T H E G A T E C IT Y J O U R N A L The Handsome Man by M argaret Turnbull CHAPTER V I— Continued •-1S—■ The other man looked at him grave ly and »hook hi» head. “ I don't want this spread about and I'd Just as soon the girl didn’t know It either. Look I” He pointed to his coat, which he had left so placed In the car that It looked as though some one was still sitting In it, and then Indicated his hat. with which he had crowned the collar of die coat. From a distance It would look like a man slumped down In the seat with his hat over his eyes. Browne bent ever and saw to his astonishment that there were several holes In the hat and when he lifted the coat some small shot rattled to the floor of the car. He looked at his companion In consternation. “ No wonder he made such a quick getaway. The fellow must have thought he had klllled a man." “ Oh, absolutely I” They walked without speaking toward the shack where the girl was. Roberta was ready to go. “ Find anything?" “Only the shell,” Sir George snld hurriedly, with a warning glance at Browne. “ I have It In my pocket Do you want to see It?" Roberta shook her head with a little shudder. "I can still drive,” •he announced. “Absolutely not. I can manage that car, I'm sure. Your father expects me to drive this road tomorrow, or next day, so I might as well have a little practice b o w ." Roberta made a gesture to stop him, but he was out of the doorway and striding toward the machine be fore she could speak. He took the car down and around the narrow turn, and came driving up to the shack, his eyes alight with pleasure. '" ‘Jolly good carl Goes like a bird. Hop In. Miss MacBeth, and barring a few mistakes about left and right hand drive, we’ll have no trouble at all. But you will have to call off the tea party, Browne.” Browne nodded. Roberta opened her lips to protest again, took one look at the bright head, as he sat hatless before her, and climbed Into the car. Sir George held out bis hand to Browne. “ See you again soon." “ Sure. Y’ou come up any time. I’ll be glad to show you about the place whenever you feel like It.” “ I’m keen about It," he declared and somehow both Browne and Roberta believed It. Roberta gave Browne her hand and a few murmured words of thanks and farewell, hut few as they were they were cut short by the driver starting the car. Roberta and her companion went silently toward the Island. Whatever Sir George thought about this latest development In their excursion, he said nothing to the girl, giving him self up wholly to the skillful driving of the magnificent engine he had under his control. It was not until he stopped the car at the terrace and turned to her, as though expecting some praise for his driving, that Roberta spoke. “ Have you an enemy here?" she asked and then—as he stared at her amazed—she stammered: “ Among the foreign workmen, I mean? Or was It an acccldent pure and simple that the shot went through your hat?" “ Oh, accident, pure and simple," Sir George assured her. “Nobody about here knows me well enough to hate me that much." He helped her out of the car and watched her go up the steps. Then he whistled, and he said to himself: “Then the man who fired the shot was a foreigner. At least he was a dark man.” The girl had given that much away, even If she was, as Sir George suspected, try ing to screen the mnn who fired the shot. And why she did that he was tremendously curious to know. He was wrong. Roberta did not know. If a suspicion had for a mo ment entered her mind she had driven It forth Instantly. It was unthink able, Impossible to Imagine that there had been something familiar about the man who bad moved away so swiftly through the thicket. She wanted Sir George's assurance that she was wrong, yet somehow his very decision that It was an accident left her still faintly troubled. Sir George heard hi» stepmother ex claiming and Robert MacBeth’s voice raised In wrath, and knew that Roberta had told them. He called August to take the car In, and went forward to answer the questions that were in store for him. Robert MacBeth wanted the police notified at once and stormed for a moment at both Browne and Sir George for having omitted to do this. Roberta pointed out to her father that their construction camp was Just outside a small town, which was likely to have about three superannuated constables. The only men who could do any good would be the state police and there was still time to notify them. MacBeth asked Roberta one or two questions, which elicited the fact that she had not seen anyone clearly, had only been aware, after the shot, of some one moving off over the little pile of rocks and rubbish, screened by bushes and small tr.-es, at the en trance to the construction road. F or tunately, she had not lost her head, but had Instantly put her foot on the brake and driven with her right hand. She steadily denied having plainly I llluNlrations by Irw in M yers C o p rr ls h t br M argaret Turnbull. W. N. U. Service. seen the man who had fired the shot, but she had heard a car start after she had gone some distance. She was In too much pain and too frightened to stop and look for It. Her Impres sion that the man was a foreigner she could not deny, but neither could or would she say why she thought so. The bat had not moved and she did not think that be knew there was no head under It, so quickly had she driven away. Then Lady Sandlson pounced on them. “ Have you no mercy, Rob! Think shame to yourself. Sir Geordie! You two keeping the lass here gabgabbing when she should be taking a rest and having her hand dressed. I've tele phoned the doctor so that It'll be done as It should be. Come away, ray girl, and get tidied up before he comes.” She had taken Roberta away and left the two men together. "I’m not going to have my girl run Into any more danger, you can bet your life on that, so. much as I hate I fit \ “ Roberta,” He Said Impulsively, “ Do You Know Any Reason Why Sir George Should Be Made a Target?” calling In the police at this stage of the game, we'll give them the facts,” MacBeth said as he put out his hand to the receiver. His secretary nodded. “But It wasn't the girl they were after, sir," he said softly. “ It w si my hat they made a hole In. Why?" MacBeth regarded him with a little grin. "Think a lot of yourself, don’t you? I’ll remind you that Roberta's my daughter and consequently Im portant, If my theory’s correct. Why should they single you out? Who knows anything about you?” The younger man smiled back at him. "I’m your secretary, and they call me an Englishman at the office since you’ve been sending me back and forth." He looked at MacBeth coolly: "Quite a few people there call me ’Beauty Sandlson.’ I may look Important to an outsider." MacBeth laughed. "You knew they called you ‘Beauty,’ then?” “Oh, yes. I really can’t help my un fortunate face, sir. I let It handicap me as little as possible.” MacBeth forgot his troubles In a roar of laughter. “You ungrateful young dogl With a face and figure that make nine- tenth» of us sour from sheer envy, you talk about handicaps!" “ Well, I leave It to you," the young man argued. “ Would you like to be as much of a beanpole as I am?" “ Would I like?” MacBeth roared again. “ Man, I have Just prayed the Almighty ever since I was seventeen to give me one more Inch. I've con soled myself often enough that It’s the runts that do the work and get there, but I would like Just to be one Inch taller. I’m not asking for your grand height, but Just one little Inch. And as for the rest of you 1 Man. do you not fairly smirk at yourself when you look In the glass?" HI» secretary looked at him In slow amazement. “ When I look In the glnss I suppose I see what every one else sees— my defects. Have you ever noticed, sir," and he bent nearer Mac Beth, In all seriousness, “that I have one eyebrow a trifle higher than the other and my nose—It's a little too long, don't you think?" “ I think I’d like to give you a black eye," declared Robert MacBeth, “Just to show how your face does make me feel occasionally, but on the whole I think I’ll not I’ll Just sit back and thank God for sending you at this particular time. I never had so much fun for so little money In all my life.” Sir George looked at him ques- tioningly. “I don’t Just exactly mean that you are funny," his employer began. “ It’s Just your whole get-up. Your looks and speech are part of It, but mostly It's yourself. Dammit, Sir George. I can't explain." "So need to." The younger man said It a little stiffly. "I feared I might fall short of your requirements as a secretary, but I have really tried, sir." r m The k it c h e n ! i CABINET j | PME D P U rM T rA I “ Fall short! My G— d! Sandlson, I think you’re perfect 1 Perfect, do you get me? 1 wouldn’t have an Inch of you changed. Dammit, I’ve got sort of an afTectlon for you. I’ve fought It down, I don’t mind telling you, say ing to myself It was fair foolishness to get drawn Into caring about anyone belonging to your generation. Fool ishness I It’s ruinous 1 Look at Roberta! I’ve cared for her more than any human being I have ever known—and she grudges a few hours out of her round of pleasure to help out her old dad.” He stopped abruptly. Ills secretary was looking at him so oddly. "I think you are quite wrong, sir," he declaied. “ I’m very sure you are. Why, If you will think of It, she might have given her life In Just those few hours you asked. 1 really don’t think you realized that." “Good G— d I” exclaimed Roberta’s father. “ I didn’t! She made so light of It.” “ Her father’s daughter,” said the younger man, with a smile which made MucBeth's heart warm to him again. He looked at his secretary keenly. “ And yet you don’t like Roberta overly much.” Sir George flushed. “ She doesn’t like me, you mean. I think her most attractive.” MacBeth meditated a few moments In silence, then apparently dismissed everything but the business In hand from bis mind and said: “ What about the police?" Ills secretary hesitated. “ I think your daughter would rather not have them called In," said he. MacBeth frowned. “ Why should she not want the police called In?" Sir George waited a moment, and then said slowly: “ I don’t know, may be you could find out I'll leave you to question her." He went through the window at Roberta entered the room. Her father touched the bandaged hand lightly. "Doctor seen it yet?" he asked. Roberta shook her head. “ He’s com ing soon.” She hesitated, and looked at her father Imploringly. “ I think I’d like to see him here where you are. I thought that you could keep him from telling anybody about how I got my hand hurt. I'd rather not have people know. I think It was Just some poor frightened boy who had been shooting at a rabbit, or a—hawk.” “It’s funny, then,” her father said, “ that he should shoot the top of Sir George's hat so neatly." Roberta turned white. “ Oh, no,” she said, “ he didn't mean to do that It was an accident—that It hap pened so.” “ It looks like Intention to me,” her father retorted. “ I think, my girl. I'll speak to the police myself, not espe cially about this, but about keeping an eye on the construction camp. I can say I'm afraid of bootlegging among the workmen, If you like.” Roberta nodded. “That might do.” She paused and went toward the win dow. “Of course, Father, I don't want to make things harder or more dan gerous for Sir George, but I think he's all excited about American gunmen and things like that and Is liable to Imagine any little accident Is part of a big plot to ‘get’ him. You're not going to send him up with that money, are you?” “ Here comes the doctor and your aunt,” Robert MacBeth warned her. Then in answer to her question: “As to that, my lass, I’ve got to send somebody. Why not my secretary?" Roberta shrugged her shoulders, n er father looked at her sternly, won dering. Did she, as his secretary bad hinted, know more than she told? He could hardly credit that "Roberta,” he said Impulsively, "do you know any reason why Sir George should be made a target?” She shook her head. "I can’t un derstand It at all." Her father felt the sincerity In her voice. “ Well," he admitted, "it’s a puzzle.” Sir George strolled back and forth, back and forth, trying to puzzle out whether Roberta had or had not seen the man who fired the shot. His mind continually rejected the thought that the girl, with all her bad manners and temper, could play such a part. And yet? Unable to decide, he finally determined to stop thinking about It Time would tell. It seemed Impos sible that Robert MacBeth's daughter could be In league with her father’s enemies. And yet what else did her silence mean? Sir George was posi tive, despite her carefully worded answers, that she had seen enough of the man who fired the shot to know or suspect much more than she had cared to tell. (TO BE CONTINUED.) E agl'th Poet« Leareete . The origin of the poet laureatshlp ot England Is Involved In obscurity. In early days the word “ laureate” cams to mean In English “eminent." It was thus generally, although not always, applied In a literary sense. Medieval kings had poet» or minstrels attached to their households, who received pen »Ion», although their appointment wai not official. In this way Ben Jonson was looked upon as the first laureate, but the title »eems never to have bees really conferred on him. John Dry den was the first English poet to re ceive the title by letters patent In 107" From that time the post became a reg ulsr Institution. Q IT Q T T n U O C j U TO CLEAN CANS Chlorinated Lime Is Good in Killing Bacteria. — Chemicals may be used lustead of hot water In sterilizing milk utensils, and many farmers are finding this an easy method of keeping milk cans and other dairy equipment clean and san itary, says L. H. Burgwnld, professor of dairy technology at the Ohio State university. Chlorinated lime, which may be pro cured In 12-ounce cans, Is commonly used for this purpose. In preparing the chemical for use In sterilizing milk utensils, one 12-ounce can of chlori nated lime is thoroughly dissolved In a gallon of water, the clear solution is syphoned off, stored In a tightly stop pered glass bottle and placed In a cool dark place. In the presence of sun light the solution rapidly loses its strength. After milking, Burgwald states, the utensils are Immediately rinsed with cold water and then washed with hot water containing a washing powder (not a soap powder). After the milk utensils have been thoroughly wushed with the hottest water possible to han dle, they are then rinsed with a so lution made by adding a half-glass of the chlorine solution to five gallons of water. The chemical Is effective In killing bacteria If the milk cans are clean, but If they are dirty It will do but little good. Cans returned from the milk plants or creameries may be rinsed with the chlorinated lime solu tion and then drained Just before milking time. Retaining Proven Bull for Future Is Prudent Some years ago Mr. W. A, Dryden, one of the leading breeders of Short horn cattle In Ontario, made a com ment that bears Just as directly on dairy cattle Improvement as on beef. “ We will never mnke the Improvement we should make,” said Mr. Dryden, “ until we have more proven sires. Plenty of our best sires are sold to the butcher after one or two years’ use and before we really know Just what their progeny will be.” At that time Mr. Dryden had a couple of bulls that be had nsed In his own herd, loaned to neighboring breeders. He was watching their offspring and, should they prove exceptionally good, the sire was right at hand to be used to his limit for the Improvement of the Shorthorn breed. “ Dairymen of the Scandinavian countries have long bad a system of sire exchange, that en ables them to hold sires until their daughters have been tested In produc tion. Good sires are then retained for service as long as they are active and the result has been a remarkably rap id Increase In the average milk pro duction per cow In these countries. And we, In Canada, continue with the hit-and-miss plan, or lack of plan, that has always been the rule on this continent, and every year good bulls go to the block.” Production Record of Show Bull Proved Good L . „ ................................................... (£). 1911. Western Newspaper Union.) “ Success In housekeeping adds credit to the woman of Intellect t0 * woman'*iqcom' **Th« tender morsel» And melt all the force on the palate ot cookery 1» felt.” GOOD THINGS OF VARIOUS KINDS A salmon dish flavored with almonds makes an excellent late supper dish. It may be prepared ahead of time, and tills Is aD advantage. Almond Souffle of Salm on.—Shred one pound of cooked aalmon, add one-fourth pound of fine ly minced blanched al monds, one teaspoonful each of onion Juice and Worcestershire sauce, one egg, white and yolk beaten separately; salt to season and ons cupful of whipped cream folded In the last of all. Turn Into well oiled molds and set In water. Cook for thirty minutes or nntil the center Is firm. Serve with a white sauce. Shrimp Supper Dish.—Take one pound of small shrimps, two large slices of bread. Moisten the bread with two cupfuls of milk, add a tea spoonful each of onion Juice and Wor cestershire sauce, three sprigs each of parsley and thyme, one bay leaf, a blade of mace finely chopped, one- fourth of a grated nutmeg and a table spoonful of butter. Mix well and bake In a casserole; cover with buttered crumbs. Cream Cheese Pie.—Mix one-hall cupful of sugar, one tablespoonful of flour, one-eighth teaspoonful of salt and the grated rind of an orange. Add one and one-half cakea of cream cheese, work In one-half cupful of cream, add two beaten egg yolks and a few drops of vanilla, then fold In the stiffly beaten egg whites. Pour Into a pastry shell and bake In a slow oven nntil firm. Serve cold with strawberry Jam. Cheese Loaf.—Take two cupfuls of grated cheese, one cupful of bread crumbs, one cupful of mashed potato, two tablespoonfuls of minced parsley, one-eighth teaspoonful of pepper, one- half teaspoonful of salt and two well beaten eggs Mix the cheese, bread crumbs, potatoes and seasonings. Add the yolks of the eggs and mix well, then fold In the whites of the eggs. Pnt Into a greased bread pan and baks In a hot oven twenty minutes or until firm. Spider Has W ell Been Called Natural Marvel It Is agreed by scientists that the spider Is supreme In cunning, ruthless ferocity, Inventiveness and courage. Careful study of various kinds of spiders has shown an Intelligence that leaves mankind amazed, and their en gineering skill and Inventive ability Is far greater than that of the average human. A silken thread spun by a spider Is often as thin as thirty-two millionths of an Inch in diameter. If It were en larged two thousand times It would be as big as an ordinary horsehair. Human hair enlarged the same num ber of times Is six and a half Inches In diameter. With this transparent wisp of line, spiders are able to bind animals several thousand times bigger than themselves, for they attack tad poles, frogs, lizards and bats. A small ringed snake, nine Inches long, was found trapped by a spider. The spider, Its body hardly bigger than a good-sized pea, had spun a web In the form of an Inverted cone, from the top of which hung a silken cable. The snake was suspended by thle cable still alive, Its mouth muzzled with multiple strands of web and Its tall tied by silken cord.—London Tit- Bits. The question Is often asked as to whether dairy bulls which win high honors In the show ring are ever much good as sires of high producing daugh ters. Thnt such bulls do get progeny which make good In milk production is being proved by one of Canada’s most famous Holstein bulls. Johanna Rag Apple Pabst, a black and white bred In the United States and bought by the Mount Victoria farms at Hudson Heights. Que., two or three years ago for the steep price of 115,000, was never defeated at a major exhibition. Before being re T o o Muck fo r Him tired after last year's Royal Winter They had climbed as near as they fair, he had won 25 grand champion dared to the crater of the volcano. It ships and several times had been was smoking ominously. named “All-American” grand cham “ Let's go down and back to the pion. hotel,” he said suddenly. “I can’t stand watching that thing any more." j “ We've climbed all the way up here, Dairy Facts and now you want to go right back,” she demurred. “It Isn't that yon’rs The calf can be taught to drink by afraid. Is It?” “Oh, no,” he replied. "It’i only that allowing It to suck the fingers and gradually lowerikg them Into the milk I can't endure watching hat crater ■moke after I’ve found that I've left • • • One cow often eats the profits made my tobacco at home.” by another. Feeu each cow according to her production. A high producing cow needs much more grain than a low producer. • • • Cows need vacations the same as human beings. A rest period of six to eight weeks before freshening, with plenty of good feed, will put the dairy cow In form for her work. Many cows must get their water ■ long way from the hern on cold win ter days and often the Ice must bs remove«? before they can drink. Un der these conditions cows cannot fill up on water as they should, with ■ resultant decrease In milk. * * * A cow Is so constituted as to handle large amounts of ronghage, but even so, a cow s capacity la limited (f she la fed a poor grade of roughage her energy Is expended in consnmlng a class of feeds from which she can not get sufficient nutritive returns. Logic It was the first day of school for Helen and she was anxious for a front seat near her attractive teacher. Finding the coveted seata occupied ■he said to the teacher: ” 1 think you better make some of those boys move and give me a seat near you, so you won't be bothered with those mean boys.” Labor-Saving Scientists Government scientists who test watches for accuracy grew so weary winding all of the visiting timepieces In their laboratory that they put In an el«K-trlcal device which speedily does the Job. Ingsnion« Coconut Crab The coconut crab has a way of pounding with Its claw» on the eye hole» of a coconut until a hole Is j made large enough for a »mall claw to enter. Castoria corrects C H IL D R E N ’S ailments W h a t a relief and satisfaction it is for mothers to know that there is always Castoria to depend on when babies get fretful and uncom fortable! Whether it's teething, colic or other little upset, Castoria always brings quick comfort; and, with relief from pain, restful sleep. And when older, fast-growing children get out o f sorts and out c>f condition, you have only to give a more liberal dose o f this pure vegetable preparation to right the disturbed condition quickly. Because Castoria is made ex pressly for it has just the needed mildness o f action. Yet you can always depend on it to be children, W h y Officials Did Not Sign Large Contracts Much has been heard about Cool- Idge economy, hut perhnps the larg est single saving to the government antedated Coolldge by nearly five years. It was made hy Judge Wal ter Winter Wnrwlck, then comp troller of the treasury. One afternoon In November, 1018, Judge Wnrwlck wns nsked by Gen eral Goethals to drop in at the War department. Warwick found Goethals and a bevy of other high officers seated around a huge table heaped with papers. “Those papers are contracts,” Goe- thals explained. “ They represent the result of months of negotiation with private manufacturers. None of them have been signed, but we have told the manufacturers In each case that we expect to sign them. They cover munitions and other sup plies, and In each case the manufao- turer has gone abend on the assump tion that the contract would be signed. “ Since these negotiations were started, however, the armistice hns been signed. Now, what we would like to know, Judge Warwick, Is whether that makes any difference —whether we can legally sign them.” Judge Warwick looked at the pa pers. “ How much money Is Involved In these contracts?” he asked. “ Oh, I suppose, roughly, a billion dollars,” Goethals replied. "Well, gentlemen,” replied Judge Warwick, "I cun only say this: If you sign them every last one of you will go to the penitentiary.” He walked out and the contracts were not signed. One billion dol lars, more or less, remained In the federal treasury.—Collier’s Weekly. effective. It is almost certain to clear up any minor ailment and cannot possibly do the youngest child the slightest harm. So it’s the first thing to think of when a child has a coated tongue, is fretful and out of sorts. Be sure to get the genuine; with Chas. H. Fletcher's signature on the package. have not ns yet decided how the Is land shall be governed, hut It will be along ideas of my own.” On a recenl world trip, Gerhault stopped at one of the Suiuoan Islands, he said, and was Invited by 5,000 na tives to remain there as king. He declined, because he preferred to set up his own kingdom. Not In Thi« State; Indeed, No First Political Writer.—Do you ever have any trouble getting to sleep after a hard day’s work? Second—Not at all. I Just count politicians straddling a fence.—Ex change. Garfield Tea W as Your Grandmother’s Remedy For every stom ach and Intestinal ill. This good old- fa s h io n e d herb home remedy for c onstipatlon, Istomach ills and o t h e r derange ments o f the sys tem so prevalent these days Is la even greater favor as a family med icine than In your grandmother’s day. the Dr. C J. Dea« noo ar f l - ad mctbodoitrutmei&wfcfelft use exclusively. PHEfelOO- ige I lustra ted book describes, lethod a nd e x p la in s our Frenchman Planning to Found Tropical Utopia A proposal to form a new colony In the South sen ns a sort of trop ical utopia Is advocated by Alnln Gerhnult, famed for his world trips in his 36-foot boat, Flrecrest. M. Gerhault says he will soon found his ideal community, suiting to an unin habited Island In a 34-foot boat he Is having constructed at Havre, France. He will select the pick of the na tives In the South sens to start his colony, with the Intention of build ing a super race. “ We shall iive n harmonizing life,” he said, “ and will try to ruise n new standard of art iind culture In that fnrawny land. 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