The
azai'orr
Mystery
M
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THE STORY
Mcrryn Holt la mraxtd hf a
man mlllnif himself Maiaroft
a traveling companion. After
nhort tour they put up at the
Woodcock Inn on MarraiJnl
moor. They meet, raiually, Mr.
Elphlnstotie and Shell Merchl
on. MntarolT tella Holt they art
hit wife and daughter and that
his real name la Merchlaon. That
ntKht Maiaroff fall to return to
the Inn and his disappearance la
unexplained. Holt meeta Shell
and tella her of MaiarpfT'i disap
pearance. CHAPTER II Continued
He pushed me before him 1M a
Worn whert Mr. Elphlnstone was evi
dently waiting breakfast for her hus
band and daughter. She did not see
we at first, being concerned with tea
making, but she evidently rwvgnUt?d
Mr. Elphinstone's step.
"Are you and Sheila never coming
to breakfast, Malcolm?" the demanded.
The tea" Then she turned and
raw me, and I saw that she recog
nized me cs the young man whom she
Lad passed two days before. Mr.
Elphlnstone pushed me forward,
"Marion!" he exclaimed "A truly
Biost wonderful and fortunate thing!
This young gentleman Is the sou of
my old friend Tom Holt! Isn't It
extraordinary that he should drop on
me from the clouds like this? He
came let's see, how did he come?
oh, I remember now, Sheila brought
him, to be sure."
"Yes," said Sheila, "and you've al
ready forgotten why I brousht him I
Mother," she went on rapidly, "Mr.
Holt Is staving at the Woodcock with
that old gentleman we saw him with
the other day they're motoring. And
the old gentleman is lost, and Mr.
Holt has been out all night searching
for Lim."
Mrs. Elphlnstone gave me a polite
welcoming, If somewhat frigid hand
shake. "Then Tm quite sure Mr. Holt will
do with some breakfast," she said. In
I-ractlcal fashion. "Attend to Mm,
Sheila."
"This Is very kind of yon," I said,
"but I really ought to be looking for
my missing friend"
Mr. Elphlnstone sat down, helped
himself to some fish, and after a few
reflective sips at a cup of tea, leaned
across the table toward his step
daughter. "How would It be to Inquire at nigh
Cap lodge?" he suggested "Verner's
people might have heard something,
or know something."
"Good !" said Sheila. "I'll take Mr.
Holt across there presently. That,"
she continued, turning to me, "Is my
cousin, Vemer Courtbope's place
High Cap lodge. We'll go see him."
We each made a hurried breakfast
and set out. Our way lead toward the
hills nnd became rugged and lonely.
"My cousin has a small shooting
party at his lodge," announced Sheila,
as we came In sight of our destination.
"There's himself, and his manager
(Courthopt-8 are bankirs, you know,
In the city), a man iiamej Armlntrade,
whom I loathe, and another man, a
London doctor, Eccl-hare, whom I de
test ! I su; po.se we shall find them at
breakfast."
She was evidently well acquainted
with High Cap lodge and its arrange
ments, for without any ceremony or
delay she led me lu by the front hall,
down a passage, and thrust open the
door of a room that looked out on a
fine stretch of moor. Three men,
lounging around a well-spread break
fast table, turned lu astonishment at
our entrance, examining me closely,
I, lu my turn, took a good, close
look at iheru, Individually and collec
tively. For I remembered that when
Muzuroff had Intimated to me that he
wanted to spend that tlrst day at the
Woodcock alone, he had also said
that there whs a man in the neigh
borhood whom be wanted to see on
business. And for the moment It
Hushed upon me that as ail these
three men were from London, the man
to whom be referred might be one of
them: two, at any rate, were con
nected with huo'uii.g end financial mat
ter; so, also, us 1 knew well enough
by that time, was Mazaroff.
But I got no help from my Inevitably
superficial examination of the three,
tine, obviously the host, was a young
ish man of a somewhat heavy and
MiMen cast of countenance. The sec
ond was a sleek and sly-looking middle-aged
man, with a carefully
trimmed heard and a somewhat super
cilious air tills I presently discov
ered to be Armlntradsj the bank man
ager. And the third was a great,
lk-hy man, a sort of man-mountain,
clcoii shaveii, heavy of feature.
Sheila paid no more attention to
the two guests than was represented
I) curt nod; site went straight up
to Cotirthope.
"Veruer," she said, "this gentleman
In Mr. Holt, whose father Is au old
J.S.FIetchei4j!
Illustrations bts,
Irwin Myr-
friend of Mr. Elphlnstono. Mr. Holt
is staying for a day or two at the
Woodcock, where he came with a
friend Mr. Mazaroff, In Mr. Main
roffs car. Last night Mr. Muzsroff,
who Is an elderly man, went out on
the moor, and he's never returned.
Have you or your people board or seen
anything of bltu?"
I'll do Vomer Courthope the Justice
to say that he showed some polite
concern In the matter. Neither he nor
his two guests could tell me anything,
but Courthope went out with Sheila
and myself to a shed at the rear of
the lodge, where two gamekeepers and
some other men were waiting, and of
them he made Inquiries. That re
sulted In nothing, but he promised
that In the course of the day's shoot
ing he and his party would keep their
eyes and ears open as they went about
the moors.
Sheila and I presently went away In
the direction of Marrasdale tower. We
had walked some little distance In
silence when she suddenly turned on
me with a look which showed me that
she Mt Instinctively certain that I,
out of sheer youthful sympathy, would
understand what she was going to say.
"If a man's known by the company
he keeps," she said almost bitterly,
"what about my cousin Vemer? Did
you ever see two more tttorly detest
able men than Armlntrade and Eccle
share! I loathe the sight of them)
And and yet my mother wants me to
marry Verner Courthope; Insists on
It I Well I Just won't won't!"
1 was so much taken aback by this
sudden outburst of Intimate confidence
that I lost my tongue, and could only
stand looking at my companion. She
reddened a little under my guie, but
her attitude became siill more confi
dential and appealing.
"I daresay you think I'm an awful
ass for saying things like that?" she
said hurriedly. "Hut you're young,
and there's nobody about here who
la. Yon wouldn't like to be forced
Into doing what you don't want to do,
would you?"
"From what I've seen of you," I
said, "I should say that nobody could
make you do what you don't want to
do!"
"I wish my own mother would see
that." she responded quickly. "She's
been try lug to force Verner Courthope
on me for the last twelve months!
And I won't!"
"Why Is Mrs. Elphlnstone so keen
about It?" I Inquired
"Oh, I don't know!" she said, half
Impatiently. "She and his mother
my aunt, you know sort of settled It
between them. Verner, now that his
father's dead. Is nominal bead of the
bank, and he's plies of money. And
I'm afraid my mother Is fond of any
body and anything that's mixed up
with money."
"And Mr. Elphlnstone?" I suggested
"Mr. Elphlnstone is about as useful
to appeal to as one of the folios In
his library," she answered
"What are you going to do, then?"
I asked
She gave me an arch glance anl,
for the first time, though I had looked
at her closely enough before, I saw
something that gave me a start. There
was the slightest, the very slightest
suspicion of a cast In her left eye.
Just as there was hut more defined
and noticeable In Mazaroffs.
"Do?" she snld. "What, to check
mate my mother and Verner? Why
I'll marry somebody else!"
We exchanged very candid glances
at that,
"Is Is there anybody else?" I asked.
She looked at me from under her
eyelashes.
"No!" she answered.
I don't know what I was going to
say then. I have a vague notion that
Water Filtration Has
About 1SS7 It was announced by
Percy Frankland and others that sand
filtration removed nearly all the bac
teria In water. Five years later enme
the outbreak of cholera In Hamburg,
snd a striking demonstration was af
forded of protection through filtra
tion. Hamburg and Altona. two cities
on the Elbe river, both used the river
as a source of water supply. Hamburg
used nnflltered water; Altona filtered
Its supply. When cholera Infection of
the river water occurred, Altona es
caped with only a few cases. Ham
burg, on the other hand, had an enor
mous number.
Following the rapid advance of the
science of bacteriology In the '80s and
1Hs, It was natural to consider the
possibility of purifying drinking wa
ter by the addition of chemical disin
fectants. The tlrst systematic use of
chlorine In water is credited to Hous
ton and MeOovern In England In 1W4
and l!MTi, The present world-wide use
of chlorine disinfectant of public wa
ter supplies, however, Is due largely
to the work of George A, Johnson,
I wat very near a blunt declaration
that I had fallen lu love with her at
first sight. Hut at that moment we
turned tho comer of a plantation,
and canio across Mr, Elphlnstone, who
was mooning along with a sort of
alpenstock lu his hand, and obviously
lost In the clouds or mists of his own
reflections. He on mo to earth with a
start ou seeing us.
"Oh, ah, to be sure I" he exclaimed
"I bolleve I was coming to meet you.
Holt you must como and lunch with
us,"
I Interrupted htm, peremptorily: It
was the only thing to do.
"It'a awfully kind of you, str," I
said, "but I can't do anything until
I've found or heard of Mr, Maiaroff."
"Whnt'll you do, now?" Inquired
Sheila.
"Got hotd of the police and have a
thorough search of the district made,"
I answered "And there's no time to
be lost, so you'll excuse me If I hurry
away."
I went off without more ado I
knew very well that I should see her
again before the day was out and In
other days to come.
I went on across the moor to tho
Woodcock. Webster was standing on
the road before the pen door.
"Hoard anything?" I demanded as I
got near hi in.
"Not a word, sir," he replied "Noth
ing I There's two meu waiting for
mm
, dm
mi i rl wsiSi
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"And Yet My Mother Wants Me
Marry Verner Courthope.
to
you Inside. Mr. Holt want some In
formation. One's a police sergeant;
the other's a newspaper reporter."
"Then It's got out. Webster," I snld.
"That makes It all the stranger."
"Oh. it's all round tha district by
now, Mr. Holt," he answered. "Every
body knows he's missing. Hut I've
neither sen nor heard anybody who
saw blin last night It would seem
as If he clean disappeared when he
walked out of that door."
"There's no doubt of that, Webster,"
I said. Truth to tell, I was already
wondering If Mazaroff had mnde a
clean disappearance on purpose, fly
this time be might be In London,
vanished for the second time In his
life, and for practically the same
cause. But that was all surmise: I
turned to the Inn.
"Well," I said "come In, Webster,
and let'a hear what these fellows
want."
The policeman Introduced himself as
Sergeant Manners of the county con
stabulary, stationed at Marrasdale;
the reporter as Mr. Bownas, district
representative of the leading county
newspaper and of one of the London
press agencies. Manners was a big,
military-looking man; Bownas a iittle,
ratty chap, content to scribble In his
book while the sergeant did the ques
tioning. That quickly turned to a
point which, It was very plain to see,
the police mind considered all Im
portant. "This gentleman now, sir," ashed
the sergeant, when 1 had given him
the main facts of the case, "he'd be a
wealthy gentleman, no doubt?"
Too may take It that Mr. Mnznruff
Is a wealthy man," I answered
"And la that case likely to have
wealth on him when he walked out of
this house, no doubt?" continued the
sergeant "Valuables, of course."
Curbed Disease Spread
who, In IOCS, used blenching powder
("chloride of lime") for the purifica
tion of Jersey City's water supply.
New York Times.
A Fair Cop
For years and years and years
no, let us stnrt again: For weary
hours the angler sat watching his
float It never moved, snve when a
ripple of the river made It tremble
and raised false hopes In his heart
Then, with the snort of an enraged
bull and the foot-trend to match, the
village constable came to him.
"Fishing ain't allowed In this pond,"
he snapped. "Beat It!"
The fisherman turned bored eyes to
him and Jerked the hook out of the
water.
"I'm not flailing," he replied, with
weary sarcasm In his voice, "I'm
teaching this worm to swim."
"A-a-rh!" snorted the policeman
triumphantly. "Then come along with
me. Bathing ain't allowed In the pond
without costumes, and he ain't got
one on I"
"He carried a lot of ready money,"
I said.
"Watch and chnln, likely?" he
asked, with a knowing look.
"An exceedingly valuable watch Rnd
chain gold," I replied "Ami. if you
want to know, he had a very flue dia
mond In his necktie, and another In a
ring ou his loft band. Ilo'd also a
solid gold cigar case and a solid gold
matchbox."
Tho sergeant gave me nn emphatic
nod.
"Then I'll tell you what It Isl" h
exclaimed. "And no mistake either I
This la a case of murder and rob
bery 1 Whnt! hero's a gout Ionian
with nil that on htm walks out n a
lonely moor In full view cf all those
drover chaps that was about here Inst
night and comes from Lord knows
where why, f counts soma of 'ctu
followed him, nnd did hlra in for what
they could get I Murdor, sir that's
what It Is, nmt followed by robbery
never heard of a clearer easel"
"If It la so," I asked, "how la It
that his body hasn't been found?"
"Ah I" he answered, giving me a
slgulflcant look. "You don't know
those parts, sir. They're wilder nor
what you'd think. There's placet here
where you could drop a body, qulut
like, and nohody'd ever And It Bog
holes. Lots of plsoes. I should say
thnt, If you meant to do It you could
hide the vestiges of a crime for ever
ou Mnrrnsdnle moor."
"What are jou going to do?" I
asked.
"Well," he replhHl reflectively, "It'll
have to bo reported to headquarters.
There'll bo a proper search made, and
Inquiries. Of course, In my opinion,
It's as I sny some o' them drovers
has done him In and rilled his pockots.
We must circulate the news fur and
wbltv Mr. Bownas here'll put pieces
la the papers,"
Mr. Bownas waved his notebook.
"It'll be In every principal newspaper
In England London and provincial,
tomorrow morning," ha announced.
"You haven't got a photo of the miss
ing gentlotuan?"
"No!" I replied "And I'm not at
ail sure that the missing gentleman
will like so much publicity. If be
turns up"
The sergenut laughed.
"Turn upl" he exclaimed "Lord
bless you I hell never turn up, not If
he went out with all thnt valuable
property on him. Murder and rob
bery ! Hint's what it la."
And with a final remark to the
effect thnt this was a bad Job, and he
expected It to work out as be had
predicted, the two went away.
What the local police did I don't
know, but when dnrkness fell that
night I was stlil without news of
Mazaroff. Nor did we get any during
the next day, and whon the third
night after his disappearance came,
I began to feel certain that thnt dis
appearance was premeditated and In
tentional, and that he hud Just cleared
out In order to avoid the revelations
of which he had spoken to me.
It was Just coming gray dawn on
the third morning, and I was awake,
wondering what to do, whin a knock
came at my door. I sprang out of
bed, opened It, and found Musgrnve
and Webster, half-dressed. In tho pas
sago. The landlord gave me a look.
"They've found him!" he whispered.
"Leastwise, they've found" He
teemed to choke at thnt, and I turned
eagerly to the chauffeur. He, too,
showed signs of unwillingness. But
he got some words out.
They've found a body, Mr. Holt,"
be said "Some place on the moors "
"Itelver's den," Interrupted Mus
grave.
"And brought it here," continued
Webster. "It the fact Is, sir, the
the head's the features, you know
gone! But the clothes, sir they're
his!"
I dressed hastily and went down
with them to the outhouse wherein
Its finders, a local policeman and a
game watcher, had laid the body. I
am not going Into details about It here
but, as somebody muttered, there
were stoats and weasels and similar
carnivorous animals In hundreds on
those moors. Still, those were Maza
roff s clothes, and there was the birth
mark he had told me of.
The newt had already spread, and
Manners, the sergeant who had ques
tioned me, came hurrying along. He
examined the clothing. There was
not as much at a penny piece left In
the pockett; watch, chain, rings,
pocketbook, pnpers, were all gone. 1 It
turned on me with a look that was
as triumphant as It was significant.
"What did I tell you, captain?" he
murmured. "Didn't I say murder nnd
robbery? And wasn't I right? What
could be plainer?"
I made no answer. I was thinking
of other things. However he had
come by his death, the fact remained
that Maznroff was dead. And them
was I, as far as I knew, the only per
son In the world who knew his secret
a secret which meant that I should
presently have to carry this strangest
of stories to Marrasdale tower,
e e e
Later In the morning Eceleslmre
came to the Woodcock. He had lienrd
of the discovery, he snld, and had hur
rled over from High Cap lodge ti.
offer his professional services. Ani
Just then up drove the local doctor,
on the same errand. The two of t hen
went to the room where tho dead nmn
had been laid out They were there
some time. At last Eccleshnre came
back, alone.
"Mr. Holt," he snld, as the police
sergeant and I approached him, "your
frleiyj has been shot."
He made this announcement with s
curious gravity. But Manners and I
both let out excla muttons of astonish
ment (TO BE COWTINUWO)
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