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}if-- BEGIN HERE TO-DAY. Samuel Honeybun, retired Englis| countryman, ds blood in his rain huge of Sir Francis Lathrop. + Sir Guy Lathrop, nephew, and en- | to marry Margaret, daughter of Sir Francis, is suspected of the tine to do it in. He escapes arrest by going hidden, with due provision made for | his food, drink and tobacco, before the devil who had put him through hardly knew how to begin, how to the third degree discovered what had mot, a chauffeur, known as Monkey- befallen Sturman the poacher, murder. into hiding. Meanwhile-- Adrian Klyne, private detective, loyed by Margaret, is gathering evidence against Honeybun and Wil- Face. Monkey Face is foiled in an at-| complished these things within two e, then posing as hours of his bidding a curt farewell to Mr. tempt to kill Ki Lord Bulpeter, and is taken into cus- 2 iyne has left Wilmot in, fharge of Sturman, a poacher, who, a shanty near the marshes. Upon | returning, Kl finds Sturman. trussed up in the chair where he had left Wilmot. He frees Sturman with | the words, "Why, Sturman?" NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY. The poacher stood up, etraighten- ing hig cramped limbs. "That chap you call Wilmot is a fair caution; sir," he said. "For the | life of me I couldn't tell you how he! did it, but he got me. One minute he was tied up all to rights, and the next he was all over me and I had to take hig place on the stool of re- péntance, The last word he sald be- fore he did a bunk was that he'd get you, too," "Well," came the familiar drawl, "quite likely he will. But he hasn't got me yet. What are those marks on your throat?" Ht "He started trying to strangle me, and I guess he thought he. had suc- ceeded. Anyway I believe he left me for dead." : "But that is evidence," rejoined the other. "You have not suffered in vain, Sturman. We can't have too many of those fingermarks." Wilmot, otherwise Monkey-Face, had told his latest employer that he was going to remain in the district in order to pay off some old scores. His refusal to stop at the Honeybun home, and his assertion that he would be heard of in the newspapers, were due to his belief that Sturman would not recover from the onslaught of his SIMONDS SAW Is not equalled by any other tea. | strangler's fingers. the) h' cards that his vague mix-up with) , fin other people's troubles might crystal on the morning of the murder | lize into a "plain charge of murder against himself. ' ground, at once, and he had pot much noon he was tucked away in a work- man's shelter in a deserted gravel- pit behind the Rectory garden wall. He had bribed a boy to do his shop- ping for him and had himself smug- g : sF 5 5 i¥ z gs - iz ~ 88 gracious to me?" "This is Lathrop Grange, and am Mrs. Vansittart, the sister of the late Sir Francis Lathrop." The stranger showed the most pro- found interest. "Really!" he ex- claimed. "You don't say so! I have struck it lucky to-night then, for I have read all about the Lathrop mys- tery. The red rain case, the papers call it, don't they? .It is bad form to question you, madam, on what must be a painful subject, but -T should be immensely grateful for your view of the matter--an inside view, so to } wink ul e (To be continued.) ---- _ r It was on the He had to take cover, or go to . Vansittart 'was flattered, knowing that, as everything possible had been kept from her, her view was anything but an inside one. She He must safely satisfy this politely expressed curi- osity. "My name is Griswold, ma'am, Horace Griswold, at your service," said her guest, mistaking the cause of her hesitation. "I am motoring back from Scotland, where I have been having a pop at the grouse, to London." ' Margaret's futile aunt and chape- ron shook off her access of shyness. A gentleman who went grouse shoot- ing in Scotland was worthy of all the confidence she could give him, "I am afraid I can't tell you much," she replied. "The young people have spared my feelings as much as they could. We at the Grange, of course, do not for a moment believé that the present baronet, my nephew Sir Guy, had anything to do with my poor brother's death." "You incline to the red rain theory and think the murderer is to be lopk- ed for at places where they register the efforts of Jupiter Pluvius?" said Mr. Griswold, waving his glass to and fro. "I don't know anything about red rain. * It seems silly," the poor lady beat the air feebly. "I am sorry I cannot tell you more in return for your kindness in catching my darling Greensleeves, Stay though! There is one thing you might like to know. Sir Guy is hiding from the police in the very last place where they will look for him." "And that place, dear lady?" the inquiry was whispered insinuatingly. "Here, "in his own hduse," Mrs. Vansittart broke her oath of secrecy in payment for the service rendered --a service which she would have estimated at a lower figure could she have known that the plausible stran- ger who brought the parrot back had first let him loose. The ruse having succeeded, Mr. Griswold lost no time in taking his departure, If people in real life em- ployed the disgusting gesture of put- ting their tongues in their cheeks no doubt his tongue would have been in that position, rightly defining his sentiments towards. the dear old Being a competent rascal, he ac- Samuel Honeybun, Before AN EFFECTIVE NEW FROCK. Charm and grace are admirably combined in this delightful frock. The two-piece skirt is shirred to the bodice having tucks at each shoulder. The original application of lace or- con- trasting material is-effectively used on the bodice, skirt, and cuffs finishing the long tight-fitting sleeves. 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