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Show THE PAGE TWO TIMES-NEW- Thursday, May 15, 1930 NEPIIL UTAH S. Junior Leagua'a Growth' Mfe la Thirty Year mm The By (. by Alfred A. Knopf, W. N. U. Service loe.) Illustrations by IRWIN MYERS WHAT WENT BEFORE by a Muzaroft as ailing a traveling companion. After a abort tour they put up at Woodmoor. cock Inn, en starraadal They meet, casually, Mri. Elphln- tone and Sheila Merchtaon. Informi Holt that they ara hla wife and daughter and that his real nam la Merchlson. That night Masaroft (alia to return to the 'nn. Holt meela Sheila and tella her of Masarofl's disappear-- a nee. They go to bar coueln'a (Verner Courlhope) shooting box, hoping to hear word of MasarolT. Tbey meet air. Armln trade and Docor Eccleshar. Police Sergeant Manner and a reporter, Bownaa, question HolC Masarofl's murdered body la found. Crole, MararoTs lawyer, and Maythorne, private detective, arrive. U Vrvyn Holt himself eng-age- ma Ma-sar- I! J. S. FLETCHER CHAPTER III The Landlord's Qun. me with gen uine sympathy expressed on her pretty face. "I'm so sorry to hear this bad news," she said quickly. "I suppose It's true? we've only heard very utcie." "True enough," I answered Tlien. as she glanced at my companion, I s said: "This gentleman is Mr. solicitor Mr. Crole. lie's Just arrived from London and he's anxious to see Mrs. Elphlnstone." She showed no surprise at this; probably she thought that Crole wanted to ask some questions about the neighborhood. She turned back to the house, motioning us to fol- CIIEILA came op to J Maza-rofX'- low. We found Mrs. Elphlnstone In the morning room. She gave us an unmistakably questioning look as we entered; It seemed. Indeed, not too friendly. Sheila, after her fashion, went to the point. "Mother I" she said. "It's quite true about this unfortunate Mr. lie's been found dead, on the moor, and this is his solicitor, Mr. Crole, from London, and he wants to see you." "Merely to be permitted to ask a few pertinent questions arising out of the death of my client," Crole said. "I may mention, first, a fact of which perhaps neither of you Is aware. Mr. Mazaroff was murdered 1" This announcement produced different effects on Its two hearers. Sheila made a low murmur of horrified astonishment; Mrs. Elphlnstone gave Crole a quick glance. "Are you sure of that?" she asked. "That Is the medical opinion, ma'am," replied Crole, with a frigid bow. "I know of no reason to dispute it. My client was shot dead." Mrs. Elphlnstone pointed a finger to chairs near her desk. "Won't you sit down?" she said with faint politeness. "You say you want to ask me some questions pertinent questions? I really can't conceive what they can be I I know nothing whatever about this poor man." "I think you saw my late client the otlier day?" suggested Crole, whom I had fully posted In every particular of our stay at the Wood- f. ing happened that Is, nothing particular. Sheila's lips opened a little In astonishment, and her eyes turned from Crole to ber mother. Mrs. KlphlnHtone wns sitting bolt upright, very stern and dignified, at her denk. Suddenly, and swiftly, a satirical, contemptuous smile showed Itself round the corners of ber finely cut thin Hps. "Follow me, If you please," she said. She marched os through two or three rooms. Into the bull, out of the house, across the grounds, looking neither to right nor left, aii'l so through the porch of the church, and under Its fine old Norman doorway Into the shadowy nave. Marching up that to the chancel, she suddenly paused, pointed upward, and, giving Crole a frowning look, spoke two words: -Look there!" Ve looked. There, on the north wall of the chancel, was a plain, square tablet of Aberdeen granite, whereupon were deeply Incased and gilded a few words: "In Memory of "Andrew Merchlson "Sometime Resident In this Parish "Drowned In the Mombasa Buy, October 17th, 18!)9. I glnnced at Crole. Ills face was Inscrutable. He merely looked at the tablet, read the Inscription, and turned with a nod, to Mrs. Elphlnstone. "Now come back to the house," she commanded. Mrs. Elphlnstone marched us back to the bouse, and up to the old oak staircase that led from the big halL She went along one corridor after another until she came to a door. Selecting a key from a bunch that hung by a silver chain, she unlocked the door and ushered us into a small room, wherein there was nothing but an old fashioned bureau, a chair set before It, a bookcase filled with old volumes, and a side-tablwhereon lay a much- worn cabin trunk. She went straight to this and laid a hand on It. "Now," she said, looking at Crole, "I am doing more than anyone has a right to ask me to dol I am only doing It to set at rest, once and for all, the utterly ridiculous Idea that you mentioned when you came here uninvited. You will please listen to me! it Is quite true that I married Andrew Merchlson, when he and I were very young and foolish and headstrong We did not get on. He made full provision for me; shared equally all he had with me, in fact, and left me. Eight months later, this girl was born. I and my friends did our best to find him, and make him acquainted with that fact: we failed. I never heard anything of him until the early part of the year 10OO, when I got a letter from the captain of a steamer which traded between Bombay and Yon shall read it." Durban. She procured another key, unlocked the cabin trunk, and from a pocket Inside took out an envelope from which she withdrew a letter. She turned to Crole. "You and Mr. Holt can read that together," she said. "Read It carefully." I read the letter over Crole's shoulder. It was from one James Sinclair, who introduced himself as captain of the S. S. General Cllve. He said that on bis last voyage from Bombay he had taken on board at that port a passenger named Andrew Merchlson, whom he described: Mr. Merchlson was bound for Durban. In the course of the voyage a stay was made off oniSasa. On the lith of October, the steamer being at anchor In Mombasa bay, Mr. Merchlson dis The writer's belief was appeared. that Mr. Merchlson had bad a sudden attack of faintness or giddiness, lost bis balance, and fallen overboard, probably striking his head against the side of the ship as he fell. Nothing being discovered about his passenger, he had examined, his effects, found Mrs. Merchisoh's address In a memorandum book, and therefore forwarded Mr. Merchlson's cabin trunk, and all tnat it contained, with other small matters lying about his cabin. lhe solicitor read this letter through in silence, and silently handed It back to Mrs. Elphlnstone. She replaced It in the e, trunk. "I'm So 8orry to Hear This Bad News," 6h Said Quickly. cock. "He and Mr. Bolt were standing at the garden gate of the Inn when you and your daughter passed by." "Oh, that 1" exclaimed Mrs. Elphlnstone. "Yes, I suppose I did see him tall, bearded man, wasn't he?" "You didn't him, recognize ma'am?" asked Crole, with a keen look. Mrs. Elphlnstone gave her ques- tioner a particularly freezing stare. "Recognize him?" she demanded haughtily, "Really what do you mean?" "What I mean, ma'am, Is this," Crole answered, bluntly. "The man whom you saw, though be has of late years called himself Sallm Mazaroff, was the man whom you married some years ago Andrew Merchlson." I expected something say, dramatic to follow on tMs. But noth "This trunk and Its contents have remained Intact ever since I received them, now many years ago," she said. "Now you come and tell me that this stranger, calling himself Mazaroff, was in reality An- arew Aiercmsom Absurd "Nothing absurd, ma'am. In my telling you that," retorted Crole, with the least touch of asperity. "Holt," turning to me. "you will Just tell us precisely what Maza- roir confided to you. that second night of your stay at the Woodcock. Tell the whole story." I told the whole story, as we all stood there In that little room. But, tnougn I watched Mrs. Elohlnstone closely during my narrative, I saw no sign of any wavering on ber 1 part, "The thing Is absurd!" she de clared In the end. "Utterly absurd I The man was probably some adven turer wno had got hold of certain facts about Merchlson's past history, and wanted to make money out of his knowledge!" "Um I" Crole said quietly. "Now that, ma'am, if yon will pardon me for using plain speech to a lady. Is indeed an utterly absurd suggestion I Mr. Mazaroff, or, as we should call him, Mr. Merchlson, so far from being a neatly adventurer, was a wealthy man! And If you will pardon me still further, I will If JiiKt put something before you. this man win, as he u sup r ted himself to be, and as we shall probably who Andrew Merchlson. prove, or three married you twenty-twyears ago, your second inurrlaice with Mr. KIphlnstotie la no marriage at all ! You are still, lu law. Mrs. Merchlson, and " "What Is nil this leading up tor' deniauded Mrs. Elphlnstone. "To this, ma'am," continued Crole, lifting an admonitory finger, "and a very Imixirtunt point, too, as you will quickly see. Although 1 have had very little dealing with this unfortunate man, 1 have had some dealing, while be wns In London, and II Is my distinct Impression tliut he has died Intestate." "Well and what has that to do with me?" questioned Mrs. Elphlnstone. If he was "Merely this, ma'am. Merchlson, and you his wife, and this young ludy your child, you and she come In. between you, for And there every penny he's left will be a great many pennies, or I'm a Dutchman! My advice to you, ma'am. Is this before settling on an attitude of Incredulity and denial. Just step across to the Woodcock, and see If you cannot satisfy yourself that the man lying there, sadly disfigured, but Identifiable, was not the man he claimed to be." With this Crole made one of bis bows and walked out, and 1 followed him, leaving mother and daughter standing looking at each other. As we passed the gates, Crole pulled out a snuffbox and took a hearty pinch. woman. "That's a d d flint-likHolt," he said, cynically. "Hard-b- ard I" and obstinate My own Impressions of Mrs. Elphlnstone were precisely those which Mr. Crole expressed so emphatically. But I wns just then thinking of otlier matters. "If the real Andrew Merchlson was drowned In Mombasa bay," I said, "how could " Crole interrupted me with a sharp, sceptical laugh. "Aye, but was he so drowned there, or elsewhere, or anywhere?" he exclaimed. "My own belief Is that he was never drowned at all I For all that Sinclair, the writer of that letter, knew, Merchlson had arranged for a boat to come off for him at a certain hour at night It comes, and he slips off into It and Is clean gone. Easy He could have sent money and things especially money ahead of him to wherever he was bound. Didn't you tell me he spoke of Durban?" "Of Durban, yes," I answered. "It was there he took the name of Mazaroff." "Aye, well," continued Crole, "no doubt he'd some reason other than the one he told you of for leaving bis old name behind him. He may have wished folk in both England and India to believe that Andrew Merchlson was dead. But letter or no letter, cabin trunk or no cabin trunk, monument or no monument, I believe that Sallm Mazaroff wns Andrew Merchlson, and that he was murdered as Merchlson, and not as Mazaroff." "As Merchlson?" I exclaimed, pausing In sheer surprise. "But who knew him, here, as Merchlson ?" "That's got to be found out, my lad 1" be answered, with a knowing "I" 1 1 look. We found Maythorne standing at the door of the Inn, in company with Musgrave. Maythorne gave Crole a sort of informing smile as we came up to them. "Mr. Musgrave has Just made a discovery," he said. "His gun Is missing." "Not three months since I gave twenty pounds for It!" Musgrave muttered. "Very near brand new It was I Couldn't have believed it could ha' been taken from there, neither." "And whore was it taken from?" asked Crole. "It was taken from the private sitting room that Mr. Holt there, and the dead gentleman had," replied the landlord, with a glance at me. "Hung on the wall, on two books it was, Just Inside the door you may ha' noticed it, Mr. Holt?" "Yes, I noticed a gun there, certainly," I replied. "But I hadn't noticed that it had gone." "Nor me only I haven't been Into that room this last two or three days," said Musgrave. "It was the missus that found It out she came to me about It Just flow. Of course, some o' them drover chaps poked their noses In there, and, seeing nobody about, helped themselves to It easy enough, that would be." "Was the gun loaded?" asked Maythorne. "I suppose not?" "Well, It was," admitted Mus"I kept It loaded you grave. never know what you may want In a lonely place like this." "Dangerous, though, to keep a loaded gun about, don't you think?" said Maythorne, good humoredly. "By the bye, what sort of cartridges were there In your gun?" "Kynoch's, number twelves," replied Musgrave, promptly. "Always use those." "That might help you In tracing the gun," remarked Maythorne. "You should tell the police that." He turned from the landlord towards 1 The nucleus of the present Associ ation of Junior Leagues of America wag the Junior league of the New fork college settlement, organised by Miss Mary 11 a rr I man In 11)00. This was followed in VJOQ by the founding of a second league In Boston. Baltimore, Brooklyn and Philadelphia hav ing meanwhile Joined the ranks, the first general conference was held In 1011. In IVM the 30 leagues then were organized by Mrs. Wll- lard Straight (Dorothy Whitney) Into the present association, and six years later a national headquarters was established In New York city, and In the following year an anthology of Junior league poetry was published. In the same year the Bulletin, since 1912 the official organ, was converted Into the Junior League Magazine. There were 101 leagues In the United States, representing S9 states, and three additional leagues In Canada In VMS. The same year a na tional club, with offices and exhibition rooms, was established In New York city. the moor, motioning Orole and myself to follow him. rm going to have a look at the Refver's den," ha wild. "Better come with me. Odd. Isn't It, that Musgrave's gun, loaded, with number twelve, should disappear on the very night on which Mazaroff Is shot dead? Did in you tell us. Mr. Holt, that the doe-to- r showed some shot which be culled number twelves?" "He did." 1 aesented. "1 suppose this doctor what's his name knows Eccleshare? number twelves from number tens?" he suggested. "lie's a shooting man, himself," League of Natioae Council I replied. The five Dermancnt members of "Staying at High Cap lodge with a shooting parly." the council of the League of Nations "Ah. then he'd know what he was are France, Germany, Great Britain, and be about," talking remarked, Italy and Japan. The non permanent members are nine and Include Cuba, Finland. Canada. Spain, Venezuela, Persia, Peru, Poland and Jugoslavia. Both Brazil and Spain were asked to reconsider their resignation from the League. Spain accepted the offer and Is a member of the council. Brazil refused to do so and her resignation became effective In June, 1028. Ar gentina withdrew but Is taking steps to return. Costa Rica is deliberating. Kb 100-acr- pled down !" Maythorne was closely examining the surroundings: I noticed that he, too, was apparently struck by the evident trampling of the gorse and bramble. Once or twice he stooped, as if to look closer at bis objects once 1 saw him pick something from the ground and thrust It Into his waistcoat pocket Presently he came back to where Crole and I stood with the policeman. "If a gun were fired In this ravine, those rocks would give back a fine reverberation." he observed. Then he looked at the policeman. "You didn't hear anything that nlglit?" he asked with a smile. "I heard nothing," agreed the policeman. "Don't know nobody as did neither. There's a cottage by here just back o' that clump o' beech the folks there, they didn't hear nothing. Not nothing whatsoever !" "Oh, there's a cottage there, Is there?" said Maythorne. "And who lives in it?" "Old shepherd and his missis Jim Cowle. his name Is," replied the policeman. "I was talking to him about this affair Just now they heard nothing." Maythorne turned away, toward the clump of beech. We followed him along a narrow track that ran at the foot of the rocks under the lower branches of the trees, and went up a flagged path to the cottage door; Maythorne knocked; a woman's voice bade us enter. Inside, at a round table drawn up In front of a turf fire, an old man and an old woman sat. At sight of us, the old woman rose, politely, but the old man stuck to his seat, eyeing us with no friendly glance. He got In the first word, too, surlily, before Maythorne addressed him. "Don't know nothing about that there affair in the den yonder!" be growled. "Tell'd the policeman Just now we neither heard nor see'd anything, and don't want no bother about It." "My good friend!" suld Maythorne, soothingly. "We only wanted to ask you where this footpath, that crosses Ilelver's den, and goes outside your garden leads to? We're strangers." (TO BE CONTINUED.) y3S5?, 9 5V If, VST Earthquake's Vagariea An earthquake Irrigated a cantaloupe field at Brawley, Calif., re cently when a tremblor caused small geysers to spout five Inches high e field owned by the over the S. A. Gerrard company. The water Irrigated the entire field and then fooded adjacent areas before subsiding. Small sand piles were left In the wake of unusual Inundation, and a beet field nearby was completely covered by new sand. Mrs. Elphlnstone. turning from me to Crole. "Well and Mrs. Elphlnstone?" Crole told him all about our doings at Marrasdale tower as we walked across the moor. He listened and said little. But I noticed that his eyes grew brighter and his whole air more alert when we came to Reiver's, den-- a "Wfck, gloomy, eerie; just the place for a murderous deed. There was a local policeman on guard there; be showed us the place where Mazaroffs body had lain and been discovered. This was amongst a mass of gorse and bramble at the foot of an almost perpendicular rock, some thirty to forty feet In height. "My mate, what found him," the policeman said, in a confidential whisper, "he soys as how when he first came across him, he thought as the gentleman had fallen over them crags in the darkness. But of course he hadn't and 'cause why? If he'd ha' fallen from there, he'd ha broken his neck, and every bone in his body; big, heavy man like that he was. And there wasn't no bones broken. My Impression, gentlemen, is as how he was murdered first, and carried here afterward. Look how these here shrubs Is tram- 1 Reanon for Everything "So you're not sending EtIc to col lege?" "No you see, he Isn't going Into a broker's office, so it really Isn't necessary." Not So Sura Bride Was I nervous during the ceremony? 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It was of two general colors. One was dark purple or black, the other white. The dark wampum was the more valuable. Wood Not Important Part The fact that antique furniture Is mnde of any particular wood Is not taken Into serious consideration In the valuation of an article. The age and condition are of more portance. Im- Buaineaa Not The difference between a man whose business is bad and one who Is in bad business is that the latter has more money than he knows what to do with. Cincinnati Enquirer. Silence Best for Envious "He who has an envious heart," said HI Ho, the sage' of Chinatown, "should keep silence lest he permit his envy to proclaim his own Inferiority." Washington Star. Measure of Our Deeds Faults of the head are punished In this world, those of the heart In another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment. Col-toAcadian Memorial Grand Pre park. In Nova Scotia, has been established as a memorial to the Acadian, whose history Is most familiar as a background for Longfellow's "Evangeline." It Pullman Oversight Is strange the Pullman people put up year after year with huge losses of linen, rather than put in embroidered guest towels. Detroit Free Press. Lofty Texan Peak The highest mountain peak In the southern states Is El Capltan, in western Texas, which rises to a height of more than 0,000 feet. Cold Leaf's Possibilities cubic foot of gold beaten to gold leaf, cut Into strips one Inch wide and luld end to end would make a strip 43,'200,000 feet long. A Passing Observation Yon won't believe It, but you probably are happier with what you have than you would be with what you crave. Diamond in United States Diamonds up to 22 carats have been found In 24 localities la the United States. 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Their bites, with certain exceptions, howerer, are not so dangerous at moagoUM bites. First American Steeplechase The first steeplechase was run at Paterson, N, J., June- 7, 1865, a - handicap, over 27 Jumps, though the real beginning was an extra day's steeplechase at Jerome park In November,' 1869. three-mil- e Advantages of Latin Language students have found that anyone who understands Latin reasonably well can master the romance languages in about the time that a Latin-les- s person can. one-thir- d Abandoned Poor to Fata London's of great epidemic plague In the Seventeenth century took off the poor; the wealthy and influential left the city, leaving the poor people unemployed and for. un-car- Thermometer's Qualitiea no difference between an outside and an Inside thermometer in the registration of the temperature. The same Instrument may be used for both purposes. There is Watch Your Superior "Obey your superiors," said HI no, the sage of Chinatown, "but exercise as much care as conditions will permit in selecting them."- Washington Star. Mankind's Advance The onward march of humanity and civilization is surely an upward march toward and what we call character. Thomas Paine. self-contr- Still Good "New Morals for a New Age" Is a lecture subject Tbe old ones are all light so long as you don't treat 'em as antiques. Dallas News.. The Only Way The meek can never expect to Inherit much of anything If they don't get some lobbying done. Des Moines Register. Sea Salt Carried Far Following heavy gales In England sea salt averaging 25 pounds to the acre have been found 70 miles from the ocean. China's Great Teacher Confucius was born In 551 or 6T0 B. O., and died In 478 B. O. - He is known as the famous sage of China. Bank Journal's Odd Name The Bank of England's own trade Journal Is called "the Old Lady." 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