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Brattan, Provo. or this offlce. ; - 2S-7t-p MARRY IF TiONELTy for reenlts t. me; bMt and most successful "Home sker"; hundreds rich vrlshVarrlage oon; strictly confidential; most reliable; re-liable; years experience; descriptions free. The Sucreasfn!VClnh", Mrs. Nash, box 555, Oakland, CaHt $-2t-p Length ef Life en larth. It baa been estimated : that there his been life on the earth for a tboev -v. Heat Expansion. ' The bureau of mtpea tars thst wheo heating hot air furnaces to a .very high, temperature the Iron will not malt but tt repeatedly heated, to redness, the Iron will "grow" get larger-end may :hreak some other part ef the furnace that hae not "grown." A Doubtful Compliment , ,7 At a New Hampalilre weddlna- Wend ef the groom watched hint closely fluring - the ' ceremony"" and "'B It was ove he hastened to the "PIy man snd said: ."Bill, ye dona l I had an Idea ys would be skit-en skit-en while ye was beln' tied op. but oy rosh. ye look ss bold .as a sheep p. Boston Transcript. , ' There Were No Objectors, Western Paper Bill Lariat of Dead uuicb was married at the church here n Frttoy. when the officiating clergyman cler-gyman said, "If uny one here present can show jmt cause , why this nisn nd thlt woman should not be law-y law-y Joined together, etc," Bill casu-y casu-y laid a pair of large revolvers on e mlllng Q fr,mt 0f ,m, xiie cere ""ny procepdej without Interruption. j ' XT 1 I SYNOPSIS x yj - ' . . .- "; ' PROLOG TTB.-"Ual!lae- that she has a oaaibla. ehajtce at baiag aa4, a the LoaiUuila U InkUif. a itnnitr alvee a Uunc Amrlcan (irl , pckair wKlcb ake hr to dtlivcr U U Ainrtca la Kmlana. Sfae le aavea. ' CHAPTER t la Lm4o. Pernar UmC Tommy" Brfor4 u4 Ulm Pruamoe Oewlr "Tappanee" aiacWtaa amy aura, fona en orcaolutiom. "Tb Touag Adrnturrm, Ltd.1' Tvppaaee makaa a kualnaaa eppolnuneat with a hi, E4-ward E4-ward Whltlinaton, wha effart Mr aaay amploymant, but on tlvtBg bar Muae aa Joa rinV which aha k4 bamrd aa tba tnat. Woittlnfton ahawe aaltatloa aa " ia tola u rtlura axt day- CHAPTER n.-I tha mamtna tba W Bada WhltUnatun'a offloa daaartad, Ia anawar to aa advartiaanaat atfnad "Jane Finn" tha two racalva aotea from "Mr. Cartar" end "Jullua P. Harahalmmar." Cartar la really a blah (arnmaat oflt. ehvL Ha apaaka of a myatarloua "Mr. Brown" aa baad af tha Bolahavlka la KnaUad. and anaacas tha pair to attampt to And Jana Finn, whom ba la eaaklnf for tmportant raaaona of aUta. - Tne eld man ma pne tt op. ne went into oil, and ha went into steal, and ho played a bit with railroads, and I can tell yon ha mads Wall Street sit np r He paased. "Tnen ho died last fair and I got the" dollars. Well, would yon believe It, my conscience) con-science) got butyl Kept knocking ma up and saying: What about your Aunt Jane, way ont westf It worried wor-ried ma some. Ton sea, I figured tt ont. that Amos Finn would never make jood. He wasn't that sort End of It was, I hired a man to hunt her down.' Result, sba was dead, snd Amos Finn was dead, but they'd left a daughter-Jane daughter-Jane who'd been torpedoed la tha Lusltanla on her way , to Paris. 8ht vu saved an right, but they Wt seem able to hear of her over this aide. I guessed they weren't buttling any. so I thought I'd come along over, and speed things up. I phoned Scotland Scot-land Yard and tba Admiralty first thing. The Admiralty rather choked me oft but" Scotland Tard wars vary civil said they would make Inquiries, even sent a man "round this morning to get her photograph. n off to Paris tomorrow,' Just to see what the Prefecture Pre-fecture la doing. I guess if I. go to and fro hustling them, they ought to get bnsyl" , The energy of Mr. Hershelmmer was tremendous. They bowed before be-fore It ' "But say, now," he ended, "you're not after her for anything! Contempt of court, . or something .British T A proud-spirited . young American girl might find yonr rules and regulations In war time rather irksome, snd get np against It If that's the case, and there's such 'a, thing, ss graft In this country, 111 buy her off." Tuppence reassured him. . "That's 'good. Then we can work together. What about some lunch T Oysters had Just given place to Sole Colbert when a card was brought to Hershelmmer. "Inspector Japp, C L D. Scotland Tsrd.sgaln. Another man this time. What does lie expect I can tell him that I didn't tell the first chapT I hope .they, haven't lost that photo-graph. photo-graph. That western photographer's place washurned down and all his negatives destroyed this. Is the only copyjn existence. I got It from the principal of the college there." " An unformulated dread swept over Tuppence. ." "?You you don't know the name of the man who came this mornlngP , "Yes, I do. No.' I don't . Half a second. It wss on his card. Oh, I know I"; Inspector Brown. Quiet unassuming un-assuming sort of chap." A veil might with profit be drawn over the events of the next half-hour. 8ufflce It, to say that no such person as inspector Brown" was known to Scotland Yard. The photograph ; of Jane Finn, which' would have been of the utmost-value to the police la tracing her? waa lost beyond recovery. Once again.. "Mr. Brown" had triumphed. tri-umphed. The immediete; result of this setback set-back was to effect a. rapprochement between JuIlusHershelmmer snd the Toung .'Adventurers. , AU barriers went down with a crash, snd Tommy, and ..Tuppence felt .they had known the young American' all their lives. They sbahdoned the discreet reticence of "privste inquiry agents," and revealed re-vealed to hire the whole history of the Joint venture, wherest the young man declared himself "tickled to death.", He turned to Tuppence at the close of the narration, v..' ' : ' "I've alwsys hsd a kind of Idea that English girls were Just, s mite moss-grown. moss-grown. Old-fashioned end sweet'you know, but . scared to move around without a footmim or a maiden aunt I gueps I'm a bit behind the times I" LThe upshot of these confidential relations re-lations was that Tommy and Tuppence took up their abode forthwith at the Rita, in order, nn Tnnninr-e vnt It. to biAalhaehristie ! keep In touch with Jane Finn's amy living relation. "And put like that" she added confidentially , to Tommy, "nobody could bogxl at the expense P - Nobody did, which was the great thing.'"1: j- .t -.si j-;-.. ''"'i:...'c n-i. And now," said the young' lady on the morning after their Installation, "to work! We should map out a plan of 'Campaign.". .. ,.r,' .."Hear, hear P ; '"' ,Vr: - 'J WeU.'lefS do ft To begin with, what have wa to go uponT Absolutely nothing," aald Tammy cheerily. v "Wrong I" Tuppence wagged aa rnergetlc finger. "We have two distinct dis-tinct dnes.'' . . 1 What are theyr ... ' V- ""First clue, we know one ef the gang" ' "Whlttlngtonr ' "Tea. Td recognise him anywhere." ' "Hum," said Tommy doubtfully, "I dont call that much of a due. Tow don't know where to look for him, and It's abotit a thousand to one against your running against him by accident" acci-dent" ; ... ..;;,,.' "I'm not so sure about that" ra piled ' Tuppence thoughtfully. There are places In London wliere simply . everyone Is bound to turn up sooner or later. Piccadilly drcus, for Instance. In-stance. One of my ldeaa waa to take up my stand there every day." . Honestly. I don't think much . of 'the Idea. ' Whlttlngton maynt be la London at all." ,; "That's true. Anyway. I think clue No. S Is more promising." "Left beer It" - J ' "It's nothing much. Only a Christian Chris-tian name Rita. .Whlttlngton mentioned men-tioned It that day" , , . , f , "Are you proposing a third advsr-tlsementi advsr-tlsementi Wanted, female crook, answering an-swering to the name of RltaP -; - am nott I propose to reason ta a logical manner. That man, Danvert, waa shadowed on the way over, wasn't bet And it's more likely to have been a woman than a man" n dont see that at alL", "I am -absolutely certain that It would be a woman, and a good-looking one," replied Tuppence calmly. "Now obviously, thlt woman, whoever the was, wss saved." TIow" do you make that outP "If she wasn't how would they have known Jane Finn had got the papersP "Correct" ' . ; "Now. there's Just a chance, I admit It's only s chance, that this woman may have heen.-Rlta.,JL' "And If son - to, we've got to hunt through the survivors of the Lusltanla till we find her." . Then the first thing ia to get a list of the survivors." Tve got It I wrote a long list of things I wanted to know, and sent It to Mr. Carter. I got his- reply this morning, and - among other things It Incloses the official statement of those saved from the Lusltanla." - - NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of George it Burgees,-do- ceased. ; ' ' ' "- Creditors will preaent claims wltl vouchers to Geo. E. Burgess at hi home, Alpine, Utah County, Utah, oa on before June Z9tn. iszx. . . GEO. K. BURGESS, 1 . i CLARENCB BURGESS, i'!, .'; Executors Ernest H. Burgess, Attorney, . Roosevelt Utah. First publication April 28. 112$. Last publication May 26, 1121. , CLAW809 ZLSE081 ., , , ittoraeyait-Law . - . Qeaerai Practice and ProhaU. i Bank Bllgv-Amerkaa Fork , .-...Meadays and Tkartaays. , 1011-16 Kaaras Blds fait Lake El LEE ' Express and Transfer, , Haul Anytnlnff, Move Anythlnflrr In or out of town, ..And ta It rlrht TOR QUICK SERVICE " '. PHONE 127-W, AKEIIICAH ,'fORK.'. i i sajisuutai snsijsjrfvBWSiiwai ROBERT " rri pvuu ia, ia uiero BJU' on tha llttr "That's just what I don't know," confessed Tuppence. Ton see, very few Chrlatlan names are given. They're early all Mrs. or Mlaa.? . , ' Tommy nodded, "That complicates matters." be murmured thoughtfully. "'Weir, we've Just got to get down to It that's all Well start with the London Lon-don area. Just note down the ad-dreasea ad-dreasea of any of that females who live In London or roundabout, while I pnton my hat"' Five mlnutea , later : the young couple emerged Into, Piccadilly, and a How Would They Have Known Jan Finn .Had the, PapersP few seconds later a taxi was bearing them to The Laurels, Glendower road, N.7, the residence of Mrs. ' Edgar Keith, whose name figured first In a list of seven reposing to Tommy's pocketbook. ' - ' "' "! The Laurels was a dilapidated house, standing back from the road with a few grimy bushes to support the fiction of a front garden, . Tommy paid offjthetaxtand accompanied Tuppence to the front doorbell. He pressed the belL Tuppence withdrew to a suitable spot . . " A slatternly-looking servant with an extremely dirty face and a pair of eyes thst did. not match, answered the door. .- ' . ' ' Tommy had produced a notebook and.penctL , "Good morning," he said briskly sad cheerfully. . "From - the Hampstead borough , council. The new Voting Register.' Mrs. Edgar Keith Uvea hart, does aha notP 1 -Yaae," said the servantr -1 Christian nameP asked Tommy, his pencil poised. Missus! Eleanor Jane." "Eleanor," spelt Tommy. "Any sons or daughters over twenty-one? , "Neow,"t ' "Thank you. Tommy closed the notebook with' a brisk snap. "Good morning." . ' . "Good wheete. wasn't itt ' And we can repeat It ad lib. Where's the next drawP , . "Mrs.-Vsndemeyer, 20 South Aud-ley Aud-ley mansions. Miss Wheeler, 43 Clsplngton road. Battersea. She's a' lady's maid, as far as I remember, so probably won't be there, snd, anyway, ehe'a not likely." "Then the Mayfalr lady is clearly Indicated ss the first, port of call." South Audley mansions was sn Imposing-looking block of flats Just off Park lane. No. 20 was on the second floor. - " -----! ; - Tommy had by this time the gllb-hess gllb-hess born of practice. . He rattled off the formula to the elderly woman, looking more like a housekeeper than a servant ' who opened the door to him. ' '- - Christian nameP '.-"Margaret? ' t - ' : Tommy spelt It but the other interrupted, inter-rupted, him. - No, g u e.". Oh, Marguerite ; French way, I see. He paused, then plunged boldly. We bad her, down as Rita Vande-meyer, Vande-meyer, but I suppose thafs Incorrect P - "She's mostly called that sir, hut Marguerite's her name." ; ! . rThank you. That's all. Good morning," ?.r-...v Mr-t!, ::'' ,;.;. r Hardly able to contain bis .excitement .excite-ment Tommy hurried down the stairs. Tuppence was waiting at the angle of, the turn. . 'You heardP "'. Yea-Oh, Tommy P Her hand was still mTnuny4. They hsd resched the entrance halL There were fooutept pa the .stairs shove thetn, and voices. f : , Suddenly, to Tommy's complete surprise. sur-prise. Tuppence dragged him Into the little space by the side of the Mft, where the shadow was deepest 'What the " .t - .HUShP..;,. ,r' : ' Two me came down the stairs and passed out through tha entrance. Tup-, pence's hand closed tighter on Tommy's Tom-my's srm. ' - "-. J : Quick follow them. I daren't He might recognise me I don't know who the other man Is. but .the bigger of the two was Whlttlngton." CHAPTER IV ..V. , U ' The House In loho. - Whlttlncton and - hhv companloa were walking at a good pace. Tommy started in pursuit st once, snd was In time to see them turn the corner of the street His vigorous strides poon enabled him to gain upon them, not by the time lie, In his turn, reached the corner the distance be- tweea . them , waa aeaetbly lessened. Their course was a atgiag one d signed to bring .thera as Quickly aa possible to Oxford street I Wheo at length they turned Into It proceeding In 'aa.., easterly direction, .Tommy slightly tocreased his pace. Little by tittle be gained upon them. ; , , Just before the Bond Street tube station they crossed the road, Tommy, unpercelved, faithfully at their heels, and entered the big Lyons'. There they' went up to the first floor, and sat at a small table In the window. It waa late, and the place was thinning Out Tommy took a seat at the table y '"'"F''''" NWVajeroua tttrfosa 'leea) tnablesj Him te Oaln Upon Them. . .. , next to them, sitting directly behind Whittingtoa la case of recognition. On the other hand, he had a full view of the second man and studied hla attentively. at-tentively. He was fair, withjt weak, unpleasant face, and Tommy put htm down as being either a Rustlan or a Pole. He was f robably about fifty years of age, hla shoulders cringed a little as ha talked, and his eyas, smsll and -crafty,- shifted unceasingly.! ' . Whlttlngton ordered , a , substantial lunch for himself and his companion then, as the waitress withdrew, he moved his chair a little closer to the fable and hegaa U tatk sarnestly la a low voice. The other man Joined In. Listen as be would, Tommy could only catch t word here and thera; bul the gist of It seemed to be some directions direc-tions or orders which , the big man was Impressing on his companion, and with, which the latter' seemed from time to time to disagree. Whlttlngton addressed tha other as Boris." ; Tommy caught tha word "Ireland," several times, also "propaganda." buf of Jane Finn there was no mention. Suddenly, in a lull la the datter of the room, he got one phrase entire. Whlttlngton waa speaking. "Ah, but you.dont know Flossie.' She's a mar-" vel. An archbishop would .swear aha was his own mother. She gets the voice right ' every' time, snd that's really tha principal thing." v ? 1 ' ; ; Tommy did not hear' Boris reply, hut In response to It Whlttlngton said something ..that sounded- like: "Of course only In sn emergency. . . .". , Then he lost the thread again. But presently the phrases became distinct again whether because the other two had Insensibly raised their voices, or because Tommy's ears were getting more attuned, be could hot tell. But' two words certainly had a most stimulating stim-ulating effect upon the listener. They were uttered by Boris and they were; "Mr. Brown." ' . Whlttlngton seemed to remonstrate with him, but he merely laughed. "Why not my friend 1, It Is a name most respectable most common. Did he not choose It for that reason! Ah, I should like to meet hlro--Mr. Brown." '$";':; '' ' There was a steely ring In Whlttlng-ton's Whlttlng-ton's voice ss he replied: . - "Who knows T You may hare met htm already." "Bah 1" retorted- the ether. "That la children's talk a fable for the police. Do you know what I ssy to myself sometimes? That he Is a fable Invented In-vented by the .Inner Ring, a. bogy te frighten us' with. It might be so," "And It might net.". - -, "I wonder . . . or Is It Indeed true tliat he' Is with us and amongst us, unknown to all bat a chosen fawf ir so, ae seeps nis secret woil Ana the Idea la s good one, yes. We never know. We look st each other one of us Is Mr. Brown which t He com mandsbut also he serves. Among os la the midst of us. And ae one knows which he Is. ... '." . ,-. . t Wltli an effort the Russian shook off the vagary of hit fancy. He looked st his wstch. ' ! "Yes.", said Whlttlngton.,' We might as well ga" fr-;,f,i-Mr. u Ha , called the waitress and ssked for his till. ' Tommy did likewise, snd s few moments later waa following the two men. down tha stairs. ' '. , Outside, Whlttlngton hailed a taxi, and directed tha driver to go te Wa terloo, ".v . ' . . , ' Taxis were plentiful here, and be fore Whlttlngton's hsd driven off an other waa drawing up to the curb la obedience to Tommy's peremptory de mand,- 'v ! 4 i'; 4 "Follow that otlier taxi," directed the young man. "Don't lose It" The elderly . chauffeur showed no interest' . He merely grunted snd Jerked down his flag. . The drive wss uneventful. Tommy's taxi came to rest st the departure platform Just after Whlttlngton's. Tommy wss behind be-hind him at the hooking office. He took a flrst-rliiM . single ticket to Boarnemouth. Tommy did tha As he emerged, Boris, remarkadl glancing up at the dock: "Yea tra early. You have nearly half an hour.1 Boris' words had aroused a new , train -oi thought la, Tommy's mind, Oearly Whlttlnktdn waa 'making tha journey alone,' while the other re mained ta London.- Therefore he waa - left with a i choice as to which aa) would follow.-. Obviously, he could aoj foltow both of them unless lika ' Boris, he glanced up at the clock, snd then to the' announcement board" of -the1 tralna. The Bournemouth "train , left at 8:80. It was bow tea past Whttttngtoa and Borla were walktaf up and, down by the bookstall. Ha gave one doubtful Took at them, the hurried Into sn adJacVnt telephone box. He dared not waae-Ume In try Inf to get hold of Tuppence. In alt probability she was still ta the neighborhood neigh-borhood of South Audley mansions. But there remained another ally. He -rang up the Rita and asked for Jullua Hershelmmer. There waa a click and a buxa. Oh, If only the young AmerV can waa In his room! There waa another an-other click, and then "Hello" ta un . mlatakahle accents came over the wire. (.Thst yo , Hershelmmer Bert-ford Bert-ford speaking. I'm at Waterloo, I've followed Whlttlngton, .and .another " man here. No time to explain, ' Whlttlngton's Whlt-tlngton's off to Bournemouth by the) 1:80. Can you get there by tfanP k 8ure, TU husUO . p The telephone rang off, Tommy . put hack -the receiver with a sigh of reJiet He felt Instinctively thai tha -American would arrive la time., ; 1 . Whlttlngton "and lrla , www stia, where he hsd left them; ' If Boris' re . malned to tee hla friend off, all waa weir. Then Tommy fingered his pocket thoughtfully. It spite of the carta.," blanche assured to him, be had not yet acquired the habit of going aboutv with any considerable sum of money oa him. The taking of the flrst-daaa ticket to Bournemouth bad left hint with only a few shillings la his pocket ft was to be hoped that Julius would arrive better nrovlded. .'. i la tha meantlmo.' the' minute creeping by; Supposing Julius did hot ' get there in time. Tommy Jolt cold waves of despair pass over him. Then a hand fell on hla shoulder. , H Here I am, son., Your British traffic' traf-fic' beats description! Put me wis to the crooks right away." " .! "That's Whlttlngton there, getbnf In now, thst big dark man. The other Is the foreign chap he's talking to." - "Tm onto - them. Which of the two la my blrdP ' ; V , : v. Julius sliook hla head, and Tommy face fell. - : J ..' ,' I "I guess I haven't more than three or' four hundred doltf tt with me al the moment" explained the American. ' Tommy gave a faint whoof of relief. !-Oh, Lord, you millionaires I To dont talk the same language I CUmtt " aboard tha lugger. : Here's your ticker. Whlttlngton's your "man." . , ,t.: "Me for Whlttlngton P said Jullua dark!;. The train was Just starting a 'he sweng' himself aboard. lotifc' Tammy." The train slid out of tha -ataUom . -'-v t-"c : I "v'':r-- ' - Tommy drew a deep breath.-'-The man Boris was co'g along the platform plat-form toward him. .Tommy allowed . him to pass and 1 followed hint at S. Judicious distance. -' . ", , ; ; They reached at length a small "dl- ': , lapidated iquare. '' The houses there had a sinister air ta the midst of their dirt and decay. - Borla looked, round, and Tommy-drew back Into the shelter shel-ter of a friendly perch,,. From there : he watched Boris go up the steps of a particularly isvll-Iooklng house snd rsa sharply, with a peculiar rhythm, the door. It was opened promptly, he ssld a. word of two to the doorkeeper, door-keeper, then passed Inside. The door -r wss shut to ogaln.'," ;?'. -. It waa at this Juncture thst Tommy, V lost his bead. What haught to have done, what any sane man would have done, was to .remain patiently where he was and wait for his man to come ' out again, Wbatjie did-do was en- . . tlrely foreign, to the sober commoa sense which wss, ss a rule, his leading characteristic. Something, as be expressed ex-pressed lr. It Seemed to snsp In hit brain. Without a moment's pause for reflection, he, too, went up the steps, and reproduced aa far at he waa able ' -the peculiar kaocfc v -t ; 4 Tha door swung open with the same promptness as before., A villainous- 1 faced man with; close-cropped hair stood In; the doorway. - - ,a f . Well p he grunted. , V" J It waa at that moment that the full realisation of hla folly began to come home to Tommy. But ha dared not hesitate, ne seised st the first word ., that came Into his mind. - , "Mr. BrownP he said. ' ' '..To his surprise, tha man ttopd sstde, f Upstairs," he ssld. r Jerking hla thumb over his shoulder, "second door on your left." , a 1 Taken abock though he was by the ' mail's words. Tommy did not hesitate If - audadty had. successfully carried htm so far, It was to ba hoped It would retry him yet farther. He quietly passed Into the house. and mounted tha ramshackle staircase. Everything In the house', was filthy beyond words. Tommy proceeded leisurely. By the time he reached the bend In the stair-, -case, he hud heard the man below disappear Into a back room. Clearly no Suspicion attached to blra as yet To come to the house snd ask for "Mr, Brown" appenred Indeed to be a rea V tonable and nntural procewllng.. . Coatlaued 5ext Week . l; ? teeletles ef Leaden. ' According te the London post office -directory, the English metropolis has' 8,000 associations, missions, orders, slllaaces, leagues, unions, funds snj bunds. "r:" ' |