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Show Mull, a so-ate go Slain (ft Msg "8 tig unci fe J I use r the Ei, ered u i hioork, Km. ft ilsoi If it pit out ki an tin Al etli!! ' beGw Ideat me fcr mm lOBi it its. it ret readers Stlli Iks III ire Hi !ret tt is is eJea KB,' ,0" liioa Met ties arrets Nut SYNOPSIS . . ...hlnr DOSltton Jnet Mercer 6". .Tthur Fleming, also on '. the Academy. Gordon w welcomes them. "SI th. faculty. Janet . meeting between Hass 5 of unprepossessing "a ...Hently high in ,,5C' vAnce I schoo1- "Unlars. are wax explain, unusual ... connected with tne .he Academy. Among th. 1 Belies Bracebridge f the late owner of the r T1. tragedy of Lostland l. the drowning of four Z Bibrldge children who Gr aves, at the same moment. L The wax neures were rt tSe likenesses of the !f ,4 Doctor Bracebridge1. them preserved. Bere-f,er Bere-f,er . ., fai-ts of the m Wne .. - " n. 1 Bl The learns that the un "v t,ni had seel iftJTrtT. valuable T Payne visit Jerry Moore, :f of the drowning of the ' Reading diaries kept by Sro Bracebridge, Payne senses .H og sinister m " - - , children. CHAPTER V-Continued ending to the church again, he J, key sticking In the keyhole ' old closet In the vestry, and rt'ap the belfry stairs again to S on the locked door. It fitted and though It turned the i with difficulty, it served the i5s& He found himself in a irltfl four windows facing to : jiiir points of the compass ; and 4c!eljr nothing In the place but aid Christmas tree still nailed to ijiiuare base of green painted 4 Nearly all Its branches had stripped or torn from it; but i were left to indicate its .a.ter with the aid. of a few bits tod, of festive silver and gold, totmas tag was still dangling i one of the branches, with a c written on it. lie examined tore closely. The name was ta Bracebridge." He mused .t this poor little memorial some 3Bts a pathetic signpost polnt-- polnt-- tack to some long-ago Christ-i Christ-i celebration in this church. But i had the tree been carried up i stored away In the belfry room 'ead of thrown out of doors? jfliaps the boys got hold of It i carried it up here to form a 4 of their endless ingenuities; I A IU take the card. Berenice Ik be glad to have it." Se untied it carefully. He was t to put it In his pocket when ' saw that on the back of It was . date of the celebration of which was perhaps, the old memorial iulating back, he made it pre-Ij pre-Ij the Christmas before the ac- ftot this church must have been rted then," he thought. "May-t:iey "May-t:iey reopened it for a Christmas -ration. To what had this Ht-card Ht-card been attached? A book? of perfume? A box of And had Althea liked her -entr tried to picture the scene old church with the pale winter asbine streaming in and some one f cboi'' singing, "Hark, the Angels-; and the youngsters ted over their cifta Bni imn.. r t for the exercises to end. And Berenice been there? a a uc.ni 5 " he thought of her, horizons ; -Ml to Own nrt fh t. . w -"c do. i tiear. Denver-bless her I told her :.), "Ul "uai oi poor me; i n. ,"ltie laid P for a wife?" . :nwcKed the door and replaced keJ In the vestrv. 'et was strolling in the grounds If ?CiL3eniy l'en he reentered i5fBww- maklng no wnt when he Joined her on his . J txenrsions. . 11? we did very well last M BZ (:bserTed: "we really riry - Cei mlnd fron the an- Rouble Is-there'. perpet-versaryiathatold perpet-versaryiathatold academy S M thse wax figures are haDnI'g-qnee un- 18 ter XT1'1 Bomethl"8 Blarlli 8 Ume- Sometimes seem, like a dream to me, C -serak n odd chara. too-At-th.? the n,et morning i. hi l0fkflower that he keeps tr m bu!b Iwayt bloom- rlsht-U hM ch"m- e red the old bricks 'SJJSI Vmef" tod- See Us. s-r the tun if like They both looked towards her as she came lightly down the path, calling to them, pulling her fluffy white wrap around her. "A great day for our walk." she saluted them. "You are out early." "I went to the church." "What did you find there?" "I'll tell you later1 it'g quite a story." lie did not think it the time to show her the card, particularly as he saw Haskell and Balder emerging emerg-ing from the greenish shadows of the basement Both looked towards to-wards the group; then, exchanging exchang-ing some words, separated. Haskell approached Berenice with self-consciousness always In his manner; as if he must be perpetually on on guard warding away even friendliness and pleasant words. "You are walking again today?" "Yes! Will you join us?" "Why should I walk over these hills?" "Will you go up the ravine with us?" "You know I never go up the ravine. It is too exhausting. However, How-ever, it must be beautiful up there now, with the scarlet maples." "Yes, they're blood red," Wilton said. "I've never seen such Intensity of red." Haskell put his hands over his eyes. "This sun fills my eyes with red." . That afternoon the four were stepping together over the hills; their happiness singularly like that But Why Had the Tree Been Car ried Up and Stored Away in the Belfry Room? of creatures let out of cages. Wil ton told Berenice of reading the diary. "How long did your stepmother live after the deaths of your broth ers and sisters?" "Fully eight years, 1 think ; I'm not sure. She was a blessed worn an; always kind to me. Even my brothers and sisters liked her, though they didn't like" She broke off. "Oh, well, it's all past and gone." "May I ask you if you can remem ber when the old church down there was last used?" "Lone before I was born about 1880, I think." "And was it ever opened for Christmas celebrations after that?" "Oh, no I" "Are you sure?" "Quite sure I But father used to have celebrations for the neighbors' children In the old academy, and they all received presents from the tree. I only faintly remember the last one ever held the Christmas before the accident It was very gay. We had a beautiful tree." "That tree is still In existence." She looked at him Incredulously, her eves half fearful. "How do you know that?" "I went to the belfry room this morning; found a key that fitted the door. The room was absolutely bare except for an ancient tree on Its wooden base, painted green, as usual Bits of tinsel still clung to the dry branches, and this little card was tied to one of them with a red ribbon. Can you read the writing? The Ink is very pale." Althea I How strange. Why, have a card Just like it aved all thps rears. How on earth did that tree get op there?" She turned, holding out the card. -See what Mr. Payne found." and she told them the story, her eyes brilliant her cheeks flushed as If the Incident had excited her. "Not everrthlnz Is lost In LostlanaV "And tome things beyond price are found," Wilton reflected. Hera we rest" he caiio-i . length from an eminence where he ana ueremce stood tall and straight against the honey-colored skv The elevation commanded all the ruggea country aDout them. They i-uuiu noi see me acaoemy, and Wll ton was glad of this, Berenice seeniea more man content seated on a fallen tree trunk, tier hands ciasiea about her knees. ti,- were rather old-fashioned, the four or tneui Berenice because of her seclusion the other three for the reason that life had presented se rious problems to them problems of livelihood and education. It was natural they should think it quite wouderful to have such a view spread at their feet while Payne from an anthology he had brought read aloud "The Eve of St. Agnes." xuese -lovers fled away into the storm" seemed a thrilling climax while clouds raced across the intensely in-tensely blue sky, and the silence of the lonely world about them was broken only by distant gunshots the farmer boys after partridges. it would be a rare privilege to have an eve of St Agnes these days," Janet remarked, "and flee away only there's nothing as a rule to nee from I" Arthur was reflecting that one could not be too sure this was true ; and Tayne, too, wondered if the old academy would not prove some day a good place to flee from. Would that he might take Berenice not luto storm but out of it Arthur was looking intensely at Janet, and wondering won-dering how lonz he could co on without telling her he loved her. Now it seemed by those strange anachronisms of love that he had known her long before he ever met her. How automatically Haskell Has-kell was left out of all their plans and pleasures! He wondered if the man had ever been In love. Their way home took them past the deserted village. At that hour the long, straggling row of crumbling houses, sunk in their ancient or chards, presented a ghostly, un earthly air. The empty windows seemed watching the road for in habitants who were never to return. A ruddy glow not of the sunset was traced to a burning pile of rub bish at the back of the church. Looming above it was Balder like basalt image, for his face and clothes were dark with soot; he sa luted them with more courtesy than was his wont "Don't you want to warm you?" "Balder," Berenice said as they gathered around the fire, "do you remember the last Christmas tree we had in the academy?" Balder rolled his black eyes. "Do I sure I do! and I know where it Is, too. I saw it only yesterday the remains of it It's up in the belfry of the church there." "How on earth did it get there?" He had a pitchfork in his left hand and on this he rested, meditatively medi-tatively watching the fire which lit up all their faces, and made Janet's sweater glow like a coat of gold. "I'll tell you what I know of Its his tory after that Christmas. It was thrown out on one of the sheds, base and all, and lay there for months with some bits of tinsel sticking to it; then Norman, he found it, and he and Jethro took it up the ravine to be a flagpole in front of their tent near the whirl they had a tiny tent there that summer twasn't safe shale crumbly under their very beds; but there the pole was on its stand; it got washed down in the spring freshets; and bobbed up in the lake again. I fished It out and brought it down here to burn with some other rubbish ; some children must have lugged it up those belfry stairs. I remember missin' It when I came down to set fire to the stuff. I never thought no more about the old dried tree till I see it yesterday." Arthur and Janet dropped behind Berenice and Wilton on the way home. "I don't think Payne ought to have told her about that tree," he said. "That poor child is too morbidly Interested in everything connected with her brothers and sis ters." Wilton was meanwhile saying to Berenice: "If I were you I would not speak of the old tree to Mr. Haskell. After all, he has his mem orles. too; and It may be as well not to revive them." "That's true! I hope you will all stay here until I am twenty-one, she added impulsively. "So far as I am concerned nothing noth-ing could drive me away." As they entered the grounds, Haskell and one of the farmers of the neighborhood came slowly down the walk together. As they passed Rprenlce and Wilton the farmer was saving: "I can't make Sally come If h. flnn t want to come i auu ue o afraid" They heard no more, but saother moment Haskell came running after them. "Of all the ridiculous nonsense, non-sense, I must say" be panted as hn came un to them, liere s una diah Welford over to tell me his dauehter Sally has nerves aftout this place, and doesn't want to come to school any more." "That's a pity," Wilton said. "For she's quick and bright Really, we can't allow her to drop out Do you want me to walk over to the Welford farm and talk to berr Haskell brightened a little. "1 wish yon would. Go over Sunday afternoon Berenice wiu snow you the way. And, Payne, if convenient I'd like yoo to go to Birndale next Saturday for some supplies. You can drive yourself over If you want to, !f about fifteen miles metropolis me-tropolis compared to Blade almost a thousand Inhabitants, and a motion mo-tion picture theater I" Wilton was already aura of one errand he would perform at Birn dale he would have a duplicate made of the key to the room In which the four wax figures were stored. Berenice should go there when she wished. When he hud been in his rooms Old-fashioned recipes which con a few minutes Arthur appeared. j,tolned bread as an Ingredient almost wish we were going to move out of!alwa'' "tated "stale bread." which this place tonight" he announced Wfls usually on hand In households abruptly. "You know, Payne, I am w,ien Dread was made at home once not a nervous individual. I camei0' twice a week. Stale Bread Is Not Essential Recipes That Call for the "Staff of Life" as an Ingredi-ent Ingredi-ent Will Be Satisfactory if Fresh Loaf Is Used for the Purpose. up here as full of health and spirits as a man could be!" "Don't tell me you're afraid of those four wax figures?" I "light as well say first as last that I am and so Is Janet; but it's a sense of some danger still lurking. Were we brought up to serve some purpose other than our utility as teachers?" "How should I, Fleming, know more than you? If I coujecture, my guess Is that we were sent for because be-cause Berenice insisted on the terms of her father's will being compiled with that she should be well edu cated. Certainly she la getting in tensive training now, If she ever did." Payne told Arthur of the proposed expedition to Birndale. "That means I can get a duplicate key made of the wax-figure room door for Berenice's Ber-enice's use." ''You think she ought to have one?" "She'll feel more at ease. I could have told her where Haskell hid the key, but I thought it might make trouble if he found she knew its hiding place. It may make trouble anyway." 'I can sympathize with her. The four figures have seemed much more oppressive to me since they were locked In. If they were kept openly open-ly upstairs as we saw them that first night for everybody to look at and remember or forget, as he chose, we'd soon all forget them. lou can't remember anything that's constantly under your nose. There was a knock at the door. Mrs. Denver stood there looking quite white. "I bate to trouble you, Mr. Wilton, and you'll think me very foolish, but Mother Martha has been in the kitchen talking of those four children. I listened as patiently patient-ly as I could, because the old have so few to listen to them but when Mr. Haskell came In and asked me to go in that room and see thai everything was right In there and dust around a bit I confess I'm too nervous to go alone." "I'll go with you ! I should think Haskell wouldn't send you In there at this hour of the day. But I'D gladly go with you, Mrs. Denver I" They were passing through the hall when Gordon Haskell met them. He was wearing his academic cloak, and looked more scholarly than usual "Well, was everything right?" he addressed Mrs. Denver. "I haven't been yet air." Tayne, may I see you a mo ment?" "I am going down with Mrs. Den ver. "Why?": "She's afraid." -Haskell gave an Impatient ex clamation. "How glad I'll he when Berenice attains her majority. Then we'll have no more of the wax figures. fig-ures. Well, let the dusting go, Mrs. Denver. Really a woman of your years should have better sense." "You should have mentioned the figures In your letter, sir," she gave hack; "unless you were afraid to mention them." Nowadays, with bakers' bread fresh dally, we are not as likely to have a supply of stale bread on hand. If you are planning a bread pudding or any other dish which calls for bread as a foundation, you must remember re-member to put an extra loaf on the market list It la not usually necessary neces-sary to have this bread stale for most purposes, because the fresh loaf Is perfectly satisfactory. Crumbs for dipping croquettes are an exception. excep-tion. Of course, we all use up the ends of yesterday's loaf first but If we plan a Brown Betty, for Instance, it will be as good, if not better, made with fresh bread If It Is cut Into cubes and cooked a moment In a very little butter. Just try It and see. I am giving recipes which use bread as a foundation and which for this reason are easy to make and low In cost We might call these recipes "semi-made." Among the popular nses for bread, toast la the lender, and how one kind of toast can differ from another! Some like it soft and some like It bard. One person demands thick toast and another must have It thin. The crusts must be taken off to suit one and left on for another. Light brown is the color preferred by one and dark brown by another. And then there Is french toast, which Is really fried bread, but which can be made In two ways. With the use of the electric toaster toast-er on the table It Is possible to suit most persons, although even these toasters differ in some respects, and most of them work so quickly that they need attention to avoid scorching. scorch-ing. There Is a new automatic toaster toast-er which is fascinating to watch, as the toast pops out when it Is done. It must be set for "medium" or "well done." I have found one way In which it la possible to get my favorite thin toast Most restaurants and all hotels ho-tels label this Mclba toast and will produce to order a dainty trimmed thin toast Perhaps one of the best aids in making toast Is a good bread knife with a "saw" edge. This should always al-ways be used saw fashion to get even slices, which are perhaps even more Important for sandwich making. Some time later In the Benson I shall tell you more about varieties of sandwiches. Today I am giving the recipe for two delicious luncheon lunch-eon sandwiches which, with something some-thing to drink, will furnish the whole course. I shall give the first recipe the general names of open sandwich. Any number of other combinations beside the one suggested here can be used, but I can recommend thii one. Tea Muffins. H cup bread crumbs cup milk M cup molasses 1 egc 1 cups flour U teaspoon salt . H teaspoon soda I teaspoona baking powder H teaspoon cinnamon teaspoon nutmeg; H teaspoon cloves 1 tablespoons shortening Soften the bread crumbs In milk. Add the molasses and the beaten egg. Sift together the flour, soda, baking powder and spices and add gradually. gradual-ly. Add the melted shortening and stir quickly. Turn Into greased inuf. fin tins. Bake in a moderate oven (375 degrees F.) 25 minutes. Open Sandwiches. IS large allcee buttered bread 1 cup shredded cabbage 1 cups diced pineapple 1 plmlento lettuce leaves slices chicken or ham cup mayonnaise sweet plrkles I stuffed olives Remove crusts from bread and place two slices on each plate. On one piece of bread on each plute place a lettuce leaf and a slice of meat teaspoonful of mayonnaise, and the pickles and olives. Radishes may be used also, Mix the cabbage, pineapple and plmlento with the rest of the mayonnaise and pile lightly on the other slices. A slice of bard-cooked bard-cooked egg or tomato may be put on top of this. Garnish with watercress water-cress or parsley, ft Bell Syndicate. WNO Service. Me.rvel of the Rockies, at Geologists See II Following two years of study it the field, geologists of Northwester university have been able to deter mine the sequence of events that brought about the formation of th Rocky mountains. Profs. J. T. Stark and a EL Behr conducted the survey. "Before the mountains began t form Into their present shape," salJ Behre, "there waa a flat area of sea bottom, Into which the gravel and sand from nearby higher country was being poured. "At the end of that time, called the Age of Reptiles, a pressure caused by the earth contracting was exerted along the aides of the area. Hot molten lava from inside the arth was forced In between layers of rock and the surface bulged upward up-ward Into the beginning of the mountain moun-tain chain. "Finally, as the side pressure became be-came too great, the rocks were folded and broken. The cracks ran down toward to-ward the center of the earth. These were huge north-south cracks, inclined in-clined downward toward the east, and the rocks of the eastern side moved opward with respect to those on the west" The geologist then told how great molten masses from Inside the earth forced their way outward .ilong these cracks. New Health Feed The newest health food is seaweed. sea-weed. What'a more, It comes across the ocean with a reputation for delicate deli-cate flavor. A company was recently formed In Swansea, South Wales, to conduct this novel Industry. The seaweed used, which la of a special type. Is locally known as lavcrbread. It la gathered off the rocks between tide marks on the coast of South Wales and Cornwall Purple In color and turning dark green or olive when boiled. It Is rich In calcium and Iodine, Io-dine, possessing also a percentage of chlorophyll. It Is served as a vegetable with lemon Juice or vinegar, butter and pepper, Arixona "Canaries" Back An old saying runs that the mule conquered the great Southwest Mules were the motors that hauled tn the prairie schooners. Burros bore the prospectors into the mountains and then packed the gold out again. The Arixona canary Is being brought back to discover new veins of gold. Los Angeles Times, Language Enriched by Use of Americanisms When Samuel Johnson was alive the notion prevailed In some English bookish circles that the colonists in America wouid develop a new language, lan-guage, as different from that of the motherland as Italian Is from French, and that there would be lit tie or no sale for English diction arlea here. The most recent pamphlet pam-phlet of the American Dialect society tn some notes on "British Recognition 3t American Speech," quotes nttmer-jua nttmer-jua references to the matter. Amer ican travelers In England during our Colonial period naturally used words snd phrases that had their origin In the pioneer life in the New world and the English who heard them trembled trem-bled lest these Innovations should spread corruption among themselve There were even Americans during the Revolution who would have liked does a college professor in America, as Galsworthy would have his readers read-ers think, go to school for his English to Ring Lardner'a baseball heroes. As well might an American novelist put the frightful Jargon of a Suffolk Hiiiill-town man Into the mouth of an Oxford don. They don't speak the same language. Boston Transcript the library tt at,a t;nrtl1u)!f nt IVI-I1 fll ndlllll'ill He scowled but made no answer. LwWmWp Iin in tllg country. Payne was moving toward the 11- u,j not devcion a now Ian- brary. "No, not there! Here In f . own a klm, of EIgtlt- . L H tenth century Esperanto, tney would have had us change to Hebrew. We see the same spirit In Ireland today among those who wish to extirpate the English language and make Celtic the mother tongue. Of course, fitch a proposal came to nothing amongst us. We did, however, cling to our Americanisms, and there is no reason rea-son why supercilious Englishmen ihould regard them as corruptions of the pure tongue. The hundreds of words that we adopted through our association with the Indians, many of them witn a rich symbolism; the phrases that came Into use through clearing the wilderness and the development of our political system were as legiti mate as those with which the Eliz abethans enriched the English !an gunge. They are not to be confused with the handful of barbarisms tiiat have crept Into the American ver naeular barbarisms which Punch and even an author like Galsworthy put In the mouths of Americana al most Invariably wrong end to. Nor the drawing room.1 "You don't favor much." "Too many memories of my poor stepfather. What I want to say Is this: Balder tells me mat Berenice Bere-nice was talking about a Christmas tree the family had the year before the accident Now, what started her on that?" "Isn't it natural her mind should sometimes go bark to the very early days?" "It's Just as well you should not encourage her recollections. I want her to look forward cot back!" "With all my heart so do II Why Is that door kept locked?" Wilton added. "The archives of the parish are kept in a chest In that room," Haskell Has-kell explained smoothly. "Oh, well, there's every reason" -Yes, every r-an." The two men faced each other across the marble-topped center table; ta-ble; one like a study In burnt om-ber'; om-ber'; the other a bold and melancholy melan-choly etching In black and white. Haskell's dead white hand pressed down against the marble, his veins as black as the veins In the atone. His ring had cut a scarlet circle about bis ring finger. "Payne," be went on, "yon dont know how oppressive this ancient olace Is to me. I d like to leave it to the Ivy and Its bats. And the ghosts of all the dead presidents could come and ring its bell if they bad a mind to Ab, Berenice, come In (T0 E CONTl.VL-KD. Wbea There Were Ne Chairs Chairs did not come Into genera am nntil the Sixteenth century Prior to that the chest the bencB and the stool were the seats of every-day le- Adding le Cold Supply Gold In the mountainous dumps of the great Rand mining district of Africa may be saved by the Invention of a Johannesburg man. The metal is of such low grade that ordinary methods of extracting It are nnproflt able. Secret experiments, which are said to have been successful, have been stopped pending the taking out of patent Most of the gold of the world is now obtained, as In the Rand, by deep mining from quarts rock. The rock Is crushed ana treat ed by amalgamation, or cyanld:ng. to recover the gold contained in It. About six pennys" worth of gld are, on the average, recovered from every ton of rock, and the crushed rock Is deposited In large dumps. Weird and Wonderful Are Jap Traffic Rules The polite Japnnese do not want to put a burden on the English-speaking English-speaking travelers so they have translated and posted their traffic regulations. Here Is the translation. 1 At the rise of the hand policeman police-man stops rapidly. 2 Do not pass by or otherwise disrespect dis-respect him. 3 When a passenger of the foot hove In sight, tootle the horn ; trump et at him melodiously at first, but If he still obstacle your passage, tootle him with vigor and express by word of mouth the warning, "HI, III." 4 Beware of the wandering horse that he shall not take fright as you pass him by. Do not explode the exhaust ex-haust box at him. Go soothingly by. 5 Give space to the festive dog that shall sport In the roadway. fl Avoid entanglement of the dog with your wheelspokea. 7Oo soothingly on the grease mud as there lurks the skid demon. 8 Press the brake of the foot as you roll around the corner to save collapse and tie-up. WANTED TWO SHOT VVm and HOOKS ON SIIOOTIXU WouM like to purchase at reasonable fig ure hitsh grade 16-gauge double h gun, double triiDtera, ami 12 giutte double hot gun with mnl trigger- iiive full Information Informa-tion to make, boring, Irngtb o( barrels, weight, drop and other clock dunetmon. Mutf be in firt-cls condition. Would etso purchase early American broke on euiia, Are arms and ehnoting. Pollard's "Hook ol the Htol" and SyVr,ito)a and Kviilvere"partlculiirlydeired. Pirate tote price and whethrf books and binding are in firet-claae condition. Addreae . 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