„ CX-.'-'V-1 - .*
A . C O N A N O O Y L ff
C H A P T E R X X .— I Continued.)
" O f course. What could be more de
lightfully simple? Friead Burt here dose
bis work ; we carry her through the gar
den gate, and lay bee on the darkest
part o f the rails. Then we miss her at
the bouse.
There to an alarm and a
w arch. The gate is found open. W e nat
urally go through with ¡autern*, and find
her on the line. I don't think we need
fear the oo’ , ' er, or any one else, then?”
’’ lie 's a *.a rp ’un. is the guv’nor,’
cried Burt, slapping his thigh enthusias
tically.
“ I t ’s the downiest lay 1 have
heard this many a day.”
'
“ Mr. Burt can do his part o f the busi
ness out o f doors.
We can entire her
out upon some excuse. There is no rea
son why any one should have a suspicion
o f the truth."
“ Hut they know that she is not mad.’
“ They will think that she did it .on
purpose. The secret will be locked up In
our three breasts.
A fter one night’s
work our friend here goes to the colo
nies as a prosperous man, and the firm
o f Girdlestone bolds up its bead once
more, stainless and irreproachable.”
“ Speak lo w !” said Earn, in a whisper.
" I hear her coming downstairs." They
listened to her light springy footstep as
It passed the door. “ Gome here, B art,”
he said, after a pause. “ She is at work
ou the lawn. Gome and have a look at
her.”
They all Went over to the W indow and
(coked out. It waa then that Kate, glanc
ing up, saw the three cruel faces survey
ing her.
“ She’s a rare, well-built ’un,” said
Burt, ns he stepped back from the win
dow. “ It to the ugliest job as ever I
was on.”
“ But we can rely upon yon?” Girdle-
stone asked, looking at him with puck
ered eye*.
f
“ You bet— as long as yon pay me,” the
•a rv y answered phlegmatically.
C H A P T E R X X I.
The grey winter evening was beginning
to ate*! in before the detail* had all been
ai ranged by the conspirators.
I t had
grown so chill that K ate had abandoned
her attempt at gardening, and had gone
back to her room. Ears left his father
and B art by the fire and came out to the
•pen hall door. The grim old trees looked
gaunt and aerie aa they waved their naked
arms about in the cutting wind. A slight
fo g had come np from the sea nad Iny
in light wreaths over the upper brunches
like n thin veil o f ganse. Kara waa shiv
ering aa he surveyed the dreary scene,
felt a hand on his arm, and looking round
•aw that the maid Rebecco waa standing
beside him.
--Tr
and crannies o f the old house.
\Yh«
were her friends coming? Perhaps m is ,
1 thing had «w a rred to detain them to-day.
j T k h morning sfleh a thing Woold have ap-
I peered to her. to be sq.im possibility, but
now that the time had come when she had
expected them, it appeared probable
enough that something might have delay
ed them. To-morrow at latent they could
j not fa il to come.
She wondered what
they would do If they did arrive. Would
they come boldly up the avenue and claim
bet from the Girdle«tones, or would they
endeavor to communicate with her first?
j W hatever they decided upon would bo
; sure to be for the beet.
She went to the window once and look
ed out. It promised to be a wild night.
I P ar away In the southwest lay a great
cumulus o f rugged clouds from
which
dark streamers radiated over the sky, like
the advance guard o f an army. Here and
there a psfc «ta r twinkled dimly out
through the rifts, hut the greater part
o f the heavens was black and tkreatening.
It was so dark that she could no longer
see the sea. but the crashing, booming
sound o f the great waves filled the air
and the salt spray .cam* , driving in
through the open' window. . She shut it
and resumed her seat by the 'fire, shivering
parity from cold and partly from some
vague presentiment o f eviC
An hour or more had passed when she
heard a step upon the stairs and a knock
came to her door. I t was Rebecca, with
a cup o f tea upou a tray and some bread
and butter. K a te was grateful at this at
tention, for it aaved her from having to
go down to the dining room and faee K ira
and his unpleasant looking companion.
Rebecca laid down the tray, j^nd then to
her mistress’ surprise turned back and
shut the door, g i b e girl’s face was very
pale, and her manner waa mild and ex
cited.
“ Here's a note for, you,” she said. “ It
was given Mrs. Jorrocks to give you, bat
I am better at climbing stairs than she
.to. so I brought it up.” She handed K a te
a little slip o f paper aa she spoke.
A note for h er! Could it be that her
friends had arrived and had managed to
send a message to her? It must be so.
, She took it from the maid. Aa she did
so she noticed that her hands were shsk-
inp as though she had the ague.
“ You are not well, Rebecca,” said Kate,
kmdly.
J
“ Oh, yea, I am. You read your note
and don’t mind me,” the girl answered in
her usual surly fashion. Instead o f leav
ing the room she was bustling about the
bed as though putting things in order.
K ate's impatience waa too great to allow
her to wait, so she untwisted the paper,
which had no seal or fastening. She bad
hoped in her heart to see the name o f her
lover at the end o f it. Instead o f that her
eye' fell upon the signature o f Ears G ir
dlestone. W hat could he have to say to
hrr? She moved the solitary candle on
to the mantelpiece, and read the follow ing
note roughly scribbled upon a coarse piece
o f paper :
“ M y Dear Miss Ha rat on— I am afraid
yonr confinement here has been Very irk
some to yon. I have repeatedly requested
my father to alleviate or modify it, but he
has invariably refused. A s he still per-
i in his refnaal, I wish to offer you
my aid, and to show you that I am your
sincere friend i f spite o f all that has
passed, if you could slip out to-night at
nine o’clock add meet mo by the withered
oak at the head o f the avenue, I shall see
you safe to Beds worth, and you can, if
you wish, go on to Portsmouth by the
next train. I Shall manage eo that you
may find the door opefc by that time. I
shall not, o f course, go to Portsmouth
“ H aven't yon got one word for me?” with you, but shall return here a fter drop
•hr said sadly, looking up Into his face. ping you at the station. I do this small
“ I t ’s but once a week, and then never a tkiug to show yon that, hopeless aa it may
word o f greeting.”
be, the affection which 1 bear you to still
* “ I didn't see you, my lass£ Esra an as deep as ever. Yours, E. Girdlestone.”
swered. “ How does the Priory suit you?"
Our heroine was so surprised at tl}to
“ One place to the same as another to epistle that she sat fo r some time dang
me,” she said drearily. “ You aaked me ling the slip o f paper between her fingers
to come here and I have come. Yon said and lost in thought. When she glanced
once that yon would let me know how 1 round, Rebecca had left the room. She
could serve you down here. When am 1 rolled the paper np and threw it into the
to know T
t
fire. Exra, then, was not so hard-hearted
“ W hy, there’s no secret about that. as she had thought him.
H e bad used
You do serve me when you look after my hi« influence to soften his father. Should
father as you have done these
weeks she- accept this chance o f escape, or should
back. That old woman isn’t fit to man she aw ait some word from her friends?
Perhaps they were already in Bed*worth,
age the whole place by herself.” ,
“ That
wasn’ t
what
you
m eant but did not know how to communicate
though,” said the girt, looking at him with with her. I f eo, this offer o f Esra’s was
questioning eyes “ I remember your face just what waa needed. In any case, she
ro w as you spoke the words. You had could go on to Portsmouth and telegraph
something on yonr mind, and have now, from there to the Dimedales. I t was too
only yon keep it to yourself. W hy won’t good an offer to be refused. She made
up her mind that the would accept it. It
you trust me with it? "
” 1 have a great deal to w orry me in was past eight now and nine was the
business matters.
Much good it would hour. She stood np with t^e intention o f
putting on her cloak and bonnet.
do telling you about them !”
“ I t ’s more than th a t” said Rebecca,
doggedly.
“ W ho to that man who has
C H A PTE R X X II.
cctne down?”
Esra and his father had composed the
“ A business man from London. H e has letter together, and the former handed it
come to consult my father about money to Mrs. Jorrocke, with a request that she
I t chanced, however,
Blatters. Any more questions you would should deliver it.
that Rebecca, keenly alive to any attempt
like to a a k r
“ I should like to know how long we at communication between the young mer
are to be kept down here, and what the chant and aiistreea, saw the crone hob
bling down the passage with the note in
meaning o f It all may be.”
“ W e are going back before the end o f her hand.
“ W hat’* that, mother?” the aaked.
the winter, and the meaning o f it to that
“ It ’a a letter for her,” wheezed the old
kttoa Mars ton was not well and needed a'
change o f air. Now, are yon satisfied ? ’ ■woman, nodding hdr tremulous head In
H e waa determined to allay as fa r as pos the direction o f K ate’a room.
“ I ’ll take it up,” said Rebecca eagerly.
sible any auspicious -that the girl might
“ I am just going up there with her tea.”
have previously formed.
“ Thank ye. Them etairs trie* my rheu-
“ And what brings you down here?” she
arked with the same searching look. “ You matis something eruel.”
The maid took the note and carried It
don’t come- down in t o ’this hole without
some good reason.
I did think at first upstair«. Instead o f taking it straight to
that you might come down In order to aee her mistress she slipped into her own
me, but you soon showed me that it room and read every word o f U. It ap
wasn’t that. There waa a time when yon peared to confirm her worst suspicions.
Here was Esra asking an interview with
was fond o f me.”
the woman whom be had assured her that
“ S o I am now, lam.”
“ Aye. very fon d ! N ot a word nor a he bated. I t was -true that the request
look from yon last time you came. You was made in measured words and on a
N o doubt that waa
most have some reason, though,
that plausible pretext.
merely to deceive any other eye which
brings you here.“
“ There’s nothing wonderful in a man might rest upon i t There was an under
standing between them, and this waa an
coming to aee his own father.”
“ Much yon cared for him in London,” assignation. The girl walked sw iftly up
she cried with a shrill laugh. “ I f be waa and down the .room like a caged tigress,
under the sod yon would not be the sad striking her bead with her clenched hands
der. I t ’s my belief as yon come down in her anger, and biting her lip until j
blood came. I t waa some time before «he
a fter that doll-faced mtoey upstair*.”
*
Aa the light faded and the grey o f could overcome her agitation sufficiently
evening deepened into darkness K a te sat to deliver the note, and when she did so
patiently In her bare little room. A coal her mistress, as we have seen, noticed that
fire sputtered and sparkled In the rusty her manner waa nervous and wild. She
grate, and there was a tin bucket full o f little dreamed o f the struggle which was
coals beside the fender from which to ro- going on in the dark-eyed girl’s mind
plentoh It.
8b# was very cold, ee she against the impulse which urged her to
drew her single chair up to the blase and i d l e her im agined-rival by the white
held her hnn.to over It. I t was a loneoome throat and choke the life out o f her.
“ I t ’e eight o’clock now,” Esra was say
vigil, while
the wind
• o f the ing downstairs. ” 1 wonder whether she
la the crocks will some?”
“
lil 41'iWs» I p
mi
b rW jr.
*
•
.
' “ Suppose bln1 didn’t?” 1
v
A T R IC K O f M E M O R Y .
“ In that c w f we s h fiM find other
mean« to bring bar oat.
W e haivq not
gone so fa r to break doqrn over a. trifle
at the last moment.”
h fa u o ry is o n t o f th * m ost useful
“ 1 (eel aa cold ae ice and as nervous and leaat tru stw orth y o f our facu lties.
as a cat.
1 can't understand how you “ I m ind It w e d , hut I hae m a Hoots o’
look so unconcerned. I f yon were going
ma m ind ! " said a canny Scotchman la
to ei^ta an Invoice or audit an account or
th e w itness box. A w holesom e ch arity
anything else in the way of buainank you
fo r th * m istakes o f others w as learned
could not take it more calmly.
I wish
the time would come. Th is w aiting 1«
terrible."
Kara, leaning back In his chair with
the firelight dickering over his haggard
but still handsome (ace, looked acrnee at
hla father with a puasled expresamn. H e
bad aever yet been able to detaUbdne
whether the old man was a conauwaste
hjpocrite or a religious mouomaniac. Burt
lay with hie feet in the light o f th e. fire
and his head sunk back across the arm of
the chair, fast asleep and snoring loudly.
“ isn’t It time tor, wake him u p ?" Bara
asked, interrupting the reading.
V i“
“ Yea, 1 think it is,” bis father answer-
w ell "be but p f the w ò rid aa ou t o f thè
fty le , - yo u know.
O f c o u rt* th ey’re
sw eet and p retty and fra g ra n t, and M l
th at.” ah* said, g iv in g them a vigorou s
■hake, as though they needed a course
In gym nastics. “ B u t w h o w an ts aay*
th in g lib * that, indeed?
yea,
“ Oh,
som etim es soma men, the
old-fashioned kind, th a t w eg y silk h a t*
and say ‘thank you ,' occasionally buy
them, and then*, too, w hen a g ir l la la
m ourning and c a n t w e a r an yth in g
else, there la a aligh t dem and, hut to
send vio lets to a g ir l” — ah * held up ber
hand* In horror.
“ W h y, I am su r* she’d g iv e them to
th * cook ."
lik * r
“ W e ll, w h a t d o th ey
I asked,
f o r an sw er I w as trea ted to a glance
th a t w ou ld h a ve, been a c re d it to as
em igra n t Inspector.
,
“ L ik e ? “
echoed sharp-eyed
Sybil
“ W h y, an yth in g that stands out, shows
o f f ; lets everyb od y know th at you’re
arearing them , sp ea k s. fo r them aelv*s ;
tb a t’a w h a t they w a n t ” *
She sw èpt by a bow er o f rosea, dusky
w ith v e lv e t beauty, dud pointed to a
g re a t patch o f gau dy orchids.
1494— Jamaica discovered by Columbus
and named St. Jago by him.
1682— Queen M ary I I . o f England born.
1970— The
Hudson’s
Bay
formed la England.
Company
1707— Legislative union fit England and
Scotland put into effort.
“ T h e re f
th ere !”
she
exclaim ed.
1775—
T h e Quebec A ct became law, pro
“ T h a t’s the kind that m akes the b it ;
viding fo r the government o f Opn-
Just look a t them. T h e re w on’t be one
•da by Governor and Council.
le ft a fte r the hall to-night. O f course.
1779—
Adoption o f the P in a Trod flag by
I ’ll h a ve t o fa ll hack' on th e roses to ;
great and general cotfrt o f Masaacbu-
help out. but I t ’ll be those bright ones
there,” she pointed to a crim son blot '
1788— Maryland ratified the Constitution
stain in g sprue snow -w hite hyacinths tn
o f the United States.
the case beyond. “ Ton,know , she eon-
1806— Spanish organised a revolt against
tided, “ I do believe some g ir ls w ould
N a p o leo n .. . .Charlea IY . o f Spain
w ea r sunflowers I f th ey w e re on ly fash
abdicated in favor o f B o n a p a rte.. . .
ionable.
Th ose chrysanthem um s and
Union Temperance Society formed
b righ t flow ers d o m ake an a w fu l bit.
In Saratoga connty. N ew York, this
and as fo r orchids"'— I fo llo w e d her
being the beginning o f the Prohibi
tion movement in the United States.
fo refin g er try in g to find some m ythical
m eaning oth er than a loud pfea fo r 1827— French National Guard disbanded.
d o lla rs and cents. “ Those, o f course. 1854— F irst railroad opened in BrasiL
1856— Montmorency bridge fell.
1859— Colorado river expedition ended.
1.805— S ir Samuel Cunard, founder o f the
Cnnard steamship line, died.
1877*—Occupation o f Bayaaid by the Rus
sians.
1878— First elevated trains run on Third
avenue la N ew York City.
‘ 881— F irst sod turned in th* const rue-
tion o f th* Canadian Pacific railway.
1882— Charles 8. Parnell, the Irish lead
er, released from Kilm alabam Jail.
1885— Col. O tter attacked the Canadian
rebels a t Out K n ife Creek.
.
T h r ift y fr e n c h 'm e n and wom en m ake tid y sums o f m oney rea rin g An
gora rabbits, and sailin g th e ir h a ir o r fleece, w hich la w oven Into a su perior
q u a lity o f cloth much lik e silk, and la w orn n ex t the akin by thorn afflicted
w ith rheum atism , w h o say th ey d e riv e beneficial results.
T h e better the
anim al la nourished and cared fo r, the lodger, £ n e r and th ick er la the hair.
T h e rabbits a re also consumed fo r food.
I t la m id th a t w ith p rop er ca re
each rabbit m a y be m ade to y ie ld a net p ro fit Of th ree d ollars a year, and
th e occupation la v e r y pleasant.
1888— H enry M. Stanley found Emin
Pasha on the shores o f A lbert N y
1894— Many Uvea loot by eartbquakea In
Venesuol«....International blmetal-
11c oonfereoce met in London.
1896— Bpaatoh fleot destroyed tn battto
o f M anila bny.
1906— Landalide at Frank, B. C„
the Jsss of ssventy-flve Uvea.
1909— A acoce of Hvea lost in a
at Larodo, Texas.., .Steamer Falk
ff Lands End, wlth Ions oi
“ V iolets.” she shook b t r head, “ beau
100 Uvejx
tifu l and fra g ra n t and ten d erly sincere. 1907— Attemptod smafeinatjon of I W *
I f you like, but old-fashioned, dread
dent Cabrem of Oustemals.
o f a ll."
They both hurried out, and found Burt
h * rem em bered the
fu lly old-fashioned, and not even to be
standing In front o f the floor.
It was
'
H * rwn* “ ber* 1
blowing half a gale now, and the wind 'flroumatance w ell.
-tnrm ln* considered, you know .”
was bitterly cold. There c a m a melaa-
H a d be an y recollection o f s t o p p g
choly rasping and rustling from the leaf- an yw h ere else? Scratching bfc grlxsled C A T H E D R A L K A D I O ff M A T C H E S .
leas wood, and every now and again a bead, he » lo w ly retraced the course,
A coni m iner nam ed W ilh elm L e m
•harp crackling sound would an n ou n ce'p n d then m id , "W h y , y e s ! W e stopped
that some rotten branch bad come crash* L a t th e bakeehop on the corner o f 3d p e rt* a rriv e d h e r« a fe w d ays ago w ith
ing down. The clouds drovd acroes the street, and you w ent I n !"
a cath ed ral— a
cathedral
m ade
of
face o f the moon, eo that at time» the
H e re waa the clew. A hasty vlk lt to matches. H e cam e fro m P o rt A rthu r,
cold, clear light »ilvered th* dark wood j tbe bak ery revealed the new »p a p er bon- T ex a s, w h ere h e bad been em ployed
anfl the oM m ona»ter, while at other. _
t-efc#d a w a y ^ . fcigh .b e lt, w ith a n tll recently.
T h e cath edra} repre
all was plunged in darkness, ir o m the
lou,
contents
undisturbed.
sents tw o y e a r* o f Lem pertx’s labor,
open door a broad golden.bar waa »hot
v
. __
across the lawn from the' lamp In th* T h e r e It had stood fo r a fortn igh t, such pain stakin g labor as fe w men are
hall. The three figure, with their long w h ile a w om an and a half-doxen men capable o f perform fhg.
Construction work on the line o f th*
fantastic shadows looked eerie and an oat* w e re sta yin g a w a k e by night ana fret-
F o r 20 years te m p e rts has been A Erie and Jersey road and the Geueeaee
oral in the yellow glare.
tin g by day, accusing each oth er o f coal miner. H e w orked In the mines R iv e r road la being pushed rapidly-
,
“ W hat if »he fails to co m er’
ly in g and stealing, a ll
because one o f G erm an y and A m erica, but a fe w I
The South Dakota railroad and ware-
From the »pot where they stood tbay w om an’s Intention got ahead o f her years ago he had to g iv e up jo in in g on bousr commission ha« decided to order
had a view o f the whole o f the Priory, p erform an ce and Im printed a lie on
-
---------------- j— i _
- j freight rates reduced weef o f the Missouri
K a te could not come out without betag jb * tablets o f her memory.— Y o u th ’s
1
l('M" 1 ■
. . " " " i ' Nver. A new tariff is now being worked
out.
seen. Above the door waa a long narrow Com panion.
»
I • f t f if f l
* Hi
♦ The balancing of the books o f the Penn-
i
sylvania railroad for 1007 shows that.
bile the system earned 930,000.000
than In 1906. it* paid 919,900.000 moro
V io le ts P s r e h a M d O s ly b y O M - fa a h -
for labor, or 66 per ceat on the Increased
yarning*,
e
U » * t Mew Wfco Swr “ Thwwk T e a .”
Thoe* opposed to closing the Red rive»
I f a s tra w m ay « b o w w hich kray the
te navigation had a m ajority at the hear
w ind blows, s a y « a w ell-know n new s
ing before M ajor Schudk o f the Cnltad
paper w rite r, then a v io le t m ay a lad
State* engineer corps at Fargo, and they
Indicate the passing
serve as a vane
A W a tc h o f thw B lin d .
are confident that the plan to close the
zephyrs
o
f
society'.
river1 below Belmont w ill be rejected by
T h e novel w atch fo r the blind Invent
In th e present van ish in g o f the v io le t
Jthe federal government.
ed by G eorge M eyer, a Germ an watch
there
le no better Indicator o f thla ra d i
Roads running sast from Chicago seem
m aker, to designed to supply a reliable
to be all at asa regarding the policy to
tim epiece a t a much m ore moderate cal change between} th e woman our
be adoptad en th* testing o f the consti
cost than any y e t i used by the s i c h t l M » ! fath era used to call “ m oth er” aa she
tutionality o f the 2-cent maximum rato
stitch
ed
and
sewed
and
sm
iled
upon
T he d ia l baa an ord in a ry m inute hand,
laws passed by many o f the States. The
w h ile the hours are Indicated by tw elve her little brood, suprem ely happy w ith
matter w ts takes ont o f the hands oÇ
the
bouquet
o
f
v
io
lets
th
at
sometimes
buttons In re lie f, each button slnktaff
the passenger officiato by the’
.."IT
graced
h
er
gown,
and
the
sm
art,
up-to-
Into the d ia l in turn w ith the pai _
officers some time agb.
The ueuel cut-end-dried pn
o f the hours. T o find the time, the ^ A n d ate Mrs. B . -.'
account
o
f
1
1
1
health.
W
h
ile
he
waa
11]
F o rm e rly w hen flow ers w e r e distin ct
meetings
o f the
Grand Trank
, ---- ----------
------------------
— illway o f
gers are passed over the dial, when (h e
ly em blem atic, deep . w ith
esoteric he d id v a rio u s 'th in g s to w h ile aw Sy Canada were varied at eft# semi-annual
depressed button makes known
th e
the
time.
One
d
a
y
he
started
to
bui^I
m eaning, th ere w as no grea ter com pli
gathering o f the director* o f th* road in
hour, and the hand gives the minute by
m ent than to be p reaen ted'w itb a bunch a to y cath edral patterned a fte r a pic Loudon, by heated charges o f mismanage
Its position. T h e dial covers a circu
o f violets. P oets the w orld over, since tu re he saw In a magazine. H la build ment, and the report o f th* board was
la r p late w hich takes the place o f the
A d am d elved and E v e w en t vloletin g, ing m aterials w e re m atches and glue, only adopted a fter >arn est appeals for
ord in a ry hour. hand, aa Its circum fer
b a re rbapeodled o v e r the w om an ly alg- hla tools a pocket k n ife . and va glue hnity o f Interest for the company’s credit
ence has a notch Into which each but
n I flea nee o f Its qu iet fragrance. F roffl brush. T h * plan w as la id out fo r a
ton drops In turn ss the movement- o f
drat rea d er d itties about th * “ mossy building 14 fe e t high, 14 fe e t Jong and
the w orks causes the plate to revolvA
dell w h ere the bumble vio lets grow ,” 7 fe e t w ide. -He w orked w ith rem ark
to N apoloon’s eloquent tribute as be able patience, often tim es pu ttin g In all
T h e highest altitu d e ev e r reached by ' plucked it as the sp rin gtim e em blem o f hla w ak in g hours at hla task. A fte r
a kite- In this country, according to his re tu rn fro m Elba, and also Of Jo- tw o y e a r* o f alm ost continuous appn«
P ro f. H enry, o f the w eather bureau.” la zeph top's demotion, everyw h ere from Cation th e Job whs finished.
T h e w a lls o f th e cathedral, the tow-
g a rre t to throne, It has nodded Its low -
thfit recorded recently at the M ^ |
W ea th e r-sta tio n In V irgin ia , when dn iy bead, w ith a success undream ed o f era and turrets, the ga lleries and stee
altitu de o f s lig h tly over 23.000 M et by haughty garden beauties. M odesty, ples, the ornam ent#— a ll a re o f n ateb -
w as attained. A t tbd t height a tern- sw eetn ess
Innate
g e n tility — ¿ b e ** *m. I t took m ore than iOOO.OOtTmatch-
perature o f 6 degrees below zero w as g lo w ed In the deep blue o f each fra- ea to build th * church nqd m ore than
reoorded.
P ro f. H en ry says that ex- g ra n t messe nger. But, gracious alive,
pertinents In k ite flyin g bave% een car- w ho w a n ts to be th at now adays?
rled on In oth er countries where an | “ V io le t* ? D e a r m e ! Don’ t get thoas,”
altitu d e o f 23,000 feet w as r e c o r it f. said the flo ris t With a p rescien t glan ce
T h a t means a height o f about fou r and Ilka an up-to-date Sybil w ith a fa t bank
one-third miles.
I a cco u n t
“ T h e y ’ re w a y ou t o f s t y le