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SERIAL STORY Chronicles if Addington Peace By B. Fletcher Robinson <«. CùapiuAn) THE MYSTERY OF THE CAUSEWAY (Continued.) "The detective gentleman wired said that be wanted to see me.” Warner, anxiously. "Do you know why. str?" I told him no. and be dropped into an uneasy silence. 1 amused myself by walking from picture to picture, for the walls were hung with splen- did portraits—Gainsborough. Lely and Romney—it was a veritable exhibition of those great masters At last tbe door opened and the little man ap peared. glancing from one to the other of ua with bls shrewd, observ ant eyes. "Will you follow me. If you please?" be said We tramped up the great staircase, a wide sweep of polished oak. where a dozen men could have walked abreast, and su down a hlgh rooted passage into a majestic bedroom. In the center stood a venerable four-post bedstead. The columns that support ed the canopy were finely carved, and over the head was a faded coat of arms pictured In the needlework of two hundred years ago The lattice windows were open From without came the faint piping of the nestling driven tn. The rushes about It were had been long, and that they had quar EASY TO LIVE FOR CENTURY broken here and there. The conclu reled violently on the stairs. sion of a spring gun was obvious, “ 'You shall never so much as see Body Can Be Trained to Become Per fect Servant of the Will, De and the reason suggested by the track the place. If you gu ’here before set clares Professor. of foxes along the edge of tbe reeds. tling with tne I communicate with the Was tbe death an accident, after all? police at once.* He remembered some Dr Frank Ellsworth Allard. profss- If so. what business had the stranger such threat shouted by Fenton on The second Interview had lor of physical economics at the Boa uuder arrest—Fenton. I now find, la leaving hts name—upon the island at so late been short, and. so far as bo knew, ion university tuedlca! school, .bo- loves that 100 years should be tho av- an hour? friendly. "My conversation with the keeper “I made a careful search of Str An •rage life of man. th« Now York Iler- gave me some Interesting results, It drew's roots It waa there that I lid's correspondent writes "The old was plainly murder, and no accident. solved the problem of tho mystery: biblical passage anont the life of man Some one had raised the muzzle of tor in hts dressing case was an old being three score years and ten Is put tbe gun so that it might kill a man 'makeup' box, no doubt a survival Into our head at Sunday school." said and not a fox. Some one had ex from hts days upon the stage; and In Dr. Allard, "and we later accept II as i matter of course It la unfortunate pected a visitor to the island that the box was a full brown beard!" ' night against whom he desired to re- "And so he waa the botanist?” 1 that wo have the limit of life In mind. We ought to live to be 100. All disease I venge 'himself. Was Fenton guilty? said with a shiver. la a process of disintegration. The evidence against bint seemed al “Yes. Mr. Phillips. "I believe that every disease of ev most conclusive He had admitted. anlst” I you will remember, that he had an There was silence between us for ery name and nature begins primarily appointment with Sir Audrew Yet. a while, 1 look«*«! up at the splendid n the breaking of seine of nature's | after he bad set the trap, why had front of the ancient hall, and then laws. I believe that the body may be | he continued to risk discovery by across the lawns, over the sparkling so trained that It becomes a perfect - loitering about the causeway? How mere to the park and the forçât tanda tenant of the will. Tho keeping of nature's laws Is the most perfect form had he known that the spring gun was beyond. ( there at all? Why bad he brought a "Waa tt for this?" I a »kfd with a of morality. “To my way of thinking, we must ' loaded revolver? Why had he bor- wave of the hand. ' rowed the punt and rea<:hed the "Yes.1 said Peace. "1 believe It to look to sanitation for the solution of Island by so unexpected a manner? have been for Alrlle Hall that he our health problems. "Insurance statistics show that Waa he zdso afraid of some one or tried to kill Fenton Heaven knows some thing? My mind began to turn what dismal scandnl the man held among Insured Ilves of men between I from him to the second stranger, the over him; but It was probably sufll- the ages of 45 and 55 tho death rate Is botanist with the collecting case. He cient to drive Sir Andrew from Eng- greater than ever before. They would at least had information about tbe land for ever. From Inquiries that live longer and accomplish more If setting of the gun we have made. It appears that Fen- they ate less, drank less and Indulged “There was still a further potnt ton had been living on Sir Andrew for In dally periods of rest and recrea Sir Andrew had been shot full In the over two years. It waa undoubtedly a tion. "There are thousands of women— chest. If he had been walking down bad cuse of blackmail. The young tbe causeway he would have been nit man. on hearing of his uncle's death, and not a few men whose health la Idle- tn the side. How was that? gave hts persecutor tbe slip, and being sapped by the habits of neaa and gossip. These people aro “Yesterday morning after I sent crossed to lxmdon. Fenton followed, you away I walkeu Into the village and discovered him at his hotel. Prob laz.v. mentally and physically, and to make inquiries. They have few ably he demanded a large sum. which their viewpoint on life is purely per- visitors, and the landlord of the Inn waa refused him. Whereupon he de zonal and usually petty. Laziness gives rise to sluggish livers and un- remembered the bearded naturalist, clared that the baronet should never healthy habits of Introspection, which He had only once visited the place. so much as see Alrlle Hall unless be driving over from the station, and dis paid, and left the young man with in turn breeds neurasthenia and Im- aginary Ills that become real so far appearing for several hours. A hot- that threat upon him. aa the sufferings of the patient are tempered man. nervous and excitable "For days Sir Andrew stayed sulk —so he described him. When the cab ing tn his rooms. He waa a man of concerned. "Intemperance In the ase of alco was late he had broken out In a for- ] violent temper and unscrupulous past. holic stimulants Is. perhaps, the great est curse of our age The whole prob ISEN WITH A GENTLE HAND HE LIT TED THE 3HHT- lent of drunkenness should be dealt with as a mental affliction, a weaken Ing of the will "The old line practitioner is bound to pass The family doctor as we know him today Is doomed to extinction. His place will be taken by the physi cian who will fulfill the real meaning if the word, which Is 'teacher.1 " Hints on Exerclss. birds Upon the bed la; something covered with white sheeting. Peace walked paused, staring hard at the keeper, who stood beside me. Then with a gentle hand be lifted the sheet. On the pillow lay the head of an elderly man. dark and full bearded. Warner stepped back, clutching my arm. “It's the botanist." he stammered. “What Is he doing here? Waa It film as killed my master sir?" "Yes." said the little detective; "he killed Sir Andrew Cheyne.” For a moment he stooped, busying liimself about the bead. With a gen tle pull be lifted the heavy beard away. It waa a face younger by a score of years that !ay upon the pil lows. a face handsome, after its fash ion. though deep lined with evil days and ways. "Sir Andrew himself,” cried Warner, with a sob of terror "That Is - also true," said Inspector Addington Peace, reverently replac ing the white sheet. It was an hour afterwards that Peace gave me the details. We were leaning against the stone balustrade of the terrace looking over the lake to the pleasant park land beyond. The breeze-swept rushes that marked the line of the causeway, the gables of the island pavilion that peered above the foliage, lay to our right, framed tn the rippling blue of the mere “My first Important discovery." be said, "was a strand of pack thread tied to a young sapling at the spot where the body of Sir Andrew was found. On the other side of the path was a narrow hole between the slabs of granite, where a peg had lately her'- LAST OF A RACE OF KINGS Michael, Prince of Cyprus. Jerusalem and Syria, Died Recently in Charity Hospital. In the charity ward of a hospital In St. Petersburg there died of can cer a few days ago the last of a dynasty of famous kings This pauper -was Michael, prince of Cyprus. Jeru salem and 8yrla, aged fifty-four With him perished the family of Lusignan, which had been reigning monarchs for many centuries. Prince Michael was the only eon of Louis de Luslgnan. who was driven from the throne of Cyprus by the Turks tn 1821. He bad Intrusted his vast treasures to the Patriarch of Constantinople, but the Turks confis cated these and appropriated them to their own use. In the war for the liberation of Greece the prince tried to regain his throne, but In 1827 he had to flee to Russia, where Czar Nicholas gave him a commission as captain In the army. Prince Louis fought In the Crimean 01 «WC elgn tongue. That waa all he knew of him. "1 caught the 3:15 to London and found Scotland Yard in the possession of some additional details. Sir An drew had been tn town for a fortnight living very quietly at a small hotel off Piccadilly. He had no servant with him. He had been a wild, extrav agant lad. they told me. and when his uncle had tired of paying his bills be had tried the stage, got deeper into debt, and finally fled to the Continent, where he lived on a small allowance that the old man made him. All this struck me as curious. The rake bad Indeed reformed if he heralded bls accession to great wealth by dropping a servant and living quietly In a small hotel. Had he other reasons than economy ? “1 visited the hotel that night. Sir Andrew had received few visitors, the porter told me I described tbe botanist, without success Then 1 tried Fenton The porter recognized my description at once He bad called twice, the first time shortly after Sir Andrew’s arrival, the second time on Tuesday evening. Tbe waiter who bad taken him up to the baronet's sitting -,om told me that tbe first Interview war. but the result of this was disas trous to his hopes When Greece re gained Its Independence the throne of the newly created nation was twice offered to Prince Louis, who refused It. Napoleon III. took up Prince Louis' cause and Count Debussy made a for mal contract to supply him with the necessary means. He expected to wring from the Turkish government about 1250,000,000. Hut the Franco- Prussian war resulted In Napoleon III. being driven from the throne of France and once more the hopes of Prince Louts to regain the throne of Cyprus, Jerusalem and Syria were dashed to the ground. in 1884 Prince Louis died, leaving his only son nothing but aspirations and a royal name. Prince Michael was then 24 years old. He lived al most as a recluse, but never gave up his hopes. Those who knew him con sidered him a crank because of the strange costume he always wore This consisted of a Russian army overcoat with gold buttons on which were the three crowns ot b4s-kingdom. ' Heaven knows what schemes of re- venge he hatched In bls rage and de spalr. Finally, on Monday last, ne risked discovery, disguised himself In the beard «nd went down to see the old place again. His meeting with the keeper was a chance, and their talk of spring guns an equal accident. But the suggestion gave the baronet an Idea. 'A spring gun tor a fox'— you remember his words as Warner told us He laughed with hysterical joy at a means that would rid him of bls enemy so simply and certainly. He made the excuse of tbe Indian friend, and saw Fenton again on Tuesday, giving him an appointment on the island at eleven o'clock on tbe following Thursday night, and at the same time promising to pay him what be asked at the meeting. By the last post on Wednesday be sent the plana to Warner In disguised hand- writing and under a false name and address "Fenton suspected this sudden ao- quiescence. Tbe scamp knew to what a state of Impotent fury he bad brought bis victim He took a revolt- er with him, and having spied out the ground. crossed by the punt, instead of approaching the rendezvous by the causeway Also he came an hour and more before he was expected. "Perhaps you now understand the plan. Sir Andrew Intended to alter the gun and leave for the station be fore ten. Fenton would be killed at eleven, and the blame rest on Warn er. No one could suspect tbe young baronet who would be In the train at the time of the accident. "Sir Andrew found the trap, lifted tbe gun off the supporting props, and drove the outer one a foot deeper into the ground. I could see the marks of bls feet, where he had stood while he pushed and twisted the stick through tbe clay. He replaced the gun. which would now be at an angle to htt a man In tbe chest or neck. He stepped back, looking to see If there was a sign of lurking death to alarm a passer by. "What happened I can only guess. He may have slipped on the old slabs. But It was enough that he touched the thread, and the trigger, oiled and eased by Warner, jarred off at once. It was In a manner suicide.” "Bo that Is tbe explanation," I said, when he bad ended. "It is partly guess-work, of course,” Peace told me; "but I think you will find that I am not far wrong when Fenton’s trial comes on and, to save his neck, he makes a clean breast of his share In the business.” (CHRONICLJM TO BK CONTINUUM Exercise favors the growth bone and muscle. It quickens elimination of waste products. It celerates the work of the liver, lungs, the skin and the kidneys, makes more active the brain It bright ens the eye, clears tho skin and tones up the whole organism The appe tite Is made keener and digestion Is aided by a greater appetite for food But while exercise Is absolutely necessary to health and to perfect digestion, it does not always achieve this end, as, .for Instance, when It Is taken too soon before or after meals. No one should exercise Imme diately preceding or following a meal, one hour before and two hours after eating being the better time. It is fairly safe, however, to fix the time preceding a meal at one hour, for the stomach is then somewhat empty.— Health and Strength. Hydropathic Hydophobls. A story Is being told of a rather brusque young doctor who had among his patients at the surgery, one day a rather dirty infant, carried by an even dirtier mother. After glancing at the child he said gravely: "This child Is suffering from hydropathic hydrophobia." The mother gave an agonized wall: "Oh, doctor, whatever shall I do?" "Wash Its face,” said the doctor promptly. "Wash Its face, and the disease will come off wlt|> the dirt.” The woman flared up angrily. "Wash Its face!” she repeated In a shrill voice. "Wash Its face, Indeed! What ever next!" "Wash your own!" retorted the doc tor. "Wash your own!” The consultation closed In some con fusion. Parrot at Prayers. One morning our family prayers were Interrupted in a comical way. A Captain Druid and his wife were stay ing with us for a few days Having no child their affections centered In a gray parrot on whose education most of their time was spent. For fear of accidents ho was not allowed in the breakfast room till after pray ers. One morning, however, by some mischance, he was there, but behaved with becoming decorum until prayers were nearly over. My father had got into the middle of the I-ord's Prayer, when, in a loud voice, Poll cried out: "As many as are of the contrary opinion will say 'aye,' contrary, 'no.' The 'ayes’ have It.” As I need hardly say, prayers were finished under difficulties.—From Sev enty Years of Irish Life, Devoted Adherent of Nicotine. Charles Kingsley, author of "West ward Ho!" stands high In the list of clerical smokers. "My father used to tell,” writes A. C. Benson, "bow once he waa walking with Kingsley round about Eversley, when Kingsley sud denly stopped and said, 'It’s no use; I know you detest tobacco, Benson, but I must have a smoke.’ And he had accordingly gone to a big furze bush and put his arm In at a hole and after some groping about produced a big churchwarden pipe, which he filled and smoked with great satisfaction, afterward putting It Into % hollow tree, and telling my father, with a chuckle, that he had concealed pipes all over the pariah to meet the exi gencies of a sudden desire to smoke.” I Daddy Crow got over his fright ha flew back to the road and dropped down to look at the creature that had scared hint nearly out of his senses. He walked around tho broken clam several times, then going quite close to hint ho stuck Ills bill out and pecked at the meat, lie found It so delicious he walked boldly up and devoured the last morsel of It and then stopped back with a satisfied look, congratulating himself ou his extreme good fortune. "That la tho sweetest meal I ever had In all my Ilf««." ho said "I feel like n now creature. But poor little lame Billy! I waa so hungry I for got all about him llut never mind, little Hilly shall have just i s eood a dy CALEB B. WHITFORD. meal as I have had." and away ho A very wise old crow that lived in flew to thu shore to catch «author the north with his big tribo found thu clam. Very Soon he returned and hovered winters were too severe for him so he concluded to take the crows, over over the road with a clam In his which he ruled, and migrate to a claws. In a little while the clam was more southern country where It was dropped and lay broken In the road not so cold llut when he called tho Then Daddy Crow went to Ills roost crows together to advlso them of bls In tho cedar swamp, whore he found decision to take them to a warmer little Inme Billy waiting for him clln.ate they made some objections to "My! My!" was little Hilly's greet going to a now country. ing. "You look so bright and cheer "We are doing very well bore, ful and your craw sticks out ao I said young Jimmy Crow suspect you have found something "You must not forget," answered good to eat! But I've got bad news the old crow, "that I am a very wise for you." bird 1 have lived here a great many "Never mind the bad news! I'va years and have taught most ot you got good news! What would you all you know about getting your liv If you were given the most delicious ing and keeping out of trouble I meal you ever ate In your life?" , want to continue to help you. Per "Tell me about It!" said little lame haps you had better put Jimmy Crow Hilly. "I'm nearly starved!” at the head of the community and de "Como with me," was all Dadd' pose me. I've noticed lately that he Crow said, and away they flow to tin professes to have a wonderful lot of smashed clam In the road. wisdom for a young crow " And what a meal little latue Hill.' “I'm going to follow Daddy,” said had. to be sure! He declared he hat. little Billy Crow "Of course I'm a never tasted food so delicious Then, little crippled crow and don't pretend to be very smart, but 1 know enough he told Daddy about tho dissatisfied Io follow a wise old leader like Daddy, crows and their decision to put bln. If we don't like tho country he wants out of the way and return to their to taka ua to, I'm auro he «III bring old home "We'll see about that," said Daddy UB i back." "You go back and tell th<-m After soma wrangling In which Crow I'm coming over to see them Take a Jimmy Crow made himself very con- splcuous. It waa finally decided to fol little place of that clam with you. and low Daddy Crow south It was a long strut about right in front of Jimmy hard journey, and when their dcstlna Crow. Stick out your craw so he cat tion was reached the crows were poor see how full It la. and then let bln In flesh, hungry and very much out taste the little bit you have In your of humor with Old Daddy Crow, bill." Little lame Billy «ent back to the Jimmy Crow did all he could to stir up trouble and finally succeeded In crows and told them about the good persuading all tho crows but little meal Daddy Crow had furnished him Then he let Jimmy Crow have the lit tle taste of clam ho brought with him Before he had got through talking about the dullghta of a clam dinner Daddy Crow put In an appearance his big full craw pushed out to ex cite the envy of the dissatisfied crows All tho crows except Jimmy Crow were loud in their protestations of loyalty, and begged him to tell them how to get a good clam supper "Why don’t you ask Jimmy Crow to get some supper for you. I've been finding something to eat for you for many years. Let him take care of you and I'll look out for little lame Billy and myself." But they begged him so hard to do something for them he finally prom laed to give them all a clam break fast "Oh, Daddy!” they exclaimed, "let's have some clams for supper! We are so hungry we can hardly wait until morning.” "No." said Daddy Crow "The wise young Jimmy Crow will find you Daddy Crow Provides a Clam Supper. a supper At sunrise all of you come over to the big road and sit on the Billy that he was a much wiser crow fence. I’ll be there and see to It that than Daddy Crow and should be given you get a splendid breakfast and some good advice. Come, little Billy. tbe leadership. "Here we are." he said, "a long way let's go to our roost.” I-ong before sunrise Daddy Crow from home, unable to find anything to eat but rank seaweed We ought to snd little lame Billy Crow were at punish Daddy Crow for taking us the shore gathering clams for tho away from home, then we should re big feast Little Billy soon learned the trick of catching the clams and turn.” All the hungry crows favored Jim taking them away to bo dropped In my Crow's plan except little lame the big hard road Old Daddy Crow Billy. This was what Jimmy Crow wandered away from the soft shell desired. He knew he could not very clam bed and found plenty of hard well carry out his ambitious scheme shell clams on the sand where tho to rule so long as wise old Daddy tide had receded. These he picked Crow lived He waa therefore very up and dropped In the big road. The sun waa not all above the hor happy when It waa decided to find Daddy Crow the neat day and put izon when the big flock of crows perched on the fence, waiting for him to death. Little lame Billy slipped quietly Daddy Crow to Invite them to the away from the noisy council to find feast of clams Daddy paced up and Daddy Crow and tell him tbe awful down the road In front of the crows, news. He went straight to the thick lecturing them on their want of loy cedar swamp where the wise old alty and for allowing a young, ambl crow had chosen hts hiding place. Hous crow to turn their heads Then, Not finding him he concluded to wait after promises for their future be until he returned. Poor old Daddy havlor, he said: "All of you may now come down Crow was very downhearted, not so much because of his own suffering except Jimmy Crow, and eat the most but rather for tho suffering of his delicious breakfast you ever had tribo and the Ingratitude they show Jimmy Crow can eat at tho second ed him. He found a quiet place on table after the rest of you get It will do that Impudent the seashore, where he tried to think through. young rascal good to be disciplined of some way out of his difficulty. As be paced back and forth along It may have tho effect of teaching the muddy shore an old soft-shell him he la not such a wonderful crow clam, a little below the surface, was as he thinks he Is.” In due time, when the rest of ths annoyed at the tramping over his head, and finally concluded to go to crows had finished their meal, Daddv the surface and see who It was walk- Crow Invited Jimmy Crow to come Ing on the top of hie bed. Just as down and eat. The ambitious young hS stuck his head up Daddy Crow crow felt very sulky and disliked the set fils foot fairly tn his open mouth! humiliation to which he had been Quick as a flash the clam closed his subjected, but he wag too hungry to shell! As he did so Daddy Crow show any temper. He walked up to squawked and leaped Into the air. the feast and enjoyed It greatly dragging the clam out of tbe mud When he was through Daddy Crow with him! instantly he seized the said: clam with the free foot and tried to ’Now, Jimmy, turn your head to ths pull him loose from the other foot! north and fly back to the land w« Although the clam had a tight grip came from as fast as you can When on Daddy Crow's foot, he was not we are rid of you I’m sure the rest causing him any pain; but .Daddy of us will live In peace, because you Crow was awfully frightened.. He are the only disturber we have evei flew away as fast as his wings would known I will teach all tho rest ol carry him. tugging with all his might my tribe how to catch clams and with one foot to release the other smash them. We will feast on this from the grip of the clam, As he delicious food all winter and In th« crossed a big road the clam loosed spring we will fly home, fat and sleek his hold. Daddy Crow waa glad to be If you behave yourself after wo rid of him, so he let go with the other back, Jimmy, you may come with foot and down went the clam to next year Now go." smash on the hard road! As soon as 'Cosmsht. ISIS. «., t’ntv.rsst PrM, R fllrnte i THE WISDOM OF DADDY CROW