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Addington
Peace
B y B. Fletcher Robinson
Co-Author with A. Conan DoyU of
“The Hound of th* Banker ville«,” etc.
jp y r ig h :, 1./1-. by W . (» . C h a p m a n )
THE TERROR
IN THE SNOW
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It was a quiet, moonless night, lit
by the stars that blinked In their
thousand constellations. Though the
snow lay deep, the air struck mild
ly. Indeed, If It were freezing, It
could not have been by more than
two degrees. Upon the edge of the
distant cliffs robes of confusing mist
curled In veils as thin as moonlight;
but In the foreground the yew walks
and aisles of ancient laurel showed
clearly upon the white carpet About
the central avenue of firs which
carved the gardens Into the dark
ness lay Impenetrable pools of shad
ow. As I waited, the silence was
ctartled by a bell. It rang the four
quarters In a tinkling measure, fol
lowed by eleven musical strokes. I
knew that the sound must come from
the little church that lay to my
right; but, though I leant from my
window, the angle of the wing In
which I was, hid the building from
me.
I feel that the story which I have
now to tell may well turn me into an
object for ridicule. I can only de
scribe that which I saw; as for the
conclusions at which I arrived there
are many more practical people In
the world than myself who would
have Judged no differently. At best
It was a ghastly business.
I had returned to the dressing-table
and was changing my dress-coat for a
comfortable smoklng-Jacket when I
heard It—a faint and distant cry, yet
a cry which was crowded with such
terror that I clung to a chair with
my white face and goggling eyes star
ing back at me from the mirror on
the table.
Again It sounded, and
again; then silence fell like the shut
ter of a camera. I rushed to the
window, peering out Into the night.
The great gardens lay sleeping In
the dusky shadows. There was noth
ing to be heard; nothing moved save
the curling wreaths of mist that came
creeping up over the cliffs like the
ghosts of drowned sallormen from
their burial sands below. Could It
have been some trick of the Imagina
tion? Could It—and the suggestion
which I despised thrust Itself upon
me—could It bear reference to that
grim tragedy that had been played
In the old fir avenue so many years
ago?
And then I first saw the thing that
came towards me.
It was moving up a narrow path,
hedged with yew, that led from the
gardens and passed to the right of
the wing In which I stood. The yew
had been clipped Into walls some five
feet high, but the eastern gales had
beaten out gaps and ragged Indenta
tions In the lines of greenery, so that
In my sideways view of It the path
Itself was here and there exposed.
It was through one of these breaches
In the walls that I noticed a sign of
movement
I waited, straining my
eyes. Tea. there It showed again, a
something, moving swiftly towards
the house with a clumsy rolling
stride.
It was never nearer to me than
fifty yards, and the stars gave a
shifty light. Yet It left me with an
Impression that It was about four
feet In height and of a dull white
color. I remember that Its body con
trasted plainly with the dark hedges,
but melted Into uncertainty against
a patch of snow. Once It stopped and
half raised Itself on Its hind legs as
If listening. Then again It tumbled
forward In Its shambling, ungainly
fashion—now hidden by the yew wall,
now thrust Into momentary sight by
a ragged gap until It disappeared
round the angle of the house. Doubt
less It would turn to the left, round
the old chapel, across the snow-bound
park, and so to the woods—where a
wolf should be!
I was still staring from the win
dow In ths blank fear of the unknown,
when I heard the swift tap of feet
upon the road beneath me. Round
the corner of the wing came a man.
running with a patter of little strides,
while a dozen yards behind him were
a pair of leas active followers. What
they wanted I did not consider; for
at that moment the sight of my own
kind was Joy enough for me. The
electric lamps In the room behind
me threw a broad golden patch upon
the snow, and as ths leader reached
It he stopped, glancing up at where I
stood. The light struck him fairly
In the face. It was Addington Peace!
"XHd you hear that cry?" he panted:
— a then, with a sudden nod of recog
wing, under my bedroom window, and
stopped where the yew walk ended.
To right and left of the entrance two
stone fauns leered upon us under the
starlight.
"This thing you call a dog—could
you see It as far as this?"
"No; the angle of the wing pre
vented me.”
"You saw It pass In this direction.
Are you certain It did not go back the
way It came?”
“ Yes. I am quite certain.”
"Then It must either have turned
up the road, In which case I should
have met It; or down the road, where
you would have seen it as It passed
under your windows; or else have
run straight on. If we take these
facts as proved. It must have run
straight on."
"That Is so."
We had our barks to the laughing
fauns.
Before us lay a broad tri
angle of even snow, with the chapel
and wing of the house for Its sides,
and for Its base the carriage-drive on
which we stood. There was no shrub
or tree In any part of It that might
conceal a fugitive. Close to the wall
of the house ran a path ending In a
small side door. The chapel, which
was Joined to the mansion, had no
entrance on the garden side.
"If It entered this triangle and dis
appeared—for I am certain It was not
here when I ran by—we may con
clude that It found Its way Into the
house. It had no other method of es
cape. Kindly stay here, Mr Phillips.
This snow Is fortunate, but I wish
the sweepers had not been so con
scientious about their work on the
paths."
He drew a little electric lantern
from his coat, touched the spring, and
with an eye of light moving before
him. turned Into the path under the
wall.
He walked slowly, bending
double as be swept the brilliant
circle now on the exposed ground,
now on the snow ridges to right and
left. The sills of the ground floor
windows were carefully examined,
and when he reached the door he
searched the single step before It
with minute attention.
A curious
spectacle he made, this little atom of
a man, as be peeped and peered his
way like some slow-hunting beast on
a cold scent.
It was not until he left the path
for the snow-covered grass-plot that
I saw him give any sign of success.
Inspector Peace dropped on his
knees with a little chirrup of satis
faction like the note of a bird. Then
he rose again, shaking his head and
staring up at the windows above him
In a cautious, suspicious manner.
Finally he came slowly back to me,
with his bead on one side, staring at
the ground before him.
“ You thought It was a dog?” ha
asked. "Why a dog?"
"It looked to me like a big dog—
or a wolf,” I told him boldly.
"W'hether It be beast or man, or
both, I believe the thing that killed
him Is In the house now.”
I Jumped back, staring at him with
a Budden exclamation.
"Who has been killed?" I stam
mered out.
"Baron Steen. We found him on
the cliffs yonder. He was badly cut
about.”
"It’s Impossible, Inspector," I cried.
"He left the roulette-table not a quar
ter of an hour before you came.”
"Ah—he was a cool hand, Mr. Phil
lips. It was like him to put off
bolting till the last minute. The war
rant against him for company frauds
Is In my pocket now. But some ons
gave the game away to him, for his
yacht Is lying off the beach there,
with a boat from her waiting at ths
foot of the cliff. But we’ve no tima
to lose— come along."
Before the big garden porch the In
spector’s two companions were wait
ing. He drew them aside for a min
ute’s whispered conversation befora
they separated, and disappeared' Into
the night. What had they done with
the body? I had not the courage to
Inquire.
We entered the house, moving very
softly. In the hall Peace took me by
the arm.
“ You’re a bit shaken, Mr. Phillips
and I’m not surprised. But I wanl
your assistance badly. Can you pull
yourself together and help me to sea
this through?"
"I’ll do what I can."
"Take me up to your room, then."
We were In luck, for we tip-toed
up the great stairs and down tha
long passages without meeting a guest
or servant. Once In my room, the in
spector walked across and pushed
the electric bell. Three, four mlnutei
went by before the summons was an
swered, and then It was by a flushed
and disordered footman who bounced
Into the room and halted, staring open
mouthed from me to my companion.
(CHRONICLES TO BE CONTINUED.)
BORROWING AS A FINE ARI
Proof That This Bad Habit Is Impo»
sible to Eradicate In Some
People.
Day by day. as Mrs. Worth's house
hold and kitchen furniture and grocer
ies slowly disappeared, she saw that
the moment approached when a Anal
stand must be made. One morning,
when Jimmy, son of the borrower, ap
peared at the back door with the state
ment, "Ma wants the wash-boiler,” Mrs
Worth determined to act.
"You tell your ma that when she
brings back what she has already bor
rowed, I will lend her the boiler."
In a little while Jimmy reappeared.
"Ma wants to know what she bor
rowed."
"There Is a quart of flour,” began
Mrs. Worth, "a peck of potatoes, a cup
of sugar, a can of coffee, a half-pound
of lard, some onions, and butter and
spices; the screwdriver, the hatchet
a pal.' of scissors”—she paused, recol
lecting—"three spools of thread, a pa
per of needles, and—”
Rut Jimmy was gone. Presently he
rapped on the back door again.
"Ma says for yon to write 'em down.
I forgot some of 'em.”
Mrs. Worth sat down with pencil
and patiently made an alphabetical list
of all the artlclee she could remem
ber.
Jimmy took the list and disappeared
A half-hour later he once more reap
peared at the back door and an
nounced:
'Ma aays If you’ll lend her the wash-
boiler to carry 'em In, shell bring 'em
home."—Youth’s Companion.
COST OF BUILDING CREAMERY
MANAGER FRED CLARKE
One Must First Figure on Expense and
Then on Equipment— Paye
to Build Well.
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( B y O . A . G II.B E K T , C olorad o A g ricu l
tural C ollege.)
Creamery builders must flgure the
cost, flrst, of the building, second, of
the equipment. A suitable and con
venient building will contalu a main
work room, store room, refrig« rator,
engine and boiler room, coal room and
an office. Such a medium sized cream
ery would measure 28x48 feet. In
some sections labor and material are
much cheaper than In other» and the
cost varies accordingly. However, we
can place the limit of cost of uch a
construction between one thousand
and fifteen hundred dollars.
Where only gathered cream Is re
celved the equipment requlri u Is loss
than where whole milk Is 1
1. In
the flrst Instance, of the
1 red
cream plant, the following \v Id be
necessary; 15 H. P. boiler, 1 li. P.
engine; a well and pump; -
can
and scales; Babcock tee ic -quip-
ment complete; combiner i 1 up <■ ipa
city 600 lbs. butter; buttermilk vat;
cream rlpener; starter can; .
ink
Besides this there will bo shai'Ung,
pulleys, piping, belting, etc. By oak
lng two churnings a day in tie rush
season, 1,200 pounds of but > - r c - ild be
manufactured per day in a plant ol
this size. The cost of equipment would
approximately be $1,200.
The total cost of a creamer;, with
out artificial refrigeration
11 vary
from $2,200 to $3,000. In the m run
it pays to build well and h u
first
class equipment in a cr
m-ry. and
this is the basis of the fen
im fig-
ures. In many cases on r<
vin
eries started by promot
- pre-
sentatives' of construction <--.n : ales
have cost exhorbltant prto. and out
of all proportion to the business they
are able to do.
Beads Lika Amber.
Beads which look rather like clond-
•d amber, but which have the quality
of wood, are picked from the Chinese
jlnko fern; they are pierced and
strung for necklaces or long chains;
they are said to obtain a natural pol
ish like Ivory with a little wear, says
a New York Times writer. They are
fairly light In weight and cost so
much per bead, so that the string Is
Noted Leader of the Pittsburg Pirates orlced acordlng to length.
Has Started on His Fourteenth Con
secutive Year as the Pilot of Thai
Team.
BILLIARDS
Speaking of De Oro, his next oppo
nent for the pocket billiards -title will
be Thomas Hueston, who has posted
his forfeit and will meet the Cuban.
Whatever your ambitions, If you are
a foreigner you can't capture Ameri
can amateur billiard titles any more.
The national body has closed the gate.
Pierre Maupome, representing St
Louis, won his third consecutive
match In the National Billiard league
series. He defeated Charles Warren
of Boston, 50 to 47, In a three-cush
ion match.
George Sutton has dug pp a new
style of cue tip and has hopes of re
NECESSARY FOR TOOL SHOP acquiring a championship with It
Did you ever see a guy tear up a deck
One Essential Is Water nnd in Re of cards after he had Just had a queen
full busted by four tens?
ceptacle Large Enough for All
Needs—Tub Is Best.
Wherever the farmer h
l
blacksmith shop, it is
sary to have water har »
in a vessel large enough
o f the shop. The half
a very good vessel for tiii
The half of a common c
will make a very g" d
notches, shown in the ii! :
form good supports for
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FOOTBALL
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Gus Welch, the crack Indian quar
•••la ter, Is the new captain of the Carlisle
Indians.
Shorty Miller, the stocky little quar-
ter for Penn State, has been elected to
rue captain BUI Hollenbeck’s team next
tion season. ,
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Princeton
has recognized the
achievements of one of her sons in
putting Barclay Farr on the football
advisory committee.
Ralph Capron, one of Minnesota's
famous quarters, is candidate for the
position of coach at Purdue, vacated
by the death of "Keckle” Moll.
Penn Is still knocking at the doors
of Yale and Harvard for 1913 dates,
but has so far progressed not at all
toward securing dates with either.
Harvard claims to possess another
Brickley In Eddie Mahan, captain ol
the Harvard freshmen, who kicked a
47-yard drop against Worcester Acad
emy.
The Vanderbilt university football
management 1 b holding open a date
on lta football schedule and la hope
ful that It will be accepted by Har
wheels when cooling the sot tires. vard.
The notches will also be i >' i ! handy
The Virginia eleven, which will b«
for other purposes about flu* tub, such captaifled next season by Aubrey Car
as keeping t
p ter of Houston, will tackle a heavy
ping to the bottom of tho tub when schedule, Including Princeton and Vao
set upright to cool.
derbllt.
Dutch Sommers and Mike Bennett
When Soils Cease to Produce.
are now the most prominently men
The trouble with soils win
they tioned Penn graduates proposed for
cease to produce as they did when Andy Smith's place as head football
new la not that the elen; it: if plant coach. This was announced by the
food are actually exhaui
;mr tho Crimson authorities.
soil, but the necessaary forci s
the
Bob Storer, Harvard’s all-American
liberation are exhausted. Oi.-
of tackle, who scored the flrst touchdown
these forces Is bacteria. It i esti the Crimson had registered against
mated that In the common ell here Yale in a dozen years, has been se
are 150,000,000 bacteria to til.
int o. lected as chairman of the commlttes
These bacteria must havo >r n ir to revise Harvard’s hymnal.
food, humus, then they will liberate
Former Coach McCormick of North
food for the growth of plants T<- be western Is a strenuous urger of on«
a good farmer one needs to i :row le reformation In the present football
gumes and other cover crop plants code. He wants the goal from touch
to turn under for humus, and to en down to be kicked from scrimmage In
courage these beneficial bact rla to stead of allowing a fair kick.
pertorm their functions in tho soil.
The advisory committee on Yale
football, aB announced by Captain
Henry Ketcham, Is composed of the
Fattening Market Fowls.
To fatten poultry for market, re following: Walter Camp. ’80; William
move them from the yards and place, H. Corbin, ’89; Lucius H. Biglow, '07;
without overcrowding, In a cc
vlilch Buck Chamberlain, '87; Jack Field.'ll.
should be provided with a cam s cov
er to draw down and keep the in-
B A SE B A LL
matea in darkness. Do not f d for
about six hours after placing in the
coop, and then feed all they will cat.
Yale will play Its annual baseball
freed three times a day, an«, keep engagement with the New York
fresh water and a basin of grain al Giants April 9 on the Polo grounds.
ways before them.
Not to be outdone by Chicago, St
Louis Is going to have a "Rresnahan
day’’ when the Cubs tie up with the
Attention to Colts’ Feet.
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Don’t forget to give the colt's feet Cards.
Daniel Coogan, who coached the
attention. Now is when the
*. of
limbs la determined. There is always Cornell baseball squad for five years,
a reason for a poor set of limb» it will this season be In charge of the
may be hereditary, but it is gem rally Bowdotn college nine.
Doc Scanlon denies that he has
carelessness on the part of the O". ner
who did not keep his feet trimmed sought reinstatement by tl>e Phtladel
down level with the frog. A colt's phal club. The Doctor says he Is
feet are continually breaking off and through with baseball.
President Ran Johnson Is still harp
splitting If they are not attended to
lng on the subject of shorter gamea
promptly.—Horse Journal.
He has Issued orders that no more
two-hour sessions be played.
Treating Nail Wounds.
Buck O'Brien, who started his balk
One who has tried it says that the
most successful treatment that he has lng career last October at the Polo
found for nail wounds In horses’ feet grounds. Is now continuing to balk at
Is to clean the wound and pour full of the terms offered In his contract
Ed Killian, who for three glittering
hot tallow or lard. This seems to
give very little pain, and one treat seasons was one of the best south-
paws In the American league. Is a free
ment generally cures.
agent and looking for a Job.
Bill Lange, who has not played
Clean Milk.
Milk that makes gassy curds Is usu baseball since 1899, Is to coach the
ally dirty. Clean milk and clean uten White Sox on their training trip. Bill
sils will never produce gsHy curda. was tome great player In his day.
O maha gtslllnw has
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nition: "I see who It Is, Mr Phillips
— well, and did you hear It?"
"It came from over there—In the
flr avenue," said I, pointing with a
trembling Anger. "I don’t understand
It, Inspector; 1 don’t Indeed. There
was something that came up that
yew walk behind you about a minute
afterwards. I should have thought It
would have passed you."
"No, I saw nothing. What was It
like?"
"A sort of I dog." I stammered:
for under his steady eye I had not
nerve enough to tell him of my pri
vate Imaginings.
"A dog—that's curious. Are all the
rest of you In bed?"
"No; they're gambling."
"Very good. I see there Is a door
at the back there. Will you come
down and let me In. after I’ve had a
look around the gardens?"
"Certainly."
“ If you meet any of your friends,
you need not mention that I have ar
rived. Do you understand?"
I nodded, and he hopped away
across the lawn with his two com
panions at his heels.
I slipped on an overcoat and made
my way quietly down the stairs.
Prom the roulette-room, as I passed
It, came the chink of money and the
murmur of merry voices. They would
not disturb us, that was certain. I
reached the garden doors In the cen
ter of the main building, turned the
key, and walked out Into the gloom
of a great square porch.
As I have said, the temperature was
scarcely below freezing-point, and If
I shivered In my fur-lined overcoat It
was more from excitement than any
great chill In the air.
For a good
twenty minutes I waited listening and
peering Into the night It was not a
pleasant time, for my nerves were
Jangled, and ! searched the shadows
with timorous eyes, half fearing, half
expecting, Heaven knows what hide
ous apparition. It was with a start
which set my heart thumping that I
saw Peace turn the corner of the
right-hand wing and come trotting
down the drive towards me. There
was something In his aspect that told
a story of calamity.
"What Is It?” I asked him, as he
panted up.
"I want you—come along,” he whis
pered, and started back by the way
he had come.
We passed round the right-hand
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Man's Debt to the Beaete.
Men hare received valuable hints
and learned many things of lmpop
tance from beasts; such as gratitude
from dogs, vigilance from the crane^
foresight and frugality from the ant,
honesty from the elephant and loyalty
from the horse.—Don Quixote.
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