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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (March 3, 1916)
WOMAN Author of "GheAMATHJR CRAGSMAN. RAFFLES. Etc. IU.USTEATIONS hy O. HWIN MVER5 COPyRlCHT ii p BOBP3 -AEWRriC COPAsy SYNOP8I8. Caialet, on the steamer Kaiser Frits, nomeward bound from Australia, cries out in his sleep that Henry Craven, who ten years before had ruined his father and himself, Is dead, and finds that Hil ton Toye, who shares the stateroom with him, knows Craven and also Blanche Maenalr, a former neighbor and play mate. When the dally papers come aboard at Southampton Toye reads that Craven has been murdered and calls Cazalet's dream second sight. He thinks of doing a little amateur detective worlc prt the case himself. In the train to town they discuss the murder, which was com mitted at Cazalet's old home. Toye hears from Cazalet that Scruton, who had been tazalet's friend and the scapegoat for Craven s dishonesty, has been released fiom. prison. Cazalet goes down the river and meets Blanche. Toye also comes to see her and tells Cazalet that Scruton has been arreisted. but as he doesn t believe the old clerk Is guilty he is going to ferret out the murderer. Cazalet and Blanche go to Cazalet's old home and meet Mr. Drlnkwater of Scot land ard. Cazalet goes with Drlnkwa ter to the library where the murder was committed, shows him a secret passage he knew as a boy, and leads the way through It. In town Toye, talking with Cazalet about the murder, suggests flnfcer prints on the weapon found In the secret passage as a means of trapping the mur derer and succeeds in securing a print of Caialet's hand. CHAPTER VIII Continued. Cazalet excused himself with deci sion. He had a full morning In front of him. He was going to see Miss Macnalr's brother, son of the late head of his father's old firm of solicitors, and now one of the partners, to get them either to take up Bcruton's case themselves, or else to recommend a firm perhaps more accustomed to criminal practice. Cazalet was always apt to be elaborate In the first person singular, either in the past or in the future tense; but he was more so than usual In explaining his consid ered intentions in this matter that lay so yery near his heart "Going to see Scruton, too?" said Toye. "Not necessarily," was the short re ply. But it also was elaborated by Cazalet on a moment's consideration. The fact was that he wanted first to know if it were not possible, by the intervention of a really Influential law yer, to obtain the prisoner's immediate release, at any rate on ball. If Impos sible, he might hesitate to force him self on Scruton in the prison, but he would see. "It's a perfect scandal that he should be there at all," said Cazalet, as he rose first and ushered Toye out Into the lounge. "Only think: our old gardener saw him run out of the drive at half past seven, when the gong went, when the real murderer must have been shivering in the Michael Angelo cupboard, wondering how the devil he was ever going to get out again." , "Then you think old man Craven- begging his poor pardon was getting out some cigars when the man, who ever he was, came In and knocked him on the bead?" Cazalet nodded vigorously. "That's the likeliest thing of all!" he cried. "Then the gong went there may even have come a knock at the door and there was that cupboard standing open at his elbow." "With a hole in the floor that might have been mads for him?" "As it happens, yes; he'd search very inch like a rat in a trap, you see; and there it was as I'd left it twenty years before." "Well, it's a wonderful yarn!" ex- claimed Hilton Toye, and he lighted ' the cigar that Cazalet had given htm. "I think it may be thought one if the police ever own- how they made their find," agreed Cazalet, laughing and looking at his watch. Toye had never heard him laugh so often. "By the way, Drlnkwater doesn't want any of all this to come out until he's dragged his man before the beak again." "Which you mean to prevent?" "If only I can! I more or less prom ised not to talk, however, and I'm sure you won't You knew so much already, you may Just as well know the rest this week as well as next it you don't mind keeping It to your self." Nobody could have minded this par ticular embargo lees than Hilton Toye. He saw Cazalet off with a smile that was as yet merely puzzled, and not unfriendly until he had time to recall Miss Blanche's part in the strange affair of the previous afternoon. Say, weren't they rather intimate, those two, even If they had known each other all their Uvea? He had it from Blanche (with her second re fusal) that she was not and never had been, engaged. And a fellow who only wrote to her once In a year- still, they must have been darned In timate, and this funny affair would bring them together again quicker than anything. Bay, what a funny affair it was when yon came to thing of It! Funny all through, it now struck Toye; begin nlng on board ship with that dream of Cazalet's about the murdered man, leading to all that talk of the old grievance against him, and culminat ing In his actually finding the Imple ments of the crime In bis inspired ef torts to save the man of whose lnn mm he was so positive. Say, If that Cazalet had not been on bis way home from Australia at the time! Like many deliberate speakers, Toye thought like lightning, and had reached this point before he was a hundred yards from the hotel; then he thought of something else, and retraced his steps. He retraced them even to the table at which he had sat with Cazalet not very many minutes ago; the wait er was only now beginning to clear away, "Say, waiter, what have you done with the menu that was in that toast rack? There was something on it that we rather wanted to keep." "I thought there was, sir," said the English waiter at that admirable ho tel. Toye, however, prepared to talk to him like an American uncle of Dutch extraction. "You thought that, and you took It away?" "Not at all, sir. I 'appened to ob serve the other gentleman put the menu in his pocket, behind your back as you were getting up, because I passed a remark about it to the bead waiter at the time!" CHAPTER IX. . Fair Warning. It was much more than a map of the metropolis that Toye carried in bis able head. He knew the right places for the right things. He gazed criti cally at his boots. He was not so dead Bure that he had struck the only man for boots. There had been a young fellow aboard the Kaiser Fritz, quite a little bit of a military blood, who had come ashore in a pair of cloth tops that had rather unsettled Mr. Toye's mind Just on that one point. Captain Aylmer had said he would like to have Toye see his club any time he was passing and cared to look In for lunch. He had Bald so as though he would like it a great deal, and suddenly Toye had a mind to take him at his word right now. The idea began with those boots with cloth tops, but that was not all there was to it; there was something else that had been at the back of Toye's mind all morning, and now took charge in front Aylmer had talked some about a Job In the war office that enabled him to lunch dally at the Rag; but what his Job had been aboard a German steam er Toye did not know and waB not the man to inquire. It was no business of his, anyway. Reference to a card, traded for his own In Southampton Water, and duly filed In his cigarette case, reminded him of the Rag's prop er style and title. And there he was eventually entertained to a sound, workmanlike, rather expeditious meal. 'Say, did you see the cemetery at Genoa?" suddenly Inquired the vis itor on their way back through the hall. A martial bust had been ad mired extravagantly before the ques tion. "Never want to see it again, or Ge noa either, said Captain Aylmer. The smoking-room's this way." "Did you say you were there two days?" Toye was cutting his cigar as though it were a corn. "Two whole days, and we'd had a night in the Bay of Naples Just be fore." Is that so? I only came aboard at Genoa. I guess I was wise," added Toye, as though he was thinking of something else. There was no sort of feeling in his voice, but he was sucking his left thumb. "I say, you ve cut yourself!" "I guess it's nothing. Knife too sLarp; please don't worry, Captain Aylmer. I was going to say I only got on at Genoa, and they couldn't give me a room to myself. I had to go in with Cazalet; that's how I saw so much of him." It was Toye's third and separate In dependent attempt to introduce the name and fame of Cazalet as a natural toplo of conversation. Twice his host had listened with adamantine polite ness; this time he was enjoying quite the second-best liqueur brandy to be had at the Rag; and he leaned back in his chair. "You were rather Impressed with him, weren't you?" said Captain Ayl mer. "Well, frankly, I wasn't but it may have been my fault" "I was only going to ask you one thing about Mr. Cazalet" Toye said, "and I guess I've a reason for asking, though there's no time to state It now. What did you think of him. Captain Aylmer, on the whole?" "Ah, there you have me. 'On the whole' is Just the difficulty," said Ayl mer, answering the straight question readily enough. "I thought be was a very good chap as far as Naples, but after Genoa he was another being. I've sometimes wondered what happened in his three or four days ashore." "Three or four, did you say?" And at the last moment Toye would have played Wedding Guest to Ayl mer's Ancient Mariner. "Yes; you see, he knew these Ger man boats waste a couple of days at Geaoa, so he landed at Naples and did his Italy overland. Rather a good idea, I thought, especially as he said he had friends in Rome; but we never heard of 'em beforehand, and I should have let the whole thing strike me a bit sooner if I'd been Cazalet Soon enough to take a band-bag and a toothbrush, eh? And I don't think I should have run it quite so fine at Genoa, either. But there are rum birds in this world, and always will be!" Toye felt one himself as he picked his way through St. James' square. If It had not been Just after lunch, be would have gone straight and had a cocktail, for of course he knew the only place for them. What he did was to slue round out of the square, and to obtain for the asking, at another old haunt, on Cockspur street, the latest little time-table, of continental trains. This he carried, not on foot but in a taxi, to the Savoy Hotel, where it kept him busy In his own room for the best part of another hour, But by that time Hilton Toye looked more than an hour older than on Bit ting down at his wrlting-tahle with pencil, paper and the little book of trains; he looked horr' J, he looked distressed, and yet he looked crafty, determined and immensely alive. He proceeded, however, to take some of the life out of himself, and to add still more to his apparent age, by repair ing for more Inward light to a Turk ish bath. Now the only Turkish bath, accord ing to Hilton Toye's somewhat exclus ive code, was not even a hundred yards from Cazalet's hotel; and there the visitor of the morning again pre sented himself before the afternoon; now merely a little worn, as a man "Did I Tell You I'd Any Friends There?" will look after losing a stone an hour on a warm afternoon, and a bit blue again about the chin, which of course looked a little deeper and stronger on that account. Cazalet was not In; his friend would wait, and in fact waited over an hour In the little lounge. An evening paper was offered to him; he took it listless ly, scarcely looked at It at first, then tore it In his anxiety to find something he had quite forgotten from the newspaper end. But he was waiting as stoically as before when Cazalet arrived in tremendous spirits. "Stop and dine!" he cried out at once. "Sorry I can't; got to go and see somebody," said Hilton Toye. 'Then you must have a drink. 'No, I thank you," said Toye, with the decisive courtesy of a total ab stainer. 'You look as if you wanted one; you don't look a bit lit" said Cazalet, most kindly. "Nor am I, sir!" exclaimed Toye. "I guess London's no place tor me in the fall. Just as well, too, I Judge, since I've got to light out again straight away." "You haven't!" "Yes, sir, this very night That's the worst of a business that takes you to all the capitals of Europe In turn. It takes you so long to flit around tbat you, never know when you've got to start in again." "Which capital is It this timer suld Cazalet His exuberant geniality baa been dashed very visibly for the mo ment But already his high spirits were reasserting themselves; Indeed, a cynio with an ear might have eaught the note of sudden consolation in the question that Cazalet asked so brlkly. "Got to go down to Roma," said Toye, watching the effect of blf words. "But you've Just oome back from there!" Cazalet looked no worse than puzzled. "No, sir, I missed Rome out; that was my mistake, and here's this situ ation been developing behind my back." "What situation?" "Oh, why, it wouldn't interest yoml But I've got to go down te Rome, whether I like it or not, and I don't like It any, because I dont have any friends there. And that's what I'm do ing right here. I was wondering if you'd do something for me, Catalet?" "If I can," said Cazalet, "with pleas ure." But bis smiles were gone. "I was wondering If you'd give ma an introduction to those friends of yours in Rome!" There was a little pause, and Caza let's tongue Juet showed between lis lips, moistening them. It was at that moment the only touch of colw In bHi "Did I toll you I'd any friends there?" The sound of his voice was perhaps less hoarse than puzzled. Toye made himself chuckle as he sat looking up out of somber eyes. "Well. If tou didn't" said be, "I guess I must have dreamed It" (TO BB CONTINUED.) INFECTS 1 BLOOD Why the Bite of a Mosquito Causes Malaria. Scientists Have Definitely Ascertained Cause of the Disease Only Pre ventive Is Complete Exterm ination of the Pest. What happens in your blood when a malaria mosquito bites you, and what happens in a mosquito's blood when It sucks that of a person who has ma laria, is well illustrated in the ac companying diagram, taken from "In sects and Man," by C. A. Ealand, M. A., formerly principal of the East Anglian College of Agriculture, just published in America by the Century company. Let us suppose that a female mos quito has just imbibed a drop of blood from an Infected man; along with the blood, and in the blood corpuscles, several exceedingly minute reatures known as gametocytes pass into the stomach of the insect. (See cut A.) These blood parasites are not all of the same size, the smaller ones, known as mtcrogametocytes, carry out male functions, while the larger mlcro gametocytes may be regarded as fe males. These two forms of the same parasite pass through certain changes (B and C), and eventually unite (D). The single organism thus formed be comes a wormlike, moving creature called a vermiculus (E). The vermiculus penetrates the walls of the mosquito'- -tomach and passes to the external muscular lay ers, where it Rrows rapidly and its nucleus becomes much llvlded (F and G) until It is merely ., sac filler, with many rodlike bodies Unown as sporo zoites. The sac bursts and liberates these sporozoites into the mosquito's body cavity (H). About ten days aft er the meal of Infected blood these sporozoites are in the mosquito's sali vary glands, ready to infect the first human being the insect bites. When the mosquito punctures the skin countless numbers of these min ute sporozoites are Injected Into the wound. They instantly attack the red corpuscles of the blood, each entering a corpuscle, where It quickly loses its elongate form and assumes that of a signet ring (J). This changes form until it has divided up into a multi tude of tiny organisms known as merozoltes (K and L). The corpuscle is now dead or dying, and It soon bursts, setting free the multitude of sporozoites into the blood stream. These again attack the healthy red corpuscles, and the proa ess of destruction is repeated. As the original sporozoites attack the red corpuscles at the same mo ment, and as their development takes a certain time, usually about forty eight hours, they are all liberated simultaneously. This process is re peated over and over again in rhythmic cycle, and every time the red corpuscles burst and liberate the merozoltes the chill that is so char acteristic of malaria comes on. This usually takes place every forty-eight hours, the intervals being filled with more or less severe fever. If no mosquito comes along to suck the blood of the infected patient the germs of the malaria are finally de stroyed by the antitoxins of the blood or by quinine, which effectively kills them unless they prove too numerous and kill the patient. If a mosquito of the right species imbibes them the whole cycle is repeated and they are ready In about ten days to infect someone else. If, however, they be Imbibed by a mosquito of the wrong species they quickly perish. Why they can develop and unite and again de velop in the blood of only certain mos quitoes has never been explained sat isfactorily. The mosquitoes ot the sub-family Anopheles are the only ones that can carry malaria. Those of the genus Stegomyia are the car riers of yellow fever, the process of which is similar. New York World. Modern Child's Idea. Little four-year-old Bettte had lis tened to mother's story ot the Christ child. She had been deeply Interested and when daddy came home she pro ceeded to relate the story to him in her own animated fashion. Mother called from another room: "Where did mother say the little Christ child was?" Bettle, annoyed at the interruption, called back: "Oh, mother, he was out in the garage bein' borned." Maine Rello Recovered. One ot the side plates of the battle ship Maine, which had been Imbedded In the mud at the bottom ot Havana harbor since 1898, was recently brought up by the anchor ot the Amer ican steamship Esperanta. Popular Mechanics Magazine it A WOOL IN PLACE OF COTTON Comforts Filled With the Former Ma. terlal Are Muoh Lighter Than Those Generally In Use. For the last year or two the shops have shown an article of bedding which, though in use in many farm homes, had not been familiar on the counters. This Is the wool-filled com fort that Is destined to take the place of the cotton-wadded comforters. Now however, as well as the completed comforts, there are to be had in many shops sheets of carded wool with which to make up these comforts at home, covering them with silk, satin, or patchwork. The sheet wadding comes In three .weights, all having the same dimen sions 72 by 84 inches. The lightest contains one pound of wool. It is de signed as filling for a crib quilt and to be folded over into halt size. The next heavier weighs two pounds, while the heaviest weighs three pounds. Ready made wool comforts can be bought at various prices, from about $4 according to the thickness of the wool and the quality of the covering. Many housekeepers now prefer wool-filled comforts to those filled with down, since the wool-filled comforts never "shed" as down puffs will after usage. They are especially desirable for children and for elderly persons, since they are warm but not heavy. A three-pound wool comfort weighs about halt as much as a full sized wool len blanket. Sateen makes an excellent covering for wool comfortB. A flowered center, bordered with a plain color, is es pecially attractive. It can be knotted with silk or quilted in any fancied pattern. KEEPS WHIPPED CREAM FIRM Method That .Will Do Away With a Great Deal of the Trouble That Sometimes Bothers Cooks. Heavy whipped cream, if allowed to etand, is apt to become watery and thin at the bottom of the bowl, the sugar having the tendency to separate in the form of a weak sirup. This is especially true If the cream was not very heavy before being whipped. To remedy this, to every pint of whipped cream soak a scant tablespoonful of granulated gelatin in enough cold wa ter to barely cover it, until It is soft. Then add a small half teacupful ot boiling water and stir until the gela tin is completely dissolved, after which add three-quarters ot a cup of sugar and whatever flavoring you intend to use for the cream. Turn this Into a cold bowl and beat with an eggbeater until it is white like marshmallows and beglnB to become firm, and just as soon as it has reached this point, but before It has commenced to grow stringy, beat it by spoonfuls into the cream, which has already been beaten stiff. This will Increase the bulk of the whipped cream and will not only sweeten and flavor It, but will keep it firm for any length of time. Care muBt be taken not to use too much gelatin lest it taste ot the latter and make a sort of charlotte russe mixture instead1 of the whipped cream desired. New Way to Serve Steak, Perhaps you have grown tired of the usual way steak is served. If bo, try this. Buy a good thick one, either Blrloin or porterhouse. Season slightly with pepper and salt, and broil until it is moderately brown. Have prepared enough chopped pars ley and white onion to cover it. Dot it thickly with dabs of butter and bake in a quick oven for five minutes. The onion, parsley and butter sink into the meat, the parsley absorbing the strong flavor of the onion. Once a steak is served in this manner, the usual fashion of serving it will seem tasteless. Baked Beef Roll. Take one pint of finely chopped cold roast beef and add one-halt cupful of fine bread crumbs and two beaten eggs, one tablespoonful of melted butter, one-half teaspoonful ef onion juice, one scant teaspoonful of mixed parsley, a grating of nutmeg and a dash of white pepper. Mix thoroughly, shape In a roll, wrap in buttered paper and bake half an hour, basting frequently with melted butter and hot water. Serve hot with brown or tomato sauce or Bllce cold as desired. Chicken and Mushrooms. A delicate dish for a dainty lunch or a meal for an Invalid Is a combina tion of chicken and mushrooms pre pared in a casserole. The mushroomB are fried in butter very lightly, then a tablespoonful of flour mixed with a scant cupful of milk is poured, in and cooked until creamy. The mushrooms and cold chicken are packed into the casserole In alternate layers and the creamy sauce poured over. The dlBh is set in the oven until the contents are heated through evenly. Creole Corn. Butter a baking dish and cover the bottom with a layer of fine bread crumbs. Then add a layer ot canned corn, seasoning with butter, pepper and salt, and dotting over with bits of canned pimento. Cover with crumbs, then repeat till corn is all used. The top layer should be of crumbs. Dot the top with butter, and fill the dish with milk. Bake 45 minutes. Mashed Potatoes, Mashed potatoes will be fluffy If one- halt teaspoonful of baking powder Is added to the milk put Into them. EVE FOLLOWS SPOKE Explanation of Seeming Phe nomena of the "Movies." Why Wheel, as It Revolves, Seems to. Retate Backwards Illusion That Has Puzzled Many Is Really a Simple Matter. Every person who has gone to the. 'movies" has probably noticed when there is a picture thrown on the screen,' which Involves the rotation ot a wheel having spokes, such as those on a bug gy or an automobile, that as the wheel; first starts to rotate it appears to re volve In unison with the rest ot the picture, but as it gains speed it sud denly appears to rotate backward,1 rapidly at first; then it slowly stops, turning, although the vehicle gains la speed. It then seems to rotate forward! slowly, but not with the speed of the. rest of the vehicle. The film manu facturers have not been able to elimi nate this unfortunate illusion. Many explanations have been beard, but they seldom approach the right one. The moving picture is based on the; fact that the retina of the aye retains the vision for a small fraction of a second. A moving object seen on the screen in reality is a series of pictures projected with such rapidity that the rotina ot the eye still has the vision of one projection when the next appears. Thus the picture appears to move. In the case of a revolving wheel the eye follows the spokes. To make the ex- Diagram 8howlng Why Wheels Turn Backward In Movies. planatlon as simple as possible the top spoke will be considered, and its sub sequent positions and phenomena an alyzed. When the wheel starts to rotate to the right, as shown in the diagram, the top Bpoke in the picture will be in po sition No. 1. It the second picture shows the spoke in position No. 2 the wheel will appear to be rotating In unison with the rest of the picture. If, however, the wheel is rotating rapidly enough so that the second picture shows the top spoke In position No. 4 it will ap pear to the eye that the next spoke, which was in position No. 5 in the first picture, has moved back to position No. 4, and the wheel appears to be ro tating backward. When the wheel rotates so fast that the camera catches the second posi tion of the first spoke in the first po sition of the second spoke, the wheel will show no rotation at all, though the vehicle still moves. When the wheel rotates so fast that the second position of the top spoke will appear In position No. 6, the wheel will appear to have rotated from positions Nos. 5 to i. This appears as a slow forward rotation. When the wheel rotates so that the second position of the top spoke is In position No. 3, the wheel may appear to be rotating forward In unison with the rest of the picture, or It may ap pear to be rotating backward. The fact that the illusion springs from the very fundamental phenome non of all "movie" work, explains why manufacturers have been unable to eliminate it. Probably, for that mat ter, they will be unable to eliminate it in the future, so the perversa wheels seem determined to stay with us so long as we have movies. From the Illustrated World. "Hungry 8am" Has Retired. "Hungry Sam" Miller, who tor years has been the terror of those in charge ot church suppers, and who became famous throughout this part of the state for his gastronomic feats, has announced his retirement from heavy eating, says a Bloomsburg (Pa.) dis patch to the Philadelphia North Amer ican. In his own words: "It don't agree with me no more to eat 144 fried eggs at once." When "Hungry Sam" appeared at any Bupper where "all you could eat" was served, those in charge gave up hope of making the affair a financial success, for he liked to eat until every, thing in the place was cleaned up. Miraculous Recovery. Several months ago a Belgian was struck by a dart dropped from a Ger man aeroplane. It went right through his head vertically and between the two sides ot his Jaw, coming out under the chin. It was a clean cut The man was treated in a London hospital and recovered. He is in London today, perfectly well, and has had no symp toms except once a slight fit After the Money. Mrs. Nokoyne Please buy me a sew hat It wlU set all my friends to talk ing. Mr. Nokoyne Yes, and ltll set an ther bill eollecter walking.