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A new m ystery develop« In t h l» Installm ent of “T h e Destroying
Angel.” W h itaker finds much in Miss Fiske’s m anner to puzzle him
and make him w onder If— well, read fo r yourself.
You w ill recall that W h itake r, returning to New Y o rk several
years after his supposed death, discovers his w ife, now a fam ous
actress known as Sara L a w , about to m a rry Drum m ond, his oid
partner. Drum m ond disappears, supposedly a suicide, and Sara, ask-
log her husband to agree to a divorce, also drops out of s ig h t
W hitaker, m ysteriously assaulted, goes to the country horns of his
frien d M artin Em ber.
He makes the acquaintance o f p retty Miss Fiske, a neighbor,
finds spies are w atching her, and follow s her abductors when they
kidnap her in a m otor b o a t
Both c rafts are wrecked on a reef,
W h itaker and the g irl are tossed u p o n an Island lately abandoned.
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thla section of tho Atlantic coast M
I knew anything of such matters, U
would be easy enough to tell from
that Just about where we are. If thnt
Information would help un.”
"But, if we cun see their light,
they’ll see ours,— won't they?—and
«end to find out what's the matter."
“ Perhaps. At lenst—let’s hope so.
They’re pretty sure of It, but they may
think the native« here are merely cele
brating their silver wedding, or Roose
velt's refusal o f a third term, or the
accession o f Edward the Seventh—or
anything."
“ Please don’t be silly—and discour-
aging. Do get to work nnd build tho
Are.”
He obeyed with humility and ex
pedition.
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prised her Intent gu*e, laughed sheep
ishly, and laughing, sighed with reple
tion. A smile of sympathetic under
standing durkened the corner« o f her
lips.
“ It’s coming on night,” said he.
"You huven't forgotten our stgnnl
Area? I've got my work cut out for
me, to forage for fuel. 1 must get
right at It.”
The girl rose quickly.
“ Do you
mind waiting a little? I mustn't neg
lect my dishes."
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W here do you think M i««
She worked rupldly above the stenm-
Fiske learned her rescuer*« first
Ing dish-pan, busy und Intent, the fair
name?
Do you believe
sh« °
head bowed, the cheeks faintly flushed.
kn o w « more about th « kidnap-
o
Whitaker lounged,
profoundly
In
•ra and the ir Intention than « h « °
trigued, watching her with sober and
n
wishes W h ita k e r to know?
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studious eyes. What did it mean, this o
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suddenly, within the hour, that he had
iTo UK CONTINUED.)
known her, or someone strangely like
her, at some forgotten time— as In
some previous existence?
It was her voice that hud made him Ingenious C itizen of F a r W est Not
think that, her voice of marvelous
Bothered by Cost of Gasoline—
ullure, crystal-pure, as flexible us tem
Uses Novel Device.
pered steel, strong, tender, rich, com
passionate. compelling. . . . Where
When a certain Ingenious citizen of
had he heard It before, and when?
tlio far West goes for a Jauiit with
“ It's almost durk,” her pleasant ac ilia little canoe he forgeta all ubout
cents broke In upon his revery. “ I’m the rising cost o f gusollne und engine
quite finished." The girl scrubbed her trouble and propels himself up und
arms and hands briskly with u dry dowu stream with a hand and foot-
towel nnd turned down her sueves, o|H*rnted boat of bis own construc
facing him with her fine, trank, friend tion.
ly smile. “ I f you’re ready . . .'
Hand lovers are connected with a
“ Whenever you are,” he said with an crank which carries n gear, and this
oddly ceremonious bow.
meshes with another gear which drives
T o his surprise she drew back, her the propeller shaft.
brows and lips contracting to level
Pedal cranks ure connected with the
lines, her eyes Informed with the light snmo crunk which is operated by hand
of wonder shot through with the flash levers, so tlu t the boat can he driven
ings o f a resentful temper.
by foot ns well nu by hand power. In
“ Why do you look nt me so?" she this way the operator can iiib either
demanded sharply. “ What are you one hun-J or two bunds or both feet
thinking . . . ?” She checked, her alone, or both bunds und feet togeth
frown relaxed, her smile flickered soft er. The uppurutus weigh* ubout forty
ly. “ Am I such a fright— ?” «
pounds.
“ I beg your pardon,” he said hastily.
“ I was merely thinking, wonder
N itrates From A ir.
ing . . ."
When the thirteenth annual conven
She seemed about to speak, but said tion of the American Electro Chemical
nothing. He did not round out his society is held iii New York city from
npology. A little distance apart, they September 1*7 to September 30. mem
stood staring at one another In that bers will discuss the problem of ob
weird, unnutural light, wherein the taining nitrates from the atmosphere.
glow from the lamp contended garish- : Nitrates are not only important as
ly with the ebbing flush of duy. And fertilizers, hut they are a husic in
C H A P T E R X I I I — Continued.
door, finding themselves in the kitchen
— IS—
— that mean and commonplace assem
The reminder had an effect singular- bly room of narrow and pinched lives.
ty distressing. He turned a little faint, The immaculate cleanliness o f decent,
was seized with a slight sensation of close poverty lay over It all like a
giddiness, at the thought of food, so blight. Whltnker busted himself im
that he was glad of the catboat for mediately with the stove. There was
a full wood box near by; and within a
support.
•
“ Oh, you a re !" Compassion thrilled very few minutes he had a brisk fire
her tone. “ I ’ m so sorry. Come— If you going. The woman had disappeared In
can walk.” She caught his hand as If the direction of the barn. She returned
to help him onward. “ W e can build a In good time with half a dozen eggs.
Are and have something h ot; there’s Foraging in the pantry and cupboards,
she brought to light a quantity of sup
plenty o f fuel.”
plies; a side o f bacon, flour, potatoes,
“ But— what did you do?”
“ I— oh, I took my eggs au natural— sugar, tea, small stores o f edibles in
barring some salt and pepper. I was tins.
" I ’m hungry again, myself,” she de
in too much o f a hurry to bother with
clared, attacking the problem of simple
a stove— ”
cookery with a will and a confident air
“ Why In a hurry?”
She made no answer for an instant that promised much.
The aroma of frying bacon, the steam
He turned to look at her, wondering.
To his unutterable astonishment she of brewing tea, were ail but intolerable
not only failed to meet his glance, but to an empty stomneh. Whitaker left
the kitchen hurriedly and. In an en-
tried to seem unconscious o f i t
The admirable ease and gracious dmtvor to control himself, made a
self-possession which he had learned round o f the other rooms. There were
to associate with her personality as in two others on the ground floor; In the
alienable traits were altogether gone. upper story, four small bedchambers;
Just then— obliterated by a singular, above them an attic, gloomy and echo
exotic attitude of constraint and diffi ing. Nowhere did he discover any
dence,
of
self-consciousness.
She thing to moderate the Impression made
by the kitchen. It was all Impeccably
seemed almost to shrink from his re
neat, desperately bare.
gard, and held her face a little averted
Depressed, he turned toward the
from him, the full lips tense, tasbes
head o f the stairs.
Below a door
low and trembling upon her cheeks.
whined
on
Its
binges,
and
the woman
Halfway up to the farmhouse a mem
called
him,
her
voice
ringing
through
ory shot through Whitaker’s mind as
startling as lightning streaking athwart the hallway with an effect of richness,
a peaceful evening sky. He stopped deep-toned and bell-true. He was stag
with an exclamation that brought the gered by something in the quality of
that full-throated cry, something that
girl beside him to a standstill with
smote his memory until It was quick
questioning eyes.
and vibrant, like a harp swept by an
“ But the others— 1" he stammered.
old familiar hand.
“ The others?” she repeated blankly.
"Hugh?” she called; and again:
“They— the men who brought you
“ Hugh! Where are you?”
here— ?”
He paused, grasping the balustrade,
Her lips tightened. She moved her
and with some difficulty managed to
head in slow negation.
“ I have seen nothing of either of articulate:
“ Here . . . coming . . ."
them.”
“ Hurry. Everything’s ready.”
Horror and pity filled him, conjuring
M aitlng an Instant to steady his
up a vision o f wild, raving waters, mad
nerves,
he descended and re-entered
with blood-lust, and in their Jaws, arms
and heads helplessly whirling and toss the kitchen.
The meal was waiting—on the table.
ing.
The woman, too, faced him as he en
“ Poor devils.'" he muttered.
She said nothing. When he looked tered, waiting In the chair nearest the
But, once within the room,
for sympathy in her face, he found It stove.
he paused so long beside the door,
set and inscrutable.
He delayed another moment, think his hand upon the knob, and stared
ing that soon she must speak, offer him so strangely at her. that she moved
some sort of explanation. But she re uneasily, grew restless and disturbed.
mained uncommunicative. And he A gleam o f apprehension flickered In
could not bring himself to seem anx her eyes.
“ Why, what’s the matter?" she
ious to pry into her affairs.
"W hy
He took a tentative step onward. asked with forced lightness.
She responded instantly to the sugges don’t you come In and sit down?”
He said abruptly: “ You called me
tion, but in silence.
The farmhouse stood on high ground, Hugh I"
She Inclined her head, smiling mis
commanding an uninterrupted sweep
o f the horizon. As they drew near It, chievously. " I admit It. Do you
Whitaker paused and turned, narrow mind?”
ing his eyes as he attempted to read
“ Mind? N o !"
He shut the door,
the riddle of the enigmatic, amber-tint advanced and dropped into his chair,
ed distances.
still searching her face with his
T h e re W as N ot a Sail Visible.
There was not a sail visible in all troubled gaze. “ Only," he said— “ you
the blue cup of the sea.
startled me. I didn't think— expect— again he was mute In bewildered In
“ I don’t know,” said Whitaker slow hope— ”
quiry before that puzzling phenome
ly. ns much to himself as to his com
“ On so short an acquaintance?” she non o f Inscrutable emotion which
panion. “ It's odd . . .
it passes suggested archly.
“ Perhaps you’re once before, since his awakening, had
me . . .”
right. I didn't think . . . And yet been disclosed to him In her mnntling
“ Cnn’t you tell where we are?” she —I do think— with the man who risked
color, In the quickening o f her breath,
inquired anxiously.
his life for me— I’m n little Justified and the agitation of her bosom. In
“ Not definitely. I know, of course, In forgetting even that we’ve never the timid, dumb questioning o f eyes
we must be somewhere off the south met through the medium o f a conven grown strangely shy nnd frightened.
coast of New England. There are tional Introduction.”
And then, In a twinkling, an Im
islands off the south const o f Massa
“ It Isn’t that, but . . . ” He hesi patient gesture exorcised the Inex
chusetts— a number of them : Nan tated, trying to formulate phrases to plicable mood that had possessed her,
tucket, you know, and Martha’s Vine explain the singular sensation that and she regained her normal, self-
yard. This might be either— only It had assailed him when she called him, reliant poise as If by witchcraft.
isn’t, because they’re summer resorts. a sensation the precise nature o f
“ What a quaint creature you are,
T h at"—he swept his hand toward the which he himself did not as yet un
Hugh,” she cried, her smile whimsical.
land in the northeast— "might be derstand.
“ You’ve u way of looking at one thnt
either, and probably Is one of ’em. At
She interrupted brusquely: "Don’t gives me the creeps.
I f you don’t
the same time, it may be the mainland. let’s waste time talking. I can’t wait
stop it, I swear r shall think you’re
I don’t know.”
another Instant.”
the d e v il! Stop it— do you hear me,
“Then . . . then what are we to
Silently submissive, he took up his sir? And come build our bonfire.”
dor
knife and fork and fell to.
She swung llthely away and was out
He looked round, shaking a dubious
o f the house before he could regain his
head. “ O f course there’s nothing like
C H A P T E R XIV.
wits and follow.
a flagpole here.
We might nail a
Off In the north, where Whltnker
plank to the corner o f the roof and a
T h e Beacon.
had marked down the empurpled head-
table cloth to that, I suppose."
The girl was the first to finish. She innd during the afternoon, a white
"And build fires, by night?”
had eaten little In comparison; chiefly, light lanced the gloom thrice with a
He nodded. “ Best suggestion y e t I’ll perhaps, because she required less
sweeping blade, vanished, and was re
do that very thing tonight— after I ’ve than he. She rested her elbows easily
placed by a glare o f angry red, which
had a bite to eat.”
on the table, cradled her chin between In Its turn winked out.
She started Impatiently away. “ Oh, her half-closed hands. Her eyes grew
“ What Is It?" the girl asked. “ A
come, cornel What am I thinking of, dark with speculation, t nd oddly lam ship signalling?”
to let you stand there, starving by bent He ate on. unconscious of her
" N o ; a lighthouse— probably a first-
in ch ea r
attitude. When he hod finished, be o rd e r light— w ith Its characteristic
T h e y entered the house b y the back leaned back a little in bis chair, sur
flash, not duplicated anyw here along
POULTRY
• TKTS •
TURKEYS ARE EASILY RAISED
B ird la E specially Adapted to G ra in
and Stock Farm s W here Th e ra
is Am ple Range.
(Prvpnred by the United Hlstrs P «'p »rt-
ment of Agriculture )
No one is in n better position to re
spond to tlie present campaign for the
Increased production of poultry on tlie
farm than tlie turkey raiser. The tur
key is a farm bird, first ami last, um l
is especially suited to the grulli uml
»lock farms where there Is ample rang
ing ground abounding In such turkey
food as grasshoppers and other In
sects. weed seeds, waste grain, such
PROPULSION BY HAND POWER
gredient in tlie manufacture of ex
plosives. The world tins been depend
ing upon Chile for Its supply, and the
deposits there will probably lust SO
years longer, hut the United States
Is endeavoring to make Its-lf Independ
ent o f liny foreign source of supply,
and the electro-chemists are endeavor
ing to find a practicable method of ex
tracting the nttrutes from the nitrogen
gns which forms 80 per cent o f the
air. The first plant for the manufac
ture o f nitrates was erected at Niag
ara Falls.
Exercise and Good Nerves.
A certain world's champion may be
seen sometimes jogging nt a dog trot,
like n prizefighter, around Central
park. New York city. You might guess
thut lie was a lightweight pugilist or
u ’ distance man.” hut the match for
which he is training is a test of nerves
more.than o f strength, for ull he wields
Is n 15-ounce cue, Charles I*. Cushing
writes In the World's Work. His uame
Is W illie Hoppe, the champion bil
liard player o f the world. He knows
well what he Is about; steady nerv’es
und confidence keep coinpuny with
good health; and one o f the beat ways
to win such boons, the experts say, is
to peel off your coat and go ufter
them.
A N atural Condenser.
The rain tree o f Colombia measures
about 50 feet high when at maturity
nnd about three feet in diameter nt the
bnse. It absorbs a 3 Immense quantity
of moisture from the atmosphere,
which It concent roles, nnd sub.* equent-
ly semis It forth from its leaves and
brunches In a ***:ower, In some In
stances so abundantly tl.iit the ground
In Its vicinity Is converted inti- u quag
mire. It possesses this curious prop
erty In Its greatest degree In the sum
mer, precisely when the rivers are at
their lowest und water most scarce.
T h in k fo r Y o u rse lf.
Some people are so undecided that
when they think they want to do a
certain thing they hesitate to do It
until they have assurance from others
that It’s all right to do It. and when
they have such ussurnnee they still
remain In doubt.
Good Nests fo r Tu rk e ys.
ns Is left In the fields after harvest,
nnd nuts o f such varieties as beech
nuts, chestnuts, pecans, pine nuts and
acorns. On such a farm, the present
prices o f grain affect the turkey rais
er hut little, for with the exception o f
what Is used at fattening time, tlie feed
consumed is largely of such u kind us
would otherwise tie wasted.
EACH BREED HAS ITS PLACE
A ll Have Been Made and Developed on
General P rinciple of Practical
Q u a lity and Value.
(Prepared by the United Stale»
tnent o f Agriculture >
tiepnrt-
T o tlie novice in poultry keeping It
often appears that there Is iio real
necessity for ho tunny breeds ami va
rieties ns have been standardized In
America. Further acquaintance with
them, however, shows that although
color differences are I ii most cases
tmide merely to please the eyes o f
persons having different preferences
for color, the differences in shape nnd
size which make breed character have
been developed with a view to adapting
••nch to particular uses or particular
conditions.
I.envlng out o f consideration the
breed* kept ns novelties, most o f which
originated before Industrial progress
crented a large demand for poultry
products, all the standard American
breeds o f fowls have been made anti
developed on the general pilnclple of
practical quality, the foundation of
breed, character nnd value.
In harmony with this principle the
common classification o f breeds ac-
cording to their place In the general
scheme o f poultry production divides
them Into three principal classes, name
ly, laying breeds, meat breeds that are
not as ready and persistent egg pro
ducers us the Inylng breeds, nnd not ns
menty nnd as easy to fatten ns the
meat breeds, yet combine In one Indi
vidual fowl v e r y good Inylng rapacity
with very good table quality.
The Leghorn, Minorca, Andalusian,
Ancona uml Camplne are well-known
breeds of the laying class; the Brah
ma, Dorking, nnd Cornish o f the meat
«•lass; the Plymouth lloek, Wyandotte,
Rhode Island Bed and Orpington of
the general purpose clnss.
CONTENTED FOWLS ARE BEST
Easier to Keep H ens H e a lth y and to
Reproduce Stock U nder Colony
House System.
(Prepared bv the United States Depart
ment o f Agriculture )
A contented hen Is a profitable pos
session, and contentment with the hen
Is commensurate with the comfort o f
her home. Hence henhouse building
should receive more than passing no
tice from one who would profitably
produce poultry.
Hens do not do well In npartmenta;
R ely Upon Slides.
even semidetached houses nre not de
Panama Official (to friend who has sirable; separated (colony) houses,
been taken with cramps while buthlng each with Its own yard, give best all-
In the canal)— Keep up for five min around satisfaction.
utes, BUI I Something will slide in by
It Is easier to keep the birds healthy
then und you can walk out I
and to reproduce the stock under f?»e
colony system If the birds are allowed
T h e Usual W a y.
free range. Breeding stock, nnd espe
H enderson— F o r five years I was cially growing chickens, should have
on the lookout fo r a wife.
an nhundunt range, while hens used
W illiam son— H o w did you come U solely for tho production o f market
find her?
eggs may he kept on s very small aim.
Hander son— She saw me A ral
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