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Show -'' , . "mi "t'tTtrTy-n jJtaaSSSJSSf WSWMstMMft,l "let tchenj hi. 't ciosetj, f re ck?w- Well, tie lotv pragitt mipinfla 1 of a hare if.- ' v i 10 a Ely Anna 3IeClure Shall . . SYNOPSIS . kin nnaltlon ? a & iet,, 'Videinf. Janet Mrcer Iff, ,d tbur Fl'emlnf. also o fwth. Acadmy. Gordon "nrletorV w.lcomes them. x proprie or, p,ychol- "he faculty. Jet r ,npl ..tin between Haak- 'JSn of unprtPOlMMl" ' V but evidently high in C. . ouP. which .he !3 were .cbolars, ars wax Ha.kH explalne unueual connected with the , .ha Academy. Among the ? Berenice Bracebrtdse, "rftto lite owner of the Th. tragedy of Lostland Jth. drownins of four a,iweebHdge children who Z at the same moment. 'm,i The wax flguree were f J'fc the likeness of the 1 d Doctor Bracebridge'. nreeerved. Bere- iome facte of the ". PyKn.,,;ar7. Sit the un riwt whom Janet had seen !i Balder, and le a valuable , Pyne vi.lte Jerry Moore, ni,ne.. of the drowning of the TJln olarie. kept by Jethro Bracebrtdge, Payne eensei . .mister in the drowning fTlTrll Questioning Bere-Mh. Bere-Mh. l arn. more of the family tsne distrust of Haekell aeawa CHAPTER V Continued I. stood In the doorway.' She j changed to a black taffeta dress El many ruffles that stood out i the petals of a black rose. inent away. Berenice watched J jo; and her guardian apprais al ber as the prettiest. 01 uu-I uu-I rirls In that quaint dress, parked jealously: "You have !itened very much since these 7liera came." . vhiraHv I They have trans- iaed the place." Don't get too fond of them. They f not be, here forever, Neither shall I !" No-after your majority or your -Carriage, we can sell the old tit; though who would buy It I 1't know unless it were some doe rs! to torn it into a sanatorium fTes, it might make a sanatorium. Sra might be the doctor, "Ob, no nothing like that Ber-ake-darllng I've hoped for Just m thing during the course of these jean" She met his eyes steadily, though sk knew what was coming ; bad 'mm it before the ministering Egelj of education had appeared f .m the scene. It was her acute sallzatlon of the trend of her pardian'8 emotion that had led, ideed, to her demanding a small arps of teachers to finish her edu ction; together with a strong Suugh dimly defined instinct that I any ghosts haunted the old acad ?' it was the specter of a mys- 7 not yet solved. "Just one thine." he said broken fc, "your love the hope that some M jon would be my wife. - ? sue nesitateu before she an fered him. "Guardian, that can s-ver ber i His astonishment, his pain, was Jenuine. ' Across her mind floated te memory of a fairy tale once told M by Mother Martha, of a wolf . mo desired to become human finr- n HaskeU's eyes at that moment ere oddly like those of a wounded wimal baffled In its attempt to irom 113 own kingdom Into an ether. . - "Why notP' h "What is wrong with me that you vauuui iove me?' 1 t . j Mill QOftSn t nnma of 11 onje been very good devoted to ' Be stepped back a few paces, his J lifts lull. . . OUJ wmte m nand Cutcn. with the old gesture of pain his iiMrt lou have an attack! Shall lg yon water?" ? hurry!" ;,v"e a ""ting by the fire when returned. After drinking the - wlS S!?Ish,eDe3 P "gain and VT 1 must aT0ld emotion. ,;T let these young teachers make J ffl r lierenice. Yon have 1 wy have none!- !n . "?aea witn ngerl "How ? K?0De is kind. I think, who KM in this old nlv f 3frreweli paid." 01 theh- attainments J rJ. wel1 Pail anywhere. I mL.,' ' kiDd ot hlgb sacrifice I B. '"uon w stay here!" l-nsr furtiveIy 1 T?nBe of the wax flimrf- and Bder the i tlSrm tree we had is f CrrMDL ".ought to be ! teU hi , ,,., , ! the "snrw are." nlenter!datllltmont,.nd let . -eJTO:ea her warmly " ana f. fit" PrPwd. -la th easi at her. Janet hesitated. "Have I your permission, Mr, Haskell?" Certainly," he answered, not looking at ber. Berenice led the way down the corridors up a staircase, through one totally deserted and shut-up floor to a large room with a fire place under the eaves. Before the soft-coal fire sat Mother Martha In her rocking chair, her hands in her black silk gloves, her bright shawl wound closely around her stooping shoulders. "I've brought Janet to see youl" "Sit you down I It's been a fine day like the days when they were all here; I used to hear them runnin and callin me. The brown man's locked 'em up now." "Just the figures, Mother Martha." "They're yours no less, Berenice. You have your Sunday frock on !" "Yes, Mother Martha." The old woman searched Janet's face anxiously. "You are not taking tak-ing her away?" "No oh, no!" Mother Martha rocked herself in her chair, gazed at the glowing coals. Up In this high story the wind whistled as if they were in a tower. "Ain't you been up the ra vine yet?" "Yes, once." '"Tis an awful place a place of death." "Yes, dear," Berenice said sooth ingly ; "but don't think nf that now. Show Janet all the things you knit so beautifully." When they were going away Mother Martha called Janet back to her and, grasping her arm, drew her down confidentially. "He laughs at the stories they tell about this old house but it's all gospel truth. I seen 'em walking." her way of seein' thincs Invisible to other people. The second time it happened she came home and she says, 'Morn, I can't go back again. There's something wrong over there. I hate the place. I can't go back.' I coaxed her to tell me what was wrong, and then she told me what she bad seen." "Mrs. Welford." Wilton remarked impatiently, "if a story Is once started it never dies and the step from believing a rumor, and then actually Imagining ghosts or noises, Is exceedingly short" The wild grunts of the nearby pig now filled the air. Mrs. Welford emptied the mash into the trough, and then and only then answered Wilton. "You see, Sally Is what they call it's a long word" "Clairvoyant?" "That's it." "It's a pity," Wilton commented, thinking It best not to argue the point "Your daughter is very in- CHAPTER VI THE Welford farm was up a lonely lone-ly road about two miles from the academy. Wilton Payne walked there alone, for he wanted to put his thoughts In some kind of order ly array before talking to Sally Welford on the folly of supersti tion. What he gradually evolved from bis rather confused emotions was the theory that all superstition was woven around some fact. They may embroider this fact to the point of fantasy, but it remained a solid center beneath the tapestry of im agination. What was the fact at Lostland academy from which peo ple departed into the uncertain and shivery region of fears and fancies? With his best efforts, Wilton could run down but two facts of enough Importance to set In motion the ma chlnery of hauntings or of some blight that killed all joy of living In the ancient academy. One was the sudden deaths of four adored children, with the consequent ill ness and mental impairment of Doc tor Bracebridge; the other the by product of the first the four wax figures. Sally herself ushered him Into the darkened best room and invited him to be seated on one of a set of horsehair chairs, from which he could contemplate a glass lamp in a nest of knitted wool all shells and balls; and the oval-framed pho tographs of the family. "I'll call Pop," she said. "It's you I want to see, Sally. I want to know why you're not com ing back to the academy?" She flushed. She was a pretty glrL with rather handsome eyes, and an Independent manner. "Mother "Moth-er has too much to do. She needs me home. Wait I'll fetch her and Pop or maybe you'll come Into the kitchen. It's warmer. Farmer Welford and his wife received re-ceived him cordially, but seemed disinclined to talk about their daughter's desire to give up the pur suit of an education. "Sally thinks she'd better stay home," was all the satisfaction Payne could get ; so he switched off to crops, and thinking that be bad quite fulfilled his obligations of In quiry, he rose to go. "I'll step a piece with you," said Mrs. Wexford. Wilton was surprised, but glad of this turn of affairs. "I have to take some mash to the black pig on the lot" she explained to her husband, but she would In no wise permit Wilton to carry the mash. When they were some distance from the house, Mrs. Welford slack ened her pace. "I didn't have to feed that pig ; he's overfed now. But I knew well enough Sally would never tell you; and ber father thinks it all nonsense. But she has a queer faculty she sees things that ain't there." Mrs. Welford turned her bright eyes upon him, then looked toward the dark mass of the academy In the distance. "I don't expect you to believe It any more than her own father does but twice while she was at school she says she saw the four Bracebridge children once In one of the halls, once on the grounds. She's awful sensitive about Jp' "I Don't Have to Feed That Pig; He's Overfed Now." Egyptian Sphinx Merely Portrait Bust of King telligent, and learns quickly; it's a pity to give up the chance for a winter's education because of silly stories." "But them wax figures. You can't talk them away," Mrs. Welford re marked shrewdly. "Mr. Haskell has locked the fig ures In." "So I hear but what Sally sees is not wax." "I'm sorry! That's all I can say." He bade her good-by and departed thoughtfully. A Sunday calm brooded over the academy. Arthur and Janet had eone for a walk. Mrs. Denver was seated with Payne in the library, knitting and glancing from time to time out of the high, narrow win dows toward the lake. Balder was out In a boat fishing, and Haskell was watching him from the shore "That's a lonely man a queer, lonely man.- Some days I am afraid of him and some days I'm sorry for him. He's going to lose everything in a year or two." Haskell came in after a while. "It's raw out," he commented. "Well, did you see Sally?" "Yes. She won't come back." "Why not?" "She saw the Bracebridge children twice she says." Ilaskell laughed nervously. "'Payne, you'll have a chance to study rural psychology. The country people about here are very foolish over this old place. They are worse than sailors." "So it seems." "Let us go down and see that the figures are safe. I get rather fidgety over them. With all these cock-andbull stories about, one never knows what depredations might be attempted. I believe I'll have Iron bars fitted in that window; win-dow; then I'll rest easy." Payne nodded. He rather dreaded dread-ed the expedition to the basement and followed Haskell reluctantly. The head of Lostland academy had already taken the key from its hiding hid-ing place. He drew it from his vest pocket and opened the door with what Payne thought rather a shrinking shrink-ing manner. The four wax figures were at their eternal tasks, with their little, secretive smiles which would never fade as long as they endured. Haskell Has-kell and Payne stood looking at thera in the chilly room. "They're all right" Haskell said nervously. "Come, let's be going. It's as cold as a vault here. Yes, I'll have bars put on the window, and then I can rest easy at night Sally Welford is a fool," he added bitterly. Payne made no answer, but when Ilaskell had gone from him again on some errand, be started down the hill for another visit to the belfry bel-fry of Lostland church. That night be told Arthur Fleming that he thought be was at last on the track of the mystery which bung like a cloud over the academy. Copyright by W. 0. C&apmaa CHAPTER VII WHEN Payne drove to Blrndale several weeks later the expe dition had been twice postponed Berenice, Janet and Arthur were with him, all of them In rather high spirits at the prospect of a trip over the hills and back un shadowed by Haskell's ever-watchful eye. He had said no more to Berenice Ber-enice on a subject which she had made very clear to him was distasteful; dis-tasteful; but be had watched her and Wilton Payne as a caged animal ani-mal might watch two running In freedom. He was seeing what Arthur Ar-thur and Janet saw, too that "Hamlet" and Berenice were tread- lug very close to the magic borders of romance. Payne had even forgotten for-gotten that the academy was not like other places. It had become, Indeed, merely a background for Berenice's beauty, for that tender yet strangely solemn charm w hich Invested her and gave to her the quality of a winged creature who might at any moment vanish. She seemed to have grown taller, quieter quiet-er as if seeing in the distance the beacon of womanhood. Blrndale was a little, struggling town ; but after the loneliness of Lostland academy It seemed a populous popu-lous and exciting place. Wilton had the key made; and Janet executed some commissions for Mrs. Denver. They lunched In a small restaurant, and then Arthur proposed the movies. mov-ies. The waitress who answered their questions was regarding the party with some curiosity. "Are you the teachers from Lost-land Lost-land academy?" They said they were. "I hear the principal's goln' to marry Miss Bracebridge." "I am Miss Bracebridge, and I assure you there's nothing In the report" "I beg your pardon. The hired man over there that great tall fellowtold fel-lowtold my brother It was so " "Balder, I suppose. He talks far too much." Berenice looked earnestly at the girl. T wish you'd deny this report wherever you hear It" "I will If that's your wish," the waitress answered warmly. "I don't like to be talked about myself." In the motion-picture theater, Berenice, who was seated beside Wilton, whispered : "I hope this report re-port will go no further. It's Just like Balder to talk and about things he is Ignorant of. I wish be could be sent away. "Strong men like Balder are In demand," Payne commented; "mere muscular strength is valuable in a vast place like the academy." He slipped the key Into her hand. "I had this made for you, though I know you are getting the better of your fears." Her hand closed over the little key gratefully. "I am much better much happier. It's only when I am listening to Mother Martha that I think of the figures. Even my guardian doesn't speak of them now, and I think he does not go near them." "No, he doesn't" "And the scholars seem less afraid. They are getting used to the old place." "It has become very dear to me," he whispered. "I wlhh I hadn't heard that report re-port about my guardian and myself." my-self." "Forget It!" "Balder is always doing what he shouldn't do but not what he should. I don't suppose he even burned the old tree." "I think he did. It was there the first time 1 went back to the belfry; the next it was gone!" "I'm glad I It made me lonesome thinking of that dreary little tree up there. I believe I'll wear this key around my neck under my dress. Be sure you remember to put the original back." When they returned home they found Balder burning leaves on the other side of the garden from the pine grove. "Don't speak to him about talking talk-ing of your engagement Berenice," Janet cautioned her. "Don't get his 111 will." Berenice promised to say nothing. noth-ing. ' Wilton, when he had put the car away, proposed a walk around the lake, "if JO" ar tired with all the ex' it'-ment of the day." She glanced back several times at the figure of Balder seen across the smoke and Came of the burning leaves. "He's watching us. ne pretends he Isn't watching us, but he Is as he Useg the leaves, he's watching!" watch-ing!" "What of it? He cannot harm us." "I'm not so snre. He has a queer sort of fi'Kiity to my guardian. He may recent" (TO BE CONTIXCED ) Saloons Before Prohibition There were 177,790 saloons, 7.090 breweries, and 230 distilleries In the United Stales tfore prohibition, according to et'Jmutes. The Egyptian sphinx Is no longer mystery, Dr. Ceorge 8. Duncan of American university told an Archeo-loglcal Archeo-loglcal Institute of America meeting. The titanic statue which has excited excit-ed the wonder of the ages as to Its meaning and purpose, he declared, was nothing more than ft "portrait bust of an Egyptian king of the Fourth dynasty placed on the body of ft lion." The builders, he said, had no hidden purpose, but proposed only an extraordinary honor to the king. "There Is nothing whatsoever mysterious mys-terious about It" Doctor Duncan said. "Any such vagary, even on the part of laymen, now Is Inexcusable." Doctor Duncan presented evidence of the origin of most of the Institutions Institu-tions of the civilised world In Egypt thousands of years before the Christian Chris-tian era, and declared the Egyptian delta may have been Inhabited by human hu-man beings as much as 200,000 years ago at the very beginning of the Ice Ages. The grent development of the human mind, Doctor Duncan said, came tn Egypt about 8000 B. G, and he gave his own translations of Inscriptions which, he Insisted, demonstrated clearly that the Egyptians not only believed in Immortality, but bad es tablished ethical tests. Some of these Inscriptions might have been taken from the Bible, he said, such as: "Thou has departed that thou Brightest live. Thou hast not departed depart-ed that thou shouldst die." The famous "Book of the Dead, he said, was Intended as a guide book of the Journey to the next world and contained a list of 42 questions which the dead man must answer satisfactorily In respect to his con duct on earth. Among the sins which would bar him was laziness. At about the same period, he said, thert grew up ft strong monotheism with the sun as the sole deity. Two hymns of this period have been preserved, pre-served, Doctor Duncan said, "which, If the name of Ammon Ba was changed to Jehovah, could be sung In any Chrlstlon church next Sunday without striking the congregation as unusual." At about the same time, Doctor Duncan said, there was a great de velopment In the medical arts, and most of the medicines employed by the Egyptian physicians are used today. to-day. Among them were cod liver oil and yeast for anemic conditions. At this time also dentistry had Its first development The king was at tended by three specialists one for the eyes, another for the teeth and another for the stomach. The royal dentist developed the difficult feat of draining tooth abcesscs. There was tn effect at about this time, he pointed out, ft tax system based on the varying amount ot cul-tlvatable cul-tlvatable land, which might be adopted adopt-ed today. The agricultural prospects of the country were dependent on the amount of the Nile overflow, which was measured by ft "nlleometer." If there was a good overflow the taxes were assessed ever a large area. If it was slight the border lands were left unas8essed, because It was obvious nothing could be raised on them. Washington Tost Scientists Find New Senses, or New Name We have fifteen senses, not five, according to German men ot science who are determined to- upset old-fashioned old-fashioned theories. They have discovered dis-covered many new names for many old sensations. Among them are the sense of temperature, tem-perature, for Instance, which Is not merely the old-fashioned sense of touch but an entirely different matter. mat-ter. If the sense of temperature la lost ft man Is able to touch fiery coals without feeling pain. Some oarta of the body have an apparent ly strong sense ot temperature, as for Instance the tongue and the eyelid eye-lid which are especially sensitive to beat It Is closely related to tne sense of balance. On board ship, for Instance, the muscle sense tells you what movement you must make to counteract the rolling of the ship, The sense of time, German sclen-tlsta sclen-tlsta aver. Is so strongly developed In some people that they are able to tell the exact time within minute or two. The "sense of rays" Is one of the latest discoveries. It Is located In the skin and reacts to the different rays of light to which the skin Is exposed. ex-posed. .- v SIMPLE WAY TO KEEP CHILDREN'S TOYS IN ORDER POLISH ESTATES GIVEN BACK TO HEIRS OF LOSERS When the czar of all the BusBlns ordered the confiscation, more than a century ago, of the property of the Polish nobles who had taken an active part In the abortive uprising of 1SW-31 against Russian rule, the domain of the Russian state was enriched en-riched by many thousands of acres of meadow and forest, dotted with numerous castles and other buildings. build-ings. And when Poland arose again as a nation out of the ruins of the World war, moat of this confiscated property passed Into the possession of the republic. But under a decision recently handed hand-ed down by the highest court In Poland Po-land and reported In European papers, pa-pers, the republic Is likely to lose nearly all these estates. And while regretting the loss to the state, most patriotic Poles are said to agree with the court that the heirs of the nobles who fought and died In the century-old century-old effort to free Poland from the Russian yoke are entitled to the property prop-erty confiscated by the czar. Among the leaders of the 1S30-31 revolution was Gen. Count Tyskie-wicz. Tyskie-wicz. Ills broad estates were taken over by the Russian crown. Now the Warsaw court has decided that all that property, valued at about $13,-OOOXK), $13,-OOOXK), must be returned to the present pres-ent Count Tysklewicz, a direct heir. This decision is expected to be followed fol-lowed by many others of the same tort Involving a great deal of property. Stamps, Like Currency, May Not Be Reproduced The printing in any publication of an illustration of a United States postage stamp Is prohibited by law, says the Washington Post In the press, however, as well as la stamp catalogues, ere found Illustration showing a small portion of a stamp, a part of a bottom or top scroll, or portion of some lettering or even figures. fig-ures. These, of course, do cot reproduce re-produce any real part of the stamp. Many collectors have In their possession, pos-session, however, stamp catalogues f foreign nubllcations that Illustrate the United States slamps. These are purchased outside the country. While a reproduction of ft United States stanir cannot appear In any paper or catalogue. It Is lawful to renrmliice foreicn stamp, providing that each stamp so produced In the Illustration has ft small wnue un running across the stamp. This an swers a query as to why all roreign stamps that are shown In the pres sre poned" by the white line. The slbums and stamp catalogues that are printed In Europe show tn? Cnlted States stamp In full Ulustra tlon In scores of Instances. Historians Stirred by Find of Ancient Coins Coins that shed new light on an obscure period of Jewish history have been discovered In a private collection la Jerusalem. The coins are of the Fifth century, B. C, which Is 800 years older than any Jewish coin heretofore known. The money known to have been regularly reg-ularly used In ancient Palestine was foreign money, chiefly coins of nations na-tions which In torn dominated the Hebrew country. It has been supposed sup-posed that the Jews were not allowed al-lowed to Issue their own coinage until ft Syrian king granted that liberty lib-erty about 130 11. C The discovery shows thnt after th Persiuns swept the Babylonians from power and allowed the exiled Jews to return to Jerusalem, the Persian king granted autonomy. The Jerusalem coins are said to match a small silver coin whtch for the Inst 150 years has been In the British museum. It bears an Inscription Inscrip-tion of three Aramlc letters, which It Is said always have been wrongly Interpreted by scholars and therefore the significance of the coin was not completely understood. He reads the letters as "Yehud," which was at one time the official name of the province of Judea. The coins bear the en graving of an owl, under which ap pear the three letters In the old Phoenician Hebrew script And Destructive Idle curiosity Is probably the busi est thing in the world. For iWCiVV A. YouiWES A Few Drops Every Ni&ht and Morning Will Promote a Clean, Healthy Condition! At All Drugstores 'rtl,Mr Co..Dp. W.ChlcMo.fo. Vrm Book "This cant ba where the children sleep and play?" Inquired the visiting visit-ing grandmother, as she looked skeptically skep-tically around the unnaturally tidy room, with Its small twin beds, large bare table and few elosed closet. "naven't they any toysr she pur sued, In ft pained voice. With a dainty little kick under the bed, the proud mother revealed the explanation. It was ft very flat but capacious box on rollers. Opened, It disclosed the usual pell-mell of chil dren's toTs. balls, blocks and mechan ical contrivances, evidently stowed way In great haste. Not mucn order, or-der, but everything visible and easy to get at because the oat box cian 1 permit piling one thing on top of another. "This thing slides under the bed when not In nse," the mother explained, ex-plained, "but Its so easy to pull out, that the children can get their toys and put them away themselves. As for books and games well, here's ft closet full" The closet was merely an old wooden bookcase, with wooden doors and plenty of shelves. No need to pile one thing atop cf another, and the wooden doors kept any disorder hidden. "Of course, this Isnt so cute at having the nursery walls lined with odd-shaped shelves, and all the dear little teddy bears, books, dolls and games exposed," admitted the younf mother. "I tried that at the beginning, begin-ning, but found I was slave to neatness neat-ness spent all my spar time tidying; the place tip, for they couldn't b trained to put each object In Its own cubby hole. "Th! scheme Is much better. There's no struggling and fussing ever exact places for everything, and the children rather like the Idea of shutting doors on their games, or rolling tliera under the bed out of sight" Cleveland Tlaln Dealer. 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