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Show THE SALIN A SUN, S ALIN A, UTAH destroyed, and that her husband' greatest wish was to have It published. Then efforts were made to steal it rather desperate efforts, front all fve heard. To save the materia! she fled with It to this country, In disguise and under an assumed Dante." "Humph!" observed Renshaw without enthusiasm. She was traced to New York by agents of the august master," Stanley went on placidly. "According to her story and evident conviction, their orders were to get that manuscript and all those invaluable historic letters and documents at any cost. Her very life was In danger. In fact, two attempts were made on It In Europe. She knew Verity Campbell, so when she arrived Verity went to New York and brought her and her grandchild and the nurse buck here In the dead of night. .Since Madame Hvoeslef then, claims, several queer-lookinforeignpersonal maid." Renshaw was speak- ers have been lurking around Tawno ing more to himself than to the Ker. All the men servants have been warned and put on guard against servant. "It does seem odd, sir, Jenks ac- trouble. When Madame Hvoeslef conBut Mrs. Pardee cant get tinued to see and hear things outside quiesced. on with one, sir, und Miss Verity won't the house every night faces at the windows and figures In the trees, and have one alone, down here In the country. Slip says it isn't worth while. The all that stuff the strain on the famforeign lady," for some reason Jenks ily nerves became too great. I persteadfastly refused to force Ids tongue suaded Campbell to get her to send to a contest with the name of Ilvoes-le- f the material to the Trust company, "she has a nurse for the little and we chose you for the Job because girl; a sour creature she Is. too, sir; no one would think you would be our and she dont speak a word of English. choice." But she runs In and out of Madume's No one would think be would be room a good deal and helps her to their choice! Renshaw took this In dress for dinner. silence and digested It, but It did not Renshaw cheeked these personal dlM urb him. revelations. "A big publishing firm Is buying the "So belongs to Madame world rights to the stuff for fifty thoulie mused. llvneslef? The sand dollars, Stanley went on. Miss Wanda? She ap- contract Is to be signed in a few Yes, sir. pears to he her grandchild. days. Its a mighty good thing for "The halls and bedrooms are looked the charming Madame Hvoeslef. since nfter by Annie? Renshaw had re- its all she has left. She belonged to turned to practical details. the reigning family, and her uprising "Yes, sir." Jenks hesitated, then countrymen have recently confiscated made his plunge with an almost per- her estates. She can go to France or ceptible gulp of distaste: "Anything Switzerland now, and live on the inyou wish changed, sir?" come of her filty thousand." "Certainly not. I merely wnnt to They had reached the store gateget a clear Idea of the routine and way, where the limousine was waitworking force. Theres no one else ing. The old doctor held out his hand. that I haven't seen or heard of?" Rut," Renshaw objected, as he "No one hut the cook, sir. Shes took It, "nil this being so, It doesn't Jane Dawkins an Englishwoman." In the least the things I've explain "I thought the cook wns English, noticed." from the breakfasts. They're all right, "What have you noticed?" Stanley too," Renshaw hastened to add, re- asked the question over his shoulder, calling the ample Justice he had done with a foot on the running-boarof to the three he had eaten. the car. It was not a moment for Jenks was looking relieved. There's even If Renshaw had Inanother young person In the kitchen, confidences, tended to make them. However, he She washes sir," he remembered. dishes and assists the cook. She's would see whut else he could draw out. what wed call a scullery ntuid In Bng-lanOh, odd noises and lights, and that sir. Her name," lie added of thing, he said carelessly. sort thoughtfully, Is Violet. Inside house not outside. "But the "Shes a modest Violet ; I didn't even And I understood from Mr. Campbell know of her existence. Renshaw Ills mind was on that everything Inside the house was spoke absently. all right." Jenks penultimate sentence. So Stanley entered the car and shrugged jou're English, too?" Into the Mg himself overrent I was horn In hut England, sir; Ive been In America n good many that lay waiting for 1dm on the back The manner of Jenks re- sent. years. I "The servants, he explained. to turned normal. Any orders, sir?" told you they were on the watch. None whatever." Jenks faded away, and Renshaw They didn't know what for, of course. descended to the lower floor and They were Just ordered to keep their turned toward the study. The duty eyes open and their mouths shut. But nearest his hand was to open the you can Imagine how skillful theyd around every man morning mall and reply to that part he in of it which required attention. Also, fancying himself an amateur detective. he desired to have a private talk with Probably theyve been trying to one another," he ended, with a Stanley before he left. But, Instead of doing these tilings, chuckle. he equipped himself with a coat und Renshaw hnd one more question: cap In the convenient hall closet and "Is that all you know and all that strolled out of the house. He would you and Mr. Campbell meant by what smoke an cigar first you said?" of ull. It's enough, too. "Absolutely all. He Joined Stanley Just as that gen- You dont find a lost princess guardtleman wns stepping Into his cur. memoirs every day. ing historic Suppose you send the machine Where's your Imagination? Madame down to the road und let me wulk to Hvoeslef Is a very great lady, and the gate with you," Renshaw sug- that baby I henr youve fallen In love gested. "There are one or two things with has royal blood In her veins. No I'd like to ask you about." one else took the thing ns hard as 1 wondered AH right. where you Madame Hvoeslef did, of course," he were." The physician motioned to went on more thoughtfully, but no his chauffeur, and the car went on one can, blame her for being melouhend of them. dramatic. She 1ms lost her country, The first thing I want to ask," said her family, her fortune, and all hut Renshaw, going straight to his point lost her life over those memoirs. ns the two walked down the long They are vital to her, whatever they driveway, "Is what you meant by may seem to the rest of us. Now warning me that there wns an unI'm off. The nurse will telephone me usual rendition of things at Taw no twice a day, and Morris has a lot of Ker. Now thut Im in charge here, sense. Onod-by.- " and the owner Is helpless. I think I (TO BR CONTINUED ) ought to know whitt those conditions tire especially as they may have had People Today Longer Lived soinethng to do with Campbell's The English races are healthier and stroke." longer-livethan famous ancient peoStanley shook his head. ples, such as the Egyptians and Ro"Not a bit of li." he said brusquely. mans, says the New York World. And "Besides, they're all over now; and American descendants of European they didnt h mount to much in the parents ere, on the average, lugger lirst plniv, except to one person." and taller than their fathers and mothers. according to Dr. E. C. Shrchsall "May I ask what they were?" "Of course. 'I here's no reason why Stature and weight today, lie said, t you shouldn't know. Campbell him- are not less than in the days of or Waterloo. Modern civilized self would huve told you, no doubt. In a day or two. I suppose lie had man is decidedly not deteriorating. promised Madame llvoeslel' thut isn't Our expectation of life is far greater her name, by the way to say nothing than ever before. The fossilized bones until the material was safe with the of tlie earliest human beings Indicate Trust company. Shes the mysiery-maker- , that our most ancient ancestors selyou know ; und she 1ms oozed dom lived beyond the early adult mystery from the moment she entered stage. Mummy cases In Egypt show the house." that an Egyptian child of five years "I've noticed that." might expect to live to be only thirty-fivA child of Rome "Of course you have. Who could help noticing it? Well, what It all under the Caesars could expect a life means is simply this: Madame Ilvocs-lef- , of only twenty-ninyears. Rut a child London as she chooses to call herself Just of live living in present-da- y now. Is a very great personage in her or New York can expect to live to be native land, and her husband was a at least sixty-fou- r years old very great titan there. He spent the last years of his life writing his Indebted to Americana memoirs. Those memoirs are very InA who newspaper correspondent timate and personal. They concern hnd been staying at Stratford say history and thrones and wearers of that one day he asked his aged landcrowns. And the author's august lady: "Who Is this Shakespeare, of master, shaking on his own tottering whom one hears so much in this town? throne, didn't want them published. Was he a very great man?" WhereWhen the author died, the widow was upon the lady made reply as follows: offered a fortune for the manuscript. "Lor, sir, when I was a girl he wasn't It thought nothing on. refused the fortune, Its the Amerv-canIShe that the manuscript knowing would be a has made him wot he la." Thousands Have Kidney Trouble and Never Suspect It Applicants for Insurance Often Rejected ZOO VISIT Not only did Billie Brownie wish to visit the Shoebill hut he hed quite a lot of other calls to make. First of all he went to see Mr. Ostrich. 6aid Billie Hello, Mr. Ostrich, Brownie. "Hello," said Mr. Ostrich. Ive been angry, he said, "yes, Ive had a regular fit of temper. "You know that old story about an ostrich burying his head In the sand? I do my best "Yes, said Billie. to tell people that that Is gossip and that it isn't so." I Just Well," said the Ostrich, heard some one say it now. It made me so mad. I hit my head tills way and that way in a perfect rage. "You shouldn't call It a perfect rage, said Billie Brownie. "Perfect is something ideal and without fault. A rage is always a mistake." "True," said t lie Ostrich. "That was not the right word to use. But then I admit I am stupid. that." Billie Brownie didn't contradict the Ostrich, for be knew that the Ostrich spoke the truth about his being stupid. "But it was bard to bear that old bit of gossip again," Billie Brownie said. "I'll do still more to stop the gossip." "Thank you," said Mr. Ostrich. Youre a friend." Next Billie Brownie went to call on some of the snakes for he wanted to tell them lie was pleased with what they had done. He had heard that the Water Moccasin Snakes, the Copperheads, the Boa Constrictors, Coral Snakes and Cobras had given up their poison so that it could be made into a medicine or serum to save others from poisonous snake bites. He knew there were not many poisonous snakes. But be wanted to tell the poisonous ones that he thought it good of them to protect people from snake-bit- e by giving them this poison which could be made into a safety serum. He knew the keeper who had once been attacked by a had snake and g Chapter IX 15 Renshaw Takes Charge. Despite Stanley's advice and the Sawn that peered at Id in as lie went to bed. Itenshaw was tip at seven the next morning. He had not slept well. He had tried to sleep, knowing that the coming day might he a strenuous one. But his thoughts whirled like leaves In an autumn blast. Though connected mental effort was Impossible, he could not cease thinking. In the fitful naps to which Ills exhaustion finally succumbed, his dreams were us He was unrestful as bis thoughts. wandering through dark labyrinths. He was laboriously ascending desolate mountain paths. He was lost and confused In crowds. And never once did he have a definite objective. That realization, when he took It In upon awakening, disturbed him most of all. Not even his subconscious processes, he told himself, were yet normal. He felt better after a cold plunge, and when he entered the dining room he showed no outward effects of the strain of the night. Both Jenks and James were In the room, standing by the sideboard and talking In low tones. Itenshaw had detoured to the left wing on his way down stairs, and bad tapped at the (hair to ask news of the patient, receiving from the nurse the stock report of the average sick room: the patient was "resting comfortably." lie returned the respectful greetings of the two servants, and approached with rest the adventure of examining the hot dishes on Hip sideboard. While he was helping himself to omelet and bacon, the two physicians bustled Into the dining room. They were obviously In exuberant spirits. Morris, Indeed, wore the uplifted look of a modest man honored beyond his deserts, and Stanley was vain enough to be pleased ns well as mildly amused by the awe with which his country colleague regarded him. Both greeted the secretary with cordiality, Into .which Stanley now Infused something of the personal Interest due to a protege. They filled their plates like hungry schoolboys. Campbell's going to be all right," s Stanley predicted, in response to first question, ns he returned to the table and sat down. Can't kill that old boy. lies determined to By the sing hymns at my funeral. way. It was only for a few seconds that he recovered consciousness, I think you said?" Yes, Just about that, Itenshaw answered. lie seemed very anxious to say something, and finally lie brought It out. sJust what was It, again?" He Instructed me in three words to ' take charge here. Renshaw was glad to have this point developed, and especially In the presence of the two servants. That there might be no mistake about the matter, he clinched Ids case by adding casually, Miss Campbell and I were alone with him at the time." Is that all he said?" Stanley, who had stopped eating for a moment, fell zestfully upon some snusages. He had very hard work to bring that out. lie drifted off again as soon as my reply showed that I understood. The effort hnd exhausted him." Ilin-m- . Well, that's all right. Just what was all right Stanley did not specify, it was the l'rohaldy sausages. Im going back to town this morning," lie added in another tone. This pneumonia epidemic Is keeping me uncomfortably busy. But Ill run out again tomorrow afternoon, anyway and of course If there's any change Ill come nt once. Meantime Doctor Morris will he right here on the Job. Weve decided that he'd better make Tavvno Kcr bis headquarters for a day or so. till we're sure the patient is on the mend. We don't want to take any chances. I suppose you cun make him comfortable?" Of course. It will he a great relief to have him here. Renshaw spoke with unusual heartiness. It would he good to have the simple but agreeable personality of Morris In the house, and In more ways than one. After breakfast he went with Jenks to the left wing to look over Morris quarters and to assure himself the comfort he had promised was uull-ablKen-shaw- e. We-we- e . lifter-breakfa- e. ld e "Jenks," he said, after being satisfied about that. I wish you would give tne an Idea of the domestic routine here. Who, for example, orders tli3 meals?" "Miss Campbell, sir. She writes the menus for the day every morning, and gives them to me." You do the ordering and marketing?" Yes, sir, mostly by telephone. We have a large store room, well supplied, sun a hamtier comes from New York once week." lla odd the ladles dont hava a Thank nr-re- st Agin-cour- s Bayer Aspirin Say INSIST! Unless you see th Bayer Cross on tablets you are not getting the genuine Bayer Aspirin proved safe by millions and prescribed by physicians for 24 years. Accept only a Bayer package which contains proven directions Handy Bayer" boxes of 12 tablet Also bottles of 24 and 100 Druggists Aspirin It the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoaoetlcacldetter Said the Golden Agouti. who hnd been saved just in time by the serum. But when he reached the Snake house he found the snakes very angry. We didnt want them to have it," We like to keep our poithey said. son. "They touk it from us to help others. It was not our doing. We're as angry as can lie, hiss, hiss." Billie Brownie left the angry snakes und went to see the Agouti. "Youve got a splendid name, said I believe your full Billie Brownie. name Is Golden Agouti, Is It not? Yes," said the Golden Agouti, "it I come from Is. South Americu, though I have relatives who live in the West Indies, too. I can run us quickly. If not more quickly, than a rabbit, und I look quite a bit like a rabbit. I do my marketing at night when I am free, and during the day I sleep in the hollow tree trunks or in holes at the foot of old trees. "I have five toes on each of my front feet, and three on euch of tny back feet, "1 like leaves anil nuts and fruit for food and hail. mas and sugar cane and delicious roots. My tail is short just as a rabbits, hut tny hair is coarse and not soft. Oil thank you, thank you," the Golden Agouti said us Billie Brownie You're very offered him a banana. kind. 1 hope jovj dicin' think I was hinting. Billie Brownie laughed and said he thought the Agouti Imd fully earned a banana for giving him so much In-- I formation. And then he called on a friendly polar bear who leaned back on Ills rocks and caught goodies the children threw him. You're the nicest polar hear I've ever seen, "Billie Brownie said. "Most of them are so cross. But you've got a nice home here and that helps an l then you do seem to have un unusual disposition. "You don't say so, the Polar Bear smiled, and waved one of his lovely big paws. swift-movin- i You, g of Sallcyllcadd mples Pheasant as Prophet The pheasant is the best earthquake predictor known, the bird crowing before or during every slight are pumped by 6hock, according to a Japanese writer. BLOOD Impurities Into the face. 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