THE HERMISTON HERALD
Thursday, April 10, 1930
The ~
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Mystery
2H& J.S.Hetchei’i O f
Illustrations bq
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T H E STORY
M ervyn H olt Is en gaged by a
man ca llin g h lm eelf Maxaroff as
a tr a v e lin g com panion. A lter a
sh ort tour they put up at the
W oodcock Inn on M arrasdale
moor. They m eet, ca su ally, Mrs.
B lp h tnstone and S h eila Merchl-
son. Maxaroff te lls H olt th ey are
h is w ile and d au gh ter and that
h is real nam e Is M erchlson. That
n ig h t Maxaroff fa lls to return te
th e Inn and h is d lsap p earan cs Is
un exp lained. H olt m eets Shelia
and te lls bar ef M axarotrs d isap
pearance.
m b ta l
i e
• * - ' A b M ln t.
a r e from h e a lth y xtoek x»d h a t c h M r l x h t
B u r ro u r c h ic k , from a p hu ltry fa rm w ltk
IS rM rx’ xucacoMful L xghorn b rM d ta s s s d
h a tc h in g b e c k in g “ *xm ThxCx s u e r e n tx e d
s a tis fa c tio n fo r ro u . M a r o b ta in li t J J J J
h n o A M d n r . n a l d . 1« d e p o .lt per efctok w ith
ForGalledHorses
Natarally
“The place for bees—” began the
man who had been reading np on
apiaries.
“Is between the A’s and the Cs,
growled his victim, as he made his
getaway.—Cincinnati Enquirer.
True dyes a re
easiest to use I
Dresses, drapes or lingerie look
note when they’re re-dyed with Dia
mond. Dyes. N o spotting or streak;
big; never a trace of that re-dved
look. Just rich, even, bright colon
that hold amazingly through wear
and washing.
.. .
Diamond Dyee a n the highest
quality Dyes you can buy
Hiey-re so rich <a pare aniline». That*»
what makes them en easy to nee.
That’s w hy they’ve been famous for
90 yean.
IS cent packagea-all
DiamontkQyc*
A Bad Habit
“H e to flighty. H e to uncertaIn.',
John J. Raskob, the brilliant finan
cier, waa criticising an unsuccessful
business man.
"Anybody,” Mr. Raskob went on,
“may fall once, but when a man falls
three or four times It to beat to have
done with him.
“I t ’s all very well," M r. Raskob
coded, “to begin at the bottom of the
ladder, but this fellow has got Into
the habit of doing I t "
neglectaCOLD
T > IS T R E S S W O _ « o U lb t o *
Woodcock, where he came wltn a
friend, Mr. Maxaroff, In Mr. Maxa-
roff’s car. Last night Mr. Maxaroff,
who Is an elderly man, went out on
the moor, and he’s never returned.
Have you or your people heard or seen
anything of him?"
I ’ll do Verner 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
H e pushed me before him Into a
room where Mrs. Elphlnatone was evi
dently waiting breakfast for her hus
band and daughter. She did not see
me at first, being concerned with tea
making, but she evidently racognlaed
Mr. Elphlnstone's step.
“Are you and Sheila never coming
to breakfast, Malcolm I ” she demanded.
“The tea— ” Then she turned and
saw me. and I saw that she recog
nized me as the young man whom she
had passed two days before.
Mr.
Elphlnatone pushed me forward.
“Murlon!” he exclaimed. “A truly
most wonderful and fortunate thing!
This young gentleman Is the son of
my old friend Tom Holt 1 Isn t it
extraordinary that he should drop on
me from the clouds Uke thlsl He
came—let's see, how did he cornel
—oh, I remember now, Sheila brought
him, to be sure.”
“Yes.’’ said 8hella, “and you’ve al-
ready forgotten why 1 brought him I
Mother," she went on rapidly, “Mr.
Holt Is staying 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 him.”
Mrs. Elphlnstone gave me a polite
welcoming, if somewhat frigid hand-
shake.
“Then I ’m quit« sure Mr. Holt will
do with some breakfast." she said. In
practical fashion.
“Attend te him,
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 High
Cap lo d g er he suggested. “Verner'x
people might have heard something,
or know something.”
-Good I" said Shelia. “I ’ll U ke Mr.
Holt acroee there presently. That,"
abe continued, turning to me, “Is m j
cousin, Verner Conrthope’e place—
High Cap lodge. We’ll go see him.”
We each made a hurried breakfast
and set out. Our way lead toward the
bills and 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
(Courthopes are bankers, yon know,
I d the city), a man named Armlntrade,
whom I loathe, and another man, a
London doctor, Kcclealmre, whom I de
teat 1 1 suppose we shall And them at
breakfast.”
She was evidently well acquainted
with High Cap lodge and Its arrange
ments, lor without any ceremony or
delay she led me lu by the front hall,
down a passage, and thrust open the
first sight But at that moment we
turned the corner of a plantation,
and came across U r. Elphlnatone. who
w
mooning along with a sort of
alpenstock In his hand, and obviously I
lost In the clouds or mists of his own
reflections. He came to earth with a
start on seeing us.
“Oh, ah, to be sure!" he exclaimed.
"1 believe I was coming to meet you. |
Holt—you must come and lunch with
U l.”
I Interrupted him, peremptorily: It
was the only thing to do.
“I t ’s awfully kind of yen, sir," I
said, “but I cant do anything until
I ’ve found or heard of Mr. Maxaroff.
"What’ll you do, now?" Inquired
8hella.
“Get hold 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
I went on across the ’moor to the
Woodcock. Webster was standing on
credit to attain prosperity, would
mean a new customer for American
made goods, pending the building up
of all Industries In Mexico.
In the same time It takes a dosa
of soda to bring a little temporary
relief of gas and sour stomach,
Phillips M ilk of Magnesia has acid
ity completely checked, and the di
gestive organs all tranqulllxed.
Once you have tried this form of
relief you w ill cease to worry about
your diet and experlenca a new
freedom In eating.
This pleasant preparation la Just
as good for children, too. Use- It
whenever coated tongue or fetid
breath signals need of a sweetener.
Physicians w ill tell you that every
spoonful of Phillips M ilk of Mag
nesia neutralizes many times its
volume In acid. Get the genuine,
the name Phillips Is Important
Imitations do net act the samel
This is the continent that Interests
us. And the nations that should have
our sincere and generous co-operation,
art our nearest neighbors, Canada on
the north, Mexico on the south. To
build, north and south, with the aid of
our unlimited wealth, the honor and
deserved friendship of these two
countries, would be to make this
North American continent forever In
vulnerable to attack.
said hurriedly. “But— you’re young,
and there’s nobody about here who
Is. You wouldn’t like to be forced
Into doing what you don’t want to do, I
would you?"
I
“From what Tve seen of you, 1
said, “1 should say that nobody could
make you do what you don’t want to
do!"
•*I wish my own mother would see j
that,” she responded quickly, “She’s
been trying to force Verner Courthope
on me for the last twelve months)
And—1 won’t I"
“Why Is Mrs. Elphlnstone so keen
about t t r I Inquired.
|
"Oh, I don’t knowl" she said, half
impatiently. “She and his m o th e r-
my aunt, yon know—sort of settled it
between them. Verner. now that hie
father’s dead, to nominal head of the
bank, and he’s piles of money. And
I ’m afraid my mother to fond of any
body and anything that’s mixed np
with money."
“And Mr. Elphlnstone?" I suggested.
“Mr. Elphlnstone 1s about as useful
to appeal to as ons of the folios In
his library" • he answered.
“What are you going to do, then?"
I asked.
She gave me an arch glance-and,
for the first time, though 1 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—but more defined
and noticeable—in MazarofTs.
“D o r she said. "What, to check
mate my mother and Verner? Why—
The unemployment problem is vis
ible, even on desert roads. Men seek-
I lng work, walk wearily, the young
men carrying nothing. The older men
fam iliar with a hard Ufa, carry heavy
bundles, often as big as the man, bed
ding, extra shoes, clothes, etc. Theli
lot Is made harder by the wave of
I crime, which makes automobile driv-
! era afraid to carry their less fortunate
' i fellow men. Stories of good-naturod
drivers, robbed, or shot and robbed as
I a result of "giving a lift" caused the
lah man of a somewhat neavy ana
, u|lea ,x it of countenance. The sec
ond wns a sleek end sly-looklng rnld-
lle-aged
man,
with
a
carefully
■ rimmed beard and a somewhat super
cilious air—thto I presently discos-
cred to be Armlntrade. the hank man-
■iger.
And the third waa a great,
¡eshy man. a sort of man-mountain,
leen-shaven. heavy of feature.
Sheila paid no more attention to
he two guests than was represented
by a curt nod: eh* went straight up
o Courthope.
“Verner.” she said, "this gentleman
s Mr. Holt, wboee father to aa aM
1 majority to harden their hearts and
drive on.
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W ill Hays, who knows what 99 per
• cent of Americans want, promulgates
t a new picture morals code to meet
f . the "talkie” emergency. The audiences
’ ! of 22.000 theatres in this country, and
- I 250,000.000 human being that see
I American pictures weekly throughout
I- the world are not to be corrupted.
body knows he’e missing. But I've I
neither seen nor heard anybody who
saw him last night—It would seem
as If he clean disappeared when ha
walked out of that door."
“There's no doubt of that, Webster,"
I said. Truth to tell, I was already
wondering If Maxaroff had made a
clean disappearance on purpoae. By
this time he might be In London,
vanished tor the second time In his
Ufa, and for practically the same
cause. But that was all surmise: I
turned to the Inn.
j
“Well,” I wilde “come In, Webster,
and let’s hear what these fellows |
w ant"
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 Ixmdon
press agencies. Manners was s big,
military-looking man; Bownas a little,
ratty chap, content tc 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, gir," asked
the sergeant, when I bad given him
the main facta of the case, “he’d be a
wealthy gentleman, no doubt?”
“You muy take It that Mr. Muzaroff
la a wealthy man,” I answered.
Water Filtration
TO-NIGHT
Stomach
This Is a land of long distance. To
day’s run of 300 miles Is an average
trip. Presently, when the new high
way la built, from Seattle, along the
Pacific, through Washington, Oregon
California, Mexico and on down to
Panama, you will be able to take a
long ride out here.
About one thousand miles, in a
straight line, on perfect roads. Is aU
you can do at present.
«
the slightest sign ef
A. Sour
who, In 1908. need bleaching powder
About 1887 It was announced by
(“chloride of lime” ) fot the purities-
Percy Frenklsnd and others that send
tlon of Jersey City’s water e u p p lj.-
filtration removed nearly all the bac
teria In water. F ire years later esrae New York Times.
the outbreak of cholera In Hamburg,
end a striding demonstration was af
A Fels Cop
forded of protection through filtra
For years and years and yenrw-
tion. Hamburg and Altona, two ritlee
no, let us »tart again: For wenry
on the Elbe river, both used the river
hours the angler sat watching his
as a source of water supply. Hamburg float. It never moved, save when a
used unfiltered water; Altona filtered
ripple of the river made It tremble
Its supply. When cholera Infection of and raised false hope* In hl* heart.
Then, with the snort of an enraged
the river water occurred. Altona es
caped with only a few cases. Ham
bull and the foot-tread te match, the
village constable came to him.
burg, on the other hand, had an enor-
"Fishing sln’l allowed In this pond.'
irons nnmher.
Following the rapid advance of the he snapped "Beat It
The fisherman turned bored eyes to
science of bacteriology In the ’81* and
We. It was natural to consider the him and Jerked the book out of the
possibility of purifying drinking wa water.
“I'm not fishing." he replied, with
ter by the sddliloo of chemical dlxlu
“I'm
fectanta. The first systematic nse of weary sarcasm In hl* voice.
chlorine In water to credited to Hous teaching this worm to swim."
“A-e-rh r
snorted the policeman
ton and McGovern In England In 1t»»4
and lWkl. The present world wide ese triumphantly “Then come along with
of chlorine disinfectant of pnbllc wa me. Bathing ain’t allowed In the pond
wit hoot costumes, end he ain't got
ter supplies, however, to due largely
te the work of George A John»»* one e a r
fo r rea l profit.
W" p u b lish Mortt
■on km a t ou r ow n «xponoo. D on t «end ,
acriptu u n til you Inform ua w h a t yon
rea l ch a n ce for re n u ln e a b ility . Knelt
turn poataico
attentioni-,
Corpa.. 14S W . 4S4h. N ow Y ork. (PaP<
^ o '^GLENN’S
S ulphur S oap
Bkln eruptions, excessive
perspiration, lnseet bites,
relieved a t once by this re
fresh in g beautifying toilet
and bath soap. B est for
M arch of Sciaace
First Cook—W hat do you do with
yourself now that the Iceman la out
of a Job?
Second Ditto—Well, the man who
collects Installments on the electric
refrigerator ain’t such a bad sort—
Life.
J
No sympathy with crime, no pres
». entation of crime heroes,
t I Law must not be ridiculed. This In
cludes prohibition.
“ | Marriage and the home must be
■’ | held sacred. Aduitry never Justified.
,.
No white slavery, no sex abomina
tions.
d
No ridiculing of religion or clergy-
_ I men.
No "pointed profanity.”
No obscenity, no dances Including
* movements that could reasonably be
called obscene.
n
Cruelty to children and others, third
n degree torture, electrocutions, hang-
® j lngs. must be treated carefully
'*
Moses, coming down from the moun-
re tain, could hardly do better. And the j
ir new code of morals is accepted volun-
,n I tarlly by the motion picture Industry.
i The motion picture magnates were
h wise when they selected W ill Hays
to keep them on the straight moral
id path.
“
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W ithout Interfering with W ill Hays'
ns I moral code. It is permissible to tell of
In | a new gangster-lnslde-kllllng plan.
!». Novelty has Its charm. Charles M.
ile i Curry and Harry Morhan decided that
as the time had come to kill and rob
their partner. Angelo Freni,
he
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They had Freni carry a shovel to an
int auomoblle, telling him he was to dig
up some buried "soup," a high explos-
Ive to be used on a bank vault. In the
M<) automobile they beat him to death, us
they supposed, then buried him. using
trt the shovel to dig his grave.
r.
Freni, who had only pretended to
. be dead, and was put in a shallow
.... hole, dug his way out. and the would-
. . . be killers confess. Freni, In the hos
pital, Is proud to be the only man
| pver dead, burled and self exhumed.
His mates confess, and he must go to
l.ater In the morning Eccleshare tall with them later. They told all
i-ame to the Woodcock. He had heard about his crimes. That "honor among
••f the discovery, he said, and had hur thieves" seems to lack essential qual
rled over from High Cup lodge to ities.
offer his professional service*.
And
There is terrible waste In vur
lust then up drove the local doctor
..n the same errand. The two of them squandering of oil resources. Com ( ms
went to the room where the dead man tltlve drilling, unnecessary number of
hud been told out. They were there v eils might be avoided by co-oper
«ome time. At last Eccleshare cam» atlon under government direction. In
the Santa Fe 8prlngs oil region, about
tMck, alone.
"M r. Ilo lt," he suld. as the poller Los Angeles, at least *100.000,1100
might have been saved on needless
o-rgennt and I approached him. “you
drilling alone and the waste of gas is
M en d has to cn shot."
lie made thto announcement with i frightful, and thus far unavoidable.
Kach 4,000 barrel well In Kettlem tn
urion* gravity. But Manners and
’ Hllle pours out 100.000.000 cubic feel
o .th 1st ouLexctomflilons of astotito'
(TO B t COMT1NU»«»»
There’» scarcely an ache or pain
that Bayer Aspirin won't relievo
promptly. I t can’t remove the cause,
but it w ill relieve the pain, Head
aches. Backaches. Neuritia and
neuralgia. Yes. and rheumatism.
Read proven directions for many
important uses. Genuine Aspina
can’t depress the h e a rt Look Jot
the Bayer cross:
Bars Husband F ro m Kitchen
The shah of Persia in the course
of a recent public speech ridiculed
the “husband In the kitchen." The
m ail who takes pride In his cooking
is a nuisance, he stated, and advised
the Torsion women not to respect the
man who is always too willing to
help them around the house.
D o n ’t R i s k
Neglect!
K idn ey Disorder» Ar« Too
Sen'ou« to Ignore,
W S & ’S W f f i É S
of impurities and permit slow poi
soning of the whole system.
If
troubled w ith backache, bladdar
irritations and getting up a t night,
don’t take chancssl Ute Deans
Pill» a t the first sign of Jnnrdm.
Used for more then JO yesm
Praised the world over.
50,000 User* Enderte Doan's:
Mr«. O. A- W tstw , 114» H. Tx g i b s «W.
W iehl..,
Ita d m A s-y
DOAN'S PILLS
of g'S dally, practically all wasted.
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