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Sanded MYER9 lN-a- d 1st) ihera lemeai af mrstery about him law, hm tori III produce Intr-aubaf aalbar, il lha t p thvlla I friendly Interval tialiif ao ebvlouelp rail man and M hffahla Ml ha an haul lha laat prwn la iht world aa wuuld Ihlnh of likely o cia lad powerful aimmu r of beina lha of aioiaiar pursuit and abjaef Wbp ahnald wiah la da harm fa fhla eld. generous aad tbnrowably lihahla Indiaidualf Faria hair aa they wara and aa dark chapters la hia lifa evee blniad f, II became all lha mure siren that aarb thins aflarward devel. apad ahnuld have halallaa him. lhal ha ahould have harema lha caolar af myetery lhal waa running, crual and eu. If WS Ml fh open-bnnde- ha arn baffling Thia la typical J f Flairhar aiory f lha puail variety Thia author1 popularity raaia upon lha far! lhal ha always haa aa entertaining tala lo tail and lalla it ably. Ilia people ra alwaya human and ha never loaaa I rack af lha many ihraada In hia mye. lary or faila ta walk aul hia puaalaa satisfactorily CHAPTER I Mr. Mmroff I waa certain lhal aheraver or bow ever Mr. Muzaraff had mine by hia tin English name, he blmaelf waa a (teoikinan: there we no uiUiakln Ida aerrnf. "I hoe yon re feeling quite well gain afiet ymir wound? he kiketl "Quito fit, thank you." I anteerrd "Hi light a oik, any a ay." "Aye well," he an Id. nodding, "a I aald iii my letter, I think you and I II gel mi very plenunfly. If yon care to conic with an old fellow like me." "I ahull he plena d lo go with you," I answered "I hoie I ahull lie ahta Too lldnk I lo do all you want fr aha il r "It's lliile I in went hut he rouiny," her lone replied. "I kith. kin. nor frlenda. I've been onl of Mile ooiihiry many year, and now I'm hai k I Juui want lo dander round An Idle time, Ml. celug place eh? "Youve no lived plan?" I Inquired. ".Vo more than lha we'll Just gel Into my car end go north." he Stopping where we like and It waa I 'Uk llurkar who fir, I pm ftp In .ourh with !li nmn wlmm, niya terloua murder. whit in my compiiny, formed lha b;l of wbal rump he fumoui In three a.titliiatiia aa the Muzaraff affair. Murker nml I were old schoolfellows; w enirmd the army togelhtr aa aiihuliemn; we were In the Paine lot Ho I Ion flirnuulmut the front war; we wore wuiintcd on the same tiny, and In the amno flirt nleht before the rinUtiee; we were aent to the on nte home honplial nd were eventually dlm-lrrod from Il al the anine time, er.rh nnflt for any further military aervlee. hut fortunately In ponweploii of our full nmi ilement of llmha. Marker walked Into my rooma one morning while I wan still at hreakfiiiii, and fluui: down ropy of the TImea, Indleailos a hlue penciled advertisement In Ihe t nmn-m-li- I'lUl ' I It was llanrthawa that had It hen I aaa last her," tnurmurad tny companion, dnd gon no doubt, til of them! And this man no doubi'II ho lluagratd." A nmn had appoarsd it th open door, and waa coming aruoa th road lo uo. lta aaa a middle aged, g fellow. Behind hint ram woman, sharp featured, alert, quirk-l- y observing woman, who llped past lha man and gained lha aids of our rar firat. It aaa aba who did tha talking. "Good day. ma'am," anld Mr. Mara raff. Mu-- landlady, "You'll l no doubt? and this'll ho your husband? well now, wera thinking of Aye. breaking our Journey her for a day or i wo, ierlmpa for two or Ihrca, Juat to liHk around this grand country of your. You'll bars accommodation?" "Gh. ye Indeed, lrP answered the woman, taking In tha car and Its with appraising eye "Nines and wall ha right as rain. CVm by live otlork Thai ll suit you? Good And now wall Juat U.wn sud taks s hit of lunch together." .. Mr Marawff and I spent couple of hours over that lumb nl our i Uara and coftre. lie proved him elf a knowing ami generous boat, and a great talker. IBs talk was worth soon discovered that lisienlug in he hnd een many strange places and without giving me any dcf Inlte Informsllon shout himself or his pursuits, he let me know that h had traveled extensively In earlous out of parts of Asia and Africa, left him and went away Presently to mak ready for our Journey: at five o'clock I was hark St lb hotel with my luggage, and by a quarter pnst we were off. We followed out MazarolTa line of going aa far a wt liked, and stopping where and when ae chose. It a as difficult ta get him away from towns I'li Fismford and Grantham at York, after a preliminary Inspection of ihe old rlly. he announced Ida Intention of aiaylng week: w Hopped ten days. All the way tiortli he was neeer tired of drawing me out about the war, ami my own doings In IL It was of no ue ta profess tlmt one had frgoitn; he would have the whole tale. And for all the youngntera who hnd done their hit he professed an which waa akin to veritable hero worship. We got on together aplendldly he was au excellent, a fatherly and broth erly companion. At Ihe end of a month lie and I were Inseparables. We had then run Into the crisp October weather of Ihe north, and were on the moil hern edge of Northumberland. There, after consulting hia map, he gave his chauffeur orders to cut across couni ry, north by west, making hy way of Hexham and Work for the wild lands Myoml, and for a particular place marked on the rhart at the Woodcock Inn on Marrasdale the-wa- y good-lookin- tbit motoring became fashionable we've a lot of custom, and we'ra prepared for It I think yon II find II ehe led lha way comfortable, air," Inside. bad customers here Ilmi said they were sorry to leave IL Tbere'a a silling room here. air. that you can have all to yourseMea." 8 be allowed ua Info an old fashioned Ve parlor, snugly furnished with solid old stuff, and lighted by tall, narrow windows Mint looked out on the moor ami the Idlla: Mr. Mazaroff, at tbs mere algid of It. gave grunt of satisfaction. ajel he wild. "Thisll do grandly keep thia room for me, ma am. as long aa wa stop Molt I" when he had conferred lie w Hh lha Inndlndy shout dinner that etching and she hnd left aa to "Thia Is the eort of place I've d retimed of, nmny and many a time when I've been In places where there wasn't the shade of a wall nor the leaf of a tree to creep under a cool, grav. sleepy, place where time seems to stand still. I like thl Molt and well Just have a look round before our di titter." We went out to look round. It needed email powers of observation on my purl to show me that Mr. eolumn. Mnnroff was ns well acquainted with That's your Job, Mervyn." he mild this old wayside Inn as Its landlord moor. In his usual direct fashion, (jet and landlady were. I could see that bluff be knew When, rnundlng a heather-clabusy 1" every atone of the ancient that sloM-- sharply down to our track, buildings and I took up the paper and rend the every yard of their surIn we came sight of the Woodcock advertlaement before making any reThere woe a walled garroundings. Inn, I was amazed to think that a den at the side of the house: he wanmark. hostelry should he found In such a dered about It with the familiarity "The advertiser, who haa recently It stood, a gaunt gray mass diwert. returned to England hfter a prolonged of a man who has known a place Intiof atone, on the edge of a great absence, and Is desirous of making As we were coming out of It, Mr. Mazaroff and I Spent a Couple moor ringed about by high hills na mately. an extensive tour through the north we saw Musgrave at lts gut of Hours Over That Lunch and Our veritable a solitude as one could set ern shires. In his private automobile, We hnd come np to tha gate and Cigara and Coffea. desires the company of ejet on. Beyond It there waa not a as Musgrave was about to open It, bright, so of or human life habitation. sign we like. a when I'll tell yon I've clahle, well eduented. and two ladles came In view from behind What an extraordinary place for young gentleman, preferably fancy for old towns, anything old the high wall, walking along tha halfan inn!" 1 exclaimed as wa moved Invalided out of the and gray and cool. Yon take me?" an grass track by which we had motored nearer. can "What custom will get The Great North road, then, they service. Applications, with full and during the Inst three or four mllea of there?" our Journey. Musgrave lifted his hat precise details and references, to he he a good route to follow?" I aald. "I know this country," Mnraznff "I know that road and Its surround addressed Box 11. 634.1, the Times. as they glanced In our direction ; each aald. I'sed to come here when I was Inga well E.C.4" gave him a nod and a smile as they That's It!" he exclaimed. Joyfully. a youngster, And though It's true I think It was more out of curl on before the front of the inn. passed Well do very well Just progressing there Isn't a sign of life about us At one of them I rally than anything that I replied to merely looked: to Inn no wbat's old particular object except signified ty the that advertisement, retting fori It my northward. I've the other I gave more attention. She xcept that when we get far north, yonder. Its not such a desert as It was a girl of possibly twenty-on- e or qualifications and detailing my referthere's s place I want to tarn aside to looks at first sight There's nothing two brown-haireences. Yet I never expected any reyears, on moor moor moor the to renew but Marrasdale Marrasdale Just slim and graceful In her country coat ply: 1 knew well enough Hint there What about terms, you'll observe that there's valleys cutwere hundreds of men whose quullfl-cation- s acquaintance. and skirt, distract Ingly pretty, as I ting In between the hills that run could see In that brief glance; the and references would he Just now?" he asked, diffidently. "I think I ought to leave that to down to Its edge? Well, theres vilas ;ood as my own why should I be other waa a tall, handsome woman of Mr. Mazaroff," I answered. "I'd lages In those valleys, and farmsteads, middle age, somewhat stern and cold singled out? It was therefore with you. to." too, and more than ne sizable counIn manner, despite the gracious rea good deal of aurprlse that, about a prefer I house. well mind all them Me gave a sigh of what. It was try sponse which she made to the landfortnight Inter. I received and read enough, laddie, though It's more yenrs lord's civil plain, waa sheer relief. the following letter: greeting. From their dress That's Just what Id like you to than I rare to estimate since I set and appearance these were evidently "Motel Cecil, on them!" That's a thing eyes do, he said, simply. folk of consequenc "8th September, 1919. Therell he people you remember, that gentlemen shouldn't bargain I am much obliged I Dear at Mr. Mazaroff as the Sir, "My about Leave It to me you'll not re- 1 suggested, and who'll remember ladlesglanced to you for your letter of the Z'lrd Au He was gazing disappeared. you?" gret It. Im a very rich mun. Inddle. to me with unIt seemed after them, gust. I think you and I would get on and anNot after all these years! he rich men are entitled to have usual attention. together very pleasantly, and I ahull their little games and fancies, eh? swered quickly. And between you be further obliged to you If you will Neighbors of yours? he asked and me and the post. Holt, I've no now and when can you call on me at this hotel tomorrow Very well, to wish to remember people, nor more suddenly, turning to Musgrave. start?" be ready Mrs. Elphlnstone, air, of morning about half past twelve "Thuta to be remembered by a particularly of with hours couple "Any time, o'clock ao that we may have a little Marrasdale tower," replied the landI don't want It to be known anybody. I replied. notice," talk. I remain, my dear air, lord. That's the big old house across that Im other than a complete stran "Good good I he exclaimed. Then Truly yours. moor. Used to belong to Sir the to the ger place." whal we'll do. tell Holt you Ill Just SAI.IM MAZABOFF.' Bichard Cotgreave, did Marrasdale I was wondering why he should be kit along here this afteryour Bring I walked Into the Motel Cecil next noon. and we'll start about five o'clock so mysterious about this, when we tower been In that family hundreds of years, by all accounts. When Sir morning at precisely twelve-thirty- . drew up at the door of the Inn. as we ns far run and gently along Etvdently Mr. Mnzar.iff had already like before dinner time therell be There was a plain board sign over BIchard died, a few years since, this Mr. Elphlnstone bought the place aud given certain Instructions about me. some old town where we can spend a the wide, open door, undecorated save to live here: most of the laud came for aa soon aa 1 Inquired for him. I, In a a and woodcock a for fnded of quiet night painting peaceful evening In my turn, waa asked If I was Mr. an hereabouts Is his. Behotel. a fine Ive flying across a moorland scene. Mr Mervyn Holt, and on my assenting, car tn the garage, and a neath It. in tarnished gilt letters apElphlnstone, eh," said Mr. waa handed over to an attendant who thoroughly dependable chauffeur. Web Mazaroff. And the young lady? Woodcock the words: "The peared whisked me off to a privuie and ater. a trusty, good, sensible fellow. Miss Elphlnstone, of course." Inn by James Musgrave. palatial suite of rooms. Me installed "The No, sir, replied Musgrave. tapped at an me In au young lady Is Miss Merchison Miss name to Inner door, murmured my Sheila, as we all call her. Mr Insomebody wtthln. closed the door, daughter by a previous in formed me that Mr. Mazaroff wouldnt sir." marriage, went away keep me one minute, and I fancied I detected renewed InterAnd I discovered at once that Mr of amber. Failure to do so leads to a est In the Amber nas been mined for hundreds expression of Mr. Maza-rofF- s of his a man was really Mazaroff blue earth of charge of embezzlement of years in the face this explanation. a hnd minute gone, Amber has found lta greatest use in But he was aduring word, for before the Baltic basin. It Is classified as good hand at concealing the door opened again, and he stood a fossil resin and geologists believe the fashioning of ornaments. Artlsaus hia thoughts, and he turued and there with outstretched hand. that several species of pines have had who makes necklaces, bracelets and waved his hand toward the w.te prosI went him as look a) I took a good brooches turn the amber on a lathe pect before us. a part In the formation of the amber forward. I Judged him fo be Hhout and polish It with whitening and basin. Rattle the of "So Mr. of Marrasdale six feet In height; his breadth coror with stone and oil, the final tower owns Elphlnstone water, from the torn are amber of Pieces most of what we see? he one he the gave responded; altogether luster being Imparted by friction with sea floor and east up by the waves. suggested. Impression of bigness and solidity flannel. New York Times. at ebb tide collected by are They Well, not wlmt you might call Ills age It was difficult to estimate: searchers who sometimes wade Into most, sir," replied Musgrave. Those his brown hair and beard were grlz Chalk to That Up the sea and with nets attached moors to the south and east, sir, High zled, and between his eyes and hia Pat OHara and Mike Murphy (who Cap moors, beach the seathey belong to a London mustache there was a good deal of long poles drag to the weed containing entangled masses of strangely enough, were Irishmen) had gentleman, Mr. Verner Courthope, a aeam and wrinkle; he looked like a used. taken Jobs at a colliery. Pat one banker. He's got a shooting box right man who has weathered storms, and amber. Dredges have also been Is the morning broke his 6hovel when he was In the middle of em High Cap lodge amber raw propLithuanian suns and drying been under flerce Each finder down In the mine. He was too lazy, winds. There was a distinctive air of erty of the government they call It ano hes there now, with however, to take It to the surface with a small shooting party. has to deliver the pieces to adminisgood nature, good humor, even of about him, but tt was trators of the state's central depots him, so he left It for his friend, writWith occasional hits of gossip of henevolence, ing on It tn chnlk: this sort, out first evening at thu somewhat discounted by a long, sharp forshovel out. Mike, Ive "Take my small eyes, and nose and close-set- , Woodcock went off very pleasantly. Term of Contempt gotten It ! I wondered what we were going to do further by a cast In the left eye. But wappa-rouBa,is shortened from But friend Michael knew Pat of old, with ourselves next "Wop his smile was pleasant enough ; so was day in so solitary a Sicilian localism for a and refused to be caught by such a the twinkle of his eyes, and there waa But Mr. Mazaroff, It seemed, place. fellow. trick. So he rubbed the message off had notions of his vwn, which ne nothing cold nor formal about his and substituted one of his own: handshake. j promptly explained on coming down Take It out yourself. Ive never to breakfast. New Tork citys population has In'Glad to see you, he aald, almost ! seen It." London Answers creased tenfold stnea 1850. Mvusquely. (TO be continued: Per-annul- " Aye. doctors laxative instead of harsh purges; trial bottle Free Old Dr. CaUwcHi prescription ctnnot tarn the cithirtie titbit. It can be given to the child b onpie i cotted, or whott breath it fetid, or hai a little fever. Or to older people ho bowel art clogged 111 ingredient! stimulate muscular action and thui aid the bowel to more normal functioning. The pure tenna and laxative herb in Dr. Caldwell' Syrup 1epxin r good for the ayitem. So do not heiilatd to use it when there liliouincii, headaches, or any aign of constipation. Your druggist hat this world-famou- s prescription in tig bottlr Or, vritt Dr. CelJutir Syrfi Itftin, llrutitrlto. Ill, end a Inal botltf to U b irnl la you, fatfoil. frtt Ilad Swallaw Tbaas Aacleal Nevada City Prnator Fackett f Kentucky was be remains of a new "Inal rtty" have !een discovered In Ihe Hoop crlilrlrWig a financier. "Bower kas mad him ruthleo" aid Fenalor FarkeM. "Me thinks ha ran ride down everybody. Me has thrown rautlon to the four wind "A friend of hia waa advising him to go alow In hia dealings with certain great Industrial leader whoa affiliations were wide. " Ttemember, hia friend rsntloned hire Temeritlier on which side your breed Is buttered. "Both, sold he. Ivont 1 always eat both oldeer valley, Nevada, by representative of the Fonihwest nmaeum. The new Inst rlly, the discoverer eshl, was about two and ono-halmllea long, and belongs to Mm making period dating back at least I..VO year It Id believed to have had n population of about 10, 000 person Excavations thus far, ha aald, have brought to light pit house turquoise necklace ring bracelets and bead f post-bask- et TUaty Caaao Daddy," anld Rohby, "that algn the world In unmarried we Jut passed aald, Vroad Bos Is. resident or rent of the men In What makes them cross?" twenty-fivthe Free Ktnte "Being run over so often, I gueo" aud thirty are unmarried. In north- replied his dud with n sinlle. ern Ireland, the corresponding figure Is C! per cent. Think It Ovor The grout man la he who In Mm A warped Idea of what ronatliutea mhl-- t of the crowd keeps with per elf snrrlficf and goodness Is to ha a feet sweetness the Independence of doormat. solitude. Uamarrled truhmes I our-wiv- An Ailing d 1 light-colore- Kolls--Boyc- ante-chambe- r, tttttttt44tttt(,t4ttt4tt'H Baltic Basin Quantities of Amber Found Are rou prepared to render first aid and quick comfort the moment your youngster has an upset of any sort? Could you do the right thing immediately though the emergency came without warning perhaps tonight? Castoria is a mothers standby at such times. There is nothing like it m emergencies, and nothing better for everyday use. For a sudden attack of colic, or the gentle relief of constipation; to allay a feverish condition, or to soothe a fretful baby that cant sleep. This pure vegetable preparation is always ready to ease an ailing youngster. It is just as harmless as the recipe on the wrapper reads. If you see Chas. II. Fletchers signature, it is genuine Castoria. It is harmless to the smallest infant; doctors will tell you so. You can tell from the recipe on the wrapper how mild it is, and how good for little systems. But continue with Castoria until a child is grown. Truth and Nothing But, in Doctors Statement Datarrad "Did you propoxe to the lady editor? "No; 1 saw her reaching for In- - asking for the appointment of an unknown man for a rather Im- rejection slip." portant federal appointment In hia When you make political predicstate. Senator Borah said: tions thank your stars that people The position calls for a natural-horforget most of them. Is I and that diplomat consider Doctor Blank to he. A country doctor has to be a diplomat or he wont survive. "One day, this chap I've recomTaka N? MATURIf HEM1DY mended was railing on a cantaker-ou- s tonight. Your eliminative old man who hnd collapsed while organs will be functioning properly by morning and your conplowing. stipation will end with a bowel " You say my heart is weak, action ae free and easy es narasped the old man. Do you mean ture at her best positively no that It's liable to give out on me pain, no griping. Try it. any time? 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