians nrn to receive a per capita payment of $100 nut of the receipta from sales of timber on their reservation. The total amount to he distributed Is $122,- (00. Payment will be made In time to assist thn Indians in spring farming. Deposit', to the credit of the Klnmath Indians In the treasury now aggregate $14(,000 with additional available re ceipts amounting to approximately $(02,000. proliIlili Ion Tin Junnn was “ Bits of Best News Items From aloopy Mexican village. Today It sesm ed to have csmpletnd tbs cycle of Everywhere. gambling resort, drinking plant for thirsty Americans and alleged vice center and was again u drowsing set tlement. , Publicity following (he tragic sui cide of the four members of the Peleet family, the remitting cleanup orders of Governor Itodriguel of laiwer Califor Kvvnts o f Noted I'ruplr, Governments nia. nnd the usual Monday lark of rac and Pselffr Northwest, and Other ing have wrought thn change In the Things Worth Knowing. border town. In an almost bucolic setting. M ix lean authorities speeded the work of the courts In the murder ac-cusstlous Reduction by more than one half In which may result upon convictions In fees charged for automobiles entering sending seven men to fa r » s firing the seven national parks w s h annoum squad Padlocks were placed on the ed Malurday by the Interior depart doors of numerous saloons, officials ment. said, as a result of the i b un up orders The loss by theft of $ ( ( 950 In Jewels of Governor Rodrigues. was reported lo police In Pasadena. Development, in the prosccutlon of ^ SBmUy b> Mr„ W w . rd r , ' roa. the seven men accused of responsibil sett. She Is the wife of a wealthy ity for murder in connection with the Chicago lumberman. attacks upon Audrey aud Clyde P e te e t: and the resulting suicide from shame' The executive com m ute« of the na- of the Peleet family were the ordering grange haa ended Us tw oday of examination of the bodies of the two »esslon In Washington. I) C without girls by Mexican physicians and the Indorsing any of the farm bills now calling In of American doctors to cor- p en d in g before congress, rohorste testimony of Zensldo pianos, The most reverend Paul Kugene ex chief of police of Tla Juana, deny Roy, archbishop of Quebec, and Ro ing the attack charges against him. man Catholic primate of Cunada. died Judge I ’ rlss of the Mexican federal Saturday night In St. Krai.els d'Asstz! court Is expected lo decide soon wheth hospital here after a long Hint.;'. er evidence against thn seven men warrants trial on the murder and at Kurh man. woman and child In the tack charges. Cniled States cost the federal and P U T I N CONCISE FORM state governments approximately $55.71 In 1923, it was revealed by Nashville. Tenn. — Roadways were ligure» made public Saturday by the blocked here Monday morning In su national Industrial conference hoard effort to apprehend fugitives who shut Storm clouds appeared Saturday two policemen to death within (0 yards over the course of the compromise tax of police headquarters .1 1'ulsx.kl. r(M,u,.((un to by hHlut,. and Ti»nn . 81 mil«»* mwmy. »«•ñutí* conf«*n‘»**. but prompt rutifira Approximately 150 -hols sw .k en .d ||on of m f m a m by both.branches the little hamlet, three while men early next week was believed certain were aeeu to dash sway and the two by leaders. officers were found lying In an alley- Hundreds of educators, representing way. The policemen. Oeorge Dodson and Rud Jackson, comprised the on- 700.000 school teachers of the I'nited lire night force. One of them had States, congregated In Washington. D. emptied his gun while thn other’s pis- C „ Saturday preparatory to the open- tol had not been taken from Its hoi- Ing of the 56th annual convention of ster. the department o f superintendence of the National Kducatlon association. Bergdoll Facas Ouster. The senate Friday approved the Berlin Grover 0. Bergdoll, under H H j o t X t f g o l utInn previously adopted by arrest ou the charge of Impairing the ^ .......... b, morals of a minor, fares Ihe possibil the government in Ihe Philadelphia ity Of deportation, foreign office of- SPWJ0Y t.(.n "c é lé b ra ,lorn The flclals Indicated Monday, It the govern measure appropriates $2.186.500 for the ment decides he Is an "objectionable government's part In the celebration, alien.” $ 1.000,000 being for buildings and $1.- Tho government would not care 186.500 for Its direct participation. where llergdoll went, hut would have him escorted by a m ilitary guard to President Coolldge feels that failure of the senate to ratify the Italian debt whichever frontier ho chose. It has been learned that BergJoll settlement would serve to relieve Italy la held under the aectton of the penal of any obligation of negotiating an C 'x lo dealing with crimes against girls agreement. The president Is confident 14 years of age. that favorable senate action on the ---------------------------- Italian agreement will be obtained, al- Washlngton. D. C. — Indictments though he Rppearn to lie somewhat dis charging ex Secretary Fall, Harry F. turbed over Ihe opposition which has Sinclair and K. A. Doheny with con- developed, splrary In ronnectlon with the naval The arrest In Ihe I'nited Stales Sal oil leases were upheld Monday In Dts trlct of Columbia supreme court. |nrda’, of M" xioan 1,01111,R| r,,fu They were attacked In a demurrer amon* lh,>m A,fon» ° dp la filed by the defendants on the ground Huerta, brother of Adolfo de la lluertn. that Fall had no authority to award who ln 1925 lod ■ " ,vo11 a* aln,,1 l' T•“** the lease, and therefore that there d,' nt Obregon of Mexlcft. and Jorge could have been no conspiracy through ,,rlpl° '••ur- n» ' " » . rta's lieutenant, him to defraud the government, but haa' M« xlco C" * >,aP "r* ™ »der'*d Justice Stafford, who delivered the • bnrtlv* a" • " " " 'P » "U rt a revolu opinion, held them to be validly drawn ,,on ln ln Mnrt h- Two Pollcfm sn Shot Dead. Flre Hits Skyscraper. New York n , thubsdav , kebhuauy A «— “ W W W AAA W W W j STATE N E W S * IN B R IE F Pendleton Itnlnn have reduced the »now at Meachain. Back In thn hills Ihnr« In mill much m ow, hut not so of n Tin Jumm racetrack nnd Amer- Irmi < ; o The son of the famous Moorish chief- , a|n and brigand Raisull. who la fol- Fire In tho Equitable lowing In his father s footsteps, has building, one of Ihe greatest skyscrap- * rrlr‘‘d al Ta,roul * ,lh >n lndc‘,,' nd , ent Rlffian contingent. This will era. caused four alarms Monday morn- , . .. serve as a nucleus for other conttn- Ing. The fir«» started In an elevator composed o f various Rlffian shaft of the 44 story building, at Itroad- fnlthfuls” whlrh. when sufficiently way ami Pine street, near Walt street, trained, Raisull'n son asserts, will be From the shaft on the 24th floor utilised to attack Tetuan. the fire spread to adjoining offices Roy 0|maf#, d w p n u d ktnR o( Pa. and the nam e. Irnpd to the 40th floor. ^ rum runnpr„. am, 20 c(v Men making repair, at Ihe base of tho doteBdanU found KulUy Se. shaft were driven to safely. attle. Wash.. Saturday of conspiring to vlolnte Ihe national prohibition law Dance Causes Fatality. Eight co-defendants were acquitted. Seneca, Kan. Over-exertion while . They were: George Reynolds, patrol- dancing the Charleston ensued Iho Mra Kliso ( ) |,„stead, wife of Roy death last week of 17-year-old Evelyn charlea w Marvey. Myers of Ih l. city, her physician. Dr. ,lo, m|l|l. 0oldMnltlli w u b u r K . W. Rower, declared Monday. I Dow, a custom house broker; T. Dr. Rower asserted that Ihe extreme Takauch, John „ ,n. n(.„ro Physical exercise of the Charleston barb, reM rt otH<ratnr. and c . Is particularly dangerous for young W a)kl,r women and that It may easily Induce Inflammation of the peritoneum. A warning that an Increase In taxes may be necessary at the end of a year Br'ar Williams- was Issued Sunday by Chairman Green If. ns dey say, do sun has got worl's o f Ihe house ways amt means commit an' worl's ter burn, how come he tee. with flnnl action by congress In wants ter set dts 111' worl’ on Are? the pending $387.000.000 tax reduction Kooks ter me lak’ ho might watt till bill In prospect early this week. Tho It's time for do worl’ ter end, an’ then statement wns aimed at terms of tho fling de firebrands!-- Atlanta Constltu- bill as finally agreed upon in confer- tlon. enre between representatives of the senate and the house, nnd Mr. Green. Chinese Honeet Race who headed tho house conferees. In- Tlio Chinese as a race are said to slated that for the condition he pre- bo the moat honest people tn the dieted, “ the responsibility must rest world. | upon the senate." an, CThe i» a « . NO . BLACK QANG By CYRIL McNEILE CHAPTER 23. V I I — C o n tin u e d t— •* normall>' •« of “ And lie— poor — i devil, was quite an thn year. expert ln hie way. One of the three Rainier With thn addition of con men. Mr Atkinson—or what's left of tracts from the Woodland, Wash., sec him. Ginger M artin- an old friend of tion. the fruit and berry output of tho mine.” For a moment 31 r. Atkinson's heart local plant of the Allen-Hendrlckson Packing company will be doubled this stood atilt. One o f the three m en! year. Besides this, further plans for Then, where tn lleuveo’s name, were the other two? Increase In output are under way. “ One of the three. Inspector,” he Salem The work of preparing the said at length, steadying his voice. “ But what happened to the others?” plans for the proposed History build “That Is the amazing thing, sir,” an ing to bouse the First National bapk swered the Inspector. “ I can but think here began Monday. Actual construc that though three men entered the o f tion will gel under way early In May.' fice downstairs, only Martin ran have been ln bere at the time of ttie explo It was said. sion.'' lie pulled hack the blood Eugene.- The first convention of the stained rug. and with a shudder Mr. Oregon Auto Camp association met, Atkinson contemplated what was un at the chamber of commerce here Mon-j derneath. The mangled remnants had day. Invitations had been sent out by formed one man and one man only. Melvin Hansen of this city, president Then wbat, he reflected again— what nf the association, to more than 3i>0 had become o f the other two? They had been ln there— the lead auto camp owners of the state. er of the Black Gang and one o f his McMinnville. Mayor Wright and W. pal*. There was no trace o f them S. Kink, members of the McMinnville now. Wherefore, somehow, by some water and light commission, left re miraculous means they must have es cently for I-os Ang- les. where they caped, and the soul of Count Zadowa will Inspect several plants to gain in grew sick within him. Suddenly he became aware that the formation before the Installation of a Inspector was asking him a question. 600 horsepower engine ln the munici “ Why. yes." he said, pulling himself pal plant here. together, “ that Is so. I was leaving Eugene. The A. D Kern Construc this office here, and had removed al tion company o f Portland has started most everything o f value. Only some work on the new Kugene municipal diamonds were left. Inspector—and water supply system at the McKenzie they were in that desk. I have some what extensive dealings In precious river end on the eight-mile pipe line stones. Was there any Dace of them and good progresa has been made on found?" a tunnel under the river through which The Inspector laughed grimly. the main will extend. “ You see the room for yourself, sir. Pendleton. — Information collected But that perhaps supplies us with the motive for the crime. I am afraid the last several weeks relative to crops your diamonds are either blown to and methods o f farming on the Uma pieces, or ln the hands of the otb;r tilla Irrigation project is being dis two men, whom I have every hope of cussed by farmers of the project and laying my hands on shortly. There !s speclallata in agriculture during the no Dace o f them here.” tw oday economic conference that la In the hands o f the other two men! under way at HermKton. The Idea was a new one, which had not yet come Into Ida calculations, so Falls City.— A large buck deer, pur convinced lind he !>een that all three sued by dogs, ran Into a fence here men were dead. And suddenly he felt Saturday and broke tla neck. Henry a tort of blinding certainty that the Stevenson, deputy game warden from inspector— though In ignorance o f the Salem, went up the creek in search of real facts o f the case— was right In s hunter with dogs, but found Instead his surmise. Diamonds are not blown C. A. McDonald and A. W. W att fish to pieces by an explosion; scattered ing out of season. They were fined. they might be— disintegrated, no. He $25 each in Justice court. The deputy felt be must get away to consider this new development. VaraFn took the deer's carcass. m * ■* He crossed over to the Jagged hole E ugene—The Kugene water board ln the wall and looked out. “Thi# has rather upset me. Inspec has announced a reduction in rates "The for home and commercial purpose*. tor," he said, after a while. South Surrey hotel ln Bloomsbury While not a great deal ot_ difference will always And me." will be noticed in a single month's “ Right, s ir !" Ttie Inspector made a bill. IP-was stated by C. A. McC.lain. note, and then leaned out through the superintendent of the municipal pub hole with a frown. “ Get out o f this, He utilities, the reduction In revenues you there! Go on. or I'll have you Tor a year will amount to between locked up as a vagrant!" “ Or! rite, orl rite! Can't a bloke $8000 and $10.000, according to esti 'ave a bit o' fun when 'e ain't doing mates. no ’arm?" Salem.—W ith an Increase of 236 per The loafer, who had been Ignomlnl- cent over January of 1924 and of 71.5 ously moved on from the front door, per rent over the same month of 1925. scrambled down from the lenn-to roof the prospects for a record-breaking behind, nnd slouched away, muttering harvest of tour1“ !» and home-seekers darkly. And he was still muttering traveling lo Oregon by motor vehicle to himself as he opened the door o f a taxi a few minutes later, into which for 1926 Is very auspicious, if the non Mr. Atkinson hurriedly stepped. For resident motor vehicle registration a moment or two he stood on the pave with the secretary of state for the ment until It had disappeared from month of January. 1926, can be regard v ie w : then his prowling propensities ed as an augury. seemed to disappear Is If by magic. Still with the snnie shnmbllng gntt, but Ashland.— A new February record apparently now with some definite ob was set here recently when 30 non ject In his mind, he disappeared down resident automobiles were registered a side street, finally coming to a halt He at the Ashland chamber o f commerce. before a public telephone-box. Heretofore 15 has been the highest gave one rapid look round, then he nember of such cars registered tn any stepped Inside. "M ayfair 1234." He waited beating one day In February. Automobile park officials report that from four to six a tattoo with hts pennies on the box. Tilings had gone well that morning— tourists are camping each night ln very well. the park, a much higher average than "Hello, Is that you, Hugh? Yes, at this time last winter. Peter speaking. The man Atkinson Is Monmouth.— Representatives of tho the hunchback. Stopping South Sur I ’ tah-Idaho Sugar company, with a rey hotel. Bloomsbury. He's Just got Into a taxi and gone of? to the Rltx. plant at Bellingham. Wash., were per He seemed peeved, to roe. . . . Yes. suaded by Mrs. Winnie Rraden to look he Inquired lovingly about the what over lands adapted to sugar-beet rais nots. . . . What's that? Y'ou’ll tod ing in Folk county, and after a visit dle round to the Hits yourself. Right to the Independence district made the ho! I'll come. too. Cocktail time. statement that there were 500 acres Give you full details then." The loafer stepped out o f the box of lund in that vicinity that can be put to profitable use in the growing and shut the door. Then, still sucking of sugar beets. Nearly ten yehrs ago a filthy clay pipe, he shambled off ln the same crop was discussed as a the direction of the nearest Tube sta tion. A slight change o f attire before moans of supplanting hops, nnd con lining up nt the ltll* seemed Indicated. side rabie sentiment was aroused over And It would. Indeed, have been n the prospect. shrewd observer w!B> would have Iden tified the immaculately dressed young Salem.— On February 5. there had gentleman who strolled Into the ltitx been 135.476 motor vehicle licenses is shortly before twelve o'clock with the sued for the year 1926. which Is 4872 dissolute-looking object who had so in excess o f the number of licenses Is aroused Ihe wrath of the police a few sued to the same date of 1925. ThU hours previously In Hoxton. The first number Is In excess o f the number of person he saw sprawling contentedly licenses Issued In previous years up In an easy chair was Hugh Drum to the same time and compares most mond. who waved his stick In greeting. Peter Darrell took the next chair, favorably with the progress of motor and his eyes glanced quickly round vehicle registrations nnd has been ac the lounge. complished notwithstanding the great “ Have you seen him, Hugh?” he amount of additional work required by said, lowering Ids voice. " I don't see reason of the putting into operation, anything answering to the bird grow for the first time this year, of the new ing about the place here." certificate of title law. "N o," answered Hugh. "But from discreet Inquiries made from old plm- ply-faoe yonder 1 find that he ar Easy Method rived here about ten o'clock. He was A reputation for wisdom may be ac at or.ee shown up to the rooms o f a quired by applauding the opinions of gent railing himself the Reverend one's neighbors.- Boston Transcript. | Theodosius I.ongmoor, where, as far as 1 can make out, he has remained ever S A P P E R CopyrtqM by GEORGE H DORAS CO 17. M U St iw c B since. I want to see the Reverend Theodosius I-ongrrioor, J'eter.” A hall o f wool rolled to his feet, and Hugh stooped to pick It up The own er was a girl sitting close by. busily engaged in knitting some obscure gar ment. and Hugh bunded her the wool with a bow. “ Thank you so much!“ she said, with a pleasant smile. “ I'm afraid I'm always dropping my wool all over the place." “ lH>n’t mention It," remarked Hugh politely. “ Deuced agile little thing— a ball o f wool. Spend my life picking up my wife's. Everybody seems to be knitting these Jumper effects now." "Oh, this Isn’t a Jumper,” unswered the girl a little sadly. “ I've no time for such frivolities as th at You see, I've Just corue back from the famine stricken parts of Austria—and not only are the poor things hungry, but they can't get proper clothes. So Just a few o f us are knitting things for them—stock sizes, you know— big, medium, and small.“ “ How fearfully Jolly o f yon !” said Hngh admiringly. “ Dashed sporting thing to do. I must tell my wife about It. She's coming here to lunch, and she ought to turn 'em out like bullets from a machine gun— what?" The girl smiled faintly as she rose. "It would he very good o f her If she would help,” sire remarked gently, and then, with a slight bow, she walker] away In the direction of the lift. “ You know, old sou." remarked Hugh, as he watched her disappearing, “ it's an amazing affair when yon real ly come to think of It. 1 here's that girl with a face far superior to a patched boot and positively oozing vir tue from every pore. And yet. would you leave your happy home for her? Look at her skirts— five Inches too long; yet she'd make a man an ex cellent wife. A heart o f gold probably, hidden beneath Innumerable strata of multi-colored wools." Completely exhausted he drained his cocktail, and leaned back In his chair, while Peter digested the profound ut- "Thank You So Much!” She With a Pleasant Smile. Said, terance ln silence. A slight feeling of lassitude was beginning to weigh on him owing to the atrocious hour at which he had been compelled to rise, and he felt quite unable to contribute any suitable addition to the conversa tion. Not that it was required: the ferocious frown on Drummond's face Indicated that he was in the throes of thought and might be expected to give tongue ln the near future. " I ought to have a bit o f paper to write It all down on. Peter," he re marked at length. “ Where are we, Peter? That Is the question. Point one: we have the diamonds— more by luck than good management. Point tw o: the hunchback gentleman who has a sufficiently strong constitution to live at the South Surrey hotel In Bloomsbury has not got the diamonds. Point three: he. at the present moment is closeted with the Reverend Theodo sius Longmoorupstairs. Point four: we are about to consume another cocktail downstairs. W ell—bearing that Uttle lot In tulnd, what happens when we all meet ?” A slight snore was tils only answer, und Hugh continued to ponder on the obscurity of the situation In silence. That several rays o f light might have been thrown on It by a conversation then proceeding upstairs was o f no help to him ; nor could he have been expected to know that the fog of war was about to lift in a most unpleasant ly drastic manner. "Coincidence? Bosh I" the girl with the heart of gold was remarking nt that very moment. "It's n certainty. Whether he's got the diamonds or not I can't say, hut your big friend of last night, Zadowa, Is sitting downstairs now drinking a cocktail in the lounge.” “ Amazing though It Is. It certainly looks as If you were right, my dear,“ answered her father thoughtfully. “ O f course I'm righ t!” cried the girl. "W hy, the darned thing Is slicking out and barking at you. A big man. Christian name Hugh, was In Zadowa's office last night. Uugli Drummond Is downstairs at the moment, having actually tracked Zadowa here. of course, they’re the same; an Infant ln anna could see It. Ills wife la coming bere to lunch. You remember her — that silly little fool Phyllis Benton? And they live ln Brook street, ft might be worth trying. I f by any chance he has got the diamonds— well, she'll be very useful. And If be hasn't she shrugged her shoulders, “ we can easily return her If we don't want her." The Reverend Theodosius smiled. Longwlnded explanations between the two o f them were seldom necessary. Then be looked at hla watch. “Short notice." he remarked: “ but we'll try. No harm done If we fail." He stepped over to the telephone, and put through a call. And having given two or three curt order* he came slowly back Into the room. “ Chances o f success very small. I'm afraid ; but as you say, my dear, worth trying. And now I think I'll renew my acquaintance with Drummond." With a short chuckle he left the room, and a minute or two luter a benevolent clergyman, reading the Church Times, was sitting ln ttie lounge Just opposite Hugh and Peter. Through half-closed eyes Hugh took stock o f him, wondering casually If this was the Reverend Theodosius Long moor. And when a few minutes luter the clergyman took a cigarette out of bis case, and then commenced to fum ble ln hla pockets for matches which be had evidently forgotten. Hugh rose and offered him one. “Allow me, sir," he mnrmured. hold ing It oat. “ I thank yon, sir.” said ttie clergy man. with a charming smile. “ I'm so terribly forgetful over matches. As a matter of fact l don’t generally smoke before lunch, but I've bad such a dis tressing morning that I felt I must have a cigarette Just to soothe my nerves.” “ By Jove! that’s bad," remarked Hugh. “ Bath water cold, and all that?" “ Nothing so trivial, I fear,” said the other. “ N o ; a poor man who has been with me since ten has Just suffered the most terrible blow. I could hardly have believed It possible here ln Lon don, but the whole of his business premises were wrecked by a bomb last night.” “ You don't say so," murmured Hugh, sinking Into a chair, and at the table opposite Peter Darrell opened one eye. "A ll bis papers— everything— gone. And It has hit me. too. Quite a re spectable little sum of money—over a hundred pounds, gathered together for the restoration of the old oak chancel ln my church— blown to pieces by this unknown miscreant. It’s hard, sir. It’s hard. But this poor fellow's loss Is greater than mine, so I must not com plain." The clergyman took off his spec tacles and wiped them, and Drummond stole a lightning glance at Darrell. The faintest shrug of his shoulders Indi cated that the latter had heard, and was as much tn the dark as Hugh. That this was the Iteverend Theodosius Longmoor was now obvious, but nhat a charming, courteous old gentleman! It seemed impossible to associate guilt with such a delightful person, and, if so, they had made a bad mistake. It was not the hunchback who bad thrown the bomb; they were up an other blind alley." For a while Hugh chatted with him about the outrage, then he glanced at his watch. "Nearly time for lunch. I think," said the clergyman. “ Perhaps you would give a loueiy old nmu the pleasure of your company." “ Very nice o f you. but I ’m expecting my wife,” said Hugh. “ She said she'd be here at one. and now It's a quarter past. Perhaps you'll lunch with us?" “ Charmed," said the clergyman, tak ing a note which a page boy was hand ing to him on a tray. “ Charmed." He glanced through the note, and placed it In his pocket. "The ladles, bless them! so often keep us waiting." " I ’ll Just go nnd ring up," said Drum mond. “ She may have changed her tulnd." Hugh returned looking worried. “ Can't make It out, Peter," he said anxiously. “ Jnst got through to Denny, and Pbylli 'e ft iiulf an hour ago to come here." "Probably doing a bit of shopping, old man." answered Peter reassuringly. “ 1 say. Hugh, we’re blooniered over this show." Hugh glanced across at the table where the clergyman was sitting, and suddenly Peter found his arm gripped with a force that made him cry out. He glanced at Hugh, and that worthy was staring at the clergyman with a look of speechless amazement on Ills face. Then tie swung around, and his eyes were blazing. "P e te r !” he said tensely. “ Look at him. The one trick thut gives him away every tim e! Blooniered, have we? Great heavens above, man. It's Carl Peterson!" A little dazedly Darrell glanced at ttie clergyman. He was still reuding the Church Times. (T O B S CONTINVJBD.» Hard Luck She— These Bowers don't seem to have any odor. He— No, the florist told me I couldn't get a smell for loss than * 10 . Money lost In speculation Is dropped by men who are trying to pick It up.